3rd Sunday of Lent

11 March 2012

Entrance	For God so loved the world (mtgf)
Penitential Rite	Missa Ubi Caritas (Bob Hurd)
Psalm 18	You, Lord, have the message (mtgf)
Gospel Acclamation	Lenten (mtgf)
Preparation of Gifts	Locus iste (Bruckner)
Eucharistic Acclamations	Missa Ubi Caritas (Bob Hurd)
Lamb of God	Missa Ubi Caritas (Bob Hurd)
Communion	We proclaim Christ (Bob Hurd)
Final	Praise the Lord, ye heaven adore him

There are places where I find the revised Grail Psalter clunky or worse prosaic. I can see that it is, presumably, suggesting that the meaning of the original is different but 'quantities of gold' is a bit more of a mouthful than 'purest of gold' and the punctuation of 'they are, all of them, just' is quite hard to sing.
I was pleased with Locus iste as a motet for the dedication of a Church there is a danger that it is infrequently sung but linking 'this place' with the temple 'made by God' made sense to me at least. It is one of those pieces where he writes the acoustic into the music. The final hymn picked up the idea of the Law.
It was good to sing the Eucharistic Acclamations unaccompanied.