This is a good idea. There aren't many places to share Chrism Mass ideas.

Prelude - The Lord is My Shepherd (Rutter)
Processional - Go Up to the Altar of God (Chepponis)
Entrance Antiphon - Jesus Christ has Made Us into a Kingdom... (Esguerra SATB Simplex)
Kyrie - Missal
Gloria - Storrington Mass
Responsorial Psalm - Psalm 89 (Krisman): bilingual
Gospel Acclamation - Praise to You, Word of God (Gardner)
Procession with the Oils - O Redeemer (Chepponis)
Distribution of Oils / Offertory - The Spirit of the Lord (Stopford)
Sanctus - Psallite Mass (Collegeville): Spanish
Mystery of Faith - Psallite Mass: English
Amen - Psallite Mass
Lord's Prayer - Missal chant
Agnus Dei - Mass XVIII, Latin
Communion Antiphon - You Love Justice (Motyka from communionantiphons.org)
Communion Procession - Psalm 34 (Krisman): bilingual
Choir Motet - Ubi caritas (Gjeilo)
Recessional - The Church's One Foundation: bilingual


The Stopford is quite the piece. I'm glad to see we're not the only ones doing it.

Entrance: I bind unto myself (ST. PATRICK'S BREASTPLATE)
Ent. Antiphon: Weber
Kyrie: Proulx Simplex
Gloria: Mass VIII
Responsorial Psalm: Guimont
Verse before the Gospel: Bartlett, Mode II
Offertory (remainder): Ave Maria (Biebl)
Hymn for the Blessing of the Oils: O Redeemer (Weber arr. of traditional)
Mass: Proulx Simplex
Communion Antiphon: Weber
Communion: Gift of finest Wheat (BICENTENNIAL)
Anthem: The Lord is my Shepherd (Rutter)
Closing: Lift High the Cross (CRUCIFER)
Voluntary: BWV 548 Prelude

This is probably the most choral music/chant we've done in English in a while. This is our only "facetime" with a lot of the pastors of the diocese, so I tend to go more English chant just to show them that there are resources out there for those of them who don't like Latin...

It’s nice to see what others are doing for the Chrism Mass, as I’m always looking for fresh ideas. We’re using organ, string quartet, oboe, and diocesan choir. Here’s our list:

PRELUDES:
• Brandenburg Concerto in G (J. S. Bach), adapted for string quartet
• We Keep the Sacred Feast (J. S. Bach, arr. James Winfield). An arrangement of the “Air” from Orchestral Suite No. 3 in D Major for strings and SATB choir. Published by WLP. Nice!
ENTRANCE HYMN: Risen Lord, We Gather Round You (Text by Stuempfle, #840 in Worship IV, selected verses. Tune: BEACH SPRING.)
GLORIA: from Mass for the People of God (Chepponis)
RESPONSORIAL: Psalm 89 (Guimont), choir SATB on psalm-tone verses
GOSPEL ACCLAMATION: from Mass for the People of God (Chepponis)
PRESENTATION OF OILS/GIFTS: O Redeemer (Chepponis)
EUCHARISTIC ACCLAMATIONS: from Community Mass (Proulx)
LAMB OF GOD: from Corpus Christi Mass (Proulx, adapted), based on Adoro Te
COMMUNION:
• Ubi Caritas (Duruflé), choir
• Eat This Bread (Taizé), congregation
• The Lord Is My Shepherd (Rutter), choir, strings, oboe
RECESSIONAL HYMN: The Spirit Sends Us Forth To Serve (Text: Dufner. Tune: AZMON)
POSTLUDE: Church Sonata in D Major (Mozart, K. 245), organ & strings

We did the Stopford "The Spirit of the Lord" last year for both Chrism Mass and Priesthood Ordination. It is a great piece!

I'd love to see your adaptation. I had a local music director ask me about this a couple of months ago, and I helped her reset it to fit the Missal text. I'm sure you did it better than I did.

Well, I doubt that I did any better than you did, Andrew, but I simply fit the words "Lamb of God, you take away the sins of the world" to the first phrase of Proulx's music, but with all notes of equal rhythmic value. To do so, the original open note "A" at the end of the word "God" ("Jesus, Lamb of God") now becomes two "A" notes (and becomes "-way the"). The word "sins" is slurred on two notes (G-F#). No problem with the third "Lamb of God." I hope that makes sense!

(By the way... thanks for using my "Go Up to the Altar of God" and "O Redeemer.")

Philip Stopford has also written a gorgeous setting of "Come down, O Love divine" that I used last year on Pentecost (and will continue to do so).

Tournemire, I love Mawby's Ave verum corpus and just wish I had the forces (other than on Christmas and Easter, when I get to hire in extra men) to do it .

2015 Chrism Mass for the Diocese of St. Petersburg:

Choral Prelude: "The Spirit of the Lord" (Stopford)
Entrance: "We Have Been Chosen" (Willcock)
Kyrie: Litany of the Saints chant with Hassler Missa Secunda alternatum
Gloria: Revised A New Mass for Congregations (Andrews, arr. Biery)
Responsorial Psalm: "Salmo 88: Cantaré eternamente/Psalm 89: For Ever I Will Sing" (Reza)
Gospel Acclamation: Chrism Mass (Twynham)
Blessing of Oils/Consecration of Chrism: "O Redeemer" (Luckner)
Offertory: "How Lovely Are the Messengers" from Saint Paul (Mendelssohn)
Sanctus, Mysterium, Amen: Mass of Charity and Love (Warner)
Pater noster: (Warner)
Agnus Dei: Misa Luna (Kolar) - en español solamente
Communion Motet: "Ave verum corpus" (Stopford)
Communion Psalm: "Salmo 41: Como busca la cierva/Psalm 42: Like a Deer" (Peña)
Recessional: "Lord of Old, You Chose a People" (HYFRYDOL)

MJO, you were commenting on LAST YEAR'S order of worship.

This year there is lesser love for Ireland in Saint Petersburg.

This is what we heard at St. Patrick's Cathedral in Charlotte, NC yesterday:

Prelude: CM Widor, Andante Sostenuto (Symphonie Gothique)
Entrance: To Jesus Christ Our Sovereign King
Introit: Dilexisti
Kyrie: Mass VIII
Gloria: Mass VIII
Offertory chant/Procession with oils: O Redeemer (adapted by Fr. Samuel Weber OSB)
Offertory motet: Mendelssohn, Justitiae Domini
Sanctus: Mass VIII
Agnus Dei: Mass VIII
Communion antiphon: Justice you love (By Flowing Waters)
Communion chant: Dilexisti
Communion Motet: Michael Haydn, Protector Noster
Closing antiphon: Ave Regina Caelorum
Closing hymn: O Worship the King
Postlude: Bruhns, Praeludium in G

I'm not knocking you personally, but I feel like this is what God is listening to when he hears the Warner Our Father in the context of the Pater Noster at Mass... Well, at least the first line...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6s9M-52fRGU

I know, thus the caveat! We had the Becker Litany of the Saints every year at my old job. Lord have mercy!

Just curious - how do you all get choirs for this? Ours is at 11 AM on a weekday (mainly to accommodate lengthy drive times for the priests in a large geographical diocese) and I can't even hire people to sing. We're lucky to get 10 singers. Do you have diocesan-wide choirs in most places?

Our situation mirrors Chaswjd's exactly. We are a very small diocese (something like 60,000 Catholics), and end up with 40-50 in the diocesan choir. We have 3 2-hour rehearsals on the preceding Sundays.

Time to bump this thread again - just got my Chrism Mass music...new bishop, I think we're making some improvements, slowly but surely (although much of the old guard in the diocesan worship office is still in place - the bishop was only installed in January. Some recycling has obviously been done here, too.)

Diocese of St. Petersburg
The Most Rev. Gregory L. Parkes
Fifth Bishop of St. Petersburg

Choral Prelude: "The Spirit of the Lord" (Stopford)
Introit: "Canticle of Jesus Christ, Our Redeemer" (Gouin)
Entrance of the Bishop (!): "Ecce sacerdos" (Stadler)
Kyrie: Mass XVI/Missa L'Hora Passa (Viadana) alternatim
Gloria: A New Mass for Congregations (Andrews, arr. Biery)
Psalm 89: "Cantaré etenramente/Forever I Will Sing" (Reza - can't win 'em all)
Gospel Acclamation: Chrism Mass (Twynham)
Blessing of Oils/Consecration of Chrism: "O Redeemer" (arr. Luckner)
Offertory: "Greater Love Hath No Man" (Ireland - he's back in St. Pete!)
Sanctus/Mysterium/Amen: A Community Mass (Proulx)
The Lord's Prayer: RM chant (no more Warner!)
Agnus Dei: Mass XVIII/Mass for Four Voices (Byrd) alternatim
Communion: "Ave verum" (Guilmant) & "Amén. El Cuerpo de Cristo" (Schiavone)
Recessional: "Lord, You Give the Great Commission" (ABBOT'S LEIGH)

Well they aren't letting me sing at Chrism Mass this year... I guess the conductor doesn't like me on the Select choir for some reason...

I'll post the list of music when I know what it was/is. Maybe I can sneak into singing...

We sang the Ireland "Greater Love" for the closing of 40 Hours at a local church. Being at an FSSP parish, we wouldn't sing it during Mass--but a gem nevertheless!

I watched a re-broadcast of our local C. Mass; can't un-see, unhear, fathom.....sigh.