14th Sunday in Ordinary Time (Year B, 2018)

Sunday, 8 July 2018

 

Entrance	Praise to the Lord, the almighty
Kyrie	Peter Jones
Gloria	Mass of the Redeemer (mcb)
Psalm	Ps 122 (Mount St Bernard)
Gospel Acclamation	St Agatha Alleluia (mcb)
Preparation of the Gifts	Make me a channel of your peace
Sanctus, Acclamation A, Amen	Mass of Creation (Marty Haugen)
Agnus Dei	Peter Jones
Communion	O Taste and See (Ralph Vaughan Williams, 1872-1958) Come to me (Martin Barry and Diane Murden)
Recessional	Forth in the peace of Christ

Catherine Otokhina was the soprano soloist in Vaughan Williams’s gentle antidote to pomp and circumstance, composed for the Coronation of Queen Elizabeth II in 1953.

13th Sunday in Ordinary Time (Year B, 2018)

Sunday, 1 July 2018

 

Entrance	All people that on earth do dwell
Kyrie	Peter Jones
Gloria	Mass of the Redeemer (mcb)
Psalm	I will praise you Lord (Daniel Bath)
Gospel Acclamation	St Agatha Alleluia (mcb)
Preparation of the Gifts	Do not be afraid (Philip Stopford)
Sanctus, Acclamation A, Amen	Mass of Creation (Marty Haugen)
Agnus Dei	Peter Jones
Communion	Bless the Lord, my soul (Taizé)
Recessional	Thanks be to God

The Nativity of John the Baptist (2018)

Sunday, 24 June 2018

 

Entrance	On Jordan’s bank
Kyrie	Peter Jones
Gloria	Mass of the Redeemer (mcb)
Psalm	O God, you search me (Bernadette Farrell)
Gospel Acclamation	St Agatha Alleluia (mcb)
Preparation of the Gifts	Et tu puer from the Benedictus (T.L. de Victoria, c. 1548-1611)
Sanctus, Acclamation A, Amen	Mass of Creation (Marty Haugen)
Agnus Dei	Peter Jones
Communion	Behold the Lamb of God (John Bell) [I/78] & Ecce Maria genuit (chant)
Recessional	Blest be the Lord, the God of Israel (Bernadette Farrell)

As on previous occasions for this feast day, we sang Bernadette Farrell’s lovely setting of psalm 138(139) in responsorial mode, using the last two lines of the final verse (“for the wonder of who I am I praise you, safe in your hands all creation is made new”) as the people’s response, and allowing the choir to sing the choral arrangements of the verses.

11th Sunday in Ordinary Time (Year B, 2018)

Sunday, 17 June 2018

 

Entrance	All things bright and beautiful
Kyrie	Peter Jones
Gloria	Mass of the Redeemer (mcb)
Psalm	Ps 91 (Geoffrey Boulton Smith)
Gospel Acclamation	St Agatha Alleluia (mcb)
Preparation of the Gifts	Lord hear my voice (mcb)
Sanctus, Acclamation A, Amen	Mass of Creation (Marty Haugen)
Agnus Dei	Peter Jones
Communion	Oculi Omnium (Charles Wood, 1866-1926) There is one thing (Chris O’Hara)
Recessional	The kingdom of God

 

10th Sunday in Ordinary Time (Year B, 2018)

Sunday, 10 June 2018

 

Entrance	Your hands, O Lord
Kyrie	Peter Jones
Gloria	Mass of the Redeemer (mcb)
Psalm	Ps 129 (Peter Smedley)
Gospel Acclamation	St Agatha Alleluia (mcb)
Preparation of the Gifts	Ubi Caritas (Maurice Duruflé, 1902-1986)
Sanctus, Acclamation A, Amen	Mass of Creation (Marty Haugen)
Agnus Dei	Peter Jones
Communion	You are my refuge (Christopher Walker)
Recessional	All my hope on God is founded

 

Most Holy Body and Blood of the Lord (2018)

Sunday, 3 June 2018

 

Entrance	Of the glorious body telling
Kyrie	Peter Jones
Gloria	Mass of the Redeemer (mcb)
Psalm	Ps 115 (Stephen Dean/Psallite)
Gospel Acclamation	(i) Sequence: Lo! The angel’s food is given (ii) St Agatha Alleluia (mcb)
Preparation of the Gifts	Tantum Ergo (Gabriel Fauré, 1845-1924)
Sanctus, Acclamation A, Amen	Mass of Creation (Marty Haugen)
Agnus Dei	Peter Jones
Communion	Take and Eat (Michael Joncas)
Recessional	Soul of my Saviour

 

We sang the sequence in English to the traditional plainchant melody, taking it from the New English Hymnal, starting at part 2, as permitted because the unabridged form is so long. The little-known setting of Tantum Ergo by Fauré has a charming melody, sung first by a soloist and then taken up in the second verse by the full choir. The solo was beautifully executed by choral scholar Hana Ilčić.

Trinity Sunday (Year B, 2018)

Sunday, 27 May 2018

 

Entrance	Holy, Holy, Holy, Lord God almighty
Kyrie	Peter Jones
Gloria	Mass of the Redeemer (mcb)
Psalm	Ps 32 (Robert Sherlaw-Johnson)
Gospel Acclamation	St Agatha Alleluia (mcb)
Preparation of the Gifts	A Hymn to the Trinity (P.I. Tchaikovsky, 1840-1893)
Sanctus, Acclamation A, Amen	Mass of Creation (Marty Haugen)
Agnus Dei	Peter Jones
Communion	God beyond all names (John Bell) & Benedicta sit sancta Trinitas (chant)
Recessional	Holy God, we praise thy name