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Free Musical Scores For Catholic Weddings

Jeff Ostrowski · June 3, 2013

ANY PEOPLE have been requesting free musical scores for the Catholic wedding Mass. Below you will find several organ and vocalist scores for use at marriages in the Ordinary Form.

1. Organ Processional [PDF] • This simple arrangement of Pachelbel’s Canon in D allows the organist to watch and time the procession for the bride’s entrance.

2. Introit (“Entrance Chant”) • “Deus Israel”
          Vocalist Score:  [PDF]
          Practice Video:  [Version 1]  •  [Version 2]
          Practice Audio:  [Mp3]
          Organ Accompaniment:  [PDF]

Deus Israel conjungat vos, et ipse sit vobiscum, qui misertus est duobus unicis: et nunc, Domine, fac eos plenius benedicere te.  Ps. Beati omnes qui timent Dominum: qui ambulant in viis ejus.
(Tobias 7:15 and 8:19) May the God of Israel join you together; and may he be with you, who took pity upon two only children: and now, O Lord, make them bless thee more fully.  (Ps. 127:1) Blessed are all they that fear the Lord; that walk in his ways.

3. Responsorial Psalm • “Taste and see the goodness of the Lord.”   [MORE VERSIONS]
          Organist Score:  [PDF]
          Vocalist Score:  [PDF]
          Practice Video:  [YouTube]
          Congregational Insert:  [Modern]  •  [Gregorian]

R. Taste and see the goodness of the Lord.   (With Psalm 34:2-3, 4-5, 6-7, 8-9.)
1. I will bless the LORD at all times; / his praise shall be ever in my mouth.
     Let my soul glory in the LORD; / the lowly will hear me and be glad.
2. Glorify the LORD with me, / Let us together extol his name.
     I sought the LORD, and he answered me / And delivered me from all my fears.
3. Look to him that you may be radiant with joy. / And your faces may not blush with shame.
     When the afflicted man called out, the LORD heard, / And from all his distress he saved him.
4. The angel of the LORD encamps / around those who fear him and delivers them.
     Taste and see how good the LORD is; / blessed the man who takes refuge in him.

4. Gospel Acclamation • “Alleluia before the Gospel”          [AN EASIER VERSION]
          Organist Score:  [PDF]
          Congregational Insert:  [Gregorian]
          Recording for Rehearsal:  [Video]

If we love one another, God remains in us / and his love is brought to perfection in us.

5. Offertory Antiphon • “In Te Speravi”
          Vocalist Score:  [PDF]
          Recording for Rehearsal:  [Video]
          Organ Accompaniment:  [PDF]

“In thee, O Lord, have I hoped: I said, thou art my God, my times are in thy hands.” (Psalm 30:15-16)

6. Offertory Interlude for Organ [PDF] • This gorgeous Adagio by John Bennett (1735-1784) is relatively simple to play.

7. Our Father • “Pater Noster” in English & Latin
          Vocalist Score in Latin:  [PDF]
          Organ Accompaniments for English Version & Latin Version:  [PDF]

8. Communion Antiphon • “Ecce Sic Benedicetur”
          Vocalist score:  [PDF]
          Practice file:  [Mp3]
          Rehearsal Videos:  [Version 1]  •  [Version 2]
          Organ Accompaniment:  [PDF]

Ecce sic benedicetur omnis homo, qui timet Dominum: et videas filios filiorum tuorum: pax super Israel.
Behold, thus shall every man be blessed that feareth the Lord: and mayest thou see thy children’s children: peace upon Israel. (Ps. 127: 4 and 6)

9. Organ Recessional [PDF] • This piece, named in honor of Benedict XVI’s “Spe Salvi” encyclical, is able to be played well by even the most unskilled organist.

The Ordinary Form Nuptial Mass allows for the use of many different options (in terms of the texts). As time goes on, we hope to add resources for these options.

Opinions by blog authors do not necessarily represent the views of Corpus Christi Watershed.

Filed Under: Articles, PDF Download Last Updated: January 13, 2020

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About Jeff Ostrowski

Jeff Ostrowski holds his B.M. in Music Theory from the University of Kansas (2004). He resides with his wife and children in Michigan. —(Read full biography).

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    PDF Download • “Polyphonic Extension” (Kevin Allen) for Gloria III
    EVIN ALLEN was commissioned by Sacred Music Symposium 2025 to compose a polyphonic ‘middle section’ for the GLORIA from Mass III, often denoted by its trope name: Missa Kyrie Deus sempiterne. This year, I’m traveling from Singapore to serve on the symposium faculty. I will be conducting Palestrina’s ‘Ave Maria’ as well as teaching plainsong to the men. A few days ago, I was asked to record rehearsal videos for this beautiful polyphonic extension. (See below.) This polyphonic composition fits ‘inside’ GLORIA III. That is, the congregation sings for the beginning and end, but the choir alone adds polyphony to the middle. The easiest way to understand how everything fits together is by examining this congregational insert. You may download the score, generously made available to the whole world—free of charge—by CORPUS CHRISTI WATERSHED:
    *  PDF Download • Gloria III ‘Middle Section’ (Kevin Allen)
    Free rehearsal videos for each individual voice await you at #24366. Related News • My colleague, Jeff Ostrowski, composed an organ accompaniment for this same GLORIA a few months ago. Obviously, the organist should drop out when the polyphony is being sung.
    —Corrinne May
    “Booklet of Eucharistic Hymns” (16 pages)
    I was asked to create a booklet for my parish to use during our CORPUS CHRISTI PROCESSION on 22 June 2025. Would you be willing to look over the DRAFT BOOKLET (16 pages) I came up with? I tried to include a variety of hymns: some have a refrain; some are in major, others in minor; some are metered, others are plainsong; some are in Spanish, some are in Latin, but most are in English. Normally, we’d use the Brébeuf Hymnal—but we can’t risk having our congregation carry those heavy books all over the city to various churches.
    —Jeff Ostrowski
    “Yahweh” in church songs?
    My pastor asked me to write a weekly column for our parish bulletin. The one scheduled to run on 22 June 2025 is called “Three Words in a Psalm” and speaks of translating the TETRAGRAMMATON. You can read the article at this column repository. All of them are quite brief because I was asked to keep within a certain word limit.
    —Jeff Ostrowski

Quick Thoughts

    Antiphons Don’t Match?
    A reader wants to know why the Entrance and Communion antiphons in certain publications deviate from what’s prescribed by the GRADUALE ROMANUM published after Vatican II. Click here to read our answer. The short answer is: the Adalbert Propers were never intended to be sung. They were intended for private Masses only (or Masses without music). The “Graduale Parvum,” published by the John Henry Newman Institute of Liturgical Music in 2023, mostly uses the Adalbert Propers—but sometimes uses the GRADUALE text: e.g. Solemnity of Saints Peter and Paul (29 June).
    —Corpus Christi Watershed
    When to Sit, Stand and Kneel like it’s 1962
    There are lots of different guides to postures for Mass, but I couldn’t find one which matched our local Latin Mass, so I made this one: sit-stand-kneel-crop
    —Veronica Brandt
    The Funeral Rites of the Graduale Romanum
    Lately I have been paging through the 1974 Graduale Romanum (see p. 678 ff.) and have been fascinated by the funeral rites found therein, especially the simply-beautiful Psalmody that is appointed for all the different occasions before and after the funeral Mass: at the vigil/wake, at the house of the deceased, processing to the church, at the church, processing to the cemetery, and at the cemetery. Would that this “stational Psalmody” of the Novus Ordo funeral rites saw wider usage! If you or anyone you know have ever used it, please do let me know.
    —Daniel Tucker

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“The Catholic Church holds it better for the sun and moon to drop from heaven, for the earth to fail, and for all the many millions on it to die of starvation in extremest agony, as far as temporal affliction goes, than that one soul, I will not say, should be lost, but should commit one single venial sin, should tell one willful untruth, or should steal one poor farthing without excuse.”

— Saint John Henry Newman (1865)

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