6th Sunday in Ordinary Time (Year A, 2011)

Sunday, 13 February 2011

 

Entrance	O God, thy people gather
Kyrie	Jubilation Mass (James Chepponis)
Gloria	Mass for John Carroll (Michael Joncas)
Psalm	Ps 118 (Martin Hall)
Gospel Acclamation	Here in our Midst (Peter Jones)
Preparation of the Gifts	Eye has not seen (Marty Haugen)
Sanctus, Acclamation, Amen	Assisi Acclamations (Nick Baty)
Agnus Dei	from Beneath the Tree of Life (Marty Haugen)
Communion	Teach me, O God (Christopher Walker)
Postcommunion	Tantum Ergo (Maurice Duruflé, 1902-1986)
Recessional	Praise the Lord, ye heavens adore him

 

Today’s second reading, from Corinthians, spoke of

the things that no eye has seen and no ear has heard, things beyond the mind of man, all that God has prepared for those who love him.

Our song at the preparation of the gifts was Marty Haugen’s thoughtful setting of the same text.

The first reading, the responsorial psalm and the Gospel reading all talked about the law, and our Lord’s completion of it. So Chris Walker’s Teach me, O God, to follow your ways was our communion song.

Christ’s completion of the law finds its fulfilment above all in the Eucharist. In the words of Thomas Aquinas,

Et antiquum documentum
novo cedat ritui

(And let the old practice yield to the new rite.)

We sang Duruflé’s dreamlike setting of the traditional chant melody. I’m pretty sure I could hear some older members of the congregation humming along.