Lenten Schedule of Music

Hymn tune names are in parentheses.

Lent I

  • Entrance: Again We Keep This Solemn Fast (Erhalt uns Herr)
  • Offertory: Forty Days and Forty Nights (Heinlein)
  • Anthem: Hymn to God the Father, Pelham Humphrey
  • Communion: O Lord Jesus, I Adore Thee (Saint Thomas, Wade)
  • Closing: Parce Domine

Lent II

  • Entrance: ‘Tis Good Lord to Be Here  (Swabia)
  • Offertory: Christ Upon the Mountain Peak (Mowsley)
  • Anthem: O Light of Light, Love Given Birth, Cary Ratcliff
  • Communion: Victim Divine, Thy Grace We Claim (Das neugeborne Kindlein)
  • Closing: Parce Domine

Lent III

  • Entrance: Word of God, Come Down on Earth (Liebster Jesu)
  • Offertory: All My Hope on God Is Founded (Michael) www.youtube.com/watch?v=W3LCGh02Vew
  • Anthem: O Pray for Jerusalem, Mooyeen Albrect
  • Communion: Godhead Here in Hiding (Adoro Te devote)
  • Closing: Parce Domine

Description

Moonyeen Albrecht (1936-2020) earned Master of Music and Doctor of Music degrees in theory and composition from Northwestern University. She is now a retired Professor Emeritus from Central Michigan University where she taught theory and composition for thirty eight years.

Lent IV

  • Entrance: Awake, O Sleeper; Rise from Death (Azmon)
  • Offertory: He Healed the Darkness of My Mind (Dunedin)
  • Anthem: God of Mercy and Compassion, adapted from Pergolesi
  • Communion: I Come with Joy to Meet My Lord (Land of Rest)
  • Closing: There’s a Wideness in God’s Mercy (Beach Spring)

Lent V (Traditional Passiontide)

  • Entrance: Come Down, O Love Divine (Down Ampney)
  • Offertory: O Christ the Same (Londonderry Air)
  • Anthem: Out of the Depths (Purcell chant)
  • Hymn: I Am the Bread of Life (Kusik)
  • Closing: silence

Palm Sunday

  • Introit: Hosannah, Filio David,Schubert
  • Sprinkling of the Palms: Pueri Heræorum, Schubert
  • Entrance: All Glory, Laud, and Honour (Saint Théodulph)
  • Offertory: My Song Is Love Unknown (Love Unknown)
  • Anthem: Stabat Mater, Stanislav Šurin
  • Communion: Soul of My Saviour (Anima Christi)