Sunday 1 October 10am – CHOIR

26th Sunday in Ordinary Time (A) Year of Matthew

Ezek 18:25-28, Phil 2:1-11, Mt 21:28-32

  • Mass setting: Missa Orbis Factor (Kirkpatrick)
  • Motet: Motet: Lord, for thy tender mercy’s sake* (Farrant)
  • Communio (Gregorian, Ps 118.49-50): Memento verbi tui servo tuo, Domine in quo mihi spem dedisti: haec me consolata est in humiltate mea Be mindful of your word to your servant O Lord, in which you caused me to hope; this has been my comfort in my affliction
  • Hymns: Forgive our sins as we forgive ST NICHOLAS; By the waters of Babylon
  • Organ Voluntary: Bells – Arthur Wills (1926-2020)

Organist: Bransby Byrne

Organist Emeritus: Edward Theodore

DoM: Noel Debien

*Lord, for thy tender mercy’s sake lay not our sins to our charge,
but forgive that is past, and give us grace to amend our sinful lives:
to decline from sin and incline to virtue,
that we may walk in a perfect heart, before thee now and evermore.
Amen.

Sunday 24 September 10am – CHOIR

25th Sunday in Ordinary Time (A) Year of Matthew

Is 55-6-9. 7-9; Phil 1.20-24,27; Mt 20.1-16

  • Mass setting: Mass for Four Voices (Byrd)
  • Motet: Thou wilt keep him in perfect peace* ( S.S. Wesley)
  • Communio: (Gregorian. Ps. 118,4-5) 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: What does the Lord Require SHARPETHORNE; Just as I am SAFFRON WALDEN
  • Organ Prelude: Cantilena – William Byrd (c.1540-1623)
  • Organ Voluntary: Fugue in ‘g’ minor – Guillaume Lasceux (1740-1831)

Organist: Bransby Byrne

Emeritus Organist: Edward Theodore

DoM: Noel Debien

*Thou wilt keep him in perfect peace whose mind is stayed on Thee. The darkness is no darkness with Thee, but the night is as clear as the day. The darkness and the light to Thee are both alike. God is light and with Him is no darkness at all. Oh let my soul live and it shall praise Thee. For Thine is the Kingdom, the power and the glory, for evermore.