MOUNT CALVARY CATHOLIC CHURCH Baltimore, Maryland † Personal Ordinariate of the Chair of Saint Peter THE SEVENTH SUNDAY OF EASTER MAY 16, 2021 • 10:00 A.M. NOTES ON TODAY’S MUSIC Prelude: “All Glory Be to God on High” F.W. Zachau (1663-1712) was a German Baroque composer who served as Handel’s first music teacher. The chorale prelude sets the familiar German hymn tune: Allein Gott in der Höh’ sei Ehr. Postlude: “God of Grace and God of Glory” arr. Paul Manz (1919-2009) was a renowned American organist, conductor, and composer best known for his improvisations and hymn festivals. He states the Welsh hymn tune CWM RHONDDA on a bold solo trumpet, surrounded by a recurring ritornello. Offertory: “Come, Christians, Join to Sing” arr. Gary Guth. We are grateful to Ezra Melchor for sharing his musical gifts with us this morning. This joyful hymn will be played on the bagpipes with organ accompaniment. Communion: “O sacrum convivium” Roberto Remondi (1851-1928) studied music in Milan and Paris before accepting the position as organist at the Milan Cathedral. The eucharistic anthem was first published in the Secunda anthologia vocalis in 1903. MOUNT CALVARY CATHOLIC CHURCH A Roman Catholic Parish of the Personal Ordinariate of the Chair of Saint Peter THE SEVENTH SUNDAY OF EASTER Organ Prelude All Glory Be to God on High FW Zachau The People stand Sprinkling with Holy Water Vidi aquam plainsong Priest O Lord, show thy mercy upon us. Alleluia. People And grant us thy salvation. Alleluia. Priest O Lord, hear my prayer. People And let my cry come unto thee. Priest The Lord be with you. People And with thy Spirit. Priest Let us pray. Priest Graciously hear us, O Lord, Holy Father, Almighty, everlasting God, and send thy Holy Angel from Heaven to guard, cherish, protect, visit, and defend all who dwell in this Holy Temple, through Christ our Lord. Amen. THE INTRODUCTORY RITES Opening Hymn Crown Him With Many Crowns DIADEMATA Introit Exaudi, Domine Ps 27:8,9,10,1 / plainsong Consider, O LORD, and hear me, when I cry unto thee, alleluia; unto thee my heart hath said, Thy face, LORD, have I sought; thy face, LORD, will I seek: O hide not thou thy face from thy servant, alleluia, alleluia. The LORD is my light and my salvation: whom then shall I fear?. Glory be to the Father… | Consider, O LORD… Collect for Purity Priest In the Name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost. People Amen. The Priest says Almighty God, unto whom all hearts be open, all desires known, and from whom no secrets are hid: Cleanse the thoughts of our hearts by the inspiration of thy Holy Spirit, that we may perfectly love thee, and worthily magnify thy holy Name; through Christ our Lord. Amen. Summary of the Law pronounced by the Priest Hear what our Lord Jesus Christ saith: Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind. This is the first and great commandment. And the second is like unto it: Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself. On these two commandments hang all the Law and the Prophets. Kyrie H. Willan Repeat first verse Gloria in excelsis H. Willan Collect of the Day Priest The Lord be with you. People And with thy Spirit. Priest Let us pray. O God, the King of glory, who hast exalted thine only Son Jesus Christ with great triumph unto thy kingdom in heaven: we beseech thee, leave us not comfortless; but send to us thy Holy Spirit to comfort us, and exalt us unto the same place whither our Savior Christ is gone before; who liveth and reigneth with thee, in the unity of the same Holy Spirit, ever one God, world without end. Amen. THE LITURGY OF THE WORD The First Lesson Acts 1:15-17, 20a, 20c-26 In those days: book of Psalms, ‘His office let another take.’ So one of the Peter stood up among the brethren (the company of men who have accompanied us during all the time that persons was in all about a hundred and twenty), and the Lord Jesus went in and out among us, beginning said, “Brethren, the Scripture had to be fulfilled, which from the baptism of John until the day when he was the Holy Spirit spoke beforehand by the mouth of taken up from us – one of these men must become with David, concerning Judas who was guide to those who us a witness to his resurrection.” And they put forward arrested Jesus. For he was numbered among us, and was two, Joseph called Barsabbas, who was surnamed allotted his share in this ministry. For it is written in the Justus, and Matthias. And they prayed and said, “Lord, who knowest the hearts of all men, show which one of And they cast lots for them, and the lot fell on Matthias; these two you have chosen to take the place in this and he was enrolled with the eleven apostles.. ministry and apostleship from which Judas turned Lector The Word of the Lord. aside, to go to his own place.” People Thanks be to God. The Second Lesson 1 John 4: 11-16 Beloved, if God so loved us, we also ought to love one Savior of the world. Whoever confesses that Jesus is another. No man has ever seen God; if we love one the Son of God, God abides in him, and he in God. So another, God abides in us and his love is perfected in we know and believe the love God has for us. us. God is love, and he who abides in love abides in God, By this we know that we abide in him and he in us, and God abides in him. because he has given us of his own Spirit. And we have Lector The Word of the Lord. seen and testify that the Father has sent his Son as the People Thanks be to God. Alleluia & Verse Regnavit Dominus Ps 47:8; Jn 14:18 / plainsong Alleluia. Alleluia. God reigneth over the nations: God sitteth upon his holy seat. Alleluia. I will not leave you comfortless: I go away and come again unto you, and your heart shall rejoice. Alleluia. The Gospel St. John 17:11b-19 Priest The Lord be with you. People And with thy spirit. Priest A reading from the Holy Gospel according to Saint John. People Glory be to thee, O Lord. Lifting up his eyes to heaven, Jesus prayed, saying, I do not pray that you should take them out of the “Holy Father, keep them in your name, which you have world, but that you should keep them from the evil given me, that they may be one, even as we are one. one. They are not of the world, even as I am not of the While I was with them, I kept them in your name, world. Sanctify them in the truth; your word is truth. which you have given me; I have guarded them, and As you sent me into the world, so I have sent them into none of them is lost but the son of perdition, that the the world. And for their sake I consecrate myself, that Scripture might be fulfilled. But now I am coming to they also may be consecrated in truth you; and these things I speak in the world, that they Priest may have my joy fulfilled in themselves. I have given them your word; and the world has hated them because they are not of the world, even as I am not of the world. The Homily The People stand The Nicene Creed ‘Missa de Angelis’ plainsong The Prayers of the People Priest Let us offer our prayers to Almighty God. Father, we pray for thy holy Catholic Church; People That we all may be one. Priest Grant that every member of the Church may truly and humbly serve thee; People That thy Name may be glorified by all people. Priest We pray for our Holy Father, Pope Francis; Steven, our Bishop; and for all bishops, priests, and deacons; People That they may be faithful ministers of thy Word and Sacraments. Priest We pray for all who govern and hold authority in the nations of the world; People That they may work for thy peace on earth. Priest Give us grace to do thy will in all that we undertake; People That our works may find favor in thy sight. Priest Have compassion on those who suffer from any grief or trouble; People That they may be delivered from their distress. Priest Give to all the departed eternal rest; People And let light perpetual shine upon them. Priest We praise thee for the Blessed Virgin Mary, and for all thy saints who have entered into joy; People May we also come to share in thy heavenly kingdom. Priest Almighty God, the fountain of all wisdom, who knowest our necessities before we ask, and our ignorance in asking; we beseech thee to have compassion upon our infirmities; and those things which for our unworthiness we dare not, and for our blindness we cannot ask, vouchsafe to give us for the worthiness of thy Son Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen. The Penitential Rite Ye that do truly and earnestly repent you of your sins, and are in love and charity with your neighbors, and intend to lead a new life following the commandments of God, and walking from henceforth in his holy ways: Draw near with faith, and make your humble confession to Almighty God, meekly kneeling upon your knees.