Hymns for processions
  • Jeffrey Quick
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    Please nominate your favorite hymns (common practice or Gregorian, public-domain preferred) for outdoor processions, with their appropriate feasts.
  • PMulholland
    Posts: 120
    Paradisi Portae - Assumption BVM/Marian Processions

    Peter
  • PMulholland
    Posts: 120
    Paradisi Portae - Assumption BVM/Marian Processions

    Peter
  • YellowRoseofTexasYellowRoseofTexas
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    All Glory, Laud, and Honor - Palm Sunday
    Thanked by 1SanAntonioCath
  • Protasius
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    Singt dem König Freudenpsalmen (roughly: Sing psalms of joy for the king) - Palm Sunday
  • Jeffrey Quick
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    Thanks, keep them coming....it doesn't need to be just one, but the ones you use.
  • marajoymarajoy
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    I'm surprised no one has said Pange Lingua for Holy Thursday yet. That's my vote. (But then again, I don't participate in all that many processions in the space of a year...)
    Thanked by 1PurpleSquirrel
  • matthewjmatthewj
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    Pange Lingua is the answer for me too.. No matter how many Holy Thursdays one gets on this earth, I doubt its enough. I couldn't imagine someone being Catholic and not going to Mass on Holy Thursday (or more horrifying, finding themselves at a Parish that was doing something modern in Pange Lingua's place).
  • PurpleSquirrelPurpleSquirrel
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    Agreed. Pange Lingua. All the way.
  • SanAntonioCath
    Posts: 77
    All Glory, Laud, and Honor - Palm Sunday

    This worked well for us
  • Bobby Bolin
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    All Glory, Laud, and Honor on Palm Sunday here as well
  • veromaryveromary
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    Salve festa dies on Easter Sunday
  • Musicteacher56
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    Pange Lingua for Holy Thursday
  • MaryAnn Carr WilsonMaryAnn Carr Wilson
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    I am totally nerding out on this topic, Jeffrey. I've thought of it often, esp when I consider compositional fodder. I tend toward a love of medaeival hymns that sound like sacred pub songs. I hope I don't offend anyone with that idea. They just seem like part of a joyful, Christ-filled life. I find some hymns, like 'Salve, Mater', so irresistible that choir friends and I have been known to sing them in public. We are actually looking for flash mob venues...
    I digress. Here are my favorite-

    Palm Sunday
    Hosanna filio David
    Gloria, laus, et honor

    Marian
    Salve, Mater

    Christmas
    Puer natus in Bethlehem
    Personent hodie

    I'll keep thinking... Oh! how I love chant hymns.
    Thanked by 3CHGiffen Jeffrey Quick Patricia Cecilia
  • tomjaw
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    Vexilla Regis... (All 10? verses)

    Pange Lingua (Good Friday EF)
  • SamuelDorlaque
    Posts: 318
    In addition to the above mentioned, I remember fondly, at the Vigil of All Saints, beginning in the garden at the Shrine of the Blessed Virgin, carrying the relics of
    the parish in procession to the church singing the Litany of the Saints.
    Thanked by 1ContraBombarde
  • Chris_McAvoyChris_McAvoy
    Posts: 389
    I break away from the cliches here..

    I pick:

    O Redemptor for the blessing of oils on Holy wednesday (sometimes during quadragesima also used) (9th c)
    Beata viscera Maria (usually used at (immaculate) Conception) (by Perotin in the early 13th c)
    Dum Pater Familias (Pilgrims Hymn for St James the Apostle) (July 24) (12th c.)

    and from the Byzantine rite, "Rejoice of Bethany" for Lazarus or Palm Sunday is an incredibly moving processional hymn.
  • liturgical_organist
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    Processional Hymns should have a short refrain that can be memorized. E.g. the Lourdes Hymn. 2 words, 5 syllables divided over 4 or 5 notes, works in any language!
    Here's an official source of liturgical Latin processional hymns: "Cantus ad Procesiones", an old book, published by McLoughlin Reilly.
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