6th Sunday in Ordinary Time

15 February 2015

Entrance	All my hope on God is founded
Penitential Rite	St Gabriel (mtgf)
Gloria	Newman (James MacMillan)
Psalm 31	You are my refuge, O Lord (mtgf)
Gospel Acclamation	Alleluia Beati (Christopher Walker)
Preparation of Gifts	Thy mercy, O Lord God (Marcello)
Eucharistic Acclamations	St Annes (James MacMillan)
Lamb of God	Newman (James MacMillan)
Communion Antiphon	They ate and had their fill. (mtgf)
Communion	How can I repay the Lord (mtgf)
Final	Praise my soul

Praise my soul included lots of Alleluias to prepare us for Lent. How can I repay is a setting of Ps 115 for equal voices which I wrote for year B last round - for when we hear John 6. I remembered it when looking for other settings of Psalm 115 - it fitted with Eucharist and the thanksgiving for being healed.

The MacMillan settings were the last ones of the new translation we introduced in January 2013. We had sung the St Anne's previously and it was commended as a diocesan setting. I thought it would take 3 years to get them known. This morning people were definitely singing them. I have been struck in recent weeks that the Newman Gloria reminds a little of Chris Walker's St Augustine's Gloria — one of few unrevised settings I miss. It is the rising sequence of notes which is sung starting on progressively rising pitches.

5th Sunday in Ordinary Time

8 February 2015

Entrance	Your hands, O Lord
Penitential Rite	St Gabriel (mtgf)
Gloria	Newman (James MacMillan)
Psalm 146	Praise the Lord who heals the broken-hearted (mtgf)
Gospel Acclamation	Alleluia Beati (Christopher Walker)
Preparation of Gifts	Healer of our every ill (Marty Haugen)
Eucharistic Acclamations	St Annes (James MacMillan)
Lamb of God	Newman (James MacMillan)
Communion Antiphon	Let them thank the Lord for his mercy (mtgf)
Communion	A touching place (John Bell)
Final	Now thank we all our God

Healing once more in the gospel and reflected in the choices. A touching place showed the power of unaccompanied solo melody.

4th Sunday in Ordinary Time

1 February 2015

Entrance	God, whose almighty word
Penitential Rite	St Gabriel (mtgf)
Gloria	Newman (James MacMillan)
Psalm 94	O that today (mtgf)
Gospel Acclamation	Alleluia Beati (Christopher Walker)
Preparation of Gifts	You are mine (David Haas)
Eucharistic Acclamations	St Annes (James MacMillan)
Lamb of God	Newman (James MacMillan)
Communion Antiphon	Let your face shine (mtgf)
Communion	Jesus the Word has lived among us (French traditional)
Final	At the name of Jesus

Every knee should bow in heaven, on earth and under the earth. Part of my understanding of today's Gospel is part of Mark's purpose is to show who Jesus is and that he is acknowledge by heaven, the world and the underworld - the latter coming to the fore today. It was only when deciding which verses of the last hymn to sing that it struck for the first time that At the name of Jesus though a paraphrase of Philippians does not refer to the underworld.

The hymns mixed this acknowledgment of Jesus as Lord and Jesus the healer — someone worth listening to. Jesus the Word was Jesus revealed as Lord and in someways the text is Johannine in feel. I did a simple two part arrangement based on a French edition I found on IMSLP.