Ash Wednesday (2016)

10 February 2016

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Entrance	O God, I seek you (Marty Haugen)
Psalm	Ps 50 (Stephen Dean)
Gospel Acclamation	Glory and Praise (mcb)
Imposition of Ashes	Bless the Lord, my soul (Taizé)
Preparation of the Gifts	Miserere Mei (G.B. Pergolesi, 1710-1736)
Sanctus, Acclamation B, Amen	Mass XVII & English Missal chants
Agnus Dei	Mass XVII
Communion	Misericordes Sicut Pater (Paul Inwood)
Postcommunion	(silence)
Recessional	Our Father, we have wandered

 

For Lent this year, a return to Mass XVII. The Sanctus and Agnus Dei seem to draw a more enthusiastic response from our singing assembly than Mass XI (Missa Orbis Factor), which we've had in Lent for the last three years. The ‘major key’ feel of Mode 5 has something to do with it, I think, and the Orbis Factor Agnus Dei is a particularly tricky one.