Sunday, 9 January 2011
Entrance | On Jordans Bank |
Sprinkling Rite | Springs of Water (Marty Haugen) |
Gloria | Gloria de Noël (Thomas Niel) |
Psalm | Ps 28 (McCarthy/Bévenot) |
Gospel Acclamation | Celtic Alleluia (Fintan O’Carroll) |
Preparation of the Gifts | Songs of thankfulness and praise |
Sanctus, Acclamation, Amen | Gathering Mass (Paul Inwood) |
Agnus Dei | Mass of the Angels and Saints (Steven Janco) |
Communion | Spirit of the living God (Daniel Iverson) & Ps 103 (John Ainslie) |
Postcommunion | O Nata Lux (Thomas Tallis, c. 1505 - 1585) |
Recessional | Come down, O love divine |
References to the Holy Spirit during the seasons of Advent and Christmas, it seems to me, are relatively few. So the image of the Spirit descending like a dove, found in today’s Gospel and in those for the other two years of the Lectionary cycle, is a significant one.
We responded to it with Spirit of the living God, interspersed with verses from John Ainslie’s setting of Psalm 103 (104), and with Come down, O love divine, set to the tune Vaughan Williams must have named after his dog.
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