7th Sunday in Ordinary Time

24 February 2019

Entrance	Where charity and love prevail
Penitential Rite	Winter (mtgf)
Gloria	Newman (James MacMillan)
Psalm 102	The Lord is compassion and love (mtgf)
Gospel Acclamation	Alleluia Beati (Christopher Walker)
Preparation of Gifts	Faith, hope and love (Christopher Walker)
Eucharistic Acclamations	Bede (mtgf)
Lamb of God	Newman (James MacMillan)
Communion Antiphon	I will recount (mtgf)
Communion	Spirit of God within me (Naylor)
Final	Praise my soul

It was a suggestion in The Liturgy Planner to sing Spirit of God within me to Coe fen. We have used the Joncas tune previously, which as a homage to Down Ampney I had presumed shared the same metre. However it fits Coe Fen well - with just a stretch in the first line. I wondered about tweaking it - something like Spirit of God within my heart - but resisted.

We have sung the first hymn before - but I am not sure to what tune. I had thought Conditor alme siderum but wrong metre. Today it was Tallis' Ordinal (Come Holy Ghost) which I don't when we last sang as a tune. My first impression was that people did know it but the weak spoken responses later might suggest otherwise.

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.

5th Sunday in Ordinary Time

10 February 2019

Entrance	Holy, Holy, Holy
Penitential Rite	Winter (mtgf)
Gloria	Newman (James MacMillan)
Psalm 137	Before the angels (mtgf)
Gospel Acclamation	Alleluia Beati (Christopher Walker)
Preparation of Gifts	Lord, you have come to the lakeside (Gabarain)
Eucharistic Acclamations	Bede (mtgf)
Lamb of God	Newman (James MacMillan)
Communion Antiphon	Let them thank (mtgf)
Communion	Zum Sanctus from Deutsche Messe (Schubert)
Final	Holy is God

3 years ago this was the last Sunday before Lent and Holy is God made a good end to the short season. It was still a good combination of 'holy' and sending out. I have never been sure about the Schubert as an English Mass part - too sustained for an acclamation - but in German it provided a suitable post-Communion reflection.

We have had a new Penitential Act this season. the leaflet just said repeat after cantor and it took 3 Sundays to find a stable form: first week wrong direction, second Ok but needing some harmonic revision, third settled.

4th Sunday in Ordinary Time

3 February 2019

Entrance	Oh the word of my Lord
Penitential Rite	Winter (mtgf)
Gloria	Newman (James MacMillan)
Psalm 70	My lips will tell (mtgf)
Gospel Acclamation	Alleluia Beati (Christopher Walker)
Preparation of Gifts	Not for tongues (Michael Joncas)
Eucharistic Acclamations	Bede (mtgf)
Lamb of God	Newman (James MacMillan)
Communion Antiphon	Let your face (mtgf)
Communion	In perfect charity (R DeBruyn)
Final	He who would valiant be

3rd Sunday in Ordinary Time

27 January 2019

Entrance	God has spoken through his prophets
Penitential Rite	Winter (mtgf)
Gloria	Newman (James MacMillan)
Psalm 18	Your words are spirit (mtgf)
Gospel Acclamation	Alleluia Beati (Christopher Walker)
Preparation of Gifts	Many are the lightbeams (Widestrand arr Marty Haugen)
Eucharistic Acclamations	Bede (mtgf)
Lamb of God	Newman (James MacMillan)
Communion Antiphon	I am the light (mtgf)
Communion	Jesus the word (French)
Final	The kingdom of God

Communion was a reappearance of the French carol we had sung over Christmas - an interesting echo.

2nd Sunday in Ordinary Time

20 January 2019

Entrance	We come as guests
Penitential Rite	Winter (mtgf)
Gloria	Newman (James MacMillan)
Psalm 95	Proclaim the wonders (mtgf)
Gospel Acclamation	Alleluia Beati (Christopher Walker)
Preparation of Gifts	Ubi Caritas (Bob Hurd)
Eucharistic Acclamations	Bede (mtgf)
Lamb of God	Newman (James MacMillan)
Communion Antiphon	You have prepared (mtgf)
Communion	Jesus, you are the bread (Bernadette Farrell)
Final	Lord, you give the great commission

The first few Sundays of Year C have some of the most striking passages from the Old Testament, Gospel and the resonant section from 1 Corinthians. It is too rich. The music pointed to a eucharistic understanding of Cana - which I'm not sure is the point - but there were not strong contenders for why it is here on this Sunday.