Music for Sunday 26 February

Readings for the week can be found here, and the psalm will be sung to the setting from Respond & Acclaim.  This is proving a very useful source of psalm settings -- my cantors are thriving with it, and the congregation seems to enjoy the settings.  Yes, it's a bit monotonous in style, but there are far worse collections out there.

The service setting will be drawn from various sources.  For the confession we're doing a troped Kyrie through Lent, and building our repertoire of items for this by introducing the Kyrie Firmator Sancte.  In place of the Gloria we will be singing the Trisagion to a simple tone.  And for the rest it's Michael Dudman's Parish Eucharist (Together in Song, 756).

Hymns are as follows:

Introit: Lent Prose (verse 1)
Sequence: Forty days and forty nights [591]
Offertory: Now is the healing time decreed [tune 245]
Communion: Among us and before us, Lord [259