Music for Sunday 7 November

Well, here we go -- just short of eight shopping weeks left till Christmas.  The Melbourne Cup was run yesterday, so now we know the summer break is close at hand.  Similarly, the Sunday readings are getting around to the crunch: this is a big week of resurrection, what it means, and where we stand.

A more practical sign of the imminent turning of the year is that the new music list runs through to the end of January.  I prefer to have a break in the week after Christmas, rather than madly scurrying to get a music list for the following month in place.  Doing these things in larger chunks means that the inertia is reduced to a matter of one or two days in three months, rather than the same in every four weeks.

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

Introit: Jesus, remember me [730]
Psalm: The Lord will bless his people with peace [17]
Sequence: Now is eternal life [385, tune 371]
Offertory: All my hope on God is founded [560]
Communion: Soul of my Saviour [502]