Laetare Sunday Music Selections
  • francis
    Posts: 10,668
    What have you planned for this coming Sunday?
  • Dan F.Dan F.
    Posts: 205
    Ooh! We're singing our first Sunday mass this week, extraordinary form. Nothing fancy, but here it is:

    Asperges me (PBC p. 22) SCHOLA
    INTROIT Laetare Jerusalem SCHOLA
    Kyrie XVII-B SCHOLA + CONGREGATION
    GRADUAL Laetatus sum QUARTET
    TRACT Qui confidunt QUARTET
    Credo III SCHOLA + CONGREGATION
    OFFERTORY Laudate Dominum SCHOLA
    *Hymn: Audi, benigne Conditor (from Vespers) SCHOLA
    Sanctus XVII SCHOLA + CONGREGATION
    Agnus Dei XVII SCHOLA + CONGREGATION
    COMMUNION Jerusalem Quae Aedificatur w/psalm verses SCHOLA
  • Saint Edward, Newark CA 10:00 Missa Cantata (OF) LAETARE SUNDAY
    Prelude "Toccata in G Minor" ... Pachelbel (Played by a student)
    Introit "Laetare Jerusalem" Graduale, Tone 5
    Mass XVII w/ Kyrie "C"
    Responsorial Psalm setting by Rev. Jeffrey Keyes, CPPS
    Offertory "Laudate Dominum" Graduale, Tone 2
    Anthem: "I Will Arise and Go to My Father" ... Charles Wood
    Communio "Oportet te fili guadere" Graduale, Tone 8 w/ Psalms verses from Richard Rice
    After Dismissal: "Ave Regina Caelorum" ... Antonio Lotti
    Postlude "Toccata in D Major" ... Pachelbel (Played by student.)
  • Chris AllenChris Allen
    Posts: 150
    Prelude: Laetare Jerusalem, proper Gregorian introit
    Entrance: translation of Laetare sung to a Byzantine chant tone
    (no offertory at this Mass, holdover from previous pastor who retired in December)
    Communion: Psalm 34 ("Taste and see....")
    Recessional: "The Glory of These Forty Days"
  • henry
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    Entrance: Rejoice the Lord is King
    Offertory: Our Father We Have Wandered
    Communion: Proper (from Mass Propers for Lent, CanticaNova publications)
    Meditation: Ave Regina Caelorum (chant)
    Recessional: Lord Who Throughout These Forty Days
    (All from Worship III except Communion)
  • ref_scottref_scott
    Posts: 90
    Ordinary: Missa Jubilate Deo
    Processional: Rejoice the Lord is King
    Responsorial: Taste and see...Richard Rice
    Praise to you Lord Jesus Christ...Fr. Weber
    Offertory: Illumina oculos
    Communion: Oportet te; O, Jesus we adore thee; Staber Mater
    Recessional: Blessed by your sacrifice
  • Holy Ghost Church, Denver, CO:

    Organ Prelude: J.S. Bach - O Lamm Gottes, unschuldig
    Introit: Laetare Jerusalem
    Asperges Me: Polyphonic setting by Montani
    Responsorial Psalm: Marier
    Tract: Miserere Mei
    Credo III
    Offertory: J. Stainer - God So Loved The World
    Sanctus/Agnus Dei - Missa XVII
    Communion: Oportet te
    Communion Motet: F.J. Haydn - Sancta Mater from Stabat Mater
    Recessional Hymn: Sole Hope of All the World (Collegeville)
    After Mass: Ave Regina Caelorum
  • PaixGioiaAmorPaixGioiaAmor
    Posts: 1,473
    Entrance: "Remember Your Love and Your Faithfulness" refrain with gelineau verses of the proper (ps. 122)

    Kyrie: Mass XVI

    Psalm: Taste and See, Gelineau

    Preparation: I Will Arise, sung by the choir

    Mass Ordinary: Corpus Christi Mass, Proulx

    Agnus Dei: Mass XVIII

    Communion: Return to God, Marty Haugen

    Communion Motet: O Bone Jesu, Ingegnari

    Recessional: Amazing Grace
  • redsox1
    Posts: 217
    Prelude: Variations on "Wondrous Love" Robert Lau
    Introit Hymn: Rejoice, Jerusalem! (Tietze)
    Kyrie: Mass XVI with tropes
    (Choir Mass) Modal Mass Calvert Shenk
    Psalm 34 Gelineau
    Gospel Acc.: Glory to You, O Word of God Richard Proulx
    Preparation of the Gifts: Amazing Grace
    (Choir Mass) Create in Me A Clean Heart, O God Mueller
    Eucharistic Acclamations: Corpus Christi Mass
    Fraction Rite: Agnus Dei Mass XVIII
    Communion: The Lord Is Kind and Merciful
    (Choir Mass) O Taste and See Vaughan Williams
    Communio: (Schola) Oportet te Graduale
    (Choir Mass) Modal Mass Calvert Shenk
    Closing Hymn: What Wondrous Love
  • incantuincantu
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    Notre Dame des Victoires, French national church (San Francisco, CA)
    [N.B. Optional Year A readings used for the Scrutinies]

    Entrance: Attende Domine (English)
    Responsorial Psalm: Ps. 23 (Marier)
    Gospel acclamation: Glory and praise (based on Kyrie orbis factor)
    Offertory: Laudate Dominum (Eberlin)
    Sanctus XVIII
    Memorial acclamation A (English, Sacramentary)
    Lord's Prayer (ed. Snow)
    Lamb of God XVII (ed. Columba Kelly)
    Communion: Lutum fecit
    Marian hymn after Mass: Ave Regina Caelorum (Lotti)
  • marajoymarajoy
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    so I was reading many of these entries, and thinking, "Oh how silly I am!" (I use Ritual Song,) "We have 'Rejoice, the Lord is King' in our hymnal, too! so of course I should use it this weekend!" Then I went and looked at it, and I wanted to compare it to the introit, to see how similar there are, and here is, briefly, the text of the hymn,
    " Rejoice the Lord is King! your Lord and King adore, Rejoice give thanks, and sing, and triumph evermore, Life up your hear, lift up your voice! Rejoice, again I say, rejoice!"

    CONTRASTED to the actual introit...
    "Rejoice, O Jerusalem: and come together all you that love her: rejoice with joy you that have been in sorrow: that you may exult, and be filled from the breasts of your consolation."

    (since my congregation does not know this tune, I was particularly musing on whether it would be worth it to teach it to them or not,) and so I really was thinking about--how similar ARE these two texts?

    and I concluded...yes, they both emphasize "rejoicing;" but while the hymn is basically "praise to the Lord," the introit is actually more focused on THOSE who rejoice--whether they are sad or loving or exulting...!

    This is certainly meant as NO criticism on those of you who chose it, but rather, a continuing *frustration* on the inability of hymns to "fit" the propers! argh!
  • incantuincantu
    Posts: 989
    Marajoy,

    I find that odd as well. Is it listed in RitualSong as a suggestion for this Sunday? When it comes to propers, you always have to look at the complete text. I remember last year we sang "Illumina faciem" instead of "Illumina oculos" (or the other way around - they're both listed as "Illumina" in the index to thee Gregorian Missal). I mean, it could have been worse... but it wasn't the proper. "Laudate dominum (omnes /quia)" comes to mind, as do "Ego sum (pastor / vitis)," "Amen (quidquid / quod)" and "Jubilate Deo (universa / omnes)."
  • Donnaswan
    Posts: 585
    Too late now, but I just remembered the composer of a nice setting- Peter Halleck(sp) Anyway, GIA- It's for two voices with handbell clusters- A chant setting of Psalm 122. We do it a few times a year as an Introit- using some sort of bell stop on the organ since we have no handbells.

    Donna
  • redsox1
    Posts: 217
    I would recommend "Introit Hymns" by Christopher Tietze, published by WLP if you want to find the appropriate Introit for a given Sunday (and principal feasts), translated to English and metrically set. Most are set to familiar hymn tunes. This week's Introit Hymn is easily sung to the tune OLD HUNDREDTH or TRURO.
  • Saint Mary’s Parish, Visalia, California
    Order of Music-March 14, 2010
    Fourth Sunday of Lent-C

    Introit Antiphon:S “Rejoice, Jerusalem” Simple Choral Gradual/R.Rice
    Entrance: S JERUSALEM, MY HAPPY HOME (Land of rest)
    E YOUR LIGHT WILL COME, JERUSALEM (Hurd)

    Opening Rites: S E Kyrie-plainsong

    Responsorial: SE Respond & Acclaim "Taste and see..." Alstott

    Gospel Accl.: SE Lenten Gospel Acclamation (Culbreth)

    Offertory: S DWELLING PLACE (Foley)
    E THESE ALONE ARE ENOUGH (Schutte)

    Eucharistic Accl.: S Chanted “Sanctus”/Christ has died/Amen/Agnus Dei
    EHoly/Chri st/ Amen (Hurd “Roll Down Ages) chanted Agnus Dei

    Communion Procession:SE Antiphon “My son, you should rejoice…” Simple Choral Gradual/R.Rice
    S CHRISTIANS, LET US LOVE ONE ANOTHER (Picardy)
    E O GOD, YOU SEARCH ME (B.Farrell)

    Communion Anthem: S GOD OF MERCY (Monteverdi)
    E PRODIGAL SON (Culbreth)

    Silence/No Recesssional or Postlude
  • quilisma
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    Basilica of St. Sernin, Toulouse, France.

    Processional Hymn: En toi, Seigneur, mon espérance
    Introit: Laetare Jerusalem
    Penitential Rite: Asperges me
    Psalm: No. 33, Gelineau
    Gospel Acclamation: Laus tibi, Christe
    Offertory: Organ
    Sanctus: XVII
    Agnus Dei: XVII
    Communion Antiphon: Oportet te
    Post-communion: Attende Domine
    BVM Antiphon: Ave Regina caelorum
  • francis
    Posts: 10,668
    Our Lady of the Mountains, Jackson, WY

    Prelude: early keyboard works from the 1500's
                  Ecossaise (with trumpet)
    Introit: Laetare Jerusalem (AUG with slight text alteration)
    Penitential Rite: Kyrie (Jubilate Deo)
    Psalm: WLP
    Gospel Acclamation: Koerber plainchant with organ
    Offertory: (AUG proper)
    Offertory: Jesu Joy, Bach (with flugelhorn)
    Sanctus:   (Jubilate Deo)
    Agnus Dei:  (Jubilate Deo)
    Communion Antiphon: Oportet te
    Communion Hymn: Humbly We Adore Thee
    Recessional Hymn: I Want To Walk
    Postlude: Praeludium 10, Bach
  • Missa Cantata (EF)
    Saint Joseph's Church
    York, Pennsylvania
    Diocese of Harrisburg

    Organ: Christe, du Lamm Gottes (Orgelbuchlein)
    Hymn: The glory of these forty days
    Propers: Rossini
    Ordinary: Mass XVII
    at Offertory: Jesu dulcis memoria (chant)
    at Communion: Jesu Salvator mundi (arr. Montani)
    at conclusion: Adoramus te, Christe (Dubois)

    Father Joseph Tuscan, OFM Cap, celebrant
    Schola of Saint Joseph's Church
    Daniel Bennett Page, director

    [sung music for this Mass selected by schola before director came on board]
  • GavinGavin
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    I think "There's a Wideness in God's Mercy" is common even in Catholic churches, and it fits quite well with the Prodigal Son gospel. We used it at my Episcopal Church, and also "Now Quit Your Care" (which is less likely to be familiar, but a wonderful text and hymn!).
  • matthewjmatthewj
    Posts: 2,694
    I do use Rejoice the Lord is King twice per year - Gaudate and Laetare. While it certainly fits Gaudete better, I think it does add something to Laetare and is a very sturdy piece of hymnody.

    And on another topic entirely, Gavin mentions There's a Wideness in God's Mercy.... I have a hymnal that printed it "There's a Wildness in God's Mercy," on its first release... It was fixed in the next printing.
  • Donnaswan
    Posts: 585
    Gavin, Do you sing 'There's a wideness' to In Babilone? That's the one in Ritualsong, . We use it pretty regularly. There's also an old Baptist tune that I learned as a kid.

    Donna