What have you planned for this coming Sunday?

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.)

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)

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

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

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!

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

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

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

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!).

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