Sunday, 9 September 2012
| Entrance | Your hands, O Lord |
| Kyrie | Kyrie Litany for Lent from Missa Ubi Caritas (Bob Hurd) |
| Gloria | Missa Ubi Caritas |
| Psalm | Ps 145 (Stephen Dean) |
| Gospel Acclamation | St Agatha Alleluia (mcb) |
| Preparation of the Gifts | Do not be afraid |
| Sanctus, Acclamation, Amen | Missa Ubi Caritas |
| Agnus Dei | Missa Ubi Caritas |
| Communion | As the deer longs (Bob Hurd) |
| Postcommunion | All things bright and beautiful (John Rutter) |
| Recessional | Thou whose almighty Word |
Tday’s Gospel reading told of the healing of a man unable to hear, or to speak clearly, and our opening and closing hymns took up the healing theme. The first reading, from Isaiah, also talked of healing, with the words Do not be afraid, and at the Preparation of the Gifts Gerald Markland’s hymn set the same words from elsewhere in Isaiah.
At the end of the Gospel story, our Lord’s act of healing is acclaimed with the words He has done all things well, a phrase echoed in Cecil Alexander’s hymn All things bright and beautiful:
He gave us eyes to see them
And lips that we might tell
How great is God Almighty
Who has made all things well
which we sang in John Rutter’s charming choral setting.
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