Tuesday, October 11, 2016

29th Sunday in Ordinary Time C

SEP Introit
488/477 There’s a Wideness In God’s Mercy
442/449 O God Our Help in Ages Past
SEP Communion
33/425 Humbly, Lord, We Worship You
634/571 God Of Our Fathers
Tonight at practice (7:30 in church) we will keep learning the Gibbons Kyrie, Worthy Is the Lamb, and if we have time, we'll start the Ave Very Corpus and record the chant Sanctus for Seton's website.
We'll also take a few minutes and go over the handbook briefly and address any questions you might have.

Fair warning:. Tonight when you come into practice, the music area is going to look a little different.  I'm still working on it, so know that this isn't permanent.  We're trying to figure out the what the best use of our limited space would be.
Thank you for good singing this weekend.  I heard good vowels and good tone consistently throughout all the Masses.  Between hearing you all sound so good and seeing Fr. Rob Jack return, this weekend was a very good one!



Wednesday, October 5, 2016

28th Sunday in Ordinary Time C

Come Now, Almighty King (Unison) 715/307
Psalm and alleluia will be SATB
For the Healing of the Nations (Unison)435/463
SEP 28th Sunday
Gift of Finest Wheat (Unison)324/526
    Mary's Song 707/337
God, We Praise You 40/401

Cantors:
5- Louise
7:30 - Marc
9 - Gayle
10:30 - Deborah
12 - Lissy

Tuesday, August 2, 2016

19th Sunday in Ordinary Time Year C

Prelude: SEP Introit
Entrance: Faith of Our Fathers
Offertory: Shepherd Me, O God
Communion:. SEP
Gift of Finest Wheat 
Recessional:. Alleluia! Sing to Jesus

Today marks one week until our first practice.  I've missed rehearsing with you all and can't wait to start back up!  We're going to hit the ground running, so mark your calendars and please be early to rehearsal.
TUESDAY,AUGUST 9, 2016
7pm, Erich Room.
Thank you

Monday, July 25, 2016

Music for the 18th Sunday in Ordinary Time Year C

Prelude:  SEP Introit Year C "O God, come to my assistance..."
Entrance:  Rejoice, The Lord Is King (with guitar)
Psalm and Alleluia:  Respond and Acclaim
Offertory:  Soul of My Savior (no guitar)
Communion:  SEP Communion
I Am the Bread of Life (with Guitar)
Final Hymn:  Praise to the Lord, The Almighty (no guitar)


The music program is scheduled to volunteer for bingo this weekend.

The more volunteers we have, the less time every volunteer will have to work.  Please email me and let me know if you can work.  Thank you.

Tuesday, July 19, 2016

Music for the 17th Sunday in Ordinary Time, Year B

Prelude:  SEP Introit for the 17th Sunday in Ordinary Time:  God in His holy dwelling place...
Entrance: 431 Seek Ye First
Gloria:  Mass of Redemption
Psalm and Gospel Acclamation: R/A
Offertory:  551 We Praise You
Eucharistic Acclamations:  Mass of Redemption
Lame of God:  Heritage Mass
Communion:  SEP Communion:  Ask and you shall receive...
466 The King of Love My Shepherd Is

Final Hymn:  548 Joyful, Joyful, We Adore Thee

Tuesday, July 12, 2016

It's time to catechize.

This is an ironic post.
In light of all the hate and violence in this country, I have decided to take action.  So what's the first thing I do?  I blog about it.  For those of you who are new to irony, let me just state that blogging is arguably the antonym of doing.  But I have to.  Writing or blogging is not really the opposite of doing; it's a prelude to doing, or even a CALL to action.

What a nice coincidence that this Sunday's Gospel reading is when Jesus goes to visit Mary and Martha, and Mary chooses to sit next to Jesus, to be in the moment with Him.  Martha chooses to attend to "many things."  Of course, we hear that Mary has chosen the better part.  But we also know that the house was clean when Jesus got there because of Martha.  I'm not a very good biblical scholar, but this passage speaks to me about a rightly ordered life, and balance that happens because of rightly ordered things.

Being with Jesus is the better part.  This is the first thing.  First things are worship, prayer, adoration, contrition, thanksgiving, and supplication.  Second things are temporal needs.  Water, food, shelter, social justice, world peace.

It's not fashionable to think of these important things as "second things."  The media, the TV pundits, the rock stars, the celebrity athletes all seem to put all these things first.  And it's mostly admirable.  Of course, we want the common good to lift up all of society.  We don't want to see people marginalized, I'll-treated, or suffering.  We want everyone to have enough to eat and drink.  We don't want anyone to endure homelessness or persecution or violence.  Duh.

But these are in fact, the second things on our list to do.  The first thing we need to do to know, love, and serve God is to worship him.  This means to throw yourself at His feet, kneeling, head bowed down, acknowledging your unworthiness, thanking Him for all that you have been given, join in the saving work of Jesus' sacrifice by laying down everything you love and don't love about your life, offering your whole self to God through the work of Christ.  Through Him.  With Him. In Him.  This is first.

When you do these things out of order (meaning, you place social justice ahead of worshiping God) - they separate into isolated things to check off on a Christian to-do list.  This is not the way it is supposed to work.  We are God's people FIRST.  We are created by Him, for Him.  We come to know our God in prayer - time spent with Him.  Worship Him.  Praise Him.  Bless His Name.  Align your will to the Father's Will.  Let the Peace of Christ control your hearts.  Rest in Him.  Ask for Mercy.  Get it.  THEN, go out to all the world, proclaiming the crucified, risen Lord, Jesus to all you meet.  Feed the hungry.  Clothe the naked.  Admonish sin.  Starting with your own.  Be a beacon of Truth - not your own unformed notion of truth, but the Truth that comes from God.

When we do these things in order, they are united into a life in Christ.  Charity makes sense and is recognized for what it is.  Giving and receiving.  Gratitude is the only logical response in a rightly ordered life.  Powering through the reluctance to give charitably of time or money is not really charity - not really "caritas."  In caritas, both giving and receiving beget gratitude.

In a rightly ordered life, courage is not sought; it moves with you.

There are those who are saying, "How can you think about liturgical orthodoxy at a time like this?  Don't you know that there is suffering and injustice, racism, hunger, violence, war, poverty, inequality, etc?  We should be focusing on these things first."

Wrong.

As the hashtags against all these atrocities accumulate and take over Twitter and Facebook, things aren't getting better.  It is a time to kneel and pray.  It's time to go to confession.  It's time to go to Mass, REALLY participate in Mass.  It's time to embrace obedience in worship.  It's time to bring our  entire self's to Mass, then to lay ourselves down.  We don't come to Mass to tell God what good we have done.  We come to Mass to worship God, to be sanctified and redeemed by Him, BEFORE He sends us into the world.  It's time to stop creating Mass in secular society's image.  Die with Him.  Receive Him in Holy Communion. Rise with Him.  Go BE HIM to all people.

#1. Love God with your whole being.
#2.  Love your neighbor as yourself.





Music for the 16th Sunday in Ordinary Time

Prelude:  SEP Introit for 16th Sunday: "Behold, God is my helper..."

Entrance:    #318 The God of All Grace YouTube link: https://youtu.be/zytdftplk_8
Gloria:  Mass of Redemption
Psalm and Alleluia:  Respond and Acclaim
Offertory:  #492 Psalm 42 (As the Deer Longs)
Eucharistic Acclamations:  Mass of Redemption
Communion:  SEP Communion for 16th Sunday Year C:  "Mary has chosen for herself..."
   #343 I Received the Living God
Recessional:  #729 To Jesus Christ, Our Sovereign King