I adore that Faure. Its sublime. I can forgive Haydn a lot since I discovered that he got told off for his Masses and replied "I can't help it. The thought of God always makes me cheerful." We used to sing on of his at the cathedral where different parts of the Gloria were sung simultaneously so it was all over in the twinkling of an eye.
We sang drivel at our place today. The man who picks the music is stuck in the 1960s and can't be doing with organs etc. So none of the grand Trinitarian theological hymns. Bleurgh!
God knows what we will get for Corpus Xti next week. Probably "Let us break bread together on our knees."
I think the Haydn Mass you mention is indeed the Little Organ Mass cited by @ThunderBunk. They sing it sometimes at our Cathedral, and I must admit I was completely foxed on hearing the Gloria for the first time - all over in about 30 seconds!
Slightly odd selection today:
God the Father of creation (CWM RHONDDA)
Lord bring the day to pass (LOVE UNKNOWN)
Touch the earth lightly (BUNESSAN, because I didn't feel up to an entirely new tune)
Lord of creation to you be all praise (SLANE)
Shine, Jesus, shine
I think this was the leader's ploy to dodge any tricky preaching on the trinity by focussing on the creation narrative and the great commission.
“Holy, holy, holy” - Nicaea.
“God the Father, Great Creator, you are Lord” - If you're happy and you know it.
“Jesus is Lord! Creation's voice proclaims it".
“We have a gospel to proclaim” - Fulda.
“We've a story to tell to the nations” - Message.
(We were thinking of the Trinity in relation to Jesus' "Great Commission" in Matthew 28).
Not sure what they had at Our Place, but I make no apology for linking once more to this solo + piano version of Holy Holy Holy (Nicaea), sung in what IMHO is a lovely reflective and meditative way:
Eh? Why? Or are you referring to an earlier post by someone else?
Holy Holy Holy was sung at the Old Catholic Cathedral in Utrecht this morning, as the introit hymn to what in Dutch is known as de feestdag van de allerheiligste Drieëenheid - the feast day of the all-holy Trinity - which is a lovely word, on account of having three Es in succession...
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Holy Holy Holy[/i] was sung at the Old Catholic Cathedral in Utrecht this morning, as the introit hymn to what in Dutch is known as de feestdag van de allerheiligste Drieëenheid - the feast day of the all-holy Trinity - which is a lovely word, on account of having three Es in succession...[/quote]
The German word is similar but has an i breaking up the e's: Dreieinigkeit. The new spelling rules do, however, now allow three of the same letter in a row: Schiff (ship) + Fahrt (journey or ride, or in this case voyage) = Schifffahrt. Also Essstäbchen (chopsticks, literally "little eating sticks").
Pursuing this tangent, there are (as enny fule kno) other languages which sometimes have three vowels in a row...but I like the idea of the Germans making three consonants as well as vowels legal.
Maybe we should have a thread in the Circus, suggesting which English words could be so treated?
My Hope Is Built On Nothing Less (Magdalen)
You Are My Anchor (some Stuart Townend nonsense)
Take My Life, And Let It Be (Nottingham)
God Is In His Temple (Arnsberg - and the only concession to Trinity Sunday)
In the 10:45 Service
My Redeemer Lives
Build Your Kingdom
Build My Life
Cornerstone
The Lord's My Shepherd (Stuart Townend)
Jesus at the Centre
I've sung Townend's version of Psalm 23, at the funeral in 2014 of my young cousin (killed in a road accident at the age of 19), and always find it very moving...
My hope is built on nothing less brings back memories of the Church Of My Youth. Our churchwarden used to belt it out fortissimo...
My local fane has a hymnbook (the name of which I happily forget) which contains a *worship song* entitled *His Banana over me is love*. There are several verses in which proper words are replaced by the name of a fruit.
* I wonder if anyone in Christendom didn't have that this morning?
We did not—not that I minded at all. My senior year in college, I was a paid section leader in the choir of a church whose minister insisted on picking all the hymns, without input of or consultation with the music director. I am not exaggerating when I say that “Holy, Holy, Holy” was the first hymn every other week, Advent, Christmas, Holy Week and Easter Week excepted. I didn’t particularly care for the hymn prior to that, and my year in that choir put me off the hymn for good. Fortunately, our church only sings it about once a year, and did so today.
But we weren’t at our church today. We’re where we are for the summer, where there’s a different visiting preacher each week, and that visiting preacher may or may not stick to the lectionary. Today’s preacher didn’t (and for good reason) so no specifically Trinity hymns. Instead, we had:
“Our God, Our Help in Ages Past”/ST. ANNE
“Amazing Grace, How Sweet the Sound”*
“We’ve Come This Far by Faith”
“Song of Hope”(Canto de esperanza)/ARGENTINA
“Light Dawns on a Weary World”/TEMPLE OF PEACE
@ThunderBunk, Fauré’s Cantique de Jean Racine is one of my all-time favorites. Aside from simply being beautiful, it carries some very special associations for me.
God knows what we will get for Corpus Xti next week. Probably "Let us break bread together on our knees."
Them would be fighting words in my corner of the world. It’s a beautiful spiritual (when sung properly). And like many African American spirituals, it appears to have been a code song with connections to the Underground Railroad. Of course, I think that means care needs to be taken when it is sung outside an African American context.
* I guess I got this in return for not having “Holy, Holy, Holy.”
Father, Lord of all creation
St Patrick’s Breastplate
There is a Redeemer
Father we love you, we worship and adore you
Thou whose almighty word
All were sung with great enthusiasm. (We always have at least one hymn that’s over 100 years old and nearly always at least one that’s less than 50 years old.)
God knows what we will get for Corpus Xti next week. Probably "Let us break bread together on our knees."
Them would be fighting words in my corner of the world. It’s a beautiful spiritual (when sung properly). And like many African American spirituals, it appears to have been a code song with connections to the Underground Railroad. Of course, I think that means care needs to be taken when it is sung outside an African American context.
Huh... it would never have occurred to me that it was an AA Spiritual. I assumed it was from the same sort of 60-70s stable as This is the day that the Lord has made or I am the bread of life.
God knows what we will get for Corpus Xti next week. Probably "Let us break bread together on our knees."
Them would be fighting words in my corner of the world. It’s a beautiful spiritual (when sung properly). And like many African American spirituals, it appears to have been a code song with connections to the Underground Railroad. Of course, I think that means care needs to be taken when it is sung outside an African American context.
Huh... it would never have occurred to me that it was an AA Spiritual. I assumed it was from the same sort of 60-70s stable as This is the day that the Lord has made or I am the bread of life.
“The song’s use at communion services probably dates from after the American Civil War. Miles Mark Fisher notes in Negro Slave Songs in the United States (1953),
‘[Originally the hymn] relates hardly at all to holy communion, which does not necessarily require early morning administration or a devotee who faces east. [This] it seems was a signal song of Virginia slaves during the eighteenth century who used it and similar ones to convene their secret meetings.’”
I'm sorry*, but if I never hear or have to sing the Cantique de Jean Racine again, it'll still be far too soon. Luckily, David hated it too, so I think I only had to sing it once (for somebody else). I appreciate that now that he's dead, I'm probably the only person on the planet who doesn't like it, but that's the way it is.
Haydn's Little Organ Mass, on the other hand, is lovely, and once you get used to the fact that whichever part you sing, you're only going to get a quarter of the Gloria, it's great fun to sing. I understand that the reason for the very short Gloria (and very elaborate Benedictus, usually with a fancy solo) was the timing of the various bits of the Mass in Haydn's day: the Benedictus had to cover a lot of liturgical choreography, whereas the Gloria didn't (and by that time the priest/bishop/whatever wanted to get home for his lunch/go and play golf/whatever 18th-century Austrian clergy did on Sunday afternoons).
* actually, that was a lie ...
It being the first Sunday of the month, we had Evensong at St Pete's today, and sang approximations of the following:
Be still, for the presence of the Lord - Be Still Glory be to Jesus - Caswall May the grace of Christ our Saviour - Cross of Jesus Holy Father, cheer our way - Vesper
Psalm 150 - chant by Stanford
Canticles - chants not by Stanford
The Nunc one was by Richard Farrant, but I can't remember who wrote the Mag one.
I'm sorry*, but if I never hear or have to sing the Cantique de Jean Racine again, it'll still be far too soon. Luckily, David hated it too, so I think I only had to sing it once (for somebody else). I appreciate that now that he's dead, I'm probably the only person on the planet who doesn't like it, but that's the way it is.
* actually, that was a lie ...
The bolded is how I feel about “Amazing Grace”—or at least that I’m the only American who doesn’t like it.
Holy, holy, holy - Nicaea* Three in one, and one in three - Capetown We give immortal praise - Croft's 136th Love of the Father - Ellers (gosh that's an old wailer) Praise, my soul, the King of heaven - Praise, my soul
* I wonder if anyone in Christendom didn't have that this morning?
I doubt very much whether you would have heard it in any Orthodox church. We hae plenty of other material to celebrate the Holy Trinity, with today, the Feast of Pentecost in the current Orthodox Calendar, being primarily a celebration of the Holy Trinity. The Holy Spirit is commemorated separately (as far as that is possible) tomorrow.
9.15 Holy Communion
Let all the world- Luckington
I the Lord of sea and sky
Father of heaven whose love profound- Rivaulx
Praise my soul the king of heaven.
During Communion the choir sang Schubert’s Holy Holy Holy, so we did have it, but not the usual hymn.
We had a visiting officiant. He asked us whether we wanted a long or a short sermon, and short was requested. He started to give a potted history of how the Trinity came to be a doctrine of the Creeds, then recalled that we wanted a short sermon( and that he had to finish in time to travel to another service at 11 am, so carried on for about another two minutes. The whole service lasted 58 minutes, but he did speak quickly.
T he Archbishop of Salzburg at the time of Haydn insisted that no Mass should last longer than 45 minutes. Normally the celebrant would celebrate a Low Mass with musical accompaniment which is why the Kyrie is sometimes a joyful piece to accompany the entrance of the priest and the entrance rites. Similarly 'Dona nobis pacem' is not always about 'pax' but rather to accompany the celebrant as he leaves the altar.
God knows what we will get for Corpus Xti next week. Probably "Let us break bread together on our knees."
Them would be fighting words in my corner of the world. It’s a beautiful spiritual (when sung properly). And like many African American spirituals, it appears to have been a code song with connections to the Underground Railroad. Of course, I think that means care needs to be taken when it is sung outside an African American context.
Huh... it would never have occurred to me that it was an AA Spiritual. I assumed it was from the same sort of 60-70s stable as This is the day that the Lord has made or I am the bread of life.
I understand that the reason for the very short Gloria (and very elaborate Benedictus, usually with a fancy solo) was the timing of the various bits of the Mass in Haydn's day: the Benedictus had to cover a lot of liturgical choreography, whereas the Gloria didn't (and by that time the priest/bishop/whatever wanted to get home for his lunch/go and play golf/whatever 18th-century Austrian clergy did on Sunday afternoons).
Except that the Gloria comes at the beginning of the service, not at the end, when clergy were no doubt indeed anxious to get away.
I understand that the reason for the very short Gloria (and very elaborate Benedictus, usually with a fancy solo) was the timing of the various bits of the Mass in Haydn's day: the Benedictus had to cover a lot of liturgical choreography, whereas the Gloria didn't (and by that time the priest/bishop/whatever wanted to get home for his lunch/go and play golf/whatever 18th-century Austrian clergy did on Sunday afternoons).
Except that the Gloria comes at the beginning of the service, not at the end, when clergy were no doubt indeed anxious to get away.
Yes. The Gloria at the end of the service is, so far as I know, unique to Cranmer.
Feast of St Barnabas today:
Who are these like stars appearing (All Saints)
Brother, sister let me serve you (Servant song)
O worship the Lord in the beauty of holiness (Was lebet)
Christ is made the sure foundation (Westminster Abbey)
Corpus Christi
Here I am Lord
Blest are you Lord God of all creation
This is my body (AGAIN.)
Soul of my Saviour
I am the Bread of Life (about which I have nothing good to say.)
Corpus Christi at Our Place today (although they also had Benediction last Thursday, at the end of the *Fan The Flame* mission). This morning's hymns were:
Entrance Hymn: Alleluia, sing to Jesus (Hyfrydol)
Offertory Hymn: This is my body (Owens/Lundy/Jacobs)
Something from a sheet, I know not what
Processional Hymn: Sweet Sacrament Divine (Divine Mysteries)
Benedicion Hymn: Therefore we before him bending (probably Tantum Ergo/Grafton)
Mostly well-known and appropriate favourites, though YMMV.
The Procession took place immediately after Communion, and went through the Hall, into the street, back into the Church, and into the Hall again for Benediction. The distance to be covered is, I hasten to add, only a couple of hundred yards or so! I don't know if FatherInCharge managed to get any children (or an adult or two) to strew rose petals in front of the Blessed Sacrament, but this was done during his first year with us.
BTW - today was celebrated as various things in different churches. Red vestments etc. for St Barnabas at our Cathedral, and at the Old-Catholic Cathedral in Utrecht, simple green for Trinity 1 at St Ansgar, Uppsala, the same for Pentecost 2 at A Certain Church in Edinburgh, and white at Uppsala Cathedral for a service which included the ordination of about 30 priests and deacons (I lost count).
Open the Eyes of my Heart (Paul Baloche)
All Through History children's action song (Nick & Becky Drake)
Goodness of God (Brian Johnson / Ed Cash / Jason Ingram /Jenn Johnson)
Be Thou My Vision (SLANE)
I am the Bread of Life (about which I have nothing good to say.)
Is that the Suzanne Toolan one?
Yes, Where the words of the verses dont fit, and the range is both too high and too low.
Alas, I rather like it, but yes - it's not an easy one. Our Place has had it from time to time, and we've usually managed to get to the end without too much faltering...
I am the Bread of Life (about which I have nothing good to say.)
Is that the Suzanne Toolan one?
Yes, Where the words of the verses dont fit, and the range is both too high and too low.
I'm a fan, though I agree the lyricist could've done with knowing how to count. I think there're enough black lines on the score extending a word to cover notes where another verse squeezes in four that if you put them end to end they'd be taller than me.
If your sentences vary that much write for plainchant or GTFO.
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:
Jonathan Dove: Missa brevis (2009)
Vytautas Miškinis: O sacrum convivium (2000)
Charles-Camille Saint Saëns: Ave verum Corpus in E-flat
Holy, Holy (Lift Up His Name)
Open the Eyes of My Heart
O Praise the Name (I Cast My Mind to Calvary) Worthy of Every Song (Build My Life) A new one to me and tricky to sing, I found.
In Christ Alone My Hope Is Found
Great is the Darkness (Come, Lord Jesus)
Requiem today
Amazing grace
Do not be afraid (a popular RC funeral choice despite/maybe having a verse about walking through the flames)
As I kneel before you - infantile Marian pap.
Isn't she lovely. Secular music is strictly verboten at RC services and so is recorded music. However there are strong pastoral reasons for allowing it (and strictly speaking the Eucharist ends at the dismissal so recessionals don't count) so I will be doing a Stevie Wonder at the organ.
A good few years ago our stand in priest was worried about the choice of music of the deceased's family at the time of leaving the church after a Requiem Mass. It was 'Je ne regrette rien' sung by Edith Piaf. After days of worrying he took to heart Alan29s words about recessionals not counting but it was made clear that the family would have to arrange everything themselves,which the family did and it was lovely to hear the words of Edith Piaf echoing around our fairly large church.
A good few years ago our stand in priest was worried about the choice of music of the deceased's family at the time of leaving the church after a Requiem Mass. It was 'Je ne regrette rien' sung by Edith Piaf. After days of worrying he took to heart Alan29s words about recessionals not counting but it was made clear that the family would have to arrange everything themselves,which the family did and it was lovely to hear the words of Edith Piaf echoing around our fairly large church.
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I think the Haydn Mass you mention is indeed the Little Organ Mass cited by @ThunderBunk. They sing it sometimes at our Cathedral, and I must admit I was completely foxed on hearing the Gloria for the first time - all over in about 30 seconds!
God the Father of creation (CWM RHONDDA)
Lord bring the day to pass (LOVE UNKNOWN)
Touch the earth lightly (BUNESSAN, because I didn't feel up to an entirely new tune)
Lord of creation to you be all praise (SLANE)
Shine, Jesus, shine
I think this was the leader's ploy to dodge any tricky preaching on the trinity by focussing on the creation narrative and the great commission.
“God the Father, Great Creator, you are Lord” - If you're happy and you know it.
“Jesus is Lord! Creation's voice proclaims it".
“We have a gospel to proclaim” - Fulda.
“We've a story to tell to the nations” - Message.
(We were thinking of the Trinity in relation to Jesus' "Great Commission" in Matthew 28).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4AUdLPqxX8I
Holy Holy Holy was sung at the Old Catholic Cathedral in Utrecht this morning, as the introit hymn to what in Dutch is known as de feestdag van de allerheiligste Drieëenheid - the feast day of the all-holy Trinity - which is a lovely word, on account of having three Es in succession...
Holy Holy Holy[/i] was sung at the Old Catholic Cathedral in Utrecht this morning, as the introit hymn to what in Dutch is known as de feestdag van de allerheiligste Drieëenheid - the feast day of the all-holy Trinity - which is a lovely word, on account of having three Es in succession...[/quote]
The German word is similar but has an i breaking up the e's: Dreieinigkeit. The new spelling rules do, however, now allow three of the same letter in a row: Schiff (ship) + Fahrt (journey or ride, or in this case voyage) = Schifffahrt. Also Essstäbchen (chopsticks, literally "little eating sticks").
Maybe we should have a thread in the Circus, suggesting which English words could be so treated?
My Hope Is Built On Nothing Less (Magdalen)
You Are My Anchor (some Stuart Townend nonsense)
Take My Life, And Let It Be (Nottingham)
God Is In His Temple (Arnsberg - and the only concession to Trinity Sunday)
In the 10:45 Service
My Redeemer Lives
Build Your Kingdom
Build My Life
Cornerstone
The Lord's My Shepherd (Stuart Townend)
Jesus at the Centre
My hope is built on nothing less brings back memories of the Church Of My Youth. Our churchwarden used to belt it out fortissimo...
We sang:
My Lighthouse
Indescribable, Uncontainable
Living Hope (How great the chasm that lay between us)
Father of Creation
This Is Our God (Your grace is enough, more than I need)
Which part is the bit of stringy pineapple? And which the overabundance of pear chunks?
But we weren’t at our church today. We’re where we are for the summer, where there’s a different visiting preacher each week, and that visiting preacher may or may not stick to the lectionary. Today’s preacher didn’t (and for good reason) so no specifically Trinity hymns. Instead, we had:
“Our God, Our Help in Ages Past”/ST. ANNE
“Amazing Grace, How Sweet the Sound”*
“We’ve Come This Far by Faith”
“Song of Hope”(Canto de esperanza)/ARGENTINA
“Light Dawns on a Weary World”/TEMPLE OF PEACE
@ThunderBunk, Fauré’s Cantique de Jean Racine is one of my all-time favorites. Aside from simply being beautiful, it carries some very special associations for me.
Them would be fighting words in my corner of the world. It’s a beautiful spiritual (when sung properly). And like many African American spirituals, it appears to have been a code song with connections to the Underground Railroad. Of course, I think that means care needs to be taken when it is sung outside an African American context.
* I guess I got this in return for not having “Holy, Holy, Holy.”
St Patrick’s Breastplate
There is a Redeemer
Father we love you, we worship and adore you
Thou whose almighty word
All were sung with great enthusiasm. (We always have at least one hymn that’s over 100 years old and nearly always at least one that’s less than 50 years old.)
Huh... it would never have occurred to me that it was an AA Spiritual. I assumed it was from the same sort of 60-70s stable as This is the day that the Lord has made or I am the bread of life.
Per hymnary.org:
“The song’s use at communion services probably dates from after the American Civil War. Miles Mark Fisher notes in Negro Slave Songs in the United States (1953),
‘[Originally the hymn] relates hardly at all to holy communion, which does not necessarily require early morning administration or a devotee who faces east. [This] it seems was a signal song of Virginia slaves during the eighteenth century who used it and similar ones to convene their secret meetings.’”
Haydn's Little Organ Mass, on the other hand, is lovely, and once you get used to the fact that whichever part you sing, you're only going to get a quarter of the Gloria, it's great fun to sing. I understand that the reason for the very short Gloria (and very elaborate Benedictus, usually with a fancy solo) was the timing of the various bits of the Mass in Haydn's day: the Benedictus had to cover a lot of liturgical choreography, whereas the Gloria didn't (and by that time the priest/bishop/whatever wanted to get home for his lunch/go and play golf/whatever 18th-century Austrian clergy did on Sunday afternoons).
* actually, that was a lie ...
It being the first Sunday of the month, we had Evensong at St Pete's today, and sang approximations of the following:
Be still, for the presence of the Lord - Be Still
Glory be to Jesus - Caswall
May the grace of Christ our Saviour - Cross of Jesus
Holy Father, cheer our way - Vesper
Psalm 150 - chant by Stanford
Canticles - chants not by Stanford
The Nunc one was by Richard Farrant, but I can't remember who wrote the Mag one.
The bolded is how I feel about “Amazing Grace”—or at least that I’m the only American who doesn’t like it.
I doubt very much whether you would have heard it in any Orthodox church. We hae plenty of other material to celebrate the Holy Trinity, with today, the Feast of Pentecost in the current Orthodox Calendar, being primarily a celebration of the Holy Trinity. The Holy Spirit is commemorated separately (as far as that is possible) tomorrow.
Let all the world- Luckington
I the Lord of sea and sky
Father of heaven whose love profound- Rivaulx
Praise my soul the king of heaven.
During Communion the choir sang Schubert’s Holy Holy Holy, so we did have it, but not the usual hymn.
We had a visiting officiant. He asked us whether we wanted a long or a short sermon, and short was requested. He started to give a potted history of how the Trinity came to be a doctrine of the Creeds, then recalled that we wanted a short sermon( and that he had to finish in time to travel to another service at 11 am, so carried on for about another two minutes. The whole service lasted 58 minutes, but he did speak quickly.
Moi aussi.
Except that the Gloria comes at the beginning of the service, not at the end, when clergy were no doubt indeed anxious to get away.
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:
Langlais: Missa Misericordiae Domini (1958)
Hassler: Tibi laus, tibi gloria (for double chorus)
Victoria: Te Deum laudamus
The 1549 BCP places it at the beginning, just after the Kyries (sung by the Clerkes).
Well you'd need one after the first 31.
Who are these like stars appearing (All Saints)
Brother, sister let me serve you (Servant song)
O worship the Lord in the beauty of holiness (Was lebet)
Christ is made the sure foundation (Westminster Abbey)
Here I am Lord
Blest are you Lord God of all creation
This is my body (AGAIN.)
Soul of my Saviour
I am the Bread of Life (about which I have nothing good to say.)
Is that the Suzanne Toolan one?
“Sing hey for the carpenter” - to a Scottish folk tune.
“When the Church of Jesus” - Evelyns.
“We are called to be God’s people” - Festival.
“Forth in the peace of Christ we go” - Song 34.
Entrance Hymn: Alleluia, sing to Jesus (Hyfrydol)
Offertory Hymn: This is my body (Owens/Lundy/Jacobs)
Something from a sheet, I know not what
Processional Hymn: Sweet Sacrament Divine (Divine Mysteries)
Benedicion Hymn: Therefore we before him bending (probably Tantum Ergo/Grafton)
Mostly well-known and appropriate favourites, though YMMV.
The Procession took place immediately after Communion, and went through the Hall, into the street, back into the Church, and into the Hall again for Benediction. The distance to be covered is, I hasten to add, only a couple of hundred yards or so! I don't know if FatherInCharge managed to get any children (or an adult or two) to strew rose petals in front of the Blessed Sacrament, but this was done during his first year with us.
BTW - today was celebrated as various things in different churches. Red vestments etc. for St Barnabas at our Cathedral, and at the Old-Catholic Cathedral in Utrecht, simple green for Trinity 1 at St Ansgar, Uppsala, the same for Pentecost 2 at A Certain Church in Edinburgh, and white at Uppsala Cathedral for a service which included the ordination of about 30 priests and deacons (I lost count).
Yes, Where the words of the verses dont fit, and the range is both too high and too low.
All Through History children's action song (Nick & Becky Drake)
Goodness of God (Brian Johnson / Ed Cash / Jason Ingram /Jenn Johnson)
Be Thou My Vision (SLANE)
Alas, I rather like it, but yes - it's not an easy one. Our Place has had it from time to time, and we've usually managed to get to the end without too much faltering...
I'm a fan, though I agree the lyricist could've done with knowing how to count. I think there're enough black lines on the score extending a word to cover notes where another verse squeezes in four that if you put them end to end they'd be taller than me.
If your sentences vary that much write for plainchant or GTFO.
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:
Jonathan Dove: Missa brevis (2009)
Vytautas Miškinis: O sacrum convivium (2000)
Charles-Camille Saint Saëns: Ave verum Corpus in E-flat
Holy, Holy (Lift Up His Name)
Open the Eyes of My Heart
O Praise the Name (I Cast My Mind to Calvary)
Worthy of Every Song (Build My Life) A new one to me and tricky to sing, I found.
In Christ Alone My Hope Is Found
Great is the Darkness (Come, Lord Jesus)
Amazing grace
Do not be afraid (a popular RC funeral choice despite/maybe having a verse about walking through the flames)
As I kneel before you - infantile Marian pap.
Isn't she lovely. Secular music is strictly verboten at RC services and so is recorded music. However there are strong pastoral reasons for allowing it (and strictly speaking the Eucharist ends at the dismissal so recessionals don't count) so I will be doing a Stevie Wonder at the organ.
Was the sabbath made for man or vice versa?