3rd Sunday of Advent (Year C, 2012)

Sunday, 16 December 2012

 

Entrance	Rejoice for ever (mcb)
Kyrie	Missal Chant
Psalm	Isaiah 12 (Laurence Bévenot)
Gospel Acclamation	Advent Gospel Acclamations (Alan Smith)
Preparation of the Gifts	Adam lay ybounden (Boris Ord, 1897-1961)
Sanctus, Acclamation, Amen	Missal Chant
Agnus Dei	Missal Chant
Communion	O Radix Jesse Be strong, our God will come to save us (Psallite)
Postcommunion	Rejoice in the Lord alway (anon. c. 1600)
Recessional	Hail to the Lord’s anointed

 

Plenty of rejoicing for Gaudete Sunday, in keeping with St Paul’s instruction in the entrance antiphon:

Rejoice in the Lord always; again I say, rejoice.

repeated in the second reading. Musical offerings on this theme included our opening song, our motet after Communion, and the responsorial psalm with its response Sing and shout for joy, for great in your midst is the Holy One of Israel.

There was rejoicing too in Boris Ord’s setting of the famous macaronic poem from the Sloane Manuscript of c. 1400, the concluding Deo Gratias extolling Adam and Eve’s felix culpa that brought about not only the fall but also our redemption.