Music for Sunday 3 October

We're back to Ordinary Sundays for a week or two.  Habits over anticipating, transferring and ignoring various feasts vary wildly from parish to parish, and I have to admit that having three at a stretch can get a bit wearisome.  After all, every Sunday is special just for being Sunday: add a feast, and it becomes special for other, additional reasons.

Last Sunday was a quiet comedown after the high intensity of end-of-term and the visit of Bishop Andudu.  Four adult choristers joined the sanctuary team and discovered the acoustics of the chancel (where there was once a large set of choir stalls).  It made of a good change of pace!

So this week we're still on holiday personnel, and rehearsals for the youth choir resume next week.

Readings are linked here, and the psalm setting to be sung is here.

The setting will be Philip Mathias's Christ Church Mass (Together in Song, 757).  Hymns are as follows:

Introit: O thou who camest from above [572 ii]
Gradual: Give me the wings of faith to rise [438]
Offertory: Dear Father, Lord of humankind [598]
Communion: Lord, you have been our dwelling-place [144]