We were very lucky to be able to have Easter Tridium services as Brisbane came out of a three day lockdown on Thursday. We are now having to book individual seats and wearing masks at mass, but there was a full church with music and singing (lots of Schutte) and we have much to be thankful for. We have a seminarian for the year and we suddenly have lots of incense. I have bad nasal allergy and I may need to keep wearing masks just for that, but I’m all for liturgical symbols used to their full. The sprinkling rite, for example, is a useful wake up during the long Vigil mass and also has something to do with Baptism I believe.
I was caught up with other goings on and missed the meeting for song selections. It’s time to switch the Mason’s Mass of Praise of Glory (we only use two masses) and we will use the Celtic Alleluia as a Gospel Acclamation because we know how to sing the response. Amanda McKenna’s Psalms have become a valued fixture here.
Entrance: Alleluia No 1 (Fishel) AOV 1/15
Psalm 117 (McKenna)
Give thanks to the Lord for he is good, his love is everlasting.
Gifts: Without Seeing You (Haas) AOV 2/158
Communion: Bread of Heaven (Manibusan-Hart)
Thanksgiving: O Sacred Flame (Marshall)
Recessional: Jesus Is Risen (O’Brien- Ogilvie) AOV NG 82
Entrance: Alleluia! Alleluia! [Wordsworth / HYMN TO JOY]
Gifts: O Son and Daughters [Neale / O FILII ET FILIAE]
Communion: At the Lamb’s High Feast We Sing [Campbell / SALZBURG]
Recessional: The Day of Resurrection [Neale / ELLACOMBE]
Mass of St. Frances Cabrini [Keil]
Psalm + Gospel Acclamation: A Liturgical Psalter [Schiavone]
One thing I might add is that verses are chosen that are most appropriate to the liturgy and also fit within the expected time needed. As an example, O Sons and Daughters has nine stanzas and a refrain; we just use the introduction, Thomas verses, and a conclusion (stanzas 1 and 5 to 8 plus refrain). Only used parts are shown on the congregation’s hymn sheets.
Glad you had a good Triduum. We, of course, had a alter many of our normal practices (washing feet, veneration of the cross, etc.), but it’s better than an empty church like last year. At my current parish, it was mostly normal musically. My home parish (which is a merged parish with 2 churches and 3 distinct cultures) normally has separate English and Spanish Masses for Triduum at both sites with a guest priest doing the Spanish Masses. This year, that wasn’t possible so our Holy Thursday, Good Friday, and Easter Vigil Masses were multilingual. We had readings proclaimed in Polish, Spanish, and English. Musical highlights include bilingual responsorial psalms on Holy Thursday (Our Blessing Cup – Cortez) and Good Friday (Father, Into Your Hands – Hurd), Spanish songs sung by the Hispanic music ensemble, and the use of Pan de Vida (Hurd) for communion.
As for the Second Sunday of Easter:
Current Parish…
Psalm: Give Thanks to the Lord (Kendzia – Spirit & Psalm)
Communion: Eye Has Not Seen (Haugen)
Open Our Eyes, Lord (Cull)
Closing: Lord of the Dance (Carter)
Home Parish…
Gathering: We Walk by Faith (Alford/Haugen)
Sprinkling: Springs of Water, Bless the Lord (Haugen)
Mass Parts: Mass for a Servant Church (Guimont)
Psalm: Give Thanks to the Lord
Alleluia: Celtic Alleluia (Walker/O’Carroll)
Gifts: Show Me Your Hands, Your Feet, Your Side (Dunstan; LAND OF REST)
Communion: Bring Your Hand and Feel the Place of the Nails (Angrisano/Hart/Stephan – Let Us All Rejoice)
O Sons and Daughters (trans. Neale; O FILII ET FILIAE)
Closing: Jesus Christ Is Risen Today (anon./Wesley; EASTER HYMN)