Sunday, 11 April 2010
| Entrance | Alleluia, alleluia, give thanks to the risen Lord (Donald Fishel) [2 vv.] |
| Gospel Acclamation | Easter Alleluia (chant) with spoken verse |
| Preparation of the Gifts | Take our bread (Joe Wise) |
| Memorial Acclamation | He is Lord |
| Sign of Peace | Peace, perfect peace (Kevin Mayhew) |
| Communion | This is my body (Jimmy and Carol Owens) |
| Recessional | This is the day (traditional) |
The cathedral choir had the weekend off, so I went to the principal Sunday Mass in my home parish. For a large and prosperous parish they have limited ambitions when it comes to liturgical music. The hymns chosen probably all have their place in a Sunday Mass in Easter time, but it’s a shame to find them included at the expense of, say, a sung version of the Holy, holy, or the Responsorial Psalm, or the Gloria. I haven’t heard a ‘song at the sign of peace’ in any other parish in the last twenty-five years, but in my parish they sing this particular song every Sunday, at the expense of a sung Lamb of God.
All in all, it’s a neat indication that there are mountains to be climbed in liturgical formation.
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