32nd Sunday in Ordinary Time (Year B, 2009)

Entrance Immortal, invisible
Kyrie Kyrie Eleison from Missa Ubi Caritas (Bob Hurd)
Gloria Missa Ubi Caritas
Psalm Ps 145 (Stephen Dean)
Gospel Acclamation Easter Alleluia (chant)
Preparation of the Gifts The cry of the poor (John Foley)
Sanctus, Acclamation, Amen Missa Ubi Caritas
Agnus Dei Missa Ubi Caritas
Communion Because the Lord is my shepherd (Christopher Walker)
Postcommunion Panis Angelicus (César Franck, 1822-1890)
Recessional Abide with me

The common thread running through Sunday’s readings was The Lord upholds the widow and orphan (from Psalm 145(146)). We had John Foley’s The Cry of the Poor, and a first outing in a couple of years for Panis Angelicus:

The bread of angels becomes bread for humankind;
The heavenly bread puts an end to prefigurations.
What a wonderful thing!
The poor and humble servant partakes of the Lord.


(Thomas Aquinas, 1227–1274)

Our opening hymn made the same connection, tenuously - to all, life thou givest, to both great and small.

For Remembrance Sunday we had Abide with Me, sung gently and solemnly, but rising to a vaguely Elgarian climax for the last verse with descant. I think we hit the spot.

1 comment:

  1. Organ Voluntary: my arrangement of Karl Jenkin's Sanctus from the Mass for the Armed Man. It worked a lot better than I could have hoped. I thought it would make a nice change to Nimrod although the earlier intention was to play Elgar's Hymn to the Fallen.

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