SOLEMN FIRST VESPERS

In Prayerful Anticipation of the Installation of

THE MOST REVEREND RONALD W. GAINER

as the Eleventh Bishop of Harrisburg

ARCHBISHOP CHARLES J. CHAPUT, OFM CAP.

PRESIDER

BISHOP RONALD W. GAINER

HOMILIST

ON THE EVE OF

THE SOLEMNITY OF SAINT JOSEPH

MARCH 18, 2014

7:00 P.M.

HOLY NAME OF JESUS CHURCH

HARRISBURG, PENNSYLVANIA

PRELUDE Prelude and Fugue in E Flat Major (Saint Anne)

Johann Sebastian Bach

ENTRANCE OF THE MINISTERS PLEASE STAND

INTRODUCTORY VERSE (Psalm 70:1) All make Sign of the Cross at the beginning of the verse

HYMN Joseph Be Our Guide and Pattern

PSALMODY PLEASE SIT The Psalms are sung in alternation between the choir and the assembly.

ANTIPHON I

Jacob became the father of Joseph, the husband of Mary.

She gave birth to Jesus who is called Christ. (Matthew 1:16)

Text: attr. Muriel Newton-White. Tune: LAUDA ANIMA, 8 7 8 7 8 7; John Goss, 1800-1880

PSALM 113 (112 V)

Choir: Praise, O servants of the Lord, *

praise the name of the Lord!

All: May the name of the Lord be blessed *

both now and for evermore!

Choir: From the rising of the sun to its setting *

praised be the name of the Lord!

All: High above all nations is the Lord, *

above the heavens his glory.

Choir: Who is like the Lord, our God, *

who has risen on high to his throne

All: yet stoops from the heights to look down, *

to look down upon heaven and earth?

Choir: From the dust he lifts up the lowly, *

from the dungheap he raises the poor

All: to set him in the company of princes, *

yes, with the princes of his people.

Choir: To the childless wife he gives a home *

and gladdens her heart with children.

All: Glory to the Father, and to the Son,*

and to the Holy Spirit

Choir: As it was in the beginning, is now,*

and will be forever. Amen.

All: Iacob autem…(as previous page)

ANTIPHON II

The angel Gabriel was sent by God to a town of Galilee called Nazareth,

to a virgin betrothed to a man named Joseph. (Luke 1:26 - 27)

PSALM 146

Choir: My soul, give praise to the Lord;

I will praise the Lord all my days, *

make music to my God while I live.

All: Put no trust in princes, *

In mortal men in whom there is no help.

Choir: Take their breath, they return to clay *

and their plans that day come to nothing.

All: He is happy who is helped by Jacob's God, *

whose hope is in the Lord his God,

Choir: who alone made heaven and earth, *

the seas and all they contain.

All: It is he who keeps faith for ever, *

who is just to those who are oppressed.

Choir: It is he who gives bread to the hungry, *

the Lord, who sets prisoners free,

All: the Lord who gives sight to the blind, *

who raises up those who are bowed down,

Choir: the Lord, who protects the stranger *

and upholds the widow and orphan.

All: It is the Lord who loves the just *

but thwarts the path of the wicked.

Choir: The Lord will reign for ever, *

Zion's God, from age to age.

All: Glory to the Father, and to the Son,*

and to the Holy Spirit

Choir: As it was in the beginning, is now,*

and will be forever. Amen.

All: Missus est…(as previous page)

ANTIPHON III

Mary, the mother of Jesus, was betrothed to Joseph, but before they came together,

she was found to be with child through the power of the Holy Spirit. (Matthew 1:18)

CANTICLE: EPHESIANS 3:1-10

Choir: Praised be the God and Father *

of our Lord Jesus Christ,

All: who has bestowed on us in Christ *

every spiritual blessing in the heavens.

Choir: God chose us in him, before the world began, *

to be holy and blameless in his sight.

All: He predestined us to be his adopted sons through Jesus Christ, *

such was his will and pleasure,

Choir: that all might praise the glor’ous favor *

he has bestowed on us in his belovéd.

All: In him and through his blood,

we have been redeemed and our sins forgiven, * Choir: so immeasurably generous *

is God’s favor to us.

All: God has given us the wisdom *

to understand fully the mystery,

Choir: the plan he was pleased *

to decree in Christ.

All: A plan to be carried out in Christ,*

in the fullness of time,

Choir: to bring all things into one in him,*

in the heavens and on the earth.

All: Glory to the Father, and to the Son,*

and to the Holy Spirit

Choir: As it was in the beginning, is now,*

and will be forever. Amen.

All: Cum esset…(as previous page)

READING COLOSSIANS 3:23-24

HOMILY BISHOP RONALD W. GAINER

SILENT PRAYER

GOSPEL CANTICLE (LUKE 1:46-55) PLEASE STAND

Behold the faithful and prudent steward whom the Lord has set over his household.

(Matthew 24:45)

Choir: My soul proclaims the greatness of the Lord,*

my spirit rejoices in God my Savior

All: for he has looked with favor on his lowly servant.*

From this day all generations will call me blessed;

Choir: the Almighty has done great things for me,

and holy is his Name.

All: He has mercy on those who fear him *

in every generation.

Choir: He has shown the strength of his arm,*

he has scattered the proud in their conceit.

All: He has cast down the mighty from their thrones,*

and has lifted up the lowly.

Choir: He has filled the hungry with good things,*

and the rich he has sent away empty.

All: He has come to the help of his servant Israel *

for he has remembered his promise of mercy,

Choir: the promise he made to our fathers,

to Abraham and his children for ever.

All: Glory to the Father, and to the Son,*

and to the Holy Spirit. *

Choir: As it was in the beginning, is now,*

and will be forever. Amen.

All: Ecce fidelis servus...(as previous page)

INTERCESSIONS After each petition:

THE LORD’S PRAYER

COLLECT

GREETING, BLESSING AND DISMISSAL

POSTLUDE Final from Symphony No. 1, Opus 14

Louis Vierne

EXPLANATION OF THE COAT OF ARMS AND THE EPISCOPAL MOTTO

MOST REVEREND RONALD W. GAINER The bishop’s coat of arms is composed of a shield with its symbols, a motto, scroll, and the external

ornaments. In the United States, Roman Catholic residential bishops traditionally join their arms,

in a heraldic practice known as impalement, with the existing arms of their new diocese. This is not

the custom elsewhere in the Church but has been so in America for most of its ecclesial history.

Keeping with this custom, the arms of Bishop Gainer are now joined in impalement to those of

Harrisburg.

The heraldic device of the See of Harrisburg is a compellation of the arms of William Penn’s

family, the founders of Pennsylvania, and the family of John Harris of Yorkshire, England, who, in

1712, first settled the area on the Susquehanna River, later named for them as Harris Ferry, which

later took the name Harrisburg.

The shield appears in silver and is divided by a Latin Cross in red. Upon this cross appears a silver

shamrock in honor of the titular cathedral of Harrisburg: Saint Patrick of Ireland.

In a chief sable, that is to say a black field in the shape of a bar that appears at the top of the

Harrisburg arms, are two plates, or silver balls also known in heraldry as roundels, assumed from

the Penn family arms. Between them appears a silver crescent from the Harris family achievement

but which in Catholic heraldry also represents the image of the Blessed Virgin under the title of the

Immaculate Conception, a title for Our Lady entrusted to the Church in America naming her

Protectress of our nation.

The personal arms of Bishop Gainer, seen on the right side of the shield, reflect his life and his

heritage. These arms are composed of a red field on which is displayed a silver (white) bar which is

encircled by a golden (yellow) ring. This is the dominant configuration, honoring Saint Catherine

of Siena, of the arms of the bishop's home: the Diocese of Allentown, Pennsylvania. Above the bar

is a silver pine tree and below the bar are the three silver hills with the golden double-crossmember

that is known as the "Cross of Lorraine." These eastern European (Baden and Slovak) charges are

For his motto, Bishop Gainer has selected the phrase, "Ex de plenitudine...gratiam pro gratia." This

phrase, taken from Saint John's Gospel (John 1:16), expresses the profound belief for each

Christian that all we ever need, the life of God within, comes to us from the unending source of all

The device is completed with the external ornaments which are the processional cross, which is

placed in back of the shield and which extends above and below the shield, and a pontifical hat,

called a "gallero," with its six tassels, in three rows, on either side of the shield, all in green. These

are the heraldic insignia of a prelate of the rank of bishop.

goodness, that is, the Lord, for "from His fullness, grace upon grace."

used to honor the heritage that has come to the bishop from his parents.

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

The Choir of mixed voices from the seven Diocesan High Schools is under the direction of Dr. Richard

Skirpan, Director of Liturgical Music at Saint John the Baptist Parish, New Freedom and is accompanied

by Ms. Elizabeth Palmer, Director of Liturgical Music at Saint Joan of Arc Parish, Hershey.

INTRODUCTORY VERSE: Melody from Antiphonale Romanum II (Solesmes, 2009), p. 737, adapted for

English text by Rev. James Lease. Text from The Liturgy of the Hours, vol. III, Catholic Book Publishing

Co., p. 1064.

PSALMODY: Antiphons from Antiphonale Romanum II (Solesmes, 2009) pp. 519-522. Antiphon

translations from The Liturgy of the Hours, vol. III, Catholic Book Publishing Co., p. 1716-7. Psalm texts

from © The Grail, 1963 (England) and published by Collins, London, 1963.

Ephesians Canticle from The New American Bible, © 1970 by the Confraternity of Christian Doctrine,

Washington, D.C. Pointing of Psalms is according to the accents given in The Psalms: A New Translation,

Singing Version (Grail Psalter), Paulist Press, New York/Mahwah 1963. Pointing of Ephesians canticle by

Rev. James Lease. Psalm & canticle tone melodies adapted from the Gregorian tones by Rev. Msgr.

Claude Thompson.

GOSPEL CANTICLE: Antiphon from Antiphonale Romanum II, p. 523. Antiphon translation from The

Liturgy of the Hours, vol. II, Catholic Book Publishing Co., p. 1717, alt. English canticle text from The

Liturgy of the Hours, vol. II, Catholic Book Publishing Co., pp. 1066.

INTERCESSIONS: English text from The Liturgy of the Hours, vol. II, p. 1718; music by Rev. James Lease.

OUR FATHER: Melody & text from The Roman Missal (Magnificat, 2011 – chapel edition), p. 647.

Unless otherwise noted, English texts from The Liturgy of the Hours, vol. II, Catholic Book Publishing,

New York, 1975.

Cover photo taken by Chris Heisey for the Diocese of Harrisburg. Saint Joseph stained glass window

located at Divine Redeemer Parish in Mount Carmel, PA.

Lilies/Cross stained glass window photo taken by Chris Heisey for the Diocese of Harrisburg. Located at

Saint Patrick Cathedral in Harrisburg, PA.

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