MUSIC for ALL SAINTS and SUNDAY XXXIIat HOLY GHOST CHURCH

First of all - I have to say this:
For our first major anthem at Holy Ghost, the Holst "Let All Mortal Flesh" this Sunday was glorious! People loved it! Father loved it! I loved it!

ALL SAINTS - NOVEMBER 1, 2005
7:00 PM

Introit:
- Proper: Tone 8 - Let us all rejoice in the Lord and keep a festival in honor of all the saints. Let us join with the angels in joyful praise to the Son of God. (Vs.) Rejoice in the Lord, you just, for praise from the upright is fitting.
- Hymn: SINE NOMINE - For all the saints (Music Issue, #723)
Gloria: Peloquin - Mass of the Bells
Psalm: Grail/Gelineau - Lord, this is the people that longs to see your face.
Alleluia: Murray
Offertory: LASST UNS ERFREUEN - Ye watchers and ye holy ones (Music Issue, #724)
Sanctus, Mysterium, Per Ipsum: Peloquin - Mass of the Bells
Lord's Prayer: chant (English)
Agnus: Peloquin - Mass of the Bells
Communion: Page - Remember, Lord, thy servants
Recessional: NICAEA - Holy, holy, holy (Missalette, #19)

SIDENOTE on "REMEMBER, LORD, THY SERVANTS"
As the Gospel reading and Communion Proper for All Saints both reveal the Beatitudes, I found it fitting (in 1991) to write a Responsory that would fit both All Saints and All Souls. The antiphon is Remember, Lord, thy servants, when thou dost take thy throne. The verses (there are five) are based on the Beatitudes. The piece has all the makings of a Gelineau-style responsory (metrical one-line antiphon, with one-beat-per-bar verses).

SUNDAY XXXII - NOVEMBER 6, 2005
Saturday Vigil 4:30 / Sunday 7:30, 9:00, and 10:30

Introit:
- Proper (10:30): Tone 8 - Let my prayer come before you, Lord: listen and answer me. (Vs.) O Lord, God of my salvation, day and night I cried before you.
- Hymn: ST. GEORGE'S WINDSOR - Hail, Redeemer, King divine (Music Issue, #736)
Gloria: Peloquin - Mass of the Bells
Psalm: Grail/Gelineau - My soul is thirsting for you, O Lord, thirsting for you, my God.
Alleluia: Murray
Offertory: SINE NOMINE - For all the saints (Music Issue, #723)
Sanctus, Mysterium, Per Ipsum: Peloquin - Mass of the Bells
Lord's Prayer: chant (English)
Agnus: Peloquin - Mass of the Bells
Communion:
- Responsory: Gelineau - My Shepherd is the Lord (Music Issue, #749)
- Proper (10:30): Tone 8 - The five wise virgins took oil in flasks with their lamps; at midnight there was a cry: Behold the bridegroom is here; come out and meet Christ the Lord.
Recessional: HYFRYDOL - Alleluia! sing to Jesus (Music Issue, #740)

SIDENOTE on the COMMUNION PIECES:
"My Shepherd is the Lord" covers one option of the Proper, that is, the first option used in the Roman Missal. This proper, though only covering Years B and C in the Gregorian Missal (note: this is Year A), covers Year A as well in the Roman Missal.
"The Five Wise Virgins..." covers the Year A option in the Gregorian Missal.
Another option in the Roman Missal (which I didn't use this time) is The disciples recognized the Lord Jesus in the breaking of the bread.

NEW HYMN FOR THE MONTH OF NOVEMBER:
Since last September, I've been back to the practice of introducing one new tune a month. In September, we did LAUDA ANIMA (Praise my soul, the King of heaven). In October, it was WESTMINSTER ABBEY (Christ is made the sure foundation). For November, the new tune is ST. GEORGE'S WINDSOR. Two hymns for the month associate with that tune, and we'll be using them both. Those are "Hail Redeemer, King Divine" (Sunday XXXII and Christ the King) and "Come, Ye Thankful People, Come" (Sunday XXXIII and Thanksgiving Day).

ONE LAST NOTE:
I use several factors in determining hymn selection. Not only do I read the readings, but also the Propers in the Roman Missal AND the Gregorian Missal. One may wish to note that the Gregorian Missal is derived from the Roman Gradual (or "Graduale Romanum"), the hardly used and/or little known (in North America at least) "official" hymnal of the Roman Catholic Church worldwide.

In Christ,
BMP