3rd Sunday of Lent

8 March 2015

Entrance	For God so loved the world (mtgf)
Penitential Rite	Missa Ubi Caritas (Bob Hurd)
Psalm 18	O Lord, you have the message (mtgf)
Gospel Acclamation	Lenten (mtgf)
Preparation of Gifts	Ours were the griefs (Stephen Dean)
Eucharistic Acclamations	Missa Ubi Caritas (Bob Hurd)
Lamb of God	Missa Ubi Caritas (Bob Hurd)
Communion Antiphon	The sparrow finds a home (mtgf)
Communion	We proclaim Christ crucified (Bob Hurd)
Final	Glorious things are you are spoken

Looking at the choices I recognise that a couple of turnings were taken. 3 years ago we used Bruckner's Locus iste to connect with the tempe which is Christ's body. We were going to sing it again - we had sung it last weekend with probably no more reason that its a nice piece which a choir of 200 can sing with little practice. This Sunday, with slightly fewer, our bass was missing and though some pieces can work without one part (Ours were the griefs did) I was not sure that Bruckner would. This linking between Christ - Temple - Church led to the last hymn which I am not sure we have ever sung before. It had the added bonus of baptismal imagery from Ezekiel.

Ours were the griefs was from a rare moment of democray (this or O how lovely is your dwelling place by DeBruyn) bud did link to the crucified suffering Christ. We sang Psalm 84 with the antiphon.

For reasons I am not sure singing was good this morning. We had 7 Winter Graduations on Friday and Saturday - so it may be people who had been at them.