Music for Sunday 12 September

Working for a parish under the care of priests of the Society of the Holy Cross (SSC) means that certain feasts are de rigeur.  One of these is the Exaltation of the Holy Cross, which is the patronal feast of the SSC.  An obvious choice of hymn for the week is Sydney Nicholson's Lift high the cross, with the tune Crucifer.  I once played from a hymnbook where the name of the tune had been changed to Lucifer by some witty but bored organist.  It makes me begin to think twice about providing colouring pencils to small choristers for during the sermon...

The readings for the week are linked here.

The setting will be Philip Mathias's Christ Church Mass (Together in Song, 757).

Hymns for the week are as follows:

Procession: Lift high the cross, the love of Christ proclaim [351]
For the Psalm: The sky tells the glory [7]
Gradual: To Christ, the Prince of Peace [335]
Offertory: My song is love unknown [341]
Communion: And now, O Father, mindful of the love [519]

There will be a communion anthem: The Call -- Ralph Vaughan Williams.

For those keeping the ordinary Sunday (one must always prepared for any eventuality!), here's what would have come up if it hadn't been displaced:

Readings and psalm setting.  The service setting and communion anthem as above.

Hymns:

Introit: All people that on earth do dwell [59]
Gradual: Jesus, lover of my soul [211 i]
Offertory: Just as I am, without one plea [584 i]
Communion: Amazing grace (how sweet the sound) [129]