Music for Sunday 25 July 2010

This week the Parish of Jika Jika is keeping the feast of St James the Great.  It happens to be the priest in charge's name day, so it's as good an excuse as any to roll out the incense and turn a figure-8 procession.

Processions are becoming more fun, now that the choir has reached the stage of being able to walk and sing.  Last Sunday was their first turn in the procession -- although they forgot to walk out with the sanctuary party at the end of Mass.

The readings are linked here.

The setting for the week is Philip Mathias's Christ Church Mass (Together in Song, 757). Hymns are as follows:

Introit: We praise, we worship you, O God [98]
For the Psalm: The Lord has done great things for us [80]
Gradual: Lord, who shall sit beside thee [tune: 551]
Offertory: For all the saints [455]
Communion: Come, risen Lord, a deign to be our guest [524]

Depending on how things go at rehearsal tonight, the choir may be singing the proper communion chant for the feast.

The organ postlude at All Saints will be:

Allegro Maestoso from Sonata in D (Op. 65, No. 5) -- Felix Mendelssohn