Music for Sunday 10 October

Things are back to normal this week, with the resumption of the youth choir and all the rehearsal time that entails.  As usual, young folk are a bit restless in the first week: it takes a few days to perform the transformation from holiday mode to working mode.

I spent a good deal of time during the holidays sorting out Advent and Christmas music.  Joy of joys, we get to work on all of that for the next ten weeks or so.  This will be the first time in some years that the parish has had anything approaching a choir-led carols service during Advent.  It should be fun, whatever happens.

Readings for this week are linked here, and the psalm setting we will be singing is here.

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

Hymns are as follows:

Introit: Just as I am, without one plea [584 i]
Gradual: O for a thousand tongues to sing [210, tune 425]
Offertory: Your hand, O God, has guided [456]
Communion: God of mercy, God of grace [452]