A Ceremony of Carols is one of my favourites, too. I may have linked to this before, but here it is, sung last year by some of the girl choristers of Uppsala Cathedral, Sweden:
One of the Cathedral clergy interpolates some short readings and prayers, turning this into more of an act of worship, rather than a performance, IYSWIM.
Meanwhile, Advent 2 at Our Place tomorrow:
The advent of our King (Franconia or - preferably! - St Thomas) On Jordan's bank the Baptist's cry (Winchester New) Love divine, all loves excelling (Love Divine or - preferably! - Blaenwern) Hark, the glad sound! (Bristol)
A new Priest in Charge being licensed tomorrow, so looking forward to a really good sing.
1 Praise, my Soul!
2 Wele'n sefyll rhwng y myrtwydd (by Ann Griffiths, to Cwm Rhondda)
3 Tydi a wnaeth y wyrth, O Grist, Fab Duw (Pantyfedwen; than which there is no more inspiring hymn/tune combination)
4 Lo! He comes (because Advent, and hoping everyone realises it does not refer to the new priest, but someone even more worthy!)
Advent 2, but also Hebrews 10:1-18 The Ultimate Sacrifice
Lo, He Comes With Clouds Descending (Helmsley)
It is well with my soul (Ville du Havre)
Saviour, Thy Dying Love (Something for Jesus)
Before The Throne Of God Above (Townend)
"A little child shall lead them".
“Hark, the glad sound!” - Bristol.
“Like a candle flame” (Kendrick).
“See in yonder manger low” - Humility.
“We await the Peaceful Kingdom” - Salley Garden.
“The King shall come when morning dawns” - Richmond.
Advent 2, and our first Sunday in the month "Hymns of Praise" service.
Hail, to the Lord's Anointed - CRÜGER
Come, Thou long expected Jesus - CROSS OF JESUS
*Eternal Father! Strong to Save - MELITA
There is a hope that burns within my heart - own tune (Townend / Edwards)
Lo! He Comes with Clouds Descending - HELMSLEY
* Chosen by one of the congregation in memory of an uncle who was among 600 people killed when his Royal Navy ship entered an uncharted minefield during WW2
... (@piglet having googled scottish voices twice - the first time getting the wrong choir, the second time getting yours - The Algorithm is now showing me an advert for the SV MD vacancy on my facebook feed!)
Indeed; sadly our MD has decided to retire in the spring, so we're looking for a new one.
Our offerings at St Pete's were mostly quite happily seasonal:
On Jordan's bank the Baptist's cry* - Winchester New People look east - Carol of the Advent How lovely on the mountains - Our God Reigns Wait for the Lord - Taize Onward, Christian pilgrims** - St Gertrude
* during which I resisted all temptation to sing:
On Jordan's bank, the Baptists cry
If I were a Baptist, so would I
They drink no beer, they have no fun
I'm glad that I'm an Anglican!
** WHY??? At least it's a decent tune, but with so many wonderful Advent hymns and carols, I don't see any reason for having it just now. Also, completely bollocksed up words.
I can’t list today’s hymns as we didn’t get a list and I have forgotten them. In any case, the organist changed the tunes to two of them without warning.
Mass of St Thomas, but the visiting priest insisted that we said the Gloria. Being Advent, we had sung the Kyries, but he wasn’t satisfied.
Hmm. It's not compulsory to omit the Gloria during Advent, but it's a common practice which serves to underline the slightly austere liturgical nature of the season.
Onward, Christian pilgrims is NOT a bollocksed-up version of Onward, Christian soldiers - it is a completely different hymn, using the same tune.
Perhaps it’s best described as an alternative text to “Onward, Christian Soldiers.”
Today, we had:
“We Return” (as described last week)
“Comfort, Comfort Now My People”/GENEVAN 42
“Come Now, O Prince of Peace”/O-SO-SO
“Prepare the Way, O Zion”/BEREDEN VÄG FÖR HERREN
All in all, quite satisfactory, especially as we had brass on “Comfort, Comfort Now My People” and “Prepare the Way, O Zion.”
Onward, Christian pilgrims is NOT a bollocksed-up version of Onward, Christian soldiers - it is a completely different hymn, using the same tune.
I know, but it doesn't stop me wanting to sing the original words!
As it's the first Sunday of the month, we had Evensong:
Usual chants for the Mag & Nunc
Psalm 25 (extract) - Edwards
and some quite decent hymns:
Lo, he comes with clouds descending - Helmsley My God, accept my heart this day - Belmont O come, O come, Emmanuel - Veni Emmanuel
The gentleman who was doing the Intercessions read the Litany from the 1929 Prayer Book, which evoked nice memories of singing it in procession round the Cathedral in St John's on the second Sunday in Advent and second Sunday in Lent.
They had On Jordan's Bank on the radio yesterday morning and I always want to sing those words as well, @Piglet .
We had:
I'll praise in the valley, praise on the mountain I raise a hallelujah Alone in my sorrow and dead in my sin Grand earth has quaked before, moved by the sound of his voice We stand and lift up our hands
We sang
Ready the way - Curtis Stephan
There is a longing - Anne Quigley
Advent Communion Song - Bernadette Farrell
A voice cries out in the wilderness - Joncas
Plus the psalm, gospel acclamation and eucharistic acclamations as always.
The advent of our king (Franconia)
Murray Mass setting minus Gloria
Let all mortal flesh (Picardy)
Advent Prose ... rather nicely sung by male voices
When came in flesh the incarnate word (Beatitudo)
Quite a good service even if I was denied playing 'St Thomas' as they wanted the dull 'Franconia'. The last hymn (EH 13) I have not come across in decades and never to that highly unsuitable tune with its whooping and scooping 😩
In the evening a trip to a very high church for "Solemn Mass of the Immaculate Comception" which appeared to use the RC rite in its entirety! Odd that Anglicans want to say "Leo our Pope" when he isn't 🤔
Ye who own the faith of Jesus (Daily Daily)
Kyrie to "St Philip" so dreary beyond ...
Gloria was Glory in the highest (NEH 363) to Camberwell so very nice
Magnificat instead of a Psalm (sung to plainchant)
Alleluia was (I think) a modern RC one but cannot recall the name
Metrical Creed to Abbots Leigh
Holy light on earth's horizon (Blaenwern) which was new to me and had very fanciful verbal imagery 😳
Sanctus and Agnus were a metrical version sung to Halton Holgate
Holy virgin by God's decree
Procession at the end to a garish statue singing "Immaculate Mary" to the Lourdes tune complete with references to "our father in Rome" and those in "heresy"s way" 🤣 and then that awful Hail holy queen 'hymn' from Whoopi Goldberg. I do detest that in church to say nothing of the extreme words 😡
Anyway the sparse congregation were in good voice and seemed to enjoy it all. I find these sort of services eccentric to say the least but the ultra high church do usually lay on good food and alcohol so worth enduring 😂
@Bishops Finger the alcohol was more than welcome as any little tricks your FinC gets up to would be mild compared with this 🤣 Mind you at least no rose petals this time, just Granny's lace (to quote the late Pope F) draped over the image!
I can't abide lace on vestments. Even worse when several are wearing it and it doesn't match. It reminds me of one of those table cloth stalls at a jumble sale.
I asked our deacon if he was going to be pretty in pink next Sunday, and got a very old-fashioned look. Luckily our place has never had "rose" vestments.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=luAO_nqOrVU
One of the Cathedral clergy interpolates some short readings and prayers, turning this into more of an act of worship, rather than a performance, IYSWIM.
Meanwhile, Advent 2 at Our Place tomorrow:
The advent of our King (Franconia or - preferably! - St Thomas)
On Jordan's bank the Baptist's cry (Winchester New)
Love divine, all loves excelling (Love Divine or - preferably! - Blaenwern)
Hark, the glad sound! (Bristol)
1 Praise, my Soul!
2 Wele'n sefyll rhwng y myrtwydd (by Ann Griffiths, to Cwm Rhondda)
3 Tydi a wnaeth y wyrth, O Grist, Fab Duw (Pantyfedwen; than which there is no more inspiring hymn/tune combination)
4 Lo! He comes (because Advent, and hoping everyone realises it does not refer to the new priest, but someone even more worthy!)
Lo, He Comes With Clouds Descending (Helmsley)
It is well with my soul (Ville du Havre)
Saviour, Thy Dying Love (Something for Jesus)
Before The Throne Of God Above (Townend)
“Hark, the glad sound!” - Bristol.
“Like a candle flame” (Kendrick).
“See in yonder manger low” - Humility.
“We await the Peaceful Kingdom” - Salley Garden.
“The King shall come when morning dawns” - Richmond.
Hail, to the Lord's Anointed - CRÜGER
Come, Thou long expected Jesus - CROSS OF JESUS
*Eternal Father! Strong to Save - MELITA
There is a hope that burns within my heart - own tune (Townend / Edwards)
Lo! He Comes with Clouds Descending - HELMSLEY
* Chosen by one of the congregation in memory of an uncle who was among 600 people killed when his Royal Navy ship entered an uncharted minefield during WW2
Our offerings at St Pete's were mostly quite happily seasonal:
On Jordan's bank the Baptist's cry* - Winchester New
People look east - Carol of the Advent
How lovely on the mountains - Our God Reigns
Wait for the Lord - Taize
Onward, Christian pilgrims** - St Gertrude
* during which I resisted all temptation to sing:
On Jordan's bank, the Baptists cry
If I were a Baptist, so would I
They drink no beer, they have no fun
I'm glad that I'm an Anglican!
** WHY??? At least it's a decent tune, but with so many wonderful Advent hymns and carols, I don't see any reason for having it just now. Also, completely bollocksed up words.
Onward, Christian pilgrims is NOT a bollocksed-up version of Onward, Christian soldiers - it is a completely different hymn, using the same tune.
Mass of St Thomas, but the visiting priest insisted that we said the Gloria. Being Advent, we had sung the Kyries, but he wasn’t satisfied.
Changing the tunes without warning Is Outrage!
Today, we had:
“We Return” (as described last week)
“Comfort, Comfort Now My People”/GENEVAN 42
“Come Now, O Prince of Peace”/O-SO-SO
“Prepare the Way, O Zion”/BEREDEN VÄG FÖR HERREN
All in all, quite satisfactory, especially as we had brass on “Comfort, Comfort Now My People” and “Prepare the Way, O Zion.”
As it's the first Sunday of the month, we had Evensong:
Usual chants for the Mag & Nunc
Psalm 25 (extract) - Edwards
and some quite decent hymns:
Lo, he comes with clouds descending - Helmsley
My God, accept my heart this day - Belmont
O come, O come, Emmanuel - Veni Emmanuel
The gentleman who was doing the Intercessions read the Litany from the 1929 Prayer Book, which evoked nice memories of singing it in procession round the Cathedral in St John's on the second Sunday in Advent and second Sunday in Lent.
We had:
I'll praise in the valley, praise on the mountain
I raise a hallelujah
Alone in my sorrow and dead in my sin
Grand earth has quaked before, moved by the sound of his voice
We stand and lift up our hands
Ready the way - Curtis Stephan
There is a longing - Anne Quigley
Advent Communion Song - Bernadette Farrell
A voice cries out in the wilderness - Joncas
Plus the psalm, gospel acclamation and eucharistic acclamations as always.
Advent 2 Parish Communion
The advent of our king (Franconia)
Murray Mass setting minus Gloria
Let all mortal flesh (Picardy)
Advent Prose ... rather nicely sung by male voices
When came in flesh the incarnate word (Beatitudo)
Quite a good service even if I was denied playing 'St Thomas' as they wanted the dull 'Franconia'. The last hymn (EH 13) I have not come across in decades and never to that highly unsuitable tune with its whooping and scooping 😩
In the evening a trip to a very high church for "Solemn Mass of the Immaculate Comception" which appeared to use the RC rite in its entirety! Odd that Anglicans want to say "Leo our Pope" when he isn't 🤔
Ye who own the faith of Jesus (Daily Daily)
Kyrie to "St Philip" so dreary beyond ...
Gloria was Glory in the highest (NEH 363) to Camberwell so very nice
Magnificat instead of a Psalm (sung to plainchant)
Alleluia was (I think) a modern RC one but cannot recall the name
Metrical Creed to Abbots Leigh
Holy light on earth's horizon (Blaenwern) which was new to me and had very fanciful verbal imagery 😳
Sanctus and Agnus were a metrical version sung to Halton Holgate
Holy virgin by God's decree
Procession at the end to a garish statue singing "Immaculate Mary" to the Lourdes tune complete with references to "our father in Rome" and those in "heresy"s way" 🤣 and then that awful Hail holy queen 'hymn' from Whoopi Goldberg. I do detest that in church to say nothing of the extreme words 😡
Anyway the sparse congregation were in good voice and seemed to enjoy it all. I find these sort of services eccentric to say the least but the ultra high church do usually lay on good food and alcohol so worth enduring 😂
@Bishops Finger the alcohol was more than welcome as any little tricks your FinC gets up to would be mild compared with this 🤣 Mind you at least no rose petals this time, just Granny's lace (to quote the late Pope F) draped over the image!
We have a lace alb made from Granny's tablecloth, but I don't think he's ever worn it - he's a very tall chap, and it would be too short for him...
I asked our deacon if he was going to be pretty in pink next Sunday, and got a very old-fashioned look. Luckily our place has never had "rose" vestments.