Holy Thursday:

Holy, Holy, Holy
The Servant Song
Ubi Caritas
Pange Lingua
Tantum Ergo


Good Friday:

O Sacred Head Surrounded; Jesus Remember Me
On Eagles Wings

Easter Vigil:

Hymns only

Offertory: Ye Sons and Daughters
Communion: I Received the Living God
Recessional: Alleluia! Alleluia!

Easter Sunday:

Come Ye Faithful Raise the Strain
Victimae Paschali Laudes
Be Thou My Vision
The Day of Resurrection
The Strife is O'er (as choral anthem)
Jesus Is Risen

For Communio's, we use the Richard Rice Choral Communio's, the new edition.
Ordinary setting, we defer to the "parish" endorsed current setting:
SANTA CLARA MASS - B. Hurd
SEP's are chanted as needed at other Masses with other ensembles.
Appropriate hymns are also used at processionals.
Pange lingua/chant & Manalo are used on HT.
Sequence is sung on Easter, various settings at various Masses.
Passion Lessons on Passion Sunday/Good Friday are chanted from the GIA 'red' editions.

Here's the choral lineup:

PASSION SUNDAY
Choral Prelude: HOSANNA TO THE SON OF DAVID (M. Franck)
Offertory: GOD SO LOVED THE WORLD/Stainer/Choral Anthology p.163
Post-Communion: TANTUM ERGO ( de Severac )

HOLY THURSDAY
Mandatum: THE WISDOM OF GOD (Heath Morber)
Offertory: HE WEPT AT GETHSEMANE (Schram)**
Post-Communion: AVE VERUM CORPUS (Bryd/CA pg. 89)

GOOD FRIDAY
Veneration of the Cross: IMPROPERIA: Popule meus (Palestrina)
CRUX FIDELIX (Anerio)
O CRUX AVE (Palestrina)

EASTER VIGIL/ SUNDAY
Responsorial 3rd reading: SICUT CERVUS (Palestrina)
OFFERTORY EASTER GLORIA (Mark Hayes)
POST-COMMUNION ALLELUIA (M. Hadyn)

OPTIONAL PIECES: AVE REGINA COELORUM (Dufay/Cap80)
ALLELUIA AL VANGELO (Gabrieli/Cap14)

*CA= Noel Jone's CHORAL ANTHOLOGY V.I
**Yes, we normally sing "Ubi caritas," but we're giving it a rest this year.

Bishop Sis of San Angelo, TX, tweeted:

Please pray for our clergy and all who are planning the liturgies of Holy Week, that God may give them energy, inspiration, and peace.

Bishop Sis of San Angelo, TX, tweeted:

Please pray for our clergy and all who are planning the liturgies of Holy Week, that God may give them energy, inspiration, and peace.

As a Sourthern Baptist might say: Amen. Hallelujah. Amen.

Let's see...Oost Zinner, Rice, Bartlett, Esguerra, Weber, Allen.
Hmmm, no Kwasniewski, no Melofluent, no Koerber, no Giffen, no Clark, no Ostrowski...
Where's the revolution, again?

Palm Sunday 10:30
Franck Grand Piece Symphonique (Andante serioso, Allegro non troppo e maestoso)
J. S. Bach Christus, der uns selig macht
Hosanna filio David
Pater si non potest VIII
Cornysh Woefully Arrayed (complete)
St. Theodulph
Herzlich tut migh verlangen

Chrism Mass
J. S. Bach Prelude and Fugue in C, BWV 547
Facies unctionis II
O redemptor
Dilexisti justitiam IV
Webster Ecce sacerdos magnus
Nestor I Sing of God the Mighty Source
Briggs I Will Lift Up Mine Eyes
Mit Freuden zart
Crucifer

Holy Thursday
Messiaen Le Banquet celeste
Palestrina Nos autem gloriari
Briggs Ubi caritas
Lassus Tristis est anima mea
Byrd Agnus from Mass for Five Voices
Byrd Ave verum corpus
Jesu dulcis memoria
Adoro te devote
Tantum ergo

Good Friday
Vaughan Williams O vos omnes
Victoria Passion According to John
Bruckner Christus factus est
Nestor Saw ye My Savior

Tenebrae
Tallis Lamentations of Jeremiah (complete)
Lassus Tenebrae factae sunt
Lassus Eram quasi Agnus
Victoria Nunc dimittis
Allegri Miserere
Pange lingua
Herzliebster Jesu
J. S. Bach Sarabande from Suite No. 4 in E-flat, BWV 1010


Easter Vigil
Dirksen Christ Our Passover
Hancock/Noyon Christus vincit
Psalm settings by Bower, Guimont, Isele, Meuller, Westendorf, Wisniewski
Easter Hymn, Lasst uns erfreuen (Webster)
Vierne Final from Symphonie No. 6

Easter Morning 10:30
Demessieux O filii et filiae
Howells Sarabande for the Morning of Easter
Widor Final from Symphonie No. 6
Easter Hymn, Lasst uns erfreuen, Ellacombe (Webster)
Dirksen Christ Our Passover
Victoria Victimae paschali laudes
Hancock/Noyon Christus vincit

Geri, Christ left the desert, so must you do. Pack up himself and join MJM's revolution.

If I may ask: my pastor requested Tantum Ergo for Holy Thursday procession, followed by Pange Lingua. Isn't that backwards, and does it matter, really?

It is one hymn. Tantum begins verse 4.

5.

Pedantry away!

Well, I wouldn't call him an idiot. I did double-check with him yesterday, and I showed him in Today's Missal where the hymn is as you describe. The problem is, we've done things backasswards so many times at the behest of a multitude of short-term pastors that my learning curve is huuuuuggggge!

Thanks - and I guess we do it his way.

I think G and H moved to Florida a while ago.

If I may ask: my pastor requested Tantum Ergo for Holy Thursday procession, followed by Pange Lingua. Isn't that backwards, and does it matter, really?

Well, here's the thing. The verses Tantum Ergo and Genitori are traditionally (historically) sung kneeling (other hymns have kneeling verses: the first verse of both Ave Maris Stella and Veni Creator, the "O Crux Ave" verse of Vexilla Regis). So in a procession one would omit them until you reach the end when you can kneel down. This was the rubric in the 1962 Holy Week rite (from the 1962 Graduale):

Dum fit processio Sacramenti, cantatur hymnus Pange, lingua ut infra, usque ad verba Tantum ergo; si vero opus sit, idem hymnas repetitur inde a Nobis datus.

Cum autem ventum fuerit ad locum paratum cantatur Tantum ergo et Genitori.

Basically saying that you sing the hymn from Pange through just before Tantum ergo, repeating back to the 2nd verse Nobis datus, as needed until you get "to the place made ready" for the Blessed Sacrament whereupon you sing the last two verses.

The current rubrics are similar... (my emphasis) and put the two last verses of Pange Lingua only when you arrive at the place of reposition (apologies that I don't have the English handy)

37. Oratione post Communionem dicta, sacerdos stans imponit et benedicit incensum in thuribulo et genuflexus ter incensat Ss.mum Sacramentum. Deinde, assumpto velo umerali albi coloris, surgit et accipit pyxidem et eam extremitatibus veli cooperit.

38. Instruitur processio, qua defertur Ss.mum Sacramentum cum intorticiis et incenso per ecclesiam ad locum repositionis, paratum in aliqua ecclesiae parte vel in aliquo sacello convenienter ornato. Praecedit minister laicus cum cruce medius inter alios duos cum cereis accensis. Sequuntur alii candelas accensas gestantes. Ante sacerdotem deferentem Ss.mum Sacramentum, procedit thuriferarius cum thuribulo fumigante. Interim cantatur hymnus Pange, lingua (exclusis duabus ultimis strophis), vel alius cantus eucharisticus.

39. Cum processio pervenerit ad locum repositionis, sacerdos, adiuvante, si opus sit, diacono, deponit pyxidem in tabernaculo, cuius porta aperta manet. Deinde, thure imposito, genuflexus Ss.mum Sacramentum incensat, dum cantatur Tantum ergo sacraméntum vel alius cantus eucharisticus. Deinde diaconus vel ipse sacerdos Sacramentum in tabernaculo reponit et portam claudit.

40. Post aliquod tempus adorationis in silentio, sacerdos et ministri, facta genuflexione, revertuntur in sacristiam.

That "exclusis duabus ultimis strophis" is Tantum Ergo and Genitori. So the tradition and the current rubrics are not to sing Tantum Ergo in the procession at all, but after the procession when you arrive at the place of reposition.

It is a magical organ.

Music for Holy Week 2014, Basilica of St. John the Evangelist, Stamford CT

❖ Palm Sunday, 10am
Opening Hymn: All Glory, Laud, and Honor
Introit Antiphon (at the incensing): Hosanna to the Son of David, Mueller [SSATB]
Responsorial Psalm: Mueller [SATB]
Gospel Acclamation: Mueller [SATB]
Offertory antiphon: Improperium
Offertory motet: Jesu Nazarene/Vexilla Regis, Festa [SATTB]
Sanctus: Missa “Iste confessor”, Palestrina [SATB, ABB for Benedictus]
Mysterium fidei: Latin or English, as needed
Agnus Dei: Missa “Iste confessor”, Palestrina [SATB, SATBB for final Agnus]
Communion antiphon: Pater, si non potest
Communion motet: My God, my God, look upon me, Blow [SATB]
Closing Hymn: The Royal Banners Forward Go

❖ Spy Wednesday, 8pm (Tenebrae for Holy Thursday) [no organ]
Invitatory: Psalm 95, Mueller [SATBdiv]
Hymn: O Sacred Head Surrounded, Bach [SATB]
Psalm 44 (I) (chanted in alternatim)
Psalm 44 (II)
Psalm 44 (III)
Versicle / two readings & responsories
Lamentation I: Mozarabic, men [English]
Responsory: In Monte Oliveti, Gesualdo [SSATTB]
Lamentation II: Gregorian, women [English]
Responsory: Tristis est anima, Gesualdo [SSATTB]
Lamentation III: Mozarabic, men [English]
Responsory: Ecce vidimus, Gesualdo [SSATTB]
Psalm 80
Canticle of Isaiah (12:1-6)
Psalm 81
reading & responsory
Canticle of Zechariah
Intercessions: Kyrie eleison
Our Father: chant [English]
strepitus & dismissal

❖ Holy Thursday, 8pm [no organ]
Introit Antiphon: Nos autem, Mueller [SATB]
Kyrie: Mass for Four Voices, Byrd [SATB]
Gloria: Mass for Four Voices, Byrd [SATB]
Responsorial Psalm: Mueller [SATB]
Gospel Acclamation: Mueller [SATB]
Antiphons at the Washing of the Feet:
- Mandatum, Lawrence [SATB];
- A new commandment, Tallis [SATB];
- This is my commandment, Tallis [SATB]
Offertory: Ubi caritas, Mueller [SMezATBarB]
Sanctus: Mass for Four Voices, Byrd [SATB]
Mysterium fidei: Latin or English, as needed
Agnus Dei: Mass for Four Voices, Byrd [SATB]
Communion antiphon: Hoc corpus
Communion motet: Ave salus mundi, Gombert [SACtTBarB]
Hymn during the procession: Pange lingua (first four verses, repeated as needed)
Choral benediction: Tantum ergo, Victoria [SATB]
At the stripping of the altar: Psalm 22, English [men/women in alternatim]

❖ Good Friday, 3pm [no organ]
all enter in silence.
Responsorial Psalm: Mueller [SATB]
Gospel Acclamation: Mueller [SATB] (same as Palm Sunday)
Good Friday Passion: sung (Fr. Weber's English setting, with SATB turba responses by Victoria)
Solemn Intercessions: spoken (not sung)
Veneration of the Cross: no music; only the ministers on the altar will venerate
Hymn at the Procession with the Blessed Sacrament: Vexilla Regis
Communion Responsory: Immolabit hædum
Communion Motets:
- Ave verum Corpus, Deering [SATTB];
- O suavitis et dulcedo, Monte [SSAATTBB]

❖ Easter Vigil, 8pm
English responsories following the seven readings: Mueller [SATBdiv.]
Gloria: Missa brevis in G Major, Mozart [SATB+organ]
Alleluia: Triple Alleluia
At the sprinkling: Vidi aquam, Lambeth choirbook [SATTB]
Offertory antiphon: Dextera Domini
Offertory motet: Maria Magdalene [prima pars], Clemens non Papa [SSATB]
Sanctus: Missa brevis in G Major, Mozart [SATB+organ]
Mysterium fidei: Latin or English, as needed
Agnus Dei: Missa brevis in G Major, Mozart [SATB+organ]
Communion antiphon: Pascha nostrum
Communion antiphon: Threefold Alleluia, with verses from Psalm 117
Communion motets:
- Etenim pascha nostrum, Palestrina [SATB.SATB];
- Maria Magdalene [secunda pars], Clemens non Papa [SSATB]
Closing hymn: The strife is o’er (w/ Mueller)

❖ Easter Sunday, 10am
Introit Antiphon: Resurrexi, Isaac [SATB]
Kyrie: Missa brevis in G Major, Mozart [SATB+organ]
Gloria: Missa brevis in G Major, Mozart [SATB+organ]
Responsorial Psalm: Mueller [SATB]
Sequence:  Victimæ paschali laudes, Mueller [SMezATBarB]
Alleluia: Bartlett/Mueller [SATB]
At the sprinkling: Vidi aquam, Lambeth choirbook [SATTB]
no Credo
Offertory antiphon: Terra tremuit
Offertory motet: Ego sum qui sum [secunda pars], Gombert [SATTBarB]
Sanctus:  Missa brevis in G Major, Mozart [SATB+organ]
Mysterium fidei: Latin or English, as needed
Agnus Dei:  Missa brevis in G Major, Mozart [SATB+organ]
Communion antiphon: Pascha nostrum
Communion motets:
- Etenim pascha nostrum, Palestrina [SATB.SATB];
- Regina cæli, Croce [SATB.SATB]
Closing hymn: Jesus Christ is ris’n today (w/ Buxton descant)

Love that set of Gesualdo motets on Wednesday. Old Carlo was a real mess!

St Joseph's Basilica, Edmonton, AB, Canada.

I kinda like the idea of splitting a Bach Prelude and Fugue into the Prelude and Postlude of a service. Is that common?

So do I. Frequently they are too long when played together.

I'm not an organist !! Had no idea!

For a second there, I thought y'all in Sioux Falls were doing verses of Were you there interspersed with the refrains of the Popule Meus! :)

Often I think the preludes work better as the postludes and it's the fugue that works better before hand.

The Minor Basilica of the Immaculate Conception-Natchitoches, LA.

Holy Thursday (only accompanied work is the Gloria)(Mass Setting-Missa Simplex)
Introit-SEP
Gloria- ICEL
Responsorial Psalm-Lumen Christi Simple Gradual
Washing of Feet-Antiphons from Lumen Christi Simple Gradual
Offertory-Ubi Caritas SEP
Communion-SEP/Anima Christi
Eucharistic Procession-Pange Lingua

Good Friday (unaccompanied)
Responsorial Psalm-Lumen Christi Simple Gradual
Reproaches-Lalemant Propers/Sing My Tongue the Glorious Battle
Communion-SEP

Holy Saturday
Psalm after 1st Reading-LCG
Gradual after 3rd Reading-Psalm Tone VIII
Psalm after 6th Reading-LCG
Gradual after 7th Reading-Psalm Tone VIII
Gloria
Gregorian Alleluia with verses
Litany of the Saints-ICEL
Renewal of Baptismal Promises-Vidi aquam
Offertory-SEP/Jesus Christ is Risen Today
Communion-SEP/At the Lamb's High Feast We Sing

It's been great seeing what you all are doing. Have a blessed Easter, everyone!

St. Joseph in Strongsville, Oh
HT:
Entrance Antiphon: Simple Choral Gradual
Mass of St. Paul Gloria
Psalm from Parish Book of Psalms - a capella
Wisdom of God - H. Morber, Antiphons from SCG
Ubi Caritas, Ola Gjeilo
Take and Eat (hymn)
Pange Lingua, Latin/English

GF - with the "Praise Team"
Behold the Wood, Schutte
Your Only Son, Twila Paris
O Sacred Head Surrounded
Song of the Cross, Taylor
Communion: My God My God, from Gather Hymnal

Easter Vigil/Day
Psalms from Chabael Site - A capella
If Ye Love Me, SAB (GIA)
Communion Antiphon by Andrew Motyka

THURSDAY
Lift High the Cross
Missa Primitiva with ICEL Gloria
Chabanel Psalm
Ubi caritas chant
Hoc corpus (Gregorian with English verses set by RR)
Godhead Here in Hiding
Pange lingua

GOOD FRIDAY
Chabanel Psalm
Christus factus est (Gregorian, somewhat simplified by RR)
Reproaches from The American Gradual
Crux fidelis (this Trio, with Gregorian verses chanted)
Psalm 51 in English set to a simple psalm tone
O Sacred Head

EASTER VIGIL
Priest singing the Exsultet this year (thank The Lord I don't have to do it)
Some psalms from Chabanel, including this one arranged for four women's voices. Cantemus and Sicut cervus from the Gradual.
Missa de Angelis
THE Alleluia (Confitemini) from the Gradual
At the Lamb's High Feast
Pascha nostrum (Gradual)
Ye Sons And Daughters
This Joyful Eastertide (Charles Wood)
Regina caeli
Jesus Christ is Risen Today