| Entrance | Our Father, we have wandered |
| Kyrie | Mass of the Creator Spirit (Ed Nowak) |
| Psalm | Taste and See (Richard Proulx) |
| Gospel Acclamation | Praise to you, O Christ (James Walsh) |
| Prayers of Intercession | Lord, in your mercy (mcb) |
| Preparation of the Gifts | I will arise and go to my Father (Robert Creighton, 1636-1734) |
| Sanctus, Acclamation, Amen | Mass XVII & Missal tones |
| Agnus Dei | Mass XVII & Missa Brevis (Antonio Lotti) |
| Communion | Lord, your love has drawn us near (Stephen Dean) |
| Recessional | Praise my soul, the King of heaven |
We were joined today by Revd Canon Gilly Myers, Canon Precentor at Manchester Cathedral. She gave a short address after Communion, talking about her work, and about her hopes for her church and for the future of ecumenical relations. By coincidence the choir sang a piece by Robert Creighton, who was a remarkably long-lived Canon Precentor of Wells Cathedral. His setting of the prodigal son’s penitent words provided a simple but direct vehicle for the text, in the form of a three-part canon (at varying intervals) between soprano, alto and bass, plus the tenor part supplying missing harmonies. The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography almost glows with praise (but doesn’t quite manage it): As a composer of church music he was not markedly inferior to many of his professional contemporaries.
For the Psalm we took Richard Proulx’s setting, and slimmed it down by removing the organ interludes, and the last verse (which doesn’t feature among those selected in the Lectionary for today). This transformed it effectively from a thoughtful and somewhat meandering processional piece (which has worked well for us during Communion) into a more tightly focused, and still musically interesting, responsorial Psalm setting.
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