All Saints

1 November 2015

Entrance	For all the Saints
Penitential Rite	St Gabriel (mtgf)
Gloria	Angels and Saints (Steven Janco)
Psalm 23	Blessed are they (mtgf)
Gospel Acclamation	Salisbury Alleluia (Christopher Walker)
Preparation of Gifts	Gaudent in caelis (Dering)
Eucharistic Acclamations	Creation (Marty Haugen)
Lamb of God	Angels and Saints (Steven Janco)
Communion Antiphon	Blessed are the clean (mtgf)
Communion	What does the Lord require (mtgf)
Final	Holy God, we praise thy name

I had hoped to use Peter Jones' We praise you, O God at the end of Mass but with a number of possible visitors I had second thoughts. This was the annual Mass for deceased Simmarians. It is only in the last couple of years that we have separated this from Remembrance Sunday. I can see the pros and cons both ways - what make it challenge is that last year we had it on Christ the King, and this year All Saints, While I would be the first to argue that through the Paschal Mystery it is possible to proclaim Resurrection and consolation within in any Sunday liturgy - it does feel that there is a tug in a number in two directions. Also if you wish to encourage students who may not come to Mass every week to come and pay tribute to their predecessors there seem to me advantages of their meeting their living predecessors.