Ash Wednesday

Gathering: Hear Us, Almighty Lord (trans. Wright; ATTENDE DOMINE)

Psalm 51: Be Merciful, O Lord

Gospel Acclamation IX (Alsostt)

Ashes: Ashes (Conry)

Gifts: Somebody’s Knockin’ at Your Door (Spiritual)

Holy: Community Mass (Proulx)
Mystery of Faith: Save Us, Savior – Mass for a Servant Church (Guimont)
Amen: Danish Amen
Lamb of God: Agnus Dei (chant)

Communion: Though the Mountains May Fall (Schutte)
We Remember (Haugen)

Closing: Lord, Who Throughout These Forty Days (Hernaman; ST. FLAVIAN)

adult choir

opening: Holy, Holy, Holy (Heber; nicaea)
offertory: The Summons (Bell)
communion: Lord, You Have Come (Gabarain), Bread of Angels (Stephan)
closing: Holy Wisdom, Lamp of Learning (Duck; beach spring)

Yes. The numbering does go up into the 800s. For Worship 3rd edition, the 800s are where the Lectionary readings and psalms are found, so that could be from where you got it. The 4th edition that we are currently using starts its Lectionary section at page 1000. I would assume GIA’s other hymnals that include readings would have similar page numbers. GIA produces a resource where you can find all the psalms in Worship 4… https://www.giamusic.com/search_details.cfm?title_id=20011

As for the format of our music, I’m not a parish musician, but I’ve seen our musicians use a variety of resources. I think our organists and pianists use the big landscape accompaniment versions of the hymnals. Our other musicians have spiral bound versions I believe.

And do you have keyboard landscape, keyboard spiral or keyboard looseleaf. Years ago I played from a spiral book with two pages printed on each sheet, landscape. I used to find the book very big and hard to sit on some keyboards. I am curious what other people prefer, and why. Thanks.

Ryan, you mentioned Worship hymnal. So does the numbering go up to the 800s like the photocopy I sang from?

Thank you, Ryan. I think years ago at All Saints’ Anglican in the city, we used Guimont’s tones, but I cannot be sure. We managed to have a regular beat in our psalm.

I have now been (part of the congregation) at 3 ordinations, but this is my first installation mass.

I will look out for Owen Alstott’s Respond & Acclaim. We have at home a copy of Responsorial Psalms for Year C by Br Colin Smith.

Wow. Sounds like an exciting morning!

RMH is Robert M. Hutmacher. It’s the same version we used out of our Worship hymnal. GIA often uses initials for the service music (psalms, acclamation, etc.) to save space in their hymnals. Then they have a big listing of these initials either in the front or back of the hymnal for us to search through to find out who the composer is. 🙂

Depending on your exact resource, your psalm tones could come from a variety of places. Worship 4 gives two different tones: the Gelineau tones (which seem to be the gold standard) and tones from Conception Abbey in Missouri. Worship 3 offered medieval tones and tones from modern composers, plus Gelineau. I can’t be certain, but I don’t think we use Gelineau often (if ever). The idea with Gelineau is that there is kind of a continuous rhythm even though the phrasing may have a different number of syllables. There’s no “meter” but there should be a noticeable constant downbeat. They are quite difficult to master because of this. I think we used Guimont’s tones today, which are much more free chant than Gelineau with its constant beat.

If you’re looking for easy psalms, we often use Owen Alstott’s Respond & Acclaim and it has very simple chants for the verses.

About the psalm. We don’t usually sing the psalm for Sunday 7am. I have some questions.

(1) The title says 884 FIFTH SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME /C … RMH
Is anyone familiar with RMH? What does it stand for?

(2) There is a Psalm Tone and a Gelineau Tone. We used the latter, because the words were printed with the music. But the Psalm Tone was way more interesting. What is the difference? What do you use? I watched some US organist talk through a Gelineau Psalm, for some background.

Gathering Song: Word that Form Creation (Tune to “When the Green Blade Rises”)
Psalm: In the Sight of the Angels – Psalm of the day 138
Preparation of the Gifts: Benedictus (Adam Gumpelzhaimer 1559-1625) as a round for two singers
Mass of St Timothy (Matt Maher)
Communion: The Name of God (David Haas)
Thanksgiving: Ubi Caritas GA 324
Recessional: Lord You Give the Great Commission (Tune to “Ode to Joy”) GA 313

We have the Installation Mass for Father Anthony Mellor today at 9am.
The musicians / choirs of Sat 6pm, Sun 7am, 9am and 5:30pm (Lifeteen mass) got together.
We had drums for most of the music as well as keyboard.
Instead of the Mass Shalom, we have the Mass of St Timothy (which Lifeteen mass uses regularly).
The Haas piece is particularly lovely, especially with choir plus descant.
Ubi Caritas has guitar this time (as opposed to just voices)
I played the Ode to Joy music for the recessional and transposed up a semitone for the last verse.
Took a few by surprise, but the guitar was real quick : )

Gloria: Mass of Creation (Haugen)

Psalm 137: In the Sight of the Angels (Hutmacher)

Alleluia (Duncan)

Gifts: Lord, When You Came (Gabarain/trans. Jabusch)

Mass Parts: Mass of Creation (Haugen)

Communion: Here I Am, Lord (Schutte)

Closing: You Walk Along Our Shoreline (Dunstan; AURELIA)