Practical Christianity - 26 th Sunday in Ordinary time

The St Vincent de Paul Society (“SVP”) is an international Christian voluntary organization dedicated to tackling poverty and disadvantage by providing direct practical assistance to anyone in need. It has been active in England & Wales since 1844. Today Helen Connolly of our local SVP branch talked to us about the local work of the SVP in helping the needy - apt as our Gospel reading today was that of Lazarus at the table of the rich man. This Christian message is one of hope for the oppressed, poor and needy of our world, that is that we should love our neighbour wherever he or she may be. Not always an easy thing to do the SVP acts as a conduit for our love for our neighbour. We can show this love not only in a practical way by joining the SVP but also by charitable donation and through prayer. You can read more about the SVP here: -

http://www.svp.org.uk/

Musically we were fortunate to have a new guitarist today. Paul will hopefully be joining us for the forseeable future and despite a mishap with his music stand and some wrong chords played correctly by Jimmy, just written wrongly by choirboy, we were able to celebrate in a joyous fashion. Next week sees the return of our organists and hopefully also the start of a music liturgy at the Saturday vigil Mass.

Entry Song of the body of Christ

Gloria Gloria

Alleluia Plymouth alleluia

Credo Credo/I believe

Offertory Take our bread

Holy Holy Newquay mass II

Mem Accl Dying You destroyed our death, rising you restored our life
Come, Lord Jesus come, ome again in glory.
Come Lord Jesus come, come again in glory (rpt)

Great Amen Amen, Amen, Amen
We will sing of Your love forever. We will sing Your praise forever Amen
Amen, Amen, Amen

Sign of Peace Peace be with you, peace be with you always (x3)

Agnus Dei Newquay mass II

Communion Bread of life
Tantum Ergo

Recessional Shine Jesus shine

Who or what is your God ?

Is it money, ambition, revenge ? What drives you ? Can you leave it behind and follow Christ ?
These challenging questions left food for thought as we celebrated the 25 th Sunday of the Year in typical Holy Trinity style with a mixture of the good, the average and the indifferent. At least that's how it appeared to Choirboy as he announced the wrong number for the communion hymn, left out a guitar riff in Lamb of God and bombed through the last number. Fortunately we had lots of splendid feedback and I really think that our joyous celebration of the liturgy at Holy Trinity is becoming infectious. Now we need to spread a bit beyond the confines of the Church door !


Entry Gather us in

Gloria Peruvian Gloria

Alleluia Folk alleluia

Offertory This is my body

Holy Holy Newquay mass II

Mem Accl Lord by Your cross

Great Amen Amen, Amen, Amen
We will sing of Your love forever. We will sing Your praise forever Amen
Amen, Amen, Amen

Sign of Peace Peace be with you, peace be with you always (x3)

Agnus Dei Newquay mass II

Communion Bread of life, Truth eternal

Recession Oh Lord my God

Fish and Sheeps

The truly awful pun of the title alludes to the fact that today's gospel included the parable of the lost sheep and secondly that there was a fish festival in Newquay today and Holy Trinity were there in numbers. Father Mark emphasised God's love for us and despite the enormity of His creation our individual uniqueness makes us special in God's eyes. This theme was extended through the hymn 'Meekness and Majesty' which was Holy Trinity's chosen hymn at the Newquay Songs of Praise (not the tele version but an annual event hosted by Churches Together in Newquay). The enormity of God the creator is hard to imagine as we survey his majesty all around us. Contrast this with the humility of God made Man in the person of Jesus. If we can aspire to emulate his humility, then surely people will see the majesty and wonder of God.
The inside of a beer tent would not be everyone's ideal place to praise and worship God but it proved a wonderful environment for some of the people of Newquay to witness to their faith.

Entry We walk by faith

Gloria Gloria

Alleluia Folk alleluia

Credo

Offertory All that I am

Holy Holy Newquay mass II

Mem Accl Lord by Your cross

Great Amen Amen, Amen, Amen
We will sing of Your love forever. We will sing Your praise forever Amen
Amen, Amen, Amen

Sign of Peace Peace be with you, peace be with you always (x3)

Agnus Dei Newquay mass II

Communion The servant king

Recessional I watch the sunrise

Communications Sunday ?

Today was not as it happens 'Communications Sunday' but perhaps it could have been 'Miscommunication Sunday'. Choirboy was somewhat flumoxed on his arrival at Church this morning to find new hymn books on the benches. We are fortunate that a mystery benefactor has donated sufficient funds to purchase 200 Laudate Hymnals. Of course this is great news but Choirboy had prepared the liturgy using CFE hymnal and its very different hymn numbers. A migraine-inducing frantic 10 minutes of photocopying followed until all was resolved but even Choirboy minor (#4) managed to make an uncharacteristic dyslexic error with the number of the final hymn which was spotted in time by some eagle-eyed choristers. Sadly our old hymn books are now paper pulp rather than being stored for a rainy day/use by another needy Church.
You may be forgiven for thinking that we may have (following last week's McCartney interlude) had a song by the great songsmith Bob Dylan as part of our celebrations. No, I post the picture to illustrate the news that our Mass times are being altered. Fortunately our 1030 celebration is safe for the moment (for full story go to http://www.holytrinitynewquay.co.uk/). So the times they are a changin but the song remains the same (two song titles in there somewhere).

Sunday 9 September 2007 23 rd Sunday in Ordinary time (Year C)

Entry My God accept my heart this day

Gloria Gloria

Alleluia Seek ye first

Offertory Lord accept the gifts we offer

Holy Holy Newquay mass II

Mem Accl Lord by Your cross

Great Amen Amen, Amen, Amen
We will sing of Your love forever. We will sing Your praise forever Amen
Amen, Amen, Amen

Sign of Peace Peace be with you, peace be with you always (x3)

Agnus Dei Newquay mass II

Communion Jesus thou art coming

Recessional Follow me, follow me

Let it be - Jesus is the answer

The musical theme of our celebration for the 22nd Sunday of the year was embodied in music by two of choirboy's favorite musicians. Our opening hymn, Meekness and Majesty by Graham Kendrick recognises the dichotomy of God the Creator and Jesus the man - humble and yet worthy of praise as supreme being. Choirboy has long been a fan of the Beatles and of Paul McCartney whom he sees as the master of melody. Our second piece of music at Communion used McCartney's Let it Be as a template for the message that Jesus is the answer. To what ? Well to absolutely everything - his message has the solution to all of life's questions. How is this so ? This brings us neatly back to the opening hymn which shows that through the humility of Christ we can learn the answers to the questions that life poses for us all. Easier said than done, however, which is why our journey of faith is sometimes long and hard...

Entry Meekness and majesty

Gloria Gloria

Alleluia Plymouth Alleluia

Offertory In bread we bring you, Lord

Holy Holy Gathering mass

Mem Accl Christ has died

Great Amen Amen, Amen, Amen
We will sing of Your love forever. We will sing Your praise forever Amen
Amen, Amen, Amen

Sign of Peace Peace be with you, peace be with you always (x3)

Agnus Dei Newquay mass II

Communion Bless the Lord my soul
Let it be

Recessional Mine eyes have seen the glory

Let it be
When I find myself in times of trouble, Mother Mary comes to me
Speaking words of wisdom, let it be
And in my hour of darkness, She is standing right in front of me
Speaking words of wisdom, let it be

Let it be, let it be, let it be, let it be
Jesus is the answer, let it be

And when the broken hearted people living in the world can see
That there must be an answer, let it be
But though they may be parted, there is still a chance that they will see
Jesus is the answer, let it be

Let it be, let it be, let it be, let it be
Jesus is the answer, let it be
Let it be, let it be, let it be, let it be
Jesus is the answer, let it be
Let it be, let it be, let it be, let it be
Jesus is the answer, let it be

And when the night is cloudy, there is still alight that shines on me
Shine on ‘till tomorrow, let it be
I wake up in this world of sorrow, Mother Mary comes to me
Speaking words of wisdom, let it be

Let it be, let it be, let it be, let it be
Jesus is the answer, let it be
Let it be, let it be, let it be, let it be
Jesus is the answer, let it be
Jesus is the answer, Jesus is the answer, Jesus is the answer - Let it be