Comments on: Music for Pentecost Year A 24th May 2026 https://www.sixmaddens.org/music-for-pentecost-year-a-24th-may-2026/ Blogging Catholic Liturgical Music Sun, 24 May 2026 11:55:13 +0000 hourly 1 By: Gio https://www.sixmaddens.org/music-for-pentecost-year-a-24th-may-2026/#comment-88121 Sun, 24 May 2026 11:55:13 +0000 https://www.sixmaddens.org/?p=21286#comment-88121 I was recruited into singing at two Pentecost masses:

Vigil Mass:
Entrance: All People That On Earth Do Dwell (AOV 1-25)
I’m singing the sequence (plainchant) and Alleluia (the default mode 6 one)
Offertory: This priest has a guitar and usually plays something Taize
Communion: I am the Bread of Life (AOV 1-49)
Recessional: Christ Be Our Light (AOV 2-3) (Verses 1 and 5)

Evening Mass:
Entrance: Heaven and Earth (AOV 2-53)
I’m singing sequence (plainchant) and Alleluia (Celtic)
Offertory: Godhead Here in Hiding (Moreno) [The Adoro Te that everyone loves but in English]
Communion: Light of Christ (AOV 1-143)
Reflection: Be Thou My Vision (AOV 1-9)
Recessional: Come O Holy Spirit come (Alstott/Beethoven)

I had such a troublesome time finding the right text of the sequence to the right music. CWB2 has the wrong translation!

]]> By: Ryan https://www.sixmaddens.org/music-for-pentecost-year-a-24th-may-2026/#comment-88115 Sat, 23 May 2026 21:53:42 +0000 https://www.sixmaddens.org/?p=21286#comment-88115 Gathering: One Spirit, One Church (Keil/Quinlivan)
Mass Parts: Mass of St. Ann (Bolduc)
Psalm: Lord, Send Out Your Spirit (Alonso – The Lyric Psalter)
Sequence: Come, O Holy Spirit (Alstott; HYMN TO JOY)
Gifts: Holy Spirit (Canedo)
Communion: One Bread, One Body (Foley)
Holy Spirit, Come Now (Manibusan)
Closing: This Is My Song (Stone/Harkness; FINLANDIA)*

*Memorial Day in the US

]]> By: Chris Wroblewski https://www.sixmaddens.org/music-for-pentecost-year-a-24th-may-2026/#comment-88085 Thu, 21 May 2026 13:58:40 +0000 https://www.sixmaddens.org/?p=21286#comment-88085 These selections are for the Pentecost Vigil liturgy that we will be following, so no sequence before the gospel acclamation. Instead, the sequence (a wonderful text) is being used as a hymn for the procession of gifts. The translation of Veni Creator Spiritus we are singing for communion (to the traditional VENI CREATOR chant) is a contemporary translation that much better fits the stresses in the chant melody than the other translations I am familiar with, probably because they were designed for hymn tunes.

Entrance (CWB2:381): Come Down, O Love Divine {Littledale / DOWN AMPNEY]
Gifts (CWB2:379): Holy Spirit, Lord Divine [Scagnelli / WEBBE]
Communion (H26:277): Come, Creator! Come, Spirit Blessed [Alstott / VENI CREATOR]
Recessional (CWB2:385): Filled with the Spirit’s Power, with One Accord [Peacey / WOODLANDS]

The communion song is in OCP missals (H26 = Heritage Missal, 2026-29), and the melody line edition can be downloaded from OneLicense.

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