Yes, to us as well. But it wouldn't do to have two hymns to the same tune in a service!
Also our usual pianist (who was on duty today) will try and play everything with an 8.7.8.7.D metre to Hyfrodol - "delightful" tune but it can be overused (see above).
Morning communion
O Worship the King all glorious above - HANOVER
Praise to the Lord, the Almighty - LOBE DEN HERREN
Jesus! the Name High over all - LYDIA
Unfortunately, we are not able to have an organist every week. I am no musician, but I consider the lady pianist we had today is the best from our pool of available talent.
Easter 2 (aka Low Sunday) at Our Place:
The Lord is risen indeed (Narenza or St Michael) Now the green blade riseth (Noel Nouvelet) The strife is o'er, the battle done (Vulpius or Victory) Love's redeeming work is done (Savannah)
An excellent choice IMHO. I'm not sure which of the alternative tunes they will have sung (my Spy can never remember these details!), but all are equally well-known by a fair few of our regulars.
All creatures of our God and King Who is the king of the jungle (with actions) Your love is amazing (I enjoyed being reminded of this wonderful thread from The Olde Shippe)
Low Sunday/Easter 2 (delete according to preference) at St Pete's was much more musically enjoyable than Easter Day:
Crown him with many crowns - Diademata This joyful Eastertide - Vreuchten The God of Abram praise - Leoni We will lay our burden down - Laying Down Thine be the glory - Maccabaeus
“Alleluia! Sing to Jesus” - Hyfrydol.
“Alleluia, alleluia, give thanks to the risen Lord” - its own tune.
“If you believe and I believe” - The Lincolnshire Poacher.
“These are the facts” - Epiphany Hymn.
“Have faith in God, my heart” - Carlisle.
"I know that my Redeemer lives" - Church Triumphant.
Our Place will soon be singing The Lincolnshire Poacher, as it's one of the tunes for The happy birds Te Deum sing, 'tis Mary's month of May...
My Spy tells me that today's service was well-attended - 31, which is about our average turn-out at the moment, even though a few were at Away, because Easter, holidays, etc. etc..
We transferred Evensong from last Sunday to yesterday, because Easter, but we sang some nice seasonal stuff, as well as the usual chants for the canticles. I was singing the office.
Psalm 114 - Tonus Peregrinus
Hymns:
Come, let us join our cheerful songs - Nativity The head that once was crowned with thorns - St Magnus Ye choirs of new Jerusalem - St Fulbert
Christ the Lord is risen again (Wurttemberg)
Something from The Sheet (see below) Let all the world in every corner sing (Luckington) The day of resurrection (Ellacombe)
The Something from The Sheet is a piece of drivel hymn - I don't yet know what the words or tune might be - in honour of St George, whose feast day falls on Thursday, FatherInCharge is an ardent royalist and patriot. so Mass on Thursday will commemorate our possibly mythical patron saint, with prayers for King, Country, and Government (all much needed, I suppose).
On top of all this, the following Sunday afternoon (26th) will see Our Place holding the annual Masonic Service in honour of St George...at which no doubt the brethren will give voice to I vow to thee my country, the National Dirge, and other fireside favourites.
Well we are having guitar-based hymns today as my wife is in hospital for her heart op and the mother of both of the other pianists is in hospital in a bad way. And one of our guitarists has just been diagnosed with lymphoma.
We are fortunate to have so many competent musicians..... but the coincidence is extraordinary. It's almost as though someone has given the music people the evil eye.
I don't know about that - but the evil eye certainly glowered at our sound system this morning, meaning two unaccompanied hymns (sung very well) and two with garbled music.
“Christ is risen! Shout hosanna!” - Nettleton.
“Jesus the Lord said: ‘I am the Bread”. - Yisu Na Kaha.
We have a gospel (Fulda)
Now the green blade (Noel Nouvelet)
Alleluia Alleluia give thanks to the risen Lord (Alleluia No1)
I danced in the morning (Lord of the dance)
Mass of St Thomas (Thorne)
always love singing Noel Nouvelet + a lovely narrative sermon.
All hail the power of Jesus' name - Miles Lane All heaven declares Alleluia, sing to Jesus - Hyfrydol As we are gathered Forth in thy name, O Lord, I go - Song 34
Could have been worse, and we had the benefit of guitars where appropriate.
It was Youth Sunday at our place today, meaning the youth chose a theme and planned and led the service. The hymns were:
“God Welcomes All”/THEMBA AMEN
“Come! Live in the Light!” (“We Are Called”)/WE ARE CALLED
“What Is the World Like”/NEW WORLD
“You Shall Go Out with Joy” (“The Trees of the Field”)/THE TREES OF THE FIELD
I didn’t make Communion this morning ( no choir required) but the designated hymns were:
Rejoice the Lord is king
Before the throne of God above
This joyful Eastertide
Glorious things of thee are spoken
Evensong
Introit: This joyful Eastertide arr Ledger
Responses: Smith
Canticles: Vaughan Williams
Anthem: Blessed be the God and Father- S. S. Wesley
Hymns:
New songs of celebration render- Rendez à Dieu
All you who seek a comfort sure- St Bernard
Ye choirs of new Jerusalem- St. Fulbert
Our Place had a good turn-out, despite a few being at Away.
My Spy (mercifully) can't remember the words of the offertory hymn, sung in honour of St George, but it was set to the tune of John Brown's Body...
Which, as enny fule kno, is also the tune to Mine eyes have seen the glory (Battle Hymn Of The Republic).
My Spy specifically mentioned John Brown's Body, which allowed my thoughts (like those of Emily in The Mysteries of Udolpho) to arrange themselves in the following stanza:
Don Trump's body lies a'mouldering in the grave,
Don Trump's body lies a'mouldering in the grave,
Don Trump's body lies a'mouldering in the grave,
And we won't hear his voice no more!
Glory, glory, we shall see his face no more
Glory, glory. we shall hear his lies no more,
Glory, glory, Satan has him now for sure.
But his Hair goes marching on...
I didn’t make Communion this morning ( no choir required) but the designated hymns were:
Rejoice the Lord is king
Before the throne of God above
This joyful Eastertide
Glorious things of thee are spoken
Evensong
Introit: This joyful Eastertide arr Ledger
Responses: Smith
Canticles: Vaughan Williams
Anthem: Blessed be the God and Father- S. S. Wesley
Hymns:
New songs of celebration render- Rendez à Dieu
All you who seek a comfort sure- St Bernard
Ye choirs of new Jerusalem- St. Fulbert
SS Wesley died 19th April 1876. Was the choice of anthem linked to this 150th anniversary?
It's a nod in the direction of M R James' ghost story Number 13, in which the Antiquary (observing mysterious goings-on in the room next to his) refers to Emily in The Mysteries...
Easter 4 at Our Place tomorrow, and the 100th anniversary of the dedication of the then newly-completed west end of the church:
All people that on earth do dwell (Old Hundreth) Ye watchers and ye holy ones (Lasst Uns Erfreuen) The God of love my shepherd is (University) At the Lamb's high feast we sing (Salzburg)
A fine selection IMNSHO. They are saving the St George's-tide nonsense for a Masonic Service in the afternoon (although even the handful of Faithful at Mass on St George's Day - last Thursday - had two 'suitable' hymns...).
God Has Spoken By His Prophets (Ebenezer)
Immortal, Invisible (St. Denio)
O For a Closer Walk With God (Belmont)
God of Grace and God of Glory (Rhuddlan)
Mostly a not too bad selection at St Pete's this morning:
All creatures of our God and King - Lasst Uns Erfreuen Shall we gather at the river? - Hanson Place 🙄 Father, hear the prayer we offer - Sussex God forgave my sin - Freely, Freely O Jesus, I have promised - Thornbury
At the lamb's high feast (Salzburg)
I heard the voice (Kingsfold)
Loving Shepherd (Buckland)
You shall go out with joy (the NT Wright version - to Christchurch)
Setting: Missa brevis Sancti Joannis de Deo - Haydn
Anthem: My shepherd is the living Lord - Tomkins
Organ: A fantasy (Tomkins) / A Fancy (Byrd)
Some top Alto solo work in the anthem - really low tessatura, and beautifully sung.
The 25 second Gloria in the Haydn mass setting is such fun - each part singing a different part of the gloria at the same time, and really really fast.....leaving more time later on for the soprano solo at the start of the benedictus.
As eny ful nos the whole service needs to be under an hour...
Fourth Sunday of Easter, sometimes known as Good Shepherd Sunday, at our place. We sang:
“God Is Calling through the Whisper”/W ŻŁOBIE LEŻY
“My Shepherd Will Supply My Need”/RESIGNATION
“I the Lord of Sea and Sky” (“Here I Am, Lord”)/HERE I AM
“Let Us Talents and Tongues Employ”/LINSTEAD
And to my delight, the choir sang Howard Goodall’s “The Lord Is My Shepherd,” aka the theme from The Vicar of Dibley.
Not a fan. It's perfunctory. The solo at the beginning of the Benedictus is beautiful though, I agree
It seriously disrespects the text. I'm amazed that it should be done in a service.
I can see that.
I'd add that as we sing in Latin, the meaning isn't obscured any futher; the mood of the gloria is wholly appropriate for the Easter season; it's beautiful; everyone in the congregation has the full English text in front of them as the Latin is sung; people like it at Our Place.
“How pleased and blest was I” - Ascalon.
“I will enter his gates with thanksgiving” (Leona Von Brethorst).
“The Lord's my Shepherd, I'll not want” (Stuart Townend).
“Loving Shepherd of your sheep” - Buckland.
“All people that on earth do dwell” - Old Hundredth.
“To God be the glory" - Usual W H Doane tune.
We went back to our previous church last Sunday and attended both services.
Early service:
Praise to the Lord, the Almighty, the King of creation My hope is built on nothing less (Christ alone, Cornerstone) I love you, Lord, for your mercy never fails me I lift my eyes and see I need not be afraid
Main service:
God is good, God is good to us (with actions) Wonderful, so wonderful, is your unfailing love Ancient of Days You call me out upon the waters
Hail, thou once despised Jesus (Lux Eoi or maybe Hyfrydol) Christ triumphant (Guiting Power) Christ, whose glory fills the skies (Ratisbon) Good Christians all, rejoice and sing (Vulpius)
Praise Him! Praise Him! Jesus, our blessèd Redeemer! (Joyful Song)
Jesus, the Name high over all (Miles Lane)
Restore, O Lord (Graham Kendrick)
Praise the Lord ye heavens adore Him (Austrian Hymn)
The last one was a bit of a struggle as the congregation was unfamiliar with the words, but we got there by the end, and the LORD was praised.
Mostly quite a good sing today at St Pete's: Hail, thou once despisèd Jesus - Lux Eoi My Jesus, my saviour I Jesus, I have promisedagain, but this time to Day of Rest 🙄 Jesu, lover of my soul - Aberystwyth Christ is made the sure foundation - Westminster Abbey
A selection designed to make me happy at our place today (Easter 5):
“I Greet Thee, Who My Sure Redeemer Art”/TOULON*
“Be Not Afraid” (Taizé, J. Berthier)
“Calm to the Waves”/CALM SEAS
“I Heard the Voice of Jesus Say”/KINGSFOLD
“God, Be the Love to Search and Keep Me” (“O Christ, Surround Me”)/GREEN TYLER
*I know I’ve mentioned this before, but I’ll do so again, simply in furtherance of my wish that this hymn would become better known outside Reformed/Presbyterian churches. “I Greet Thee, Who My Sure Redeemer Art” appears to a reworking of an earlier Catholic hymn (the Salve Regina, or so it’s said), and it’s the one hymn often attributed to Calvin. While he probably didn’t write it, it was included in the 1545 Strasbourg Psalter and the 1551 Genevan Psalter, both published while Calvin was still living, and at least in Geneva, presumably with his approval.
Mrs Spike and I are in Norwich this weekend, so went to the Eucharist at the cathedral this morning.
The Mass setting was Ives, Missa Brevis. The anthem was I sat down under his shadow, Edward Bairstow.
Hymns:
Christ is the King Vulpius
Thou art the way, by thee alone St James
Praise to God whose word was spoken St Helen*
All for Jesus All for Jesus**
*Unfamilar words to a familiar tune
**This stood out particularly as today is our wedding anniversary and this was one of the hymns we sang at the wedding
All my hope on God is founded - Michael
Good Christians all, rejoice and sing- Gelob’t Sei Gott ( Vulpius)
The Church’s one foundation - Aurelia
Gifts of bread and wine ( Christine McCann)
Thy hand O God has guided - Thornbury, all 6 verses.
Nobody except the organist knew Gifts of bread and wine, but as it was the hymn during Communion, we got away with it.
All my hope on God is founded - Michael
Good Christians all, rejoice and sing- Gelob’t Sei Gott ( Vulpius)
The Church’s one foundation - Aurelia
Gifts of bread and wine ( Christine McCann)
Thy hand O God has guided - Thornbury, all 6 verses.
Nobody except the organist knew Gifts of bread and wine, but as it was the hymn during Communion, we got away with it.
Mass of St Thomas.
Gifts of Bread and wine was written in the 60s during the first flurry of doing English rather than Latin in the RCC, and should have died then. The tune is unbelievably dreary. I have no idea why the CofE with its superb body of hymns should be opting for such drivel.
Comments
Also our usual pianist (who was on duty today) will try and play everything with an 8.7.8.7.D metre to Hyfrodol - "delightful" tune but it can be overused (see above).
O Worship the King all glorious above - HANOVER
Praise to the Lord, the Almighty - LOBE DEN HERREN
Jesus! the Name High over all - LYDIA
Unfortunately, we are not able to have an organist every week. I am no musician, but I consider the lady pianist we had today is the best from our pool of available talent.
The Lord is risen indeed (Narenza or St Michael)
Now the green blade riseth (Noel Nouvelet)
The strife is o'er, the battle done (Vulpius or Victory)
Love's redeeming work is done (Savannah)
An excellent choice IMHO. I'm not sure which of the alternative tunes they will have sung (my Spy can never remember these details!), but all are equally well-known by a fair few of our regulars.
Alleluia, alleluia give praise
Make me a channel
Eagles wings
Majesty.
The people sang, which is always encouraging.
Who is the king of the jungle (with actions)
Your love is amazing (I enjoyed being reminded of this wonderful thread from The Olde Shippe)
Crown him with many crowns - Diademata
This joyful Eastertide - Vreuchten
The God of Abram praise - Leoni
We will lay our burden down - Laying Down
Thine be the glory - Maccabaeus
“Alleluia! Sing to Jesus” - Hyfrydol.
“Alleluia, alleluia, give thanks to the risen Lord” - its own tune.
“If you believe and I believe” - The Lincolnshire Poacher.
“These are the facts” - Epiphany Hymn.
“Have faith in God, my heart” - Carlisle.
"I know that my Redeemer lives" - Church Triumphant.
My Spy tells me that today's service was well-attended - 31, which is about our average turn-out at the moment, even though a few were at Away, because Easter, holidays, etc. etc..
What fresh new hell?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VEzc5-xikkk&list=RDVEzc5-xikkk&start_radio=1
The song also goes well to Ellacombe (The day of resurrection), should you feel so inclined...
Psalm 114 - Tonus Peregrinus
Hymns:
Come, let us join our cheerful songs - Nativity
The head that once was crowned with thorns - St Magnus
Ye choirs of new Jerusalem - St Fulbert
Christ the Lord is risen again (Wurttemberg)
Something from The Sheet (see below)
Let all the world in every corner sing (Luckington)
The day of resurrection (Ellacombe)
The Something from The Sheet is a piece of drivel hymn - I don't yet know what the words or tune might be - in honour of St George, whose feast day falls on Thursday, FatherInCharge is an ardent royalist and patriot. so Mass on Thursday will commemorate our possibly mythical patron saint, with prayers for King, Country, and Government (all much needed, I suppose).
On top of all this, the following Sunday afternoon (26th) will see Our Place holding the annual Masonic Service in honour of St George...at which no doubt the brethren will give voice to I vow to thee my country, the National Dirge, and other fireside favourites.
We are fortunate to have so many competent musicians..... but the coincidence is extraordinary. It's almost as though someone has given the music people the evil eye.
“Christ is risen! Shout hosanna!” - Nettleton.
“Jesus the Lord said: ‘I am the Bread”. - Yisu Na Kaha.
“Be known to us in breaking bread” - Belmont.
“Sent forth by God's blessing” - The Ash Grove.
We have a gospel (Fulda)
Now the green blade (Noel Nouvelet)
Alleluia Alleluia give thanks to the risen Lord (Alleluia No1)
I danced in the morning (Lord of the dance)
Mass of St Thomas (Thorne)
always love singing Noel Nouvelet + a lovely narrative sermon.
Heron
All hail the power of Jesus' name - Miles Lane
All heaven declares
Alleluia, sing to Jesus - Hyfrydol
As we are gathered
Forth in thy name, O Lord, I go - Song 34
Could have been worse, and we had the benefit of guitars where appropriate.
My Spy (mercifully) can't remember the words of the offertory hymn, sung in honour of St George, but it was set to the tune of John Brown's Body...
O worship the King (Hanover)
All My Hope on you is Founded (Michael)
Take My Life, and Let me Be (Nottingham)
“God Welcomes All”/THEMBA AMEN
“Come! Live in the Light!” (“We Are Called”)/WE ARE CALLED
“What Is the World Like”/NEW WORLD
“You Shall Go Out with Joy” (“The Trees of the Field”)/THE TREES OF THE FIELD
Rejoice the Lord is king
Before the throne of God above
This joyful Eastertide
Glorious things of thee are spoken
Evensong
Introit: This joyful Eastertide arr Ledger
Responses: Smith
Canticles: Vaughan Williams
Anthem: Blessed be the God and Father- S. S. Wesley
Hymns:
New songs of celebration render- Rendez à Dieu
All you who seek a comfort sure- St Bernard
Ye choirs of new Jerusalem- St. Fulbert
Which, as enny fule kno, is also the tune to Mine eyes have seen the glory (Battle Hymn Of The Republic).
My Spy specifically mentioned John Brown's Body, which allowed my thoughts (like those of Emily in The Mysteries of Udolpho) to arrange themselves in the following stanza:
Don Trump's body lies a'mouldering in the grave,
Don Trump's body lies a'mouldering in the grave,
And we won't hear his voice no more!
Glory, glory, we shall see his face no more
Glory, glory. we shall hear his lies no more,
Glory, glory, Satan has him now for sure.
But his Hair goes marching on...
This one
SS Wesley died 19th April 1876. Was the choice of anthem linked to this 150th anniversary?
If anyone can guess the second literary reference in my post, they win the internet for today.
Apologies for silly tangent. Must get out more.
All people that on earth do dwell (Old Hundreth)
Ye watchers and ye holy ones (Lasst Uns Erfreuen)
The God of love my shepherd is (University)
At the Lamb's high feast we sing (Salzburg)
A fine selection IMNSHO. They are saving the St George's-tide nonsense for a Masonic Service in the afternoon (although even the handful of Faithful at Mass on St George's Day - last Thursday - had two 'suitable' hymns...).
Immortal, Invisible (St. Denio)
O For a Closer Walk With God (Belmont)
God of Grace and God of Glory (Rhuddlan)
All creatures of our God and King - Lasst Uns Erfreuen
Shall we gather at the river? - Hanson Place 🙄
Father, hear the prayer we offer - Sussex
God forgave my sin - Freely, Freely
O Jesus, I have promised - Thornbury
Could have been worse ...
At the lamb's high feast (Salzburg)
I heard the voice (Kingsfold)
Loving Shepherd (Buckland)
You shall go out with joy (the NT Wright version - to Christchurch)
Setting: Missa brevis Sancti Joannis de Deo - Haydn
Anthem: My shepherd is the living Lord - Tomkins
Organ: A fantasy (Tomkins) / A Fancy (Byrd)
Some top Alto solo work in the anthem - really low tessatura, and beautifully sung.
The 25 second Gloria in the Haydn mass setting is such fun - each part singing a different part of the gloria at the same time, and really really fast.....leaving more time later on for the soprano solo at the start of the benedictus.
As eny ful nos the whole service needs to be under an hour...
Heron
Let us build a house
All things bright and beautiful
What a friend we have in Jesus
Longing for light
Spirit of God unseen as the wind
A fairly insipid selection, and I'm acquiring an antipathy towards LUBAH that others reserve for the shiny shiny song.
Give me something meaty by Wesley, a J M Neale translation, a metrical psalm or a paraphrase, something!
“God Is Calling through the Whisper”/W ŻŁOBIE LEŻY
“My Shepherd Will Supply My Need”/RESIGNATION
“I the Lord of Sea and Sky” (“Here I Am, Lord”)/HERE I AM
“Let Us Talents and Tongues Employ”/LINSTEAD
And to my delight, the choir sang Howard Goodall’s “The Lord Is My Shepherd,” aka the theme from The Vicar of Dibley.
It seriously disrespects the text. I'm amazed that it should be done in a service.
I can see that.
I'd add that as we sing in Latin, the meaning isn't obscured any futher; the mood of the gloria is wholly appropriate for the Easter season; it's beautiful; everyone in the congregation has the full English text in front of them as the Latin is sung; people like it at Our Place.
Heron
“How pleased and blest was I” - Ascalon.
“I will enter his gates with thanksgiving” (Leona Von Brethorst).
“The Lord's my Shepherd, I'll not want” (Stuart Townend).
“Loving Shepherd of your sheep” - Buckland.
“All people that on earth do dwell” - Old Hundredth.
“To God be the glory" - Usual W H Doane tune.
Early service:
Praise to the Lord, the Almighty, the King of creation
My hope is built on nothing less (Christ alone, Cornerstone)
I love you, Lord, for your mercy never fails me
I lift my eyes and see I need not be afraid
Main service:
God is good, God is good to us (with actions)
Wonderful, so wonderful, is your unfailing love
Ancient of Days
You call me out upon the waters
Hail, thou once despised Jesus (Lux Eoi or maybe Hyfrydol)
Christ triumphant (Guiting Power)
Christ, whose glory fills the skies (Ratisbon)
Good Christians all, rejoice and sing (Vulpius)
Praise the Name of Jesus
We have heard the joyful sound, Jesus saves!
My Jesus, my Saviour
O the Mercy of God
Then during communion, instead of saying Holy Holy Holy, we sang +Tim Dudley-Smith's
Heavenly Hosts in Ceaseless Worship
and instead of saying Blessing and Honour etc, we sang
Blessing and Honour, Glory and Power, be unto the Ancient of Days
Closed with Christ is made the Sure Foundation with the blessing coming between verse 3 and the doxology verse 4.
Songs chosen for Ps 31 (I use the psalm as a Call to Worship) and 1 Peter 2:2-10 (which I preached on rather than the John 14 Gospel.)
Jesus, the Name high over all (Miles Lane)
Restore, O Lord (Graham Kendrick)
Praise the Lord ye heavens adore Him (Austrian Hymn)
The last one was a bit of a struggle as the congregation was unfamiliar with the words, but we got there by the end, and the LORD was praised.
Hail, thou once despisèd Jesus - Lux Eoi
My Jesus, my saviour
I Jesus, I have promised again, but this time to Day of Rest 🙄
Jesu, lover of my soul - Aberystwyth
Christ is made the sure foundation - Westminster Abbey
“I Greet Thee, Who My Sure Redeemer Art”/TOULON*
“Be Not Afraid” (Taizé, J. Berthier)
“Calm to the Waves”/CALM SEAS
“I Heard the Voice of Jesus Say”/KINGSFOLD
“God, Be the Love to Search and Keep Me” (“O Christ, Surround Me”)/GREEN TYLER
*I know I’ve mentioned this before, but I’ll do so again, simply in furtherance of my wish that this hymn would become better known outside Reformed/Presbyterian churches. “I Greet Thee, Who My Sure Redeemer Art” appears to a reworking of an earlier Catholic hymn (the Salve Regina, or so it’s said), and it’s the one hymn often attributed to Calvin. While he probably didn’t write it, it was included in the 1545 Strasbourg Psalter and the 1551 Genevan Psalter, both published while Calvin was still living, and at least in Geneva, presumably with his approval.
It’s a great text to a great tune.
The Mass setting was Ives, Missa Brevis. The anthem was I sat down under his shadow, Edward Bairstow.
Hymns:
Christ is the King Vulpius
Thou art the way, by thee alone St James
Praise to God whose word was spoken St Helen*
All for Jesus All for Jesus**
*Unfamilar words to a familiar tune
**This stood out particularly as today is our wedding anniversary and this was one of the hymns we sang at the wedding
All my hope on God is founded - Michael
Good Christians all, rejoice and sing- Gelob’t Sei Gott ( Vulpius)
The Church’s one foundation - Aurelia
Gifts of bread and wine ( Christine McCann)
Thy hand O God has guided - Thornbury, all 6 verses.
Nobody except the organist knew Gifts of bread and wine, but as it was the hymn during Communion, we got away with it.
Mass of St Thomas.
It being the first Sunday of the month, we had Evensong:
Usual chants for Mag & Nunc
Psalm 30 - chant by Purcell
Hymns:
Father, who in Jesus found us - Quem Pastores
Jerusalem the golden - Ewing
Round me falls the night - Arnstadt
Gifts of Bread and wine was written in the 60s during the first flurry of doing English rather than Latin in the RCC, and should have died then. The tune is unbelievably dreary. I have no idea why the CofE with its superb body of hymns should be opting for such drivel.