Sacred Music
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 prayed 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 to the glory of God at St John Henry’s. The choir, made up of paid and volunteer singers, rehearse on Friday evenings and sing for all Solemn Masses, Evensongs, and other special services within the life of our parochial community. For further information please contact our Director of Music, Mr Scott Vannan.
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Music List
SUNDAY 24 MARCH (PALM SUNDAY)
Procession 1: All glory, laud, and honour (St Theodolph) EH 622
Procession 2: Ride on! Ride on in majesty! (Winchester New) EH 620
Procession 3: Onward, Christian soldiers (St Gertrude) EH 643
Procession 4: Crown him with many crowns (Diademata) CP 166
Procession 5: O worship the King (Hanover) EH 466
Before the Passion: Glory be to Jesus (Caswall) NEH 38
Offertory: My Song is love unknown (Love Unknown) NEH 86
Final: The royal banners forward go (Gonfalon Royal, NEH 128ii) NEH 79
Setting: Sanctus, Agnus Dei (Latin): XVIIa
Credo (English): Missa Simplicior (Merbecke)
THURSDAY 28 MARCH (MAUNDY THURSDAY)
Opening: We hail thy presence glorious (Offertorium) NEH 310
Offertory: And now, O Father, mindful of the love (Unde et Memores) NEH 273
Communion: My God, and is thy Table spread (Rockingham) EH Appendix 45
Procession: Of the glorious body telling (Grafton, NEH 202) NEH 268
Setting: Kyrie (Greek), Gloria, Sanctus, Agnus Dei (Latin): Missa de Angelis
FRIDAY 29 MARCH (GOOD FRIDAY)
Before the Passion: There is a green hill far away (Horsley) EH 106
Entrance of the Cross: When I survey the wondrous Cross (Rockingham) EH 107
SUNDAY 31 MARCH (EASTER EVE (VIGIL))
Offertory: At the Lamb’s high feast we sing (Salzburg) EH 128
Communion: This Joyful Eastertide (This Joyful Eastertide) NEH 121
Final: Ye choirs of new Jerusalem (St Fulbert) EH 139
Setting: Gloria (English), Sanctus, Agnus Dei (Latin): Missa Lux et Origo
SUNDAY 31 MARCH (EASTER DAY)
Opening: Jesus Christ is risen today (Easter Hymn) NEH 110
Procession 1: Hail thee, festival day (Salve Festa Dies 2) NEH 109
Procession 2: Love’s redeeming work is done (Savannah) NEH 113
Offertory: At the Lamb’s high feast we sing (Salzburg) EH 128
Communion: This Joyful Eastertide (This Joyful Eastertide) NEH 121
Final: Thine be the glory (Maccabaeus) NEH 120
Setting: Kyrie (Greek), Sanctus, Agnus Dei (Latin): polyphonic
Gloria (English): Missa Lux et Origo
Credo (English): Missa Simplicior (Merbecke)
SUNDAY 7 APRIL (LOW SUNDAY)
Opening: The strife is o’er, the battle done (Victory) EH 625
Offertory: Alleluya, Alleluya, Alleluya! O sons and daughters, let us sing (O Filii et Filiae) BCP 162
Communion: Love’s redeeming work is done (Savannah) NEH 113
Final: The Day of Resurrection (Ellacombe) EH 137
Setting: Kyrie (Greek), Gloria (English), Sanctus, Agnus Dei (Latin): Missa Lux et Origo
Credo (English): Missa de Angelis
SUNDAY 14 APRIL (EASTER III)
Opening: Alleluya! Alleluya! Hearts to heaven and voices raise (Lux Eoi) NEH 103
Offertory: Lord, enthroned in heavenly splendour (St Osmund) BCP 235
Communion: Good Christian men, rejoice and sing (Vulpius) NEH 107
Final: He is risen, he is risen (All Saints) BCP 157
Setting: Kyrie (Greek), Gloria (English), Sanctus, Agnus Dei (Latin): Missa Lux et Origo
Credo (English): Missa de Angelis
SUNDAY 21 APRIL (GOOD SHEPHERD SUNDAY)
Opening: The Lord’s my shepherd, I’ll not want (Crimond) NEH 459
Offertory: Hail Redeemer, King divine! (King Divine) NEP 614
Communion: Loving Shepherd of thy sheep (Buckland) EH Appendix 67
Final: The King of love my Shepherd is (St Columba) EH 490
Setting: Kyrie (Greek), Gloria (English), Sanctus, Agnus Dei (Latin): Missa Lux et Origo
Credo (English): Missa de Angelis
SUNDAY 28 APRIL (EASTER V)
Opening: Come, ye faithful, raise the strain (Ave Virgo Virginum) EH 131
Offertory: ‘Welcome, happy morning!’ age to age shall say (Hermas) BCP 168
Communion: Now the green blade riseth (Noel Nouvelet) NEH 115
Final: This Joyful Eastertide (This Joyful Eastertide) NEH 121
Setting: Kyrie (Greek), Gloria (English), Sanctus, Agnus Dei (Latin): Missa Lux et Origo
Credo (English): Missa de Angelis
SUNDAY 5 MAY (ROGATION SUNDAY)
Opening: Lord, in thy Name thy servants plead (University) BCP 171
Offertory: Christ the Lord is risen again! (Orientis Partibus) EH 129
Communion: O God of Bethel, by whose hand (Martyrdom) BCP 429
Final: Judge eternal, throned in splendour (Rhuddlan) EH 423
Setting: Kyrie (Greek), Gloria (English), Sanctus, Agnus Dei (Latin): Missa Lux et Origo
Credo (English): Missa de Angelis
Procession 1: All glory, laud, and honour (St Theodolph) EH 622
Procession 2: Ride on! Ride on in majesty! (Winchester New) EH 620
Procession 3: Onward, Christian soldiers (St Gertrude) EH 643
Procession 4: Crown him with many crowns (Diademata) CP 166
Procession 5: O worship the King (Hanover) EH 466
Before the Passion: Glory be to Jesus (Caswall) NEH 38
Offertory: My Song is love unknown (Love Unknown) NEH 86
Final: The royal banners forward go (Gonfalon Royal, NEH 128ii) NEH 79
Setting: Sanctus, Agnus Dei (Latin): XVIIa
Credo (English): Missa Simplicior (Merbecke)
THURSDAY 28 MARCH (MAUNDY THURSDAY)
Opening: We hail thy presence glorious (Offertorium) NEH 310
Offertory: And now, O Father, mindful of the love (Unde et Memores) NEH 273
Communion: My God, and is thy Table spread (Rockingham) EH Appendix 45
Procession: Of the glorious body telling (Grafton, NEH 202) NEH 268
Setting: Kyrie (Greek), Gloria, Sanctus, Agnus Dei (Latin): Missa de Angelis
FRIDAY 29 MARCH (GOOD FRIDAY)
Before the Passion: There is a green hill far away (Horsley) EH 106
Entrance of the Cross: When I survey the wondrous Cross (Rockingham) EH 107
SUNDAY 31 MARCH (EASTER EVE (VIGIL))
Offertory: At the Lamb’s high feast we sing (Salzburg) EH 128
Communion: This Joyful Eastertide (This Joyful Eastertide) NEH 121
Final: Ye choirs of new Jerusalem (St Fulbert) EH 139
Setting: Gloria (English), Sanctus, Agnus Dei (Latin): Missa Lux et Origo
SUNDAY 31 MARCH (EASTER DAY)
Opening: Jesus Christ is risen today (Easter Hymn) NEH 110
Procession 1: Hail thee, festival day (Salve Festa Dies 2) NEH 109
Procession 2: Love’s redeeming work is done (Savannah) NEH 113
Offertory: At the Lamb’s high feast we sing (Salzburg) EH 128
Communion: This Joyful Eastertide (This Joyful Eastertide) NEH 121
Final: Thine be the glory (Maccabaeus) NEH 120
Setting: Kyrie (Greek), Sanctus, Agnus Dei (Latin): polyphonic
Gloria (English): Missa Lux et Origo
Credo (English): Missa Simplicior (Merbecke)
SUNDAY 7 APRIL (LOW SUNDAY)
Opening: The strife is o’er, the battle done (Victory) EH 625
Offertory: Alleluya, Alleluya, Alleluya! O sons and daughters, let us sing (O Filii et Filiae) BCP 162
Communion: Love’s redeeming work is done (Savannah) NEH 113
Final: The Day of Resurrection (Ellacombe) EH 137
Setting: Kyrie (Greek), Gloria (English), Sanctus, Agnus Dei (Latin): Missa Lux et Origo
Credo (English): Missa de Angelis
SUNDAY 14 APRIL (EASTER III)
Opening: Alleluya! Alleluya! Hearts to heaven and voices raise (Lux Eoi) NEH 103
Offertory: Lord, enthroned in heavenly splendour (St Osmund) BCP 235
Communion: Good Christian men, rejoice and sing (Vulpius) NEH 107
Final: He is risen, he is risen (All Saints) BCP 157
Setting: Kyrie (Greek), Gloria (English), Sanctus, Agnus Dei (Latin): Missa Lux et Origo
Credo (English): Missa de Angelis
SUNDAY 21 APRIL (GOOD SHEPHERD SUNDAY)
Opening: The Lord’s my shepherd, I’ll not want (Crimond) NEH 459
Offertory: Hail Redeemer, King divine! (King Divine) NEP 614
Communion: Loving Shepherd of thy sheep (Buckland) EH Appendix 67
Final: The King of love my Shepherd is (St Columba) EH 490
Setting: Kyrie (Greek), Gloria (English), Sanctus, Agnus Dei (Latin): Missa Lux et Origo
Credo (English): Missa de Angelis
SUNDAY 28 APRIL (EASTER V)
Opening: Come, ye faithful, raise the strain (Ave Virgo Virginum) EH 131
Offertory: ‘Welcome, happy morning!’ age to age shall say (Hermas) BCP 168
Communion: Now the green blade riseth (Noel Nouvelet) NEH 115
Final: This Joyful Eastertide (This Joyful Eastertide) NEH 121
Setting: Kyrie (Greek), Gloria (English), Sanctus, Agnus Dei (Latin): Missa Lux et Origo
Credo (English): Missa de Angelis
SUNDAY 5 MAY (ROGATION SUNDAY)
Opening: Lord, in thy Name thy servants plead (University) BCP 171
Offertory: Christ the Lord is risen again! (Orientis Partibus) EH 129
Communion: O God of Bethel, by whose hand (Martyrdom) BCP 429
Final: Judge eternal, throned in splendour (Rhuddlan) EH 423
Setting: Kyrie (Greek), Gloria (English), Sanctus, Agnus Dei (Latin): Missa Lux et Origo
Credo (English): Missa de Angelis