Parish Church of Saint Thomas of Canterbury Brentwood

MUSIC LIST December 2007

2 SundayADVENT SUNDAY (Year A)
10.00amSUNG MASS
 Sprinkling Rite: Give us Lord a new heart — Bernadette Farrell
 Responsorial Psalm 122 — Joseph Gelineau
 Gospel Acclamation: Laurence Bevenot A
 Offertory: Advent Prose — Plainsong mode i (v 1)
 Setting: Missa de angelis — Plainsong
 Communion: Remember, O thou man — Thomas Ravenscroft
 Hymns: NEH 9 16(omit v 3) 8(128ii) 499
 Organ: Chorale Prelude on "St Thomas" — Hubert Parry
 
6.30pmSEQUENCE OF MUSIC AND READINGS FOR ADVENT
 Creator of the stars of night — Plainsong mode iv
 People look east — Malcolm Archer
 A tender shoot — Otto Goldschmidt
 Ave maris stella — Richard Shephard
 Let all mortal flesh keep silence — Edward Bairstow
 Vesper Responsory — Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina
 Advent Prose — Plainsong mode i
 Hymns: NEH 11 7 12 5
 Organ: Chorale Prelude on 'Nun komm, der Heiden Heiland' (BWV 661) — Johann Sebastian Bach

 
9 SundaySECOND SUNDAY OF ADVENT
10.00amSUNG MASS (Girls' Choir & Men)
 Sprinkling Rite: Water of life — Stephen Dean
 Responsorial Psalm 72 (vv 1-8) — David Rooke
 Gospel Acclamation: Laurence Bevenot B
 Offertory: Advent Prose — Plainsong mode i (v 2)
 Setting: Herbert Sumsion in F
 Communion: People look east — trad Besançon arr Charles Velu
 Hymns: NEH 15 14 3(ii) 494(413)
 Organ: Theme and variations — Hendrik Andriesson
 
3.00pmBRENTWOOD CHORAL SOCIETY CONCERT
 
5.00pmSAINT FRANCIS HOSPICE CAROL SERVICE
7.00pmSAINT FRANCIS HOSPICE CAROL SERVICE (Becket Singers)
 Hymns: NEH 34 42 22 30(omit vv 5 & 7) 35
 Choir carols: The Angel Gabriel — Old Basque arr Edgar Pettman
 Gaudete, Christus est natus — 16th Century
 Ding! Dong! merrily on high — arr David Willcocks/Charles Wood

 
16 SundayTHIRD SUNDAY OF ADVENT
10.00amSUNG MASS
 Sprinkling Rite: Give us Lord a new heart — Bernadette Farrell
 Responsorial Psalm 146 (vv 1-6) — David Rooke
 Gospel Acclamation: Laurence Bevenot C
 Intercessions: Come Lord Jesus, maranatha — Christopher Walker
 Offertory: Advent Prose — Plainsong mode i (v 3)
 Setting: Short Service — Adrian Batten
 Communion: How beautiful upon the mountains — John Stainer
 Hymns: NEH 12 18 6 500
 Organ: Postlude on Sleeper's Wake — Miles l'A Martin
 
6.30pmCHORAL EVENSONG
 Responses: Plainsong
 Psalm 12
 Advent Antiphon: O Sapentia — Plainsong mode ii
 Canticles: Thomas Morley fauxbourdons tones viii & v
 Anthem: Zion hears the watchmen’s voices — Johann Sebastian Bach
 Hymns: NEH 1(i) 170(ii) 17
 Amen: John Hilton
 Organ: Litanies — Jehan Alain

 
23 SundayFOURTH SUNDAY OF ADVENT
10.00amSUNG MASS (Becket Consort of Voices)
 Sprinkling Rite: Water of life — Stephen Dean
 Responsorial Psalm 80 (vv 1-6) — David Rooke
 Gradual: The Angel Gabriel — Old Basque arr Edgar Pettman
 Offertory: Advent Prose — Plainsong mode i (v 4)
 Setting: Harold Darke in E
 Communion: Ave Maria gratia plena — Jacques Arcadelt
 Hymns: NEH 11(omit v 2 & 7) 161(385) 387 186
 Organ: Praeludium and Fuge in D — Dietrich Buxtehude
 
6.30pmFESTIVAL OF NINE LESSONS AND CAROLS
 In the bleak midwinter — Harold Darke
 Adam lay ybounden — Boris Ord
 Ding! Dong! merrily on high — arr David Willcocks
 The holly and the ivy — English arr Henry Walford Davies
 The Angel Gabriel — Old Basque arr Edgar Pettman
 Away in a manger — WJ Kirkpatrick arr William Llewellyn
 A child is born in Bethlehem — Malcolm Archer
 Hymns: NEH 34 25 32(omit *) 42 30 26
 Organ: Postlude on Adeste Fideles — Eric Thiman

 
24 MondayCHRISTMAS EVE
4.30pmCHRISTINGLE SERVICE I
 Hymns: NEH 34(omit vv 3 & 4) 22 35 "Now praise the Father"
 
6.00pmCHRISTINGLE SERVICE II (Girls' Choir and Orchestra of St Thomas')
 Hymns: NEH 34(omit vv 3 & 4) 22 35 "Now praise the Father"
 Choir carol: Star Carol — John Rutter
 
11.30pmBLESSING OF THE CRIB AND SOLEMN MASS
 Setting: Festive Eucharist — Noel Rawsthorne
 Responsorial Psalm 96 (vv 1-6) — David Rooke
 Gospel Acclamation: Philip Duffy
 Offertory: Sussex Carol — English traditional arr Philip Ledger
 Communion: Away in a manger — WJ Kirkpatrick arr William Llewellyn
 Hymns: NEH 32 29 35 30 (v 1, 2, 6 & 7)
 Organ: Chorale Prelude on 'In Dulci Jubilo' (BWV 729) — Johann Sebastian Bach

 
25 TuesdayTHE NATIVITY OF OUR LORD
10.00amSOLEMN MASS
 Setting: Mass of Saint Thomas — David Thorne
 Responsorial Psalm 96 (vv 1-6) — David Rooke
 Gospel Acclamation: Salisbury Alleluia — Christopher Walker
 Offertory: Gaudete, Christus est natus — 16th Century
 Communion: The holly and the ivy — English arr Henry Walford Davies
 Hymns: NEH 34 [22] 30 (omit *vv) 42 26 (omit v 4)
 Organ: Fanfare — Percy Whitlock

 
30 SundayTHE HOLY FAMILY
10.00amSOLEMN MASS
 Setting: A New People's Mass — Gregory Murray
 Responsorial Psalm 128 — David Rooke
 Gospel Acclamation: Gregory Murray A
 Communion: Infant holy — Polish arr David Willcocks
 Hymns: NEH 33 (omit v 2, 3 & 6) 28 295 40
 Organ: God rest ye merry gentlemen — Wilbur Held

 

Services are sung by the Parish Choir unless otherwise stated

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