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.
