Third Sunday of Advent (“Gaudete Sunday”), Year C
Music for Mass (Ordinary Form of the Roman Rite)
St. Mary’s of Pine Bluff, Cross Plains, WI • St. Ignatius, Mount Horeb, WI
- Organ Prelude: Improvisation on Introit: Gaudete and WINCHESTER NEW
- Hymn: On Jordan’s Bank (WINCHESTER NEW), vv. 1–5
- Introit: Gaudete in Domino semper, Mode I Gregorian chant (antiphon only)
- Sign of the Cross: chanted, English
- Greeting: Form A, English
- Penitential Rite: Form A — spoken Confiteor and Misereatur (English); Kyrie XVI (Greek, sixfold)
- Opening Prayer/Collect: chanted, English
- First Reading: spoken
- Responsorial Psalm: plainsong setting, English
- Second Reading: spoken
- Alleluia: Paschal Office Alleluia with psalm-tone verse, Mode VI chant
- Dialog before the Gospel: spoken
- Gospel Reading: spoken
- General Intercessions: spoken
- Offertory: Benedixisti Domine, Mode IV Gregorian chant
- Psalm 85: “Lord, let us see your kindness” (Haugen)
- Preface dialog: chanted, English
- Preface: spoken English
- Sanctus: Mass XVIII
- Eucharistic Prayer: English
- Memorial Acclamation A: spoken, English
- Per ipsum/Amen: chanted, English
- Lord’s Prayer invitation: spoken, English
- Lord’s Prayer: chanted, English
- Embolism: spoken, English
- Pax Domini: spoken, English
- Agnus Dei: Mass XVIII
- Communion Antiphon: Dicite pusillanimes, Mode VII Gregorian chant
- Hymn: Creator of the Stars of Night, vv. 1–6
- Organ Interlude: Improvisation on Communion: Dicite pusillanimes, Hymn: Conditor alme siderum, and Hymn: Pange lingua gloriosi
- Postcommunion: chanted, English
- Final greeting: chanted, English
- Dismissal: chanted, English
- Hymn: “The King Shall Come When Morning Dawns” (CONSOLATION), vv. 1–5
- Organ Postlude: Improvisation on CONSOLATION






