Music for Ash Wednesday
(Missale Romanum of 1970, 12:10 p.m.)
Missa pro Feriis Adventus & Quadragesimae (Vatican Gradual, Mass XVIII)
Processional Hymn: Forty Days and Forty Nights (Heinlein)
At the imposition of ashes: Parce Domine (plainsong, mode i)
Hymn at the Offertory: Again We Keep This Solemn Fast (Erhalt uns Herr)
Communion: Qui meditabitur (plainsong, mode iii)
Hymn at the Communion: O Sun of Justice (Jesu Dulcis Memoria)
Hymn at the Retiring Procession: Have Mercy, Lord, on Us (Southwell)
Music for Ash Wednesday
(Missale Romanum of 1962, 5:30 p.m.)
Missa Inter vestibulum (Francisco Guerrero, Francisco Guerrero, 1528-1599)
Antiphon at the blessing of ashes: Exaudi nos, Domine (plainsong, mode vii)
Antiphon at the imposition of ashes: Immutemur (plainsong, mode i), etc.
Gregorian Mass of Ash Wednesday: Misereris omnium
Motet at the Offertory: Parce Domine (Jacob Obrecht, c.1457-1505)
Motet at the Communion: Emendemus in melius (Ascanio Trombetti, 1544-1590)