Sunday 22 September 10am – CHOIR

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25th Sunday in Ordinary Time (B) Year of Mark

Wis 2:12, 17-20; James 3:16-4:3; Mk 9:30-37

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: Mass for 4 voices (Byrd), Mass Shalom (C.D. Smith)
  • Motets: O sing joyfully (Batten); O Lord, increase our faith (Loosemore); Thou knowest, Lord (Purcell)
  • Communio: Tu mandasti mandata tua custodiri nimis: utinam dirigantur viae meae, ad custodiendas iustificationes tuas. You have ordered your commandments be kept diligently; O, that my ways may be guided towards the keeping of your statutes.
  • Hymns: My first communion hymn (Connolly); Christ is the bread of life BREAD OF LIFE
  • Organ Prelude: Ricercare 1 Tono – Luzzasco Luzzaschi(1540-1611)
  • Organ Voluntary: Fantasia in ‘c’ minor BWV 562 – J.S. Bach (1685-1750)

Organist: Bransby Byrne

Organist Emeritus: Edward Theodore

DoM: Noel Debien

O sing joyfully (Batten)

O sing joyfully unto God our strength :
make a cheerful noise unto the God of Jacob.
Take the song, bring hither the tabret :
the merry harp with the lute.
Blow up the trumpet in the new-moon :
even in the time appointed, and upon our solemn feast-day.
For this was made a statute for Israel :
and a law of the God of Jacob.

O Lord, increase our faith (Loosemore)

O Lord, increase our faith,
strengthen us and confirm us in Thy true faith;
endue us with wisdom, charity, chastity, and patience,
in all our adversities.
Sweet Jesus say Amen.

Thou knowest, Lord (Purcell)

Thou knowest, Lord, the secrets of our hearts;
shut not thy merciful ears unto our prayers;
but spare us, Lord most holy, O God most mighty,
O holy and most merciful Saviour, thou most worthy judge eternal,
suffer us not at our last hour, for any pains of death,
to fall from thee. Amen.