Sunday 29th November 2015 – CHOIR

1st Sunday of Advent (C) Year of Luke

Jer 33.14-16, 1Thess 3.12-4.2, Lk 21.25-28,34-36 Your liberation is near at hand

  • Mass setting: Mass XVIII (de Angelis)
  • Hymns: Advent Prose (Rorate Caeli de super: drop down you heavens from above…), Lo he comes with Clouds descending
  • Offertory motet: Lo a Rose e’er blooming (Michael Praetorius)
  • Communio: (plainchant, Psalm 84): Dominus dabit benignitatem: et terra nostra dabit fructum suum The Lord will give goodness, and the earth shall yield her fruit
  • Organ Prelude: ‘Come, Redeemer of our race’ BWV 599 – J. S. Bach (1685-1750)
  • Organ Offertorium: Kyrie – Giovanni Fasolo (c.1600-c.1664)
  • Organ Voluntary: Wachet Auf, BWV 645 – J.S. Bach (1685-1750)

Organist: Bransby Byrne

Sunday 22 November 2015 – CHOIR

Feast of Christ the King

Dan 7.13-14, Rvl 1.5-8, Jon 18.33-37 It is you who say that I am a king 

  • Introit: Dignus est Agnus Worthy is the lamb (Gregorian)
  • Mass setting: Mass in g minor (Ralph Vaughan Williams)
  • Motet: O Clap your Hands (Gibbons)
  • Communio: Sedebit Dominus Rex in aeternum: Dominus benedicet populo suo in pace The Lord shall sit on his royal throne forever: the Lord will bless his people with peace
  • Hymns: All hail the power of Jesus’ name, Lord enthroned in Heavenly splendour BRYN CALFARIA
  • Organ Prelude: Antiphon 1 – While the King sitteth at his table – Marcel Dupre (1886-1971)
  • Organ Offertorium: ‘Lord Jesus Christ, my life’s light’ – Gustav Merkel (1827-1885)
  • Organ Voluntary: Trumpet Tune – Georg Telemann (1681-1767)

Organist: Bransby Byrne