Feast of Corpus Christi - What will you be doing?
  • hartleymartin
    Posts: 1,447
    In many diocese, Corpus Christi is moved to the Sunday.

    What are you planning to do for mass on Corpus Christi?

    At the moment, I've not settled on a Processional Hymn, but I'm thinking "Let All Mortal Flesh" (PICARDY) for Offertory and "Godhead Here in Hiding" (ADORO TE) at communion. At my parish all masses will have exposition of the blessed sacrament for a short while afterwards. I'll use "O Salutaris Hostia/O Saving Victim" (MELCOMBE) at the end of mass for the exposition.

    If I had a small choral group, I would be doing Tallis' "Verily, Verily" or possibly the Byrd "Ave Verum Corpus."
  • Bobby Bolin
    Posts: 420
    I thought it WAS the Sunday, at least in the US.
  • JulieCollJulieColl
    Posts: 2,465
    PICARDY is one of my favorite hymns.

    We're having two First Communions next Sunday on the Feast of Corpus Christi and an outdoor procession followed by Benediction so I've got to get all my ducks lined up in a hurry. This is my tentative plan:

    Entrance: O praise ye the Lord (LAUDATE DOMINUM) *Hat tip to Salieri for this one. It's the same opening words as the verse which is sung with Adoremus in Aeternum.
    Introit: Cibavit eos
    Gradual: Oculi omnium
    Alleluia: Caro mea
    Sequence: Lauda Sion
    Offertory: Sacerdotes Domini
    Offertory Motet: Adoremus in aeternum (Allegri)
    Communion: Quotiescumque
    Communion Motet: Verbum caro panem verum (Palestrina)
    Mass Setting: Mass II Missa Fons Bonitatis
    Credo I

    Procession and Benediction:
    Pange Lingua
    Adoro te devote
    O Jesus we adore Thee
    O Salutaris Hostia (Duguet)
    Tantum Ergo
    Holy God
    Thanked by 2Steve Q noel jones, aago
  • JulieCollJulieColl
    Posts: 2,465
    Bobby, I'm not sure what is done in the OF anymore, but on the EF calendar, or ordo,
    the Feast of Corpus Christi is this Thursday, the Thursday after Trinity Sunday which is a commemoration of Holy Thursday. However, in countries where it is not a Holy Day of Obligation (such as the US), it is translated to the Second Sunday after Pentecost (thus replacing the usual Mass for the Second Sunday after Pentecost). (As explained on a Catholic forum online.)
  • melofluentmelofluent
    Posts: 4,160

    Schola rehearsals on hiatus.
    SEP/Simple Choral Propers for them.
    SEP Introit/Communio for Ensemble.
    Choral motets- Kevin Allen "Tantum ergo"
    My own "Ave Verum Corpus"
    http://m.youtube.com/?#/watch?v=o7dzkbyCPUs
    Congregational to include "Adoro te" and Hillert's "Festival Canticle."
    Ensemble congregational to include another of my pieces "This is My Body."
    http://m.youtube.com/?#/watch?v=D27L-EQpsU4
    Thanked by 1RedPop4
  • JulieCollJulieColl
    Posts: 2,465
    Melo, I don't see your videos at the links. : (
  • CharlesW
    Posts: 11,980
    The usual stuff.

    Entrance: Alleluia, Sing to Jesus ((HYFRDOL)
    WLP Psalm
    ICEL Chant Ordinary
    Offertory: Panis Angelicus - Franck
    Rice Communion Proper
    Communion Hymn: Eat This Bread - Berthier
    Recessional: At That First Eucharist (UNDE ET MEMORES)
    Postlude: Festal March from Rinaldo - Handel
  • melofluentmelofluent
    Posts: 4,160
    They just worked for me from my pad, Julie, hmmmm.
    If you go to YT, just search the titles with tccovmusicministry or "culbreth." Should come up.
  • JulieCollJulieColl
    Posts: 2,465
    Found it! It's just lovely, and your choir is fabuloso.
    Thanked by 1melofluent
  • Chris Garton-Zavesky
    Posts: 6,902
    What will I do? At the invitation of my pastor, Low Mass with organ (a French custom) on THURSDAY.
    Thanked by 1chonak
  • donr
    Posts: 971
    Entrance Antiphon - "He Fed Them With Finest Wheat" - LCG
    Entrance Hymn - "Shepherd of Souls" - Dykes
    Offertory Antiphon - "The Lord Opened the Gates of Heaven" - LCG
    Offertory Hymn - "Panis Angelicus" - LAMBILLOTTE
    Communion Antiphon - "Whoever Eats My Flesh and Drinks My Blood" - LCG
    Communion Hymn - "Ave Verum Corpus" - Chant
    Meditation - "Salve Regina" - Chant
    Recessional - "O Sacrament Most Holy"

    Mass Ordinary is - Mass of the Angels by Richard Clark
  • TeresaH
    Posts: 53
    Propers from SEP
    Ordinary is Mass of the Most Sacred Heart by Bancks
    Jesus My Lord, My God, My All
    Sequence short form in English
    Responsorial by JMO
    Mass is followed immediately by procession with singing O Salutaris, O Jesus We Adore Thee, Tamtum Ergo, etc.
    ending with Holy God We Praise Thy Name
  • expeditus1
    Posts: 483
    Our EF High Mass w/ Procession will be celebrated on Thursday, and will also include a group First Communion and Scapular investiture ceremony. Like JulieColl posted above, I, too, must get my ducks in order quickly!

    Preludes: 1) Salve Regina (Solemn tone)
    2) The Kiss of Christ (First Communion hymn)
    Processional: Jesus, My Lord, My God, My All (requested)
    Propers: Men's Schola
    Mass VIII
    Lauda Sion Sequence
    Credo III
    Offertory: Adoro Te Devote
    Communion: 1) Panis Angelicus (Franck)
    2) O Cor Amoris
    3) O Sacrum Convivium (Remondi)
    4) Pie Pellicane

    Exposition of the Blessed Sacrament: O Salutaris Hostia
    Procession: 1) Pange Lingua
    2) Sacris Solemniis
    3) Verbum Supernum
    4) Aeterne Rex Altissime
    Benediction: Tantum Ergo
    Laudes Divinae (Divine Praises)
    Adoremus in Aeternum
    Investiture in the Scapular: Singularis (chant)
    Closing Hymn: Holy God, We Praise Thy Name

    Will also play some of the above-mentioned improvisational themes as organ-filler. And then, after the completion of this Mass, I'll quickly have to get ducks in order for next Friday's High Mass for the Feast of the Sacred Heart.
  • donr
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    Does anyone have a copy of "O Jesus, We Adore You", We want to sing it in procession but I don't have a copy?
  • hartleymartin
    Posts: 1,447
    Perhaps I'll use "Praise to the Lord, the Almighty" for the entrance, with the verse where it says "Christ the High Priest bids us now join in His feast, victims with Him on the altar."

    My other option is "Alleluia, Sing to Jesus" with the verse about the eucharistic feast.

    The trouble with being an organist in a suburban parish church is that you often have to cut the entrance hymn short because they don't use incense and the processions are fairly short.
  • Chris Garton-Zavesky
    Posts: 6,902
    Donr,

    Do you mean the hymn, which is in the Adoremus hymnal?
  • Ignoto
    Posts: 126
    @DonR, do you mean this?
    http://www.ccwatershed.org/media/pdfs/11/12/12/11-36-06_0.pdf

    P.S. See http://forum.musicasacra.com/forum/discussion/10049/o-sacrament-most-holy-copyright/p1 for a discussion about the conflicting copyright information for this hymn.
  • donr
    Posts: 971
    yeah, I had another brain fart, Someone asked me if we were doing "O Jesus, We Adore You", then someone posted on this forum that they were doing it. Then I started to search for it. It really is tough getting old.

    I already had "O Sacrament Most Holy" programmed.
  • eft94530eft94530
    Posts: 1,577
    As organist I will be playing ...

    Prelude
    Procession Verset # 1 on "Adoro Te Devote" (Opus 16 No 8): Leon Boellmann

    Postlude
    Procession Verset # 2 on "Adoro Te Devote" (Opus 16 No 9): Leon Boellmann

    Details ...
    http://forum.musicasacra.com/forum/discussion/6896/corpus-christ-organ-music/p1
    Thanked by 3JulieColl BruceL CharlesW
  • Ignoto
    Posts: 126
    @DonR--yeah, I think people refer to it both ways (O Sacrament Most Holy and O Jesus, We Adore Thee/You) but I think it's generally the same thing. There are other O Jesus, We Adore You hymns but my guess is that the one you already had programmed is the one you want.
    Thanked by 1donr
  • matthewjmatthewj
    Posts: 2,700
    Elevation - Vierne (all Masses)
    Soul of My Savior (Vigil and TV Mass) - ANIMA CHRISTI
    Lumen Christi Missal Introit (TV Mass)
    Cibavit eos, Mode II (Solemn Mass)
    Kyrie VIII (all)
    Gloria VIII (all)
    Lumen Christi Missal Psalm (all)
    Ecce Panis Angelorum, Latin, Mode VII (all)
    Mode VII Alleluia (all)
    Lumen Christi Missal Offertory (all)
    Sanctus & Agnus Dei VIII (all)
    Lumen Christi Missal Communion (Vigil and TV Mass)
    Qui Munducat, Mode VI (Solemn Mass)
    O Sacrum Convivium - Parker (OCP) (all)
    Ave Verum Corpus - Byrd (all)
    At Masses with procession and Benediction: O Salutaris Hostia (JESU DULCIS MEMORIA), Adoro te Devote, Tantum Ergo (Mode III)
    Jesus My Lord, My God, My All - SWEET SACRAMENT (all)
    Chorale on O Salutaris - Guilmant (all)
  • lmassery
    Posts: 422
    St. Joseph in Strongsville Ohio.

    Choir Prelude: Soul of My Savior (Thy hymn, in parts)

    At That First Eucharist
    Eat This Bread (Taize)
    Take and Eat

    For Procession: O Salutaris,
    O Sacrement Most Holy,
    Jesus, My Lord, My God, My All
    Shepherd of Souls
    Tantum Ergo and Holy God We Praise Thy Name
  • BruceL
    Posts: 1,072
    PRELUDE: Variations on “Adoro te” (Near)
    ENTRANCE ANTIPHON (8:30 & 11AM) Cibavit eos; Ps 81:17 Gregorian
    ENTRANCE: At that first Eucharist (UNDE ET MEMORES)
    KYRIE: Mass VIII
    GLORIA: Mass VIII
    RESPONSORIAL PSALM: Ps 147: Praise the Lord, Jerusalem (Chabanel)
    OFFERTORY ANTIPHON (11AM) Portas caeli; Ps 78:23-25 Gregorian
    OFFERTORY: O food of exiles lowly (INNSBRUCK)
    8:30AM: Ego sum panis vivus (Palestrina)
    MASS: Mass VIII
    COMMUNION ANTIPHON (8:30 & 11AM) Hoc corpus; 1 Cor 11:24, 25 Gregorian
    COMMUNION: Godhead here in hiding (ADORO TE; G.M. Hopkins trans.)
    POSTCOMMUNION (8:30AM): O sacrum convivium (Bartolucci)
    CLOSING: Jesus, my Lord, my God, my all (SWEET SACRAMENT)
    VOLUNTARY: Praeludium in D, BuxWV 139 (Buxtehude)

    Sorry about the formatting...also...just realized this afternoon that the communion antiphon is wrong...oops...
  • JulieCollJulieColl
    Posts: 2,465
    Ego sum panis vivus (Palestrina)


    Great choice!!
  • BruceL
    Posts: 1,072
    It's a nice motet, but you can tell Palestrina didn't have his game face on...lots of weird non-endings of phrases, etc. Then again, I am biased toward the Tudors and my buddy Tomas.
  • CharlesW
    Posts: 11,980
    As organist I will be playing ...

    Prelude
    Procession Verset # 1 on "Adoro Te Devote" (Opus 16 No 8): Leon Boellmann

    Postlude
    Procession Verset # 2 on "Adoro Te Devote" (Opus 16 No 9): Leon Boellmann


    Both of these are beautiful, and I have played them both in recital and at mass. Very good music!
  • Richard MixRichard Mix
    Posts: 2,799
    A relapse (caused by the sequence) from our usual 3-hymn sandwich model:

    At the Lamb's high feast (SALZBURG)
    Kyrie &c from Schubert's Deutsche Messe
    Responsorial "O praise the Lord Jerusalem" Guimont
    Sequence "Contemplate the bread of angels" with Dupré's 3-part fugetta as intonation
    Off. O sacrum convivium Messiaen
    Comm. Qui manducat followed by Adoro te
    Holy God, we praise thy(!) name (GROSSER GOTT)
  • PaixGioiaAmorPaixGioiaAmor
    Posts: 1,473
    Richard, I don't see anything remotely wrong with that mass plan. It looks great!
    Thanked by 1CharlesW
  • Jen
    Posts: 28
    St. Adalbert's
    Berea, OH

    Our Schola sang for both the 10:00 and 11:30 Masses today. This is our 3rd year singing these chants so they sounded wonderfully relaxed and musical!
    (As opposed to the first and second years when we sounded like we were sweating bullets trying to get them right!)

    11:30 Mass - with Eucharistic procession & Benediction
    Prelude: Anima Christi (Kevin Allen)
    Entrance: Cibavit eos (Gregorian Chant)
    Gloria: VIII English Adaptation by Bruce E Ford
    Sequence: Chanted entire sequence in English (solo)
    Offertory: Portas caeli (Gregorian Chant)
    Holy, Mem. Accl., Amen, Lamb: Heritage Mass
    Communion: Hoc corpus (Gregorian Chant)
    Ave Verum Corpus (W. Byrd)
    Procession: Pange lingua
    Benediction
    Holy God We Praise Thy Name
    Recessional: Tantum Ergo (Kevin Allen)


    Thanked by 1canadash
  • DL
    Posts: 80
    We had, at the Ordinariate Mass, the Gregorian propers and Sequence, Josquin's Missa Pange, lingua, Ave Verum by a local composer and occasional choir member called John Duggan, Lord enthroned in heavenly splendour (T: St Helen), and the usual plainsong for Benediction.

    The main parish mass (another church some distance away) had Missa de Angelis and Credo III, Lord enthroned..., Jesus, my Lord, my God, my all, Hopkins' Adoro te to chant, and Pange, lingua in English for the procession. Benedictionalia in Latin. I don't think they've had a procession since the 60s. Mass in the chapel of ease had the same hymns, ICEL ordinary and no procession. All of this is some way from where the parish has been musically and liturgically in the past, but the foundations are increasingly firming up. Incremental and simple singing of the propers begins from the week after next: we shall see whether the building is still standing afterwards...
  • hartleymartin
    Posts: 1,447
    In the end I went with:

    Processional: Alleluia, Sing To Jesus (HYFRADOL)
    Offertory: Let All Mortal Flesh Keep Silence (PICARDY)
    Communion: See Us Lord, About Thine Altar (DRAKES BROUGHTON)
    Thanksgiving: Soul of My Saviour (ANIMA CHRISTI)
    Postlude: Improvisation on Picardy
    Ordinary: Mass of St Francis by P Taylor

    Both the Saturday 6pm and Sunday 6pm Congregations sang. Particularly surprising, since the Sunday 6pm "Last Chance Mass" are usually the least enthusiastic singers.
  • hartleymartin
    Posts: 1,447
    Now this feast has passed, I'm looking forward to what we're doing for Sts Peter and Paul!
  • matthewjmatthewj
    Posts: 2,700
    I have to say that the congregational singing of Soul of my Savior (ANIMA CHRISTI) was very good this weekend. It's a very charming hymn tune.
  • BenBen
    Posts: 3,114
    Matthewj, I thought your congregation was oppressed and never sang because you are stuck in the past.
    Thanked by 2CharlesW BruceL
  • SamuelDorlaque
    Posts: 318
    Saint Edward, Newark, CA Solemnity of the Most Holy Body & Blood of Christ: 10:00 AM
    Full Gregorian Proper, Mass VIII, Offertory Motet: "Sanctificavit Moyses" a 5 ... Palestrina,
    Communion Anthem: "Verily, verily, I Say Unto You" ... Tallis, Hymn to the BVM: "Salve Regina" ... Simple Tone. Lessons & Gospel chanted in English.
  • hartleymartin
    Posts: 1,447
    I've sung "Sanctificavit Moyses." Not the most memorable of Palestrina's motets, but still excellent music.

    Most parish choirs with a bit of dedication should be able to do Tallis' " Verily, Verily I Say Unto You" it should be considered a staple piece of music.
  • BruceL
    Posts: 1,072
    Mr. Dorlaque always seems to have impeccable taste in choral music!
  • melofluentmelofluent
    Posts: 4,160
    Well, he has the irrepressible Fr. Jeff Keyes as pastor!
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