Pentecost Sunday

27 May 2012

Entrance	Cpme down, O Love divine
Gloria	Mass of Wisdom (Steven Janco)
Psalm 103	Send forth your spirit, O Lord (mtgf)
Sequence	Come Holy Spirit, Lord divine (arr. mtgf)
Preparation of Gifts	Spirit of God (Bernadette Farrell)
Eucharistic Acclamations	Mass of Wisdom (Steven Janco)
Lamb of God	Mass of Wisdom (Steven Janco)
Communion	Enemy of Apathy (John Bell)
	The Spirit come to us in our weakness (mtgf)
Final	We have a gospel to proclaim

Joining a choir can be a like an apprenticeship where you learn the ways and repertoire of the place. It also means when you are a small group that the repertoire may need to be simplified to allow all to take part.

I found it hard to choose a final hymn. Someone once suggested to me that it was odd on an Advent Sunday to sing 'Wait for the Lord' at Communion I have a similar sense of singing 'Come, Holy Spirit' at the end of Mass - it seems a bit late. As we had (5) baptisms the connection with mission seemed important but there were not many choices that brought out the role of the Spirit - or at least that I would have sung. In the end we sang We have a gospel which with its Easter verse encompassed the whole season which was coming to an end.

This will be our last use until next Easter, I think, if the Mass of Wisdom. I am aware that we have only used one of the Memorial Acclamations and we will need to introduce the others next year, lest we get stuck.