Ash Wednesday: Mass with distribution of ashes

Joel 2:12-18; 2 Cor 5:20—6:2; Mt 6:1-6, 16-18

• Mass setting: Missa Deus genitor alme (Gregorian)
• Motets: Emendemus in medius* (Byrd); Peccantem me quotidie** (Morales)
• Communio: Qui meditabitur in lege Domini die ac nocte, dabit fructum suum in tempore suo. The one who meditates day and night on the law of the Lord, shall bear fruit in due season.
• Hymns: Lent prose Attende Domine; Forty days and forty nights HEINLEIN
• Organ Prelude: Meditation – Peter Hurford (1930-2019)
• Organ Voluntary: Grave – Jehan Alain (1911-1940)

Organist: Bransby Byrne

DoM: Noel Debien

*Emendemus in melius quae ignoranter peccavimus;
ne subito praeoccupati die mortis,
quaeramus spatium poenitentiae, et invenire non possimus.
Attende, Domine, et miserere; quia peccavimus tibi.
Adjuva nos, Deus salutaris noster, et propter honorem nominis tui libera nos

Let us amend for the better in those things in which we have sinned through ignorance;
lest suddenly overtaken by the day of death,
we seek space for repentance, and be not able to find it.
Hearken, O Lord, and have mercy: for we have sinned against You.
Help us, O God of our salvation, and for the honour of Your name deliver us.

*Peccantem me quotidie
et non paenitentem,
Timor mortis conturbat me.
Quia in inferno nulla est redemptio.
Miserere mei, Deus, et salva me.

I who sin every day
and am not penitent,
the fear of death troubles me:
For in hell there is no redemption.
Have mercy upon me, O God, and save me.