12th Sunday in Ordinary Time (Year C, 2013)

Sunday, 23 June 2013

 

Entrance	Firmly I believe and truly
Kyrie	(Dinah Reindorf)
Gloria	Mass of the Most Sacred Heart (Jacob Bancks)
Psalm	Ps 62 (James Walsh)
Gospel Acclamation	St Agatha Alleluia (mcb)
Preparation of the Gifts	Your love is finer than life (Marty Haugen)
Sanctus, Acclamation, Amen	Mass of Creation (Marty Haugen)
Agnus Dei	(Paul Wellicome)
Communion	The eyes of everyone (mcb)
Postcommunion	Oculi Omnium (William Byrd, c.1540-1623)
Recessional	At the Lamb’s high feast

 

Similar musical fare to the last time this Sunday came around, including two (highly) contrasting settings of the Communion antiphon from Ps 144:

The eyes of all look to you, Lord,
and you give them their food in due season.

11th Sunday in Ordinary Time (Year C, 2013)

Sunday, 16 June 2013

 

Entrance	Lead us, heavenly Father
Kyrie	Kyrie for 3 voices adapted from Byrd (mcb)
Gloria	Missa Ubi Caritas (Bob Hurd)
Psalm	Ps 30 (Stephen Dean/Harry Bramma)
Gospel Acclamation	Sing a New Song (John Bell)
Preparation of the Gifts	Amazing grace
Sanctus, Acclamation, Amen	Missa Ubi Caritas
Agnus Dei	Missa Ubi Caritas
Communion	There is one thing I ask of the Lord (Chris O’Hara)
Postcommunion	Adoremus in aeternum (adapted from Gregorio Allegri, 1582-1652 by R.R. Terry)
Recessional	Praise we our God with Joy

 

Today’s readings spoke of forgiveness, and this was reflected in our entrance, offertory and recessional hymns. We also had Chris O’Hara’s hope-filled setting of the Communion antiphon text.

Last time we sang the well-known setting of the antiphon in praise of the Blessed Sacrament credited to Allegri, I wondered aloud where it had come from. The answer would appear to be an adaptation by Richard Terry, published in Downside Motets, vol. 1 no. 9 of 1904. An adaptation of what, I still don’t know. Anyone able to shed any light?

10th Sunday in Ordinary Time (Year C, 2013)

Sunday, 9 June 2013

 

Entrance	Your hands, O Lord
Kyrie	Kyrie Litany from Missa Ubi Caritas (Bob Hurd)
Gloria	Missa Ubi Caritas
Psalm	I will praise you Lord (Daniel Bath)
Gospel Acclamation	Sing a New Song (John Bell)
Preparation of the Gifts	The Lord is my light (Marty Haugen)
Sanctus, Acclamation, Amen	Missa Ubi Caritas
Agnus Dei	Missa Ubi Caritas
Communion	Ubi Caritas (Bob Hurd)
Postcommunion	Ave Verum Corpus (W.A. Mozart, 1756-1791)
Recessional	God is love, his the care

 

I’ve been trying to work out when we last had a 10th Sunday in Ordinary Time (Year C) that wasn't displaced by Pentecost, Trinity Sunday or (latterly) Corpus Christi, and I think it may well have been 1989. The readings for today speak of the miraculous raising of the dead, and so we sang of healing in our opening hymn. At the preparation of the gifts we had the proper text for today’s entrance antiphon, in Marty Haugen’s simple and engaging setting.

One of the Communion antiphons in the Missal for today is

God is love,
and whoever abides in love
abides in God,
and God in him.

and this found an echo both in our closing hymn, and of course in our Communion song itself, Bob Hurd’s serenely wistful setting of the ancient Christian hymn extolling the fruits of divine love.

The Body and Blood of Christ (Year C, 2013)

Sunday, 2 June 2013

 

Entrance	Of the glorious body telling
Kyrie	Kyrie II from Paschal Mass (Alan Rees)
Gloria	Missa Ubi Caritas (Bob Hurd)
Psalm	Ps 109 (Geoffrey Boulton Smith)
Sequence	Lauda Sion Salvatorem (chant, arr. Chris Mueller)
Gospel Acclamation	Sing a new song (John Bell)
Preparation of the Gifts	O Sacrum Convivium (Thomas Tallis, c.1505-1585)
Sanctus, Acclamation, Amen	Missa Ubi Caritas
Agnus Dei	Missa Ubi Caritas
Communion	Take and Eat (Michael Joncas)
Postcommunion	Panis Angelicus (César Franck, 1822-1890)
Recessional	Soul of my Saviour

 

There were just eleven of us this morning, so for Tallis’s intricate yet transparent setting of the Magnificat antiphon for today’s feast, we were more or less two to a part. Robin Wolfendale directed, helping to bring out the episodic character of the piece’s structure with gently rising and falling dynamic contours.