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Sunday, January 10th, 2010 - Year C - Baptism of the Lord

Processional Hymn: #110 When Jesus Come To Be Baptized
Preparation of the Gifts: #96 The Snow Lay on the Ground
Communion Hymn: #85 Of The Father’s Love Begotten
Recessional Hymn: #108 Songs of Thankfulness and Praise
 
Baptism of the Lord - January 10th:

Opening: O Come All Ye Faithful
Offertory: Songs of Thanskfulness and Praise
Communion: Of the Father’s Love Begotten
Closing: Joy to the World

What do you think? Are there too many Christmas songs?
 
grandeorgue said:
Baptism of the Lord - January 10th:

Opening: O Come All Ye Faithful
Offertory: Songs of Thanskfulness and Praise
Communion: Of the Father’s Love Begotten
Closing: Joy to the World

What do you think? Are there too many Christmas songs?
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Here is what I would do:

Entrance: When John Baptized By Jordan’s River
Offertory: Of the Father’s Love Begotten
Communion: O Come, All Ye Faithful
Recessional: Songs of Thankfulness and Praise

Songs of Thankfulness and Praise also makes a great bridge for the following week, since it mentions the Wedding at Cana.
 
grandeorgue said:
Baptism of the Lord - January 10th:

Opening: O Come All Ye Faithful
Offertory: Songs of Thanskfulness and Praise
Communion: Of the Father’s Love Begotten
Closing: Joy to the World

What do you think? Are there too many Christmas songs?
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I don’t think there are too many. It’s a nice way to end off the Christmas season!
 
grandeorgue said:
Baptism of the Lord - January 10th:

Communion: Of the Father’s Love Begotten
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I’ve used this as our communion hymn for the past three liturgies. It’s probably my favorite Christmas hymn and I think the repetition of these exalted and beautifully poetic words will sink the Christmas message in the minds of our parishoners. This is a “technique” that I will often use on occasion – especially during our seasonal liturgies (advent, Christmas, lent, Easter). Anyone else do this?

I will not use it this week because our cantor for this week mentioned to me that she was becoming tired of this hymn – that’s OK as there are many other great Communion Hymns.

MonFrere
 
Here is my plan for this Sunday, the Baptism of the Lord:

Hymn at the Entrance: When Jesus Came to be Baptized (WINCHESTER NEW)

Kyrie: New Plainsong Mass, by David Hurd, in Greek

Gloria: People’s Mass, in English

Responsorial Psalm: “O Bless the Lord my Soul,” plainsong mode viii, arranged by Aristotle Esguerra, in English

Gospel Acclamation: “Alleluia” from Graduale Simplex, plainsong mode iii, verse to office psalm tone, plainsong mode iii-G, verse in English

Offertory: “Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord,” from The American Gradual, plainsong mode viii (English adaptation of the proper chant for offertory)

Sanctus: New Plainsong Mass, in English

Mysterium Fidei: Ambrosian chant, in English

Per ipsum/Amen: Simple tone

Agnus Dei: New Plainsong Mass, in English

Communion: “Omnes qui in Christo,” plainsong mode ii, psalm verses adapted by Richard Rice, in Latin (proper chant for communion)

Meditation: When John Baptized in Jordan’s River (RENDEZ A DIEU)

Hymn at the Recession: Songs of Thankfulness and Praise (SALZBURG)

Postlude: Improvisation on SALZBURG
 
MonFrere said:
I found an old Cantalonian Carol that I arranged for my choir for our midnight Mass. It is Carol of the Birds. The melody is very pensive and I like the lyric. I told my choir members that it represents a “birds eye view” of the Nativity. Here are the lyrics to the four verses. I think the message of this Carol is much more poetic, and very creative in the way it “paints its canvas” of the birth of our Lord than most offerings I’ve seen that poetically doesn’t move me or doesn’t even enter into the realm of stimulating ones imagination to the wonder of Christmas.

Upon this holy night,
When God’s great star appears,
And floods the earth with brightness
Birds’ voices rise in song
And warbling all night long
Express their glad heart’s lightness
Birds’ voices rise in song
And warbling all night long
Express their glad heart’s lightness

The Nightingale is first
To bring his song of cheer,
And tell us of His glad - ness:
Jesus, our Lord, is born
To free us from all sin
And banish ev’ry sadness!
Jesus, our Lord is born
To free us from all sin
And banish ev’ry sadness!

The answ’ring Sparrow cries:
“God comes to earth this day
Amid the angels flying.”
Trilling in sweetest tones,
The Finch his Lord now owns:
“To Him be all thanksgiving.”
Trilling in sweetest tones,
The Finch his Lord now owns:
“To Him be all thanksgiving.”

The Partridge adds his note:
"To Bethlehem I’ll fly,
Where in the stall He’s lying.
There, near the manger blest,
I’ll build myself a nest,
And sing my love undying.
There, near the manger blest,
I’ll build myself a nest,
And sing my love undying.
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That is really beautiful. I’d love to hear the music.
nice job.
peace,
h
 
benedictgal said:
Did any of you have the Christmas proclamation sung? As I found it too late for this year, it was proclaimed (spoken) at both the English and Spanish-language Masses. I will print out the Epiphany proclamation and hope that it will be chanted.
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They did that when I was at St. Raphael’s. It was amazing. They spoke it and it was fantastic. I’ll bet if it were chanted it would be even more moving. To hear Jesus lineage proclaimed from David. It was like opening a time capsule.
They don’t do it at my church. I think I’ll mention it for next year.

Hope you had a wonderful Christmas season,
h
 
CatholicZ09 said:
I am using “Songs of Thankfulness and Praise” as the recessional next weekend. “As With Gladness Men of Old” is just as fitting:
  1. As with gladness men of old Did the guiding star behold, As with joy they hailed its light, Leading on-ward, beaming bright, So, most gracious Lord, may we Evermore be led to thee.
  2. As with joyful steps they sped To that lowly manger bed, There to bend the knee before Him who heav’n and earth adore; So may we with willing feet Ever seek the mercy seat.
  3. As they offered gifts most rare At that manger rude and bare; So may we with holy joy, Pure and free from sin’s alloy, All our costless treasures bring, Christ! to thee, our heav’nly King.
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Those are beautiful words.
Gosh! I really gotta learn more of the older hymns.
thanks for sharing,
h
 
This is what I’m using next week:

Sunday, January 17th, 2010 - 2nd Sunday in Ordinary Time - Year C

Processional Hymn: #313 All People That On Earth Do Dwell
Preparation of the Gifts: #321 Song Of The Body Of Christ
Communion Hymn: #347 Eat This Bread
Recessional Hymn: #593 In Christ There Is No East Or West

Ahh…Ordinary Time.
 
CatholicZ09 said:
This is what I’m using next week:

Sunday, January 17th, 2010 - 2nd Sunday in Ordinary Time - Year C

Processional Hymn: #313 All People That On Earth Do Dwell
Preparation of the Gifts: #321 Song Of The Body Of Christ
Communion Hymn: #347 Eat This Bread
Recessional Hymn: #593 In Christ There Is No East Or West

Ahh…Ordinary Time.
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The first two are fine, but the Preparation and Holy Communion are a little bit worrisome. Tne Song of the Body of Christ is more along the lines of emphasizing and celebrating the community as opposed to the Mystery that unfolds before us. Eat this Bread is great, but, it’s horrible for congregational singing because each verse changes significantly. Unless your congregation really knows the song, it does not work really well.

Why not try Love’s Divine, All Love’s Excelling for the offertory? Something that a lot of folks tend to miss especially at the Wedding at Cana is that Jesus is the embodiment of marriage as in His person, God and man are united. Draw Near and Take the Body of Your Lord is pretty good for Communion, as is I Received the Living God.

Something else to remember is that Jesus worked his first sign at a wedding and that sign involved wine. The prophets wrote that when the Messiah would come, rivers of wine would flow. Wine gladdens the heart. The Messiah, as St. John the Baptist said in yesterday’s final Daily Mass reading for Christmas, is the bridegroom and the Church is his bride.
 
This is what my organist used for today:

Sunday, January 10th, 2010 - Baptism of the Lord - Year C

Processional Hymn: #106 Angels, From The Realms Of Glory
Preparation of the Gifts: #90 It Came Upon The Midnight Clear
Communion Hymn: #93 Infant Holy, Infant Lowly
Recessional Hymn: #108 Song Of Thankfulness And Praise

I liked how he stucked with the Christmas hymns for this weekend. I was weary because OCP was suggesting these horrible hymns for this weekend. I was going to Mass with an “I don’t know” feeling. I was very pleased and love the hymns.
 
Here’s is what I chose as cantor:

Feast of the Baptism of Christ

Entrance: Jesus Christ by Faith Revealed
Offertory: On Jordan’s Bank
Communion: I Want to Walk as a Child of the Light
Dismissal: We Bring God’s Holy Love

plus — I Saw Water Flowing for the sprinkling rite

hey – and I hardly sang a bum note in the bunch 🙂 Jesus be praised!

God bless

Tony
 
agp2176 said:
Here’s is what I chose as cantor:

Feast of the Baptism of Christ

Entrance: Jesus Christ by Faith Revealed
Offertory: On Jordan’s Bank
Communion: I Want to Walk as a Child of the Light
Dismissal: We Bring God’s Holy Love

plus — I Saw Water Flowing for the sprinkling rite

hey – and I hardly sang a bum note in the bunch 🙂 Jesus be praised!

God bless

Tony
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Nice picks! Oh, for the sprinkling rite we did:

#659 “Baptized in Water” to the BUNESSAN hymn tune (“Morning Has Broken”, “This Day God Gives Me”.)
 
Here’s is what I chose as music director.

Entrance: Baptized in Living Waters
Offertory: What Wondrous Love is This
Communion: O Sacrament Most Holy
Dismissal: O Come All Ye Faithful

My little story for these hymns comes in part from my absorbing some of the reflections of Pope Benedict in his book Jesus of Nazareth. The entrance hymn shows our identity with Christ, the sinless, who came shoulder to shoulder to us and was baptized to take our place, our burial, our death, and to provide the possibility of our resurrection. That naturally lead to the offertory hymn What Wondrous Love. In many aspects the symbolism of baptism is refashioned in the Sacrament of the Eucharist as the motif of death and resurrection are again symbolized. And to end the Christmas season we sang O Come All Ye Faithful – coming to Bethlehem - the house of bread; the house of the Eucharist.

MonFrere
 
MonFrere said:
Here’s is what I chose as music director.

Entrance: Baptized in Living Waters
Offertory: What Wondrous Love is This
Communion: O Sacrament Most Holy
Dismissal: O Come All Ye Faithful

My little story for these hymns comes in part from my absorbing some of the reflections of Pope Benedict in his book Jesus of Nazareth. The entrance hymn shows our identity with Christ, the sinless, who came shoulder to shoulder to us and was baptized to take our place, our burial, our death, and to provide the possibility of our resurrection. That naturally lead to the offertory hymn What Wondrous Love. In many aspects the symbolism of baptism is refashioned in the Sacrament of the Eucharist as the motif of death and resurrection are again symbolized. And to end the Christmas season we sang O Come All Ye Faithful – coming to Bethlehem - the house of bread; the house of the Eucharist.

MonFrere
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Great hymns and great thought in their selection. Your Parish is truly blessed!

For the Baptism of the Lord we chose:
Table of plenty
Lord, send us Your Spirit (Damiens)
I saw water flowing for prep
As the deer longs (Hurd) and Behold the Lamb (Willett) for Communion
Bathed in the waters of life for closing. Rev. Carey Landry is still cranking out great music!

peace,
h
 
Yesterday, I helped out at the funeral of my friend’s mother. My friend was the cantor at the Cathedral and I had trained her. She was not up to singing, let alone, selecting the readings and the music for the Mass so she asked me to help out. The Mass was in Spanish.

This is what I chose:
Entrance Processional: Caminare en Presencia del Senor
Psalm: El Senor es mi pastor, nada me falta. (Psalm 23)
Offetory: Ave Maria (my friend’s request)
Communion: Panis Angelicus
My parochial vicar chanted Ave Maria Stella at the incensing of the body
Recessional: Adios, Reyna del Cielo

The readings were:

Sirach 26:1-4, 16-24 (I think; I left the notes in the car)
Psalm 23
1Thessalonians 4:12-17
John 14:1-10

My parochial vicar skillfully weaved a beautiful homily, tying in the Baptism of the Lord, which we had just celebrated, into the funeral and explaining how God used water and light to rescue Ancient Israel from Pharoah to the readings. It was really a comfort to my friend and her family.

Our new parish dierctor of music served as the cantor. This was her first funeral Mass so I sat close enough to where she and the organist were to help guide her. Because she is still learning the parts of the Mass in Spanish, we asked my parochial vicar to shant the Sanctus, Memorial and Great Amen, as well as the Agnus Dei. It worked out really well. I told her that one of these days, I would sit wth her and guide her through the whole process. She was amenable to that.
 
This week nothing really jumps out at me to tie these rather divergent readings together. I might use* Praise to the Lord* or Holy God, We Praise Your Name as an entrance. Being ordinary time, I guess I will just have to pick from a wide rage of songs.
 
pnewton said:
This week nothing really jumps out at me to tie these rather divergent readings together. I might use* Praise to the Lord* or Holy God, We Praise Your Name as an entrance. Being ordinary time, I guess I will just have to pick from a wide rage of songs.
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Actually, this week is quite rich. I love the homily that my parochial vicar preached the last time we had this reading. He noted that the prophets had foretold that when the Messiah would come, rivers of wine would flow. Wine, he explained, gladdens the heart. God gives us wine because we gladden his heart. But, the wine was really the deeper element of the Blood of Jesus Christ that would be flowing. He added that the bridal couple is virtually non-existent in the Gospel reading because Jesus is the true marriage, the union between God and man. This is what Isaiah was referring to when he compares the Lord’s joy with that of a bridegroom with his bride. Weddings are a cause for joy and he was using that analogy to tell Ancient Israel that the true Bridegroom was coming, and, when He comes, there will be a celebration. Remember, Jesus made a lot of wine, several hundred gallons to be exact, so there was a lot of joy at that wedding.

He also added that the Blessed Mother, in the previous reading, knew when her Son’s time had come, and, it was not when He was 12 years old. Now that he was a grown man, she took it upon herself to urge him to get moving on His ministry.

This is what I have used:

Entrance: Songs of Thankfulness and Praise
Offertory: Love’s Divine All Love’s Excelling
Communion: Draw Near and Take the Body of Your Lord
Recessional: God Is My Great Desire

Songs of Thankfulness and Praise is a great bridge because it directly mentions the Gospel. “And at Cana wedding guest” is in verse 2.
 
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