SUNDAY XXV at EIGHT O'CLOCK and A NEW HYMN

And today we're back to "normalcy" (quoting Warren Harding), but only "for a time" (quoting the late great Father Richard A. Bucci, the pastor of my other parish for nearly 23 years until his death a year and a half ago) as we return to numbered Sundays of the Year.  Come November there will be two consecutive Sundays that go unnumbered (and I'm not even counting Christ the King).  November 2 and 9 are All Souls Day (formal name: The Commemoration of All the Faithful Departed) and the Feast of the Dedication of the Basilica of St. John Lateran in Rome.  I'll post more on those before the time comes.

This Sunday we will be introducing a new hymn, a hymn that I've been doing at Sacred Heart for pretty much all of the 14+ years I've been there, and I'm extremely happy to see that it FINALLY got included in the Breaking Bread hymnal.  The hymn is Praise to the Holiest in the Height.  The tune is known as two different names.  The Breaking Bread hymnal (and other hymnals) calls the tune "Billing", while  several other hymnals, including the one I work with at Sacred Heart, call it "Newman", after the author of the hymn text, Cardinal John Henry Newman, now Saint John Henry Newman.  The tune is by the English composer Richard Runciman Terry.

That said, let's jump to...

ORDINARY OF THE MASS:

Gloria: Holy Angels Mass (BMP) (or recited, celebrant's discretion)

Sanctus and Agnus Dei: People's Mass (Jan Vermulst) (Listen)
Memorial Acclamation: Save us, Savior of the world (ICEL chant)

Amen: Danish Amen

PROPER OF THE MASS:

Readings: Breaking Bread, page 214

Psalm 146: R./ Praise the Lord, my soul (Fr. Samuel Weber, OSB)

Alleluia: Chant, Mode VI

HYMNS, etc.:

Entrance hymn: #212 Praise to the Lord, the Almighty ("Lobe den Herren")

Offertory hymn: #556 Praise to the holiest in the height ("Newman") (Listen)

Anthem during Communion: Those who love and those who labor ("Dohmnach Trionoide") (Listen)

Meditation hymn: #479 O Lord, I am not worthy ("Non Dignus") (Listen)

- Reviving yet another classic.

Recessional hymn: #206 Holy God, we praise thy Name ("Grosser Gott")

Quod scripsi, scripsi!
BMP