Music for Sunday 31 October

This week the parish is keeping All Saints day, given that it is the closest Sunday.  Because it's the patronal festival of one of the centres, it will be a joint parish service, which means a larger congregation than usual.

One of our clergy is moving on, so this is his penultimate Sunday.  He will be fare-welled with greater finality next week, but this is the only joint parish centres event before his departure, so doubtless there will be some bidding adieu this week as well.

The choir is settling back down into the term-time routine.  It's interesting how it can take a couple of weeks for things to come back to normal after a short break!

The mass setting will be Philip Mathias's Christ Church Mass (Together in Song, 757).  Hymns are as follows:

Procession: For all the saints [455]
Sequence: Blest are the pure in heart [448]
Offertory: Jerusalem the golden
Communion: O what their joy and their glory must be

The choir will be singing a communion anthem: Jesu, joy of man's desiring -- J.S. Bach