ST EDMUND THE KING, NORTHWOOD HILLS ARCHIVE SEP 2013-AUG 2014
The articles below are taken from my monthly columns in St Edmund's Church parish magazine ("The King"), which includes full details of my organ voluntaries for that month.
FROM THE CONSOLE - JULY/AUGUST 2014
At the end of May I attended a very special wedding in Cambridge. A bass from my Cambridge University college
choir thirty years ago was getting married and I was honoured to be asked to conduct a choir of ten, including
Frank Jacobs and one my college choir sopranos who had flown in from Canada specially.
The service took place in Our Lady and the English Martyrs Catholic Church. The building is in a Gothic
revival style and was completed in 1890. The three-manual organ was designed by Sir Charles Villiers
Stanford, built by Abbot and Smith in 1894 and subsequently renovated in 2002. The organist for the wedding
was Andrew Parnell, who was assistant organist at St Alban’s Cathedral for 25 years.
The nuptial mass lasted for an hour and a half and opened with Parry’s great anthem “I was glad”, written
for the coronation of Edward VII in 1902 (although the famous introduction only appeared nine years later
for George V). We also performed three movements from a Byrd mass as well as one of his motets. We only had around
forty five minutes to rehearse some fairly intricate music. I was lucky that the choir was
made up of experienced musicians and there were only a couple of shaky moments which most of
the congregation would not have noticed!
William Byrd was born in London around 1542. He was organist at Lincoln Cathedral and the Chapel Royal. Although
he began by writing Anglican music, Byrd increasingly turned towards Catholicism. His “Mass for Four Voices” – one of
three Latin masses - was published around 1593. It appeared anonymously as such publications in puritanical
post-reformation England were illegal. His unaccompanied Corpus Christi motet “Ave Verum Corpus” was published
in his 1605 “Gradualia”, a two-volume set of over 100 motets covering much of the liturgical year. Byrd died
in 1623 in Stondon Massey, Essex, where he had spent the last thirty years of his life.
July 6th
10.00am Sung Eucharist – Third Sunday after Trinity (4.2.0.0)
Celebrant/Preacher: Father Philip Barnes (Vicar, St Edmund's)
Prelude – Es Ist Ein’ Ros Entsprungen – J.Brahms
Setting: Darke in A Minor (Gloria/Credo – Merbecke)
Anthem: I give you a new commandment - P.Aston
Processional: Longing for light we wait in darkness
OT Reading (Year A) – Zechariah 9:9
Psalm (145): I will bless your name for ever, O God my King (A.Gregory Murray)
NT Reading (Year A) – Romans 7:15
Gradual: I heard the voice of Jesus say (Kingsfold)
Gospel (Year A) – Matthew 11:16
Offertory: Jesu lover of my soul (Aberystwyth)
Communion: Lead us Heavenly Father (Mannheim, last v.Andrew Wright)
Post-Communion: Lord for the years
Postlude – Voluntary No 8 – W.Boyce
July 13th
10.00am Sung Eucharist – Fourth Sunday after Trinity (4.2.1.0)
Celebrant/Preacher: Father Philip Barnes (Vicar, St Edmund's)
Prelude – Herlich Thut Mich Verlangen – J.Brahms
Setting: Oldroyd (Gloria/Credo – Merbecke)
Anthem: A Clare Benediction - J.Rutter
Processional: When morning gilds the sky (Laudes Domine)
Gradual: Word of the Father, source of all things living (Christe Fons Jugis)
Offertory: Praise to God whose word was spoken (St Helens)
Communion: O thou who camest from above (Hereford, last v.Mark Hammond)
Post-Communion: Blessed assurance, Jesus is mine
Postlude – Voluntary No 9 – W.Boyce
July 20th
10.00am Sung Eucharist – Fifth Sunday after Trinity (2.2.1.1)
Celebrant/Preacher: Father Philip Barnes (Vicar, St Edmund's)
Prelude: Air on the G String – J.S.Bach
Setting: Burton (Gloria/Credo – Merbecke)
Anthem: O Strength and Stay - Bourgeois
Processional: All my hope on God is founded (Michael)
OT Reading (Year A) – Solomon 12:13
Psalm: O Lord you are good and forgiving
NT Reading (Year A) – Romans 8:12
Gradual: Come ye thankful people come (St George's Windsor, last v.Michael Higgins)
Gospel (Year A) – Matthew 13:24
Offertory: O Jesus I have promised (Wolvercote)
Communion: In Christ alone
Post-Communion: God is working his purpose out (Benson)
Postlude – Postlude – Voluntary No 10 – W.Boyce
July 27th
10.00am Sung Eucharist – Sixth Sunday after Trinity (3.0.1.0)
Celebrant/Preacher: Father Philip Barnes (Vicar, St Edmund's)
Prelude: Minuets 1 & 2 in G Minor (Water Music) - G.F.Handel
Setting: Wadely (Gloria/Credo – Merbecke)
Anthem: Lord I trust Thee - G.F.Handel
Processional: Great is thy faithfulness
OT Reading (Year A) – 1 Kings 3:5
Psalm (119): Lord how I love your law! (A.Gregory Murray)
NT Reading (Year A) – Romans 8:26
Gradual: Lord thy word abideth (Ravenshaw, last v.Andrew Fletcher)
Gospel (Year A) – Matthew 13:31
Offertory: For the beauty of the earth (England's Lane)
Communion: Be thou my vision (Slane)
Post-Communion: The kingdom is upon you! (Wolvercote)
Postlude – Praise The Lord, O my soul - S.Karg-Elert
Aug 3rd
10.00am Sung Eucharist – Seventh Sunday after Trinity (3.1.1.1)
Celebrant/Preacher: Father Philip Barnes (Vicar, St Edmund's)
Prelude: Adagio (“Organ Symphony”) – C.Saint-Saens
Setting: Darke in A Minor (Gloria/Credo – Merbecke)
Anthem: Cantate Domino - Pitoni
Processional: Jesus where'er thy people meet (St Sepulchre)
OT Reading (Year A) – Isaiah 55:1
Psalm: You open wide your hand, O Lord, and grant our desires
NT Reading (Year A) – Romans 9:1
Gradual: The Lord my pasture shall prepare (Surrey)
Gospel (Year A) – Matthew 14:13
Offertory: Light of the minds that know him (Aurelia)
Communion: Your gentleness O God of grace (Herongate)
Post-Communion: O Lord my God (How Great Thou Art)
Postlude – Now thank we all our God – S.Karg-Elert
FROM THE CONSOLE - JUNE 2014
Oranges and lemons say the bells of St. Clement's
You owe me five farthings say the bells of St. Martin's
When will you pay me say the bells of Old Bailey
When I grow rich say the bells of Shoreditch
When will that be say the bells of Stepney
I do not know says the great bell of Bow
Here comes a candle to light you to bed
And here comes a chopper to chop off your head!
As you may know, St Edmund’s organ began life in 1903 in the east end of London at St Dunstan’s, Stepney. I was
reminded of this when, on Palm Sunday, I was invited by Frank Jacobs to sing Evensong at nearby Bow Church (above). Until
the early fourteenth century, St Dunstan’s served the whole of the area east of the city of London before new churches
were built. Bow was often cut off by flood and permission was given to build a chapel to give the locals a place
of worship - although they still had to travel to St Dunstan’s on religious holidays and pay for its
upkeep. It was not until four centuries later that the parish of Bow became independent of St Dunstan’s. Bow
church is not to be confused with St Mary-le-Bow, whose bells, like St Dunstan’s, Stepney, are immortalised
in the nursery rhyme “Oranges and Lemons” and which by tradition true cockneys must be born in earshot of.
Bow Church is located on an island site dividing the two carriageways of the busy A11 which runs from London to
Norwich. The church suffered considerable damage during the London Blitz and was restored after the war
and is now a listed building. Just outside the churchyard is a statue of William Gladstone which was paid
for by Theodore Bryant, whose family co-founded the Bryant and May match factory which was located next
to the church and which has now been converted into apartments. The church is also the resting place of
Revd Samuel Henshaw, Rector at the beginning of the nineteenth century who patented the world’s first
corkscrew in 1795. The single manual organ was built in 1961 by Henry Willis and sons with five manual
and four pedal stops and I took the opportunity to play it during my recent visit.
Jun 1st
10.00am Sung Eucharist – Seventh Sunday of Easter (4.2.0.1)
Celebrant/Preacher: Father Philip Barnes (Vicar, St Edmund's)
Prelude: Death of Ase (Peer Gynt) - E.Grieg
Setting: Wadeley (Gloria/Credo – Merbecke)
Anthem: O come ye servants of the Lord - C.Tye
Processional: Lord enthroned in Heavenly splendour (St Helen)
1st Reading (Year A) – Acts 1:6
Psalm (27): I am sure I shall see the Lord's goodness in the land of the living
2nd Reading (Year A) – 1 Peter 4:12
Gradual: Hail the day that sees him rise (Llanfair, last v.Martin Setchell)
Gospel (Year A) – John 17:1
Offertory: Crown him with many crowns (Diademata, last v.Drew Tulloch)
Communion: The head that once was crowned with thorns (St Magnus, last v.Norman Warren)
Post-Communion: At the name of Jesus (Evelyns, last v.David Terry)
Postlude – Voluntary No 3 - W.Boyce
Jun 8th
10.00am Sung Eucharist – Pentecost (4.1.1.0)
Celebrant/Preacher: Father Philip Barnes (Vicar, St Edmund's)
Prelude – Ave Maria - C.Caccini (attr.)
Setting: Ireland in C (Gloria – Metrical setting to “Evelyns”, last v.David Terry)
Anthem: Come Holy Ghost - T.Attwood
Processional: The Spirit lives to set us free
Pentecost Reading - Acts 2:1
Hymn dring sprinkling of water: Spirit of the living God
Reading (Year A) – Romans 8:14
Gradual: Celtic Alleluia (Christopher Walker/Finton O’Carroll)
Gospel (Year A) – John 14:8
Offertory: Come down O love divine (Down Ampney)
Communion: Be still for the presence of the Lord
Post-Communion: Colours of day
Postlude – Voluntary No 4 – W.Boyce
Jun 15th
10.00am Sung Eucharist – Trinity Sunday (5.2.1.0)
Celebrant/Preacher: Father Philip Barnes (Vicar, St Edmund's)
Prelude – Solveig's Song ("Peer Gynt") - E.Grieg
Setting: Darke in F (Gloria/Credo – Merbecke)
Anthem: Hymn to the Trinity - P.Tchaikovsky
Processional: Thou whose almighty word (Moscow, last v.Stanley Vann)
OT Reading (Year A) – Isaiah 40:12
Psalm: To you glory and praise for evermore
NT Reading (Year A) – 2 Corinthians 13:11
Gradual: May the grace of Christ our saviour (Waltham)
Gospel (Year A) – Matthew 28:16
Offertory: Angel voices ever singing (Angel Voices, last v.Betty Roe)
Communion: Be Thou my vision (Slane)
Post-Communion: Holy, Holy, Holy (Nicaea, last v.Norman Warren)
Postlude – Voluntary No 5 – W.Boyce
Thu Jun 19th
8.00pm Sung Eucharist and procession of the Blessed Sacrament and Benediction – Corpus Christi (4.2.0.0)
Setting: Nicholson (Gloria/Credo – Merbecke)
Anthem: Panis Angelicus – C.Franck
Processional: Alleluia, sing to Jesus (Hyfrydol, last v.David Terry)
OT Reading (Year A): Genesis 14:18
Psalm (147): O praise the Lord, Jerusalem (Liam Affley/Anne Ward)
NT Reading (Year A): 1 Corinthians 11:23
Gradual: Word of the Father (Christe Fons Jugis)
Gospel (Year A): John 6:51
Offertory: We pray Thee, Heavenly Father (Offertorium)
THE PROCESSION OF THE BLESSED SACRAMENT
O saving victim, opening wide (Verbum Supernum)
Lord, enthroned in Heavenly splendour (St Helen)
Sweet sacrament divine (Divine Mysteries)
BENEDICTION OF THE BLESSED SACRAMENT
Therefore we before him bending (Pange Lingua)
Jun 22nd
10.00am Sung Eucharist – First Sunday after Trinity (4.2.1.0)
Celebrant/Preacher: Father Philip Barnes (Vicar, St Edmund's)
Prelude – Sheep may safely graze - J.S.Bach
Setting: Rogers (Gloria/Credo – Merbecke)
Anthem: Lord that descendest - Gritton
Processional: Ye that know the Lord is gracious (Blaenwern)
OT Reading (Year A) – Jeremiah 20:7
Psalm (69): In your great love, answer me O God (Joan McCrimmon)
NT Reading (Year A) – Romans 6:1b
Gradual: Christ is the world's true light (Rinkart)
Gospel (Year A) – Matthew 10:24
Offertory: Praise to the Lord the almighty (Lobe Den Herren)
Communion: When all thy mercies O my God (Contemplation)
Post-Communion: Now let us from this table rise
Postlude – Voluntary No 6 – W.Boyce
Jun 29th
10.00am Sung Eucharist – St Peter & St Paul (5.2.1.0)
Celebrant/Preacher: Father Philip Barnes (Vicar, St Edmund's)
Prelude – Pavane - G.Faure
Setting: Healey Willan (Gloria/Credo – Merbecke)
Anthem: The Call - R.Vaughan Williams
Processional: Thy hand O God has guided (Thornbury)
OT Reading (Year A) – Acts 12:1
Psalm (34): From all my terrors the Lord set me free (Chris O'Hara)
NT Reading (Year A) – 2 Timothy 4:6
Gradual: Christ is the King, O friends rejoice (Vulpius, last v.Andrew Wright)
Gospel (Year A) – Matthew 16:13
Offertory: Jerusalem the golden (Ewing, last v.Norman Warren)
Communion: I the Lord of sea and sky
Post-Communion: Blessed assurance, Jesus is mine
Postlude – Voluntary No 7 – W.Boyce
FROM THE CONSOLE - MAY 2014
During the Easter holidays, we spent a couple of days visiting several of the First War World battlefields sights
and memorials in the Ypres area of Southern Belgium. The Tyne Cot cemetery (above) is the largest British war
cemetery on mainland Europe with almost 12,000 Commonwealth soldiers buried there. A few miles away is the German
cemetery at Vladslo where over 25,000 soldiers are buried. It also houses the sculpture “The Grieving Parents” by
Käthe Kollwitz, inspired by the loss of her 17-year-old son Peter killed in 1914 who is buried next to the
sculpture. We also visited a number of the trenches in the area and got a sense of the terrible conditions the
soldiers of both sides must have faced. One of the most moving parts of the visit was the daily ceremony at
the Menin Gate. Opened in 1927, it features the names of almost 55,000 soldiers who died during the Ypres
Salient. At 8pm, several hundred gathered under the gate while buglers from the local fire brigade
played “The Last Post” and a number of groups laid poppy wreathes.
A number of composers were involved in the conflict. George Butterworth, composer of “A Shropshire Lad”, died
aged 31 during the Battle of the Somme. Cecil Coles was one of the most promising musicians of his generation
and served as Bandmaster with the Queen’s Victoria Rifles. He was just 29 when he was killed on the Western
Front in 1918. Ralph Vaughan Williams was 41 when war broke out. He could have avoided service but chose
to enlist as an orderly in the Royal Army Medical Corps. His Pastoral Symphony is an evocation of his wartime
experiences and features a solo trumpet in the 2nd movement that brings to mind the Last Post. Maurice Ravel
was another composer who was desperate to contribute to the war effort. Rejected by both the infantry and the
air force because of his small stature, ill health and age (he was 39 at the outbreak of war), he eventually
became a military truck driver at the Verdun front. During the war years Ravel wrote “The Tombeau de
Couperin”, a series of six piano pieces in the style of a baroque suite, each movement dedicated to a friend
who had died during the conflict.
May 4th
10.00am Sung Eucharist – Third Sunday of Easter (4.2.1.1)
Celebrant/Preacher: Father Tony Andrews (Former Hon. Asst. Priest)
Prelude: Prelude on “Greensleeves” – R.Vaughan Williams
Setting: Peter Heath in D (Gloria/Credo – Merbecke)
Anthem: A Clare Benediction – J.Rutter
Processional: Ye choirs of new Jerusalem (St Fulbert, last v.Robert Jones)
1st Reading (Year A) – Acts 2:14a
Psalm (16): Show us Lord the path of life (Peter Jones)
2nd Reading (Year A) – 1 Peter 1:17
Gradual: Good Christian men rejoice and sing (Vulpius, last v.Andrew Wright)
Gospel (Year A) – Luke 24:13
Offertory: Come ye faithful raise the strain (St John Damascene, last v.Elizabeth Hill)
Communion: There is a redeemer
Post-Communion: Love’s redeeming work is done (Savannah, last v.Robert Jones)
Postlude – Prelude on “Hyfrydol” – R.Vaughan Williams
May 11th
10.00am Sung Eucharist – Fourth Sunday of Easter (5.2.1.0)
Celebrant/Preacher: Father Philip Barnes (Vicar, St Edmund's)
Prelude: Pavane pour une infante defunte - M.Ravel
Setting: Darke in A Minor (Gloria/Credo – Merbecke)
Anthem: O Christ, O blessed Lord - R.Wagner
Processional: Praise my soul the King of Heaven (Praise my soul)
1st Reading (Year A) – Acts 2:42
Psalm (23): The Lord is my shepherd; there is nothing I shall want (Martin Hall/Fintan O'Carroll)
2nd Reading (Year A) – 1 Peter 2:19
Gradual: Alleluia, Alleluia, give thanks to the risen Lord
Gospel (Year A) – John 10:1
Offertory: Sing ye faithful, sing with gladness (Regent square, last v.Colin Hand)
Communion: The King of love my shepherd is (Dominus Regit Me)
Post-Communion: Glorious things of Thee are spoken (Austria, last v.Robert Jones)
Postlude – Processional - W.Matthias
May 18th
10.00am Sung Eucharist – Fifth Sunday of Easter (4.2.1.0)
Celebrant/Preacher: Father Philip Barnes (Vicar, St Edmund's)
Prelude: Vocalise - S.Rachmaninov
Setting: Missa de Sancto Albano - Healey Willan (Gloria/Credo – Merbecke)
Anthem: A Gaelic Blessing - J.Rutter
Processional: I am the light, whose brightness shines (Richmond, last v.Andrew Moore)
1st Reading (Year A) – Acts 7:55
Psalm (33): May your love be upon us O Lord, as we place all our hope in you (A.Gregory Murray)
2nd Reading (Year A) – 1 Peter 2:2
Gradual: Sing Alleluia forth ye Saints on high (Martins)
Gospel (Year A) – John 14:1
Offertory: Lord enthroned in heavenly splendour (St Helen)
Communion: If Christ had not been raised from death (Kingsfold)
Post-Communion: Thou art the way, by thee alone (St James)
Postlude – Voluntary No 1 - W.Boyce
May 25th
10.00am Sung Eucharist – Sixth Sunday of Easter (3.2.1.0)
Celebrant/Preacher: Father Philip Barnes (Vicar, St Edmund's)
Prelude: Morning (Peer Gynt) - E.Grieg
Setting: F.W.Wadely (Gloria/Credo – Merbecke)
Anthem: Ave Verum Corpus - E.Elgar
Processional: All hail the power of Jesu's name (Miles Lane, last v.Andrew Moore)
1st Reading (Year A) – Acts 17:23
Psalm (66): Cry out with joy to God, all the earth (Stephen Dean/Anne Ward)
2nd Reading (Year A) – 1 Peter 3:13
Gradual: Alleluia, Alleluia, give thanks to the risen Lord
Gospel (Year A) – John 14:15
Offertory: Hail Redeemer, King divine (King Divine)
Communion: There is a redeemer
Post-Communion: The kingdom is upon you (Wolvercote)
Postlude – Voluntary No 2 - W.Boyce
Thu May 29th
7.00pm Sung Eucharist – Ascension Day (3.2.0.1)
Celebrant/Preacher: Father Philip Barnes (St Edmund’s Vicar)
Prelude: Christ Triumphant – John Marsh
Setting: Nicholson (Gloria/Credo - Merbecke)
Anthem: Cantate Domino - Pitoni
Processional: Alleluia, sing to Jesus (Hyfrydol, last v.David Terry)
1st Reading (Year A): Acts 1:1
Psalm (47): God goes up with shouts of joy; the Lord goes up with trumpet blast (Stephen Dean)
2nd Reading (Year A): Ephesians 1:15
Gradual: Celtic Alleluia (Christopher Walker/Finton O’Carroll)
GO (Year A): Luke 24:44
Offertory: Hail the day that sees Him rise (Llanfair, last v.Martin Setchell)
Communion: Eternal Monarch, King most high (Gonfalon Royal)
Post-Communion: Rejoice the Lord is King (Gopsal, last v.John Marsh)
Postlude: Heut’ Triumphiret Gottes Sohn – J.S.Bach
FROM THE CONSOLE - APRIL 2014
On April 27th, as part of the St Edmund’s Classic Concert series, I am giving a recital entitled “Sixteen decades
of music for organ and piano – celebrating 150 years of the Royal College of Organists”. This year is
the 150th anniversary of the founding of the RCO and I shall be playing one piece for each decade of
the college’s existence.
The College of Organists was founded in 1864 by Richard Limpus - organist at St Michael’s, Cornhill in
the City of London - for the purpose of 'elevating and advancing our professional status'. The college achieved
Royal status in 1893. The college has raised standards by developing and administering performance and
choir-training examinations, building a library of over 60,000 titles and establishing an education and
outreach programme. The Fellowship (FRCO) qualification is regarded worldwide as the benchmark measure of
achievement and distinction.
Over the anniversary year, the college is endeavouring to create a series of 150 recitals under the
banner “150 for 150 Challenge” for organists of any ability “from nine to one hundred and nine”. For my recital, I have
chosen a piece of music from each decade from the 1860s (Lefebure-Wely's "Sortie") to the 2010s (the theme
to the James Bond film "Skyfall"). The full programme will be announced on this website nearer the time.
I have reached number one in my countdown of the nation’s favourite hymns as polled by
BBC’s “Songs of Praise” last autumn. A similar poll was taken in 2005 and interestingly the number one
hymn then was the same as now.
How Great Thou Art (“O store Gud”) is a Swedish hymn
with words written by poet and lay minister Carl Boberg and set to an old Swedish folk melody. Boberg wrote it after
being caught in a thunderstorm while walking back from a church meeting during the summer of 1885. It was initially
translated from Swedish into German and then into Russian. On a visit to Carpathia, British Missionary Stuart Hine
and his wife heard the Russian version of the hymn. Hine subsequently translated it into English and added a verse
of his own for good measure. This English version became very popular and spread throughout the Christian world through
British missionaries. American theologian Dr Edwin Orr heard it being performed in Burma and took it back to the USA
where it became the signature song for Billy Graham's 1950s crusades. It was later recorded by Elvis Presley and won
the 1967 Grammy for Best Sacred Performance.
And a reminder of the rest of the top ten - 10 The day thou gavest, 9 Make me a channel, 8 Guide me O thou great
Redeemer, 7 Abide with me, 6 And can it be, 5 Here I am Lord, 4 Dear Lord and Father, 3 Be still for the presence
of the Lord, 2 In Christ alone. All ten can be heard on this website.
Apr 6th
10.00am Sung Eucharist – Fifth Sunday of Lent – Passion Sunday (4.0.1.0)
Celebrant/Preacher: Father Philip Barnes (Vicar, St Edmund’s)
Prelude: Herlich thut mich verlangen – J.Brahms
Setting: Adrian Batten (Credo – Merbecke)
Anthem: God be in my head – J.Rutter
Processional: O for a thousand tongues to sing (Richmond, last v.Andrew Moore)
OT Reading (Year A) – Ezekiel 37:1
Psalm (130): With the Lord there is mercy and fullness of redemption (Fintan O’Carroll)
NT Reading (Year A) – Romans 8:6
Gradual: Thou art the way by thee alone (St James)
Gospel (Year A) – John 11:1
Offertory: Who is this so weak and helpless (Ebenezer)
Communion: Thou dids’t leave thy throne and thy Kingly crown (Margaret)
Post-Communion: Take up thy cross the Saviour said (Breslau)
Postlude – O Mensch, Bewein Dein Sunde Gross – J.S.Bach
6.30pm – A Musical Devotion for Passiontide (5.4.3.3)
“The Crucifixion” – music by John Stainer
Apr 13th
10.00am Sung Eucharist - Palm Sunday (4.1.1.2)
Setting: Adrian Batten (Credo – Merbecke)
Anthem: The people of the Hebrews - Palestrina
Introduction and Blessing of Palms in Church Hall
Palm Gospel: Matthew 21:1
Procession from Hall to Church: All Glory laud and honour (St Theodolph)
Introit: Ride on, ride on in majesty (Winchester New, last v.Andrew Moore)
OT (Year A): Isaiah 50:4
Psalm (22): My God, my God, why have you forsaken me? (A.Gregory Murray)
NT (Year A): Philippians 2:5
Gradual: Were you there when they crucified my Lord? (Were you there?)
GO (Year A): Matthew 26:14 (Dramatised Version of the Passion)
Offertory: My song is love unknown (Love Unknown, last v.Mark Hammond)
Communion: O dearest Lord, thy sacred head (Belmont)
Post-Communion: Lift high the cross (Crucifer)
Postlude: Orb and Sceptre – W.Walton
Apr 17th
8.00pm The Mass of the Lord's Supper - Maundy Thursday (4.0.1.0)
Celebrant/Preacher: Father Philip Barnes (St Edmund’s Vicar)
Prelude: Picardy – Alec Rowley
Setting: Nicholson (Gloria – Merbecke)
Anthem: Panis Angelicus – C.Franck
Introit: Praise to the holiest in the height (Gerontius, last v.Colin Hand)
OT: Exodus 12:1
Psalm (116): The blessing cup that we bless is a communion with the blood of Christ (A.Gregory Murray)
NT: 1 Corinthians 11:23
Gradual: Love is his word
GO: John 13:1
During the washing of the feet – God is love (Ubi Caritas) & Meekness and majesty
Offertory: This is the night, dear friends, the night for weeping (Highwood)
Communion: This is my body
Transfer of the blessed sacrament to the altar of repose – Of the glorious body telling (Pange Lingua)
Psalm 22 is read during the stripping of the sanctuary
The watch continues in the altar of repose until the Good Friday liturgy
Apr 18th - Good Friday
11.00am Children’s activities in the Hall
12.00pm Children’s Good Friday Worship
1.00pm A Meditation for Good Friday
Gethsemane – The Trial – The Crucifixion
Hymn – We sing the praise of Him who died (Breslau)
Hymn – Drop, drop, slow tears (Song 46)
Hymn – It is a thing most wonderful (Herongate)
Recordings – Christus Factus Est (Bruckner), Crucifixus (Lotti)
Readings – Luke 22:39, The Garden of Gethsemane (John Pierpont), Isaiah 50:4, The Agony (George Herbert), Psalm 71, Hebrews 9:11, St Augustine of Hippo, St John Chrysostom.
2.00pm The Liturgy of Good Friday (5.1.1.1)
1st Reading: Isaiah 52:13
Psalm (31) – Father, into your hands I commend my spirit (A Gregory Murray)
2nd Reading: Hebrews 10:16
Hymn – There is a green hill far away (Horsley)
The Passion of our Lord according to John – Vittoria
Hymn – O Sacred Head, sore wounded (Passion Chorale)
Reproaches during the veneration – Vittoria
Hymn – When I survey the wondrous cross (Rockingham, last v.Betty Roe
Agnus Dei - Adrian Batten
Hymn – Glory be to Jesus (Caswall)
Apr 19th
8.00pm Easter Vigil and Eucharist of the Resurrection - Easter Saturday (5.0.1.1)
Celebrant/Preacher: Father Philip Barnes (St Edmund’s Vicar)
Setting – John Ireland in C
THE SERVICE OF LIGHT
The Exultet
THE VIGIL OF READINGS
1st Reading: Genesis 1:1 (The Creation)
Psalm (33) – Send forth your spirit, O Lord (A Gregory Murray)
2nd Reading: Exodus 14:15 (Israel’s deliverance at the Red Sea)
Canticle (Exodus 15) – I will sing to the Lord (A Gregory Murray)
3rd Reading: Ezekiel 37:1 (The Valley of the Dry Bones)
Psalm (30) – I will praise you, Lord (Finton O’Carroll/Ian Forrester)
Fanfare – Francis Jackson; Gloria - Merbecke
NT Reading: Romans 6:3
Gradual – The strife is o’er the battle done (Vulpius, last v.Andrew Wright)
GO: Matthew 28:1
RENEWAL OF BAPTISMAL PROMISES
COMMISSIONING AS AMBASSADORS REPRESENTING JESUS CHRIST IN DAILY LIFE
Processional - Come flowing water pure and clear (Laast Uns Erfreuen, last v.Quentin Thomas)
Offertory – At the Lamb’s high feast we sing (Salzburg)
Anthem – Up, up, my heart with gladness – J.S.Bach
Communion – Love’s redeeming work is done (Savannah, last v.Robert Jones)
Post-Communion – Jesus Christ is risen today (Easter Hymn, last v.Colin Mawby)
Postlude – Toccata - Widor
Apr 20th
10.00am Sung Eucharist - Easter Sunday (5.2.1.0)
Celebrant/Preacher: Father Philip Barnes (St Edmund’s Vicar)
Prelude: Toccata in D minor – J.S.Bach
Setting: Harold Darke in F (Gloria – Metrical setting to “Evelyns”, last v.David Terry)
Anthem: This Joyful Eastertide – arr.John Barnard
Processional: Hail thee festival day (Salve Festa Dies)
1st Reading: Acts 10:34
Psalm (118): This day was made by the Lord (A Gregory Murray)
2nd Reading: 1 Corinthians 15:19
Gradual: Jesus Christ is risen today (Easter Hymn, last v.Colin Mawby)
GO: John 20:1, followed by Fanfare - Francis Jackson
RENEWAL OF BAPTISMAL PROMISES
COMMISSIONING AS AMBASSADORS REPRESENTING JESUS CHRIST IN DAILY LIFE
Offertory: The day of resurrection (Ellacombe, last v.Betty Roe)
Communion: Christ the Lord is risen again (Wurtemburg, last v.David Terry)
Post-Communion: Thine be the Glory (Maccabeus, last v.Norman Warren)
Postlude: Fugue in D minor – J.S.Bach
Apr 27th
10.00am Sung Eucharist – Second Sunday of Easter (5.2.1.0)
Celebrant/Preacher: Father Philip Barnes (Vicar, St Edmund’s)
Prelude: Prelude on “Rhosymedre” – R.Vaughan Williams
Setting: Wadely (Gloria/Credo – Merbecke)
Anthem: From the rising of the sun – F.Ouseley
Processional: Jesus lives thy terrors now (St Albinus, last v.Colin Mawby)
1st Reading (Year A) – Acts 2:14a
Psalm (118): Give thanks to the Lord for he is good, for his love has no end (A.Gregory Murray)
2nd Reading (Year A) – 1 Peter 1:3
Gradual: The strife is o’er (Victory, last v.Norman Warren)
Gospel (Year A) – John 20:19
Offertory: Alleluia, Alleluia, hearts to heaven (Lux Eoi, last v.Elizabeth Hill)
Communion: This joyful Eastertide (This joyful Eastertide)
Post-Communion: Let all the world (Luckington)
Postlude – Pomp and Circumstance March No 1 – E.Elgar
FROM THE CONSOLE - MARCH 2014
This month I am continuing my countdown of the nation’s favourite hymns as polled by BBC’s “Songs of Praise” last
autumn. I am also comparing them to a similar poll undertaken eight years previously – click on the title for audio
10 The day thou gavest, 9 Make me a channel, 8 Guide me O thou great Redeemer, 7 Abide with me, 6 And can it be, 5 Here I am Lord
No.4 - Dear Lord and Father of Mankind (Down from No 2)
The words to this hymn form part of the 1872 poem “The Brewing of Soma”, written by the American poet and Quaker John
Whittier. Soma is a sacred Hindu drink with hallucinogenic properties and Whittier sees the drinking of it
as distracting the mind from its proper purpose of worship. The music was written by Charles Parry and was
originally set to an alto aria in his 1888 oratorio “Judith”. In 1924 Dr George Stocks, the Director of Music
of Repton School, set it to Whittier's poem in a supplement of tunes to be used in the school chapel. Despite
the need to repeat the last line of words, the tune Repton provides an inspired matching of words and music.
No.3 - Be Still For the Presence of the Lord (Up from No 6)
The words and music to this hymn were written by David J Evans. He was born in 1957 and is a Southampton-based
piano teacher. Written in one evening in 1985 and published a year later, “Be still” was one of the first
worship songs that Evans wrote. It has a number of biblical references starting with Jacob’s dream at Bethel
in Genesis. Jacob dreams of a ladder between Earth and Heaven and when he wakes realises that he has been
in a very special place (the Holy one is here & we stand on Holy ground). There are also references to the
Angel of the Lord appearing to Moses in flames of fire (he burns with Holy fire) from within a bush.
No.2 - In Christ Alone (Up from No 9)
Stuart Townend (pictured) grew up in West Yorkshire, England, where his father was a Church of England
vicar. "In Christ Alone" dates from 2001 and was jointly written by Townsend and Irish composer Keith
Getty. This was their first and arguably most successful collaboration and they have since worked together
on many worship songs. Getty, on his website, describes wanting “In Christ Alone” to be “a hymn that would
declare the whole life of Christ and what it meant. Something that could teach people the foundations of what
we believed in Christ the God who changed all of history and who wants a relationship with each of us.”
Mar 2nd
10.00am Sung Eucharist – Sunday next before Lent (5.1.1.1)
Celebrant/Preacher: Father Philip Barnes (Vicar, St Edmund’s)
Prelude: Ave Maria – C.Gounod/J.S.Bach
Setting: Missa de Sancto Albano – H.Willan (Gloria /Credo – Merbecke)
Anthem: I give you a new commandment – P.Aston
Processional: Praise to God whose word was spoken (St Helen)
OT Reading (Year A) – Deuteronomy 11:18
Psalm (62): In God alone is my soul at rest (Joan McCrimmon/A.Gregory Murray)
NT Reading (Year A) – Romans 1:16
Gradual: Sing Alleluya forth ye Saints on high (Martins)
Gospel (Year A) – Matthew 7:21
Offertory: Alleluya sing to Jesus (Hyfrydol, last v.David Terry)
Communion: Faithful shepherd feed me (Pastor Pastorum)
Post-Communion: Christ is the King, O friends rejoice (Vulpius, last v.Andrew Wright)
Postlude: Little prelude and fugue No 7 – J.S.Bach (attr.)
Mar 9th
10.00am Sung Eucharist – First Sunday of Lent (5.1.0.1)
Celebrant: Father Philip Barnes (Vicar, St Edmund’s)
Preacher: Father Andrew Sloane (Associate Vicar, St Paul’s, Knightsbridge)
Prelude: O Lamm Gottes, Unschuldig – J.S.Bach
Setting: Adrian Batten (Credo – Merbecke)
Anthem: God so loved the world (“The Crucifixion”) – J.Stainer
Processional: Forty days and forty nights (Aus Der Tiefe, last v.Stanley Vann)
OT Reading (Year A) – Genesis 2:15
Psalm (51): Have mercy on us, Lord, for we have sinned (A.Gregory Murray)
NT Reading (Year A) – Romans 5:12
Gradual: Be thou my guardian and my guide (Abridge, last v.Colin Hand)
Gospel (Year A) – Matthew 4:1
Offertory: Praise to the holiest in the height (Gerontius, last v.Colin Hand)
Communion: Prayer is the soul’s sincere desire (St Sepulchre)
Post-Communion: He who would valiant be (Monks Gate)
Postlude: Little prelude and fugue No 8 – J.S.Bach (attr.)
Mar 16th
10.00am Sung Eucharist with Holy Baptism and Confirmation – Second Sunday of Lent (5.2.1.0)
Celebrant: Father Philip Barnes (Vicar, St Edmund’s)
Preacher: Rt. Rev’d Peter Broadbent (Bishop of Willesden)
Prelude: Prelude – Christe du Lamm Gottes – J.S.Bach
Setting: Nicholson
Anthem: Come Holy Ghost – T.Attwood
Processional: To God be the Glory
OT Reading (Year A) – Genesis 12:1
Psalm (33): May your love be upon us O Lord, as we place all our hope in you
NT Reading (Year A) – 2 Timothy 1:8
Gradual: Be thou my vision, O Lord of my heart (Slane)
Gospel (Year A) – Matthew 17:1
Holy Baptism and Baptism (Procession to font: The Spirit lives to set us free)
Offertory: O Jesus I have promised (Wolvercote)
Communion: Be still for the presence of the Lord
Post-Communion: Lord for the years
Postlude – Chorale Prelude on “Aus Der Tiefe Rufe Ich – J.S.Bach (Attr.)
Mar 23rd
10.00am Sung Eucharist – Third Sunday of Lent (2.2.1.0)
Celebrant: Father Philip Barnes (Vicar, St Edmund’s)
Preacher: Mr Peter Godden (Ordinand, Westcott House, Cambridge)
Praying through times of difficulty
Prelude: Prelude – Dirge for Fidele – R.Vaughan Williams
Setting: Adrian Batten (Credo – Merbecke)
Anthem: O Saviour of the world - J.Goss
Processional: Dear Lord and Father of mankind (Repton)
OT Reading (Year A) – Exodus 17:1
Psalm (95): O that today you would listen to his voice! Harden not your hearts (A.Gregory Murray)
NT Reading (Year A) – Romans 5:1
Gradual: Father hear the prayer we offer (Sussex)
Gospel (Year A) – John 4:5
Offertory: Jesu lover of my soul (Aberystwyth, last v.Andrew Fletcher)
Communion: Earth’s fragile beauties we possess (Kingsfold)
Post-Communion: Great is thy faithfulness
Postlude – Prelude and Fugue in D Minor – D.Buxtehude
Mar 30th
10.00am Sung Eucharist – Fourth Sunday of Lent – Mothering Sunday (4.2.1.0)
Celebrant/Preacher: Father Philip Barnes (Vicar, St Edmund’s)
Prelude: Jesus, joy of man’s desiring – J.S.Bach
Setting: Nicholson
Anthem: A Gaelic Blessing – J.Rutter
Processional: Tell out my soul, the greatness of the Lord (Woodlands)
Hymn: Give me oil in my lamp, keep me burning
Reading: John 1
Gradual: Lord the light of your love is shining (Shine Jesus Shine)
Gospel: Matthew 5:13
Offertory: All things bright and beautiful (All things bright and beautiful)
Communion: Jesus good above all other (Quem Pastores)
Post-Communion: Now thank we all our God (Nun Danket, last v.Rosalie Bonighton)
Postlude – Toccata – G.Mushel
FROM THE CONSOLE - FEBRUARY 2014
This month I am continuing my countdown of the nation’s favourite hymns as polled by “Songs of Praise” last autumn. I am
also comparing them to a similar poll undertaken eight years previously - click on the title for audio
10 The day thou gavest, 9 Make me a channel, 8 Guide me O thou great Redeemer
7 Abide with me (Up from 18th in 2005)
Henry Francis Lyte was born near Kelso in the Scottish Borders in 1793. After studying at Trinity College, Dublin
he took holy orders and served in a number of parishes in Ireland and Western England, most notably at All
Saints, Lower Brixham in Devon, where he spent the last twenty-three years of his life. He suffered poor
health and spent the winters in the warmer climes of Italy. It was on his way to Rome that he was taken ill
and died in Nice in 1847. Lyte wrote "Abide with Me" shortly before his final departure for Europe and also wrote
his own tune. The text for the hymn is based on Christ's appearance to the disciples on the road to Emmaus
- "Abide with us, for it is toward evening and the day is far spent" (Luke 24:29). The words was discovered by
William Henry Monk (1823-1889), the first music editor of "Hymns Ancient and Modern", who is said to have
written his own more well-known tune (Eventide) for the hymnal in less than half an hour.
6 And can it be (Up from 14th in 2005)
The words were written by Charles Wesley. Born the son of a Rector in 1707, he studied at Oxford University where he
founded the Oxford Methodist group and became a leader in Methodist movement along with his elder brother John. Charles
wrote over 6000 hymns, many of which are still popular. These include "Hark the Herald Angels Sing", "Rejoice
the Lord is King" and "Love Divine, All Loves Excelling". "And Can It Be" first appeared in the publication
"Psalms and Hymns" of 1738. The music was written by Thomas Campbell, the son of an Argyllshire tobacco trader. He
had a life-long interest in education and was instrumental in the founding of University College London in 1826
and was also Rector of Glasgow University from 1826 to 1829. He died in Boulogne in 1877 and is buried in
Westminster Abbey. The tune to this hymn first appeared in "Bouquet", an 1825 collection of 23 hymn tunes
edited by Campell.
5 Here I am Lord (I the Lord of sea and sky) (New Entry)
Dan Schutte (above) was born in Elm Grove, Winsconsin in 1947. In 1970, whilst at St Louis University, he was a
founding member of the St Louis Jesuits, a group of five musicians who popularised a contemporary style of Catholic
church music sung in English as a result of the liturgical reforms initiated by Vatican II. Schutte is currently
composer-in-residence at the University of San Francisco. “Here I Am Lord” was composed in 1981 and is based on
words from Isaiah (Also I heard the voice of the Lord, saying, Whom shall I send, and who will go for us? Then
said I, Here am I; send me) and 1 Samuel (And he ran unto Eli, and said, Here am I; for thou calledst me). Despite
its Catholic origins, it has become popular in protestant liturgy and has been translated into twenty languages. A
2004 survey in “The Tablet”, an international Catholic magazine, voted “Here I am Lord” top amongst their readers.
Feb 2nd
10.00am Sung Eucharist – The Presentation of Christ in the Temple (5.1.1.0)
Celebrant/Preacher: Father Philip Barnes (Vicar, St Edmund’s)
Prelude: Vocalise – S.Rachmaninov
Setting: Darke in A Minor (Gloria – Metrical setting to “Evelyns”, last v.David Terry /Credo – Merbecke)
Anthem: As water to the thirsty – J.Barnard
Processional: Longing for light, we wait in darkness
OT Reading (Year A) – Malachi 3:1
Psalm (24): Who is the King of glory? It is the Lord (John Rombout/A.Gregory Murray)
NT Reading (Year A) – Hebrews 2:14
Gradual: Sing how the age-long promise of a saviour (Christe Fons Jugis)
Gospel (Year A) – Luke 2:22
Blessing of church and home candles
Offertory: Hail to the Lord who comes (Old 120th, last v.Andrew Moore)
Communion: Christ whose glory fills the skies (Ratisbon, last v.Rosalie Bonighton)
Post-Communion: The spirit lives to set us free
Postlude: Little prelude and fugue No 3 in E Minor – J.S.Bach (attr.)
Feb 9th
10.00am Sung Eucharist – Fourth Sunday before Lent (5.1.1.0)
Celebrant/Preacher: Father Tony Andrews (Former Hon.Asst.Priest)
Prelude: Bailero (Songs from the Auvergne) – J.Canteloube
Setting: Wadely (Gloria /Credo – Merbecke)
Anthem: Lead me Lord – S.S.Wesley
Processional: Holy, Holy, Holy (Nicaea, last v.Norman Warren)
OT Reading (Year A) – Isaiah 58:1
Psalm (112): The good man is a light in the darkness for the upright (A.Gregory Murray)
NT Reading (Year A) – 1 Corinthians 2:1
Gradual: Blest are the pure in heart (Franconia, last v.June Nixon)
Gospel (Year A) – Matthew 5:13
Offertory: Eternal Ruler of the ceaseless round (Song 1, last v.Andrew Wright)
Communion: Lord of all hopefulness (Slane, last v.Ian Hope)
Post-Communion: Blessed assurance, Jesus is mine
Postlude: Little prelude and fugue No 4 in F Major – J.S.Bach (attr.)
Feb 16th
10.00am Sung Eucharist – Third Sunday before Lent (4.1.1.0)
Celebrant/Preacher: Father Philip Barnes (Vicar, St Edmund’s)
Prelude: Promenade Sentimentale – V.Cosma
Setting: Peter Heath in D (Gloria /Credo – Merbecke)
Anthem: A Gaelic Blessing – J.Rutter
Processional: Ye that know the Lord is gracious (Blaenwern)
OT Reading (Year A) – Deuteronomy 30:15
Psalm (119): They are happy who follow God’s law (Diana Fishwick)
NT Reading (Year A) – 1 Corinthians 3:1
Gradual: Jesus Lord we look to thee (Vienna)
Gospel (Year A) – Matthew 5:21
Offertory: Thy hand O God has guided (Thornbury)
Communion: This is my body broken for you
Post-Communion: God is our strength and refuge (Dambuster’s March)
Postlude: Little prelude and fugue No 5 – J.S.Bach (attr.)
Feb 23rd
10.00am Sung Eucharist – Second Sunday before Lent (3.0.1.1)
Celebrant/Preacher: Father Philip Barnes (Vicar, St Edmund’s)
Prelude: Bist du bei mir – J.S.Bach
Setting: Arthur Rogers (Gloria /Credo – Merbecke)
Anthem: Cantate Domino - Pitoni
Processional: Lord of beauty, thine the splendour (Regent Square, last v.Colin Hand)
OT Reading (Year A) – Isaiah 49:8
Psalm (103): The Lord is compassion and love (Stephen Dean/A.Gregory Murray)
NT Reading (Year A) – 1 Corinthians 4:1
Gradual: Seek ye first the kingdom of God
Gospel (Year A) – Matthew 6:24
Offertory: Beyond all mortal praise (Darwell’s 148th)
Communion: Earth’s fragile beauties we possess (Kingsfold)
Post-Communion: Stand up, stand up for Jesus (Morning Light)
Postlude: Little prelude and fugue No 6 – J.S.Bach (attr.)
FROM THE CONSOLE - JANUARY 2014
At the end of October “Songs of Praise” published a poll of the public’s favourite ten hymns. Several years ago
I discussed a similar top twenty survey carried out in 2005, and I thought that it would be interesting
to compare how things have changed in the intervening eight years. Over the next four months I will be counting
down the latest poll (click on the title for audio).
10 The day thou gavest Lord has ended (Down from 3rd in 2005)
The music to this hymn – St Clement - is usually credited to Rev. Clement Scholefield. Son of an MP, Scholefield
was born in Birmingham in 1839 and served as priest in several London churches. During his time at
St Peter’s, South Kensington, he was asked to contribute to a hymn book by Sir Arthur Sullivan. However, in
2000, Ian Bradley, author of “The Daily Telegraph Book of Hymns”, suggested that Sullivan had a larger hand
in St Clement than has been credited to him. Bradley argued that the music is vastly superior to the rest
of Scholefield’s output and that the hymn’s sentimental streak and triple time signature suggests the musical
idiom of the Savoy Operettas. The words were written by John Ellerton, a Cheshire vicar who is said to
have written it in 1880 during his nightly walk to teach at a Mechanics’ Institute. Queen Victoria chose
the hymn for her Diamond Jubilee service in 1897.
9 Make me a channel of your peace (Down from 7th in 2005)
It is not thought that Saint Francis of Assisi (above) wrote the famous prayer attributed to him. It first appeared
in 1912 as an anonymous submission to a French spiritual magazine called “La Clochette” (The Little Bell). It was
translated into English for an American Quaker magazine fifteen years later. Johann Tempelhoff – writing under the
name Sebastian Temple - was born in South Africa in 1928 and later moved to London, where he worked for the BBC on
South African affairs. He was a Scientologist for a time before converting to Catholicism. “Make me a channel of
your peace” was written for a Franciscan church in Los Angeles in 1967. Temple was struggling to write the music
and shouted at a statue of St Francis “Well, if you want to write it, you do it. I can’t”. He then returned to his
guitar and the “song fell out of my mouth”. The hymn was a favourite of Princess Diana and was performed
at her funeral. Temple died in 1997.
8 Guide me O thou great redeemer (Unchanged from 2005)
John Hughes was born in South Wales in 1873 and at the age of 12 he began to work in his home town colliery. He served
as deacon and leader of the congregational singing at his local Baptist chapel. Cwm Rhondda, named after the Rhondda
Valley, originated in 1905 and was written for a hymn festival in Pontypridd, although the hymn in its present
form dates from 1907. Originally called just Rhondda, Cwm was added to avoid confusion with another tune of the
same name. The words were written in 1745 by William Williams Pantycelyn and three of the six verses were translated
into English by Peter Williams in 1771. Pantycelyn wrote over 800 hymns and is generally acknowledged as Wales’ most
famous hymn writer. Like “Make me a channel of your peace”, this hymn was sung at Princess Diana’s funeral. The end
of the hymn is regularly heard on football terraces, where “you’re not singing anymore” is used to taunt the fans of
opposing teams who are on the losing side!
Jan 5th - Epiphany - indisposed
Jan 12th
10.00am Sung Eucharist – The Baptism of Christ (1st of Epiphany) (4.0.1.0)
Celebrant/Preacher: Father Philip Barnes (Vicar, St Edmund’s)
Prelude: The Three Kings – Peter Cornelius, arr.Mark Hammond
Setting: Darke in A Minor (Metrical Gloria – Evelyns, last v.David Terry, Credo – Merbecke)
Anthem: A Clare Benediction – John Rutter
Processional: Thou whose almighty word (Moscow, last v.Stanley Vann)
OT Reading (Year A) – Isaiah 42:1
Psalm (29): The Lord will bless his people with peace (Ian Forrester/A.Gregory Murray)
NT Reading (Year A) – Acts 10:34
Gradual: The sinless one to Jordan came (Gonfalon Royal)
Gospel (Year A) – Matthew 3:13
Hymn during Thanksgiving of Holy Baptism – Come flowing waters, pure and clear (Lasst Uns Erfreuen, last v.Quentin Thomas)
Offertory: Songs of thankfulness and praise (St Edmund, last v.Martin Setchell)
Communion: O thou who camest from above (Hereford, last v.Mark Hammond)
Post-Communion: Glorious things of thee are spoken (Austria, last v.Robert Jones)
Postlude: Wie Schoen Leuchtet der Morgenstern (BWV 764) – J.S.Bach
Jan 19th
10.00am Sung Eucharist – 2nd Sunday of Epiphany (4.1.1.0)
Celebrant/Preacher: Father Philip Barnes (Vicar, St Edmund’s)
Prelude: Chorale Prelude on “Dix” – Malcolm Archer
Setting: Nicholson (Gloria /Credo – Merbecke)
Anthem: I give you a new commandment – Peter Aston
Processional: The church of God a Kingdom is (University)
OT Reading (Year A) – Isaiah 49:1
Psalm (40): Here I am Lord! I come to do your will (Paul Inwood)
NT Reading (Year A) – 1 Corinthians 1:1
Gradual: Alleluia, Alleluia, give thanks to the risen Lord
Gospel (Year A) – John 1:29
Offertory: Hail to the Lord’s anointed (Cruger, last v.Michael Higgins)
Communion: I the Lord of sea and sky (Here I am Lord)
Post-Communion: The Kingdom is upon you (Wolvercote)
Postlude: Little prelude and fugue No 1 in C – J.S.Bach (attr.)
Jan 26th
10.00am Sung Eucharist – 3rd Sunday of Epiphany) (5.1.0.1)
Celebrant/Preacher: Father Philip Barnes (Vicar, St Edmund’s)
Prelude: Chorale Prelude on “Stuttgart” – Flor Peeters
Setting: Missa de Sancto Albano – H.Willan (Gloria /Credo – Merbecke)
Anthem: From the rising of the sun – F.Ouseley
Processional: Ye servants of God your master proclaim (Paderborn, last v.Stanley Vann)
OT Reading (Year A) – Isaiah 9:1
Psalm (27): The Lord is my light and my help (A.Gregory Murray)
NT Reading (Year A) – 1 Corinthians 1:10
Gradual: Seek ye first the kingdom of God
Gospel (Year A) – Matthew 4:12
Offertory: O Jesus I have promised (Wolvercote)
Communion: From Heaven you came helpless Babe (The servant King)
Post-Communion: Blessed assurance, Jesus is mine
Postlude: Little prelude and fugue No 2 in D Minor – J.S.Bach (attr.)
FROM THE CONSOLE - DECEMBER 2013
At 3pm every Christmas Eve, you will find me tuned into the Service of Nine Lessons and Carols from the Chapel
of King’s College, Cambridge (above). We alternate our Christmases between England and France and in the early
days reception on the continent was rather haphazard. I would tune my short wave radio to the BBC
World Service, attach a long antenna around the curtain rail and switch between four or five frequencies
as the signals came and went. These days, with the advent of the internet, wifi and the BBC iplayer, I don’t
miss a thing!
The service was planned by Eric Milner-White, Dean of King’s College, and was first held on Christmas Eve
1918. It was based on a format which had been devised for Truro Cathedral in 1880 by their
first Bishop, Edward White Benson. Following 800 years without a Cornish Bishop, the diocese of Truro was
established in 1877 and the foundation stone for the present cathedral was laid in 1880. A wooden structure was
used as a temporary place of worship and it was here that some four hundred people congregated at 10pm on
Christmas Eve to hear carols, readings and several choruses from Handel’s “Messiah”. On December
17th, Truro Cathedral are staging a reconstruction of this first “Nine Lessons” service and it will be available
on their website shortly afterwards.
The King’s College service was first broadcast in 1928 and, with the exception of 1930, has been broadcast
annually. It was even broadcast during the Second World War, when the ancient glass had been removed
and the name of the location could not be announced for security reasons. Stephen Cleobury, who has
been Director of Music at King’s for over thirty years, began a tradition of commissioning a new carol for each service.
Since 1919, the service has begun with “Once in Royal David’s City” which is followed by the
Bidding Prayer. I am always moved by the lines “Lastly let us remember before God all those who rejoice
with us, but upon another shore and in a greater light, that multitude which no man
can number, whose hope was in the Word made flesh, and with whom, in this Lord Jesus, we for
evermore are one.”
May I wish you all a blessed Christmas.
Dec 1st
10.00am – Sung Eucharist – First Sunday of Advent – indisposed
6.30pm – “The Coming of Christ” – A sequence of music and readings for Advent
Prelude – O come O come Emmanuel – Colin Hand
Introit – Rorate Caeli
Processional – O come O come Emmanuel (Veni Emmanuel)
Bidding Prayer
Anthem – The Call – R.Vaughan Williams
I The Message of Advent
First Reading - 1 Thessalonians 5:1
Anthem – And the Glory of the Lord (“Messiah”) – G.Handel
Second Reading – Cyril of Jerusalem
II The Word of God
Third Reading – Micah 4:1
Anthem – How lovely are the messengers (“St Paul”) – F.Mendelssohn
Fourth Reading – from a homily of Origen
Hymn – Come thou long-expected Jesus (Cross of Jesus, last v.Robert Jones)
III The Prophetic Call
Fifth Reading – Matthew 3:1
Anthem – O thou that tallest good tidings to Zion (“Messiah”) – G.Handel
Sixth Reading – from a sermon of Augustine
Hymn – On Jordan’s bank the Baptist’s cry (Winchester New, last v.Andrew Moore)
IV The Christ-Bearer
Seventh Reading – Luke 1:39
Anthem – Song of Mary – Richard Shepherd
Hymn – Lo He comes with clouds decending (Helmsley, last v.Martin Setchell)
Postlude – Wachet auf ruft uns die stimme – J.S.Bach
Dec 8th
10.00am Sung Eucharist – Second Sunday of Advent (5.2.1.0)
Celebrant/Preacher: Father Philip Barnes (Vicar, St Edmund’s)
Prelude: Berceuse (“Peterhouse Chapel Windows Suite”) – B.Ferguson
Setting: Darke in A Minor (Credo – Merbecke)
Anthem: O strength and stay
Processional: Hills of the north rejoice (Little Cornard)
OT Reading (Year A) – Isaiah 11:1
Psalm (72) – In his days justice shall flourish, and peace till the moon fails (Stephen Dean)
NT Reading (Year A) – Romans 15:4
Gradual: Hark a herald voice is calling (Merton, last v.Colin Mawby)
Gospel (Year A) – Matthew 3:1
Offertory: Let all mortal flesh keep silence (Picardy)
Communion: Your gentleness O God of grace (Herongate)
Post-Communion: Come thou long-expected Jesus (Cross of Jesus, last v.Robert Jones)
Postlude: Nun komm, der Heiden Heiland – J.S.Bach
Dec 15th
10.00am Sung Eucharist – Third Sunday of Advent (5.2.1.0)
Celebrant/Preacher: Father Philip Barnes (Vicar, St Edmund’s)
Prelude: Gottes Sohn ist kommen – J.S.Bach
Setting: Adrian Batten (Credo – Merbecke)
Anthem: Lord that descendeth - Gritton
Processional: On Jordan’s bank the Baptist’s cry (Winchester New, last v.Andrew Moore)
OT Reading (Year A) – Isaiah 35:1
Psalm (146) – Come Lord and save us, come Lord and save us (Stephen Dean)
NT Reading (Year A) – James 5:7
Gradual: The Lord will come and not be slow (St Stephen, last v.Andrew Fletcher)
Gospel (Year A) – Matthew 11:2
Offertory: Wake O wake with tidings thrilling (Wachet Auf)
Communion: Thou dids’t leave thy throne and thy Kingly crown (Margaret)
Post-Communion: Love Divine all loves excelling (Blaenwern)
Postlude: Vom Himmel Hoch - J.Pachelbel
Dec 22nd
10.00am Sung Eucharist – Fourth Sunday of Advent (3.1.1.1)
Celebrant/Preacher: Father Philip Barnes (Vicar, St Edmund’s)
Prelude: Christmas Concerto – A.Corelli
Setting: Healey Willan (Credo – Merbecke)
Anthem: O Christ, O Blessed Lord – R.Wagner
Processional: Long ago prophets knew (Personet Hodie)
Reading – Isaiah 7:10
Gradual: For Mary mother of the Lord (St Botolph)
Gospel (Year A) – Matthew 1:18
Offertory: O come O come Emmanuel (Veni Emmanuel)
Communion: Lord Jesus Christ (Living Lord)
The Nativity Presentation – “Hosanna Rock” – O little town of Bethlehem (Forest Green), Little Donkey, While
shepherds watched (Winchester New)
Post-Communion: Hark the glad sound the saviour comes (Bristol, last v.Andrew Fletcher)
Postlude: Sortie in E Flat – L.Lefebure-Wely
6.30pm – A Festival of nine lessons and carols (4.2.2.2)
Prelude – Six interludes on Christmas carols – W.Lloyd-Webber
Carol – Stille Nacht – Franz Gruber, arr.Donald Cashmore
Hymn – Once in royal David’s city
Bidding prayer
Carol – Adam lay ybounden – B.Ord
1st lesson – Genesis 3:8 (Member of the choir)
Carol – This little babe – B.Britten
Hymn – On Christmas night all Christians sing (The Sussex Carol)
2nd lesson – Genesis 22:15 (Member of the youth group)
Carol – I wonder as I wander – Appalachian, arr.J.J.Niles
3rd lesson – Isaiah 9:2 (Member of Sunday school)
Carol – Jesus Child – J.Rutter
4th lesson – Isaiah 11:1 (Member of the women’s guild)
Hymn – God rest ye merry, gentlemen
5th lesson – Luke 1:26 (Member of the drama group)
Carol – Shepherd’s pipe carol – J.Rutter
6th lesson – Luke 2:1 (Member of the PCC)
Carol – In a stable – M.Howe
Hymn – Ding dong merrily on high
7th lesson – Luke 2:8 (An altar server)
Carol – The shepherds’ farewell – H.Berlioz
Hymn – While shepherds watched
8th lesson – Matthew 2:1 (A churchwarden)
Carol – The holly and the ivy – J.Gardner
9th lesson – John 1:1 (The Vicar)
Hymn – O come all ye faithful
Collect and blessing
Hymn – Hark the herald angels sing
Postludes – In Dulci Jubilo – J.S.Bach & Carillon Sortie – H.Mulet
FROM THE CONSOLE - OCTOBER/NOVEMBER 2013
At the end of August we spent five days in Belgium with Alex’s Middlesex water polo team and during that time
we visited two very interesting cities.
Ghent is the capital and largest city of the East Flanders province. Cyclist Bradley Wiggins was born in the
city as his father lived in Belgium as a professional cyclist. In the middle ages it was one of the largest
and richest counties in Northern Europe and was the leading city for cloth. Much of Ghent’s medieval architecture
remains intact and we had a close-up view during a boat trip around the city’s canals. The Saint Bavo Cathedral – named after the seventh century Saint – had its origins in a tenth century wooden chapel although
the current building was begun in the fourteenth century. The Cathedral is noted for its beautiful twelve-panel
altarpiece “The Adoration of the Mystic Lamb” by the brothers Jan and Herbert Van Eyck, one of the most important
works of the early Northern Renaissance. The cathedral houses four organs. The upper church organ dates
from 1653 and was built by French builders Bis and Destré. A second instrument was built by German firm Klais
for the 1935 Belgian World Fair and has five keyboards and 6000 pipes . The other two organs are small
modern instruments housed in the crypt.
Just over thirty miles to the East of Ghent is the city of Antwerp. Located on the Eastern bank
of the River Scheldt, the city is the second largest seaport in Europe – Rotterdam being the largest. Antwerp
is also famous for diamond trading. Since the Second World War it has been dominated by the city’s large
Hasidic Jewish community and a walk around the Diamond District was an interesting experience. The Cathedral
of our Lady dates from the fourteenth century. Like Ghent it houses two main organs, the “romantic” Schyven
organ of 1893 and the “classical” Metzler organ of 1993.
The Water Polo tournament was a great success as Middlesex won all of their six matches, beating
German side Bochum 10-4 in the final. Alex played in goal in the first half of every match and pulled
off two good saves in the final. They scored an impressive 69 goals and conceded just 22. Samuel and Toby
Roberts were also in the team.
Due to an administrative error there was no magazine article in October
Oct 6th
11.00am Sung Eucharist for Harvest Thanksgiving (5.2.1.1)
Celebrant: Father Philip Barnes (Vicar, St Edmund’s)
Setting: Sidney Nicholson (Metrical Gloria – Evelyns, last v.David Terry)
Anthem: Thou visitest the Earth – M.Greene & O Lovely Peace – G.F.Handel
Processional: We plough the field and scatter (Wir Pflugen, last v.Betty Roe)
Bringing forward the symbols of harvest
OT Reading: Genesis 3:8 (The Apple Garden)
Gradual: Seek ye first the Kingdom of God
Gospel: Luke 22:39 (The Olive Garden)
The Peace (The Grape Garden)
Offertory: Come ye thankful people come (St George’s Windsor, last v.Michael Higgins)
Communion: Praise and Thanksgiving (Bunessan)
Post-Communion: O Lord my God (How Great Thou Art)
Postlude: Songs of Praise – R.Prizeman
Oct 13th
10.00am Sung Eucharist – 20th Sunday after Trinity (3.1.1.0)
Celebrant/Preacher: Father Philip Barnes (Vicar, St Edmund’s)
Setting: Arthur Rogers (Gloria/Credo – Merbecke)
Anthem: As water to the thirsty – John Barnard
Prelude: Bist du bei mir - J.S.Bach
Processional: All my hope on God is founded (Michael, last v.Descant English Praise)
OT Reading (Year C): 2 Kings 5:1
Psalm (98): The Lord has shown his salvation to the nations (John Rombaut/A.Gregory Murray)
NT Reading (Year C): 2 Timothy 2:8
Gradual: Immortal love for ever full (Bishopthorpe, last v.Norman Warren)
Gospel (Year C): Luke 17:11
Offertory: And can it be
Communion: There is a redeemer
Post-Communion: Amazing grace
Postlude: Prelude in B Minor – J.S.Bach
Oct 20th
10.00am Sung Eucharist – 21st Sunday after Trinity (5.2.1.0)
Celebrant/Preacher: Father Philip Barnes (Vicar, St Edmund’s)
Setting: Darke in A Minor (Gloria/Credo – Merbecke)
Anthem: The Call – R.Vaughan Williams
Prelude – Adagio – S.Barber
Processional: O Worship the King all glorious above (Hanover, last v.Descant Alan Gray)
OT Reading (Year C): Genesis 32:22
Psalm (121): Our help is in the name of the Lord who made Heaven and Earth (Martin Hall/Anne Ward)
NT Reading (Year C): 2 Timothy 3:14
Gradual: Prayer is the soul’s sincere desire (St Botolph)
Gospel (Year C): Luke 18:1
Offertory: All creatures of our God and King (Lasst Uns Erfreuen, last v.Quentin Thomas)
Communion: Father hear the prayer we offer (Sussex)
Post-Communion: Restore O Lord the honour of your name
Postlude: Carillon Sortie – H.Mulet
Oct 27th
10.00am Sung Eucharist – Last Sunday after Trinity (3.2.1.0)
Celebrant/Preacher: Father Philip Barnes (Vicar, St Edmund’s)
Setting: Missa de Sancto Albano – H.Willan (Gloria/Credo – Merbecke)
Anthem: Teach me O Lord – T.Attwood
Prelude – Prelude (“The Dream of Gerontius”) – E.Elgar
Processional: Praise my soul the King of Heaven (Praise My Soul)
OT Reading (Year C): Jeremiah 14:7
Psalm (145): I will bless your name for ever, O God my King (Stephen Dean/A.Gregory Murray)
NT Reading (Year C): 2 Timothy 4:6
Gradual: O for a closer walk with God (Caithness)
Gospel (Year C): Luke 18:9
Offertory: O love how deep, how broad, how high (Eisenach, last v.Andrew Moore)
Communion: Be still for the presence of the Lord
Post-Communion: Tell out my soul (Woodlands)
Postlude: Pomp & Circumstance March No 4 – E.Elgar
Nov 3rd
10.00am Sung Eucharist – All Saints Sunday (3.1.0.0)
Celebrant/Preacher: Father Philip Barnes (Vicar, St Edmund’s)
Setting: Ireland in C (Gloria/Credo – Merbecke)
Anthem: These are they which follow the lamb – J.Goss
Prelude – Apres un reve – G.Faure
Processional: Ye watchers and ye holy ones (Laast Uns Erfreuen, last v.Ivor Atkins)
OT Reading (Year C): Daniel 7:1
Psalm (24): Blessed are those who seek your face O Lord (Stephen Dean/A.Gregory Murray)
NT Reading (Year C): Ephesians 1:11
Gradual: Let saints on earth in concert sing (Dundee)
Gospel (Year C): Luke 6:20
Offertory: Jerusalem the golden (Ewing, last v.Norman Warren)
Communion: Come risen Lord and deign to be our guest (Song 4)
Post-Communion: For all the saints who from their labour’s rest (Sine Nomine)
Postlude: Toccata – G.Mushel
Nov 10th
10.00am Sung Eucharist – Remembrance Sunday (3.1.1.2)
Celebrant/Preacher: Father Philip Barnes (Vicar, St Edmund’s)
Prelude: Nimrod – E.Elgar
Setting: Adrian Batten
Anthem: Russian Contakion of the Departed (Kiev Melody)
Processional: Lord for the Years
How the poppy became the symbol of remembrance – Poem “In Flander s Field”
Reading – Romans 8:1
Gradual: God is our strength and refuge (Dambusters March)
Gospel - John 15:9
Offertory: Great is thy faithfulness
Communion: Make me a channel of your peace
Act of Remembrance – Two minutes’ silence – Last Post
Post-Communion: God save our gracious Queen (National Anthem)
Postlude: Fame and Glory – A.Matt
3.30pm Service of Commemoration for the faithful departed (2.1.0.0)
Prelude – Pavane – G.Faure
Hymn – Lord of all hopefulness (Slane, last v.Ian Hope)
Reading – Romans 8:31
Hymn – The Lord’s my Shepherd (Crimond)
Gospel – John 1:1
Sermon & Prayers of Intercession
Hymn – Be still, my soul (Finlandia)
Music during The Commemoration and lighting of candles – God be in my Head – Walford Davis
Hymn – Love divine, all love’s excelling (Blaenwern)
Postlude – Sicilienne – M.T.von Paradis (attr.)
Nov 17th
Prelude – Ave Maria – F.Schubert
Postlude – Trumpet Tune – J.Stanley
Wed Nov 20th
7.00pm Sung Eucharist – The Feast of St Edmund, King and Martyr (4.0.0.1)
Celebrant/Preacher: Father Philip Barnes (Vicar, St Edmund’s)
Prelude: Psalm Prelude, Set 1, No 1 – H.Howells
Setting: Missa de Sancto Albano - Healey Willan (Gloria – Metrical setting to “Evelyns”, last v.David Terry , Credo – Merbecke)
Anthem: Cantate Domino - Pitoni
Processional: God of Saints, we praise and bless Thee (Abbot’s Leigh)
OT Reading – Proverbs20:28
Psalm (126) – What marvels the Lord worked for us, indeed we were glad (Fintan O'Caroll/Ian Forrester)
NT Reading – Romans 8:35
Gradual: Gradual: Celtic Alleluia (Christopher Walker/Fintan O’Carroll)
Gospel – John 12:20
Offertory: God whose city’s sure foundations (Westminster Abbey, last v.Colin Mawby)
Communion: In our day of thanksgiving (St Catherine’s Court)
Post-Communion: For all the Saints who from their labours rest (Sine Nomine)
Postlude: Toccata (Symphonie V) – C.Widor
Nov 24th
10.00am Sung Eucharist – Christ the King (4.1.0.0)
Celebrant/Preacher: Father Philip Barnes (Vicar, St Edmund’s)
Prelude: Suite from “Henry V” – W.Walton
Setting: Healy Willan (Gloria – Metrical setting to “Evelyns”, last v.David Terry)
Anthem: Look at the world – J.Rutter
Processional: Hail redeemer King divine (King Divine)
Reading – Colossians 1:15
Gradual: Christ is the King, O friends rejoice (Vulpius, last v.Andrew Wright)
Gospel – Luke 23:33
Presentation of the St Mellitus medal to Eileen Whalley in recognition of her ministry to children for over forty years
Offertory: At the name of Jesus (Camberwell)
Communion: From Heaven You came helpless babe (The servant King)
Post-Communion: Christ triumphant, ever reigning (Guiting Power)
Postlude: Crown Imperial – W.Walton
FROM THE CONSOLE - SEPTEMBER 2013
ALLELUIA! It was with Handel’s appropriate words that an eventful St Edmund’s 24-Hour Organ Marathon came
to a conclusion. Entitled A Musical Alphabet, the event had begun at noon with an A (an Andrew Lloyd-Webber medley) and
ended with a Z (Zadok the Priest with a wonderful added choir of four sopranos and altos). In between – allowing for
breaks – there was around seventeen and a half hours of solid organ and piano music.
While each hour was generally devoted to a letter of the alphabet, there were seventeen requests performed
whenever the requester was present. These formed quite an eclectic list and ranged from music by
Handel, Howells and Widor to Fats Waller, Those Magnificent Men in their Flying Machines and Halfway
Down the Stairs by Robin the Frog!
In the afternoon around ten children attended the Children’s Experience. Smoothies were prepared
in the kitchen which were most appreciated in the July heatwave. I gave a short explanation of how the organ
works and played pieces from James Bond and Harry Potter. Alex performed Doomsday from Doctor Who and several
children had a go on the instrument. The rest of the afternoon session was devoted to letters A to F, with
composers such as Albinoni, Bach, Chopin, Debussy, Elgar and Faure. The session ended at 6.45pm with
a forty-five minute break before the evening recital.
From Advent to Trinity (or, more accurately, Christ the King to St Edmund’s Day) featured fifteen
pieces of music from the liturgical year. Starting with Walton’s Crown Imperial and ending with Widor’s Toccata, I
celebrated Christmas (Bach), Epiphany (Peeters), Passiontide (Parry), Easter (Bach’s Toccata & Fugue in
D Minor), Ascension (Messiaen) and Remembrance (Paradis). I also performed Suite Gothique by Louis
Boellmann. After the recital there was an excellent buffet supper provided by Aline with Terry on
the bar. It was a beautiful evening and tables and chairs were placed outside for al fresco
dining which I have not witnessed before at St Edmund’s. I took the opportunity to have some food and take a break.
At 10pm the music restarted with the letter G featuring Grieg’s Peer Gynt suite. An hour later I performed, in
reverse order, the top twenty hymns as voted for in a 2005 Songs of Praise survey. There was a lively atmosphere
with much singing and swaying of hands although nobody guessed which hymn was number one (How Great Thou Art). As
midnight came and went the numbers thinned out but there were never fewer than two people supporting me and
would like to especially thank those who gave up their sleep to support me. Particular mention must go to Ann
who was present for practically the whole event and kept me going when things got tough. The following seven
night hours were devoted to composers I to R with a variety of music ranging from Mozart and Mendelssohn
to Scott Joplin and Queen’s Bohemian Rhapsody.
By 7am I was flagging badly so I was grateful for Jenny’s bacon sandwiches and strong coffee to revive me! I
picked up a little as I moved from S towards the end of the alphabet. A sizeable audience amassed as I commenced
the last hour with Handel’s Water Music and moved on to his most famous coronation anthem. At the end
I received a standing ovation and we all enjoyed a welcome glass of champagne. I was then whisked off home to bed!
I found it much tougher than five years ago and this will certainly be my last marathon in its current
format. At the time of writing over £5000 has been raised towards the organ restoration appeal. The
110 year old instrument has been in situ at St Edmund’s for almost a quarter of a century
and is currently in need of some serious attention.
Many thanks to everyone involved in organising, sponsoring and attending this event.
Sep 1st
10.00am Sung Eucharist – 14th Sunday after Trinity (4.1.0.0)
Celebrant/Preacher: Father Philip Barnes (Vicar, St Edmund’s)
Prelude: Andantino in D Flat – E.Lemare
Setting: Missa de Sancto Albano – Healey Willan (Gloria/Credo - Merbecke)
Anthem: God be in my head – J.Rutter
Processional: For the beauty of the earth (England’s Lane)
OT Reading (Year C): Eccelsiasticus 10:12
Psalm (68): In your goodness O God you prepared a home for the poor (Filberto Polato/A.Gregory Murray)
NT Reading (Year C): Hebrews 13:1
Gradual: O thou who camest from above (Hereford, last v.Mark Hammond)
Gospel (Year C): Luke 14:1
Offertory: Dear Lord and Father of mankind (Repton)
Communion: Now let us from this table rise
Post-Communion: To God be the glory
Postlude: Voluntary No 9 – W.Boyce
Sep 8th
10.00am Sung Eucharist – 15th Sunday after Trinity (4.1.1.1)
Celebrant/Preacher: Father Philip Barnes (Vicar, St Edmund’s)
Prelude: Legende – L.Vierne
Setting: Nicholson (Gloria/Credo - Merbecke)
Anthem: Lord I Trust Thee (G.F.Handel)
Processional: O for a thousand tongues to sing (Oxford New)
OT Reading (Year C): Deuteronomy 30:15
Psalm (90): O Lord, you have been our refuge from one generation to another (Stephen Dean/Ian Forrester)
NT Reading (Year C): Philemon 1
Gradual: Take up thy cross the saviour said (Breslau)
Gospel (Year C): Luke 14:25
Offertory: Light of the minds that know him (Aurelia)
Communion: This is my body broken for you
Post-Communion: Lead us Heavenly Father lead us (Mannheim, last v.Andrew Wright)
Postlude: Voluntary No 10 – W.Boyce
Sep 15th
10.00am Sung Eucharist – 16th Sunday after Trinity (4.1.1.0)
Celebrant/Preacher: Father Philip Barnes (Vicar, St Edmund’s)
Prelude: Lyric Melody – Armstrong Gibbs
Setting: Darke in F (Gloria/Credo - Merbecke)
Anthem: Lift Thine Eyes (“Elijah”) – F.Mendelssohn (2.2.1)
Processional: We love the place O God (Quam Dilecta)
OT Reading (Year C): Exodus 32:7
Psalm (51): I will leave this place and go to my Father (Sandra Billington/A.Gregory Murray)
NT Reading (Year C): 1 Timothy 1:12
Gradual: Through all the changing scenes of life (Wiltshire)
Gospel (Year C): Luke 15:1
Offertory: Who is this so weak and helpless (Ebenezer)
Communion: Faithful Shepherd feed me (Pastor Pastorum)
Post-Communion: He who would valiant be (Monk’s Gate)
Postlude: Jubilate Deo – Armstrong Gibbs
Sep 22nd
10.00am Sung Eucharist – 17th Sunday after Trinity (5.1.1.0)
Celebrant/Preacher: Father Philip Barnes (Vicar, St Edmund’s)
Prelude: Arabesque – L.Vierne
Setting: Darke in A Minor (Gloria/Credo - Merbecke)
Anthem: A Clare Benediction – J.Rutter
Processional: Rejoice the Lord is King (Gopsal, last v.John Marsh)
OT Reading (Year C): Amos 8:4
Psalm (113): Praise the Lord, who raises the poor (A.Gregory Murray)
NT Reading (Year C): 1 Timothy 2:1
Gradual: Restore O Lord the honour of your name
Gospel (Year C): Luke 16:1
Offertory: Praise to the holiest in the height (Gerontius, last v.Colin Hand)
Communion: From Heaven you came helpless babe (The Servant King)
Post-Communion: Ye servants of God, your master proclaim (Paderborn, last v.Stanley Vann)
Postlude: Carillon – L.Vierne
Sep 29th
10.00am Sung Eucharist to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the laying of the foundation stone of the church (5.1.1.2)
Celebrant: Father Philip Barnes (Vicar, St Edmund’s)
Setting: Ireland in C
Anthem: Locus Iste – A.Bruckner
The Gathering – in the church hall (the first St Edmund’s Church from 1935)
Entrance: Now thank we all our God (Nun Danket, last v.Rosalie Bonighton)
Presentation by the young people of St Edmund’s on the development of our church and parish
Acclamation and procession
Processional: O when the Saints (moving from the “old” church into the “new” church”)
NT Reading: 1 Peter 2:1
Gradual: Celtic Alleluia (Christopher Walker/Fintan O’Carroll)
Gospel: Matthew 21:12
Prayers of thanksgiving and intercession at the foundation stone
Offertory: Christ is made the sure foundation (Westminster Abbey, last v.Colin Mawby)
Communion: Christ is our corner stone (Harewood, last v.June Nixon)
Post-Communion: Lord for the years
Postlude: Sortie – L.Lefebure-Wely
Excellent service today, marking the fiftieth anniversary to the day of the laying of the foundation stone of the current church. I joined the choir for an excellent performance of “Locus Iste”, one of my favourite anthems.
