Sacred Music
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SACRED MUSIC plays a primary role in the worshipping and missionary life of St John Henry’s. As a community conscious of our role to preserve and promote the treasures of the Anglican musical patrimony within the Catholic Church, the vast treasury of English sacred and choral music and hymnody is maintained and nurtured alongside the older Roman usage of Gregorian chant and plainsong.
As a parish, we take seriously the Second Vatican Council’s clear reminder, that: The Church acknowledges Gregorian chant as specially suited to the Roman liturgy: therefore, other things being equal, it should be given pride of place in liturgical services. But other kinds of sacred music, especially polyphony, are by no means excluded from liturgical celebrations, so long as they accord with the spirit of the liturgical action. - Sacrosanctum Concilium 116 From Monday to Saturday the Church’s daily public morning prayer of Mattins - psalms, canticles, hymn, and lections - is chanted in traditional English, and on Sundays the Solemn Mass, which is the highlight of our week as a parish family, is enriched by congregational, plainsong, and polyphonic settings of the Mass in English and Latin, together with anthems, motets, and hymns from the Anglican and Catholic traditions. Our monthly music list below gives you something of the flavour of our deep commitment to the ministry of sacred music within the life of the Ordinariate.
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St John Henry’s is blessed to have in its possession a first-class relic of St Cecilia, early martyr of the Church, and patron saint of musicians.
He who sings well prays twice. |
Our choirmaster and singers welcome interest in the opportunity to sing at St John Henry’s. The choir rehearse on Wednesday evenings and sing for all Solemn Masses, Evensongs, and special services within the life of our community. For further information please contact Mr Scott Vannan.
Music List - November 2019
Friday 1 November 2019 (ALL SAINTS)
Holy Day of Obligation | Solemn Mass at 6 pm
Missa O Quam Gloriosum (Kyrie, Sanctus-Benedictus & Agnus Dei) (Victoria)
Missa Orbis Factor (Gloria)
Missa Simplicior (Credo) (Merbecke)
Offertory Motet: O Quam Gloriosum (Victoria)
Communion Motet: Audivi vocem de caelo (Tallis)
Opening: For all the saints (Sine Nomine, BCP 209)
Offertory: Ye watchers and ye holy ones (Lasst Uns Erfreuen, BCP 398)
Final: City of God, how broad and far (Richmond, BCP 624)
3 November 2019 (TRINITY XX)
Solemn Votive Mass of the Holy Ghost in Thanksgiving
for the Tenth Anniversary of Anglicanorum coetibus
Missa Secunda (Kyrie, Sanctus-Benedictus, & Agnus Dei) (Hassler)
Missa de Angelis (Gloria & Credo)
Offertory Motet: Super Flumina Babylonis
Communion Motet: Come Holy Ghost (Attwood)
Opening: Come down, O Love divine (Down Ampney, BCP 407)
Offertory: Come, thou Holy Spirit, come (Veni Sancte Spiritus, BCP 481)
Final: O thou who camest from above (Hereford, NEH 431)
10 November 2019 (REMEMBRANCE SUNDAY)
Act of Remembrance & Solemn Mass of Requiem for the Fallen
Missa Pro Defunctis (Latin) (Kyrie, Sanctus-Benedictus, Agnus Dei)
Offertory Motet: Call to Remembrance (Farrant)
Communion Motet: Versa est in Luctum (de Torres)
Opening: O God, our help in ages past (St Anne, BCP 379)
Following the Act of Remembrance: I vow to thee my country (Thaxted, BCP 805)
Offertory: O valiant hearts (Harris, BCP 632)
Royal & National Anthems: God save the Queen & O Canada
17 November 2019 (TRINITY XXII)
Missa Orbis Factor (Kyrie, Gloria, Sanctus-Benedictus, Agnus Dei)
Missa Simplicior (Credo) (Merbecke)
Offertory Motet: Out of the Deep (Tallis)
Communion Motet: Genitori Genitoque (Victoria)
Opening: Joyful, joyful, we adore thee (Hymn to Joy, BCP 403)
Offertory: Jesu, lover of my soul (Aberystwyth, BCP 510)
Final: Guide me, O thou great Jehovah (Cwm Rhondda, NEH 368)
24 November (CHRIST THE KING)
Missa Orbis Factor (Kyrie, Gloria, Sanctus-Benedictus, Agnus Dei)
Missa Simplicior (Credo) (Merbecke)
Communion Motet: Ego sum panis vivus (Palestrina)
Opening: O worship the King (Hanover, BCP 360)
Offertory: Crown him with many crowns (Diademata, BCP 367)
Procession of the Blessed Sacrament: Hail, Redeemer, King divine (NEP, 614)
Benediction: O Salutaris Hostia & Tantum Ergo (plainsong, Latin)
Final: All hail the power of Jesus’ Name (Miles Lane, BCP 354)
Holy Day of Obligation | Solemn Mass at 6 pm
Missa O Quam Gloriosum (Kyrie, Sanctus-Benedictus & Agnus Dei) (Victoria)
Missa Orbis Factor (Gloria)
Missa Simplicior (Credo) (Merbecke)
Offertory Motet: O Quam Gloriosum (Victoria)
Communion Motet: Audivi vocem de caelo (Tallis)
Opening: For all the saints (Sine Nomine, BCP 209)
Offertory: Ye watchers and ye holy ones (Lasst Uns Erfreuen, BCP 398)
Final: City of God, how broad and far (Richmond, BCP 624)
3 November 2019 (TRINITY XX)
Solemn Votive Mass of the Holy Ghost in Thanksgiving
for the Tenth Anniversary of Anglicanorum coetibus
Missa Secunda (Kyrie, Sanctus-Benedictus, & Agnus Dei) (Hassler)
Missa de Angelis (Gloria & Credo)
Offertory Motet: Super Flumina Babylonis
Communion Motet: Come Holy Ghost (Attwood)
Opening: Come down, O Love divine (Down Ampney, BCP 407)
Offertory: Come, thou Holy Spirit, come (Veni Sancte Spiritus, BCP 481)
Final: O thou who camest from above (Hereford, NEH 431)
10 November 2019 (REMEMBRANCE SUNDAY)
Act of Remembrance & Solemn Mass of Requiem for the Fallen
Missa Pro Defunctis (Latin) (Kyrie, Sanctus-Benedictus, Agnus Dei)
Offertory Motet: Call to Remembrance (Farrant)
Communion Motet: Versa est in Luctum (de Torres)
Opening: O God, our help in ages past (St Anne, BCP 379)
Following the Act of Remembrance: I vow to thee my country (Thaxted, BCP 805)
Offertory: O valiant hearts (Harris, BCP 632)
Royal & National Anthems: God save the Queen & O Canada
17 November 2019 (TRINITY XXII)
Missa Orbis Factor (Kyrie, Gloria, Sanctus-Benedictus, Agnus Dei)
Missa Simplicior (Credo) (Merbecke)
Offertory Motet: Out of the Deep (Tallis)
Communion Motet: Genitori Genitoque (Victoria)
Opening: Joyful, joyful, we adore thee (Hymn to Joy, BCP 403)
Offertory: Jesu, lover of my soul (Aberystwyth, BCP 510)
Final: Guide me, O thou great Jehovah (Cwm Rhondda, NEH 368)
24 November (CHRIST THE KING)
Missa Orbis Factor (Kyrie, Gloria, Sanctus-Benedictus, Agnus Dei)
Missa Simplicior (Credo) (Merbecke)
Communion Motet: Ego sum panis vivus (Palestrina)
Opening: O worship the King (Hanover, BCP 360)
Offertory: Crown him with many crowns (Diademata, BCP 367)
Procession of the Blessed Sacrament: Hail, Redeemer, King divine (NEP, 614)
Benediction: O Salutaris Hostia & Tantum Ergo (plainsong, Latin)
Final: All hail the power of Jesus’ Name (Miles Lane, BCP 354)