| Entrance | All ye who seek a comfort sure |
| Kyrie | Mass of the Creator Spirit (Ed Nowak) |
| Gloria | Mass of the Creator Spirit |
| Psalm | Ps 120 (Claire Lee & Stephen Dean) |
| Gospel Acclamation | Salisbury Alleluia (Christopher Walker) |
| Preparation of the Gifts | Lord, for tomorrow and its needs |
| Sanctus, Acclamation, Amen | Mass of Creation (Marty Haugen) |
| Agnus Dei | Mass of the Creator Spirit |
| Communion | I lift up my eyes (David Ogden) |
| Postcommunion | God so loved the world (John Stainer, 1840-1901) |
| Recessional | Be thou my vision |
Today’s Gospel reading from St Luke talks of the need to pray continually and never lose heart. Fr Tony’s homily, on personal prayer, also followed this theme. Our hymn at the Preparation of the Gifts was an old favourite on the same subject. The words are by a Sister M. Xavier, who (internet searches reveal) was Sybil Farish Partridge (1856-1917), in religion Sister Mary Xavier of the convent of Notre Dame, in Mount Pleasant, Liverpool. The words bear a resemblance to Mon chant d’aujourd’hui by St Therèse of Lisieux, though the latter is dated 1894, twenty years after our hymn was written. Perhaps the shared simple piety of the two nuns is just an unsurprising coincidence.
Stainer’s God so loved the world was intended as a reflection on one of the Communion antiphons proposed in the Missal for today:
The Son of Man came to give his life as a ransom for many.
The piece allows for plenty of drama, but for me its still centre is formed by the words but that the world through him might be saved. The silences which punctuate the piece are as important as its musical phrases.
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