12th Sunday in Ordinary Time (Year C, 2013)

Sunday, 23 June 2013

 
Entrance Firmly I believe and truly
Kyrie (Dinah Reindorf)
Gloria Mass of the Most Sacred Heart (Jacob Bancks)
Psalm Ps 62 (James Walsh)
Gospel Acclamation St Agatha Alleluia (mcb)
Preparation of the Gifts Your love is finer than life (Marty Haugen)
Sanctus, Acclamation, Amen Mass of Creation (Marty Haugen)
Agnus Dei (Paul Wellicome)
Communion The eyes of everyone (mcb)
Postcommunion Oculi Omnium (William Byrd, c.1540-1623)
Recessional At the Lamb’s high feast
 

Similar musical fare to the last time this Sunday came around, including two (highly) contrasting settings of the Communion antiphon from Ps 144:

The eyes of all look to you, Lord,
and you give them their food in due season.

11th Sunday in Ordinary Time (Year C, 2013)

Sunday, 16 June 2013

 
Entrance Lead us, heavenly Father
Kyrie Kyrie for 3 voices adapted from Byrd (mcb)
Gloria Missa Ubi Caritas (Bob Hurd)
Psalm Ps 30 (Stephen Dean/Harry Bramma)
Gospel Acclamation Sing a New Song (John Bell)
Preparation of the Gifts Amazing grace
Sanctus, Acclamation, Amen Missa Ubi Caritas
Agnus Dei Missa Ubi Caritas
Communion There is one thing I ask of the Lord (Chris O’Hara)
Postcommunion Adoremus in aeternum (adapted from Gregorio Allegri, 1582-1652 by R.R. Terry)
Recessional Praise we our God with Joy
 

Today’s readings spoke of forgiveness, and this was reflected in our entrance, offertory and recessional hymns. We also had Chris O’Hara’s hope-filled setting of the Communion antiphon text.

Last time we sang the well-known setting of the antiphon in praise of the Blessed Sacrament credited to Allegri, I wondered aloud where it had come from. The answer would appear to be an adaptation by Richard Terry, published in Downside Motets, vol. 1 no. 9 of 1904. An adaptation of what, I still don’t know. Anyone able to shed any light?

10th Sunday in Ordinary Time (Year C, 2013)

Sunday, 9 June 2013

 
Entrance Your hands, O Lord
Kyrie Kyrie Litany from Missa Ubi Caritas (Bob Hurd)
Gloria Missa Ubi Caritas
Psalm I will praise you Lord (Daniel Bath)
Gospel Acclamation Sing a New Song (John Bell)
Preparation of the Gifts The Lord is my light (Marty Haugen)
Sanctus, Acclamation, Amen Missa Ubi Caritas
Agnus Dei Missa Ubi Caritas
Communion Ubi Caritas (Bob Hurd)
Postcommunion Ave Verum Corpus (W.A. Mozart, 1756-1791)
Recessional God is love, his the care
 

I’ve been trying to work out when we last had a 10th Sunday in Ordinary Time (Year C) that wasn't displaced by Pentecost, Trinity Sunday or (latterly) Corpus Christi, and I think it may well have been 1989. The readings for today speak of the miraculous raising of the dead, and so we sang of healing in our opening hymn. At the preparation of the gifts we had the proper text for today’s entrance antiphon, in Marty Haugen’s simple and engaging setting.

One of the Communion antiphons in the Missal for today is

God is love,
and whoever abides in love
abides in God,
and God in him.

and this found an echo both in our closing hymn, and of course in our Communion song itself, Bob Hurd’s serenely wistful setting of the ancient Christian hymn extolling the fruits of divine love.

The Body and Blood of Christ (Year C, 2013)

Sunday, 2 June 2013

 
Entrance Of the glorious body telling
Kyrie Kyrie II from Paschal Mass (Alan Rees)
Gloria Missa Ubi Caritas (Bob Hurd)
Psalm Ps 109 (Geoffrey Boulton Smith)
Sequence Lauda Sion Salvatorem (chant, arr. Chris Mueller)
Gospel Acclamation Sing a new song (John Bell)
Preparation of the Gifts O Sacrum Convivium (Thomas Tallis, c.1505-1585)
Sanctus, Acclamation, Amen Missa Ubi Caritas
Agnus Dei Missa Ubi Caritas
Communion Take and Eat (Michael Joncas)
Postcommunion Panis Angelicus (César Franck, 1822-1890)
Recessional Soul of my Saviour
 

There were just eleven of us this morning, so for Tallis’s intricate yet transparent setting of the Magnificat antiphon for today’s feast, we were more or less two to a part. Robin Wolfendale directed, helping to bring out the episodic character of the piece’s structure with gently rising and falling dynamic contours.