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the Liturgy Planner
Volume 24 no 2 •
Ash Wednesday to Corpus Christi, Year A
Trying to make sense of it all
I f anyone is reading this journal
in 20 to 30 years’ time, or even
after, it will mean that humanity
has survived. This is not a fore-
gone conclusion.
If something diastrous has happened
to the world the reader will look at the
date, February 2017, and see if there
was any reference to current events
in the contents. But even if nothing
has happened and the world is going
serenely on, the same question could
be asked.
We would not expect Creative Knit-
ting magazine or Runner’s World to
keep abreast of current affairs in any
profound way, but this is a journal of
parish liturgy and thus concerned with
prayer at the weekly assembly. What
on earth are you going to pray about
if not things that are happening in the
world outside the Church?
Mass at a cathedral somewhere in
Europe on New Year’s Day provided
an example. 1 January is celebrated as
World Day of Peace in most countries
outside the UK, so it was natural to
mention Pope Francis’ 2017 Peace Day
message Nonviolence: a Style of Politics
for Peace. Here is a quotation which
could be taken as a summary:
May charity and nonviolence
govern how we treat each other as
individuals, within society and in
international life.
Francis then quotes Benedict XVI:
‘For Christians, nonviolence is not
merely tactical behaviour but a
person’s way of being, the attitude
of one who is so convinced of God’s
love and power that he or she is not
afraid to tackle evil with the weapons
of love and truth alone. Love of one’s
enemy constitutes the nucleus of the
“Christian revolution”’.The Gospel
command to love your enemies (cf.
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Good celebrations can
foster and nourish
February 2017 faith. Poor celebrations
may weaken it.
Sing to the Lord
CALENDAR
Lk 6:27) ‘is rightly considered MARCH
the magna carta of Christian 1 ASH WEDNESDAY
nonviolence. It does not consist 5 1st SUNDAY IN LENT
in succumbing to evil... but in Psalter Wk 1; Rite of Election
14 Friday: CAFOD Lent Fast Day
responding to evil with good (cf.
12 2nd SUNDAY OF LENT
Rom 12:17-21), and thereby
Psalter Wk 2
breaking the chain of injustice.’
19 3rd SUNDAY Psalter Wk 3
This is a million miles from the sen-
RCIA: 1st Scrutiny
timents of someone who says merely
25 The Annunciation
‘There are lots of bad dudes out there’
26 4th SUNDAY Psalter Wk 4
and bases their policy on that alone.
RCIA: 2nd Scrutiny
My point is that the homily
merely mentioned non-violence APRIL
in passing, and drew no lessons 2 5th SUNDAY Psalter Wk 1
from it, surprisingly in a city which RCIA: 3rd Scrutiny
(several centuries ago, admittedly) 9 PALM SUNDAY Wk 2
persecuted non-Christians with 10 Monday of Holy Week
barbaric violence. And the Prayer of 11 Tuesday of Holy Week
the Faithful said nothing about the 12 Wednesday of Holy Week
plight of refugees, the most pressing The Sacred Triduum
need in much of the world today. 13 MAUNDY THURSDAY
I began this column having read 14 GOOD FRIDAY
an article saying that the Catholic 15 HOLY SATURDAY
Church in the UK could begin to 16 EASTER SUNDAY
experience a drop in numbers if 23 2nd SUNDAY of EASTER
migrants, both from EU countries Psalter Wk 2
and elsewhere, found that living 24 St George, Patron of England
here was a problem post-Brexit. This 30 3rd SUNDAY Psalter Wk 3
journal has no policy on Brexit, but MAY
if it has human consequences this 3 Ss Philip and James
is something we should mention in 7 4th SUNDAY Psalter Wk4
the Prayer of the Faithful. And the 14 5th SUNDAY PsalterWk1
stern British official policy towards 21 6th SUNDAY Psalter Wk 2
refugees is a separate issue entirely. 25 THE ASCENSION
A future reader will see that the 28 7th Sunday or THE
Liturgy Planner is aware of the US AsSCENSION Psalter Wk 3
President and Brexit, to which we
might add economic inequality and JUNE
the destruction of the environment, 4 PENTECOST PsalterWk1
both of which Pope Francis has 5 Week 9 in Ordinary Time begins
spoken eloquently about. 11 TRINITY SUNDAY
On page 26 there is a Letter to the 18 CORPUS CHRISTI
Editor responding to the column that 23 The Sacred Heart of Jesus
appeared here in the last issue. This is 25 12th Sunday in Ordinary Time
a rare event, and more letters would
be welcome. Stephen Dean
Cover picture: The Appearance to the Apostles
(1308-11) by Duccio di Buoninsegna, ca.
1255–1319. Museo dell’Opera Metropolitana
del Duomo, Siena
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 The Power of Silence
Stephen Dean
M
ost readers of this journal are, i presume, in-
in one way or the other in the ‘supply side’
volved
of liturgy, as priests, deacons, musicians of one
kind or another, readers, or members of a planning group
who choose what is to be sung.
Sound
What all the above have in com-
mon is that we are concerned with
the sound world of the liturgy, which
we fill in our own ways. We are the
ones who break the silence that might
otherwise be the expected way of
behaving in church.
This was how the 8 o’clock Sun-
day Mass used to be before Vatican
II and to some extent still is. It is
appreciated by a small number of
people in most parishes for whom a
‘quiet’ mass, by which is meant one
with no music, is what they require.
This is puzzling to musicians, for
whom singing or playing at Mass,
and being appreciated for it, is cen-
tral to their self-esteem. If people at
the sung masses don’t sing, or they
don’t go to the sung mass, it can be
seen as their lack of appreciation of
the place of music and of the effort
the musicians are putting into it. In
other words it’s the people’s fault.
Priests too are people who break
the silence, but they have unques-
tioned authority to do so. The liturgy
demands utterance. ‘God said’ was
what brought forth creation in the
opening verses of Genesis, and this
is taken up in the Psalms: By his
word the heavens were made (Ps 33:6).
Christ is revaled as the Word in John's
Gospel. The meeting of God and his
people centres round the proclama-
tion of Scripture, which is one of the
presences of Christ defined in GIRM
27 (quoting from SC9.) So the voice
and spoken words of the priest have
a divine resonance, and everything
else uttered in the liturgy, spoken
or sung, share in this. There can be
no praise, thanksgiving or petition
without words. God communicates
with us, and we with God and each
other, by means of language.
But the assembly is made up
of individuals all with our own
interior lives, and the implications
of this have been a crucial point
of controversy ever since the first
steps to reform after Vatican II. It
is expressed in contrasts such as the
‘horizontal dimension’ as opposed to
the ‘vertical dimension’ - is the Mass
a meeting of people, or of God and
myself? Does one have to acknowl-
edge the presence of other people,
for example at the sign of peace?
There is even an argument about
the precise meaning of ‘active par-
tipation’. The Latin word in all the
recent documents is actuosa rather
than activa, and gallons of ink have
been expended on this as English
does not have a simple way of ex-
presssing this distinction. Actuosa is
defined as being principally interior,
but ‘fuller’ if external particpation is
added to this.1 In other words, it is
the whole person who participates,
and simply performing the external
actions is not sufficient.
This is sometimes used to imply
that the external dimension is not
important. It is true that people don’t
have to take part in all the singing
for participation to be actuosa; being
attentive to the singing of the choir
is a way of participating. But the
documents have a positive attitude
to singing: singing is for one who loves;
the one who sings well, prays twice
(GIRM40); and this means, at some
parts of the liturgy, everyone.
Silence
Silence is a dimension of sound.
It has to be admitted that many
musicians, and many priests, do
not appreciate this sufficiently. For
many people who produce sound in
the liturgy, and indeed in everyday
life, silence is an absence, something
negative. The idea that it could be
1 Instruction De Musica Sacra (1958) §22
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Department for Christian Life & Worship: Liturgy Committee
The place of silence
St John Paul II writing in 2004 to mark the 40th anniversary of the Second Vatican
Council’s document on the Liturgy said:
One aspect that we must foster in our communities with greater
commitment is the experience of silence. We need silence “if we are to
accept in our hearts the full resonance of the voice of the Holy Spirit
and to unite our personal prayer more closely to the Word of God and
the public voice of the Church”. In a society that lives at an increasingly
frenetic pace, often deafened by noise and confused by the ephemeral,
it is vital to rediscover the value of silence. The spread, also outside
Christian worship, of practices of meditation that give priority to
recollection is not accidental. Why not start with… daring a specific
education…? Let us keep before our eyes the example of Jesus, who
“rose and went out to a lonely place, and there he prayed” (Mk 1: 35). 1. John Paul II,
The Liturgy, with its different moments and symbols, cannot ignore Spiritus et
Sponsa[SS] 13
silence.1
The desire for silence is a human phenomenon which many today search for. In Do
you love me? A guide to Catholic Spirituality the bishops write of the importance of
silence:
Real silence though is not just an absence of noise. We can be very
noisy indeed on the inside even if the outside is quiet. It is also possible
to be quiet on the inside while chaos reigns on the outside. This is
because silence helps us get in touch with our real selves and opens
the path for us to hear the still, small voice of God. Silence is indeed
golden. For some of us, however, befriending silence is not easy. It can
be difficult to find some silence in a noisy world, especially as it is such
a rarity. It can be difficult because we are not used to it and we so easily
get distracted. Sometimes we forget that the mind is there to think
with. It abhors a vacuum so it is well nigh impossible for it to stop 2. Catholic Bishops’
thinking. But we can quieten it and the worst thing we can do with Conference of
England and
distractions is be distracted by them. Let them go. Do not beat yourself Wales, Do you
love me? A guide
up about them or give them undue attention. What silence does is to to Catholic
help us shift to a different interior space. It opens us up and balances Spirituality, page
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us. So, how can we befriend it and discover the immense value it has?2
St John Paul saw that pastors had a task to educate in prayer and linked this with the
promotion of the liturgical life, through discernment and guidance. Part of the role
of liturgy is to ‘instil a taste for prayer. To do so, it will of course take into account the
ability of individual believers and their different conditions of age and culture; but in
3. SS 14
doing so it will not be content with the “minimum” ’.3
The Liturgy as the ‘source and summit’ of the life of the Church is where our silent
prayer and reflection leads but also where it is experienced and nurtured. It is one of
1
The cover page of The Place of
Silence, issued by the Liturgy Office
an element to be used creatively is
something insufficiently appreci-
ated, even among people who want
the ‘quiet’ mass as an end in itself,
rather than as a blend of sounds.
Silence in scripture has the usual
range of meanings. There is the
defeated silence, like that of the
scribes and pharisees when rebuked
by Jesus:
And they were not able in the
presence of the people to trap
him by what he said; and being
amazed by his answer, they
became silent. Luke 20:26
Or, ominously for musicians:
I will silence the music of your
songs;
the sound of your lyres shall be
heard no more. Exekiel 26:13
Old Woman Praying (c.1656) by Nicholas
Maes (1634-1693). Rijksmuseum,
Amsterdam. Wikimedia Commons
 There is the silence which is the
avoidance of action:
Some of the Pharisees in the crowd
said to him, ‘Teacher, order your
disciples to stop.’ He answered,
‘I tell you, if these were silent, the
stones would shout out.’ Luke 19:39
This can sometimes be a reproach:
O God, do not keep silence;
do not hold your peace or be Psalm 62 above.
still, O God! Psalm 83:1
Silence can signify patience under
suffering:
He was oppressed, and he was
afflicted,
yet he did not open his mouth;
like a lamb that is led to the
slaughter,
and like a sheep that before its
shearers is silent,
so he did not open his mouth.
Isisah 53:7
The idea that silence can be part
of a sound world is acidly expressed
by the writer of Ecclesiasticus:
Some people keep silent
because they have nothing to say,
while others keep silent
because they know when to speak.
And, in what could be seen as a
reproach to some preachers:
The wise remain silent until the
right moment,
but a boasting fool misses the
right moment. (20:6, 7)
As Ecclesiastes says crisply:
.... a time to keep silence, and a
time to speak (3:7)
Finally, it can mean attentiveness:
For God alone my soul waits in
silence,
Letter to the Editor
I read your comments about the
orientation of the priest during Mass
with considerable interest.
I am one of a diminishing band
of Catholic laypeople – those who
were brought up in the pre-Vatican
II liturgy and who followed the
changes as the Council decreed
them and they were subsequently
implemented.
I think it is worth recording what
people like me felt and experienced
as this happened. Particularly with
respect to this issue which has re-
surfaced recently.
In fact one of my most vivid expe-
riences predates Vatican II. In the
late 1950s, the then Bishop of Aber-
deen carried out a major re-ordering
for my hope is from him.Ps 62.5
But the Lord is in his holy temple;
let all the earth keep silence
before him! Habakkuk 2.20
The liturgy requires silence be-
cause it involves listening as well as
speaking or singing, and this is a skill
to be learned. The kind of silence
demanded is the attentiveness of
The recent paper from the Liturgy
Office, The Place of Silence, begins by
quoting from St John Paul II:
We need silence “if we are to accept
in our hearts the full resonance of
the voice of the Holy Spirit and to
unite our personal prayer more
closely to the Word of God and
the public voice of the Church”.
He goes on to mention a factor
unexamined in this article so far:
In a society that lives at an increas-
ingly frenetic pace, often deafened
by noise and confused by the
ephemeral, it is vital to rediscover
the value of silence.
He takes the example of Jesus,
who ‘went out to a lonely place,
and there he prayed’ (Mk 1:35) to
desmonstrate this value.
There follows a quotation from
the Bishops’ own Do you love me? A
guide to Catholic Spirituality:
Real silence though is not just an
absence of noise. We can be very
noisy indeed on the inside even if
the outside is quiet... silence helps
us get in touch with our real selves
and opens the path for us to hear
the still, small voice of God.
of the interior of his cathedral. The
Victorian Gothic reredos against the
east wall was replaced by his cathedra
with a new, freestanding granite altar
at the front of the sanctuary.
I still remember the shock/sur-
prise when I attended Mass for the
first time with the new arrangement.
Now we could see what the priest
was doing – when he said “Dominus
vobiscum” we were replying “Et cum
spiritu tuo” to a person who had
obviously been addressing us – not
just a disembodied voice.
Now, our catechesis had been that
the Mass wasn’t just the priest’s – it
was ours too. We knew this in theory
and were encouraged to express this
by making the responses and joining
in with the Kyrie, Gloria etc. But
having the priest facing us made such
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The Place of Silence goes on to
say that silence is experienced and
nurtured in the Liturgy. It is one of
‘the languages of the liturgy: ‘words
and music, gesture and silence,
movement, the liturgical colours of
the vestments’ (SC40).
The greater part of the document
lists the various places where silence
is required in the liturgy. Four kinds
are distinguished: a short break
for clarity of structure (e.g. before
Liturgy of the Word); a pause for
recollection (e.g. before the presi-
dential prayers); silent attentiveness
(listening, praying, looking - at the
Preparation of Gifts) - and finally
Silent Reflection, after the Homily
or after Communion.
All this has to be understood by
those who make sound at Mass.
Musicians and clergy should learn to
keep quiet, and not fill in every space
with words or music. Both words and
music can be enhanced by coming
out of and returning to silence. See
Ecclesiasticus 20:6-7 above.
For all of us, the fourth kind of
silence listed above is the hardest.
How do we keep our minds focussed
or do they merely wander? It is also
something very unusual in our so-
ciety. The liturgy may be the only
place and time in our lives where we
are able to keep a shared silence. We
must learn to use it well. At Taizé
they dare to have silences lasting
several minutes. Can we do
that at Mass? ✠
a difference – it wasn’t just words but
action. We could see him raising his
hands towards us at the appropriate
points when he addressed us, holding
the bread and then the chalice with
the wine at the (still silent) words of
consecration – although we couldn’t
hear them we could see what he was
doing! We were obviously part of
what was happening.
In all the discussions about ori-
entation this is something worth
remembering – when the priest
celebrates facing people it is a
clear manifestation of the unity of
those present celebrating the Mass
together. The other issues raised
about facing the east seem somewhat
arcane. Having experienced both I
know which one aids my spiritual life.
Max Bancroft, Edinburgh.
 Lent to Pentecost
T
he season about to begin lasts until
the beginning of June and fills the whole of
this issue. Below is an exhortation to invite
people to the Vigil right at the beginning of Lent, but
why not be more radical still, and invite people to Pen-
tecost? This would avoid a serious imbalance in our view
of the season, which spills out into our whole spiritual
life because we never quite resolve it.
To state the problem, we are good at fasting, or can
be persuaded to be, but not so good at feasting (speak-
ing in spiritual terms, not simply in terms of eating and
drinking). We have a reputation for an ingrained sense
of guilt, we are told at the beginning of Mass to examine
our consciences and call to mind our sins, but, like nine of
the ten lepers, we are not so good at thanking God when
we are healed; or indeed of thanking God for anything,
like the very fact of life, and health, family and friends if
we are fortunate enough to enjoy them. As Pope Francis
says in Evangelii Gaudium (§6): ‘There are Christians
whose lives seem like Lent without Easter.’
Almost the first words of scripture of Lent (Ash
Wednesday) are Leave the past in ashes. If you dwell obses-
sively on your guilty past it may be a subtle way of enjoying
the recollection of things you have done, and of setting
yourself up to do the same things over again.
Many of us are more attracted to Good Friday than to
Easter. This may reflect the fact that the Gospel Passions
are more vivid than most of the Resurrection passages
(although we have this year the Road to Emmaus, a mas-
terpiece of theology and narrative). We are devoted to the
Stations of the Cross; the Stations of the Resurrection
are not, says the parish priest of Upholland which has
sa set, nearly so well attended. In music we have the St
Matthew Passion, Stainer’s Crucifixion, and some modern
settings of the same dramatic events, but no comparable
Come to the Feast
W e call the Triduum the centre of the liturgical year. We
recommend treating it as one celebration spread over three
days. But some people go away on holiday for Holy Week; and
some of those who stay are only there for part of the Triduum,
missing out on the Vigil. It’s like reading a book until the last
chapter but one, and then putting it back on the shelf. If Lent
is thought of as a long entrance rite to Easter with all the read-
ings as leading up to the Gospel of the Resurrection and even
Pentecost, the invitation to the Vigil will be harder to ignore.
The time to make the invitation is the beginning of Lent. It
should be presented as the goal of the journey that begins on
Ash Wednesday. Through Lent the signposts should be pointed
Lent 1:The temptation and Fall (Genesis 2-3);
- temptation and victory (Gospel)
2: Abraham: the promise of glory
3: Living water: The Samaritan
(1R: Exodus 17)
4: Out of darkness: the man born blind
5: Out of the tomb: Lazarus
(2R: Romans 8: Jesus risen in the Spirit)
Pss 50 ( Sun 1) and 32 (Sun 2) also occur in the Vigil
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masterpiece about the Resurrection. Dante's Inferno is
more popular than the Paradiso.
This page is headed Lent to Pentecost, because our
celebration of this season risks stopping on Easter Sunday,
or earlier if you are taking a holiday in Holy Week. We will
do the fast and forget the feast. We will remember the
Reproaches and the Crucifixion and overlook the empty
tomb.This only helps reinforce the idea that deprivation
and penitence, not joy, are true religion. And yet, if you
read them carefully, you will fine in the Lent readings an
unexpected absence of breast-beating. Lent is a happy
fast, like the expectant waiting of children in the last
week before Christmas, who know that the presents are
on the way. There is a time for weeping and gnashing of
teeth but it is not Lent. As the Gospel for Ash Wednesday
reminds us, When you fast do not put on a gloomy look as the
hypocrites do. Don’t we believe what we hear: God so loved
the world ... God sent his Son into the world, not to condemn the
world but so that through him the world might be saved. Even
the word ‘repent’ has the literal sense ‘change your heart.’
The most serious things in the world are spoken of in
these Ninety Days: why we are here, why we do wrong
even if we don’t want to, what God is like, what death
means, is there anything after it? The summit of the
season is not Good Friday, but the fifty day feast begin-
ning on Easter eve.
The Pentecost story is a good way of concluding the
season because it was only then that the new Christians
lost the bewilderment which is seen in their reactions
to the resurrection. Sometimes it seems that we cannot
thank God for the Resurrection. Is it because we can’t
quite believe Christ is alive? The last word is from Pope
Francis: ‘Let us not flee from the resurrection of Jesus,
let us never give up, come what will. May nothing inspire
more than his life, which impels us onwards!’ EG §3.
out. Preaching for the Vigil can start on the first Sunday. Consider
the Lent readings and those of the Vigil together as one act of
remembrance and teaching, and learn to see the connections.
Lent is a time to see our Israelite origins. The scriptures are a
tales of the great works God has done for us ( Ps. 126). In Year
A we hear of the fall of Adam and Eve, God’s promise to Abram,
Moses striking water from the rock (Sun. 3) and the call of David
(Sun. 4). These are not old Jewish things. They are as much part
of our life as Good Friday and Easter.
Three great passages from John’s Gospel are read this year.
They are there particularly for the benefit of the catechumens
and elect, but the whole church follows the same journey too,
right up to Pentecost.Each preacher and musician can look for
other parallels.
Vigil R1: Creation (Genesis 1)
R2: Abraham: the sacrifice of Isaac
R3: Freedom by water: The Red Sea
R4/5: Isaiah 54/55: come to the water
R6: Make your way to light (Baruch)
R7: I will bring you out of your graves, back
to your own land (Ezekiel)
Romans 6: We have risen with Christ
Gospel : The Resurrection of Jesus
 Music in Lent
Music gives a season its character, both in what is
sung and by the way it is performed.
What is sung: song in the liturgy is part of the proclama-
tion of the Word. The songs in Lent should put on our
lips words about repentance, fasting and the forgiveness
and tender mercy of God, and should create the silence in
which God’s voice may be heard.
The way it is performed: Music is a source of enjoyment, but
Lent is a time of fasting. We fast from the Alleluia which
returns noisily at Easter, and from the Gloria. Accompani-
ment can be restrained, or even omitted
Chants and Service Music
• INTRODUCTORY RITES. Introits: a different one for each Sunday
(e.g. in Psallite) or seasonal, with Sunday verses, e.g. Come
back to God (Foster, Can). You could integrate the Introductory
Rites, using a Litany or similar, which could be extended into the
Pen. Act. The time of fulfilment (Chepponis G-3906/L179) has a
short refrain with verses for each Sunday, plus Kyrie (not at L179.)
Led by the Spirit (Hurd UC/L180/HPR57) is Gathering Song/Kyrie.
IHCY has metrical introits to well-known tunes.
• MASS SETTINGS: Composers are now providing Gospel Accs.
(see below.) Written specially for the season is Dean Short Mass
for Advent and Lent (extracts in Res, L (nb in Advent section.))
• LITANIES: Hold us in your mercy (Cooney/Daigle, GII/289/L183)
= Penitential Litany G-4760). Grant to us, O Lord, a heart renewed
(Deiss) can serve as a Gathering Song; or Give us, Lord, a new
heart (Farrell) both in L. Kyrie (Haugen: Res/Can/G5651)
• KYRIES: Russian Kyrie (MG/L), Short Advent /Lent Mass (Dean)
MM2/Res. Taizé Kyries; Mass of Light (Haas), Inwood Pen. Litany (MMI
17/CFE402) settings in MMII 162-166, etc. (No. 163 is plainchant with
English words, and Kyrie Orbis Factor is at CFE 468. = Three Plainsong
Kyries with Tropes from the Sacramentary (arr Proulx; G-3162 cantor,
G-3161 SATB) is very simple. Kyries in Can (20-27), esp Reindorf 21.
• RESPONSORIAL PSALMS: A new addition to the repertoire is The
Lyric Psalter (GIA: Haugen/Alonso) using the Revised Grail version
• GOSPEL ACCLAMATIONS: Some in new Mass settings, e.g.
Belmont Mass, Chant Mass (Ainslie), both Decani. Some in Glory
to God: pp 59,204,210. Lenten GA (Haas WCBN1/CG, and Mass of
Light Can); Praise to you O Christ (Walsh MM2 188/CFE415/L); GA
for Lent (Geary MMII 182); Accs. for Lent (MMI/84); Praise to you, O
Christ our Saviour (Farrell); Glory and Praise to you, Lord (O’Hara
AK/RPs/CFE414); Proc. Litany of the Word (McGrail, L197) Praise to
You, Lord (Ridge, IEA). Lent GA (Schutte, A&E; another in GiC/Can);
Lent GA (Foster, Decani/L185.) Lent GAs (Raven, BBF/Can.) Ash
Wed. acclamations in Res. Millennium Gospel Accs in HPR 61
• CHANTS & REFRAINS: Two classic chants (both in LTC): At-
tende Domine: Hear us almighty Lord (C/CFE/L); Hear us O Lord
(NEH507) and Parce Domine. This tune is used by Cooney/Daigle
(Hold us in your mercy see Litanies.) Other: God of mercy and
forgiveness (Bridge HPR36) Behold the Lamb of God (Iona: WG2)
Jesus Christ, Son of God (Iona, WG2/L221), O Brother Jesus
(LFB/Res/Can); We are not our own (Haas, WCBN2);Taizé Salva-
tor mundi; Miserere nobis; Domine Deus; Adoramus te Christe;
Crucem tuam. Also Ps 51 opposite asterisked
• INTERCESSION RESPONSES: Hear our prayer (Sands); Son
of God (Taizé); Renew us, Lord (Dean, Res/Can); O God hear us
(Walker, Celtic Mass/CWP1/Can). Also see HPR - many, listed.
Intercessions for the Scrutinies in You will be my witnesses (Psal-
lite spinoff), with a useful general reponse
• COMMUNIONS. See Antiphons for each Sunday. Call us to your table
(Walker, IFIH/O-11993) In faith, in hope (Walker, IFIH/CWP) Not on bread
alone (Dean, L/Can). The Lenten Journey and One with the Risen Lord
(Hurd, OCP) have a comm. song for each Sunday in Lent and Easter.
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Some Resources
• Psallité (Liturgical Press). Three songs for every Sunday/feast
(A,B.C) Use as an exclusive resource or take individual pieces.
Now joined by You will be my witnesses with RCIA music
• Resurrexit (Decani) Ash Wednesday to Pentecost. Revised in
2012 to include new Missal texts (e.g. Exsultet)
• The Lenten Journey (Hurd, OCP). Scripture -based songs
• Christ we proclaim (ed. Walker, OCP, 3 vols) RCIA collection
• Music for Holy Week and Easter (McCrimmon). The successor to
The Great Week, containing a number of extra settings.
• Ash Wednesday to Easter for Choirs (OUP, 55 pieces)
PASSION settings: see Good Friday
• Stages on the Way (Wild Goose): prayers, short dramas and
liturgical actions.
• Eggs and Ashes (Wild Goose): an anthology of practical and
liturgical resources, including suggestions for a ‘Lent discipline’,
Preparing for the Vigil and Easter Anticipate Easter music
in Lent, (e.g. the Vigil psalms at Communion) so they become
familiar. A Litany of the Saints may be sung on Sunday 1.
A part of Lent for centuries. It is
Psalm 51 (50) :The Miserere
a Lenten Common Psalm, R. Ps
on Ash Wed., Suns 1A/5B, alt. 7th Psalm (Vigil). For background,
read 2 Sam 11-12, especially 12:13, and the biblical heading to the
Psalm itself. Key phrases: O Lord, open my lips; My sacrifice, a con-
trite spirit, Give me a new heart etc; and the frank admission of guilt
which makes this one of the most personal psalms.
Gelineau/Grail version: HON, C, AA, W, L Cal
A pure heart (O’Hara) AK20 Cal
Parce Domine BB, W416 PD
Create in me (Hurd) AGG Cal
*Create within me (Alison Adam) 1tb/Can Iona
Be merciful, O Lord (Haugen) PCY/GII GII
- and a newer version: G-5461/Cantate Cal
Be merciful (Joncas) CM/G-3433/Res Cal
Be merciful, O Lord (Schiavone) O-9505 Cal
Lord be merciful (MacAller) Lenten Journey (OCP) Cal
Lord, cleanse my heart Psallite B46 Cal
*Lord Jesus Christ (Browning) G-5905/Cantate Cal
Lord, have mercy (Russian chant) CBL13 PD
Psalm Fifty-One (R. O’Connor) TSL Cal
Behold the Lamb of God (Lundy) HON74 KM
Come back to the Lord (Dean) Decani/L/Res Cal
God be merciful to me PsT Jub
Have mercy, Lord, on us (Tate) W753 PD
Have mercy upon me, O God (Bell) CSN Iona
Have pity, God of grace (Quinn) PAS Cal
O for a heart to praise my God (Wesley) PD
Turn our hearts to you, O God (Bridge) HPR120/LJ/O-12740 Cal
*We have sinned, Lord Psalite C167/A30 Cal
Liturgies other than the Eucharist
The Liturgy of the Hours is a vital part of Christian life, and Lent
is a good time for parish Evening Prayer. L/C/CFE/Gather have
basic settings. The Lucernarium and Incense rites have been
given official approval in Celebrating Evening Prayer (Canterbury
Press.) Morning prayer in the Triduum is recommended.
• Other services are in Songs & Prayers from Taizé and the C of
E’s Lent, Holy Week and Easter. A whole musical drama is Born
for This (CJM). That you may have life (Haugen/Briehl, G-6537) is
a highly adaptable Lenten Liturgy and Bible study programme.
Stations of the Cross: Stabat Mater; O brother Jesus (Bell LFB/
CAYP/L/Can); Adoramus te Christe (Taizé CT or Haugen - Res);
By your cross (Toolan) JCYT/L; We adore you, O Christ (Foster,
Decani/CAN); Lord Jesus, from your wounded side (Crandal, O-
11753); Quigley Seven Last Words from the Cross (O-11938); We
adore your Cross (Walker CWP3/CAN119; refrains from Walker
St John Passion and Stations of the Cross for Children (eg Jesus
I will stay with you); Taizé In manus tuas (CT30); refrains in Eggs
& Ashes (see above) p176.
• Penitential Services. With the help of a cantor try some chants/
refrains (e.g. Haugen) already learnt at Mass. God is forgiveness
(Taizé CT, Can) expresses an appropriate sentiment
Ash Wednesday 1 March 2017
We have already heard the Beatitudes on a Sunday this year on the Roman Lectionary
Hear the Word 4th Sunday, but it is good to hear more from the Sermon on the Joel 2:12-18;
Mount today, in a different context. Whar they say is: this is the sort of people Lent is sup- Ps 50 (51):3-6. 12-14. 17.
pose to help us to be. Matthew’s two big themes are Kingdom and Justice. Jesus’ first words 2 Corinthians 5:20-6:2
as reported by Matthew are: Change your hearts! (usually translated as repent). The part of ✠ MATTHEW 6:1-6. 16-18
our body most in need of renewal in Lent is not the stomach, nor the knees, but the heart.
Jesus is hard on hypocrites, and it is precisely in the heart where the weakness of the hypo- Common Worship
crite lies. Three times he tells us to do our good works in secret, the three times representing Lectionary
the Lenten trio of Almsgiving, Prayer and Fasting. Of course, if you have a pure heart it will Joel 2:1-2.12-17
show, so your goodness will no longer be secret; but this cannot be achieved by striving for or Isaiah 58:1-12
it, only by praying to God. If you take short cuts your insincerity will be evident. Listen to Ps 51:1-17• 2 Cor 5:20b-
6:10
St Paul who says ‘Be reconciled to God’. When is the time to do this? Now is the favourable
✠ MATT 6:1-6.16-21
time. Listen also to the liturgy: ‘Turn away from sin and believe in the Gospel’. or John 8:1-11

PSALM An Individual Lament, according to the ac- Planning the Liturgy & Music The imposition of Ashes fulfils the
cepted classification, and a perfect example function of the penitential rite today.
of what this name means. Laments are not contrition Originally, not everyone received Ashes, only those who had been
and wailing all through: they cannot end without praise. made public penitents, who were reconciled on Maundy Thursday.
This one is a journey from looking inward (abject peni- Only later was the custom extended to the whole church, making
tence) to looking outward to acknowledge God’s love. Lent a season of penitence for everyone. There are no General Inter-
There is a turning point in the words, A pure heart cessions either.
create for me, O God, which recur on Sunday 5 and the
Easter Vigil, and could be a motto for the whole of
ASH WEDNESDAY: Music Planning Sheet
Lent. This is one of the most personal of psalms - Entrance Song
for the cantor as well.
LITURGY OF THE WORD
Psalm settings & other music RESPONSORIAL PSALM
Today people need music they can sing, e.g., sim-
ple Eucharistic Acclamations, unaccompanied if GOSPEL ACCLAMATION
necessary. There should also be (a) a cantor to lead BLESSING AND GIVING OF ASHES
the responses; or even (b) someone simply to start
off the music, e.g. the priest. The priorities are: Song 1
the Gospel and Euch. Accs; the Ps. response and
an ‘ashes’ refrain. Hymns can wait their turn.
Song 2 Mass continues as usual
• PSALM. (see also p.27.) HON637, C673, L48 & • ASHES: Come back to the Lord (Dean: L/RPs); or, repeat Ps 50); The
AA46 all use the Gelineau tone. A pure heart create God of Compassion and Love (T. Brown, Decani) with R. From ashes to ashes.
for me (O’Hara, AK20) could do for Ashes, and • Other chants: Now the acceptable time (Haas, WCBN2), with or without
other settings with this reponse will be a practice verses. Ditto O Lord, have mercy on your people (Alstott, BB). Jesus Christ,
for the Vigil Son of God (WG1); Miserere mei; Miserere nobis; Domine Deus (Taizé). Newer:
• GOSPEL ACCLAMATION: see p.27 Now is the acceptable time (Bridge) LJ/O-12738; Turn our hearts to you, O God
(Bridge) HPR/LJ/O-12740 Remember Not the Things
HON H
O & N/Cel/ Laudate* of the Past (Hurd) LJ
Celebration
1989 ed 1994(red) Liturgical Complete CFE
Laudate From all sources Where ©
- - - Ashes - - 196 LOOK FOR Renew; turn back; God’s compassion...
- - - Attend and keep this happy fast 25 60 -
- - - Come back to the Lord - - 194 Ashes (Conry) BB/G/L Cal
- - - Father of heaven, whose love 454 163 - Awake my soul, and with the sun passim PD
140 - 255 Fight the good fight 73 171 860 Come, let us to the Lord (I.Watts) HPs PD
- - - From the deep I lift my voice 81 - - Dust and Ashes (Haas) WCBN2/GC/GII Cal
155 - [271] From the depths of sin & sadness 466 188 - Dust, dust and ashes (Spiritual) CBL Cal*
156 - 269 From the depths we cry to thee 82 - - Judge eternal, throned in splendour AMNS PD
- - - Give me a new heart - - 195 Lord as I wake I turn to you (Foley) AMNS/ NEH Faber
- - 304 Grant to us, O Lord - 400 220 O for a heart to praise my God (Wesley) passim PD
- - - Hear us, almighty Lord (Attende D.) 751 253 196 O love how deep, how broad, how high passim PD
291 - [363] Keep we the fast 160 341 [199] Renew your people (Haas) G Cal
323 246 446 Lord, have mercy on your people - - -
Return to God (Haugen) GII/WL/G-3537/L Cal
327 248 448 Lord Jesus, think on me 180 384 204
335 256 458 Lord who throughout these forty days 183 392 205 Return to me (Hurd) G/BB Cal
344 263 - Many times I have turned 191 - - Return to the Lord our God (Dufford) FEW Cal
355 273 479 My God, accept my heart 201 495 872 Jesus, come to us (Haas) RUS Cal
- - - O Israel, return now 690 – - New heart and new Spirit(Haas) RUS Cal
- - 528 O Lord, be not mindful * 780 541 838 Seek the Lord (Roc O’Connor) EV Cal
- - - Our Father, we have wandered 577 587 211 Soldiers of Christ, arise passim PD
- - - Remember man, that you are dust *590 - - - Turn to me (Foley) EV/BB Cal
- - - Return to God - - 193 We come to ask forgiveness (Landry) RUS Cal
771 431 696 Turn to me - 752 786

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1st Sunday of Lent 5 March 2017
Hear the Word The opening sentences of the three readings are the most profound things
people will hear today and for many weeks. Will we listen? How can we make
Roman Lectionary
Genesis 2:7-9; 3:1-7;
ourselves pay attention? At every Mass we should be waiting to be surprised by what we hear. Into our Ps50 (51):3-6. 12-14. 17;
attentive ears today fall the first words:The Lord God fashioned man of dust from the soil. If this is not an ex-
traordinary anouncement, what would be? Yet we have become used to such huge statements in Church
Rom 5:12-19
(look at the Creed) and take them for granted. The subsequent verses of this reading tell a story which (or 12.17-19)
embraces almost everything about our lives: why are we capable of good and evil, even what makes men ✠ MATTHEW 4:1-11
and women human, different yet bound together as two parts of humanity. The 2R names the event de-
scribed in this story: the Fall, which is the origin not only of sin, but of Death itself as a consequence of CWL (principal service)
it. Since the dawn of the world we lived with this burden, but in his own time God gave us a gift which Genesis 2:15-17; 3:1-7
‘considerably outweighed’ it, divine grace coming through Jesus Christ. Jesus, who was ‘led by the Spirit Psalm 32
out into the wilderness to be tempted.’ Thus the Genesis story is reversed; a man is tempted, and does
Rom 5:12-19
not fall. The tests the devil organises are rather banal and show his basic emptiness - how could anyone
be taken in by this creepy being? The first two ask Jesus to perform acts which would show how much ✠ MATTHEW 4:1-11
greater is his power than Satan’s; the last offers a gift he does not possess. ‘The devil left him.’

PSALM This lament may be the most direct ad-
mission of guilt, sorrow and desire for re-
pentance in all scripture and is is the very best choice
to begin Lent. Just think, the whole Church today,
from parishioner to Pope, is singing: Have mercy on us,
O Lord, for we have sinned. Even if these actual words
were not sung by David (see 2 Sam 12) they are aston-
ishing, vivid words of one of our fathers in faith who
knew he had done wrong.
Scripture keywords: (i) desert, tempter (ii) Forty Days (iii) fast (iv) sin, repentance, new start (v) Be with me (Ps 91- cf Gospel)
Respond in Song Antiphons: EA/CAi: settings of Psalm 91 (e.g. L51, CFE979). CA: L191 Psall A31; Hurd ‘Out into the wilderness’ (LJ) v 3
Psalm settings See also Ash Wed and p.27. Settings using non-
Grail texts Be merciful, O Lord (Haugen, PCY/
GII; Be merciful (Joncas, Res/CM/G-3433); also Schiavone O-9505 ©
Cal. Others: Have mercy upon me, O God (Bell, CSN © Iona); Have pity,
God of grace (Quinn, PAS © Cal); Lord have mercy (Russian chant, arr
Ladd: CBL13). O for a heart to praise my God (Wesley, PD)
Look at the Liturgy Make the entrance rite special. CE (23) and Cer-
emonial of Bishops (§261) recommend a Peniten-
tial Procession before Mass, with the Litany of the Saints. See LTP’s Sacristy
Manual, 196-8. This ‘frames’ the season; the next Litany will be at the Vigil.
Remember (in the Intercessions) those at the Rite of Election. For a parish rite
of Sending the Candidates, see LP Vol 5 no 1 (Nov. 1997) or the US edition of
RCIA. Dismissal songs: see below. Prayers in Stages on the Way (SW): p33, 38; Eggs
& Ashes (EA) p.73;Week 1 of Lent Discipline p.34
Look at the Triduum: Relate 1R to the Vigil Genesis readings (esp. the
Creation); Gosp. to temptations in the Passion; Angel in Gethsemane (Lk 22:43)
ANTIPHONS EA: (Ps 91(90):15-16) When he calls on me, I will answer him;
Singing the Mass
I will deliver him and give him glory,
I will grant him length of days. + Ps 91(90):
CA: i: (Mt 4:4) One does not live by bread alone, + Ps 18 (19):8-15
but by every word that comes forth from the mouth of God. or Ps 118 (119):105-112
Singing theTheMass
ii: (Ps 91(90):4) Lord will conceal you with his pinions, + Ps 120 (121),
and under his wings you will trust. Ps 16 (17) or Ps 90 (91):1-3, 11-16

Refs, &
HON
HON H OH&ON/Cel/
& N/Cel/ Celebration
Celebration Refs, &
possible
1989 ed 1994(red) Liturgical
1989 ed 1994(red) Liturgical Laudate
Laudate
Complete CFE
Complete CFE
L*L* possible
use
use
291 - 363 Again we keep this solemn fast/Keep we the
fast/In company with Christians past 160 341 199 ii-iv
- - - Attend and keep this happy fast 25 60 - iii
627 466 797 Be not afraid 663 839 964 i
56 - 160 Behold the Lamb of God - - - iv (Ps 51) Walker); Go in peace (Haugen, UW/G-4839) or Ps 15 (16); In
683 86 207 Come back to me - 122 842 i, iv
116 104 234 Dear Lord and Father of mankind 60 143 934 iv  us by your name (Farrell) STL/O-11353/Can/L476
- - - Father of heaven, whose love profound 454 163 - iv
150 129 264 Forty days and forty nights 80 185 206 i-iv
- - - From the deep I lift my voice 81 - - iv
156 - 269 From the depths we cry to thee 82 - - iv
- - 291 God is my great desire 746 216 912 i, iv
699 - 304 Grant to us, O Lord - 400 220 iv
298 227 416 Lead us, heavenly father, lead us 165 351 315 i
- - - Led by the Spirit - - 180 i-iv
323 246 446 Lord have mercy on your people - - - i (Ps 51)
- - - Lord Jesus, as we turn from sin - - 202 iv
327 248 448 Lord Jesus, think on me 180 384 204 iv
335 256 458 Lord, who throughout these 40 days 183 392 205 i-iv
- 303 522 O Jesus, I have promised - 536 875 iv
- - 528 O Lord, be not mindful 780 541 838 iv
783 568 759 On Eagle’s wings [Ps 91] - 832 952 i, v
- - Our Father, we have wandered 577 587 211 i, iv
- - Safe in the shadow [Ps 91] 791 626 953 i, v
- - - The courage to say no - - 201 i, iv
- - - Trust in the Lord 635 750 - iv, v
602 - We will walk through the valley 350 790 - i
- - - We do not live by bread alone - - 974 iv
- - Your love is finer (Oh God, I...) 778 564 213 i
† Ps 90 (91) fatures in today's Antiphons
* see also Lent seasonal section (179-192)
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Singing the Mass Litany of the Saints (see above)
J.Walsh; B. Farrell (Res); Becker
(O-8877); Haas (WCBN1) Libera Nos, Domine (Taizé); Lent
Litany (Barr, OCP); Attende Domine.
• Journeys need signposts so sing some standard hymns
which will identify Lent.
• Sending the Catechumens: May God bless & keep you
(Walker CFE/L); May the word of God (Celtic Mass/Can,
love you summon (T1AU/L); see L , 393-395 etc) You have called
From all sources Where © use
From all sources Where © Refs/use
See also Lent Introduction and Ash Wednesday
From
Be allguardian
thou my sources and myWhere ©
guide NEH, etc Refs/use
PD i, v
Christian, dost thou see them NEH/AMNS PD i, iii, v
Come, let us to the Lord (Morison) HPs PD iv
Friends in faith (Dufner) SNC Cal iv, v
He walked where I walk (Kendrick) MP/Source MakeWay v
If you love me you will follow me (Consiglio) CWP Cal v
In this place (O’Hara) ITP Cal i, v
Jesu, Lord of life and glory NEH PD iv, v
Jesus walked this lonesome valley ICEL/GC/W PD i
Jesus, come to us (Haas) BB/RUS/IYT Cal v
Lay down your head (Bell) CSN/Res Iona i
Love which understands (Bell) CSN Iona v
New heart and new Spirit (Haas) RUS/IYT Cal iv
Now is the acceptable time (Bridge) LJ/O-12738 Cal iv
O kind creator, bow thine ear NEH PD ii-v
Out into the wilderness (Hurd) LJ Cal i, iv
Remember Not the Things of the Past (Hurd) LJ Cal iv
The feast and the fast (O’Hara) ITP Cal iii,iv
The glory of these forty days W/BB OUP i, ii
The Temptations (Bell) WG1 Iona i, ii
Turn our hearts to you, O God (Bridge) LJ/O-12740 Cal iv
We come to ask forgiveness (Landry) RUS Cal iv
When Satan speaks (Bell) CSN/L Iona i
2nd Sunday of Lent 12 March 2017
Hear the Word Last week it was ‘back to school’, remembering in its most basic terms why it
is we come to Mass. Today we remember some more landmarks in the story
Roman Lectionary
of God's dealings with us. Abraham (Abram at the time) is ‘our father in faith’, and his call by God, who Genesis 12:1-4
gives him a land to live in, is an event whose significance is of the greatest importance for us - we are Ps 33 (32):4-5.18-20.22
an Arahamic faith as are Jews and Muslims. In the Gospel, Elijah and Moses appear, two more figures 2 Tim 1:8-10
through whom the grace of God passed on its way to us. Both of them went to Mount Horeb to meet ✠ MATTHEW 17:1-9
the Lord, both of them brought the chosen people back to God when they were going astray. Elijah
was expected to return as a sign that the Messiah was at hand (Jesus talks of him in Matt 17:11-12).
Apart from these familiar figures the message of the readings is more diffuse than that of last week. CWL (principal service)
Love and hope; the Lord looks on those who revere him (Psalm); the grace of God revealed by the ‘ap- Genesis 12:1-4a
pearing’ of Christ Jesus,who has abolished death (2R). The Gospel each year on this Sunday relates the Psalm 121
same event, which lifts the veil on Jesus’s identity to the three disciples for a moment - and he ends up
talking about his rising from the dead, only the second time he has spoken these words. The Father’s
Romans 4:1-5.13-17
voice heard from heaven frightens the three, but Jesus reassures them. God is our help and shield; we ✠ JOHN 3:1-17
put our trust in him.

PSALM This long and beautiful hymn is the Look at the Liturgy The Transfiguration (Aug. 6) celebrates
source of many short selections in ‘glory fulfilled’, rather than ‘vision postponed’ as today. The preacher
should check the OR (Vol 2, p.120), Lectionary, and Preface for that
the Lectionary (including the Easter Vigil, where
day to compare • The US ed.of RCIA (§59) has a Pen. Act for baptized-
a different Response shows us another angle.) The but-uncatechized catholics for today.
verses chosen today stress (1) justice and right, the Look at the Triduum: Refer the ‘vision postponed’ idea to Easter
opening theme of the psalm; and (2) God’s love and Sunday. Jesus talks about his rising from the dead, and in Matthew this
our hope (see above), which the Response allows event comes between two predictions of his passion. Shortly Jesus will
everyone to acknowledge. enter Jerusalem on the way to his death. Link Abraham (1R) to vigil R 2.
Scripture keywords: (i) God’s presence; (ii) Vision of God; (iii) hope and trust in God cf Psalm); (iv) Abraham; (v) Jesus in glory/light;
Respond in Song Antiphons: EAii: Psallite A170; Remember, remember (Inwood) CA: Here is my servant (Psall A-34) (vi) adoration (cf Gospel)
ANTIPHONS EAi: Of you my heart has spoken, Seek his face.
Psalm settings Rest your love, O Lord (Ogden, PsS2.) A.Ward’s
Singing the Mass
It is your face, O Lord, that I seek;
response in RPs goes with her verse tune in Res or hide not your face from me. (Cf. Ps 26 (27): 8-9) + Ps 26 (27)
GW (Vigil pages). With other texts: Let your mercy be on us, Lord (Haugen, EAii: Remember your compassion, O Lord,
G/GII/PCY2*); Lord, be with us (Walker, OD/BB/RUS); O God of Love and your merciful love, for they are from of old.
Let not our enemies exult over us.
(Soper, O-9885, OCPs2) Lord, let your mercy (Alstott, O8715, o/p); Lord, let SingingRedeemthe us, OMass
God of Israel, from all our distress.(Ps 25(24):6,3,22) + Ps 24 (25)
your mercy (Dufford, FEW); God, let your mercy (Foley, PCY7) CA: This is my beloved Son, with whom I am well pleased;
Refs, & listen to him. (Mt 17:5) + Ps 2:7-12 or Ps 85 (86):6-19 or Ps 96 (97):1-6, 11-12
HON
HON H OH&ON/Cel/
& N/Cel/ Celebration
Celebration Refs, &
possible
1989 ed 1994(red) Liturgical L*L* Singing the Mass Sing at least one hymn about the
1989 ed 1994(red) Liturgical Laudate
Laudate
Complete CFE
Complete CFE
possible
use
use Transfiguration. Hymns commenting on the readings can be placed
50 43 147 At the name of Jesus 28 59 762 v at the P. of G.; this principle holds good on any Sunday, in fact
672 8 859 Adoramus te, Domine (gathering/comm) 696 11 667 this could be called the ‘post-Gospel’ hymn (and see L 188: Gospel
Responses, to be sung straight after the Gospel.) Communion songs
- - - Before the heaven and earth 727 - 754 to sing over several Sundays are: Now in this banquet (alt. ref 2) (Hau-
- 51 165 Be still, for the presence of the Lord - 72 720 i, Gosp gen) C/G/L etc; and psalms about Seeing; e.g. Ps 33 (34) Taste and
61 53 168 Be thou my vision 35 74 969 ii, iii See, and Ps 41(42) Like the deer that yearns (one of the E. Vigil psalms,
- - - Christ is the world’s light 428 111 744 v F so a chance to practice. Or Keep me safe, O God (Inwood, L40/GW)
- - - Christ whose glory fills the skies - - 670 v O which follows the Abraham reading at the Vigil.
112 101 229 Crown him with many crowns 56 139 321 i, v From all sources Where ©
- - - Eye has not seen 737 154 792 i, iii PG/C • Light Christ is the world’s true light (Briggs) var OUP
From all ofsources
In the cross Christ I gloryWhere
(Bowring) © var Refs/use PD
- - 253 Father, we come to you 739 166 463 ii, iv, v O
Jesus, come to us (Haas) PG RUS/BB Cal
140 - 255 Fight the good fight 73 171 860 ii, iii From
Nothingall sources
in height or in depthWhere
(Bell) ©T1AU
Refs/use
Iona
176 151 287 Godhead here in hiding 95 228 660 ii C Our darkness (ostinato) (Taizé) TSP Cal
- - - God, your glory we have seen 748 226 738 ii, v There’s a wideness in God’s mercy var/L* PD
212 - - Holy Father, God of might 120 256 - i, ii, v F Transfiguration
- - - How good, Lord, to be here - - 219 i, ii, v Christ, whose glory fills the skies (Wesley) var/L* PD
236 185 - I have made a covenant - - - iii, iv Christ, upon the mountain peak (Wren) W701/var OUP
246 - - In him we knew a fullness - - - ii, v God of mystery, God of mercy (Walker) CRC/O20987) Cal
242 196 361 Immortal, invisible 134 301 725 i, ii O How good, Lord, to be here (or*’Tis good) HPs/*PLR PD
- - Jesus, lead the way 763 327 - i, v I am sure I shall the the goodness (Taizé) CLM Cal
299 - 417 Leave your country and your people 530 354 867 iv Lord Jesus, once on Tabor’s height (Quinn) PAS Cal
301 230 419 Let all that is within me 167 356 - i, ii Our Saviour Christ once knelt (Dudley S) HTC OUP
357 - 481 My God, how wonderful thou art 203 497 727 i, ii God spoke to our father Abraham W578 Cal
The God of Abraham praise var/L* PD
424 - - O praise our great and gracious Lord - 548 664 i, (iv)
There is a redeemer MP/SOF Copycare
- - O raise your eyes on high and see 570 551 208 cf Gosp
Transform us us (Dunstan) RS881 Cal
- - One thing I ask of the Lord [Ps 27] 670 - 990 i, ii C Transfigure Us, O Lord (Bob Hurd) LJ/O-12888 Cal
- 253 453 Shine, Jesus, shine 768 388 770 i, ii, v F O raise your eyes on high and see AMNS Ampleforth
- - - The God of Abraham praise - - 712 i, iii, iv O Our Saviour Christ once knelt (Dudley S) HTC OUP
583 - - We are bound for the promised land 641 766 - iii, iv We are your people (J.Walsh) O7129/MM134 Cal
587 44 711 We behold the splendour of God - - 210 cf Gosp When Jesus led his chosen three (Idle) HTC Aut
621 - - Yahweh’s love will last - - - Psalm 41(42) - see p.41, and:
Like the deer that yearns (Barr) GW/Res Cal
settings of Psalm 41(42) - see alongside
Like a deer that longs (Haugen) Res/MHS Cal

* see also Lent seasonal section (179-192)

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3rd Sunday of Lent 19 March 2017
Hear the Word Our Lenten re-education takes another step today, as we learn again about Roman Lectionary
how our doubts, our questioning of God and our sinfulness meet only love Exodus 17:3-7
and generosity in return: see the last sentence of 2R what proves that God lives us is that Christ died for us
Ps 94(95):1-2.6-9
while we were still sinners. Look also at the last sentence of 1R: Is the Lord with us, or not? This is not a ques-
tion that we ask very much until we are in trouble - either personal, like serious illness in us or people Romans 5:1-2.5-8
we love; or when our society or country is threatened, something most of us have no experience of. The ✠ JOHN 4:5-42
Gospel has many questions from the Samaritan woman, which stem from the intial approach by Jesus. (or 5-15.19-26.39-
Look at what this is - we might say that today is about water as God's gift, and thus baptism, but it
starts with Jesus himself asking for a drink. He himself is thirsty. But her astonishment at this approach CWL (principal service)
(we do not know if he ever got the drink) by a Jew leads him to give the great promise of ‘living water’, Exodus 17:3-7
to show that he knows all about her life, and to reveal himself, in response to another remark she makes,
Psalm 95
as the Christ. She then, as is typical in John's Gospel, goes and persuades many others to come and see
Jesus for themselves, and their belief in him is confirmed by his staying among them and speaking to Romans 5:1-11
them for two days. She has ‘listened to his voice’ and no doubt feels the weight of sinfulness lifted from ✠ JOHN 4:5-42
her, as the prayers of the First Scrutiny ask that the elect may be freed from the slavery of sin.

PSALM An enthronement Song, describing (even Look at the Liturgy The ‘big Gospels’ of Sundays 3-5 could be
perhaps written for) a ceremonial entry read by several voices. • Scrutinies (the first is
into the Temple. In the Lectionary we always hear v.6 today) are ‘rites for self-searching and repentance’ (RCIA §128), in which the
as the Response, which colours our view of it. Look elect ‘are instructed gradually about the mystery of sin’ and their thirst for
Christ’s salvation is increased. If you don’t celebrate Scrutinies, remember,
at the psalm as whole and live it: ringing out our joy,
in the Intercessions, those who are. The whole church is involved in this: we
giving thanks, bending low, actions which the worship-
should all associate ourselves with it and ‘scrutinize’ ourselves.
pers on the steps of the Temple would perform too. It
follows the reading from Exodus which describes the Look at the Triduum: The Exodus reading, Romans reading;
event giving rise to the original 'hardness of heart.' Celebration of Baptism; renewal of baptismal promises
Scripture keywords: Praise (psalm) (i); Thirst, desert, water (ii); God the rock (iii); Listen to God (psalm) (iv); Gods sees our hearts (v); Christ died
Respond in Song Antiphons: EA i: Ps 25 - see last week. EA ii: Ezekiel 36 (Dean, Res); Grant to us, O Lord (Deiss) CA: Ps 84 settings (below) for us (2R) (vi)
ANTIPHONS EA i: Ps 25(24):15:1624 (25):1-2, 15-22 or Ps 56 (57)
Psalm settings CC679, HON645; O’Hara (AK28, C783/CFE555); O’Carroll Singing the Mass EA ii: Cf. Ez 36: 23-26
My eyes are always on the Lord,
(L52); Psall A-36; If today you hear God’s voice (Farrell, GBU/
for he rescues my feet from the snare. When I prove my holiness among you,
BFS) Songs based on: Come, ring out (CAN8); Come, ring out your joy (Schiavone)
Turn to me and have mercy on me, I will gather you from all the foreign lands;
OHB/BB/O-9426; Come, let us sing out our joy (Dean) C435/SPs/MMI 63; Come, O and I will pour clean water upon you
for I am alone and poor.
come, let us sing (Haugen) AW/G-4275; Listen to the voice of the Lord (Geary) Clifton, and
+ + Ezek 36:24-28 or Ps 33 (34) Ps cleanse you from all your impurities,
MMII155/PsS2; O come, let us worship (Johnson) MMII158 ©Aut; Venite Exultemus Singing the Mass
CA: Cf. Ps 83: 4-5 and I will give you a new spirit, says the Lord.
(Taizé) TSP/CT; A recent one Come, let us sing (Walker GB/0-20708; The sparrow finds a home,
Refs, & and the swallow a nest for her young: and my God.
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use Scrutinies: see above. Get the
44 38 140 As earth that is dry 400 - 203 ii
- 40 142 As the deer pants for water - 54 965 i, ii
Singing the Mass music involved. An introduc-
tory rite, e.g. O Lord be not mindful (C/CFE/L ) or Give us Lord
125 - - Draw nigh and take the body of the Lord 65 150 628 ii C
a new heart (Farrell, L/O-7104); a version of Ps 139 are possible
137 - - Fear not, rejoice and be glad 457 169 - ii
choices. The Litany for the Scrutinies (Walker, CWP2); We will
- - - Glorious things of you are spoken 827 i-iii
journey in faith (Schutte, CWP1). I'll follow my Lord (CAN) and
165 137 280 Glory be to Jesus 88 197 750 ii, vi
Take, O take me (CAYP/CAN/L395a*). EA: A pilgrim people
- - - God is my great desire 746 216 912 i
(p.110) • Gosp. Acc: Walker CWP2/Celtic Mass. The Good Shep-
- - - God, our fountain of salvation - 221 459 i. ii
herd (Hurd LJ) is a comm. song with verses for Sundays 3-5
- - - Give me a new heart, O Lord - - 195 ii, v
699 - 304 Grant to us, O Lord - 400 220 v From all sources Where ©
190 156 307 Guide me O thou great redeemer 104 233 960 ii From all sources Where © Refs/use
• Water All you who are thirsty (Connolly) G/G-2545 Cal
- - 868 In the Lord I’ll be ever thankful (+ Is 12) [759] 308 944 i, ii Come to the well (Farrell) GBU Cal
- - - Jesu lover of my soul 150 319 797 vi From all sources
Flow, river, flow (Hurd) Where © Refs/use
BB/ETY/O-8790 Cal
- - - Jesu, thou joy of loving hearts - - 649* iv Give us living water (Psall) Psall A-36 Cal
- - - Lord Jesus, as we turn from sin - - 202 v Living water/Send your spirit (Bridge) HPR70 Cal
371 - - New life! new life! 559 - - i The water I shall give (Hurd) LJ Cal
• Ps 139: My God, you fathom my heart (Huijbers) C557/HPR Cal
- - - My soul is thirsting (Joncas, Ps 62/3) - - 49 i O God you search me (Farrell) L/CBOL/O-10057 Cal
393 - 517 O God, thy people gather 223 529 - i, ii O Lord you hold and protect me (Taizé) CLM Cal
- - - O God, you search me - - 779 v You are there (O’Hara) SID Cal
395 300 519 O holy Lord, by all adored 228 - - i Father God (Gerald Markland) HONL248 KM
396 301 520 O how good is the Lord - - - i Lord Jesus Christ (Taizé) with verses TSP (L) Cal
400 - 525 O let all who thirst - - 408 ii • Thirst - Ps 63 (62) As morning breaks (Joncas) AVCO Cal
402 308 527 O living water 225 - 931 ii For you I long (Farrell) GBU Cal
For you my soul is thirsting (Hemson) PsS 3.63 Cal
404 311 529 O Lord, my God (How great thou art) 227 568 721 i, vi Gelineau version (+ Proulx antiphon): GC/W/RS Cal
424 - - O praise our great and gracious Lord - 548 664 i-iii I will call on the Lord (Sharpe) AK Cal
449 345 576 Praise, my soul, the King of heaven 260 602 807 i My heart is searching (Hurd) - refrain CWP1/CAN Cal
- - - Rock of ages 592 624 - iii, vi O God, you are my God (da Noust)- refrain EA Iona
- - - Shepherd of souls 597 641 665 ii C O God, you are my God alone (Bell) PPP Iona
- - - Those who seek your face, Lord - - 393 v O Lord I will sing (Walker) OD/O-9233 Cal
- - - To God be the glory 803 745 719 i, vi Une soif/Within me my soul is thirsting (Taizé) TSP/CT Cal
• love of Jesus the Lord: like the Samaritan woman
- - - To God with gladness sing (Ps 95) p345 746 3 i O How sweet the name of Jesus var PD
620 462 744 Yahweh, I know you are near 659 816 777 v I heard the voice of Jesus say var PD
- - - We shall draw water joyfully 696 i, ii I heard the voice of Jesus (arr Haugen) G-4840 Cal
- - - With joy you will draw water - - 399 ii Jesus, where’er thy people meet var PD
- - - You know me, Lord - - 778 v Restless is the heart (Farrell) O-9283/SL/RH/CWP2/FSB Cal
Those who seek your face, Lord (Walker) L/0-7150 Cal
* see also Lent seasonal section (179-192)
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4th Sunday in Lent 26 March 2017
Hear the Word If last week was a way of introducing the topic of Baptism for the benefit of Roman Lectionary
Roman Lectionary
catechumens and the elect, and the rest of us who are re-learning the basics I Samuel 16:1.6-7.10-13
alongside them, today brings to mind Confirmation, the second sacrament of initiation. Anointing Psalm 23 (22)
with oil is there in 1R and the psalm, and in terms of actions, if not of these words (daubed says JB), it Ephesians 5:8-14
is the heart of the Gospel as well. There will not be many people in the world who receive their sight ✠ JOHN 9:1-41
like the man in the Gospel - born blind, he had never had any sight - but in the Gospels, especially in (or 1.6-9.13-17.34-38)
John, the healing is not the whole story. Like nine of the ten lepers, the man might have gone off with
no more ado. But he stays, talks to people and most important, even more than the miracle, is the admis- CWL (principal service)
sion he makes in the last words he says: Lord, I believe. This chapter, like the others in this series, is artfully CWL (principal service)
I Samuel 16:1-13; Ps 23
and vividly written. Some people do not recognise the man - with eyes open he looks quite different, not a Ephesians 5:8-14
trivial detail (Jesse in 1R has ‘fine eyes’.). Then there is the argument about sinfulness, with the pious people ✠ JOHN 9:1-41
accusing the man of being untrustworthy because he is a sinner (unlike themselves, presumably.) There is (Mothering Sunday)
the metaphor of ‘light’ in 2R and Gospel. The 2nd Scrutiny prayers refer to darkness and light, and invoke Exod 2:1-10 or1 Sam 1:20-8; Ps
the Holy Spirit, who bade Jesus proclaim the Good News to the poor and give sight to the blind. 34:11-20/Ps 127:1-4; 2 Cor 1:3-7/Col
3:12-17; LK 2:33-35/Jn 19:25-27

This psalm of confidence is sung in both Look at the Liturgy The ‘exorcism’ for the 2nd Scrutiny asks
PSALM that the elect be freed from false values
Lent and Eastertide, at both weddings
that surround and blind them, and that they may be allowed to pass
and funerals. It is the one psalm we all know, the
from darkness to light. Both apply to all the rest of us too. Remember
psalm genuinely for all seasons. We love it for the those preparing for baptism in the Intercessions.
homely feel of ‘shepherd’, we are happy to say we are Look
at the Triduum: Talk about Maundy Thursday (when
guided. The difference is actually to let ourselves be penitents were once welcomed back (cf. the Gospel today) and the
guided. Note ‘anointed with oil’, something which will eucharist is commemorated); but the great eucharist of the Triduum is
actually happen at the Easter Vigil (and see alongside). at the Vigil, because it is the one in which the catechumens first take
Our liturgy has deep roots in the past. part fully, the summit of their initiation.
Scripture keywords: Eyes, sight, light (i), Shepherd (ii), healing (+ forgiveness) (iii) Rejoice (Laetare Sunday) (iv)
Respond in Song Antiphons: (EA: Psall A38. CA: Ps 122 settings. (N.B. Farrell is an entrance song, Hurd Let us go rejoicing (L470/651) has two texts
ANTIPHONS EA: (Cf. Is 66: 10-11) Rejoice, Jerusalem, and all who love her.
Psalm settings Choose your setting carefully. The Gelineau version Singing the Mass
Be joyful, all who were in mourning;
remains durable (L42/HON631/C667) but if you would like a simpler, exult and be satisfied at her consoling breast. + Ps 32 (33). Is 66:10-14 or Ps 121 (122)
Lenten version those on p.26 and 135 of the RPs (one-volume ed.) are CA: (Ps 122 (121)3-4) Jerusalem is built as a city bonded as one together.
a variation. PsS2 has two settings; Glynn (p34) is more suitable as e.g. It is there that the tribes go up, the tribes of the Lord,
a Communion song, Ollis (p.70) is simpler. See also: O’Hara, AK36; toSinging
praise the name of the Lord.. + Ps 31 (32) or Ps 121 (122):1-2, 5-9
the Mass
Boyce/Stanley RnS2/CAN. A new one: Walker 0-20675 or Psallite A39 Singing the Mass • Laudate users, check the
Refs, & Gospel Response (L188); it may shed light on the Gospel. •
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36 31 131 Amazing grace 19 40 846 iii Scrutinies: Ps 139, O God, you search me, is suitable again. A
52 - 153 Awake, awake, fling off the night 405 64 851 new version: O Lord you hold and protect me HPR33; other
- - - Awake from your sleep (cf 2R) - - 403 i, iv newer items are from the recent Taizé CLM: 14 Christe
83 - - Christ is my light - - - i Lux Mundi and 33 O Lord you hold and protect me. •* Today
- - - Christ whose glory fills the skies - - 670 i is Laetare (Rejoice) Sunday from the first word of the EA•
- - - Father, hear the prayer we offer 449 158 933 cf Psalm From all sources Where © use
- 136 279 Glory and praise to our God 473 196 695 i, iv
A listening heart (Hurd) DK Cal ii-iii
175 145 286 God forgave my sin in Jesus’ name 477 209 849 iii
At Jesus' name (Joncas) G-7136/ISA Cal i, iii
- - - Great God of mercy - - 429 i, iii Awake, my soul, and with the sun (Ken) var PD i
- - - He healed the darkness of my mind - - 453 i, iii Christ has made me whole (Lee/Goodear) MMI 102 Aut/Cal iii
- - - How can I repay the Lord [Comm] - - 619 iii From all sources Where ©
Christ is the world’s true light (Briggs) AMNS/NEH
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- - - I heard the voice of Jesus say - - 795 iii Christ whose glory fills the skies var PD i
- - - I saw the grass 140 283 - i From
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- - - Jesus, Lord of life and love 764 - - i How can I repay (Dean) O7119/HG Cal iii
I heard the voice of Jesus say var PD iii
- 219 - Just as I am - 339 - i, iii
I lift up my eyes (O’Hara) AK Cal i
- - - Lord, your love has drawn us near - 396 774 iii, iv I will sing the wondrous story HPs/MP Copycare i, iii
337 257 461 Love divine 184 398 801 iv Jesus, lead us on (Schiavone) OHB Cal iii
340 259 466 Loving shepherd of thy sheep 187 475 802 ii Lord, I was blind HTC/HPs/MP PD i, iii
343 - - Man of Galilee 190 480 - i, iii Out of Darkness (Walker) OD/O-9232 Cal i
373 - - Now come to me, all you who seek 208 510 - i, iii Rejoice in the Lord (Walker), round CAN  Cal iv
- - - Now in this banquet (+alt. ref. 1) 774 511 192 i, iii Song of the Man Born Blind (Hurd) LJ Cal
The Good Shepherd (Hurd) LJ Cal i, ii
396 301 520 O how good is the Lord - - - iii
Truth in the heart (Hurd) DK Cal
- - 565 Out of darkness - 591 835 i, iv When God calls us to witness (Dufner) SNC Cal
449 345 576 Praise, my soul, the King of heaven 260 602 807 iii, iv You are mine (Haas) L/WCBN2 Cal i
458 350 586 Praise we our God with joy 260 602 784 ii-iv You are my hope (Walker) 0-20717 Cal ii
- - - Shepherd me, O God - - 851 ii • Ps 23: Gentle shepherd (Colgan) BB Cal
522 - - The eyes of the blind 664 - - i My shepherd will supply my need (Watts) IRC PD
- - - The kingdom of God is justice and joy 798 701 821 iii, iv Psalm 23 (God alone will lead) Conry BB/CFE/0-8966/ Cal
The Lord is my shepherd (Joe Wise) G/GII Cal
529 401 657 The light of Christ 614 703 747 i
548 - 673 The Spirit of the Lord 319 716 - i Scrutiny:
* You are God’s work of art (cf 2R)Haas WCBN1/G/Res Cal/S&B
- 425 689 Thou (God) whose almighty word 629 738 887 i * We are God’s work of art (Haugen) WL/GII/G-3597 Cal
582 441 706 Walk with me, O my Lord 340 765 966 i * Blessed are we (Cotter) WCBN2 Cal
- - - We shall draw water joyfully 696 iii, iv * God of all mercy (Haas) WCBN1 Cal
- - - You are mine - - 776 i * Christ will be our light (Haas) WCBN1 Cal
- - - Your hand, O Lord, in days of old - - 431 i, iii * He healed the darkness (HaasWren) WCBN1/L435 Cal
* I want to call you (Haas) CG/G-3561 Cal
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also to be found in these hymnals. Look for † Children: I’ll find my friend (Walker, MSSJ); The Good Shepherd (Walker, SSJ);
33 There is someone (Farrell, SL); Taste and See (Dean, Four School Psalms (Decani))
5th Sunday of Lent 2 April 2017
Hear the Word The readings that lead up to the Gospel today are quite short, and apart
from the well-known Psalm may not strike much of a chord. 1R is from
Roman Lectionary
Ezekiel 37:12-14
Ezekiel, a book which consists mainly of extremely violent denunciations of the enemies of God both
within the chosen people and without; until in the final section the tone changes completely and God
Psalm 130(129)
promises to raise his people from their graves and put his Spirit within them. 2R is about how we are Romans 8:8-11
really alive - because of the Spirit with which God has filled us. The awkward (in English) last sentence ✠ JOHN 11:1-45
could be paraphrased: God the Father raised Jesus from the dead; if his Spirit is living in you, this will give life (11:3-7.17.20-27.33-45)
to your mortal bodies. They lead us to the last and greatest of the passages from John read on these three
Sundays. As with the others, it is carefully built up; everyone around Jesus - the disciples, the sisters CWL (principal service)
of Lazarus, and people who had come from Jerusalem to give them support - has a part to play and is Ezekiel 37:12-14
vividly described, so we can picture the scene. It is made very clear that Lazarus is dead, to make it Psalm 130
impossible to say that he is in a coma. Lazarus himself is not portrayed, nor does he speak; we are only Romans 8:6-11
told that Jesus loves him. The passage ends abruptly, without the description of the aftermath or com-
✠ JOHN 11:1-45
ments from the protagonist as in the previous two weeks. The aftermath in fact is Jesus's arrest, trial
and death; it was this miracle that caused the religious leaders to bring this about.

PSALM This is the other psalm (see last week Look at the Liturgy One of the exorcisms for the Third Scrutiny
for the first) that everyone knows. It calls on the ‘Father of life and God not of the dead but of the living.’
Over the elect the priest prays ‘Free from the grasp of death those
can be the voice of Lazarus, Martha, each of us
who await your life-giving sacraments and deliver them from the spirit
individually longing for peace or forgiveness, or the of corruption.’
whole Church waiting for Easter. Since the begin-
Look at the Triduum: Epistle/Gospel of the Vigil, obviously.
ning of Lent we have been doing our best to keep Issue a renewed, warm invitation to
true to the way of the Lord, and singing of his love take part in the Three Days, to come and join in the church’s
and mercy. Let us sing of it once more. annual remembrance of the Paschal Mystery.
Scripture keywords: Resurrection (i); Forgiveness (psalm) (ii); New creation, new life, new spirit (1R) (iii); God’s love and
Respond in Song Antiphons: EA Psallite A41-B45. CA Psallite B-48, and see Singing the Mass mercy (Psalm) (iv)
ANTIPHONS EA: (Ps 43(42):1-2). Give me justice, O God,
Psalm settings The Gelineau version is a classic: HON655/C689. A Singing the Mass
and plead my cause against a nation that is faithless.
recent version: O’Hara, AK36. PsS2 has the pleasant From the deceitful and cunning rescue me,
From the depths I cry to you (A.Smith) - one could quibble that the response for you, O God, are my strength.+ Ps 42 (43)
is not as in the Lectionary and gives the psalm a different slant. Use your CA: (Jn12:24-25) Amen, Amen I say to you: Unless a grain of wheat
judgement. O Christe Domine Jesu (Taizé) a versatile piece, incorporates falls
Singing theto the ground and dies, it remains a single grain.
Mass
verses. With the Lord there is mercy (McAller, LJ) is a recent addition. But if it dies, it bears much fruit. + Ps 31 (32)

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- - - Again the Lord’s own day is here 386 12 - i, v
70 67 182 Breathe on me, breath of God 36 98 302 iii
- - 222 Come to me and I shall give you rest* - - - ii, iv
- - - Deep within (cf 1R) - 245 218 iii
136 - - Fear not, for I have redeemed you 456 - - iii
150 129 264 Forty days and forty nights 80 185 204 vi
- - - From the deep I lift my voice* 81 - - ii, iv
155 - - From the depths of sin & sadness* 466 188 - ii, iv
156 - 269 From the depths we cry to thee* 82 - - ii, iv
- - - Gift of love - - 217 v
699 - 304 Grant to us, O Lord - 400 220 iii
225 - 348 I am the bread of life (Konstant) 128 271 - i
226 183 349 I am the bread of life (Toolan) 501 272 629 i
- - [243] I heard the voice of Jesus say - - 795 iv
- - - I have loved you - 276 775 ii
- - [278] Jesus Christ, I think upon your sacrifice - - - iii
- - [288] Jesus the Lord said ‘I am the bread’ 523 - 746 i, v
323 246 446 Lord, have mercy on yourr people - - - ii
335 256 458 Lord, who throughout these 40 days 183 392 205 vi
- - - Neither death, nor life - - 398 i-iii
- - - Out of the direst depths* - - 207 ii, iv
- - - Out of the depths (Soper)* - - 452 ii, iv
564 Ours were the sufferings - - - v Versions of Psalm 130 (129) - others alongside
452 346 579 Praise the Lord! Ye heavens 585 605 704 i, iv
495 373 626 Sing to the mountains 604 657 282 i
There’s a wideness in God’s mercy 810 ii, iv
555 416 680 This day God gives me 325 729 673 iii
- - 697 Unless a grain (Farrell) 812 754 748 i
773 - - Unless a wheatgrain - - - i
- - - Who calls my life again 750 - - i
Lent should teach us, is to have
a new heart. So: Grant to us, O Lord (Deiss;) Deep within (Haas);
I will put a new spirit within you (Dean, Res.) Turn our hearts from
stone Psallité C-35. These could be sung as meditation at PG
or Communion. A pen. rite which does not ‘look to the past’
(see above) is O Lord, be not mindful (Deiss, L838/CFE541).
There is an optimistic feel today, in contrast to the old ethos
of ‘Passion Sunday’, though some hymns on the approaching
passion of Jesus are listed as well. • Scrutiny: God of the living
(WCBN1), one of a series of three acclamations for Sundays
3-5; I want to call you (Haas) CG/GII ©Cal. Settings of Ps 138
(139): scrutinising the heart. Choir directors: have you chosen
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Come let us with our Lord arise AMNS/NEH/CP PD i
Christ will be your light (Haas) WCBN/G4873 Cal i
Ezekiel 36 (I will put a new Spirit) Dean Res Cal iii
I am the Resurrection Psallite A43 Cal i
I am the resurrection and the life (Hurd) LJ Cal i
I want to call you (Haas) CG/GII/WCBNII/G3561 Cal i
Jesus, lead us on (Schiavone) OHB Cal i, iii
O death, where is your power (Walker) IFIH/O-12211 Cal ii
O for a thousand tongues (Wesley) AMNs/NEH PD i
Scented love (Mary and the ointment) EA Iona
Thou art the Way (Doane) AMNs/NEH PD i
We have seen & we have heard (Haas) WCBNII/G-3446 i
When God calls us to witness (Dufner) SNC Cal
From the depths I call to You (Oswin) MMI 72 Aut
Out of the depths (Soper) 0-9566/L Cal
Lord, from the depths IRC PD
Up from the depths (Idle) PsT Jub
With the Lord there is mercy (McAller) LJ Cal
Two versions in CAN, 47 & 48 (Walker, Dean); also
I wait for the Lord (v.5) Shelland CAN148 Cal
Our soul is waiting (v.5) Taizé CAN15/TSP Cal
A PD text and easy SATB chorale in ‘A Choir Book for Lent’ (GIA)

* see also Lent seasonal section (179-192) Children: God of mercy (Farrell, SL, Can, FSB)
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Passion (Palm) Sunday 9 April 2017
Hear the Word Gospel of the Palms: Matt 21:1-11 Mass: Isaiah 50:4-7; Ps 21; Phil 2:6-11;
Gospel of the Passion ✠ MATT 26:14-27:66 (27:11-54)
The liturgy begins with a ‘Transfiguration moment’ (i.e. anticipated glory) the exuberant procession in which we
are encouraged to acclaim in triumph ‘Hosanna to the son of David!’ It all changes after that. What would our
own response have been - cheering with the crowds, then denying our Lord? Today really is Passion Sunday; Jesus’
sufferings are portrayed starkly today, not as a triumph, as on Good Friday. This week brings us back to
the original heart of the Gospel - the passion, death and resurrection. Each evangelist has his own de- CW
tails; only found in Matthew are the following: The thirty pieces of silver, Judas’s remorse and the field of Liturgy of the Palms:
blood; the words ‘Put back your sword’; Pilate’s wife’s dream and his handwashing.The words ‘His blood Matthew 21:1-11
be on us and on our children’ have been vilely exploited by Christians, but at the Millennium Pope John Psalm 118:1-2.19-29
Paul II asked forgiveness for anti-semitism, for any hint of hatred for Jews or blame for Christ’s death. Liturgy of the Passion:
The account of the institution of the Eucharist at the Last Supper today is the only one read from
Isaiah 50:4-9a; Ps 31;
the Gospel this week (on Thursday there is one from St Paul; and St John does not have this event.) The
Phil 2:5-11;
Passion Gospel today, begins with Judas's betrayal. So that this does not overshadow Maundy Thursday, a
Matthew 26:14-27:66
final invitation to celebrate the whole Triduum should be issued today.

The Palm Sunday procession is the Church coming to a meeting with the Lord, ‘who, by his
Look at the Liturgy entrance into Jerusalem, gave a glimpse of his own majesty’. It is an elaborate Entrance Rite
which should be done with dignity and good organisation, as it is the gateway for the whole week.
‘Since St Paul says Provided we suffer with him in order that we may also be glorified with him (Rom 8:17), the link
between these two aspects of the paschal mystery should stand out clearly in the liturgical celebration and catechesis of Palm
Sunday.” (§CB263). After the Passion some silence is suitable, but the preacher also needs to ‘break the word’, however briefly
(cf. Homily for Palm Sunday in The Three Days (LTP, 1991). Musicians should show Lenten restraint. There should be silence
or vocal music to listen to, perhaps, at PG; if no music, the priest does not need to say the ‘blessing’ prayers out loud either.
Silence is suitable too at the end of Mass, to show that today leads on to something greater. See the article about Silence (p25).

Music for the Rites
The Gathering Hosanna: Settings in Psallite, GW, Res, MHWE
(including R.R Terry!). Others: Rees (MMII
239), *Prochaska (RUS). Hosanna, filio David (Taizé) Hosanna to the
King (Baty, Concept Music). Some overlap with the next section:
Settings common to Res/GW/MHWE: Palm/Pas-
The Procession
chal Proc. (Walker); Come to Jerusalem (Ps 47:
Dean, also in L:); Hosanna (Taizé); Others: Palm Sunday Processional
(Toolan) Res; Hosanna to the Son of David (Schutte) Res/O-10696; Ho-
sanna on high (C.Willcock) Res with Sanctus verses, or HPR41 with Ps
24. In MHWE: Pueri hebraeorum (Plainsong); The children of Jerusalem/
When the people heard (Murray), Lauda Jerusalem (Deckers). Plus:
Hosanna (Soper) G-4619 Cal
Hosanna filio David (Tamblyn) EM/Can Cal
Hosanna, hosanna, hosanna Psallite A44 B50 C50 Cal
Palm Sunday Procession (Cooney) G-5012 Cal
Processional Chant (McCurry) MMII 240 Aut
King of Glory (Tamblyn) HG/O-7121 Cal
Chosen people of the Lord BB/GW/MHWE Aut
Hosanna! Palm Sunday Processional (O’Brien) G-5455 Cal
Hymns: All glory, Laud and Honour ; Hail Redeemer; Ride on, ride on
The Liturgy of the Word
• Responsorial Psalm: Smith (MMII 241/PsS2); 2 in GW, 4 in MHWE, 2
in Res. Also: C. Walker (OD), Psallite A45, B51, C51 (all © Cal), plus the usual
Resp Ps books. With other texts: Schiavone (O-9789), Haugen (PCY/G); Why
have you forsaken me? (O’Hara, AK; Cal)
• Gospel Acclamation: 2 Settings in GW; 2 in Res (Foster/ Haas) 5 in
MHWE; a metrical version to a German chorale, MMII42
• Hymns/chants based on Phil. 2:6-11 include:
Before the heaven and earth (Black) C/MP/L Jub
Christ Jesus the lowly (Duck) DIU Cal
Every knee shall bow (Dean) Decani/L Cal
Let us have the mind of Christ (Haugen) OYG G-6934
Though one with God (arr. Bell) GW/WG2/Res Iona
Jesus the Lord (R. O’Connor) DP/O-9935 Cal
Our Saviour, Christ, of godly nature (Forster) HONL563 KM
Though in the form of God (Huijbers) GW1 Cal
*Lord Jesus Christ humbled himself (SATB or unison) arr Proulx, G-
3791. (There is other simple choir music for 2-4 voices in CBL)
• Acclamations in the Passion: Walker, Passion according to St
John (OCP), e.g. Jesus I will stay with you (HPR51) and There is
no greater love (HPR118); Passion Acclamations: Dufner, CAN 122.
Music in the Passion: suggestions (no need to use all the ’slots’)
After 22:53 (My song is love unknown, V.1); 23:25 (My song v.5, or Ah
holy Jesus v.2); 23:34 (Were you there, v.1) and 23:38 (ditto, v. 2; Ah
holy v.3; O sacred v.4). At end: O Sacred 5, Were you there when
they laid him..., Ah holy 4, My song 7, or Jesus, Remember me, or
Dufner Gospel Response (L188).
Walker’s St John Passion (O-15026) is obviously not for today but does have
some useful Refrains, and you could find others. A set of words to O sacred
head by D. Schutte: Passion Acclamation (GiC).
From all sources Where ©
• After the Gospel (if needed)
As prophets foretold (Jones) O-11943/L Cal
Meditation on the Passion (Walker) MMI 149 Cal
O Jerusalem (Haas) G-4733/Res Cal
Jerusalem, Jerusalem (Bell) WG2 Iona
Weep not for me (Dean) Decani/Res Cal
Ours were the griefs (Dean) WWC/O-7246/L Cal
O Lord, heal us (Walker) ANJ Cal
O death, where is your power (Walker) O-12211 Cal
• Communion
Father if this cup (Dean) EM/L/Res Cal
Father, if this cup (Norbet) BB Cal
If I must drink this cup Psall A46
O Lord, heal us (Walker) ANJ Cal
In faith, in hope (Walker) IFIH Cal
• Is. 53 (a Good Friday reading, but suitable today)
In you no beauty (Dufner) SNC Cal
Ours were the sins (Sharpe) AK Cal
See Christ was wounded for our sake L236 Faber
Song of the Centurion (Feeley) Decani Cal
Surely he bore all my grief (Guimont) G3686 Cal
The Servant Song (Joncas) GLL Cal
The Servant (Bell) WG2 Cal
• Other hymns
*A stable lamp is lighted WC/G-3805; or WIII/G-2754 Aut
Behold the Holy Lamb of God (Bell) CSN Iona
O Crucified Messiah (Scialla) O-12780/Res2012 Cal
Ride on Jesus (Arr. Haugen,WL; Tamblyn, CM) Cal
Ride on, ride on (Bell) WG2 Iona
Throned upon the awe-full tree (Ellerton) IRC PD
When the Son of God was dying (Bell) WG2 Iona
Ah, holy Jesu (Bridges) NEH (OUP), GW (© Jub)
In the Lord’s atoning grief (tr. Oakley) ICEL PD
Were we with you, Jesus (Gardener) MMII 238 Aut
My song is love unknown various PD

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The Easter Triduum 13-16 April 2017
I n the first centuries, there was only one
How do you start planning
feast in the year, the Pasch, an all-
night vigil commemorating the whole
‘paschal mystery’, the passion, death,
resurrection and ascension of Jesus.
It was Holy Week and Eastertide all in
one. There was passionate argument
as to whether it should be celebrated
on a Sunday or, like the Passover, on
any day. Sunday, the day of the Resur-
rection, prevailed.
B y the 4th century the single Vigil
had given way to a‘phased’ celebra-
tion of Holy Week. The Spanish pilgrim
Egeria (c.383-4) described how the
events of Holy Week were celebrated
in Jerusalem at the actual sites they
had occurred. St Augustine was one
of the first to talk about ‘the triduum’
(three days), of Christ who died, was
buried and rose (Friday, Saturday and
Sunday - the Thursday evening Mass
was a later development.)
T he Saturday night Vigil came to
be celebrated earlier and earlier
and ended up on Saturday morning
- Evening eucharists were prohibited
until the 1950s. But there is no Vigil if
it doesn’t happen at night. The revival
of the night Vigil in 1951 was the start of
the modern liturgical reform. However,
there are signs that it is starting to creep
earlier in the evening again, as people
are nervous of coming out at night.
W hat gives the Vigil its fullest
meaning is Initiation. Note this
means not just Baptism, rather the whole
majestic progress through the three steps
(so often celebrated separately) of Bap-
tism, Confirmation and their culmination,
Eucharist. This is probably the only time in
the year people witness this great event
in its entirety. It also helps to focus the
mind to think that Eucharist is the sum-
mit of everything that the life, death
and resurrection of Christ signifies.
Points
• KEEP IT SIMPLE. The Triduum is a
unique once-a year ritual. To ensure it
is grounded in the community's mem-
ory, don’t change things every year.
Integrate music and action; Music is
only one element of the liturgy.
• The Triduum is for the whole
community. The liturgies are celebrated
only once. Everyone (musicians note)
must work together to prepare them.
• Instruments are not prohibited, but
between the Thursday and Vigil Glorias
they may be used ‘only for the purpose
of supporting the singing’ (CE50)
• The Exsultet is sung by a deacon; by a
priest if there is no deacon; or by a lay
person if neither are able to do so.
a checklist by
Ellen Flynn and
THE TRIDUUM? Therese McCusker
The Easter Triduum is the culmination of the liturgical year.
- The Triduum begins with Evening Mass of the Lord’s Supper (on Holy
Thursday), reaches its high point in the Easter Vigil and closes with
Evening Prayer on Easter Sunday.
- It is the church’s solemn festival of the Paschal Mystery, the Mystery of
our faith. (General norms for the Liturgical Year, March 1969)
In General
- the Easter Triduum is one whole celebration, not a series of separate ele-
ments. Each celebration sheds light on the others and flows to and from
them. They are not intended to be thought of as a chronological re-en-
actment of events as if we had no idea of what might happen next (i.e.
to celebrate Good Friday rather like a funeral, as if we had never heard
of the Resurrection).
• The Triduum is to be highly valued as our most important festival. It
needs and deserves careful planning, preparation and rehearsal.
• The rites and texts are very rich and must be served and enhanced by
our treatment of them.
Adhere closely to them and do not obscure them.
• Promote dignity, reverence and a sense of the holy.
HOLY THURSDAY Mass of the Lord’s Supper
- Musical priorities remain the same as every Mass, i.e.
The Gospel Acclamation
The Eucharistic Acclamations (Holy, holy/Mystery of Faith/Great Amen.)
Use settings the people know and sing well - a challenge with new set-
tings having only recently been introduced.
- Aim to sing the psalm of the day, led by a cantor with people’s reponse
- Accompany the Washing of the Feet with appropriate music.
GOOD FRIDAY Celebration of the Lord’s Passion
- The Gospel Acc!amation is a musical priority.
- Simplicity, even starkness, is essential. Silence is important.
- Musical content is sparse and should be carefully chosen. Give prefer-
ence to the texts in the Missal. Some older versions may be used; it is
not essential to sing e.g. the Reproaches in the revised text.
- Avoid anything which makes today look like a funeral. This is the
triumph of the cross. At the Adoration , the first text is We worship you
Lord, and the hymn is Sing, my soul, the glorious battle.
THE EASTER VIGIL
- should take place at night, that is, it should begin after nightfall or end
before the dawn of Sunday
• The musical priorities remain the Gospel Acclamation (Easter Alleluia)
and the Eucharistic Acclamations. Sing familiar settings.
• Aim to sing the prescribed psalms after the readings you have chosen;
do not replace them with other songs.
(The minimum number of Old Testament Readings is three, including
Exodus 14:15-15:1). However, the assumption should be that all are read.
The canticle which follows the Exodus reading is a priority among the
psalms. The text must be preserved and flows straight on from the read-
ing. (‘The word of the Lord’ is omitted.)
• The Light of Christ (during the opening procession), the Exsultet and
the Litany of the Saints (when there is a baptism) should all be sung.
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Maundy Thursday 13 April 2017
Hear the Word Exodus 12:1-8.11-14; Ps 115(116); 1 Cor 11:23-26. ✠ JOHN 13:1-15
To show that this is only the first part of a three-day liturgy, a passage through death, the 1R is
about the Passover, which until the time of Jesus was the definitive ritual of rebirth. The Last Sup-
per could have been the climax of Jesus’s life and work; most people would say there is nothing more
God needs to do than kneel and wash our feet, and to give us a means (the Eucharist) by which he
can be present to us for ever. This is enough to demonstrate what love means, surely; as the
Passover song Dayenu has it, ‘It would have been enough’, and as we sing, Where charity and Common Worship
love are found, there is God - which is the message of ‘God so loved the world’ and Deus caritas Ex 12:1-4.[5-10]11-14
est. But, Paul reminds us in the earliest account of the Eucharist, this was also ‘the night he Psalm 116:1-2.12-19
was betrayed.’ After an unmistakable demonstration of love, all the twelve (not just Judas) (or 11.19)
abandoned him. The question for us is ‘Can you not watch an hour with me and pray?’ It 1 Corinthians 11:23-26
was not a simple meal Jesus was giving us, but his life, of which the meal is a sign. ✠ JOHN 13:1-17. 31b-35

Look at the Liturgy • The Holy Oils, blessed by the
bishop at the Chrism Mass, may be received at Mass (see The
Three Days, LTP, p.33; also Pastoral Patterns, WLP/Decani.)
Music: Rite for Receiving the Holy Oils (Schiavone, O-9120/L) or
Procession of the Oils (Inwood/Griffiths, Magnificat)
• The footwashing is an outstanding liturgical action, which re-
sists being sentimentalised. The number of people to be washed
is not specified; the rubrics state they should be ‘men’ but popu-
lar opinion generally disagrees with this. The practical outcome
of witnessing this act of service is the collection of money and
gifts, especially those gathered during Lent as the fruit of pen-
ance, which today is directed to be given to the poor. These gifts
are brought up in the Procession, while Ubi Caritas is sung, the
only ‘Offertory song’ in the Roman liturgy outside the Graduale.

Music for the Rites

• Gathering
The entrance hymn is the gateway to the Triduum. The glory of the
cross we sing (Res/L/GW/MHWE) is a model of such a text. See also
Our glory and pride (Psallite),We should glory (Dean, Res/EM). The
heavenly word (Res etc); Love is his word (passim); Love one another
(Johnstone, Decani) is a dignified processional song. Prepare a room
for me (Res) is a scripturally based, simple hymn. Some hymns have
words for all three days of the Triduum: Glory in the Cross (Schutte,
GiC/O-11484), Triduum Hymn: Wondrous Love (trad/Haugen, WL/
GII/ G-3544); Tree of Glory (O’Brien, YAH/G-3779).
• Gloria
Don’t sing your most festal Gloria, in spite of the organ fanfare and
bells (the P. Jones version could be sung as an entrance song.)
• Responsorial Psalm
Our blessing cup: Hurd, L55/EL; OEW/Joncas; The blessing cup
CH/Walker; Furlong, MMII-24; Brown, PsS2; Rowlinson Decani
0295; The cup we bless Willcock/GHA). Several settings in Res/GW/
MHWE; Gelineau (HON651) and usual books. Ps 116 may be sung
at Communion. • Gospel Acclamations in the same sources
• Mandatum (Washing of Feet)
Settings of, or containing, the Missal antiphons: The Lord Jesus (We-
ston, MHWE/GW); A new commandment (passim, also Psallite C-55);
Faith, hope & love (Walker, MMII-244/O-7149); No greater love (Joncas,
MHWE/GW/NGL/G3140, 3141); Mandatum (Jones, Decani); Serving
you (Guimont, GII/G-3710); Song of the Lord’s Command (Haas, TaT/G-
4682); So you must do (Haugen, Res/UW/ G-4841) If I, your Lord and
Master and Faith, hope and love (Dean, Res/Decani). Also:
As I have done for you (Schutte) GiC Cal
Do you who follow (Dufner) SNC Cal
If I, your Lord and master EA160 Iona
Jesus took a towel (Waddell) W/WeCel Cal
Jesu, Jesu (Colvin) L/GW/W CopyCare
Love each other (Walker) CWP ii Cal
Love one another (Foster) Decani Cal
Our peace and integrity (Weston P.) BB Cal
Remember (what I the Lord have done for you) Waddell WLP8226 Cal
Song of the Lord’s Supper (Joncas) G/GII Cal
The Song of the Supper (Bell) WG2/L Iona
There is no greater love (Scialla) G-6807 Cal
There is no greater love than this (Haugen) TYHL/LL (G-6537) Cal
There is no greater love (Walker) HPR/St John Passion Cal
This is my will, my one command (Quinn) var Cal
• Procession of Gifts: Ubi Caritas.
A beautiful simple setting is Rees (GW/MHWE/MM1-125/HONL).
Others: God is love, and where true love is (Quinn text, GW/CFE/L
with Murray tune; with tune by Proulx, G-4853). Where are love
and loving-kindness (HON/C). Where charity and love prevail (Benoit,
L/G/GII, octavo WLP-8593). Faithful Family (Cooney, GII/O-5275).
Hymn version Where true love is dwelling (Quinn, Res);Faith Hope and
Love (Dean, L) the newer Taizé setting (Gelineau) Res. New: God
is love (Joncas) O-20617
• Communion Hymns/Songs:
And when you eat this bread (O’Hara) AK Cal
Bread of life, cup of blessing (Dufner/Guimont Amen, etc. G-7205 Cal
Blessing Cup (Baty) - Ps 115(116) Concept Cal
Call us to your table (Walker) IFIH/O-11993 Cal
Come, Christ’s beloved (Walsh L/GW or Foster:Decani Cal
Draw nigh and take the body of the Lord var PD
Father, if this cup (Weston Priory) BB/JS Cal
I will raise (Ps 116) Inwood O-10186 Cal
In faith, in hope (Walker) IFIH/CWP Cal
Lord, how can I repay (Glynn) PsS2/L Cal
No greater love (Guimont) G-3687 Cal
O how blest (Schiavone) Res/O-9427 Cal
O thou, who at thy Eucharist (Turton) var. A&M
One in body, heart and mind (Walker) ANJ/O-10583/CWP2 Cal
Ps 116: How can I repay the Lord (Dean) L/O-7119 Cal
Ps 116: The Name of God (Haas) AWT Cal
Song of the Lord’s Supper (Joncas) G/GII Cal
The bread that we break (Dean), Res/O-7102/GW Cal
This is the body of Christ (chant)(Bell) T1AU. Iona
We come as guests invited (Walsh) EM/O-7241/L Cal
• Procession of the Blessed Sacrament
Be traditional: Pange Lingua in Latin or English. Or both:Schutte (GiC)
has added an English response to the Latin chant verses .
• After Stay with me (Taizé); Lay down your head (Bell: Res/CSN).
Not a recessional hymn - there is no ‘end’ tonight
• Other songs
God is love (Joncas) O-20617 Cal
Let us share this bread of life (Hurd) AGG Cal
Let your restless hearts (Bell) WG2 Iona
When the time came (tr. Daly) GW/C/HONL/Res Cal
An upper room (Pratt Green) C/CBL/L. S&B
Into one we all are gathered - (Ubi Caritas) (Cockett) Cal
Jesus our Master (Hewlett) NEH OUP
Lord God, your love has called (Wren) AMNS OUP
Lord Jesus Christ, upon the night HON OUP
May love be ours (Schutte) DD Cal
Where love is found (Schutte) GiC Cal

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Good Friday 14 April 2017
Hear the Word Isaiah 52:13-52:12. Ps30(31). Heb 4:14-16, 5:7-9.✠ JOHN 18:1-19:42
Ideas of tragedy, of ‘O come and mourn with me awhile’, which we might bring to the Good
Friday liturgy, are contradicted by today’s traditional hymn ‘Sing, my tongue, the glorious battle.’
The piety of the Stations of the Cross, with its close attention to the physical suffering of Jesus,
is not part of the celebration. There is no Simon of Cyrene in St John. ‘Carrying his own cross,
he went out of the city to the place of the skull...’ Today we see the Triumph of the Cross. Jesus
is not dead and we should not pretend that he is. St John shows Jesus as ‘reigning from the
tree’; much is made of the sign ‘The King of the Jews’; Jesus commends his mother and Common Worship
the beloved disciple to each other (a scene only found in St John), and knowing that all has Isaiah 52:13-52:12.
been accomplished, he bows his head and gives up his spirit. Before this, we hear about Psalm 22 (1-11 or 1-21)
the servant of God who took the world’s sins on him (Isaiah), and about Jesus our High Hebrews 10:16-25 or
Priest who understands our human condition because he humbly submitted to temptation 4:14-16, 5:7-9.
and suffering (Hebrews). After, we pray the great Prayer of Intercession for the world. ✠ JOHN 18:1-19:42

Look at the Liturgy Today’s liturgy has unique features which date back many centuries. It begins with the simplest
of opening rites: a procession and a prayer. The General Intercessions, for centuries before
Vatican II restored them as an integral part of Mass, were the only Bidding Prayer in the year. They are a model of what
such prayers should be: an intention is proposed; we pray in silence; the priest ‘collects’ our prayer. It is clear that it is the
whole congregation which prays. A sung response could be incorporated.
The Veneration of the Cross was already in existence in the 4th century, though the Reproaches are more recent. The
Communion came later, and not all churches include it in their liturgy even today.
The liturgy begins and ends in silence, which make it a bridge from Thursday to the Vigil. As said above, Jesus is not
dead; though we wait until Sunday to sing it, Jesus is risen. But the important thing is to recall the journey that Jesus
made. Indeed we make it ourselves. If we say at Easter that we are risen with Christ, today we die with him.
Music for the Rites • During the Adoration Start with the Missal texts:
• The Psalm An Individual 1. Antiphon We worship you, [O] Lord (Dean, Decani, and
the WORD Lament, which like oth-
ers of this kind ends with
Bath - see below). A ‘Triumph of the cross’ piece in tune with
John’s Gospel, like ‘Faithful Cross’. Also Charlier C1007
words of thanksgiving. The 2. Reproaches: You don’t have to use the revised text as this
Cantor is privileged (as on Palm Sunday) to be able to sing is an optional item. If you do, it is in Res 2012 with a simple
such words as if in the person of Jesus. A simple (possibly Peter Jones setting. Other versions: MHWE (ten settings).
unaccompanied) setting is indicated, a way of marking the Res has three. Also: Plainsong arr. Inwood (GW/LBCR;) Inwood
special austerity of today. (MMII/O-10188); Jakob (Res); Jones (EM/L); My people Duf-
• Settings Res/GW/MHWE; MMII-245 /PsS2 (unac- ford (NSNG); Answer me Quigley (Res/Decani); O my people
companied plainsong, arr. GBS); an ostinato version by M. (Lundy: HON) arr. Walker: CH/0-9919/Res; My people (O}Hara,
Foster (Res/PBC), Father I put my life (Schiavone, 0-9804) I SID). A more challenging setting including the antiphon We worship
put my life (Haas, NLS/G-3949) (all © Cal); Father I put my you: D. Bath (Decani) New: A setting in Two chants for Good
life in your hands (J.M.Talbot, OBC/ O-10666.) Friday (Baty, Concept Music; also includes This is the wood).
3. Hymn ‘Faithful Cross’ (Sing, my tongue): all hymnbooks.
• Gospel Acclamation Same as Palm Sunday. See p.34
Res has the plainsong tune as well
• The Passion See Palm Sunday. The hymn O Sacred Head is Other: Seven Last Words (Quigley, O-11938, HPR). Agios o theos
suitable today: sober and dignified. Suitable places to sing are:
(MG, PD); Wood of the cross (Alstott, BB/0-8826); Behold the
... and they slapped him in the face; then They cast lots for my clothes;
wood (Schutte, DP/BB/0-9939); Glory in the Cross Schutte/GIC;
this is exactly what the soldiers did and finally, at the end.
• Simple Music for Choirs in CBL by Lassus, Lotti etc. MHWE
O sacred head is in different versions. The R. Bridges version
has Adoramus te (Palestrina) and O vos omnes (Croce), but what
(HON/C) is © OUP. The Knox is available under Calamus.
is Pie Jesu doing there? See also Ash Wednesday to Easter (OUP).
The H.W. Baker version O sacred head surrounded is in the pub-
lic domain. Dan Schutte has written words to this tune (the COMMUNION and after
Passion Chorale): Passion Acclamation (GiC). Ah, holy Jesus (Bridges) NEH(OUP) GW/L(Jub)
Chris Walker’s St John Passion (O-15026) needs good perform- Behold the holy Lamb of God (arr Bell) CSN Hope
ers (soloist, choir), but perhaps it could be adapted to the Contemporary Reproaches (Bell) WG2 Iona
circumstances. It contains four easy congregational responses. Gift of love (Trupia) JL/G/L Cal
Marty Haugen (G-6544) uses NRSV, and includes a refrain In the Lord’s atoning grief IRC PD
from TMHL (LL). In him no beauty (Duck) DIU Cal
Lift high the cross (Newbolt) HONL/CFE/GW/L A&M
• Intercessions After the first part of each Intercession a O Lord, heal us (Walker) ANJ Cal
short and simple refrain inviting to prayer may be sung, e.g. Look, O look, the sight is glorious W PD
Lord, in your mercy/Hear our prayer. Praise to the holiest in the height var PD
• The Entrance of the Cross See, Christ was wounded for our sake HON/L Faber
the Cross This is the wood: new wording
The royal banners forward go
Tree of Glory (O’Brien)
var
YAH/G-3779
PD
Cal
in RES 2012. Also Baty, in Two Triduum hymn (Wondrous Love) Haugen WL/G3544 Cal
Chants for Good Friday ( Concept Music), See also Inwood We sing the praise of him who died NEH PD
Processional Song of the Cross (EM, MMII, Res/GW/MHWE; What wondrous love WL/GW Cal/PD
CWP3 has extra harmony.) Wood of the Cross (Reza, CWP3) When I survey the wondrous cross PD
• Taizé Crucem tuam; All you who pass this way; Jesus, remember me

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The
T HIS IS THE NIGHT when Jesus Christ conquered death, and Christians everywhere

Easter
come together in vigil to honour the memory of his raising to life. It is the night when
new Christians are made, and ‘old’ Christians retrace their own journey from baptism to the
Table of the Lord. Those to be baptized pass into the tomb, die with Christ to sin and rise to
new life; and the already baptized relive their own death to sin by renewing Baptismal Prom-

Vigil
ises. The candidates are confirmed by the Holy Spirit, and then come to the Eucharist for the
first time, which is the ultimate destination of this Vigil • The liturgy has three main parts:
Word, Baptism, and the climax, EUCHARIST. They are approached through the year’s most
splendid entrance rite: the liturgy of LIGHT. There is a feeling of an ordeal about the vigil
because of its length and inconvenient time. This is not to be avoided, rather to be embraced.
15-16 April 2017 It is a night of personal commitment. ‘Can you not watch an hour with me?’

Light This is a combination of the ritual of the evening lighting of the lamps (Lucernarium) which dates from the
earliest centuries of the Church, and the kindling of new fire. The Fire Rite has varied origins, which include
pre-Christian ones, and has had many interpretations, but it is seen now as a sign of Christ’s power over
the forces of darkness, which is why this liturgy takes place at night. The fire gives light to the candle which
is inscribed with the marks of Christ’s passion and his lordship over all time. Christ’s people walk behind the candle, as the Israelites
walked behind the pillar of fire. The first announcement of the Resurrection is in the Easter Proclamation (Exsultet). One of its original
names was ‘The Praise of the Candle’ and the 2010 translation shows this. It is dramatic and exciting, but it is only one of several high
points in the liturgy tonight, and not necessarily the highest, so choose a setting which is convincing but does not exhaust our attention.
Music before/during the Procession • Other chant versions: No doubt more will appear as composers test
Blessing of the New Fire: For the parish that sings everything, the limits of the text and the capacity of the singers. A new Walker
Christopher Walker has provided music for this (repeated setting (Decani 0324) has optional choir (or keyboard.) Foster
later as the Blessing of Water (CWP iii p.31) Lumen Christi/ (Decani 0147, also in Res2012) is a psalm tone with Acclamations.
The Light of Christ: simple chants in the Missal, GW, Res, Peter Jones provides an even simpler tone (Res2012). Dean (Decani
MHWE. Extended: Lumen Christi Tamblyn (EM/O-7235). 0325) is a lyrical setting with acclamations, originally written for the
1998 Sacramentary and now with the new words. OCP and GIA
The Exsultet
have also published versions, ask Decani for details
• The missal version (plainsong) Res2012, which also provides a selec-
• Metrical Versions: A verse setting could be sung later in the Vigil.
tion of five Acclamations which can be interspersed (Dean). Also
Foster (Res), Forster (MHWE), Christ be our light (Farrell) with a
provided in Res is a simplified version of the plainsong. new set of verses (Res/FSB/L2012.
The Liturgy of the word is in two blocks, Old and New Testament. The Gloria comes in the middle
WORD (awkwardly, some think) and the Gospel Acclamation marks the return of the Alleluia after a forty-day
fast. The position of the Gloria is a relic of pre-1970 when the OT readings were the Vigil; Baptism
followed, then the Gloria began the ‘Mass of Easter Night’. There is still a feeling of transition between
the OT and the ‘resurrection’ section, Gloria-epistle-alleluia-Gospel. If two sorts of light are used, a moderate light for the OT fol-
lowed by a blaze of light for the NT, this order makes sense. The history of salvation from Genesis to Ezekiel would be listened to
in a darkened church, though enlightened by the Light of Christ in the candle; Resurrection light then illuminates the celebration.
Among those listening tonight are people waiting to be baptised, still learning and wondering.
Though only the Exodus reading is obligatory, the other OT readings should not be thought of as disposable. Preparation through
Lent (emphasised here) might make people want to hear them. Ideally all seven should be read. (You can even find extra readings:
In the Light of Christ (Magee,Veritas), a useful commentary; also Words around the Fire (Ramshaw, LTP))
Music. Complete psalms in Res, MMII (251), Psallite, MHWE
and usual books. PsS2 settings do not always fit.
EXODUS 14:15-15:1 *Exodus 14:10-31; 15:20-21.
CWL* The central reading. We hear how God stretched out his hand and led his
Genesis 1:1-2:2. *Genesis 1.1-2:4 people to freedom. A rabbinical story tells us to remember the Egyptians;
The prayers after the readings are guides to their meaning. The prayer God says, ‘Are they not too my children?’ The bloodthirsty language is
after this first reading compares the first creation with the even more human; what really matters is that God was close to his people and
wonderful New Creation. brought them to the promised land.
Sung refrains during the reading: Walker (Res/MMII, GW/MHWE), Dean (Res/ Canticle: Exodus 15:1-6.17-18 *Ex 15:1b-13.17-18
GW/MHWE), Barr (Res) - jolly! ALSO Genesis Reading for the Great
& Vigil: Cooney G-5081C &
Inwood (EM), Barr (LBCR), Dean (semi-metrical Exodus Canticle,
Res/Decani) and another Dean at L254/GW. Exodus 15 (O’Hara,
Psalm 104 (103):1-2.5-6.10.12-14.24.35 [*Ps 136:1-9.23-26] Res/SID). Song of Moses (Soper G-4623). Foster Exodus 15
(Decani 0281). Baty Song of Exodus (Concept Music.) Also see: GII-
HON649/C682. Most other versions (inc. PsS2) don’t have all the magnificent
126; PsS2. A Metrical setting: Foster (Res).
verses listing the Creation - avoid. [not in CWL]
& Alt. Ps. 33 (32) Inwood The Lord fills the earth O-10289/L45 Isaiah 54:5-14
[*Extra reading in CWL: Gen 7:1- The prayer shows that this reading should make us think of the fulfil-
5.11-18;8:6-18; 9:8-13.(Noah) & Ps 46] ment of God’s promise in the Church, built on precious stones. It also
reminds us that God is faithful even when we sin.
Genesis 22:1-18 *Genesis 22:1-18. Psalm 29(30)
This passage (see 2 Lent) draws a parallel between Isaac and Jesus; and
teaches that Abraham’s faith that God could be trusted, even with his & Inwood I will praise you, Lord (O-7058); Smith (PsS2); Ridge (Res); Soper
You lift up my life G-4627
only son’s life, is the model for our own faith and trust. *Isaiah 55:1-11.
Psalm 16(15) *Ps 16 Isaiah 55:1-11
Keep me safe, O God: Inwood; GW/EM. Non-Grail versions: Preserve me ‘O come to the waters’ will have meaning for those to be baptized tonight.
God (Walker, LoL); Keep me safe (Foley, WEG). Food and drink will be on offer too; not just the kind of food we eat, but
& Centre of my life (PsS2) is not ideal the nourishment we get from listening.
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Gloria
Canticle after reading 5: Isaiah 12:2-6 *Is 12:2-6
See note on previous page. There could be an increase of light and
We shall draw water (Inwood, C/GW/O-7160/HONL/L; With sound (bells, fanfare): a simple Gloria (e.g.Taizé) could be sung, the in-
& joy you shall draw water (Haugen, PCY2) struments sustaining the music as a background to the following Prayer,
*Baruch 3:9-15, 32-4:4 with singing resuming for a short while after it.
Baruch 3:9-15.32-4:4
OR Prov 8:1-8.19-21; 9:4b-6.
Another message for the already-baptised and the not-yet baptised: Romans 6:3-11
we must seek wisdom and live by the Law of God. If we do, we shall We have passed from the prophecy to the fulfilment: God has saved
have life; if not, we shall fade away in an alien land us once and for all through Christ’s death; we imitate this in baptism,
and if we die with him, we also rise with him
Psalm 18 (19): 7-10 *Ps 19
You, Lord, have the message(Inwood) GW/O-7158/L; Ogden Alleluia
& PsS2 The triple Alleluia is in Res/MHWE/GW. This is a joyful moment
*Ezekiel 36:2-28 which older readers will remember as very impressive. This is the
Ezekiel 36:16-17a. 18-28 breaking of a 40-day fast from ‘Alleluia’and should be savoured.
The most vivid of the OT readings, this sums up the message of Lent:
I will give you a new heart, and put a new spirit in you. Psalm 117 (118)
*Ps 42 &43 This could serve as the accompaniment to a solemn Gospel procession.
Ps 41(42)3.5; 42(43) 3.4 It needs no commentary. Setting: Inwood (EM)
As the deer longs (Hurd) MMII 228/PsS2/L/O-9103
& I thirst for you (Haas, G-4688); Like as the deer (Tamié) MM1/
✠ THE GOSPEL OF THE RESURRECTION: Matthew 18:1-10
CFE/L; Gelineau, various; Farrell GBN; metrical: Just as a
Matthew's account of the visit to the Tomb is the most dramatic in all
lost and thirsty deer (Bell) PPP. Palestrina, arr Bridge:the Gospels. There is a violent earthquake as the women approach, and
HPR12 Alternative Psalm: Ps 50(51) as 5 Lent B an angel rolls away the stone - details not found elsewhere. Matthew
*EXTRA CWL: Ezekiel 37:1-14 & Ps 143 repeats from Mark the angel's instruction to meet Jesus in Galilee, but
*Zephaniah 3:14-20 & Ps 98 adds a meeting with Jesus by the women.

Happy the community which welcomes new members tonight - please God it might be an annual
Water occurence! This is almost the end of the Lenten journey, but more than that it is the fulfilment of the
Genesis creation reading (a New creation), the parting of the waters (Exodus), the ‘clean water’ of
Ezekiel, the joining with Christ in death (Paul) and the springing from the tomb (Gospel.)
In the box is an outline of the rite. The items in bold are those which feature in every celebration - the other parts only when the
sacraments are celebrated. * Asterisks indicate a sung item.
Becker (O-8877/CWP), Haas (WCBN1); Ridge O-9842; Schutte
Baptism:
(GiC). Stand firm (Bell/Haugen, UW/G-4843/L);
Presentation of Candidates
• with refrains and spoken saints: Saints of God in glory (Farrell:
Invocation to Prayer
Res); Saints of God (Walsh MMI/152, 0-7192); No longer I (Hurd,
* Litany of the Saints
O-9449/L397) - this is principally a Baptismal Song
Prayer (blessing) over the water* + *Acclamation
Blessing of Water: Missal; Haas, WCBN1.2 (inc. Acc.) Inwood
Profession of Faith
(LCBR); At the dawn (Haugen UW/G-4844); Walker (CWP)
Baptism *Baptismal Song
Sprinkling Acclamations:
Explanatory Rites: anointing; clothing with
Springs of Water: MMII(252)/LBCR; Haas, WCBN2; Haugen,
white garment; presentation of candle
AW/G-4135/L/Res; Crandal,CWP44; Foster, Dean: Res. One
(*a Song may sung between baptism and conf.)
Lord (Haas WCBN2); Water of Life (Dean); Grant to us, O Lord
Confirmation:
(Deiss, var) Bless the Lord litany (Ridge, IEA) Give us, Lord, a new
Invitation
heart (Farrell, O-7104/L); Walker, to familiar tune CWP42
Laying on of hands
Renewal of Baptismal Promises Baptismal Acclamations: (see also box below*)
You are God’s work of art (Haas,WCBN1/G/Res); All of you are one
Music for Baptism & Confirmation Willcock/IRC; Blessed be God, Hutchins/IRC; You have put on Christ
Litany of the Saints: (Dean, var/Walker CWP); There is one Lord (Dean, Res).
• With ‘Pray for us’ or simple R/.: Roman Missal (Res); Murray For the newly received: Were you there (arr Dean, O-11565); God
(GW); Inwood (LBCR); Steel (Res/Decani). More elaborate: be praised (Smith), both CWP

EUCHARIST Eucharist is
not an after-
thought after
the ‘exciting’
part of this liturgy, but the whole point of it: what the whole Vigil
builds up to. This is what Christ came to earth for. He is not dead;
he is with us till the end of time, in the form of bread and wine
as he said at the Last Supper. If we had any doubts,or felt his
absence, we can recognise him again tonight in the breaking of
bread. For the new initiates this is their first eucharist, the pinnacle
of initiation; for the whole Church it is the ‘source and summit.’
Music: For the Prep. of Gifts: Walker (Come to the table, CWP)
and Schutte (This is the day, GiC.)
Choose Eucharistic Chants which facilitate participation
Communion Taizé Surrexit Christus exudes Paschal joy. In faith,
in hope (Walker, CWP); Christ has died, Alleluia (Dean) Res2012
After communion keep a period of silence.
Recessional: Christus vincit (arr Walker, CWP)
*O praise ye the Lord
*God, at creation’s dawn (C/CFE/GW) Aut
Alive in Christ Jesus (Haas) WCBN2 Cal 
Christ be our light (Vigil verses) Farrell Res Cal
Wash, O God, your sons and daughters (Duck) DIU Cal
Put on Christ (Hurd) AGG Cal
At the Lamb’s High Feast we sing var PD
River of glory (Schutte) DD/CWP/O-9902 Cal
Holy Darkness (Schutte) LUA/BB/O-9906 Cal
Behold the glory of God (O’Connor) BB/BGG/0-9674 Cal
Behold the river of life (O’Connor) BGG/0-9570 Cal
Song of the risen one (Haas) WCBN1 Cal
Taizé & other chants: Surrexit Christus; Christus resurrexit; Paschal
Processional (Walker); Easter Praises (Dean, GW1/Decani) You
have put on Christ Dean (EM/GW/0-7242); Awake you who sleep
(Dean, GW1/O-7244/L). For some interesting hymns/descants
see Choir Book for Easter (GIA)

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Hear the Word Acts10:34.37-43. Ps 117(118); Col 3:1-4 OR 1 Cor 5:6-8; ✠ JOHN 20:1-9 CWL
(or : ✠ Luke 24:1-12, as at the Vigil; or, at evening Mass, ✠ Luke 24:13-35) Acts 10:34-43
Many people saw Jesus die. We venerated an image of his cross two days ago. Crosses and crucifixes or Isaiah 65:17-25
are the central symbols of Christianity. No-one saw him rise again, and only the eyes of faith can Ps 117(118);
sustain us in our belief that he overcame death. In the Gospel this morning, the voice of Jesus is not 1 Cor 5:6-8 or Acts10:34-43
heard - as at Christmas, the second greatest feast of the year. Women are the first to hear the news ✠ JOHN 20:1-18
of the Resurrection. Mary of Magdala is mentioned by three evangelists as one of the first to see the or ✠ Luke 24:1-12
empty tomb, but does not know what it means: she only thinks Jesus has been taken away, (whereas
in Matthew, read last night, she was given the news of the resurrection; and both in Matthew and the next verses of John,
she is the first to see the Lord.) Peter doesn’t understand either; it is only the beloved disciple who realises what ‘rising
from the dead’ means, and presumbly tells the others. Nevertheless Peter is seen in the first reading preaching as a witness
to the risen Christ - he has ‘eaten and drunk with him after his resurrection.’ If we feel rather bereft - they have taken
the Lord away - we can learn from the reactions of the people who were there, and follow their journey to faith, through
amazement and fear to joy. We too have eaten and drunk with Jesus. We do it at every Mass.

Look at the Liturgy Clergy, musicians and other ministers must not slacken after the exertions of the Tridu-
um. This is what we were aiming for! Music: as at Christmas, there should be familiar music to invite participation.
Think of visitors who might be in church today. The Penitential Act, if used, needs paschal colouring: Invocations
V or VI from the Missal, for instance; or sing Kyrie de Angelis. The sprinkling rite is not used because it takes place
in the renewal of Baptismal vows. Eastertide begins and ends (at Pentecost) with a mass including a Sequence; today
Victimae Paschali provides a dignified preparation for the Alleluia and the Gospel Acclamation.

HON/HONC/HONL HON/Cel/Laudate* C/CFE L
see also Gen. Eastertide (*Laudate: see 255-66)
49 - 146 At the Lamb’s high feast 27 58 269
- - - Awake from your sleep - - 403
54 48 156 Battle is o’er 31 68 271
- - - Christ our Pasch 431 - -
- - - Christ is alive, with joy we sing 424 107 270
Christ is alive! let Christians sing - - 272
- - - Darkness is gone - - 274
Easter glory fills the sky - - 277
- - 300 Good Christians all 486 230 -
He is risen, tell the story 276
275 208 389 Jesus Christ is risen today 153 322 267
718 - 399 Jesus rose on Easter day - - -
376 285 498 Now the green blade riseth s3 513 278
- - 565 Out of darkness - 591 835
495 373 626 Sing to the mountains (Ps 117) 604 657 282
- - 890 Surrexit Christus (Taizé) 796 672 266
520 393 649 The day of Resurrection 302 690 283
551 - - The wind was cold - - -
554 415 678 Thine be the glory 622 728 287
565 421 686 This joyful Eastertide 328 735 286
623 463 746 Ye choirs of new Jerusalem 363 818 279
Songs/hymns from all sources Where ©
Alleluia! Christ is risen (Alonso) G-5607 Cal
Alleluya! Alleluya! Hearts to heaven NEH/AMNS PD
Bright morning (Dean) Decani/Res Cal
Christ has risen while earth slumbers WG2/CSN Iona
Easter Evening (Bell) WG2 Iona
Easter Sequence (Tamblyn) CM Cal
Hail thee, festival day G/L words PD
Jesus is risen (African, arr. Bell) CSN Iona
Led like a lamb (Kendrick) MP KTH
Lord of the morning (Bell) WG2 Iona
Light’s glittering morn HTC Jub
Paschal Processional (Walker) MM/GW Cal
The day draws on with golden light NEH PD
Song at the Empty Tomb (Haugen) WL Cal
Song of the Risen One (Haas) G Cal
The Robber (Bell) WG2 Iona
This is the day (Schutte) GiC Cal
Word that formed creation (Haugen) WL/Res Cal
Welcome, happy morning HTC Cal
ANTIPHONS EAi: (cf Ps 138 (139):18.5-6). I have risen, and I am with you still, alleluia.
You have laid your hand upon me, alleluia.
Too wonderful for me, this knowledge, alleluia, alleluia. + Ps 138 (139) 1-18.23-24
EAii: (Lk 24:34, cf.Apoc 1:6) The Lord is truly risen, alleluia.
To him be glory and power
for all the ages of eternity, alleluia, alleluia. + Ps 97(98)
CA: (1 Cor 5:7-8) Christ our Passover has been sacrificed, alleluia;
therefore let us keep the feast with the unleavened bread
of purity and truth, alleluia, alleluia. + Ps 65 (66):1-12 or Ps 117 (118):1-5, 13-17, 24-29
Music for the Rites • Responsorial Psalm
The Vigil setting can be repeated although you get a lot of Alleluias.
Also: C686, HON652; Rejoice and be glad (Geary) PsS2. Ps 117 (Co-
dona) Decani/Res; This is the day (Haugen, Res); Joncas (L257); O’Hara
(AK33) or Martin Barry (G-6395); This day was made (Walker, O-9065). Easter
Alleluia (Cooney G-5019) uses O filii et filiae and includes the Gosp Acc.
• Gospel Acclamation
Two tunes are commonly used: the ‘Paschal Alleluia’ (chant) and O
filii et filiae, e.g. GW/MHWE and also L264). Extended version of this:
Easter Alleluia, Haugen G-3594). The Celtic Alleluia is another choice.
And Cooney (above).
• Sequence Victimae Paschali
Latin C/CFE/L/MHW/GW, IRC/PD (Latin/English); NEH519, BB (Eng. only)
Bring all ye dear-bought nations C/HON PD
Christ the Lord is risen today C/HON/L PD
Jesus Christ is risen PLR/NEH111 PD
Lift your hearts this Easter morning (Walsh) LBCR/Res Cal
O flock of Christ (Quinn) MHWE/L/Res Cal
G. Steel’s setting (GW124/MHWE/Decani octavo) has traditional text,
new tune with guitar accpt. The Paschal Lamb (McCurry/Hodgetts MMII),
more advanced. Christ my hope is risen (Walker IFIH) a Gospel version.
Song at the Empty Tomb (Haugen WL) is a song using the Chant.
• Baptismal Songs
Acclamations and ‘Sprinkling Songs’ after the Baptismal Vows are
listed in the Vigil, e.g You have put on Christ (EM/Decani) and oppo-
site. Some in Res, by Dean and Walker; also CWP, GiC, I saw streams
of water (Dean) HONL372/L266
• Communion Songs
A long communion today? Paschal Procession (Walker) or Sur-
rexit Christus (Taizé). In Faith, in hope (Walker, CWP.IFIH).
Choir: To Jesus’ Tomb and At Dawn (CBE); Awake from your
sleep (Dean, WWC/O-7244/L)

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1 Jesus is Lord!
All hail the lamb (Bilborough) CFE KTh
All heaven declares (Richards) CFE/HONC/L KTh
At the name of Jesus (Walker) ANJ Cal
He is Lord, he is Lord (anon) var PD
Holy forever and ever is God (Bell) CSN Iona
Jesus is Lord, Alleluia (accl.) (Walsh) 0-7205/L Cal
2 Eucharistic Feast see also Christ who welcomes; slain lamb
Alleluia, sing to Jesus var PD
At the Lamb’s high feast var PD
The Lord of all (Bell) CSN/WG2 Iona
Now in this banquet G-2918/C/CFE/L Cal
We celebrate this festive day HON/C Cal
3 Paschal mystery: incarnation, death, resurrection; Atonement*
A man there lived in Galilee AMNS PD
All glory to you (Lundy) HON KM
Before the heaven and earth (Black) C/L Jub
Christ triumphant, ever-reigning var Jub
Every knee shall bow (Dean) L Cal
God is love, his the care (Dearmer) var OUP
Hail thou once despised Jesus MP PD
*Hallelujah my Father (Cullen) MP/HON KTh
He is Lord, he is Lord (anon) var PD
In the tomb so cold (Kendrick) MP/Source KTh
Jesus is Lord! Creation’s voice HONL/C/CFE/L Copycare
*Led like a lamb (Kendrick) MP/Source KTh
Lord enthroned in heavenly splendour var PD
The head that once was crowned var PD
4 The day of Resurrection - and a few days after
Bright morning (Dean) Decani/Res Cal
He is risen, tell the story (Jabusch) C/HON/L Cal
Led like a lamb (Kendrick) MP/Source KTh
O what a morning (Kendrick) Source Makeway
Jesus is risen, alleluia! (tr. Iona) CSN Iona
The day of Resurrection HON/C PD
The Golden Morning (O’Hara) ITP Cal
Thine be the glory (Budry) var CSM*
Walking in a garden (Greenwood) NEH SSM*
Ye sons and daughters var PD
5 Triumph over death and the grave
Alleluya! Alleluia! Hearts to heaven var PD
Battle is o’er (Knox) var Cal
The strife is o’er (Pott) AMNS/NEH/L PD
Celtic Alleluia; extra verses Res/Celtic Mass Cal
Christ is king of earth and heaven var B&O
Christ the Lord is risen again (Weisse) IRC/AMNS/NEH PD
Come ye faithful, raise the strain BB/AMNS/NEH PD
Free as is the morning sun MMI 144/C Faber
God is alive (Sing your joy) (Haas) [E/G] G/LP Cal
Hail thee, Festival day [E/G] GW, NE OUP/wordsPD
Low in the grave he lay (Lowry) MP/var PD
New daytime dawning (Lundy) HON/S1 KM
Jesus lives! Thy terrors now NEH/HTC etc PD
Jesus rose on Easter day (Lundy) HON KM
Love’s redeeming work is done NEH/AMNS PD
Now is eternal life (Briggs) NEH OUP
Now the green blade riseth (Crum) various OUP
O death, where is your power? (Walker) IFIH/O-12211 Cal
Resucitó (Arguello) GII/S2 Cal
Up from the earth (Cooney) GII//O-5301 Cal
The wind was cold (Lundy/Richards) S1/HON KM
This day above all days (Dudley-Smith) HTC Aut
Welcome, happy morning (Ellerton) HTC Jub
Ye choirs of new Jerusalem var PD
6 Christ with us: in justice & peace
Christ is alive! Let Christians sing G/W/AMNS/L OUP
Darkness is Gone (Bell) WG2/L Iona
God, your glory we have seen C/CFE/L OUP
7 wheat/vine/sun/lamb (not all in the same hymn!)
Christ is alive, with joy (Stotter) AA/C/CFE/L Aut
Christ our Pasch (Deiss) C431 WL
I am the Vine (Hurd) O-11816 Cal
Holy People (Jones) EM Cal
Now the green blade riseth (Crum) various OUP
We have been told (Haas) C/CFE/L Cal
8 Slain lamb (Revelations 5)
All hail the lamb (Bilborough) CFE KTh
All heaven declares HONL/CFE/L KTh
Come let us join our cheerful songs AMNS etc PD
Holy forever and ever is God (Bell) CSN Iona
Led like a lamb (Kendrick) MP etc KTh
Let all that is within me var PD
Now is the feast of victory HON/CCH
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9 Resurrection in nature
Christ is risen! Shout hosanna GII/G-4870 OUP/Cal
Easter Song (My love has died) Bath Res Cal
Now the green blade riseth (Crum) various OUP
Hilariter (Dearmer) G/PLR OUP
Word that formed creation (Haugen) Res/G-3545 Cal
10 Christ who welcomes
Christ is here (Walker) [E/G] CH/O-9790 Cal
[Come and] Be light for our eyes (Haas) CFE/G/G2926 Cal
New daytime dawning (Lundy) HON/S3 KM
We celebrate this festive day HON/C Cal
11 Praise of the risen Christ
All heaven declares (Richards) CFE/HONC/L KTh
Come, Christians, join to sing SNC Cal
Good Christian men/Christians all) rejoice and sing many A&M
Hilariter (Dearmer) G/PLR OUP
Jesus is risen! let us sing BB PD
Join in the dance (Schutte) DD Cal
Out of darkness (Walker. Easter verses) OD/O-9232/L835 Cal
Surrexit Christus (Taizé) HONL/GW/C/CFE/L Cal
Christus resurrexit (Taizé) Taizé II/L Cal
The day of Resurrection var PD
This joyful Eastertide var OUP
We will lay our burden (Bell) LFB Iona
12 Easter Thanksgiving (see also Psalm section)
Alleluia no 1 (.. give thanks to the risen Lord) var Copycare
What wondrous love is this (also fits 3, 5) var PD
13 From the Psalms (see also list on p.47)
Christus resurrexit (Ps 117/8) Taizé II Cal
Confitemini Domino (Taizé) C/CFE/G/Taizé Cal
Home from our exile (Oosterhuis etc) C/CFE/BB Cal
Psalm 135 (Gelineau) HON/C Cal
Sing to the mountains (Ps 117/8) HON/C/O-9497 Cal
The stone that the builders rejected (Farrell) GBN/L Cal
This is the day (Haugen) Ps 95(96) G226 Cal
14 From the first Easter to the Church’s mission
Alleluia no 1 var Copycare
Christ is risen while earth slumbers CSN/WG2 Iona
He comes (Bell) WG2 Iona
He is risen, tell the story (Jabusch) C/HON/L Cal
Jesus is risen from the grave (Bell) LFB Iona
The servant King (Kendrick) MP/CFE/HONC KTh
Sing to the world of Christ (Lee) var Cal
We have a Gospel to proclaim (Burns) var Aut
15 Christ in the light of resurrection faith
Keep in mind (Deiss) HON, C, L WL
In him we knew a fullness (Richards) HON KM
Now we remain (Haas) G/G2709/L621 Cal
Song of resurrection (Geary) MMII273 Cal
Word that formed creation (Haugen) Res/WL/G-3545 Cal
16 Mary Magdalen (also see Section 4)
Lord of the morning (Bell) WG2 Iona
17 Doubting Thomas
I have seen the Lord (Hurd) BC/O-0-9447 Cal
Tom’s Song (Bell) CSN Iona
Though not seeing you (Hurd) 1RL Cal
We walk by faith (Haugen) G/C/CFE Cal
Ye sons and daughters HON/C etc PD
18 A people redeemed
Out of darkness (Walker) OD/O-9232/ HONL/CFE/L Cal
Holy People (Jones) EM Cal
River of Glory (Schutte) DD/BB/O-9902 Cal
Song of Resurrection (Geary) MMII273 Cal
We form one Church (ditto) CFE Cal
19 Awake you who sleep
Christus Resurrexit (Taizé) Easter v. Cal
City of God (Schutte) CFE/O-9739 Cal
Awake you who sleep (Huijbers) O-8825 Cal
Awake from your sleep (Dean) WWC/O-7244/L Cal
You who sleep, rise up, Alleluia HON KM
20 Emmaus
Are not our hearts (Landry) HON43/S2 Cal
As Jesus walked the Emmaus road (Marshall) SG526 Aut
Be known to us in breaking bread (Montgomery) var PD
Easter Evening (Bell) CSN/WG2 Iona
On the journey to Emmaus (Haugen) G-4275/L Cal
Did not our hearts (Easter Acc.) MMII/WWC Cal
Emmaus (Hurd) a short refrain CWP/Can Cal
Journeysong (Hurd) UC Cal
Stay with us, O Lord Jesus Christ Taizé II: Cal
Lord, draw near (Bell) WG2 Iona
We Meet the Lord (Quigley) Decani Cal
 Eastertide Year A
E a st e r t i d ei s t h e G r e at S u n d ay ,
a 50-day time of ‘joyful exultation’. In theory. In
practice it can be like the holidays, after the School
Term of Lent and the Triduum exam time.There
is an understandable desire to have done with church for a bit.
Summer is coming on (in the northern hemisphere, anyway) and
religion seems like a penitential activity for dark winter days.
This is a natural reaction. But though tor most of us this is
just another year, for the newly-baptized it is a privilege to cel-
ebrate the sacraments. It is a season of discovery (‘mystagogia’,
i.e. ‘instruction in the mysteries’) when the newly-baptized can
begin to see what the Church really feels like. So let us overcome
Eastertide ennui for their benefit. The faith journey of the newly
baptized is ours too. This is a time of discovery of things which we
already know are there, not for introducing bright new themes.
We should simply listen with attention to the readings we hear
and enjoy the liturgies we share. If we find it difficult to feel joyful
all the time, that is because a belief in the risen Lord is a matter
of faith, and not so easy as the contemplation of the earthly life
of Jesus. Faith involves doubt and puzzlement too.
Gospels: John - and Luke
Eastertide Year A is by way of being the ‘standard’ version
(RCIA §237), as Lent Year A is the model Lent. The centrepiece
is a great Gospel passage: the Road to Emmaus on the 3rd Sunday.
The placing of Luke’s haunting story, which has given us so many
images of the Eucharist, in this year rather than Luke’s own Year
C is a sign of its importance. It provides an ideal basis for preach-
ing the Eucharist, just as the first and second readings, in various
ways, keep baptism and confirmation before our eyes.
Eastertide Music
◊ Gathering Songs (see next section as well)
Psallite has a Song for the Week every Sunday
Alleluia! Christ is risen (Alonso) G-5607 Cal
Be light for our eyes (Haas) TBB/G/CFE120 Cal
Be not afraid (Taizé TSP/CT/CAN Cal
Christ is here (Walker) CH/O9790 Cal
Christ our Pasch (Deiss) C431/BHPs WL
Easter Alleluia (arr. Haugen) G/GII/G3594 Cal
Gathered now (O‘Brien) YAH Cal
Gathering Song Eastertide (Inwood) MilMas Cal
Hail thee, Festival day (L/GW/NEH) wdsPD
Heaven is singing for joy Trad/Iona: SBL/L690 Iona
Out of darkness (Walker) L/CFEOD/BB/O9232 Cal
Psallite Deo (Taizé) (Ps118) G/Taizé II Cal
Sing to God a joyful song (Dufner) G-6020 Cal
Song of the Body of Christ (Haas) CFE/G/L Cal
Song of Resurrection (Geary) MMII 273 Cal
We celebrate this festive day (Jabusch) HON/C Cal
◊ Introductory Rites & Blessing of Water
God, our fountain (Walker) CFE/0-7203/BB/OD Cal
I saw streams of water (Dean) Decani/L/HONL Cal
If we have died (Haugen) MC, G(65)/GII(132) Cal
Let all who thirst (Schutte) GiC Cal
One Lord (Soper) COB/0-9064 Cal
River of Glory (Schutte) DD/O-9902/GIC Cal
Springs of water (Haugen) GII 195/G-4135/L/Res Cal
Sprinkling with Water (Inwood) MilMas/Res Cal
That you might have life (Haas) ISG/G-3449 Cal
There is one Lord (Alstott) O-8718/BB Cal
Wellspring of new life (Walsh) WHV/0-9289 Cal
With joy we shall draw water (Hurd) UC/L399 Cal
Wonder of wonders (Wren/Haas) WCBN1 (words © OUP)
You have put on Christ (Dean) C/CFE/O-7242 Cal
◊ Some standard psalms
The classic Common Lectionary psalm is 118 which has many
settings covering vv.1-2.16-17.22-23 as on Easter Day:
Alleluia! Let us rejoice (Haas) WCBN/PCY3/G Cal
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First Readings - Acts of the Apostles
The Acts is Luke’s sequel to his Gospel.This important book
has four main sections:
Chapter 1: the introductory events: Ascension, Pentecost and
the election of a new twelfth apostle;
Chapters 2-5: the church in Jerusalem;
Chapters 6-15: the mission outwards to the world;
Chapters 15-end: Paul’s journey to Rome.
In all three cycles the readings are taken from the second and
third sections, and give a lightning sketch of the life and beliefs of
the newborn church. As the church is newly born in the hearts of
those baptised at Easter, no readings could be more appropriate.
In Year A there are extensive extracts (Sundays 3-4) from Peter’s
Pentecost sermon, with its re-telling of the story of Jesus in a form
like a more graphic version of a creed. Could this be the actual
story that Jesus himself told on the road to Emmaus?
Second Readings - a homily?
The Second Readings are taken from I Peter which some
scholars have seen as a baptismal homily, others as a letter like
those of Paul. Whichever it is, it gives a wonderful lesson in fol-
lowing Christ in his sufferings, and in a highpoint (5 Sunday) gives
us the charter for all our celebration (quoted in Lit. Const 14.):
Mother Church earnestly desires that all the faithful should be led to
that fully conscious, and active participation in liturgical celebrations
which is demanded by the very nature of the liturgy. Such participation
by the Christian people as ‘a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation,
a redeemed people,’ is their right and duty by reason of their baptism.
The Stations of the Resurrection
This devotion of 14 Stations (Via Lucis, to correspond with Via
Crucis) originated in Italy in the 1980s, and is being celebrated
in the parish of St Teresa’s, Upholland, and maybe other places.
Let us rejoice (Haugen) G/PCY Cal
Alleluia (Haugen) CFE38 Cal
Rejoice and be glad (Geary) CM2032/PsS2 Cal
This is the day (Joncas) O-10090/L Cal
This is the day (Soper) BB/O-9565 Cal
This day was made by the Lord (O’Hara) AK33 Cal
- With different selections of verses:
The stone which the builders (Farrell) GBN/L Cal
This is the day (Foley) PCY7 Cal
- Hymn versions:
Sing to the mountains (Dufford) var/ O-9497 Cal
This is the day the Lord has made (Watts) PD
Thanks be to God, our great salvation (Duck DIU) Cal
◊ Other psalms:
135 (136): Your love is never ending (Haugen) SMG/G Cal
136 (135) (Gelineau) HON/C/L Cal
126 Home from our exile (Huijbers ) C/CFE/BB Cal
◊ Some Gospel Acclamations: all © Cal
Gospel Acclamation from Mass of God’s Promise (Schutte, GiC), Easter Acc.
(Dean, EM/L); Eastertide GA (Farrell O7172/ GBN/L); Easter alleluia (Joncas)
GLL; Jesus is Lord (Walsh 0-7205/L); Easter Alleluia (Haugen) G/CAN56;
Gosp Acc for Eastertide (Feeley) Decani/Res; Alleluia of the Angels (Walker
ANJ); Gospel Greeting (Farrell) CBL/CAN55
Gospel Responses: (to sing after the Gosp:) Dufner, SNC
◊ Communion songs for Eastertide
Psallite and One with the risen Lord (Hurd, OCP) have one for each week
Amen, amen, so shall it be (Foster) Decani/Can Cal
Awake from your sleep (Dean) WWC/O-7244/L Cal
God is love (Haas) AWT, G-3209/G/GII Cal
In faith, in hope (Walker) IFIH/CWP Cal
In remembrance of you (Willcock IRY Cal
In resurrectione tua (Taizé) CLM Cal
Jesus is risen from the grave (Bell) LFB Iona
Now we remain Haas, WBT/G-2709/G/GII/L Cal
One in body, heart and mind (Walker) ANJ/O-10553 Cal
We know and believe (Glover) TS/G-3700 Cal
◊ Dismissal for Eastertide
setting in Celtic Mass (Walker) Cal
2nd Sunday of Easter 23 April 2017
Hear the Word The events of 1R and the Gospel are very close - as little as two months if Roman Lectionary
you accept Luke’s chronology, even less if you take Matthew’s or Mark’s.
Both are from the time after the Resurrection but the Ascension and Pentecost come between. The Acts 2:42-47 • Ps 117
apostles are common to both, and there is a sense already that the holding and handing on of the (118): 2-4.13-15.22-24
memory of Jesus is our job; we have the signs recorded in the Book so that we may believe. This is very 1 Peter 1:3-9
much more difficult for us than for the apostles. Even Thomas, though he was told by the others that ✠ JOHN 20:19-31
Jesus was alive and had visited them, refused to believe until he had seen with his own eyes - which Jesus
allowed him to do. We do not have that possibility, so blessed are we who have not seen, if we believe.
1R is the first of three idealised descriptions of the newborn community, before it was even called
CWL (principal service)
Christian. In Acts it comes right after Peter’s preaching at Pentecost when three thousand people Acts 2:14a, 22-32
came to believe and were baptized. They were Jews, going to the Temple every day but doing some- [*or Ex 14:10-31; 15:20-21]
thing extra: meeting at their houses for the ‘breaking of bread.’ They were, according to Luke, looked Psalm 16
up to by everyone, because of their conspicuously good way of life. This was a time of innocence, 1 Peter 1:3-9 [*or Acts..]
before John felt it necessary to use words like ‘for fear of the Jews’, as if all Jews were enemies. Our ✠ JOHN 20:19-31
first sisters and brothers, in fact, were all Jews. If we could recapture those first moments of the life of
the Church how fortunate we would be. At the end of time, we hope to be that fortunate once again.

PSALM A liturgical song (i.e. written to be used in Look at the Liturgy Like newborn children (entrance antiphon) we
worship), of thanksgiving and victory. thirst for milk. Make this season one of nourishment for old and new
It is full of quotations. From this psalm we take Hosanna Catholics. It is not as if we old ones know it all and the new arrivals
(‘Lord, grant salvation’ v.25), ‘Blessed is he who comes’ have to listen to us. Receive the Spirit (Gosp.): looking to Pentecost.
(v.26). ‘This day was made by the Lord...’ (v.24), and ‘the Instruction in the Mysteries: Office of Readings (Vol II,439) has
stone which the builders rejected’ (v.22, sung on Easter a classic Mystagogical Sermon. ‘Now you walk by faith, as long as you
Sunday, and quoted four times about Christ by NT writ- journey in this mortal body far from the Lord.’ We are not as lucky as
ers.) The response is the Christian people’s shout of Thomas. What we do have is the companionship of fellow-Christians,
thanks for all we have prayed and waited for through Lent. and the image of Acts 2:42-47 should inspire us.
Scripture keywords: (i) The triumph of Christ (p43: 3-5,11) (ii) Jesus Lord; doubting Thomas (iii) I am sending you (Gospel)
Respond in Song Antiphons: EAi:: Newborn children, Psall. A-69; O praise ye the Lord (new birth, rejoicing) CA: Psall A-71; section 17 in Easter Hymns

Slightly awkward to set. Perhaps the words are too ANTIPHONS EAi: (I Pet 2:2).Like newborn infants, you must long
Psalm settings momentous to be contained in a short response. If for the pure, spiritual milk,
you are prepared to sacrifice the subtleties, sing a common setting, which that in him you may grow to salvation, alleluia. + Ps 80 (81):2-8, 17 or Is 66:10-14a
could be repeated on other days; but subtleties can be important, and each EAii: (4 Ezra 2:36-37) Receive the joy of your glory, giving thanks to God,
year has a different selection of verses. Farrell (The stone which...) has got the who has called you into the heavenly kingdom, alleluia. + Ps 115 (116) or Ps 96 (97).
essence of the response at the end of each verse. Psallite (C-75) uses the O CA: (cf Jn 20:27) Bring your hand and feel the place of the nails,
filii et filiae melody. Check: O give thanks (Baty, Concept Music.) and do not be unbelieving but believing, alleluia. + Pss 29 (30), 33 (34) or 117 (118)
Singing the Mass See p. 40 for settings of Psalm 118
HON H O
H &O N/Cel/
& N/Cel/ Celebration Refs,&&
Refs, (117) as a Common Psalm. As a processional chant (Gather-
1989 ed 1994(red) Liturgical Laudate
Laudate Complete CFE
L*L* possible
possible
ing/Comm) this psalm appears in Confitemini Domino (Taizé/
use
use
C735/CFE137) or Psallite Deo (Taizé II). B.Farrell’s The stone
Hymns: see Easter Sunday, which the builders rejected and Michael Joncas’s This is the
Easter Hymns (p.41) 17 and: day (both L) can be sung in various ways.
42 - - Are not our hearts burning - - - ii • The music should continue the momentum of Easter.
50 43 147 At the name of Jesus 28 59 762 i, ii What was the struggle and victory for, if not to be cel-
- - - Come, God’s people 433 - - i ebrated? Counteract any sense of anticlimax after Holy
112 101 229 Crown him with many crowns 56 139 321 v3:Gosp Week and the Triduum. This doesn’t mean singing fortis-
- - - Darkness is gone - - 274 i simo throughout: quiet confidence will do just as well.
147 127 263 Forth in the peace of Christ 744 183 853 iii From all sources Where © use
176 151 287 Godhead here in hiding 95 228 660 v4:Gosp Arise, shine out! (Haas) WCBN2 Cal i
206 167 325 He is Lord, he is Lord 493 246 761 ii Do not be afraid (Toolan) HPR/JCYT Cal ii
Darkness is gone WG2 Iona i
207 168 He is risen, tell the story 495 247 276 i
Happy are they who believe (Haas) AWT Cal iii
256 - - I see your hands and side - - - ii I have seen the Lord (Hurd) BC/0-9447 Cal ii
- - 394 Jesus is Lord 762 326 324 ii Jesus is risen from the grave LFB Iona i
311 235 431 Like a sea without a shore 537 368 84 v2:Gosp New daytime dawning (Lundy) S1 KM i
Now we remain (Haas) G/G-2709 Cal i Comm
321 244 444 Lord, enthroned in heavenly splendour 543 379 769 i
Peace I leave you (Taizé) CLM Cal ii
370 282 492 New daytime dawning - - - i Risen Lord, be with us HPR103 Cal ii
- - - Now we remain - 781 621 i Comm Song of Resurrection (Geary) MM2/Clif Cal i
- - - Sing of Christ [=Sing w. all the saints] - 651 451 i That Easter day with joy W/ICEL PD i
The word of life (Bell) WG1 Iona i
495 373 626 *Sing to the mountains 604 657 282 Psalm
- - - Sing with all the saints in glory - - 451 i Credal songs: We believe (Walker, HG/MMI 29/CFE
520 393 649 The day of resurrection 302 690 283 i 417). We believe, Lord help our unbelief (Walker, MMII)
554 415 678 Thine be the glory 622 728 287 cf Gosp Also some Taizé settings, one (Apostles’) in Can to-
560 419 - This is the day 635 731 257 i O gether with a Foster setting of same.
For Choir: Darkness is gone WG2/G4385/L (Bell/Iona).
- 445 - We have a gospel to proclaim 809 778 852 i F Two items from A Choir book for Easter, a collection
- - - We walk by faith 815 789 284 iii PG which gives moderate choirs some attainable goals:
624 465 747 Ye sons and daughters 364 820 [280] cf Gosp Despite locked doors (chant); Thomas said: I’ll not believe

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3rd Sunday of Easter 30 April 2017
Hear the Word Matthew’s Gospel has only a brief account of the appearances of the risen Roman Lectionary
Jesus. It is John and Luke to whom we have to turn - John last week, Luke today.
However Matthew does tell of the women who go to the tomb, are told by the angel that Jesus is risen, Acts 2:14.22-33
but are not believed by the men to whom they pass this on. In Luke this is also the prelude to today's Ps 16(15):1-2.5.7-11
beautiful passage. This features two men who have heard the same story and dimissed it too. Why, ‘that I Peter 1:17-21
very same day,’ (words omitted today), are they walking away from Jerusalem, rather than staying to see ✠ LUKE 24:13-35
the truth of the women’s account? Like Thomas, last week, they lack faith. Their faces are downcast.
The man that comes up to walk with them gets them to talk about what they are discussing. Cleopas
CWL (principal service)
starts by using almost the same words as Peter in 1R. His first sentence, up to the words ‘had him cruci-
fied’, are the beginning of a Christian creed. From then on he digs himself deeper into a hole, until their Acts 2:14a.36-41
so-far-unrecognised companion stops him with ‘you foolish men!’ What he then tells them is a sermon [or Zeph 3:14-20]
we would love to have, and in 1R we have a reasonable idea of what it was. Finally they recognise Jesus, Ps 116:1-3.10-17
but only because they have shown him hospitality and given him food. They see and believe, and imme- I Pet 1:17-23
diately set off in great elation back to Jerusalem. So, do our hearts burn as we hear this Gospel? ✠ LUKE 24:13-15

A song of trust, a favourite in initiation ‘... the community shares with [the neo-
PSALM Look at the Liturgy phytes] a deepening understanding of the
rites. Everyone should feel able to join in
the refrain with confidence. Like every good prayer it paschal mystery and an ever greater assimilation of it in daily life
can be seen from different angles. Peter (1R) shows it as through meditation, participation in the eucharist, and the practice
a prophecy of the Resurrection; thus it can be applied to of charity. The main setting of this period is the Sunday Masses of
those recently risen fom the death of sin. The psalmist Easter...’ (Ceremonial of Bishops 374, cf RCIA quote on p.42)
did not know this, but then he was not privileged to meet Instruction in the Mysteries: The Office of Readings today
the Lord along the road. We are: and we can make this has Justin Martyr’s account of the Eucharist (Vol II p.530), a wonder-
response our own refrain. We are the two disciples who ful basis for teaching about the Eucharist through nearly 2000 years
ask Jesus to explain the scriptures for us. of history. PREFACE of Easter: III or V; or EP for Various Needs
Scripture keywords: (i) Hearts burning; (ii) knowing the Lord in the bread; (iii) banquet; (iv) Real presence; (v) The Lamb (2R) (vi) Way, path of life (1R,
Respond in Song Antiphons: EA: Boulton Smith, MM1/62, Psall A-73; Hurd 1RL p36; Jubilate Alleluia (Taizé) CM24 CA Psall A-75 Ps, Gosp).

Psalm settings The directness of the first Lectionary response (as
opposed simply to Alleluia) is worth keeping, e.g.You will show me the path
of life (Haugen, GII/PCY2) or The Path of Life (Soper, O-9793/OCPs3/
CAN). • Same psalm, perhaps for communion procession: Centre of my
life (Inwood); Keep me safe, O God (Inwood, L/GW/SH/PsS2/C/CFE etc);
You are all we have (O’Brien) GII/WCBNII/G-3663.
HON H O
H &O N/Cel/
& N/Cel/ Celebration Refs,
Refs, &&
1989 ed 1994(red) Liturgical Laudate
Laudate Complete CFE
L*L* possible
possible
use
use
- - - All hail the Lamb (2R) - 18 - v
24 - - All is quiet - - - ii, vi
42 - - Are not our hearts - - - i
49 - 146 At the lamb’s high feast 27 58 269 v
- - [298] Centre of my life (cf Psalm) 781 543 423 vi
112 101 229 Crown him with many crowns 56 139 321 v
- - - Come and be light for our eyes - 120 - ii, iv, vi
- - - Come and eat this bread - - 634 iii, iv
- 133 272 Gather around, for the table - - - ii, iii
- - - Glory to God who does wondrous things - - 281 seasonal
- - - I come with joy, a child of God - - 649 ii-iv
- - - In a byre near Bethlehem - - 739 iv
- - - In the breaking - - 624 ii
- - - In the land there is a hunger (Farrell) - - 975 i, iv
277 - - Jesus himself drew near - - - ii, iv
- - - Jesus, Lord of life and love 764 - - iv
- - - Jesus, you’re the one 765 334 - ii-iv
301 230 419 Let all that is within me 167 356 - v
- - - Now in this banquet 774 511 623 ii-iv
- - - O changeless Christ 775 518 745 ii
387 293 506 O food of travellers 567 525 658 iii, v, vi
- - - On the journey to Emmaus - - 288 i-iv
- - - Praise now your God 603 787 642 iii-iv
- - - Sing of one who walks beside us - - 285 ii, vi
- - 619 Sing it in the valleys 795 648 787 iv, vi
- 370 - Sing of the Lord’s goodness (v.2) 794 654 713 ii
- - - Sing to the world (see v.3) 605 658 857 ii-iv
- 389 645 Thanks for the fellowship - - - ii-iv
- - - Those who were in the dark 802 737 - i-iv
589 - 715 We celebrate this festive day 344 773 - ii-iv
- - - We walk by faith 815 789 284 iv, iv
Eastertide hymns p.41: 2 Eucharist, 8 Slain Lamb, 10 Christ Welcomes, 20 Emmaus Praise hymns (e.g. 5 & 11) are appropriate on any Eastertide Sunday
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ANTIPHONS EA: (Ps 65(66):1-2) Cry out with joy to God, all the earth;
O sing to the glory of his name.
O render him glorious praise, alleluia. +Ps 65(66)
CA: (cf. Lk 24:35) The disciples recognized the Lord Jesus
in the breaking of the bread, alleluia. + Ps s22 (23); 103 (104) or 145 (146)
Opt. for Yr B The Christ had to suffer and on the third day rise from the dead;
in his name repentance and remission of sins
Singing the Mass
must be preached to all the nations, alleluia. (Lk 24:46-47) + Ps 95(96)
Singing the Mass People have a natural reluctance
to sing at Communion. A psalm
or chant with refrain can help them join in when they feel
ready. Table Song and We will drink the cup (Haas,WCBN2); Taste
and See (various); To be your bread (Haas, TBB) We have gathered
(Dean SH/O-10158/L); We come as guests (Walsh, EM/O-7241/L);
• ‘You will show me the path of life’ (Ps 16) is also the Em-
maus road, the procession to Communion. - see alongside. •
From all sources Where © use
Alleluia, alleluia! hearts to heaven (Wordsworth) var PD
Are not our hearts (Haas) GII/TS/G-3695 Cal i
From
As Jesusall sources
walked the EmmausWhere ©SG526
road (Marshall) Refs/use Aut
At your word our hearts are burning (Psallite A75)
Be known to us in breaking bread (Montgomery) var PD ii, iii
From all sources
Be light for our eyes (Haas)
Where © use
G-292/G/GII Cal
Bread, blessed and broken (Lynch) AK/BB Raven ii, iii
Christ has risen (Bell) WG2/GII Iona iii, iv
Christ in the stranger’s guise (Bell) WG2 Iona iii, iv
Christ is here (Walker) CH/BB/O9790 Cal
Come, Lord, be our guest (Bell) LFB Iona ii-iv
Come, risen Lord, and deign to be our guest (Briggs) OUP
Dining in the Kingdom (Hurd) DK Cal iii.iv
Emmaus and Jerusalem (Hurd) 1RL Cal
Easter Evening (Bell) WG2/CSN Iona ii-iv
God among us (Dufner) SNC Cal
He comes in the gathering gloom (Bell) WG2 Iona iii, iv
Holy for ever (Bell) CSN Iona v
I come with joy to meet my Lord (Wren) AMNS/HPs OUP iii, iv
I will walk in the presence of God Haugen CAN/G-4282 Cal
In the breaking of the bread (Hurd) IBB/O-8776 Cal iii, iv
Jesus, God among us (Dufner) SNC Cal iii, iv
Jesus is risen from the grave (Bell) LFB Iona
Jesus, Lord, Redeemer (Kirkland) HPs Aut Gosp
Jesus you are the bread we long for (Farrell) RH/CAN Cal
On the journey to Emmaus (Haugen) L/AW/G4278/MHS Cal
Shepherd of our hearts (Chepponis) GII/G-3148 Cal ii-iii
Shepherd of souls, refresh (Montgomery) BB/GII PD ii-iii
Talk with us, Lord (Wesley) HPs PD ii, iv
Two were bound for Emmaus (Hurd) HT.O-11898 Cal
 7 May 2017
4th Sunday of Easter World Day of Prayer for Vocations

Hear the Word If we have been noticing the First Readings for the last three weeks we could
see they are all taken from the same section of Acts, which talks of the day
Roman Lectionary
Acts 2:14.36-41
of Pentecost and its aftermath. Last week we heard Peter's Pentecost sermon, today we see how it
brought three thousand into the community, and two weeks ago we heard how that community lived. Psalm 23 (22)
2R both last week and this continues the preaching of Peter, after years of reflection, and today it I Peter 2:20-25
elaborates on the ’Jesus whom you have crucified’ by identifying him with the suffering servant in Isa- ✠ JOHN 10:1-10
iah. He ends with a quotation from Isaiah 53:6, ‘we had gone astray like sheep’ and draws out the impli-
cation - sheep need a shepherd. Jesus himself had already spoken of himself as a shepherd, and at some
length, as John records. Chapter 10, of which we hear the opening words today, is actually the continu- CWL (principal service)
ation of the story of the man born blind which came on the 4th Sunday of Lent. Jesus is addressing Acts 2:42-47
the Pharisees and others who as usual fail to understand him. His words cause disagreement (10:19-21) [or Genesis 7]
with some saying he is mad, but others saying far from it, how could a mad person (one possessed by a Psalm 23
devil) open the eyes of the blind? Such dilemmas persist. Are we blind, have we gone astray? Have we I Peter 2:19-25
heard the Lord calling us? We must learn to tell his voice from that of the stranger who wishes us ill. ✠ JOHN 10:1-10

PSALM This psalm of confidence has already Look at the Liturgy Today is World Day of Prayer for Vocations.
been sung once this year, on Lent What sort of shepherd does the Church need today? How to avoid
Sunday 4. To sing it today, the day when we hear talking of the priesthood as a career, a prize, rather than the answer to
a call to serve? The best advertisement for the priesthood is the way
Jesus calls himself the gate of the sheepfold, is to
Mass is celebrated, so do it well today.
heighten the experience. In Eastertide ‘he guides • Preface of Easter: II (Good Shepherd) or IV
me along the right path’ has an echo of last Sunday.
Instruction in the Mysteries: Count the blessings that come
The cantor should read the Gospel carefully as it to us for being members of the flock: the hope that we will one day
has a detailed description of what a shepherd does. see God face to face, and the strength of our community on the way.
Scripture keywords: (i) Shepherd; (ii) flock; (iii) Christ suffering (2R); (iv) Guide/path (Ps); (v) Baptism (1R) (vi) banquet (Ps)
Respond in Song Antiphons: EA:Psall A76; The Lord fills the earth with his love (Inwood, O-10289; or Ward, Res) CA: Psall A78; i, iii above
The list never stops growing. • Psalmody: Gelin- ANTIPHONS EA: The merciful love of the Lord fills the earth;
Psalm settings eau: L42, CC667, HON631, MMI 119; Shepherd by the word of the Lord the heavens were made, alleluia.(Ps 32:5-6).
me, O God (Haugen) L/SMG/G/G-2950; The Lord is my shepherd. (O’Hara) CA: The Good Shepherd has risen,
AK13 • Songs: The Lord is... (Wise, G/GII) Because the Lord is... (Walker) L/ who laid down his life for his sheep
SLG; Gentle shepherd (Colgan) BB; Like a shepherd (Foley) DP; My shepherd and willingly died for his flock, alleluia. (not from scripture).
will supply my need (Watts) ICEL/PD; My shepherd is the Lord (Bell, PPP) Singing the Mass
© Iona. More in ‘From all sources.’ Singing the Mass
Musicians should think sometimes about the origins of
H O hymns. Do they come from scripture or not? Today there
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use
use 100 & 23. A good principle in choosing hymns is to sing
27 18 121 All people that on earth do dwell (Ps 100) 10 22 466 i, ii those from the Hebrew scriptures at the start of Mass
29 20 123 All the earth, proclaim the Lord (Ps 100) 390 24 460 i, ii (Ps 100 is an entrance song anyway) and a Gospel-based
And can it be - 43 790 iii song to finish, as we need to proclaim Christ as well:
49 - 146 At the Lamb’s high feast 27 58 269 iii, vi e.g. Hail Redeemer or Forth in the peace of Christ.
- - - Because the Lord is my shepherd - 77 948 i, ii Communion Songs: Versions of Ps 23(22) or other
85 - - Christ suffered for us(cf 2R) 418 - - iii psalms or songs with refrain (see last week)
112 101 229 Crown him with many crowns 56 139 321 iii How does Mass begin in Eastertide? The bless-
- - - Feed my lambs, my son 458 - - i, ii ing/sprinkling of water really finds its home in this
147 127 263 Forth in the peace of Christ 744 183 853 i From all
season. sources
For Where
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- - - Free as is the morning sun 745 - - iii
631 276 486 Gelineau Psalm 22 (23) 667 - 42 i, ii From all sources Where © use
195 159 310 Hail, Redeemer , King divine 107 239 320 i • Sheep, shepherd:
703 - - He did no wrong (also S3) - - - iii A listening heart (Hurd) DK Cal i
- - - Jesus the Lord said ‘I am the bread’ 523 - 746 i Christ who knows all his sheep AMNS PD
- 218 406 Jubilate, everybody (Ps 100) 766 338 472 That you might have life (Haas) ISG/G3449 Cal
I am the good shepherd (Anderson) AK Aut
- - 872 Jubilate Deo (Berthier) (Ps 100) 707 336 691
Led like a lamb (Kendrick) MP Kingsway
721 - 871 Jubilate Deo (Praetorius) (Ps 100) 706 337 - Lord, to whom shall we go (Soper) 0-20170 Cal
- - 459 Lord, you give the great commission - 394 870 ii Sing it in the valleys (Anderson) AK Aut
340 259 468 Loving shepherd of thy sheep 311 699 802 i, ii The Lord of all (Bell) WG2 Iona
432 - 559 O thou, who at thy Eucharist 249 556 833 ii To whom else shall we go (Hurd) DK Cal
- - [565] Ours were the griefs - - 22 iii Ye servants of God, your master proclaim (Wesley) PD
458 350 586 Praise we our God with joy 266 610 784 i We will rise again (Haas) G Cal
- - - Shepherd me, O God - - 851 i, vi You hear the lambs a-cryin’ CSN Iona ii
You spread this table (Hurd) 1RL Cal
- - - Shepherd of souls 597 641 665 i, ii
• We are your people (prophets and priests)
478 - - Sing all creation, sing to God (Ps 100) 793 646 467 Baptized with fire (Wellicome) BWF Cal
528 400 656 The King of love 311 699 804 i, ii, vi You are the Lord God of our Fathers (Glynn) BWF Cal
- - - The living God my shepherd is - - 805 i, ii • By his wounds we are healed (I Peter 2):
533 405 661 The Lord’s my shepherd 312 706 42 i, ii, vi As prophets foretold (Jones) L/Decani Cal
- - - The Lord is my shepherd (Richards) 615 705 - i, ii, vi See, Christ was wounded (Foley) L/HONC359/ NCH Faber
- 445 - We have a gospel to proclaim 809 778 852 iii Ours were the griefs (Dean) L/WWC Cal
• Vocation
Lord, you give the great commission var OUP

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 5th Sunday of Easter 14 May 2017
Hear the Word The Gospel today and next week are from words of Jesus at the Last Supper. Roman Lectionary
There is a familiar pattern. Jesus begins by telling them to trust him, then
Acts 6:1-7
makes a statement of huge scope. He will go to prepare a place for the apostles in his Father's house,
Ps 33(32):1-2.4-5.18-19
and come back to take them with him, saying they know the way to this place. This causes questions:
they don‘t know this place or the way to it; which brings from Jesus one of his most profound utterances I Peter 2:4-9
- I am the Way, the Truth and the Life - and adds that by knowing him, from this moment they know his ✠ JOHN 14:1-12
Father. Philip asks to see the Father, and Jesus reproaches him - has he not already said that ‘the one who
sees me, sees the one who sent me’? (12.45). From the vivid stories of the Sundays 2-3 we have come to CWL (principal service)
Gospels which, while not difficult to understand in a verbal sense, are not easy to grasp with the emo- Acts 7:55-60
tions. This is a Gospel from before the Easter events. 1R and 2R are from the time of the Church. 1R
[or Genesis 8:1-19]
talks of the Holy Spirit with familiarity, as the sustaining force in the Church, to be appealed to when
anything new (appointing deacons) needs to be done (if the 4th Sunday is Good Shepherd Sunday, the Ps 31:1-5.[15-16]
5th each year might be called Church Order Sunday.) 2R ends with words which are central to the Lit- I Peter 2:2-10
urgy Constitution of Vatican II, as quoted on p.42 under Second Readings. ✠ JOHN 14:1-14

PSALM A hymn, on which is sung many times
in the Lectionary. We have sung it in
Lent (Sunday 2) and it is an alternative first psalm
at the Vigil. Most of today’s verses are taken from
its first section (vv 1-5) which consists of praise
of the Lord and his works, which are justice and
right. Isn’t the whole of Eastertide a catalogue of
the Lord’s great works?
Look at the Liturgy Preface: Easter IV. ‘For, with the old
order destroyed, a universe cast down is
renewed, and integrity of life is restored to us in Christ.’
Instruction in the Mysteries: Much of the Eastertide scripture,
particularly the 1Rs consists of sermons: ready-made material for the
homilist. The homily is where mystagogia happens, and there is only
one theme: creation, fall, redemption, the glory of Christ, the com-
mandment to believe in the name of Christ and to love one another.

Scripture keywords: (i) Works of the Lord (1R, Ps); (ii) Living stone/Priesthood; (iii) Way, truth, life; (iv) Do not be troubled (Gospel)
Respond in Song Antiphons: EA: Psall C83; All the ends of the earth (Haugen); Sing a new song (Schutte) CA: Psall B85; cat. iii above (v) Jesus and the Father.

Rest your love (Ogden) PsS2 Happy are the people; ANTIPHONS EA: .(Ps 97 (98):1-2) O sing a new song to the Lord,
Psalm settings for he has worked wonders;
Let your mercy be on us, Lord ; The earth is full (Haugen,
in the sight of the nations
GII/PCY2; 1st verse is missing.) Lord, be with us (Walker, OD/BB/RUS); O he has shown his deliverance, alleluia. + Ps 97 (98)
God of Love (Soper, O-9885, OCPs2) 4-7.12-23.18-22; Lord, let your mercy CA: (John 15:5). I am the true vine and you are the branches, says the Lord.
(Alstott, O8715, o/p); Lord, let your mercy (Dufford, FEW) The Lord fills Whoever remains in me, and I in him, bears fruit in plenty, alleluia.
the earth with his love (Inwood, O-10289) Anne Ward setting (GW/RPs) + Ps 79 (80):2, 9-16, 18-20
Singingthe
Singing theMass
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Maundy Thursday, p.38 (e.g. Mandatum section) might
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y Vine is in the Communion Antiphon and in other years in
- - 200 Christ triumphant 730 113 763 iii the Gospel, an image of feasting as well as of unity. ‘Com-
e 82 76 197 Christ is made the sure foundation 427 109 456 iii munion’ expresses both of these and love as well. Psalms,
- - - Christ the rock is our foundation - - 455 ii, iii such as Taste and See or those which express eating or
drinking, are suitable. ‘Breaking Bread’ songs e.g. Inwood
- - - Christ is the world’s light 428 111 744 vi or B.Farrell could be tried. Jesus is Lord! (J.Walsh, O-7205) is
91 84 206 Come and praise him - - - ii an appropriate Gospel Acc. Finally: Musicians, do you love
114 - - Darkness falls, my hour has come - - - vi one another? The way musicians behave at Mass, when they
147 127 263 Forth in the peace of Christ 744 183 853 ii are visible to all, is as important as getting the notes right.
177 147 290 God is love , his the care 9 6 215 794 iii Fromall
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- - 350 I am the light - - - iv Jesus Christ, yesterday, today (Toolan) GII/JCYT/L Cal
5) - - [245] I received (receive) the living God 745 280 636 iv From all sources
• Way, truth, life: Where © use
286 216 - Jesus, you are Lord 525 - 766 iv Christ be my leader (Dudley Smith) HPs Aut
- - - Jesus, lead the way 763 327 - iv Come, my way, my truth, my life (Herbert) var PD
- - - Jesus the Lord said 523 - 746 iv Do not let your hearts be troubled (Haas) WRF/G-4349 Cal
I am the way, the truth and the life (Hurd) 1RL Cal
733 - - Lord your word’s our heavenly bread - - - iv I received the living God C/CFE/W/G3071 Cal
329 386 450 Lord of all hopefulness 181 386 969 v Jesus, my Truth, my Way (Wesley) HPs PD
- - 880 Nada te turbe/Nothing can trouble - - 947 iv Take and Eat (Joncas) BB/GII/CM-G3435 Cal
422 337 546 Open your ears 242 582 471 i To whom else shall we go (Hurd) DK Cal
- - - Our Saviour Jesus Christ 579 588 - i You are [Thou art] the way: to you alone (Doane) var PD
You are the vine (O’Hara) AK Cal
- - 565 Out of darkness - 591 835 ii
- - - Rejoice and shout for joy (cf Ps) 588 - - iii • A chosen people (2R): see A people redeemed (p51); also
Priestly people (Deiss) BHPs/AA WL
- - [558] The peace of God I leave you - - - iv
• Living stones (1Pet 2, 2R)
556 417 681 This is my body 623 730 627 vi
Ye that know the Lord is gracious AsMNS/NEH A&M
563 - - This is what Yahweh asks 628 734 - v Blessed city, Holy Salem
- - - You are the vine 825 824 - vi Christ is made the sure foundation Var PD
- - - We have been told 811 779 859 vi Let nothing trouble you (Farrell) CBOL/CWP2/CAN/FBS Cal
• Do not be troubled (Gosp.)- besides the last-named
Nada te turbe (Taizé) Cal
Eastertide hymns, p. 41: sections 9, 18: a people re-
Do not be worried and upset (Taylor) MP BibleSociety
deemed. Blessing/sprinkling of water: p.42.
Do not be afraid (Toolan) HPR Cal
The Peace of God (Farrell) SL/FBS Cal

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6th Sunday of Easter 21 May 2017
The 7th Sunday readings may be substituted

Hear the Word To continue the practice of giving each Sunday of Easter a name (see op- Roman Lectionary
posite) today, the 6th, could be called Gentiles Sunday, though Samaritans
were (and still are) not exactly Gentiles but a people which had sprung from and split from Judaism at Acts 15:1-2.22-29
some time and used (still uses) the Pentateuch. The Philip who leads the mission to them is one of the Ps 67(66):2-3.5-6.8
deacons from last Sunday, not the apostle. There is great rejoicing in the town at his message, and the Apoc 21:10-14.22-23
Psalm echoes this by asking the whole earth to cry out with joy to God. Note that Philip only baptises ✠ JOHN 14:23-29
the Samaritans; it is the task of apostles, in this case Peter and John, to come and invoke the Spirit on
them, and make them complete Christians. In the Gospel, too, Jesus says he will ask the Father to
send the Spirit; the Spirit of truths. In three weeks we will celebrate Trinity Sunday. Nowhere in the
CWL (principal service)
New Testament does this word appear, and we will probably think of the Trinity on that day as a prob- Acts 16:9-15
lem and a puzzle. Here in John’s Gospel as in many other places we see how God is Father, Son and [*or: Ezek 37:1-14]
Spirit, alive and active, not ideas in a catechism. God loves us - that is not abstract, and we show our Psalm 67
love in return by keeping his commandments. In 2R we see that this obedience might involve suffering, Rev 21: 10.22-22:5
but to lead us to God Christ himself suffered and died for us. It is better to suffer for doing right than for ✠ JOHN 14:23-29 or 5:1-9

A Thanksgiving, actually a harvest song; Look at the Liturgy Note. The readings for the 7th Sunday
PSALM may replace today’s if the Ascension is
though v.7, which makes this clear, is
omitted in the Roman lectionary. The response must celebrated next Sunday. • Draw attention to the Sign of Peace, and
be sung with conviction. Do we care if the peoples the fact that it is Christ’s peace we pass on to each other, not our own.
praise God, or not? The readings suggest we should, Instruction in the Mysteries: In the Gospel Jesus promises to
so therefore should the way we sing the psalm. If send the Holy Spirit. Does this mean that the Spirit is not here now,
‘all the peoples’ is too wide to feel involved in, think is somehow absent until Pentecost? Yet the neophytes were con-
instead: do we want God to be praised, at all? It is the firmed at the Vigil, and the rest of us probably years ago. So, praying
cantor’s duty to convey that we do. for the Spirit: what does it mean?
Scripture keywords: (i) salvation to the nations (1R, Ps) (ii) Peace the world cannot give; (iii) Love God and keep the commandments; (iv)waiting for
Respond in Song Antiphons: EA: Psallite C86 uses Ps 66, CA: see category (v); HPR 45. Hurd 1RL p58 the Spirit (v) Nothing trouble you; (vi) The New Jerusalem

Psalm settings Let the peoples praise you (Phillips) Clifton
CM2034. Guimont, GII-62. Psall C-87. Hymn versions: God of mer-
cy, God of grace (Lyte), AMNS;Mercy, blessing, favour, grace (Dudley
Smith) PsT. May God bless and keep you (Walker, O-9225/CFE458
sings about God’s face shining on us (cf v2) though based on Num
6:6 rather than this psalm; nevertheless a place could be found for it.
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3 4 96 Abba, Father, send your Spirit 384 8 293 iv
673 21 All the ends of the earth 724 25 121 i
- - 154 Awake from your slumber (City of God) - 65 824 vi
57 49 163 Be still and know I am with you 49 69 968 ii, iv
82 76 197 Christ is made the sure foundation 427 109 456 vi
Christ is the world’s light 428 111 744 ii
- - - Christ the rock is our foundation - - 455 vi
- - - City of God how broad &far 432 312 - vi
114 - - Darkness falls, my hour has come - - - iv
116 104 234 Dear Lord and Father of mankind 60 143 934 ii, v
- - - Go to the world - - 426 i
711 - 373 I saw the holy city - - - vi
713 - 377 I, the servant Lord, serve you - - - ii-iv
263 188 I will be with you 510 289 866 iv
- - - Lord, your love has drawn us - 396 774 ii, iii
227 - - I am the vine 502 273 - iii I will pour out my spirit (Luff) HPs Aut iv
338 258 462 Love is his word 185 399 803 iii
366 280 490 My soul is longing for your peace 558 505 950 ii
445 343 574 Peace, perfect peace 257 597 - ii
- - - Peace I give 786 594 - ii
- - - Peace is my parting gift 581 - - ii
- - - Peace is the gift 255 596 - ii
- - 880 Nada te turbe/nothing can trouble - - 947 v
- - - No one can give to me that peace 560 - - ii
556 417 681 This is my body, broken for you 623 730 627 iv
557 418 682 This is my will 327 732 921 iii
563 - - This is what Yahweh asks 628 734 - ii The Lord speaks of peace (Dean) Decani/MMII Cal ii
- - 697 Unless a grain of wheat 812 754 748 ii, iii
- 445 - We have a gospel to proclaim 809 778 852 iv
- - - We have been told 811 779 859 iii
- - - You are the vine 825 824 - general
623 463 746 Ye choirs of new Jerusalem 363 818 279 vi
ANTIPHONS EA: (cf Is 48:20) Proclaim a joyful sound and let it be heard;
proclaim to the ends of the earth:
The Lord has freed his people, alleluia. alleluia. + Ps 65(66)
CA: Jn 14:15-16) If you love me, keep my commandments, says the Lord,
and I will ask the Father and he will send you another Paraclete,
to abide with you for ever, alleluia. + Ps 24(25):1-14
Singing the Mass It is easy to see the word
Love in the Gospel and try and fit it in every hymn.
But such huge words risk becoming invisible through
excessive use, and new ways of communicating need
to be sought. This should always be with the aim of
seeing the basic truths more clearly. The primary mes-
sage of Easter, and so of all the songs we sing, is that
Christ is risen. Another prime topic as we near the
end of Eastertide is the Holy Spirit. Just as the invoca-
tion of the Spirit is not limited to Pentecost Sunday
(we sang ‘Send forth your Spirit’ at the vigil, see
above), singing ‘Come Holy Spirit’ need not wait for
the
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sources Pentecost
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the earliest times
referred to the whole fifty days, not just the fiftieth.
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Arise, Jerusalem (tr. Stotter) AA Aut vi
Eternal Trinity of love (Stanbrook) HPP Stan iv
Gifts that last (Bell) God give us peace that lasts LFB Iona ii
Grant us thy peace (Masterman) PL PD ii
My life flows on in endless song
(How can I keep from singing) BB/GII PD v
O holy city, seen of John (Bowie) AMNS/W URE vi
O for a thousand tongues to sing (Wesley)
AMNS/NEH etc PD
Light’s abode, celestial Salem (tr Neale)
AMNS/NEH etc PD vi
Let nothing trouble you (Farrell) CBL Cal v
Lord, your love has drawn us near (Dean)
Decani/CFE Cal ii, iii
My peace I leave with you [C]MP OUP ii
Peace with the Father (Quinn) PAS Cal ii
Children: The peace of God be with you (Farrell) - SL
A motet: If ye love me (Tallis): see last week. This
is today’s Communion Antiphon

Easter praise hymns from p. 41 (e.g. sections 5 & 11) are appropriate on any Eastertide Sunday
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The Ascension of the Lord 25 [or 28] May 2017
World Communications Day
Hear the Word It is to Luke in Acts that we owe the conventional image of Jesus’s ascension. Roman Lectionary
At the end of his Gospel, rather like Mark, he says simply ‘he withdrew from
Acts 1:1-11
them and was carried up to heaven’ but in Acts, as we read today, we have everything that we think about
Ps 47(46):R.v.6
the Ascension as portrayed in art: the mountain setting, Jesus being lifted up, the cloud hiding him, the two
Ephesians 1:17-23
angels explaining what has happened. Acts also gives us the Forty Days, whereas from his Gospel we could
assume that Jesus left this world on Easter Sunday. All these details are taken from elsewhere in scipture, ✠ MATTHEW 28:16-20
with the Ascension being similar to the passing of Elijah in 2 Kings 2:9-13. The Ascension, thus, is a way of
making it possible to explain that Jesus is no longer with us in the way he was before his death. The angels
CWL (principal service)
in 1R bring us back to reality, and since that moment we only see Jesus with the eyes of faith (and through
the working of the Spirit in us). In 2R we learn how we should interpret what has been said about Jesus, and Acts 1:1-11
ask for God the Father to help us understand it. He is at God's right hand in heaven, and has been made OR (C of E) Dan:7:9-14
the head of the Church, which is his body. At the end of Matthew's Gospel we see this Church coming into Ps 47 or Ps 93
being and given its mission: to make disciples of all nations by baptising them in the name of the Father, Eph 1:15-23 (or Acts 1..)
Son and Holy Spirit. To do this, we are assured that Christ will be with us always: the final promise. ✠ LUKE 24:44-53

PSALM 46 (47), an ‘Enthronement’ psalm. It Look at the Liturgy Real presence or real absence? Today we
has been speculated that there was could recall the Emmaus road, the breaking of bread, the recognition of
Jesus in a different form, the hope of his return. The Ascension marks the
an annual enthronement feast in Israel, and that
beginning of ‘the rest of your life’ in the Church, the time without seeing
what is described here is the Ark of the Covenant Jesus face to face. • It is a pity to lose the readings of Sunday 7 (see above)
being carried into the temple. The ICEL response and some of their message can be added to the mix today. 2R, like last
(in US lectionaries) ‘God mounts his throne...’ week's, tells us not to be ashamed of being called a Christian.
makes it clearer. The omitted verses (4-5. 10) tell Instruction in the Mysteries: ‘To close the period of postbap-
of the subjugation of other nations. tismal catechesis, some sort of celebration should held at the end of the
Easter season near Pentecost Sunday’ (RCIA 239).
Scripture keywords: (i) The Ascension; (ii) died, rose, ascended; (iii) Jesus is Lord; (iv) Go out and tell (Gosp) (v) with you always
Respond in Song Antiphons: EA: Psallite B-89Stand and stare not (Huijbers, C/CFE. CA: Hurd, 1RL p76; category (v)
ANTIPHONS EA: (Acts 1:11) Men of Galilee, why gaze in wonder at the heavens?
Psalm settings God mounts his throne (Haugen) G/GII; or This Jesus whom you saw ascending into heaven
Inwood (O-10287); Our God goes up (Simmons. Decani); A blare of will return as you saw him go, alleluia.(+ Ps 67 (68):2-5, 19-21, 33-36 or Ps 95 (96)
trumpets (Inwood) PsS2; God goes up (T.Brown) PsS2. Psallite B-90. CA: (Matt 28:20) Behold, I am with you always,
A hymn version: Clap your hands, all you nations (Bell, PPP). Simple even to the end of the age, alleluia + Ps 33 (34) or Ps 45 (46)
choir piece: O clap your hands (CBE 37). Gospel Acclamation: Al- Singing the Mass
Singing the Mass It’s still Eastertide, not a new
leluia to the End of Time (Inwood, O-7170)
season. The image Luke has given us - Jesus being
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glory at the right hand of the Father; but this is the
- - 101 A hymn of glory let us sing - - - i-iii message we have heard since Easter Day. If today is a
22 15 116 All hail the power of Jesus’ name 9 19 323 iii Sunday, the preparation for the coming of the Spirit
- - 117 All heaven declares - 20 760 ii, iii that used to happen on the 7th Sunday will need to
15 27 110 Alleluia! Sing to Jesus 7 37 644 i-iii, v be incorporated somehow today. The readings for
50 43 147 At the name of Jesus 28 59 762 ii, iii that day show a church waiting to do the work which
Christ entrusted to them in the apparent absence of
- - - Before the heaven and earth 727 - 754 iii
Christ (see above.) Choose the music in the spirit of
- - - Christ triumphant 730 113 763 ii, iii
2R: may he enlighten the eyes of your mind. We should be
112 101 229 Crown him with many crowns 56 139 321 ii, iii From all
looking tosources
the future,Where
not to the © past.
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- - - Go to the world - - 426 iv
- - - God, your glory we have seen 748 226 758 ii, iv From all sources Where © use
196 160 311 Hail the day that sees him rise 108 240 291 i Come, let us join our cheerful songs (Watts) var PD iii
206 167 325 He is Lord, he is Lord 493 246 761 ii, iii Do not be afraid (Farrell) HPR/O-7224 Cal v
263 188 379 I will be with you 510 289 866 iv, v Go out to the world (Joncas) OEW Cal v
A hymn of glory let us sing W469/HONL Lutheran i-iii
- - 394 Jesus is Lord 762 326 324 ii, iii I, the Lord, am with you always (Hurd) 1RL Cals
286 216 - Jesus, you are Lord 525 - 766 i Join all the glorious names (Watts) HPs PD ii, iii
321 244 444 Lord, enthroned in heavenly splendour 543 379 769 ii, iii Look, O look, the sight is glorious W468 PD ii, iii
- - 459 Lord, you give the great co mmission - 394 870 iv = Look, ye saints, the sight is glorious HPs PD
Praise him as he mounts the skies (Quinn) NHAS/L Cal i
362 - - My love for you will never leave you - - - v CA See the conqueror mounts in triumph var PD i-iii
207 508 493 New praises be given 372 283 292 i The eternal gates lift up (Alexander) NEH PD i, ii, v
- - - Praise him as he mounts the skies - - 289 i-iii, v The Lord ascendeth up on high NEH PD i
463 354 591 Rejoice! The Lord is King 270 619 326 ii, iii The saviour leaves (Bell) WG2 Iona i
- - - Stand and stare not (round) 714 667 - i, v GOSPEL:
524 396 652 The head that once was crowned 308 696 290 ii, iii Go to the world (Dunstan) RS Cal iv
- 445 - We have a gospel to proclaim 809 778 852 ii, iv Go make of all disciples (Atkins) W628 Abingdon iv
623 463 746 Ye choirs of new Jerusalem 363 818 279 ii, iii Lo, I am with you (Bell) SATB=WG2/SAB=TIAU Iona v CA

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7th Sunday of Easter these readings may also be used on the 6th Sunday

Hear the Word The Gospel Acc. repeats a phrase from last Sunday, ‘I will not leave Roman Lectionary
you orphans.’ This is the Sunday of the Real Absence, at first glance. Jesus has been taken up into Acts 1:12-14
heaven (1R) and the eleven, Mary and several other women, and Jesus’s ‘brothers’ are left in a Ps 27(26):1.4.7-8
room in Jerusalem. The psalmist sings of seeing the Lord’s face, but not now, in a world to come I Peter 4:13-16
- the land of the living. Even Jesus (Gospel) in pre-Calvary and pre-Ascension times says ‘I am in ✠ JOHN 17:1-11
the world no longer.’ But he also says, crucially, where he actually is - ‘I pray for those you have
given me... in them I am glorified. I am not in the world any longer, but they are in the world.’
Yes, that is where Christ is, inside us. We should learn to see him, not only in each of us indi- CWL (principal service)
vidually, but in others: not only in Church, but in everyone we meet. To take seriously this kind Acts 1:6-14
of ‘real presence’, one of the Presences of Christ named in the liturgical documents (SC 7, GIRM [or Ezek 36:24-28]
7), is still something quite revolutionary. The angels said on Ascension Thursday ‘Why do you Psalm 68:1-10 [33-35]
look up to heaven?’ Luke also has the angels at the empty tomb say: ‘Why do you look for the liv- I Pet 4: 12-14, 5:6-11
ing among the dead?’ The Bread and Wine is Christ, we know. But so are his people. ✠ JOHN 17:1-11

A longing, waiting psalm, and so qui- Look at the Liturgy • Preface of Ascension I which talks of
PSALM Christ as ‘our Head and Founder’ is ap-
et after the exuberance of the psalms propriate today, reminding us that though our Lord is not with us in
of the last two weeks. It is a psalm of confidence, his earthly body he guides us ‘even to the end of time’ by the Spirit,
but a kind of defiant confidence that God’s protec- without whom we cannot pray. • The weekdays of this week are a
tion will not fail us, overshadowed with a realisa- preparation for Pentecost, and texts for a Pentecost Vigil are to be
tion that things could be different: otherwise why found in the missal.
ask the questions in Stanza 1? Note the petition in Instruction in the Mysteries: ‘To close the period of postbap-
tismal catechesis, some sort of celebration should held at the end of the
the last stanza: O Lord, hear my voice when I call.
Easter season near Pentecost Sunday‘ (RCIA 239).
Scripture keywords: (i) true to God (Gosp); (ii) love (2R); (iii) Christ in glory/with you always; (iv) Coming of the Spirit
Respond in Song Antiphons: EA: Psallite C92 CA: This is my will, my one command; Psallite C94

Look for a setting with the complete re-
Psalm settings
sponse for today - don’t accept substitutes. C670 has one, also In
the land of the living (GII 36/GC/38) also The goodness of the Lord
(Soper OCPs3/O-9587) . There are plenty of other settings (see
alongside) but most have The Lord is my light and my help as a re-
sponse - not edgy enough for today.
HON H O
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& N/Cel/ Celebration Refs,
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1 2 94 Abba, abba Father 383 7 932 i
3 4 96 Abba, Father, send your Spirit 384 8 293 ii
15 27 110 Alleluia, sing to Jesus (see v.2) 7 37 644 i, iii
57 49 163 Be still and know I am with you 32 69 968 iii
70 67 182 Breathe on me, breath of God 37 98 302 ii
81 75 196 Christ is King of earth and heaven 42 108 319 i
684 - 213 Come, Lord Jesus (Lundy) - - - i, ii
178 148 290 God is love 97 215 794 i
He who would valiant be v From
238 - - I’ll be with you - - - iii
- - 394 Jesus is Lord! creation’s voice(cf v3). 762 326 324 i, ii
286 216 - Jesus, you are Lord 525 - 766 i Do not be afraid ( a chant) (Toolan) JCYT Cal iii
321 244 444 Lord, enthroned in heavenly splendour 543 379 769 i
325 - - Lord Jesus Christ, upon the night - - - iv
- - 459 Lord, you give the great commission - 394 870 ii, iii
745 261 469 Majesty 769 477 767 i
- - - O Father, now the hour 217 - - i
(suggested tune: Ye choirs of new Jerusalem)
432 - 559 O thou, who at thy Eucharist 249 556 833 iv Coming of the Spirit:
- - - Send forth your Spirit (1-4) 594 634 - ii
524 396 652 The head that once was crowned 308 696 290 i
- - - The Spirit is moving 617 714 - ii
547 410 672 The Spirit lives to set us free 618 - 771 i-ii
- - 697 Unless a grain of wheat 812 754 748 i
- - - We come to share our story - 774 473 i
- 445 - We have a gospel to proclaim 809 778 852 i
623 463 746 Ye choirs of new Jerusalem 363 818 279 i
See also the Ascension and General Eastertide. If
there are any rousing hymns you haven't sung yet
this year, sing them today - or even next week
ANTIPHONS EA: (Ps 26:7-9) O Lord, hear my voice, for I have called to you;
of you my heart has spoken: Seek his face;
hide not your face from me, alleluia. + Ps 26 (27):1, 7-14
CA: (John 17:22) Father, I pray that they may be one
as we also are one, alleluia. + Ps 121 (122) or Jer 31:10-14
Singing the Mass
There are two possible
themes for the hymns: ‘post–Ascension’ and ‘pre-
Pentecost’. Following the psalm response, hymns
to Christ in Glory are suitable, and this is the main
idea. Eastertide is ending so an exuberant final
hymn would be suitable. However there is a quiet-
ness as well - the Church is waiting for the coming
of the Spirit, and asking for the Holy Spirit is not
something confined toPentecost. . Only a musical
taste is needed, e.g. Veni Sancte Spiritus (Walker)
- refrain only; verses next week. Bless the Lord my
soul (Taizé) would beWhere
a good Opening Song as it is
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today’s psalm as well.
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A man there lived in Galilee AMNS PD i
I will never leave you (Haas) G-5665 Cal iii
God the Spirit comes to stay (Bell) WG2 Iona ii
Spirit of God (Haugen) SMG Cal ii
Peace I leave with you (Haas) WCBN2 Cal iii
Let your restless hearts (Bell) WG2 Iona iii, iv
We come to share our story (Haas) var Cal i
When our master Jesus went away CSN CopyCare
Veni sancte spiritus (Bell) WG1 Iona
Come Holy Spirit (Bell) WG2 Iona
Come, Holy Spirit (Dean) Decani/CAN Cal
Come, Holy Spirit 1-3 CAN125-7
Neema, neema CAN131
Taizé: Veni lumen cordium; Veni Sancte Spiritus; My peace I
leave you. More recent: Holy Spirit come to us 129 TSP/Can; Tu sei
sorgente viva CT39; Jesus, your Spirit in us CT/Can124; Spiritus Jesu
Christi CT
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Pentecost Sunday 4 June 2017
The moment we have been taught to expect since Easter has come. But as al-
Hear the Word ways we should distinguish between the commemoration of an event, and the
situation of the Church today. We cannot go back to a time before the Spirit came down, because it is
that very Spirit that moves us to celebrate this day (see below, 2R). We cannot go back, even on Good
Friday, to a time before Jesus’s death. As with the Ascension last week, today is a way of explaining to Roman Lectionary
us the dimensions of what we already enjoy, God’s love for us and God’s enduring presence among us. Acts 2:1-11
Once again Luke in Acts portrays the descent of the Spirit in dramatic form, with details that are reas- Ps 103(104):1.24.29-31.34
suring to us in their very familiarity, whereas in the Gospel Jesus is shown as conferring the Spirit on Romans 8:8-17
the very day of Easter. This Gospel both begins and closes Eastertide - it is part of the passage read on Sequence Veni Sancte Spiritus
Sunday 2, removing the Thomas verses so that more attention can be paid to the Spirit and the greet- JOHN 14:15-16.23-26
ing of Jesus Peace be with you - which chimes with the ‘refreshing peace’ of the Sequence.
2R emphasises that nothing we do - coming to Church, celebrating this or any feast, even saying Common Worship
‘Jesus is Lord’- is possible without the Spirit working in us. The variety of gifts of the Spirit, who works Acts 2:1-21 [*or Gen 11:1-9]
‘in all sorts of different ways in different people’ is rather like the variety of languages in which the Ps 104:24-34,35b [or 24-36]
apostles’ words are heard in 1R. Today is a day for exhibiting these different gifts, seven using different Rom 8:14-17 [*or Acts 2:1-21]
languages in the liturgy, and not just in communities whose diversity is clearly visible. JOHN 14:8-17 [25-27]

PSALM 103 (104). A hymn. A majestic song of cre-
ation which is effectively Genesis I in verse; it is even
in seven sections. It is the first psalm at the Easter
Vigil, and so ‘encloses’ Eastertide. It begins and ends
with the ecstatic ‘Bless the Lord, my soul!’; in between
the whole of God’s creation is paraded past. Today’s
verses sing of praise and acknowledgement that the
Spirit is our very breath: without which, we are dust.
Look at the Liturgy Pentecost originally meant the whole 50 days of
Eastertide, not just the 50th. We celebrate it well if we have celebrated the
the whole season well, from Sunday 2 when we hear in the Gospel: Receive
the Holy Spirit. Since our baptism there is no moment when we have not been
spirit-filled. • Today a Vigil mass is provided, in fact recommended (CE 107).
Instruction in the Mysteries: Pentecost is the only one of the greatest
feasts to have three lectionary cycles. Consult all of them. Today the second
reading lists the gifts of the Spirit. The Gospel, though, mentions only one:
Truth. The Spirit will lead us to the complete truth: what a great prospect.

Respond in Song Look for scripture in the hymns: (i) Pentecost day; (ii)Gifts of the spirit; (iii) Fire/wind; (iv) breath.life; (v) Truth (Gospel)
Look for the Antiphons: EAi: The spirit of the Lord (Cantate); Psallite C95.

Psalm settings HON649, C682; Walker (O-7145/RPsA /L299); ANTIPHONS EAi: The Spirit of the Lord fills the whole world. It holds all
things together and knows every word spoken by man, alleluia.
Wright (PsS2), O’Hara (AK32) HONL608, 609. Send forth your Sprit,
(Wisdom 1:7). EAii: The love of God has been poured into our hearts by his spirit
Lord (Wellicome, BWF). Psallite B-96 Tamblyn (EM, Res) also includes
living in us, alleluia (Rom 5:5, 8:11) CA: They were all filled with the Holy
a related Gospel Acclamation setting (other examples, Fitzpatrick Spirit, and they spoke of the great things God had done, alleluia (Acts 2:4-11).
(MMI-89), O’Hara (AK44)). The Sequence: see right.
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70 67 182 Breathe on me, breath of God 49 98 302 iv
71 - 183 Breath of God, O Holy Spirit - - - ii-iv
96 88 209 Come down, O love divine 49 125 303 iii, iv
98 90 210 Come, Holy Ghost, creator 50 126 296 ii-iv
- - - Come, Holy Spirit - - 304s Seq
- 91 211 Come, Holy Spirit, come - - - ii-iv
110 98 - Come to us, Lord of light - - - ii-iv
- - 613 Enemy of apathy - 640 305 ii-iv
183 152 297 God’s Spirit is in my heart 99 227 864 ii, iv
- 178 340 Holy Spirit, come confirm us - - 311 ii, v
217 - 342 Holy Spirit of fire 125 262 - ii, iii
- - - Holy Spirit, we welcome you - 873 -
- - - Let your living water flow - 888 -
- - - Litany of the Spirit - - 295 ii-iv
253 - - Into the silence of our hearts - - - iv
402 308 527 O living water 225 566 931 iv
- - 608 Send forth your Spirit 595/6 634/5 - ii, iv
510 337 630 Spirit of the living God 289 666 306 iv
- - - Spirit of truth and grace - - 939 ii-iv, v
- - - Spirit of God (Farrell) - - 309 ii-iv
- - - Spirit of God within me - - 310 ii-iv
- - - The gift of the Holy Spirit 797 693 894 ii, iv
526 - - The Holy Spirit has come down - - - i-iii
- - - The Spirit is moving 617 714 - iii, iv
- - - The Spirit of the Lord - - 308 iii, iv
- 419 684 This is the day 625 731 465 i
580 436 701 Veni creator Spiritus 720 758 297/8 ii-iv
437 581 702 Veni sancte Spiritus (plainsong) 720 - 300 Seq.
774 438 - Veni sancte Spiritus (Vogler/Mayhew) - - - ii-iii, v
- - - Veni sancte Spiritus (Walker) 638 759 307 Seq.
Singing the Mass The music must tell people what
day it is e.g. Come, Holy Ghost which is like a ‘Pentecost carol’.
Sing something striking and surprising, shaking us out of our
complacency as the Spirit demands, e.g. the Sequence in the
original chant (HON 581/L300) in free rhythm or in a dance-
like 6/8 with percussion. The sequence in hymn style: Holy
spirit, Lord of Light or Come, Holy Spirit (Walker ANJ) Refrain/
verse: Veni sancte Spiritus (Taizé I or Walker), Come, Holy Spirit
(Dean, Can/Lsupp). • Chants/Rounds etc: Tongues of Fire
(Dean, Res); Veni creator (Taizé); Veni sancte Spiritus (WG2);
Come, Holy Spirit (BB); Breath of Life (Huijbers, C700); Litany
of the Spirit (Inwood/Shaw, OCP/L); The Song and the silence
(Haugen, Can /G-5068) and see G-7146/7148 in the list below
• Pentecost Alleluia: O’Hara ITP
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Baptised with fire (Wellicome) BWF Cal iii, iv
Christians, lift up your hearts AMNS444 Aut. i-iv
Come Holy Ghost (Bell) Night Prayer LFB Iona
Come holy Ghost, creator blest W482/HON/BB PD ii, iii
Come, Holy Ghost, our souls inspire NEH/AMNS PD ii-iv
Creator Spirit, by whose aid WH PD Seq
From the waiting comes the sign (Murray/Alonso) G-7148 Cal ii
Holy is the Spirit of the Lord (Landry) RUS Cal ii
Holy spirit, come, confirm us (Foley) NEH/AMNS/L Faber ii, v
Joy! because the circling year IRC/AMNS PD i
Living Spirit, Holy Fire (Duck/True) G-7146 Cal i
On Pentecost they gathered (Huber) JS Aut i
Our Lord, his passion ended (Burkitt) AMNS OUP i-iv
Pentecost (God’s Spirit came) (Bell) WG2 Iona i
Rejoice, the year upon its way NEH PD i
Send out your Spirit (Farrell) Ps 103 FSB Cal cf Ps
Send us your spirit (Haas) TBB/G-3440/G Cal iii, iv
She sits like a bird (Bell) WG2/L Iona ii, iv
The Song and the Silence (Haugen) G-5068 Cal ii-iv
The Spirit of the Lord (round, Dean) Can Cal EAi
Veni creator Spiritus (Hurd) 1RL Cal
Veni, Veni Sancte Spiritus (Donnelly) MM272 Aut i, iii
We are all parts of one body (Hurd) AGG Cal ii
When our Master Jesus went away (arr. Bell) CSN Hope i-iv

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Hear the Word After weeks in which the Gospel names the Father, Son and Spirit, particu- Roman Lectionary
larly the Ascension (whose gospel, Matt 28:16-20, is the pre-1962 Gospel for
today), the passage chosen today is one which does not. But if we have been listening to such words as Exodus 34:4-6.8-9
last week’s No-one can say “Jesus is Lord” unless they are und the influence of the Holy Spirit, we know that God Daniel 3:52-56
is all around us and in us, and is never less than the three persons: creator, redeemer and life-giver. The 2 Cor 13:11-13
Gospel puts in the shortest possible form of words what God has done for us: God so loved the world ✠ JOHN 3:16-18
so much that he gave his only Son. The word behind only is used one other time in John’s Gospel (1:14),
and this verse is thought to call to mind the story of Abraham and Isaac. God in 1R speaks of himself
CWL (principal service)
as ‘a God of tenderness and compasson, slow to anger, rich in kindness and faithfulness’. The Hebrew
Either Gen 1:1-2.4a
scriptures obviously do not talk explicitly of Son and Spirit, but they talk of a God whom we recognise
by actions and words; this is the God to whom we respond in the Psalm/canticle with glory and praise - or Is 40:12-17. 27-31
what else could we do? 2R as so often is the one most explicit about the doctrine the feast is concerned Psalm 8
with, but even here, before the Grace in the last verse, it is the God of love and peace who is invoked. 2 Cor 13:11-13
Tenderness and love: these are the signs of the God we cannot see directly but whom we depend on. ✠ MATTHEW 28:16-20

PSALM Dan 3:52-56 is also described as a Canticle.
It is not in the Hebrew text of this chapter,
and so not to be found in the main part of all Bibles.
It is a litany, an interactive and involving form, but
unusual at this point of Mass: the cantor will have to
help people respond more frequently than they are
used to. To choose a setting with a simple response is
a kind thought. As it is quite short, don’t hurry.
Scripture keywords:
Respond in Song Antiphons: EA Psallite A199; CA Psallite A92; ‘Abba’ hymns - (vi)
Look at the Liturgy The feast of Trinity Sunday dates from
medieval times (it was not celebrated until 1334 in Rome, always
a conservative place) so is the creation of theologians rather than
of popular devotion. The liturgy of every Mass is full of three-fold
prayers, from the Sign of the Cross to the final blessing (they are
not found either in the Solemn Blessings nor the 3rd Penitential Act
which, unusually, is addressed to Christ). Outside the missal, Pen.
Act texts are found in Music for the Mass I, no 19, and II, no.164; and
in our sister publication Pastoral Patterns.Solemn Blessing: 10
(i) One God/Praise; (ii) Three-in-one God creator, redeemer, life-giver. (iii) God of compassion and love (1R, Gosp)
(iv) God so loved the world (v) ‘The Grace’ (2R) (vi) Abba Father - also CA

ANTIPHONS EA: (non-scriptural) Blest be God the Father,

Psalm settings Gelineau 20 Psalms and 3 Canticles (GIA © Cal) is
and the Only Begotten Son of God,
stately and the response is easy to pick up. Others:
and also the Holy Spirit,
Guimont (GII 130); Peter Jones: RPs (good rhythmic response); Martin
for he has shown us his merciful love. + Ps 112 (113) or Rev 4:11; 5:9, 10, 12
Foster (available from Decani.) To you glory (Walker, PsS3 p.6) and Glory
and praise (David & Laura Ash, Journeysongs, OCP) are more elaborate, with CA: (Gal 4:6) Since you are children of God,
God has sent into your hearts the Spirit of his Son,
longer responses. Ring our your joy (Nazareth, HON) is a song version.
Singing the
the Spirit who criesMass
out: Abba, Father. + Eph 1:3-10 or Ps 102 (103):1-5, 11-18

HON H O
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2 - 95 Abba, Father, from your hands - - - ii, vi PG
3 4 96 Abba, Father, send your Spirit 384 388 293 ii, vi F
- - - Bless the Lord - - 997 i
677 59 862 Bless the Lord, my soul (cf 1R) 728 81 813 iii lives among us still, in the Spirit; loves us (Introit). It
107 96 220 Come, praise the Lord 50 131 700 i, ii
132 115 250 Father, in my life I see 452 160 317 ii
- - - Father in heaven 451 - 313 ii PG
- - - Father, Lord of all creation 453 161 - ii F
- - - Father, Lord of earth and heaven - - 314 ii, PG
- - - Father most holy 70 162 - ii
134 116 253 Father, we adore you - 164 718 ii
- - - Father, we praise you 455 168 - ii
- - - Father, Lord of earth and heaven - - 314 ii
- - - God beyond all names - - 686
- - - God is Love: let heaven adore him - - 811 iii
213 174 333 Holy God, we praise thy name 121 257 708 ii
214 175 335 Holy, holy, (Owens) 122 258 - ii
215 177 337 Holy.... Lord God almighty 123 259 468 i
- - - Holy is God - - 699 i
222 181 345 How great is our God - - 316 i
- - - I believe in God the Father 130 - - ii
- - - I bind unto myself - 274 312 ii
253 - - Into the silence of our hearts - - - ii
298 227 416 Lead us, heavenly Father 165 351 315 ii
352 271 - Most ancient of all mysteries 198 492 - ii
454 - - Praise to the Father - - - ii
452 346 579 Praise the Lord, ye heavens, adore him 585 605 704 i
- - - The God of Abraham praise - - 712 i
55 555 680 This day God gives me 325 729 673 i, ii
- 425 689 Thou (God) whose almighty Word 629 738 887 ii
- - - To God be the glory 803 745 719 i, v F
- - - We praise you, O God - - 709 i, ii
Singing the Mass With every hymn we sing and
prayer we say we worship the Trinity. Some have three
verses that begin ‘Father...’, ‘Son...’, ‘Spirit...’ But the
Trinity is not a counting game. We cannot know God
for what God is, but we can know (some of) what God
has done for us. God made us; lived among us as a man;
would have been easy to use the word ‘he’ in all those
sentences but God is greater than the word ‘he’ can
convey: One beyond all names.
• There are many hymns which say in effect say
‘Praise God’, including most hymns based on the
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psalms or OT scriptures. Usually a psalm-based hymn
Frombe
would alla sources Where
suitable first hymn, but today is ©a rare
use
non-scriptural introit which is explicitly Trinitarian.
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Children of God himself (Leckebusch) More than words KM CA
Gloria Patri et Filio I and II Taizé 2 HC
Glory to the Father Almighty Taizé1 HC
God beyond all names (Farrell) GBN/O/CFE /L Cal iii
God the creator (Bell) LFB Iona ii
God is a name my soul adores (Watts) var. PD i, ii
*I bind unto myself today NEH/AM/CFE/L PD ii, iv
I bow my knee in prayer (arr Bell) 1ITB/G-5169 Iona ii
I owe my Lord a morning song (Bell) 1ITB/G-5164 Iona i, ii
Into the silence of our hearts Can Aut i
Loving creator (Niles, adapted) SBL Aut i
May the peace of God our Father (Perry) SG Jub ii
O Trinity, O Trinity (Saward) HTC/SG Jub ii
Priase our God/Wyslawiajcie Pana (Taizé) Can/CdT Cal i
The God of Abraham praise var PD i
The Mind of God (Bell) IWNSA Iona iii
Today I awake (Bell) LFB Iona ii
Trinity Prayer (Anderson) AK85 KM ii
We believe in God almighty (Mowbray) HTC Jub ii, iv
We give immortal praise (Watts) ICEL/var PD ii
Worship, glory, praise and honour (Wood) PL PD ii, iv

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 The Body & Blood of Christ 18 June 2017
As with last week, there is no strict need to celebrate a feast such as this, be- Roman Lectionary
Hear the Word cause every Sunday, indeed every Mass, speaks of what is brought to particu-
lar attention today. There is no Eucharist where we do not have communion with the body and blood of Deut 8:2-3.14-16
Christ, and indeed give thanks for them, as the word Eucharist signifies. The celebration has its origin Ps 147:12-15.19-20
in medieval times when ‘devotion to the Blessed Sacrament’ in reaction to various heresies became I Cor 10:16-17
particularly fervent, even though the celebration of the Mass had become highly clericalised. Though ✠ JOHN 6:51-58
the institution of the Eucharist is commemorated on Maundy Thursday, so much else is celebrated on
that day that a second feast dedicated exclusively to the institution was deemed desirable. The readings
CWL (principal service)
recall the manna in the desert (1R), which symbolized God’s care and providence for his people, but Day of Thanksgiving
taught them that we do not live on bread alone; they pass on in 2R to a different kind of bread (and cup for Holy Communion
- note that this comes first) which is not given to satisfy our bodily hunger but something more; and in
Genesis 14:18-20
the Gospel to the explanation of this bread and drink by Jesus in what is seen by many as John's account
of the institution of the Eucharist. As often in John’s Gospel, earthly life and eternal (heavenly) life, Psalm 116:12-19
food and real food, are intertwined in expression, but distinguished in meaning. God makes the earth I Corinthians 11:23-26
fertile for us, and we give praise for that. But the Bread and Cup of Life are infinitely more to be prized. ✠ JOHN 6:51-58

PSALM Today’s verses (RL) are one of three Look at the Liturgy Reverence for the Eucharist should not be
Hymns which make up Psalm 147 (di- thought of in individualistic terms. What
is communion, if not membership of a body? And Real Presence is not
vided in two, 146-147, in the Greek version). These
confined to the elements. See EG 174: God’s word, listened to and cel-
verses also appear as the psalm for the (no longer ebrated, above all in the Eucharist, nourishes and inwardly strengthens
needed) Second Sunday of Christmas, which Christians, enabling them to offer an authentic witness to the Gospel
celebrates the Word becoming Flesh just as today in daily life. We have long since moved beyond that old contraposition
does. The ‘Word’ of stanzas 2 & 3 is thus a key to between word and sacrament. The preaching of the word, living and
this psalm and a reason for its choice for this feast. effective, prepares for the reception of the sacrament, and in the sacra-
ment that word attains its maximum efficacy.
Scripture keywords: (i) Manna in the desert (1R); (ii) God feeds (1R, Ps) (iii) one bread/one cup (2R); (iv) references to John 6 (Bread of life; eat
Respond in Song Antiphons: EA: Psallite A202. CA: I am the bread of life; Eat this bread (Taizé) my flesh and drink my blood, resurrection etc.)

EA: He fed them with the finest wheat

Psalm settings In RPs there is a Dean version in a slightly unusual ANTIPHONS and satisfied them with honey from the rock.(Ps 81:17)
form with two refrains. Psallite A203 is similar. Two CA: Whoever eats my flesh and drinks my blood
hymn versions: Sing to God with joy and gladness (Bell, PPP) Fill your hearts remains in me and I in him, says the Lord.(Jn 6:57)
with joy and gladness (Dudley Smith. HON/L). • Lauda Sion see opposite Singing the Mass During and after communion, people need
to be encouraged to join in as reluctance to sing is common. In the revised L
HON H O & N/Cel/ Celebration Refs, &
and CFE some of the older Agnus Dei paraphrases are kept as communion
1989 1994(red) Liturgical Laudate Complete CFE L* possible
use processionals: L611-612, 635; CFE 1016-20. Look at the collection Amen
HON H O & N/Cel/ Celebration Refs, & to the Body of Christ (Dufner/Guimont, G7205. A thanksgiving hymn
15 27 110 Alleluia, sing to Jesus 7 37 L*644 possible
iii
1989 ed 1994(red) Liturgical Laudate Complete after communion (GIRM 88) is an option. But note some older devotional
- - - At this great feast of love - - CFE318 2-4 gen use
338 258 462 Love is his word 185 399 803 ii, iv ones express adoration rather than communion (see CTM 213.)
389 328 509 Of the glorious body telling 219 563 246 ii, iv • Sequence Lauda Sion: plainchant in English, NEH521; hymn versions
424 - - O praise our great & gracious Lord - 548 664 gen Sion lift your voice (CelSupp 1008) Sion Sing (Quinn, PAS), Praise
- - - Praise now your God 787 603 642 ii, iv O Zion (Hommerding, © WLP) enquire from Decani. A shorter version
- - - Seed, scattered and sown - 632 637 iv starts at Ecce panis angelorum
- - - The heavenly word, proceeding 309 697 239 ii, iv From all sources Where © use
538 - - The night before our Saviour died - - - ii, iv
All the gifts of God (Lee/Adams, or Wellicome MM195/BWF Cal iv
- - - The time was early evening - - 638 ii And when you eat this bread AK Aut iv
- - - Those who were in the dark 802 737 - gen At the supper, Christ the Lord (Mowbray) SG462 Jub ii
- - 715 We celebrate this festive day 344 773 - ii Author of life divine (Wesley) var. PD ii
595 448 - Welcome, all ye noble saints 648 792 646 gen Be known to us in breaking bread (Montgomery CP etc PD iv
43 197 362 In bread we bring you 135 302 609 iv From all sources
Blessed Jesus, living bread Where HFG © Refs/use
Concordia iv
- - - Jesus, you’re the one I love 765 334 - gen Bread of life from heaven (Haugen) Can/GG/G-5652/MHS/L* Cal ii, iv
Prep. of Gifts

300 229 418 Let all mortal flesh 166 355 607 gen
- 434 699 Upon thy table, Lord 637 756 606 gen
- - - We bring to you this bread and wine - 917 - gen
- - - An upper room 399 42 248 ii
- - - Bread of life, truth eternal (CJM) - 862 631 iv
125 - - Draw nigh and take 65 150 628 ii, iv
• Communion & Post - Communion
Bread is blessed and broken (Bell) LFB Iona gen
Come, Christ’s beloved (Quinn) PAS, GW, Decani (Foster) Cal gen
Come, risen Lord (Briggs) NEH/PLR OUP ii
Cup of blessing (Soper) CoB/O9445 Cal i
For the bread which you have broken AMNS/SG466 PD iv
Glory, love and praise and honour (Wesley) var PD iv

- - - Bread for the world (Farrell) - 92 625 gen
- - - Bread of life from heaven - - 622s gen
- - - Behold the Lamb of God (CJM) - 859 -
- - - Broken for me - 863 -
- - - Father, we give you thanks - - 645 1
158 134 273 Gifts of bread and wine 469 870 643 ii, iv
- - - Holy gifts - - 613 ii, iv
- - 371 I received the living God 754 280 636 gen
- - - Lord, your love has drawn us near - 396 774 1, 4
356 274 480 My God, and is thy table 202 496 651
- - - Now in this banquet 774 511 623 gen C
432 - 559 O thou who at thy Eucharist 249 556 833 2
- - - One bread we break - - 626 We hail thy presence glorious AMNS/NEH PD ii, iv
474 - 606 See us, Lord, about thine altar 275 631 648 4
736 - - Take this and eat it - - - ii, iv
556 417 681 This is my body 623 730 627 ii, iv
- - - We have gathered - - 639 1
- - 732 When the time came 653 807 - ii, iv
- - - Within the reign of God (Haugen) - - 641 iv, v
Laudate communion section (614-651). Check changes in new edition, e.g. 611-612, 622, 634-6, 649
53
Holy manna from above (Warner) Can Cal i
Jesus, God among us (Dufner) SNC Cal iv
Jesus, you are the bread (Farrell) RH/Can Cal ii
Life-giving bread (Chepponis) G2985/MFC Cal iv
Lord, to whom shall we go (Dean) Decani Cal iv
One in body, heart and mind (Walker) ANJ/O-10583 Cal ii, iii
Strengthen for service, Lord HPs.HTC CP etc PD iv
Take and eat (Joncas) GII/G3435/GC/SFC Cal iv
- as Communion Rite G-4774 CBB
The bread that I shall break (Hurd) DK/30100243 Cal iv
The bread that we break (Dean) SLG/O7102/Res Cal i, ii
There is something holy here (Walker) OD Cal i iv
This is the body of Christ (Bell) T1AU Iona ii
We who live by sound and symbol (Bell) LFB Iona ii
We will take what you offer (Bell) T1AU Iona iv
You are the bread of life (Leckebusch) MLA KM ii
You are our living bread (Joncas) HM/AVCO/GII/O-10759 Cal ii
Versions of Ps 116 (CWL): Our blessing cup - Joncas, AVCO/O-5437; Walker
(CH); The blessing cup (Brown) PsS2/40 or Furlong, MMII 243; I will raise (Inwood)
(O-10186),How can I thank him (Baty, Concept Music) Ps 34 Taste and See
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