On the day of Pentecost
O Lord, the clouds are gathering
Spirit of the living God
God’s spirit is in my heart
O God of burning cleansing flame
I think I probably know 2 of the 5, and one of those (God's Spirit is in my heart) is not in any hymn book I've got and is definitely filed under "obscure" in my head even if I rather like it.
Gods Spirit is in my heart always seems to go into Oom-pah-pah from Oliver in the chorus (at least when I play it, it does!)
AHO&N is what we use at St. P's; I'd say it was a bit of a curate's egg, as some hymns have been mangled and others left alone (not sure how the editors decided which would be which).
Anyhow, our offerings today:
Christ is alive! let Christians sing - Truro How shall I sing that majesty? - Kingsfold I bind unto myself today - St. Patrick's Breastplate* Come, Holy Ghost, our souls inspire - Veni Creator Spiritus We give immortal praise - Croft's 136th
* or Paddy's Bra, as it's affectionately known in the Church of Ireland.
Sadly, we missed out the "Christ be with me" verses, and the organist didn't seem all that familiar with the foibles of the tune (or the doxology at the end of Veni Creator Spiritus, for that matter).
Some with suitable "Trinity Sunday" lyrics.
Holy Holy Holy, Lord God Almighty NICAEA
Our God is a Great Big God Nigel & Jo Hemming
Great is the Lord and Most Worthy of Praise Steve McEwan
Be Still for the Presence of the Lord David Evans
King of Kings (In the darkness we were waiting) Jason Ingram, Brooke Ligertwood, Scott Ligertwood
Glorious Things of Thee are Spoken ABBOT'S LEIGH
AHO&N is what we use at St. P's; I'd say it was a bit of a curate's egg…
The green one or the newer orange ‘Complete AHO&N’?
Sorry - the orange one. I hadn't come across it before*, as this is my first foray into Scottish Piskieism (I was CofS until I married, then Church of Ireland, and latterly Anglican Church of Canada - all of which have their own hymnaries).
* I don't even know that David had a copy; hymnody was a particular interest of his (it was one of his options when he did the ADCM), and he seemed to have almost every hymnal known to man!
I bind unto myself today (St Patrick's Breastplate / Deirdre)
Come, thou almighty King (Moscow)
All hail, adored Trinity (Long Melford)
Holy, holy, holy! Lord God Almighty! (Nicaea)
Choral:
Mozart: Missa in C Major (in Honorem Sanctissimae Trinitatis), K. 167
Charles Wood: Father, all-holy
Everett Titcomb: Let us bless the God of heaven
Vaughan Williams: Festival Te Deum
I'm just back from a week away in Cornwall and last Sunday at the local church there we had "Your Love Is Amazing." I pretty much managed to keep a straight face but it reminded me of the fun we had with that one back on Ye Olde Shippe.
Just three hymns at our 9 o'clock communion this morning:
Angel Voices, Ever Singing ANGEL VOICES
How Deep The Father's Love For Us (Stuart Townend)
Be Thou My Vision SLANE
Usual Eucharist at St. P's, with Merbecke for the Creed, and the following:
O praise ye the Lord - Laudate Dominum In Christ there is no east or west - Kilmarnock For the healing of the nations - Alleluia Dulce Carmen Lord of our life and God of our salvation - Cloisters Spirit of mercy, truth and love - Warrington
We were actually allowed to sing some of the Eucharist setting today plus 4 hymns (was this due to a visit by the Bishop?)
Praise my Soul (Praise my soul)
Let all the world in every corner sing (Luckington)
Worship the Lord in the beauty of holiness (Was lebet)
Christ is made the sure foundation (Westminster Abbey)
Deck thyself, my soul, with gladness (Schmücke dich)
Zion, praise thy Savior, singing (Lauda Sion salvatorem)
O Food to pilgrims given (O Welt, ich muss dich lassen)
Sweet Sacrament divine (Divine Mystery)
Hail, thou once despised Jesus! (In Babilone)
Humbly I adore thee, Verity unseen (Adoro devote)
O saving Victim, opening wide (Herr Jesu Christ)
Therefore we, before him bending (Tantum ergo Sacramentum)
Choral:
Christopher Lee Fraley: Missa brevis (2010)
Vytautas Miškinis: O sacrum convivium (2000)
Byrd: Ave verum Corpus
Let Us Come to Worship God/HIAO HOIAN Sing Glory to the Name of God (Psalm 29)/LASST UNS ERFREUEN Come, Bring Your Burdens to God/WOZA NOMTHWALO WAKHO Heaven Shall Not Wait/HEAVEN SHALL NOT WAIT Sent Out in Jesus’ Name (Enviado soy de Dios)/ENVIADO
“Praise, my soul, the King of heaven” (Praise, my soul).
“Father God, I give all thanks and praise to thee” (Jack Hayford).
“Father God, I wonder” (Ian Smale).
“O Jesus, I have promised” (Hatherop Castle).
“Abba, Father” (Dave Bilbrough).
“How deep the Father’s love for us” (Stuart Townend).
“For all the love that from our earliest days” (Sine Nomine).
This morning we had
In Christ there is no east or west(Kilmarnock)
And can it be ( Sagina)
God forgave my sin ( Freely, freely )
To God be the glory
During Communion we sang The True and Living Bread ( Blackwell)
This evening we began with an Introit
Hail God the Father ( Ridout)
Praise the Lord ye heavens adore him (Austria )
Holy Holy Holy ( Nicaea)
Father hear the prayer we offer ( Sussex )
Forth in thy name, O Lord I Go ( Song 34)
Deck thyself, my soul, with gladness (Schmücke dich)
Zion, praise thy Savior, singing (Lauda Sion salvatorem)
O Food to pilgrims given (O Welt, ich muss dich lassen)
Sweet Sacrament divine (Divine Mystery)
Hail, thou once despised Jesus! (In Babilone)
Humbly I adore thee, Verity unseen (Adoro devote)
O saving Victim, opening wide (Herr Jesu Christ)
Therefore we, before him bending (Tantum ergo Sacramentum)
Choral:
Christopher Lee Fraley: Missa brevis (2010)
Vytautas Miškinis: O sacrum convivium (2000)
Byrd: Ave verum Corpus
Just getting a chance to post on this, but Wednesday night I attended the Hymn Festival at week 1 of the annual Worship and Music Conference of the Presbyterian Association of Musicians. (This is in the PC(USA). A second more-or-less identical conference will be held next week.) The theme of the conference this year is “The Stranger’s Guise,” drawing on the Rune of Hospitality from the Carmina Gadelica.
The Hymn Festival was structured around four themes or movements: “For You Were the Stranger,” “Jesus the Stranger,” “Hospitality to Strangers” and “No More a Stranger.” All of the hymns made mention of the stranger. We sang:
God Welcomes All (THEMBA AMEN) I Bind Unto Myself Today (ST. PATRICK/DIERDRE) Now the Heavens Start to Whisper (JEFFERSON) Gentle Mary Laid Her Child (TEMPUS ADEST FLORIDUM) Jesus Entered Egypt (KING’S WESTON) From the Nets of Our Labor (HAMILTON) In the Darkness of the Morning (KAS DZIEDAJA)
Psalm 146: I’ll Praise My Maker While I’ve Breath (OLD 113TH) Cuando el pobre/When the Poor Ones (EL CAMINO) I Come with Joy (DOVE OF PEACE)
Psalm 23: My Shepherd Will Supply My Need (RESIGNATION)
And along with Scripture readings, there was a reading (in the part on “Jesus the Stranger”) of Frederick Buechner’s lovely A Man’s Face (aka Jesus Had a Face).
The highlight for me was the last verse of My Shepherd Will Supply My Need—one of my favorites—being sung by a thousand or so people in harmony without accompaniment. Heavenly!
Trinity 2. Holy Communion 9.15am
Through all the changing scenes of life - Wiltshire
My song is love unknown - Love unknown
I the Lord of sea and sky- Here I am
We have a gospel to proclaim- Fulda
6 pm Patronal Festival, the feast of St Peter, locally known as Feast Sunday. ( The village fete was held yesterday).
The service begins at the war memorial, with the usual Remembrance Sunday prayers, reading of names, last post etc. with uniformed groups, flags etc. I have never come across this happening other than in November elsewhere.
Hymns
Angel voices
For all the saints
Anthem - The eternal gifts of Christ the King Will you come and follow me
Jerusalem
National Anthem
I think I have now done my duty to Queen and country, and with three choral services out of the last four Sunday evenings, I have earned a holiday.
We marked our Patronal Festival today at St. P's with the following:
Be thou my vision - Slane Let all the world in every corner sing - Luckington Be thou my guardian and my guide - Abridge Glory to thee, O God - Love Unknown Ye holy angels bright - Darwall's 148th
Nice singable selection, and my friend C (a trained musician, who was sitting next to me) and I gave it welly (and were praised for our efforts by the people sitting nearby) ...
Give praise and glory unto God (Du Lebensbrot, Herr Jesu Christ)
He who would valiant be (Monk's Gate)
Jesus calls us; o'er the tumult (St. Andrew)
Lead us, heavenly Father, lead us (Dulce carmen)
Choral:
Schütz: In te Domine speravi
Tartini: Tantum ergo
City of God, how broad and far - Richmond God moves in a mysterious way - London New* I come with joy to meet my Lord - St. Botolph See the holy table - Nicaea Through the night of doubt and sorrow - Marching
* for some unfathomable reason, our hymnal doesn't put the long notes at the beginning and end of the lines, making it much harder to sing, and causing anguish to this former Presbyterian, who still likes her semibreves!
Celebrating St Thomas today we ended with For all the saints.
I found myself thinking about carpet burns & ice cream forks.
I don't understand that reference, sorry. Could you explain? (Feel as though I'm missing something obvious.)
I went to the contemplative service at Our Place this morning and we had:
Be Still, for the presence of the Lord, the Holy One, is here
God, I look to you (I won't be overwhelmed)
Psalm 121 I lift my eyes up
Holy Overshadowing
City of God, how broad and far - Richmond God moves in a mysterious way - London New* I come with joy to meet my Lord - St. Botolph See the holy table - Nicaea Through the night of doubt and sorrow - Marching
* for some unfathomable reason, our hymnal doesn't put the long notes at the beginning and end of the lines, making it much harder to sing, and causing anguish to this former Presbyterian, who still likes her semibreves!
I have found that, in such matters, our organists have tended to, ahem, correct as they go. Now I do our music electronically I liberally deploy the fermata so as to not have to fiddle with bar lengths and such.
We had:
I to the hills will lift mine eyes (Psalm 121, DUNDEE)
Spirit of God unseen as the wind (SKYE BOAT SONG)
How deep the Father's love for us
Now thank we all our God (NUN DANKET)
City of God, how broad and far - Richmond God moves in a mysterious way - London New* I come with joy to meet my Lord - St. Botolph See the holy table - Nicaea Through the night of doubt and sorrow - Marching
* for some unfathomable reason, our hymnal doesn't put the long notes at the beginning and end of the lines, making it much harder to sing, and causing anguish to this former Presbyterian, who still likes her semibreves!
City of God, how broad and far - Richmond God moves in a mysterious way - London New* I come with joy to meet my Lord - St. Botolph See the holy table - Nicaea Through the night of doubt and sorrow - Marching
* for some unfathomable reason, our hymnal doesn't put the long notes at the beginning and end of the lines, making it much harder to sing, and causing anguish to this former Presbyterian, who still likes her semibreves!
You can have a similar problem with "Dundee".
That is indeed the tune I spent time editing last night to avoid this problem.
Come, thou fount of every blessing (Nettleton)
How firm a foundation (Foundation)
Awake, thou Spirit of the watchmen (Dennysville New)
Amazing grace! how sweet the sound (New Britain)
Choral:
Giovanni Battista Martini: Populum humilem salvum facies, Domine
Leonard Bernstein: Almighty Father, incline our ear (from Mass [1971])
City of God, how broad and far - Richmond God moves in a mysterious way - London New* I come with joy to meet my Lord - St. Botolph See the holy table - Nicaea Through the night of doubt and sorrow - Marching
* for some unfathomable reason, our hymnal doesn't put the long notes at the beginning and end of the lines, making it much harder to sing, and causing anguish to this former Presbyterian, who still likes her semibreves!
You can have a similar problem with "Dundee".
That is indeed the tune I spent time editing last night to avoid this problem.
We sang Dundee at David's funeral, and I made damn sure the organist knew that if he left out the long notes David would come back to haunt him!
Interesting Things happening at Westminster Abbey ...
Now comes the speculation as to who will succeed [James O'Donnell] - my money's on Andrew Nethsingha, currently running things at St. John's College, Cambridge.
I should have put money on it - he got it. It couldn't happen to a nicer chap, and I wish him all the best.
Its Sea Sunday so I shall be playing "For those in trouble on the sea" very much with those people bobbing around on the English Channel in overcrowded inflatables in mind.
God, the source and goal of being - St. Helen Loving Shepherd of thy sheep - Buckland Immortal love, forever full - Bishopthorpe Dearest Jesu, we are here - Liebster Jesu The Lord will come and not be slow - St. Stephen
We were at our local music festival, with worship led by Celtic Worship. They seem to be a praise band plus fiddle and pipes, which I guess is fine if you like that sort of thing. Personally I think they'd be better off without the drums, but they did a fairly eclectic selection, many of which were reasonably singable, plus a couple of their own composition:
Ten thousand reasons
Be thou my vision
Because he lives
How deep the Father's love for us
I stand amazed at the presence
In Christ alone
Amazing grace (plus unnecessary chorus)
Aaronic blessing (in Gaelic and English)
Offerings at St. P's, where the celebrant was a retired bishop whose late father we knew in Belfast, so there was a nice "small world" connection.
Christ is our cornerstone - Darwall's 148th Blest are the pure in heart - Franconia Jesus, good above all other - Quem Pastores The church of God a kingdom is - University Teach me, my God and King - Sandys
Parish Communion.
18= priest, organist, 5 choir, 11 congregants
New every morning- Melcombe
Brother, sister, let me serve you
Immortal, invisible
Here O my Lord, I see you face to
face- Farley Castle
Praise to the Lord, the Almighty- Lobe den Herren
Evensong
11= Priest, organist,7 choir, 2 congregants = the two lesson readers
Ye servants of God - Paderborn
Anthem- Lead me Lord- Wesley
O thou that camest from above- Hereford
My God how wonderful you are ( sic)
Love divine - Blaenwern
[Hostly Hint]
This is a really interesting tangent. Perhaps it could be continued on a new thread and we could swing this one back to the songs we sing rather than what we wear to sing them?
“Be still, for the presence of the Lord”.
“Lord Christ, whose love has brought us here” (Wentworth).
“Let there be love shared among us”.
“Son of the Lord most high” (Harewood).
“O happy home” (Perfect Love).
“Fill now my life, O Lord, my God” (Richmond).
We started our summer break on Sunday. No band and no psalm singer. No refreshments and no kids liturgy of the Word either.
Lean times for those who don't go away in the school holidays.
I will pop in to noodle some stuff on the organ during Mass so it isn't 100% a festival of the spoken word. It actually shouldn't be as the rubrics require the Alleluia and Sanctus etc to be sung at every Mass.
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Gods Spirit is in my heart always seems to go into Oom-pah-pah from Oliver in the chorus (at least when I play it, it does!)
I stand (sit) corrected.
AHO&H is pretty mainstream though so my designation of "obscure" is clearly unwarranted.
Anyhow, our offerings today:
Christ is alive! let Christians sing - Truro
How shall I sing that majesty? - Kingsfold
I bind unto myself today - St. Patrick's Breastplate*
Come, Holy Ghost, our souls inspire - Veni Creator Spiritus
We give immortal praise - Croft's 136th
* or Paddy's Bra, as it's affectionately known in the Church of Ireland.
Sadly, we missed out the "Christ be with me" verses, and the organist didn't seem all that familiar with the foibles of the tune (or the doxology at the end of Veni Creator Spiritus, for that matter).
The green one or the newer orange ‘Complete AHO&N’?
“God the Father, Great Creator, you are Lord” - If you're happy and you know it.
“There is a redeemer”.
“Spirit of truth and grace” - Down Ampney.
“These are the facts” - Epiphany Hymn.
“We’ve a story to tell to the nations”.
Holy Holy Holy, Lord God Almighty NICAEA
Our God is a Great Big God Nigel & Jo Hemming
Great is the Lord and Most Worthy of Praise Steve McEwan
Be Still for the Presence of the Lord David Evans
King of Kings (In the darkness we were waiting) Jason Ingram, Brooke Ligertwood, Scott Ligertwood
Glorious Things of Thee are Spoken ABBOT'S LEIGH
Sorry - the orange one. I hadn't come across it before*, as this is my first foray into Scottish Piskieism (I was CofS until I married, then Church of Ireland, and latterly Anglican Church of Canada - all of which have their own hymnaries).
* I don't even know that David had a copy; hymnody was a particular interest of his (it was one of his options when he did the ADCM), and he seemed to have almost every hymnal known to man!
Come, thou almighty King (Moscow)
All hail, adored Trinity (Long Melford)
Holy, holy, holy! Lord God Almighty! (Nicaea)
Choral:
Mozart: Missa in C Major (in Honorem Sanctissimae Trinitatis), K. 167
Charles Wood: Father, all-holy
Everett Titcomb: Let us bless the God of heaven
Vaughan Williams: Festival Te Deum
Angel Voices, Ever Singing ANGEL VOICES
How Deep The Father's Love For Us (Stuart Townend)
Be Thou My Vision SLANE
O praise ye the Lord - Laudate Dominum
In Christ there is no east or west - Kilmarnock
For the healing of the nations - Alleluia Dulce Carmen
Lord of our life and God of our salvation - Cloisters
Spirit of mercy, truth and love - Warrington
Praise my Soul (Praise my soul)
Let all the world in every corner sing (Luckington)
Worship the Lord in the beauty of holiness (Was lebet)
Christ is made the sure foundation (Westminster Abbey)
Zion, praise thy Savior, singing (Lauda Sion salvatorem)
O Food to pilgrims given (O Welt, ich muss dich lassen)
Sweet Sacrament divine (Divine Mystery)
Hail, thou once despised Jesus! (In Babilone)
Humbly I adore thee, Verity unseen (Adoro devote)
O saving Victim, opening wide (Herr Jesu Christ)
Therefore we, before him bending (Tantum ergo Sacramentum)
Choral:
Christopher Lee Fraley: Missa brevis (2010)
Vytautas Miškinis: O sacrum convivium (2000)
Byrd: Ave verum Corpus
Let Us Come to Worship God/HIAO HOIAN
Sing Glory to the Name of God (Psalm 29)/LASST UNS ERFREUEN
Come, Bring Your Burdens to God/WOZA NOMTHWALO WAKHO
Heaven Shall Not Wait/HEAVEN SHALL NOT WAIT
Sent Out in Jesus’ Name (Enviado soy de Dios)/ENVIADO
“Father God, I give all thanks and praise to thee” (Jack Hayford).
“Father God, I wonder” (Ian Smale).
“O Jesus, I have promised” (Hatherop Castle).
“Abba, Father” (Dave Bilbrough).
“How deep the Father’s love for us” (Stuart Townend).
“For all the love that from our earliest days” (Sine Nomine).
In Christ there is no east or west(Kilmarnock)
And can it be ( Sagina)
God forgave my sin ( Freely, freely )
To God be the glory
During Communion we sang The True and Living Bread ( Blackwell)
This evening we began with an Introit
Hail God the Father ( Ridout)
Praise the Lord ye heavens adore him (Austria )
Holy Holy Holy ( Nicaea)
Father hear the prayer we offer ( Sussex )
Forth in thy name, O Lord I Go ( Song 34)
Anthem : How goodly are thy tents ( Ouseley)
What a perfect jewel the Byrd is.
Especially the Amen, which makes me a quivering, blubbing blob. But only after all the rest. Perfection.
Yes. But the crunches on the Miserere meis too.
The Hymn Festival was structured around four themes or movements: “For You Were the Stranger,” “Jesus the Stranger,” “Hospitality to Strangers” and “No More a Stranger.” All of the hymns made mention of the stranger. We sang:
God Welcomes All (THEMBA AMEN)
I Bind Unto Myself Today (ST. PATRICK/DIERDRE)
Now the Heavens Start to Whisper (JEFFERSON)
Gentle Mary Laid Her Child (TEMPUS ADEST FLORIDUM)
Jesus Entered Egypt (KING’S WESTON)
From the Nets of Our Labor (HAMILTON)
In the Darkness of the Morning (KAS DZIEDAJA)
Psalm 146: I’ll Praise My Maker While I’ve Breath (OLD 113TH)
Cuando el pobre/When the Poor Ones (EL CAMINO)
I Come with Joy (DOVE OF PEACE)
Psalm 23: My Shepherd Will Supply My Need (RESIGNATION)
And along with Scripture readings, there was a reading (in the part on “Jesus the Stranger”) of Frederick Buechner’s lovely A Man’s Face (aka Jesus Had a Face).
The highlight for me was the last verse of My Shepherd Will Supply My Need—one of my favorites—being sung by a thousand or so people in harmony without accompaniment. Heavenly!
Through all the changing scenes of life - Wiltshire
My song is love unknown - Love unknown
I the Lord of sea and sky- Here I am
We have a gospel to proclaim- Fulda
6 pm Patronal Festival, the feast of St Peter, locally known as Feast Sunday. ( The village fete was held yesterday).
The service begins at the war memorial, with the usual Remembrance Sunday prayers, reading of names, last post etc. with uniformed groups, flags etc. I have never come across this happening other than in November elsewhere.
Hymns
Angel voices
For all the saints
Anthem - The eternal gifts of Christ the King Will you come and follow me
Jerusalem
National Anthem
I think I have now done my duty to Queen and country, and with three choral services out of the last four Sunday evenings, I have earned a holiday.
Be thou my vision - Slane
Let all the world in every corner sing - Luckington
Be thou my guardian and my guide - Abridge
Glory to thee, O God - Love Unknown
Ye holy angels bright - Darwall's 148th
Nice singable selection, and my friend C (a trained musician, who was sitting next to me) and I gave it welly (and were praised for our efforts by the people sitting nearby) ...
He who would valiant be (Monk's Gate)
Jesus calls us; o'er the tumult (St. Andrew)
Lead us, heavenly Father, lead us (Dulce carmen)
Choral:
Schütz: In te Domine speravi
Tartini: Tantum ergo
City of God, how broad and far - Richmond
God moves in a mysterious way - London New*
I come with joy to meet my Lord - St. Botolph
See the holy table - Nicaea
Through the night of doubt and sorrow - Marching
* for some unfathomable reason, our hymnal doesn't put the long notes at the beginning and end of the lines, making it much harder to sing, and causing anguish to this former Presbyterian, who still likes her semibreves!
I found myself thinking about carpet burns & ice cream forks.
I went to the contemplative service at Our Place this morning and we had:
Be Still, for the presence of the Lord, the Holy One, is here
God, I look to you (I won't be overwhelmed)
Psalm 121 I lift my eyes up
Holy Overshadowing
I have found that, in such matters, our organists have tended to, ahem, correct as they go. Now I do our music electronically I liberally deploy the fermata so as to not have to fiddle with bar lengths and such.
We had:
I to the hills will lift mine eyes (Psalm 121, DUNDEE)
Spirit of God unseen as the wind (SKYE BOAT SONG)
How deep the Father's love for us
Now thank we all our God (NUN DANKET)
That is indeed the tune I spent time editing last night to avoid this problem.
How firm a foundation (Foundation)
Awake, thou Spirit of the watchmen (Dennysville New)
Amazing grace! how sweet the sound (New Britain)
Choral:
Giovanni Battista Martini: Populum humilem salvum facies, Domine
Leonard Bernstein: Almighty Father, incline our ear (from Mass [1971])
We sang Dundee at David's funeral, and I made damn sure the organist knew that if he left out the long notes David would come back to haunt him!
I should have put money on it - he got it. It couldn't happen to a nicer chap, and I wish him all the best.
God, the source and goal of being - St. Helen
Loving Shepherd of thy sheep - Buckland
Immortal love, forever full - Bishopthorpe
Dearest Jesu, we are here - Liebster Jesu
The Lord will come and not be slow - St. Stephen
Ten thousand reasons
Be thou my vision
Because he lives
How deep the Father's love for us
I stand amazed at the presence
In Christ alone
Amazing grace (plus unnecessary chorus)
Aaronic blessing (in Gaelic and English)
Christ is our cornerstone - Darwall's 148th
Blest are the pure in heart - Franconia
Jesus, good above all other - Quem Pastores
The church of God a kingdom is - University
Teach me, my God and King - Sandys
18= priest, organist, 5 choir, 11 congregants
New every morning- Melcombe
Brother, sister, let me serve you
Immortal, invisible
Here O my Lord, I see you face to
face- Farley Castle
Praise to the Lord, the Almighty- Lobe den Herren
Evensong
11= Priest, organist,7 choir, 2 congregants = the two lesson readers
Ye servants of God - Paderborn
Anthem- Lead me Lord- Wesley
O thou that camest from above- Hereford
My God how wonderful you are ( sic)
Love divine - Blaenwern
No choir robes were worn.
This is a really interesting tangent. Perhaps it could be continued on a new thread and we could swing this one back to the songs we sing rather than what we wear to sing them?
Thank you.
Nenya - Ecclesiantics Host
[/Hostly Hint]
“Be still, for the presence of the Lord”.
“Lord Christ, whose love has brought us here” (Wentworth).
“Let there be love shared among us”.
“Son of the Lord most high” (Harewood).
“O happy home” (Perfect Love).
“Fill now my life, O Lord, my God” (Richmond).
Lean times for those who don't go away in the school holidays.
I will pop in to noodle some stuff on the organ during Mass so it isn't 100% a festival of the spoken word. It actually shouldn't be as the rubrics require the Alleluia and Sanctus etc to be sung at every Mass.
Nenya - Ecclesiantics Host