Sunday, 10 May 2015
| Entrance | This joyful Eastertide |
| Kyrie | Kyrie for 3 voices adapted from Byrd (mcb) |
| Gloria | Psallite |
| Psalm | Ps 97 (Peter Smedley) |
| Gospel Acclamation | Easter Alleluia (chant) |
| Prayers of Intercession | Stay with us, Lord (mcb) |
| Preparation of the Gifts | Greater Love Hath No Man (John Ireland, 1879-1962) |
| Sanctus, Acclamation, Amen | Spring Sanctus (mcb) |
| Agnus Dei | Lamb of God II (mcb) |
| Communion | If there is this love (Martin Barry & Diane Murden) |
| Postcommunion | If ye love me (Thomas Tallis, c.1505-1585) |
| Recessional | Come down, O love divine |
Today’s Gospel reading from John 15, a powerful excerpt from the Farewell Discourse, gave us the lines:
This is my commandment:
love one another, as I have loved you.
A man can have no greater love
than to lay down his life for his friends.
prompting both our Communion song – a reprise of our accompaniment to the Mandatum on Holy Thursday – and John Ireland’s dramatic meditation for Passiontide. The weight and scale of the latter piece’s more dramatic sections probably call for for large choral forces, but we gave, I thought, a credible rendition with just a dozen singers singing one and two to a part. Robin and Claire Wolfendale provided the solos.
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