Heart, shaped with Bible pages, opened to Psalm 119
Heart, shaped with Bible pages, opened to Psalm 119. (Image via Wikimedia Commons)

Psalm 119:135 [Italian]

135 Make thy face to shine upon thy servant; and teach me thy statutes.

Fa’ risplendere il tuo volto sul tuo servo e insegnami i tuoi decreti.

Alleluia. Fa’ risplendere (2022), for the Twenty-third Sunday in Ordinary Time, composed by Massimo Scapin (b. 1968)

Massimo Scapin - Alleluia. Fa' risplendere

Sung by the Sistine Chapel Choir during the Papal Mass in St. Peter’s Square on September 4, 2022

Free sheet music available at Petrucci Music Library (Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0)

The baroque interior of St. John Cantius [Roman Catholic] Church, in Chicago, Illinois, USA.
The baroque interior of St. John Cantius Church in Chicago. (Image via Wikimedia Commons)
Psalm 43:1-5 (Psalmi 42)
This metrical version of the text was used for the music:

I will go to the altar of God, the God of my gladness and joy.

God, plead my cause and judge me the nations ’round me press:
save me from deceitful men,O send to me redress.

In you I take my refuge; why cast me off distressed?
Why must I walk mourn- fully by th’ enemy oppressed?

Send out your light, your truth, Lord; let them be guides to me;
bring me to your holy hill; To where your dwelling be.

My soul, why are you downcast and within me complain?
Wait for God, my savior and help, whom I shall praise again.

I will go to the altar of God, composed by Massimo Scapin (b. 1968)

Massimo Scapin - I will go to the altar of God

Sung by St. Cecilia Choir at St. John Cantius Church in Chicago

 

Interior of the Church of St Peter & St Paul, Old Bolingbroke
Dave Hitchborne / Interior of the Church of St Peter & St Paul, Old Bolingbroke / CC BY-SA 2.0

Psalm 47:1-2,7 [Latin: Psalmi 46:2,3,8]

1 O clap your hands, all ye people; shout unto God with the voice of triumph.

For the Lord most high is terrible; he is a great King over all the earth.

For God is the King of all the earth: sing ye praises with understanding.

Iubilate Deo in voce exsultationis quoniam magnus rex super omnem terram psallite sapienter


Iubilate Deo, composed by Massimo Scapin (b. 1968)

Massimo Scapin - Iubilate Deo

^Performed by Sacred Music Project Choir at St. Patrick’s Seminary & University

FREE SHEET MUSIC at Petrucci Music Library

 

Hyssopus officinalis (Hyssop.) - From Wikimedia Commons
Hyssopus officinalis (Hyssop.) – From Wikimedia Commons

Psalm 51:7,1a [Latin: Psalm 50:9,3a]

Purge me with hyssop, and I shall be clean: wash me, and I shall be whiter than snow.

1 Have mercy upon me, O God, according to thy lovingkindness: according unto the multitude of thy tender mercies blot out my transgressions.

Asperges me hyssopo, et mundabor; lavabis me, et super nivem dealbabor. 

Miserere mei, Deus, secundum magnam misericordiam tuam


Asperges me, composed by Massimo Scapin (b. 1968)

The “Ançã-ble” Vocal Group from Portugal, conducted by Rev. Pedro Miranda, rehearsing Asperges me by Massimo Scapin