Music for Sunday 1 January 2012

It's been a couple of weeks since I put the regular Music for Sunday entry up here.  Last week got missed out because, well most people must know how to schedule Christmas carols, and the week was frenetic enough to push the weekly round of updating these pages down the list of priorities.

This week there is a variety of choices as to what you might do.  In the Catholic calendar, it's the Solemnity of Mary, Mother of the Lord, which is the traditional observance for New Year's Day.  You can also keep the feast of the Circumcision and Naming of Jesus, and the Australian (Anglican) Lectionary allows Epiphany to be anticipated this week.  Alternatively, if you just want a quiet life, you can keep the Holy Family, which is what we're doing in the parish this week.

Readings can be found here, and the psalm setting will be taken from Respond & Acclaim (of which, more anon).

The service setting will be Philip Mathias's Christ Church Mass (Together in Song, 57), along with a versified setting of the Nicene Creed which will be sung to Austria.

Hymns are as follows:

Introit: The north wind is tossing the leaves [322]
Sequence: Let heaven and earth combine [305]
Offertory: O Christ the same, throughout our story's pages
Communion: The Word became flesh [chant in the style of Jacques Berthier]