All glory laud and honour (St Theodulph)
Who is this in garments gory (Ton y botel)
O come and mourn with me awhile (Old Hall Green)
Ride on ride on in majesty (St Drostane)
Evensong
The royal banners forward go (Tallis Canon)
My song is love unknown (Love unknown)
Man of sorrows wrapt in grief (Aberystwyth)
Abide with me (Eventide)
Two Welsh tunes in a day and appeared to be enjoyed, decades since I was presented with Ton y botel! I think the rather 'swoopy' tune they wanted for "O come and mourn" would be better known in RC circles but there were some whose whooping and scooping showed they both knew and revelled in it. Lovely words to "Man of sorrows" by Matthew Bridges.
Palm Sunday and the usual war horses trotted out: Setting Missa de Angelis
Anthems
Hosanna to the Son of David Gibbons
O Saviour of the world Gore Ouseley Hymns
All Glory, laud, and honour St Theodulph
The royal banners forward go plainsong
My song is love unknown Love Unknown
Ride on! Ride on in majesty Winchester New Voluntary
Marche Heroique Brewer
Aaah! Gibbons.
And the plainsong melody to The Royal Banners is superb (though I have only ever sung it in Latin - Vexilla Regis.) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EV_kwCLBn9U
I note the sense of disdain noted above for "We have a king who rides a donkey" and (perhaps to a lesser degree) "You are the king of glory". Well, I love Tallis, Gibbons and Palestrina - but I also recognise that many peoples' musical vocabulary and experience lies in a very different place. There is also merit (as Luther knew) in using well-known secular tunes in worship if we are ton "connect" with non-church people. So, in the right context of (say) an All-age service, "We have a king" may well be an appropriate choice.
Hmm. I agree up to a point, but part of my dislike of *We have a king who rides a donkey* (and also the use of donkeys in processions) is the fact that the donkey is not the central figure of Palm Sunday, and provides the wrong sort of image IYSWIM. The tune Drunken Sailor is nowadays associated by many people with the egregious former Home Secretary Suella Braverman, thanks to the Marsh Family's satirical parodies!
Hymns and songs of various types can, of course be very helpful in *setting the scene*, so anything on Palm Sunday that leads people from the quasi-joyful entry into Jerusalem towards the looming shadow of the Cross is worthwhile. *We have a king who rides a donkey* seems to jump straight from Palm Sunday to Easter morning, with no mention of the Cross.
Part of my dislike of *We have a king who rides a donkey* (and also the use of donkeys in processions) is the fact that the donkey is not the central figure of Palm Sunday, and provides the wrong sort of image IYSWIM.
Agreed, although in yesterday's sermon I did talk about the donkey, taking the several OT allusions to point to the character and person of Jesus. (And we didn't sing that song!)
The tune Drunken Sailor is nowadays associated by many people with the egregious former Home Secretary Suella Braverman, thanks to the Marsh Family's satirical parodies!
Is it? I had no idea, and I haven't seen the video.
Anything on Palm Sunday that leads people from the quasi-joyful entry into Jerusalem towards the looming shadow of the Cross is worthwhile. *We have a king who rides a donkey* seems to jump straight from Palm Sunday to Easter morning, with no mention of the Cross.
This is a real problem, especially in churches which don't really "do" Holy Week, or for people who only attend on Sundays. Having said that, spending a great deal of Palm Sunday's service on the Passion seems inappropriate - it's "too soon".
Here endeth the Homily.
Homily? Baptists have sermons (or "messages").
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There is also merit (as Luther knew) in using well-known secular tunes in worship if we are ton "connect" with non-church people.
I very much agree. But I think care has to be taken in choosing those tunes, because tunes carry connotations and associations. Singing “churchy” words to secular tunes works best when the tune is associated with moods or general feelings that work with the text; it works less well when the mood or general feelings (or words) associated with the tune work against the text. I think John Bell, for example, generally has a very good feel for this when he sets texts to Scottish folk tunes.
I’m not familiar with the Marsh Family video, but I’d have a hard time getting the words about a drunken sailor and what to do with him until he’s sober out of my head.
I think John Bell, for example, generally has a very good feel for this when he sets texts to Scottish folk tunes.
I agree, though sometimes I feel that his lyrics are a bit too "worthy and wordy". We sang "Sing hey for the carpenter", not for the first time, last week and that went well. "We cannot measure how you heal" to "Banks and Braes" is IMO very successful, as is "Will you come and follo=w me" to "Kelvingrove" - though one might argue a bit about it rhythem!
Having said that, my wife - who is Scottish - finds it hard to sing the new words to some of the tune.
Yesterday at church we sung a Sanctus to the Welsh tune "The Ash Grove" - well, we are in Wales, and it went down well. "Come and join the joyful singing" to "Nos Galan" also serves us well at Christmas.
For edification, here's one of the Marsh Family's *Suella Braverman* songs - it starts off with The Wellerman, and changes to Drunken Sailor a bit further in:
(Palm/Passion Sunday ... my smaller church don't have an anthem)
Graham Maule and John Bell's “Ride on, Ride on”
Shirley Murray's “Lift High the Cross” (second time in about three weeks, but worth it and well received)
Isaac Watts' “When I Survey”
while the “choirette” sang "Who is that man?" (Words by Don Besig and Nancy Price /Music by Don Besig)
I'm trying for a mix of traditions; and increasinly new, either new in lyrics like these, or "new"* compositions altogether. I don't pick the anthems, but have a wonderful director composer musician who leads this tiny <5 voice choir
Maunday Thursday Mass of the Last Supper.
Entrance - Meekness and majesty - it references the foot washing which is the gospel reading.
Gloria (with bells)
Psalm is sung
Before the gospel - A New Commandment
Washing of feet - Ubi Caritas (Taize)
Offertory - Blest are you Lord God of all creation (a metrical version of the offertory prayers which are themselves based on the Pesach blessing of bread and wine.)
Celtic Mass
Lamb of God Litany (Inwood)
Communion - This is my body broken for you.
Procession - Of the glorious body telling
Watching at the altar of repose - Stay with me (Taize.)
Hymns
Ride on, ride on, / Winchester New
Prepare the royal highway, / Beredag Väg För Herran
When His time was over, / Wakefield Street
O sacred head sore wounded, / Passion Chorale Choir
Hosanna to the Son of David, / David Halls
The feast of palms, / Alan Bullard
Hymns
Never in all human history, / Bethlehem
All go to God when they are sorely placed, / Sursum Corda
God of Jeremiah, grieving with an aching heart, / Kelvin Grove
Here hangs a man discarded, / Shrub End
Choir
The Litany of the Thorns, compiled by John Harper
The Litany of the Thorns is a new one on me - do you have a link?
I haven't yet been told what's on the programme for Our Place this evening, but no doubt they will sing Now, my tongue, the mystery telling (to Grafton, rather than Pange Lingua) as the Blessed Sacrament is carried to the Altar of Repose, in our Lady Chapel.
There are to be just two hymns tomorrow, at the Liturgy of the Cross, with organ music strictly forbidden by FatherInCharge. The two hymns are There is a green hill far away (Horsley) and When I survey the wondrous cross (Rockingham). IIRC, we also used to have at least part 2 (Faithful cross) of Sing, my tongue, the glorious battle (to Pange Lingua).
BTW, FatherInCharge is sending out frantic emails, pleading for readers for tonight, for tomorrow, for the Saturday evening Vigil, and for the preparation of the church on Saturday morning. The problems of a small congregation with awkward working hours, family commitments, or trips to Away!
Only one person has said they'd be willing to have a foot washed at tonight's Mass - in previous years, we've managed with six people participating - and my impression is that the Maundy Thursday service is rapidly becoming in need of simplification, giving the vanishingly small attendance...
Just 12 at our Footwashing, Reservation and, er Stripping last night. That's fairly normal here, the record books suggest - parking after 6:00 pm in in this Party Tourist Town is all but impossible so the locals stay away in droves. Next year I’ll hold the Maundy Thursday gig at the Other Church where some will stay away because it’s the other church, but where at least parking is possible within 1000 metres.
Sing?
“An upper room did our Lord prepare” (Wallywally)
“Sing, my tongue, the Saviour's Glory” (Penguin Linguist)
“Jesus remember me when you come into your kingdom”
“Lay down your head, Lord Jesus Christ”
Recorded Spiegel im Spiegel during the footwashing.
Holy and still, it was stunning-beautiful. The most powerful moment for me though was before the liturgy, as our doorstep vagrant led our blind pianist up the aisle to his seat, then went back quitely to his porch outside.
Not all that common here in the UK, either, outside Cathedrals and the larger Collegiate Churches/Minsters, although there are a fair few places with a monthly (or thereabouts) Choral Evensong.
BTW, I'm told that Our Place's Good Friday Liturgy will include Drop, drop, slow tears (to Song 46 by Orlando Gibbons), sung a capella by a couple of cantors.
"Holy Communion in thanksgiving for the Imstitution"
Once only once and once for all (Albano)
Merbecke with Gloria
Psalm 23
The heavenly word proceeding forth (St Clement)
Go to dark Gethsemane (Petra)
Now my tongue the mystery telling (Grafton)
Psalm 88 chanted during the "Stripoing of the Sanctuary"
At the Tenebrae Communion Service on Maundy Thursday evening at Our Place we sang a capella
Crown Him with Many Crowns - DIADEMATA
There is a Green Hill Far Away - HORSLEY
When I Survey the Wondrous Cross - ROCKINGHAM
The Day Thou Gavest, Lord is Ended - ST. CLEMENT
But disappointed that there was no strepitus as the final candle was extinguished
The most powerful moment for me though was before the liturgy, as our doorstep vagrant led our blind pianist up the aisle to his seat, then went back quitely to his porch outside.
Good Friday Solemn Liturgy
Psalm 30 - sung
Passion of St John read by 3 readers with the congregation speaking the "crowd."
The Reproaches - sung
When I survey the Wondrous Cross (Rockingham) Of course
Jesus remember me (Taize)
Soul of my Saviour (Anima Christ) A greatly loved RC Eucharistic hymn with a splendid stately tune.
“We sing the praise of him who died” - Warrington.
“There is a green hill far away” - Horsley.
“How deep the Father’s love for us” (Townend).
“Take up your cross”, the Saviour said. - Breslau.
“When I survey the wondrous cross” - Rockingham.
“The head that once was crowned with thorns” - St Magnus.
“We sing the praise of him who died” - Warrington.
“There is a green hill far away” - Horsley.
“How deep the Father’s love for us” (Townend).
“Take up your cross”, the Saviour said. - Breslau.
“When I survey the wondrous cross” - Rockingham.
“The head that once was crowned with thorns” - St Magnus.
A good selection - and that final hymn is a timely reminder that Good Friday isn't the end of the story!
I was thinking the same, BF - and with a jolly good tune!
Indeed, and ISWYM about the tune (or the name of it, at least!). The tune was written by none other than Jeremiah Clarke - did he have an Orcadian connection?
Went to church (Derby Cathedral) for the first time since 2015 today. Didn't know a single hymn. Enjoyed the service but I hereby apologise for my singing being all over the shop.
“We sing the praise of him who died” - Warrington.
“There is a green hill far away” - Horsley.
“How deep the Father’s love for us” (Townend).
“Take up your cross”, the Saviour said. - Breslau.
“When I survey the wondrous cross” - Rockingham.
“The head that once was crowned with thorns” - St Magnus.
A good selection - and that final hymn is a timely reminder that Good Friday isn't the end of the story!
I was thinking the same, BF - and with a jolly good tune!
Indeed, and ISWYM about the tune (or the name of it, at least!). The tune was written by none other than Jeremiah Clarke - did he have an Orcadian connection?
I missed a trick though, as immediately before the hymn I used (and announced) a prayer by Rev Fraser Macnaughton of St Magnus Cathedral - and failed to make the link!
They were:
Just as I am, without one plea - Saffron Walden
It is a thing most wonderful - Herongate
My song is love unknown - Love Unknown
The Kingdom of God is justice and joy - Paderborn
When I survey the wondrous cross - Rockingham
O sacred head sore wounded - Passion Chorale.
I don't recognise The Kingdom of God is justice and joy. All the rest are surely well-established classics for Passiontide, particularly (although not exclusively) in the C of E.
Never mind - I'm glad you enjoyed the service anyway @Bob Two Owls !
"The Kingdom of God" is a very URC hymn! Though it can be sung to "Laudate Dominum" or "Paderborn", its "proper" tunes are "Tetherdown" or the very dated (and IMHO tricky to sing) "Out Skerries", the latter favoured by my former Music Director.
"The Kingdom of God" is a very URC hymn! Though it can be sung to "Laudate Dominum" or "Paderborn", its "proper" tunes are "Tetherdown" or the very dated (and IMHO tricky to sing) "Out Skerries", the latter favoured by my former Music Director.
I see that it's in our default hymnbook (the much-maligned Complete Anglican Hymns Old And New), to Tetherdown. I can't recall ever having sung it, though.
Recorded Spiegel im Spiegel during the footwashing.
Ah, that sounds wonderful.
Holy and still, it was stunning-beautiful. The most powerful moment for me though was before the liturgy, as our doorstep vagrant led our blind pianist up the aisle to his seat, then went back quitely to his porch outside.
All the rest are surely well-established classics for Passiontide, particularly (although not exclusively) in the C of E.
Last time I went to church we didn't have a bank holiday or Sunday bus service so my only experience of Easter hymns have been very much arranged for guitar with actions for children.
All the rest are surely well-established classics for Passiontide, particularly (although not exclusively) in the C of E.
Last time I went to church we didn't have a bank holiday or Sunday bus service so my only experience of Easter hymns have been very much arranged for guitar with actions for children.
All the rest are surely well-established classics for Passiontide, particularly (although not exclusively) in the C of E.
Last time I went to church we didn't have a bank holiday or Sunday bus service so my only experience of Easter hymns have been very much arranged for guitar with actions for children.
It was the Churches Together in Our Area's Walk of Witness for Good Friday. Started off in a Roman Catholic Church, then Anglican, then Baptist, URC and on to another Baptist. One hymn in each location - a reading and a prayer.
Lord Jesus think on me (Southwell)
Glory be to Jesus (Caswell)
How deep the Father's love (Townend)
When I survey the wondrous cross (Rockingham)
O love that wilt not let me go (St. Margaret)
I was thinking the same, BF - and with a jolly good tune!
Indeed, and ISWYM about the tune (or the name of it, at least!). The tune was written by none other than Jeremiah Clarke - did he have an Orcadian connection?
Not as far as I know; I've just consulted Prof Google, and as I thought, the church it's named after is St Magnus the Martyr, London Bridge. Why there's a church in London dedicated to the patron saint of Orkney is a bit of a mystery though ... 🤔
... I missed a trick though, as immediately before the hymn I used (and announced) a prayer by Rev Fraser Macnaughton of St Magnus Cathedral - and failed to make the link!
He conducted the memorial service for David; he always made a point of welcoming us whenever we were back in the choir stalls!
Not exactly a church service as such but it took place in a church....I was recruited by a work colleague to take part in a scratch performance of Stainer's Crucifixion interspersed with choruses from Mendelssohn's Elijah. I'd sung the former before but the Elijah was a sight reading exercise... interesting! There were more in the choir than the congregation.
Easter Vigil Part Deux (something went wrong with my previous post!)
Renewal of Baptismal Promises
Water of Life (Dean)
Celtic Mass
Lamb of God Litany (Inwood)
All Heave'n declares
Thine be the glory.
Numbers have been reasonable for the Triduum so far, 119 at Maundy Thursday and 151 for Good Friday. The Vigil this evening will probably be about 100. And Easter Morning will be full with rather a lot of chocolate-fuelled children adding their noisy contribution to procedings!
28 at Our Place yesterday for the midday Liturgy, and 11 at the evening Stations - given that we usually get 25 or so on a Sunday morning, FatherInCharge was understandably pleased!
The three hymns were as I think I mentioned earlier:
There is a green hill far away (Horsley) Drop, drop, slow tears (Song 46) When I survey the wondrous cross (Rockingham)
All sung a capella, with just the cantors singing the second of the three.
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Thanks a bloody bunch. Since reading that, it’s been a bloody earworm all afternoon 😡
Parish Communion
All glory laud and honour (St Theodulph)
Who is this in garments gory (Ton y botel)
O come and mourn with me awhile (Old Hall Green)
Ride on ride on in majesty (St Drostane)
Evensong
The royal banners forward go (Tallis Canon)
My song is love unknown (Love unknown)
Man of sorrows wrapt in grief (Aberystwyth)
Abide with me (Eventide)
Two Welsh tunes in a day and appeared to be enjoyed, decades since I was presented with Ton y botel! I think the rather 'swoopy' tune they wanted for "O come and mourn" would be better known in RC circles but there were some whose whooping and scooping showed they both knew and revelled in it. Lovely words to "Man of sorrows" by Matthew Bridges.
Setting Missa de Angelis
Anthems
Hosanna to the Son of David Gibbons
O Saviour of the world Gore Ouseley
Hymns
All Glory, laud, and honour St Theodulph
The royal banners forward go plainsong
My song is love unknown Love Unknown
Ride on! Ride on in majesty Winchester New
Voluntary
Marche Heroique Brewer
And the plainsong melody to The Royal Banners is superb (though I have only ever sung it in Latin - Vexilla Regis.)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EV_kwCLBn9U
Hymns and songs of various types can, of course be very helpful in *setting the scene*, so anything on Palm Sunday that leads people from the quasi-joyful entry into Jerusalem towards the looming shadow of the Cross is worthwhile. *We have a king who rides a donkey* seems to jump straight from Palm Sunday to Easter morning, with no mention of the Cross.
Here endeth the Homily.
Is it? I had no idea, and I haven't seen the video.
This is a real problem, especially in churches which don't really "do" Holy Week, or for people who only attend on Sundays. Having said that, spending a great deal of Palm Sunday's service on the Passion seems inappropriate - it's "too soon".
Homily? Baptists have sermons (or "messages").
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I’m not familiar with the Marsh Family video, but I’d have a hard time getting the words about a drunken sailor and what to do with him until he’s sober out of my head.
Having said that, my wife - who is Scottish - finds it hard to sing the new words to some of the tune.
Yesterday at church we sung a Sanctus to the Welsh tune "The Ash Grove" - well, we are in Wales, and it went down well. "Come and join the joyful singing" to "Nos Galan" also serves us well at Christmas.
For edification, here's one of the Marsh Family's *Suella Braverman* songs - it starts off with The Wellerman, and changes to Drunken Sailor a bit further in:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nmj0JFGqE30&list=RDNmj0JFGqE30&start_radio=1
Graham Maule and John Bell's “Ride on, Ride on”
Shirley Murray's “Lift High the Cross” (second time in about three weeks, but worth it and well received)
Isaac Watts' “When I Survey”
while the “choirette” sang "Who is that man?" (Words by Don Besig and Nancy Price /Music by Don Besig)
I'm trying for a mix of traditions; and increasinly new, either new in lyrics like these, or "new"* compositions altogether. I don't pick the anthems, but have a wonderful director composer musician who leads this tiny <5 voice choir
*being after about 1328
Now for the triduum
Entrance - Meekness and majesty - it references the foot washing which is the gospel reading.
Gloria (with bells)
Psalm is sung
Before the gospel - A New Commandment
Washing of feet - Ubi Caritas (Taize)
Offertory - Blest are you Lord God of all creation (a metrical version of the offertory prayers which are themselves based on the Pesach blessing of bread and wine.)
Celtic Mass
Lamb of God Litany (Inwood)
Communion - This is my body broken for you.
Procession - Of the glorious body telling
Watching at the altar of repose - Stay with me (Taize.)
A nice mix of traditional and newer things.
Hymns
Ride on, ride on, / Winchester New
Prepare the royal highway, / Beredag Väg För Herran
When His time was over, / Wakefield Street
O sacred head sore wounded, / Passion Chorale
Choir
Hosanna to the Son of David, / David Halls
The feast of palms, / Alan Bullard
Choral service:
Psalm 22, / Chant by Flintoft
Tenebrae Responsories {in english), / Peter Guy
God so loved the world, / Bob Chilcott
Hymns
Never in all human history, / Bethlehem
All go to God when they are sorely placed, / Sursum Corda
God of Jeremiah, grieving with an aching heart, / Kelvin Grove
Here hangs a man discarded, / Shrub End
Choir
The Litany of the Thorns, compiled by John Harper
I haven't yet been told what's on the programme for Our Place this evening, but no doubt they will sing Now, my tongue, the mystery telling (to Grafton, rather than Pange Lingua) as the Blessed Sacrament is carried to the Altar of Repose, in our Lady Chapel.
There are to be just two hymns tomorrow, at the Liturgy of the Cross, with organ music strictly forbidden by FatherInCharge. The two hymns are There is a green hill far away (Horsley) and When I survey the wondrous cross (Rockingham). IIRC, we also used to have at least part 2 (Faithful cross) of Sing, my tongue, the glorious battle (to Pange Lingua).
BTW, FatherInCharge is sending out frantic emails, pleading for readers for tonight, for tomorrow, for the Saturday evening Vigil, and for the preparation of the church on Saturday morning. The problems of a small congregation with awkward working hours, family commitments, or trips to Away!
Only one person has said they'd be willing to have a foot washed at tonight's Mass - in previous years, we've managed with six people participating - and my impression is that the Maundy Thursday service is rapidly becoming in need of simplification, giving the vanishingly small attendance...
Sing?
“An upper room did our Lord prepare” (Wallywally)
“Sing, my tongue, the Saviour's Glory” (Penguin Linguist)
“Jesus remember me when you come into your kingdom”
“Lay down your head, Lord Jesus Christ”
Recorded Spiegel im Spiegel during the footwashing.
Holy and still, it was stunning-beautiful. The most powerful moment for me though was before the liturgy, as our doorstep vagrant led our blind pianist up the aisle to his seat, then went back quitely to his porch outside.
BTW, I'm told that Our Place's Good Friday Liturgy will include Drop, drop, slow tears (to Song 46 by Orlando Gibbons), sung a capella by a couple of cantors.
"Holy Communion in thanksgiving for the Imstitution"
Once only once and once for all (Albano)
Merbecke with Gloria
Psalm 23
The heavenly word proceeding forth (St Clement)
Go to dark Gethsemane (Petra)
Now my tongue the mystery telling (Grafton)
Psalm 88 chanted during the "Stripoing of the Sanctuary"
Crown Him with Many Crowns - DIADEMATA
There is a Green Hill Far Away - HORSLEY
When I Survey the Wondrous Cross - ROCKINGHAM
The Day Thou Gavest, Lord is Ended - ST. CLEMENT
But disappointed that there was no strepitus as the final candle was extinguished
The thought of that brought on a little tear
Psalm 30 - sung
Passion of St John read by 3 readers with the congregation speaking the "crowd."
The Reproaches - sung
When I survey the Wondrous Cross (Rockingham) Of course
Jesus remember me (Taize)
Soul of my Saviour (Anima Christ) A greatly loved RC Eucharistic hymn with a splendid stately tune.
“There is a green hill far away” - Horsley.
“How deep the Father’s love for us” (Townend).
“Take up your cross”, the Saviour said. - Breslau.
“When I survey the wondrous cross” - Rockingham.
“The head that once was crowned with thorns” - St Magnus.
A good selection - and that final hymn is a timely reminder that Good Friday isn't the end of the story!
Indeed, and ISWYM about the tune (or the name of it, at least!). The tune was written by none other than Jeremiah Clarke - did he have an Orcadian connection?
Which is why I chose it.
I missed a trick though, as immediately before the hymn I used (and announced) a prayer by Rev Fraser Macnaughton of St Magnus Cathedral - and failed to make the link!
Just as I am, without one plea - Saffron Walden
It is a thing most wonderful - Herongate
My song is love unknown - Love Unknown
The Kingdom of God is justice and joy - Paderborn
When I survey the wondrous cross - Rockingham
O sacred head sore wounded - Passion Chorale.
I don't recognise The Kingdom of God is justice and joy. All the rest are surely well-established classics for Passiontide, particularly (although not exclusively) in the C of E.
Never mind - I'm glad you enjoyed the service anyway @Bob Two Owls !
I see that it's in our default hymnbook (the much-maligned Complete Anglican Hymns Old And New), to Tetherdown. I can't recall ever having sung it, though.
And that sounds powerful indeed
Last time I went to church we didn't have a bank holiday or Sunday bus service so my only experience of Easter hymns have been very much arranged for guitar with actions for children.
O I see - fair enough!
Lord Jesus think on me (Southwell)
Glory be to Jesus (Caswell)
How deep the Father's love (Townend)
When I survey the wondrous cross (Rockingham)
O love that wilt not let me go (St. Margaret)
Not as far as I know; I've just consulted Prof Google, and as I thought, the church it's named after is St Magnus the Martyr, London Bridge. Why there's a church in London dedicated to the patron saint of Orkney is a bit of a mystery though ... 🤔
He conducted the memorial service for David; he always made a point of welcoming us whenever we were back in the choir stalls!
Exsultet
After the Readings
Ps 103
Canticle of Moses, Ex 15
Canticle in Is 12
Ps 41/42
Before the Gospel
Ps117
Renewal of Baptismal Promises
Water of Life (Dean)
Celtic Mass
Lamb of God Litany (Inwood)
All Heave'n declares
Thine be the glory.
Numbers have been reasonable for the Triduum so far, 119 at Maundy Thursday and 151 for Good Friday. The Vigil this evening will probably be about 100. And Easter Morning will be full with rather a lot of chocolate-fuelled children adding their noisy contribution to procedings!
The three hymns were as I think I mentioned earlier:
There is a green hill far away (Horsley)
Drop, drop, slow tears (Song 46)
When I survey the wondrous cross (Rockingham)
All sung a capella, with just the cantors singing the second of the three.
The Wikipedia entry suggests that it’s complicated.