EWTN daily mass - 6/27/2020 - Entrance Antiphon and Communion hymn

[ricmat]

1. At today’s EWTN daily mass (6/27/2020), the entrance antiphon looked to be totally about Mary, but the biblical reference was Judith 13. Is this common, for antiphons to be “not verbatim” from the Bible?
2. The 1st hymn during Communion at today’s mass was incredibly beautiful. Sometimes there is a banner saying what the name of the hymn is and/or the hymn number, but not for today. I want to find that hymn. Can anyone help?

Thanks in advance.

 

[Cor_ad_Cor]

At today’s EWTN daily mass (6/27/2020), the entrance antiphon looked to be totally about Mary, but the biblical reference was Judith 13. Is this common, for antiphons to be “not verbatim” from the Bible?

On Saturdays, unless there’s a higher ranking celebration, you can always have a votive Mass of the Blessed Virgin Mary.

ETA: And no, the antiphons don’t need to be exactly verbatim scripture quotations.

 

[ricmat]

Thanks for the response!

 

[Todd_Easton]

I’m pretty sure the 1st Communion hymn is called “Holy Light On Earth’s Horizon” or simply “Holy Light,” sung to music by Robert LeBlanc, O.S.B. (b. 1948- )

EWTN 2020-06-27 Mass on YouTube, 1st Communion hymn begins about minute 48.

YouTube recording by others, here. Twitter recording by Fr. Stephen Vrazel, here.

Lyrics, here.

It appears in my The Collegeville Hymnal (1990), Hymn #330 Holy Light.

With different music (tune: LOCH LEVEN), it appears in my The St. Michael Hymnal, 4th Edition (2011), Hymn #563 Holy Light on Earth’s Horizon.

 

[ricmat]

That’s it!

Thank you much for going to the effort to track it down. I actually recorded the hymn on my cell phone, but the sound quality was not good enough to catch most of the lyrics.

This link (which you provided ) has the music and lyrics I actually heard on the EWTN Mass.)

I’ve been watching the EWTN daily mass for a couple of months now, and stand in awe of the beautiful music that they use. Praise be to God that He guided the composer, singers, organist, etc. to make the music available in the first place, and that He gave me (and others) the ability to hear and appreciate it, for His glory.