This week it is Pentecost. Happy birthday to the Church, as the saying goes. How many churches around the world will be bedecked with red balloons this week?
Sunday is something of an anniversary for me, as it will be 12 months since I first played at All Saints. I was deputizing for a colleague who was himself undertaking a locum, and quickly found myself recruited. The rest is history.
The readings for the week are linked here.
The mass setting for the week is Philip Mathias' Christ Church Mass (Together in Song, 757).
Hymns for the week are as follows (all numbers refer to Together in Song):
Introit: Come, Holy Spirit, our souls inspire [396]
For the Psalm: Send forth your Spirit, O Lord [65]
Gradual: Come thou Holy Spirit [tune, 212]
Offertory: Come down, O Love divine [398]
Communion: Holy Spirit, come confirm us [413]
The choir will be singing the communion chant from the American Gradual this week. They've really come along very well, given that plainchant only came into the repertoire during this past Lent.
Organ music at All Saints will be:
Prelude: Veni Creator Spiritus -- Hieronymus Praetorius
Postlude: Fugue [BWV 540] -- J.S. Bach
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