Gregorian Communion Chants

for Ash Wednesday

and the Sundays of Lent

Translation from the Roman Missal, 2011

with discrepancies noted

Complied by David McIntyre

 Ash Wednesday

He who ponders the law of the Lord day and night will yield fruit in due season. (Cf. Ps. 1:2-3)

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 First Sunday of Lent

He will conceal you with his pinions, and under his wings you will trust.
*His faithfulness will encompass you with a shield. (Cf. Ps 91 (90): 4 *Omitted in Missal

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 Second Sunday of Lent

Tell no one about the vision you have seen until the Son of Man has risen from the dead.
*Missal reads: This is my beloved Son, with whom I am well pleased; listen to him. (Mt. 17:5)

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 Third Sunday of Lent Year A

For anyone who drinks it, says the Lord,

the water I shall give will become in him a spring welling up to eternal life. (Jn. 4:13-14)

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 Third Sunday of Lent Year B and C

The sparrow finds a home, and the swallow a nest for her young: by your altars, O Lord of hosts, my King and my God.
Blessed are they who dwell in your house, for ever singing your praise. (Cf. Ps 84 (83):4-5)

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 Fourth Sunday of Lent Year A

*The Lord made some clay with his spittle, *and he spread it over my eyes;
and I went forth, I washed myself, I began to see, and put my faith in God. (Cf. Jn 9:11, 38)
*First section omitted inMissal

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 Fourth Sunday of Lent Year B

Jerusalem is built as a city bonded as one together.

It is there that the tribes go up, the tribes of the Lord, to praise the name of the Lord. (Cf. Ps. 122 (121):3-4)

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 Fourth Sunday of Lent Year C

You must rejoice, my son, for your brother was dead has come to life;
he was lost and is found. (Lk. 15-32)

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 Fifth Sunday of Lent Year A

When the Lord saw the sisters of Lazarus in tears near the tomb, he wept in the presence of the Jews and cried: “Lazarus, come forth.”
And out he came, hands and feet bound, the man who had been dead for four days.
*Missal reads: Everyone who lives and believes in me will not die for ever, says the Lord. (Cf. Jn. 11:26)

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 Fifth Sunday of Lent Year B

If any man minister to me, let him follow me: and where I am, there also shall my minister be.
Missal reads: Amen, Amen I say to you: Unless a grain of wheat falls to the ground and dies, it remains a single grain.
But if it dies, it bears much fruit. (Jn. 12:24)

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 Fifth Sunday of Lent Year C

Has no one condemned you, woman? No one, Lord.

Neither shall I condemn you. From now on, sin no more. (Jn. 8:10-11)

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