3rd Sunday of Advent 2024
Processional hymn: Hark! A Herald Voice is Calling, 795
Recessional hymn: On Jordan’s Bank, 800
Kyriale: Mass XVII, 762; Credo V, 784
Offertory: Ostende nobis Domine, Nicholas Lemme (b. 1978)
Hymn during communion: Conditor Alme Siderum, Guillaume Dufay (c. 1397–1474)
In 1935 Karl Ott published the Offertoriale, which is a book that provides verses for the offertory chants of Sundays and Feasts throughout the year which are not otherwise provided in schola chant scores. This Sunday, the offertory antiphon will be chanted and the verse is a contemporary composition by Nicholas Lemme set for three part men’s voices. Lemme’s setting is anchored on two notes which are repeated often in the verse and droned as the original chant melody returns at the end. The text is from Psalm 84:8, “Show us Lord, your mercy and grant us Thy salvation.”
Nicholas Lemme (b. 1978) is a composer, singer, and professor of music based in Lincoln, NE. Mr. Lemme teaches sacred polyphony, and voice at Our Lady of Guadalupe Seminary, FSSP, Denton, NE and holds the position of Choir Master at St. Francis of Assisi Oratory, Lincoln, NE.