7th Sunday of Easter – (B) Year of Mark

Acts 1:1-11; Eph 4:1-13; Mk 16:15-20

• Introit: Men of Galilee, why are you gazing in astonishment at the sky?…
• Mass setting: Mass for 3 voices (Byrd)
• Motet: O Rex gloriae* (Marenzio)
• Communio: Signa eos qui in me credunt, haec sequentur… These signs will acompany those who believe: they will cast out demons, and when they lay their hands upon the sick, these will recover. Alleluia!
• Hymns: Hail the day that sees him rise CHISLEHURST; Lord enthroned in heavenly splendour BRYN CALFARIA
• Organ Prelude: Prose de l’Ascension – Jean-Jacques Charpentier (1734-1794)
• Organ Voluntary: March on a theme by Handel ‘Lift uo your heads’ – Alexandre Guilmant (1837-1911)

Organist: Bransby Byrne

Organist Emeritus: Edward Theodore

DoM: Noel Debien

*O Rex gloriae, Domine virtutum,
qui triumphator hodie super omnes coelos ascendisti;
ne derelinquas nos orphanos,
sed mitte promissum Patris in nos,
spiritum veritatis.
Alleluia.

O King of glory, Lord of all power,
Who ascended to heaven on this day triumphant over all;
Do not leave us as orphans,
But send us the Father’s promise,
The spirit of truth.
Alleluia.

6th Sunday of Easter – (B) Year of Mark

Acts 10:25-26, 34-35, 44-48; 1 Jn 4:7-10, Jn 15:9-17

• Mass setting: Missa Aeterna Christi Munera (Palestrina)
• Motet: Greater love hath no man* (John Ireland)
• Communio: (Jn15.16) Ego vos elegi de mundo, ut eatis et fructum afferatis…I have chosen you from the world, in order that you might go forth and bring forth fruit, and that your fruit should last, alleluia.
• Hymns: Alleluia, sing to Jesus HYFRYDOL; This is my will, my one command SUANTRAI
• Organ Prelude: Prière – Charles Quef (1873-1931)
• Organ Voluntary: Christ lag in Todesbanden – Gottfried Homilius (1714-1785)

Organist: Bransby Byrne

Organist Emeritus: Edward Theodore

DoM: Noel Debien

*Many waters cannot quench love, neither can the floods drown it. Love is strong as death.
Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends.
Who his own self bare our sins in his own body on the tree,
That we, being dead to sins, should live unto righteousness.

Ye are washed, ye are sanctified, ye are justified in the name of the Lord Jesus.
Ye are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, a holy nation;
That ye should show forth the praises of him who hath call’d you out of darkness into his marvellous light.

I beseech you brethren, by the mercies of God, that you present your bodies, a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto to God, which is your reasonable service.