Sunday, February 15, 2015

6th Sunday in Ordinary Time

15 February 2015

EntranceAll my hope on God is founded
Penitential RiteSt Gabriel (mtgf)
GloriaNewman (James MacMillan)
Psalm 31You are my refuge, O Lord (mtgf)
Gospel AcclamationAlleluia Beati (Christopher Walker)
Preparation of GiftsThy mercy, O Lord God (Marcello)
Eucharistic AcclamationsSt Annes (James MacMillan)
Lamb of GodNewman (James MacMillan)
Communion AntiphonThey ate and had their fill. (mtgf)
CommunionHow can I repay the Lord (mtgf)
FinalPraise 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

EntranceYour hands, O Lord
Penitential RiteSt Gabriel (mtgf)
GloriaNewman (James MacMillan)
Psalm 146Praise the Lord who heals the broken-hearted (mtgf)
Gospel AcclamationAlleluia Beati (Christopher Walker)
Preparation of GiftsHealer of our every ill (Marty Haugen)
Eucharistic AcclamationsSt Annes (James MacMillan)
Lamb of GodNewman (James MacMillan)
Communion AntiphonLet them thank the Lord for his mercy (mtgf)
CommunionA touching place (John Bell)
FinalNow 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.

Sunday, February 1, 2015

4th Sunday in Ordinary Time

1 February 2015

EntranceGod, whose almighty word
Penitential RiteSt Gabriel (mtgf)
GloriaNewman (James MacMillan)
Psalm 94O that today (mtgf)
Gospel AcclamationAlleluia Beati (Christopher Walker)
Preparation of GiftsYou are mine (David Haas)
Eucharistic AcclamationsSt Annes (James MacMillan)
Lamb of GodNewman (James MacMillan)
Communion AntiphonLet your face shine (mtgf)
CommunionJesus the Word has lived among us (French traditional)
FinalAt 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.