Sunday, February 24, 2019

6th Sunday in Ordinary Time

17 February 2019

Entrance Blest are the pure in heart
Penitential Rite Winter (mtgf)
Gloria Newman (James MacMillan)
Psalm 1 (mtgf)
Gospel Acclamation Alleluia Beati (Christopher Walker)
Preparation of Gifts As a tree (Marty Haugen)
Eucharistic Acclamations Bede (mtgf)
Lamb of God Newman (James MacMillan)
Communion Antiphon They ate and gad their fill (mtgf)
Communion The Call (Vaughan Williams)
Final Tell out my soul

Psalm 1 Happy the man is often cited as example where the Christology of the New Testament is grafted onto the Old. The vir of Beatus vir is Christ. It is a sign of how the Lectionary both builds on a hermeneutic of connecting Old and New Testaments and also breaks it that the Lectionary ignores this sense. The man today is the same person as the Lukan beatitudes are addressed to - i.e. the subject of Christ teaching not Christ himself.

Sometimes one sings a piece and in doing so remember why you have not done so for a while. Marty Haugen's As a tree would seem a perfect fit for today picking up the tree imagery of first reading and psalm with verses based on the beatitudes. Apart from the annoyance in the verses that sometimes Blessed is two syllables, sometimes one, it does not seem to work for us - repay the necessary effort. I suspect the harmony in the verses needs equal (upper?) voices so that it works with the accompaniment.

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