There are a few minor changes to the familiar program this week. There is a baptism at All Saints, which alters the shape of the service somewhat, while things remain unchanged at St George's and St Mary's.
One issue that's often concerned me when programming music for baptisms is the need to offer something that people can pick up quickly and easily. Many parishes just carry on with the normal musical diet, assuming that it's only the spoken parts of the service that really matter to the visitors. Of course, the one thing that most of the visitors will remember is not being able to join in all the songs and music -- they tend to relate to things that sung or done much more readily than the rather wordy remainder of the whole worship experience. There are plenty of ways of doing the music that can involve refrains and call-and-response, which invite participation more readily.
The service setting will be Philip Matthias's Christ Church Mass (Together in Song, 757), which will be sung complete at St George's, along with a versified setting of the creed. At All Saints, there will be Matthias leavened with the Kyrie de Angelis and a Taize Gloria.
Hymns are as follows:
Introit: God has spoken by his prophets [158]
[No sequence hymn this week]
Baptism: Lord Jesus, once a child [490 -- All Saints only]
Offertory: Dear Father, Lord of humankind [598 -- St George's only]
Communion: Bread is blessed and broken [707 -- St George's only]
Communion: In God alone my soul [Taize -- All Saints only]
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