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Music Suggestions
22nd Sunday in Ordinary Time
Each week this page will contain a number of musical suggestions for the following Sunday’s liturgy. Most of the suggestions are drawn from hymnals and other resources that are generally available In Ireland. A key to the abbreviations can be found at the bottom of this page.
Responsorial Psalm
For you my soul is thirsting, O Lord my God. (RP)
See also the cantor-friendly psalm setting in Cantate by Margaret Daly
For an alternative entrance song, suited to each week and feast, with very simple congregational refrains, see Entrance Antiphons by John McCann ((published by Kevin Mayhew Ltd)
Other Hymns And Songs
The Summons (HON)
Unless a grain of wheat (Hos)
Keep in mind (AA)
When I behold (VH)
From heaven you came (IC)
Practical Suggestion:
Singing the ‘Lord have mercy’
The Kyrie or Lord, have mercy ‘is ordinary done by alo, that is, by the people and the choir or cantor having a part in it.’ (General Instruction of the Roman Missal 52). There are many settings of this piece (including Gregorian Chant) which have a very simple response for the people, and this is a simple way of encouraging congregational singing. There are also more elaborate choral settings for choir only which, if we follow the spirit of the instruction, would be more rarely used. It is sometimes possible, particularly with Gregorian chant settings, to have a combination of cantor, people and choir, as follows: (i) cantor sings ‘Kyrie’ or ‘Christe’, (ii) people repeat what they have heard (iii) a third repetition is sung by the choir, with harmonies or polyphony.
Key
AA Alleluia! Amen!
AA2 Alleluia! Amen! Supplement
BFW By Flowing Waters
Can Cantate
CH Church Hymnal (Church of Ireland, 2000)
CS Cantus Selecti
FS Feasts and Seasons
Ga Gather
GR Graduale Romanum
HfG Hymns for Gospels
Hon Liturgical Hymns Old and New
Hos Hosanna!
IC In Caelo
ISJ I Sing for Joy
RP Responsorial Psalms by Fintan O’Carroll
SA Seinn Alleluia 2000
VH Veritas Hymnal
Wor Worship
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