Centennial Mass (2022-2023)
SATB Choir, Assembly, Organ, and Brass Quintet
In October 2022, Redeemer Lutheran Church celebrated its 100th birthday. To help lift up this celebration, I wrote a mass setting of the communion liturgy that involved their Festival Choir and Gargoyle Brass. I have since made additions and improvements (a setting of This Is the Feast, a Reformation-specific Preface, etc.) and expect that it would fit easily into the wheelhouse of most congregations that are used to a lot of singing during worship. After sharing the initial draft with the Senior Pastor, I got what I consider to be a glowing compliment: “It’s so singable that people may not realize it isn’t another setting out of the ELW.” It’s not, and it was written specifically with Redeemer and their musical forces in mind.
CONTENTS
1a. Kyrie
2a. Glory to God in the Highest
2b. This Is the Feast
3a. Gospel Acclamation
3b. Gospel Processional
3c. Gosepl Recessional
3d. Lenten Acclamation Option
Great Thanksgiving
4a. Dialogue
4b. Preface (Sundays)
4c. Preface (Reformation)
5. Sanctus
Eucharistic Acclmations
6a. Christ has died. Christ is risen. Christ will come again
6b. Amen
7. The Lord’s Prayer
8. Agnus Dei