| 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.
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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