Surrenderment

Wierd word but this is the title of a beautiful song written by our own Louise and sung in her own inimitable way as part of our celebration of the 3rd Sunday in Lent. Of course the theme of this song was about surrendering to the will of Our Lord and giving ourselves to Him. Such were the power of Louise's words that at least one member of the congregation was reduced to tears. Accompanying Louise on guitars were choirboy and Paul with Jimmy on the djembi drum. There was a resonance with our gospel reading and Brian's sermon - again the theme being the giving of ourselves to Christ. The map shows Samaria as one of the main characters in today's reading was a Samaritan woman. How sad it is that the names on the map are more familiar to most of us as places associated with conflict rather than the sort of message that Christ gave 2000 years ago in the simple act of talking to a Samaritan woman.

Half way through Lent and we have introduced another 'Newquay' mass setting. Fingers crossed for our new Amen next week. Let's hope choirboy remembers to sing it all !

Entry The Church’s one foundation

Kyrie

Alleluia Praise to You, O Christ, our Saviour (V3)

Creed Credo/I believe

Offertory In bread we bring You

Holy Holy Newquay Mass (iii)

Mem Accl Lord by Your cross

Amen Amen - We will sing

Lamb of God Newquay mass (iii)

Lamb of God, Lamb of God
You take away the sin of the world (repeat)
Have mercy on us, have mercy on us
Have mercy on us and grant us Your peace

Communion Bless the Lord my soul

Louise’s song - Surrenderment

Recessional Oh Lord, all the world

Mission

It was great privilege this Sunday to welcome Father Joseph Udoh from the Missionary Society of St Paul who was making an appeal on behalf of the Kiltegan Fathers and their mission in Africa. He might well have said 'Smile Jesus loves you' for it was in using an anecdote from Fr Anthony Barrett that Father Joseph told us that smiling is a universal language. Consequently with a radiant beam he led us through a joyful liturgy on this second Sunday in Lent. The choir and the congregation sang enthusiastically, our new music went well and choirboy went home happy. However, it could have gone completely pear shaped as Father Joseph and Deacon Brian decided to start mass a full 3 minutes eaerly as choirboy was rehearsing the congregation through our new mass setting. We swiftly launched into the opening hymn, albeit with a handful of wrong notes but a deft recovery by Mary saw us safely through to the finish. With the promise of a new song next week by Louise and the hopeful arrival of Helen's bass, the immediate future is looking bright !

Entry All our welcome

Kyrie

Alleluia Praise to You, O Christ, our Saviour (V2)

Offertory Take our bread

Holy Holy Newquay Mass (iii)

Mem Accl Christ has died

Amen Amen - We will sing

Lamb of God Newquay mass (iii)

Lamb of God, Lamb of God
You take away the sin of the world (repeat)
Have mercy on us, have mercy on us
Have mercy on us and grant us Your peace

Communion Immortal, invisible

Lord I am not Worthy

Recessional Shine Jesus shine

Lent - the journey begins...........

We began our Lenten journey on Ash Wednesday and if today was anything to go by, it will be an arduous journey for Choirboy. With Jimmy and Choirboy doing their best to encourage a subdued choir and the congregation deciding en masse not to participate, we kicked off our musical liturgy with Marty Haugen's 'All are welcome'. Choirboy really likes this hymn - its music and its sentiment but I think we needed Marty's help for it did sound a bit limp. Still, with the Kyrie to follow it could only get better - one missed F#m later, Choirboy wasn't too sure. It was left to Father Mark to talk to us about the three strands of Lent - fasting, prayer and almsgiving and to relate a short tale about temptation. Ironically it was just after this tale that Choirboy was sorely tempted to have a rant at a couple talking rather loudly - something that seems increasingly prevalent. Never mind noisy children, it's noisy adults who get me going. Phew......

With a new mass setting for Lent, there were always going to be some issues and Choirboy pulled his new Sanctus before mass as he has re-written it (again). Still we managed to sing the new Angus Dei and we didn't murder 'On Eagle's wings' so it all ended on a high, depsite the fact that the final blessing was like the starting pistol of an olympic race as the Church emptied in the blink of an eye before we had even got to verse 3 of our concluding hymn. Still, there's always next week - how long is Lent again ?

Entry All our welcome

Kyrie

Alleluia Praise to You, O Christ, our Saviour (V1)

Offertory O Bread of Heaven

Holy Holy Gathering Mass

Mem Accl Christ has died

Amen Amen - We will sing

Lamb of God Newquay mass (iii)

Lamb of God, Lamb of God
You take away the sin of the world (repeat)
Have mercy on us, have mercy on us
Have mercy on us and grant us Your peace

Communion There is a longing

Recessional On Eagle’s wings (V1-3)

Blaise of glory ?

Today was the feast of St Blaise. Here he is on the left. Blaise is confronting the Roman governor: scene from a stained glass window from the area of Soissons (Picardy, France), early 13th century.

Following mass we had our throats blessed in a rather old and peculiar ceremony which allowed choirboy to offer up a few additional songs whilst the rather slow process unfolded. Knocking on Heaven's Door (plagiarised by Choirby), I can feel You moving in me and Lord I know that You love me were knocked out with gusto by Paul, Jimmy and Choirboy.

Being the last Sunday in Ordinary time before Lent, we were reminded by Bishop Christopher in his pastoral letter that Easter is 'the feast of feasts, the solemnity of solemnities'. So as we prepare to prepare to be the Lord's 'Easter People', we need to revisit the meaning of Easter and review how we live. Not easy !

Entry This is the day

Gloria Gloria

Alleluia Plymouth Alleluia

Creed Credo/I believe

Offertory Take our bread

Holy Holy Newquay Mass (ii)

Mem Accl Christ has died

Amen Amen - We will sing

Lamb of God Newquay mass (ii)

Communion There is a longing

Recessional All the world belongs to You