21st Sunday in Ordinary Time (A) Year of Matthew
Is 22:19-23; Rom 11:33-36; Mt 16:13-20
Note: during this Mass, a number of children will receive First Holy Communion. This has been reflected in the selection of music to accompany the liturgy.
Mass setting: Missa Orbis Factor (Victoria), Mass Shalom (C.D. Smith)
Motets: Ave Verum Corpus (Elgar); Panis angelicus (César Franck)
Communio: (Gregorian, John 6.57) Qui manducat carnem meam, et bibit sanguinem meum, in me manet, et ego in eo dicit Dominus Whoever eats my flesh and drinks my blood abides in me, and I in them says the Lord.
Hymns: First Communion Hymn (Connolly); Eat this bread (Taizé), Sweet Sacrament divine DIVINE MYSTERIES
Organ Prelude: Communion – Jacques Lemmens (1823-1881)
Organ Voluntary: Chorale Improvisation ‘Nun danket alle Gott’ – Sigfrid Karg-Elert (1877-1933)
Organist: Bransby Byrne
Emeritus Organist: Edward Theodore
DoM: Noel Debien
*Ave, verum corpus
natum de Maria Virgine:
vere passum, immolatum
in cruce pro homine:
cuius latus perforatum
unda fluxit sanguine:
esto nobis praegustatum,
in mortis examine.
†Panis angelicus
fit panis hominum;
Dat panis cœlicus
figuris terminum:
O res mirabilis!
Manducat Dominum
Pauper, Pauper,
servus et humilis.
Hail the true body,
born of the Virgin Mary:
You who truly suffered and were sacrificed
on the cross for the sake of man.
From whose pierced flank
flowed water and blood:
Be a foretaste for us
in the trial of death.
The bread of angels
Becomes bread for humankind;
This heavenly bread gives
an end to all forms.
Oh, wonderful fact!
The Lord feeds the poor,
The slave, the lowly.