Useful Links

We have compiled a list of free resources to bring additional life to your music and liturgies.

Guide to the Roman Missal – Vatican (Including adaptations for the dioceses of the US)

Please note, updates are in progress on links, please be patient.

English Mass (Roman Missal, ICEL)

This Mass was composed to serve as one common Mass for all to know, no matter the parish.

For the Congregation:

The most important music for the congregation to sing:

Lord Have Mercy
Glory to God
Holy, Holy, Holy
Lamb of God
Creed
Preface Dialogue Responses (These are intoned by the priest and you the congregation answers. A parish where the priest sings these is a strong step towards a singing congregation.)

Singing these every Sunday makes them very easy to memorize. Routinely changing to other tunes defeats this.

If choir members and cantors say that they are bored singing them, it’s time to work on the tone and precision of the singing to bring them continually striving to a higher standard of perfection.

ICEL English Chant Mass Organ Accompaniment

ICEL Glory To God – SAB and Organ
NEW Festive Mass Setting of ICEL English Mass with Organ by Noel Jones

For the Choir:

These parts of the Mass have been the property of choirs and/or cantors for centuries. Trying to involve the congregation in singing them is a grave mistake and creates a non-singing congregation, fully dispelling the thought of “active participation”.

Propers – Entrance, Offertory, and Communion

Simple English Propers Adam Bartlett
Simple Choral Gradual Richard Rice
Communion Antiphons Andrew R. Motyka
A Mass for the Dead Funeral Propers and Chants in English • Aristotle Esquerra

Psalms

Modal Responsorial Psalms & Gospel Acclamations • Aristotle Esquerra
Responsorial Psalms & Gospel Acclamations • Royce Nickel

Gospel Alleluia

This is to be silent if there is no singer according to the GIRM. It’s that easy. And should not be sung at any Mass unless a trained singer is available.

Modal Responsorial Psalms & Gospel Acclamations • Aristotle Esquerra
Responsorial Psalms & Gospel Acclamations • Royce Nickel

Music & Liturgy Planning You can Trust

Planning the Music for this Sunday? CanticaNOVA has recommendations of hymns, propers, and even organ music for OF & EF liturgies. They also have excellent articles about liturgical music. We are very pleased that A Catholic Book of Hymns & Chants is included in their hymn suggestions for the liturgical year.

Source & Summit Liturgy & Sacred Music DIGITAL RESOURCE and printed Missals including A Companion Missal Without Hymns - a good match with A Catholic Book of Hymns

Hymns & Chants

A Catholic Book of Hymns & Chants A Modern Traditional Hymnal with options - including inserting Mass Settings, Order of the Mass and more.
St. Gregory Hymnal & Choirbook - 1920 version now in public domain, SATB
St. Basil Hymnal - SATB
The Devotional Hymns Project - An excellent source for finding older hymnals, sheet music and recordings.
The Parish Book of Chant - All the Gregorian chants a parish needs in one book!
Library of Online Latin Chants by Benjamin Bloomfield: For your music bulletin – Extensive choices including masses and propers

Anglican Chant

Offertory Chants in English in Common Use

CHANT MODALE – HOW TO SING
Chant Modale 2021– Music SATB
Offertory Antiphons POINTED
Chant Modale BLANK PDF for writing your own melodic chants.
Offertory Antiphons TEXTS for your own pointing and use.

Funerals

Mass for the Dead – Aristotle Esguerra - Choral Gradual Simplex
The Catholic Funeral Mass English Gregorian Chant in Modern Notes - Restoring the Requiem Words and Music to the Novus Ordo Mass

These are the chants now available:
English Requiem E_C_L

Entrance Song - Introit, Rest Eternal Grant Upon Them, O Lord - Listen to learn style from Latin version
At Communion, May Light Eternal Shine. O Lord, Upon them - Listen to learn style from Latin Version
As the body leaves the church for the graveyard, May Choirs of Angels Escort You into Paradise - Listen to learn style from Latin version