National Youth Sunday - Welcome Richard

On the feast of Christ the King, we welcomed back Father Stephen from his trip to the Holy Land with the news that we were having a "youth mass" and a Christening. Some of our post-communion group enacted the gospel and read the scriptures before Father Stephen didn't give his homily - he had decided that he would not preach a homily, so instead he gave a sermon ! At this point in our celebrations we were privileged to welcome Richard Kelly into the Church during the sacrament of baptism.

Despite not having Maz's clarinet to augment the music, Jess' flute has now been mended. So with Caitlin and Jess, in the woodwind department, added to the guitars of Jimmy, Marrianne and Choirboy, with Mary playing the organ we were able to give great support to our voices in celebration of this terrific event on the most apt of feast-days.

Fortunately Mrs Choirboy was present to stop any fisticuffs in the pews between the younger choirboys. However, so as not to disappoint their parents, they decided that a bit of pre-mass argy bargy would be in order ! Sometimes you can't win as a parent.

Entry: - Hail Redeemer King divine

Gloria: - Gloria (the clappy one !)

Alleluia: - Plymouth Alleluia

Creed: - Credo/I believe

Offertory: - Take our bread, we ask You

Holy Holy: - Gathering mass

Mem Acclamation: - Lord by Your cross

Amen: - Amen. We raise our hearts

Lamb of God:- Newquay mass

Communion: - The servant King

Recession: - Mine eyes have seen the glory

End of time ?

Never mind end of time (see below for a more enlightened discussion about eschatology), choirboy was at the end of his tether as world war three broke out between choirboy's youngest two children in one of the pews. Unfortunately as Mrs Choirboy was away (again!) it fell to a visiting parishioner to break up the pugilists. Father Stephen was hopefully having a quieter time in the Holy Land and so with Father Brian Stephens (who is very gentle) there was an irony in the fact that for this week the fire and brimstone was not on the alter but in the congregation ! In between feet and fisticuffs we managed to get through our planned music in one piece before choirboy was putting himself through the mill once more with the chatechism class.


Entry: - All creatures of our God and King

Gloria: - Gloria !

Alleluia: - Plymouth Alleluia

Offertory: - All that I am

Holy Holy: - Gathering mass

Mem Acclamation: - Dying you destroyed our death

Amen: - We lift our hearts

Lamb of God: - Newquay mass

Communion: - Father in my life I see/Be still for the presence of the Lord

Recessional: - Colours of day

From the four winds

This weekend's gospel is from Mark 13 and is known as the eschatological discourse when Jesus foretells what will happen when the world ends. The term eschatological comes from eschaton meaning end of time coming from the Greek word for last or end times. Choirboy has penned a musical piece based on this discourse called "When the wind blows". The lyrics are printed below and choirboy has an audio file for anyone interested in hearing the music. The music is now available at: -

http://www.myspace.com/cornwallchoirboy

When the wind blows, you’ll see me again
When the wind blows, you’ll see me again
And when the wind blows, you’ll see the Son
You’ll see the Son, you’ll see the Son of Man
You’ll see the Son, you’ll see the Son, you’ll see the Son of Man

Master do you think that everything will turn out fine
Look at all we’ve built, so majestic, so divine
All you can see, it doesn’t matter to me
For many will come and tell you I am the one, but

When the wind blows, you’ll see me again
When the wind blows, you’ll see me again
And when the wind blows, you’ll see the Son
You’ll see the Son, you’ll see the Son of Man
You’ll see the Son, you’ll see the Son, you’ll see the Son of Man

Watch for yourselves, you’ll be beaten and jailed
Just preach my word, the Spirit is with you every day
Be watchful I say, you not the time nor the day
For many will come and tell you I am the one, but

When the wind blows, you’ll see me again
When the wind blows, you’ll see me again
And when the wind blows, you’ll see the Son
You’ll see the Son, you’ll see the Son of Man
You’ll see the Son, you’ll see the Son, you’ll see the Son of Man

In the days to come, the sun will darken in the sky
And then you’ll see the Son of Man lifted high
From the four winds, he’ll gather the chosen to Him
Be watchful and pray, we know not the time nor the day, and

When the wind blows, we’ll see him again
When the wind blows, we’ll see him again
And when the wind blows, we’ll see the Son
We’ll see the Son, we’ll see the Son of Man
We’ll see the Son, we’ll see the Son, we’ll see the Son of Man


©petermerrin, carnebo hill and CCLI

Remembrance Sunday

Fittingly the music on this Remembrance Sunday began with silence whilst the servers and Celebrants processed to the alter. Father Stephen then sang the Introit :-
Requiem æternam dona eis, Domine, et lux perpetua luceat eis. Te decet hymnus Deus, in Sion, et tibi reddetur votum in Jerusalem. Exaudi orationem meam; ad te omnis caro veniet. Requiem aeternam dona eis, Domine, et lux perpetua luceat eis.
(“Eternal rest grant unto them, O Lord, and let perpetual light shine upon them. A hymn becometh thee, O God, in Zion, and unto thee a vow shall be repaid in Jerusalem. Hear my prayer; unto thee all flesh shall come. Eternal rest grant unto them, O Lord, and let perpetual light shine upon them.”)
Because of the solemnity of the occasion, most of the music today was traditional and organ based but the Taize chants were performed with clarinet, whistle, recorder and guitar.

Gloria: - Gloria !

Alleluia: -Plymouth Alleluia

Offertory: - I vow to thee my country

Holy Holy Gathering mass

Mem Acclamation: - Dying you destroyed our death

Amen: - We lifet our hearts

Lamb of God: - Newquay mass

Communion: - Eat this bread followed by Bless the Lord my soul

Recessional: - Abide with me

Wedding Bells

Saturday November 11 we celebrated the wedding of James Breslin and Catherine Howard. In a first for Holy Trinity, the bride was piped into the church by tudor musicians playing a drum, mini trombone (at least the is the best way I can describe it) and a set of bagpipes that would have been common in Elizabethan times. It was an unusual and memorable start to the day. I will try and post a link to the responsible musicians, in the meantime here is some more information on tudor wind instruments: -

http://www.trouvere.co.uk/Wind%20instruments.htm

Difficult as it was to follow this, a goodly number of choristers together with Jimmy, Maz and Choirboy continued with the following music: -

Entry: - Song of the body of Christ

Alleluia: - Plymouth Alleluia

Offertory: - All that I am

Holy Holy: - Newquay mass

Mem Acclamation: - Lord by Your cross

Amen: - We lift our hearts

Lamb of God: - Newquay mass

Communion: - I watch the sunrise

We were slightly worried about the communion hymn and its metre but thanks to Maz we were able to complete it satisfactorily. Post communion and whilst the register was being signed, Choirboy played DJ with some Taize music before Mr and Mrs Breslin were piped out of the church to be whisked away to Trerice Manor in a green Landrover called "Blot".

Choirboy is grateful to the choir and musicians for their contributions and passes on the congratulations and thanks of a number of wedding guests and Mr and Mrs Breslin.

Remember, remember 5th November

Our music liturgy for 5 November was memorable for choirboy in that he played the guitar and his whistles (tin and low D) during mass whilst managing the children (Mrs Choirboy was away at a nearby Charismatic weekend) and doing the first reading, phew !
Added to that he had to cope with taking the post communion chatecism class after mass. Fortunately, help was at hand in the form of Tony, Charmaine and Jill who lent moral and, in Tony's case, vocal support. Must have been the first time that three golfers have taken a catechism class! Mary, our organist had recovered sufficiently from her virus to lead the musical accompaniment for the opening hymn whilst Maz (clarinet) just about managed to join in from verse 2 onwards (strangely she can't blame Louise this week - makes a change I guess). Jimmy found his trip to the Mermaid the night before did not enhance his performance but his son Jamie decided to do his vocal best to support dad.

Entry: Dear Lord and father of mankind

Gloria: Gloria

Alleluia: Plymouth Alleluia

Offertory: In bread we bring You Lord

Holy Holy: Gathering mass

Mem Acclamation: Lord by Your cross

Amen: We lift our hearts

Lamb of God: Newquay mass

Communion: Amazing grace

Recessional: Our God reigns

Sancta Trinitas

"Sancta Trinitas" was written by choirboy after he noticed some writing on the altarcloth whilst he should have been concentrating on matters more sacred. Fortunately, being well prepared he jotted down the latin phrase Sancta Trinitas, Unus Deus, Miserere Nobis and when he got home he penned "Sancta Trinitas". He hopes that it will become the parish song as it has been sung both in honour of Bishop Christopher's recent visit and on the feast of the Holy Trinity (our parish feast day). It is what he calls one of his crossover musical pieces, in that the words should appeal to older as well as younger listeners - and here they are : -

Sancta Trinitas
Unus Deus
Miserere nobis
Sancta Trinitas
Unus Deus
Miserere nobis

One God
Three Persons
One life in You, Lord
All glory and all power
Are Yours forever and ever

Sancta Trinitas
Unus Deus
Miserere nobis
Sancta Trinitas
Unus Deus
Miserere nobis

Father, Son
And Holy Spirit
Our divine mystery
All glory and all power
Are Yours forever and ever

Sancta Trinitas
Unus Deus
Miserere nobis
Sancta Trinitas
Unus Deus
Miserere nobis

Risen Lord
Our redeemer
All our hope is in You
All glory and all power
Are Yours forever and ever

©petermerrin 2006,goonhavern and CCLI.

Bishop's Visit

On the weekend 27-29 th October, Bishop Christopher Budd visited Holy Trinity as part of his pastoral duties. The weekend finished with the 1030 Sunday mass. The bishop observed the joy that filled our liturgy and spoke of how music was a window into the health of every parish (I think that this was a compliment).



Entry: Praise my soul the King of heaven

Gloria: Gloria !

Alleluia: Plymouth Alleluia

Crede: Credo/I believe

Offertory: This is my body

Holy Holy: Newquay Mass

Mem Acclamation: Lord by Your cross and resurection

Amen: Amen, we lift our hearts

Lamb of God: Newquay mass

Communion: Freely, freely

Hail Holy Queen

Sancta Trinitas

Recessional: I am a new creation

Welcome

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