Songs for Online Mass: Entrance - GREAT IS OUR GOD
Channel: Bukas Palad Music Ministry
Date: 2021-02-17

Songs for Online Mass
Entrance - GREAT IS OUR GOD

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The Entrance Song gathers the people, opening and setting the tone for the celebration.

It is a ritual song, meant to accompany the procession of the priest and ministers to the altar. But more importantly, it fosters our unity as a people gathered to worship God, and it beckons us to prepare ourselves to receive his Word.

As a ritual song, the Entrance Song must conclude once the community has been gathered and the liturgical actions have been completed. Thus, the Entrance Song must be adaptable:
a contracted version may be sung for short processions; more verses may be sung for long processions. The song must also be appropriate to the liturgical season.

As it opens the celebration, the Entrance Song introduces the community to the spirit of the liturgy—a spirit of united thanksgiving and of sacrifice, of praise and of prayer. Hence, the singing must be in a manner that fosters a unity among the faithful who have gathered, and, more importantly, between the faithful and God, whose real presence we acknowledge in the Eucharist.

It is to this real presence that the Introductory Rites seek to open our hearts and minds. Therefore, Entrance Hymns must be both inviting and instructive. They should inspire those gathered to immerse themselves in the mystery they are about to celebrate, leading them to open up to the graces that the Eucharist offers.