Saturday, September 5, 2009

23rd Sunday in Ordinary Time

6 September 2009

Entrance O changeless Christ (Dudley Smith)
Penitential Rite
Gloria St Gabriels (mtgf)
Psalm 145 My soul give praise to the Lord (mtgf)
Gospel Acclamation (A Gregory Murray)
Preparation of Gifts Song of the Man born blind (Bob Hurd)
Eucharistic Acclamations Mass of Creation (Marty Haugen)
Lamb of God St Gabriels (mtgf)
Communion O praise the Lord (Collegeville Composer's Group)
Final Praise my soul ( )

The beginning of September is when change Mass parts for Ordinary Time=- Autumn. It is usually staggered over a few weeks. Today we moved back to Mass of Creation which usually sees us through until the Baptism of the Lord. The GLoria was new last year but seemed to be sung well. Space permitting it would be interesting to put the verses on the leaflet to see if all would join in — perhaps just the last verse.


O praise the Lord seemed neither one thing or the other - there was neither harmonic nor melodic tension to make the repetition of the short phrase rewarding. Though the sung repetition of the words after each phrase of the verse was interesting it did not blossom into a longer refrain which may have been needed.

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