It’s Ash Wednesday already…
I’d like to to keep the same songs running throughout Lent.
Entrance: Merciful God – Entrance (Alonso)
Gifts: All the Hungry (Doherty)
Communion: Coming Home (Kirkpatrick)
Recessional: Hope in Love (Bierer, Deegan, Hart, Lynch, Watts)
While I’d like to do a seasonal psalm like Mason’s “With the Lord” Psalm 129, we may end up just saying the psalms for Lent.
It was suggested at our music meeting that after communion in Lent there could be silence or a Taize hymn. “Stay with me” would work.
Acapella Roman Missal chants ﴾CWB2:4a, 11a, 12c, 13, 17a﴿
21 February 2026 ‐ 1st Sunday of Lent, Year A
CWB2:285 ‐ Again We Keep This Solemn Fast [Scagnelli / ERHALT UNS, HERR]
CWB2:288 ‐ Forty Days and Forty Night [Smyttan / HEINLEIN]
CWB2:295 ‐ May This Lenten Discipline [McAuley / LINDFIELD]
CWB2:289 ‐ From Ashes to the Living Font [Hommerding / SAINT FLAVIAN]
28 February 2026 ‐ 2nd Sunday of Lent, Year A
CWB2:434 ‐ O Raise Your Eyes on High and See [Wright / TALLIS’ ORDINAL]
CWB2:435 ‐ ’Tis Good, Lord, to Be Here [Robinson / CARLISLE]
CWB2:644 ‐ Word of God, Come Down on Earth [Quinn / LIEBSTER JESU]
CWB2:301 ‐ The Glory of These Forty Days [Bell / DEO GRACIAS]
7 March 2026 ‐ 3nd Sunday of Lent, Year A
CWB2:574 ‐ O God, Your People Gather [Nye / CRUGER]
CWB2:512 ‐ I Heard the Voice of Jesus Say [Bonar / KINGSFOLD]
CWB2:596 ‐ Shepherd of Souls, in Love, Come Feed Us [Westendorf / NEUMARK]
CWB2:296 ‐ O God, Creator of Us All [Stanbrook Abbey / ERHALT UNS, HERR]
14 March 2026 ‐ 4th Sunday of Lent, Year A
CWB2:584 ‐ Praise the One Who Breaks the Darkness [Edwards / NETTLETON]
CWB2:300 ‐ Tree of Life [Haugen / THOMAS]
CWB2:297 ‐ Our Father, We Have Wandered [Nichols / NESHANIC]
CWB2:289 ‐ From Ashes to the Living Font [Hommerding / SAINT FLAVIAN]
21 March 2026 ‐ 5th Sunday of Lent, Year A
CWB2:624 ‐ There’s a Wideness in God’s Mercy [Faber / IN BABILONE]
CWB2:292 ‐ Hear Us, Almighty Lord [Wright / ATTENDE DOMINE]
CWB2:482 ‐ Draw Near and Take the Body of the Lord [Neale / GUSTATE]
CWB2:564 ‐ O Breathe on Me, O Breath of God [Hatch / SAINT COLUMBA]
28 March 2026 ‐ Palm Sunday of the Lord’s Passion
CWB2:302 ‐ Hosanna to the Son of David [Missal] antiphon only
CWB2:303 ‐ All Glory, Laud and Honour [Neale / SAINT THEODULPH]
CWB2:330 ‐ O Sacred Head, Surrounded [Baker / PASSION CHORALE]
CWB2:466 ‐ Christ Is the Heavenly Food [Rees / SOLL’S SEIN]
No recessional hymn
Ash Wednesday:
Gathering: In These Days of Lenten Journey (Manalo)
Psalm: Be Merciful, O Lord (Alstott – Respond & Acclaim)
Distribution of Ashes: Ashes (Conry)
Ashes to Ashes (Schutte)
Gifts: Open My Eyes (Manibusan)
Communion: Loving and Forgiving (Soper)
Closing: Beyond the Days (Manalo)
First Sunday:
Gathering: Forty Days and Forty Nights (Smyttan; HEINLEIN)
Psalm: Be Merciful, O Lord (Stephan)
Mass Parts: Mass of the Angels and Saints (Janco)
Gifts: Hosea (Norbet)
Communion: Taste and See (Hurd)
Be Not Afraid (Dufford)
Closing: Change Our Hearts (Cooney)
Second Sunday:
Gathering: Be Thou My Vision (tr. Byrne; SLANE)
Psalm: Lord, Let Your Mercy Be on Us (Haugen – The Lyric Psalter)
Mass Parts: Mass of the Angels and Saints (Janco)
Gifts: Transfigure Us, O Lord (Hurd)
Communion: One Love Released (Franzel/Keil)
Save Your People (Farrell)
Closing: Lead Me, Guide Me (Akers)
Third Sunday:
Gathering: River of Glory (Schutte)
Psalm: If Today You Hear His Voice (Soper)
Mass Parts: Mass of the Angels and Saints (Janco)
Gifts: O God, You Search Me (Farrell)
Communion: Bread of Life (Farrell)
Come to the Water (Foley)
Closing: We Belong to You (Thomson/Thomson)
Fourth Sunday:
Gathering: Amazing Grace (Newton; NEW BRITAIN)
Psalm: The Lord Is My Shepherd (Crandal)
Mass Parts: Mass of the Angels and Saints (Janco)
Gifts: There Is a Balm in Gilead (spiritual)
Communion: The King of Love My Shepherd Is (Baker; ST. COLUMBA)
Holy Darkness (Schutte)
Closing: City of God (Schutte)
Fifth Sunday:
Gathering: Christ in Me Arise (Thomson)
Psalm: With the Lord There Is Mercy (Modlin)
Mass Parts: Mass of the Angels and Saints (Janco)
Gifts: In Every Age (Whitaker)
Communion: Unless a Grain of Wheat (Farrell)
Center of My Life (Inwood)
Closing: Take Up Your Cross (Everest; ERHALT UNS, HERR)