GOSPEL ACCLAMATION AND INTERCESSORY PRAYER

The 1997 church building of St Hubert. I was heavily involved in the designing the worship space, the music space (to the left of the sanctuary), the baptismal font, the Eucharistic chapel, and altar furnishing. Fr Jame Notebarrt, assisted us and helped us with the design.

Mass of God’s Wholeness and Joy

Gospel Acclamation

The Gospel Acclamation (normally a sung alleluia, with a different acclamation during the season of Lent) is mandated to be sung, NOT recited. There are many, many different setting of the Gospel Acclamation from chant to heavily ornamented versions.

I composed this acclamation as a dialogue between the cantor and the congregation/choir. It is in the call and response sung form found in many work songs as often heard in Spirituals and Sea Chanteys. This is composed for 3 part handbell choir, 2 flutes, 2 violins, brass quartet, cantor, SATB choir and piano.

Gospel Acclamation

Cantor: Alle, Alelluia. Choir/Cong: Alle, Alleluia.
Cantor: Alle, Alleluia. Choir/Cong: Alle Alleluia.
Cantor: Alle, Alleluia. Choir/Cong: Alle, Alleluia.
Cantor: Alle, Alleluia. Choir/Cong: Alle, Alleluia.

Cantor: Speak, O Lord, your servant is listening.
You have the words of everlasting life.

Gospel Acclamation (c) 2024 music by Robert Charles Wagner. All rights reserved. Excerpts from the English translation of The Roman Missal © 2010, International Commission on English in the Liturgy Corporation. All rights reserved.

Intercessory Prayer

This ending to the Liturgy of the Word is also called the “prayer of the faithful” or “intercessions”. Ordinarily, this is spoken as opposed to sung, as it is here. However, on formal occasions, the intercessions are sung.

To be included among the intercessions are prayers for the Church, for the world, for those who are sick, for those who are dying, and other needs that are pertinent to the community of faith. Here is the text I composed for these sung intercessions.

Intercessory Prayers

Let us bring our prayer to God most High;
Refrain: O loving God, hear our prayer.

For all who proclaim the Good News of God, who serve the needs of the poor and welcome the stranger, we pray to our God. Refrain

For all disciples of Christ, may they profess the word in faith and action, we pray to our God. Refrain

For those in public office to be servant leaders, and to serve the common good of all, we pray to our God. Refrain

For all peoples fleeing from violence and war, crime, and poverty, hunger, and domestic abuse to be welcome into our midst and supported in love, we pray to our God. Refrain

For all who bear the cross of pain in mind and body, to never feel abandoned or forsaken by God, we pray to our God. Refrain

For our earth’s climate destroyed by pollutants, our water, land and air, poisoned by chemicals, and all God creatures rendered extinct by human greed, we pray to our God. Refrain

For all of us assembled in prayer, and for our family and friends, may we always feel God’s love and compassion in our lives, we pray to our God. Refrain

For our deceased family and friends, and all who have died, may we be united with them in the community of the saints, we pray to our God, Refrain

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I am a composer, performer, poet, educator, spiritual director, and permanent deacon of the Catholic Church. I just recently retired after 42 years of full-time ministry in the Catholic Church. I continue to serve in the Church part-time. I have been blessed to be united in marriage to my bride, Ruth, since 1974. I am father to four wonderful adult children, and grandfather to five equally wonderful grandchildren. In my lifetime, I have received a B.A. in Music (UST), M.A. in Pastoral Studies (St. Paul Seminary School of Divinity, UST), Certified Spiritual Director. Ordained to the Permanent Diaconate for the Archdiocese of St. Paul and Minneapolis, in 1991. Composer, musician, author, poet, educator. The Gospels drive my political choices, hence, leading me toward a more liberal, other-centered politics rather than conservative politics. The great commandment of Jesus to love one another as he has loved us, as well as the criteria he gives in Matthew 25 by which we are to be judged at the end of time directs my actions and thoughts. View all posts by Deacon Bob

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