Whatever you prefer to call the coming Sunday, the readings for the week are linked here.
The psalm setting the parish is using this week will be found here.
If you turn up at All Saints or St Georges, the setting is Philip Mathias's Christ Church Mass [Together in Song, 757].
Hymns for the week are as follows:
Introit: Lead us, heavenly Father, lead us [580]
Gradual: God of freedom, God of justice [657, tune: Picardy, 497]
Offertory: What does the Lord require for praise and offering? [618]
Communion: Sweet sacrament divine
The communion hymn is a request from someone in the congregation. This has to be one of my all-time favourite melting moments, although it is easy to overdo the stop changes as you follow the text. Every organist gets revved up in the third verse, especially "ark from the ocean's roar...save us, for still the tempest raves / save, lest we sink beneath the waves," which usually results in a shattering cloud of full swell and shimmering upperwork in full flight. For me, the real challenge is in the fourth verse, where the final lines cry out for a literal treatment -- "sweet light, so shine on us, we pray / that earthly joys may fade away" -- down to a single 8' flute, if possible.
I haven't been putting up organ music for the last couple of weeks. The reason for this is that I've been preparing for a recital (which was last Sunday), and choir rehearsals have been going to the nail before Mass. So, just a little bon bon for the postlude for All Saints this week:
Processional -- William Mathias
Service preludes will make their return in due course.
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