Follow me

There was a lot on the religous agenda today, as it is Holocaust Memorial Day, Homelessness Sunday. Indeed last Friday was the end of the week of prayer for Christian unity - a movement which Father Mark reminded us started 100 years ago. It was on this theme that he chose his sermon with the challenge to each of us. 'What did you do last week for Christian unity ?'

Musically we tackled songs both old and new, in English and Latin and even had a Peruvian Gloria accompanied by a djembi drum. Our entrance hymn in fact originates from Hawaii. Diversity reigns in Newquay.

Entry We come to share our story

Gloria Peruvian Gloria

Alleluia Plymouth Alleluia


Offertory Lord accept the gifts we offer

Holy Holy Newquay mass (ii)

Mem Accl Lord by Your cross and resurrection

Amen Amen, we lift our hearts

Lamb of God Newquay mass (ii)

Communion Sweet sacrament divine

Tantum ergo

Recessional Follow me, follow me

Ding ding round 2 !

Regular readers of this blog may well remember round 1 of the contest that evolved before mass this weekend. The setting, not quite Maddison Square Garden but pew 3 behind Choirboy's normal seat. In the red corner, our very own Ginja Ninja (choirboy minimus) and in the blue corner the Penbrea Pugulist (choirboy minor). With no Mrs Choirboy to intercede in the normal fraternal Sunday tensions the pugnacious pair let loose a number of body shots that Ricky 'the hitman' Hatton would have been proud of. Not withstanding Choirboy's tension over the music (see blogs passim), blood pressure was in danger of a new record high as it proved difficult to referee this particular contest. With the numbers of punches rising and the beginning of mass approaching, various attempts were made by well meaning onlookers to intercede. However, the terrible twosome were not to be denied their opportunity to heap embarassment onto Choirboy and it was only after he had thrown in his own towel and declared the match a draw that hostilities were halted. With the brooding pair sitting at either end of the pew, it was a brave soul who would have attempted to sit between them.


Meanwhile (#1) - in a far flung corner of the universe (OK - Torquay), Mrs Chorboy was strutting her catechecetical stuff and presenting a major new resource for catechecists - funnily enough to other catechists. This booklet provides resourcses for those catechists and teacher involved in the preparation for First Holy Communion. Choirboy is certain that it requires some wider publicity, so here it is. He does, however, request something of the organisers for next year's conference - please make it on a day other than a Sunday !

Meanwhile (#2) - Deacon Brian taught us the meaning of the phrase 'Ordinary time' and how it was not at all ordinary (and the fact that Choirboy can remember even this small snippet is an achievement for you Brian).

Meanwhile (#3) - Music. With Jimmy out of action (flu and injured shoulder) and Maz supposedly away (but strangely at the back of Church), the surrealness of Choirboy's Sunday was almost complete. We enjoyed a joyous musical celebration of our liturgy ! Phew.....


Entry All people that on earth do dwell

Gloria Gloria !

Alleluia Plymouth Alleluia

Offertory Gifts of bread and wine

Holy Holy Newquay mass (ii)

Mem Accl Lord by Your cross and resurrection

Amen Amen, we lift our hearts

Lamb of God Newquay mass (ii)

Communion Song of a young prophet

Recessional Here I am Lord

Baptism and Limbo - what's the connection ?

Well, on the this Sunday when we remember the Baptism of Our Lord, Father Mark asked us to consider where we had got to with regard to a number of misconceptions surrounding our Catholic faith. OK - time for a little theology: -

Limbo was concocted in the 13th century as a solution to the theological conundrum of what happened to babies who died before they were christened. According to doctrine, they could not go to heaven because their original sin had not been expunged by baptism. Yet they had not harmed anyone, so they scarcely deserved purgatory, let alone hell.
Limbo also proved a useful solution to other problems, such as where to put holy people who lived before Christ and who had no chance of baptism.
Pope John Paul II was deeply troubled by limbo and had it dropped from the church's 1992 catechism. He asked the International Theological Commission, which advises the Vatican, to take up the issue.
When he was still a cardinal, Pope Benedict XVI said he was in favour of dropping the concept and on April 22 2007, the advisory body known as the Commission released a document entitled "The Hope of Salvation for Infants Who Die without Being Baptized."
The document stated its conclusion as follows:
'Our conclusion is that the many factors that we have considered above give serious theological and liturgical grounds for hope that unbaptized infants who die will be saved and enjoy the beatific vision. We emphasize that these are reasons for prayerful hope, rather than grounds for sure knowledge. There is much that simply has not been revealed to us. We live by faith and hope in the God of mercy and love who has been revealed to us in Christ, and the Spirit moves us to pray in constant thankfulness and joy.
What has been revealed to us is that the ordinary way of salvation is by the sacrament of baptism. None of the above considerations should be taken as qualifying the necessity of baptism or justifying delay in administering the sacrament. Rather, as we want to reaffirm in conclusion, they provide strong grounds for hope that God will save infants when we have not been able to do for them what we would have wished to do, namely, to baptize them into the faith and life of the Church. '

Still with me ?

Well that was what Father Mark basically said.....

Musically, we were one organ and one guitar. Where are you guys ? However, we enjoyed a very joyous liturgy culminating in a rousing rendition of 'Give me joy'

Entry: - Meekness and majesty

Gloria: - Gloria !

Alleluia: - Plymouth Alleluia
Alleluia, alleluia, alleluia, alleluia
Alleluia, alleluia, alleluia, alleluia
Open your ears, open your eyes, open your hearts, to hear God’s word.
Alleluia, alleluia, alleluia, alleluia

Offertory: - Blessed be God

Holy Holy: - Newquay mass (ii)

Mem Accl: - Lord by Your cross and resurrection

Amen: - Amen, we lift our hearts

Lamb of God: - Newquay mass (ii)

Communion: - Be still for the presence/Father we adore You

Recessional: - Give me joy in my heart

Happy Christmas

A very happy and peaceful Christmas to all readers of this blog detailing the music liturgy of Holy Trinity Catholic Church, Newquay, Cornwall, England.

As last year our music liturgy was split into a more tradional organ and carol service on Christmas Eve and a guitar led family mass on Christmas Day. The message, however, was the same - Rejoice, Jesus Christ is born !

Entry: - Ding dong merrily on high

Gloria: - Gloria (Anderson)

Alleluia, alleluia. Alleluia, alleluia. Today our Saviour is born. Today we welcome our King. Alleluia, alleluia. Alleluia, alleluia

Offertory: - This is my body

Holy Holy (Gathering Mass)

Lord by Your cross and resurrection, You’ve set us free, You’ve set us free. You are the saviour of the world. You are the saviour of the world (repeat)
Saviour, Saviour Saviour, Saviour
You set us free, You set us free. You are the saviour of the world. You are the saviour of the world

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

Lamb of God (Burntwood Mass)

Communion: - The Servant King

Hallelujah, Jesus Christ is born

V1 Today in David’s house is born
A saviour who is Christ the Lord
Born of a virgin, holy and pure
God incarnate to save us all

V2 In a manger the baby lies
Born that man no more may die
Born to save the sons of earth
Born to give them second birth

V3 Choirs of angels sing for joy
Shepherds find the newborn boy
In a stable, lowly and meek
They gather around the Prince of Peace

V4 So rejoice this heavenly morn
Jesus, Lord, our saviour is born
Peace, goodwill to all men on earth
Today we celebrate our saviour’s birth

Chorus
So with our voices we shout and sing
We sing the praise of our newborn king
Hallelujah, Hallelujah, Hallelujah
Jesus Christ is born

Recessional: - Mary’s boy child

Alleluia, Lord by Your Cross, Amen we will sing, Hallelujah, Jesus Christ is born © petermerrin, carnebo hill and CCLI

4th Sunday in Advent

Despite a broken d string during the kyrie, a series of duff chords in our memorial acclamation and an advent candle that wouldn't light, we embarked on the and of our journey through advent with a joyous celebration. The theme was that of Mary and we listened to Graham Kendrick's 'Thorns in the straw' at communion. The beautiful words of this hymn remind us of the mystery, humility and faith that surrounded her life as the mother of Christ. And so to Christmas and the celebration of the birth of Jesus Christ -see you there !

Entry O come, O come Emmanuel

The truth we seek

Kyrie Newqua

Alleluia Alleluia, Alleluia, Alleluia, Alleluia
Prepare a way for the Lord
Prepare a way for our King

Credo/I believe

Offertory Gifts of bread and wine

Holy Holy Gathering Mass

Mem Accl When we eat this bread and drink this cup we proclaim Your death, Jesus my Lord. Until You come in glory, we proclaim Your death, Jesus my Lord. Jesus my Lord, Jesus my Lord, Jesus my Lord, Jesus my Lord.

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

Lamb of God Burntwood Mass
Communion Wait for the Lord

Thorns in the straw

Concluding Rite Priest: The Lord be with you
All: And also with you
Priest: May almighty God bless you, Father, Son and Spirit. Forever and ever
All: Forever and ever, Amen.
Amen, Amen, Amen.
We go in peace to love and serve You
We go in peace to love and serve You Lord
Amen, Amen, Amen.

Recessional O come, all ye faithful (V1-3)

Prepare the way for the Lord. Have you ?

Although these are the words of Benjamin Franklin, Father Mark reminded us that although Advent is a time of preparation we should have been preparing for a much longer period for the coming of Our Lord. In essence, the message of 'are you ready' is one that pervades the entirety of our Advent preparation. Whatever our state of unreadiness there is always the prospect of redemption in the sacrament of reconciliation.

'If only Catholics were as interested as non-Catholics in confession'. We were reminded by Father Mark of the historical basis for this most Catholic of traditions and the opportunities that it offers us in terms of grace, forgiveness and remediation. The Sacrament of reconciliation affords us the chance to prepare more fully for Christ's birth - can we afford not to take it ?

Entry O Jesus Christ remember

The truth we seek

Kyrie Newquay

Alleluia Alleluia, Alleluia, Alleluia, Alleluia
Prepare a way for the Lord
Prepare a way for our King

Offertory Bread of life

Holy Holy Gathering Mass

Mem Accl When we eat this bread and drink this cup we proclaim Your death, Jesus my Lord. Until You come in glory, we proclaim Your death, Jesus my Lord. Jesus my Lord, Jesus my Lord, Jesus my Lord, Jesus my Lord.

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

Lamb of God Burntwood Mass
Communion God beyond all names

Let it be, Jesus is the answer

Concluding Rite Priest: The Lord be with you
All: And also with you
Priest: May almighty God bless you, Father, Son and Spirit. Forever and ever
All: Forever and ever, Amen.
Amen, Amen, Amen.
We go in peace to love and serve You
We go in peace to love and serve You Lord
Amen, Amen, Amen.

Recessional Here I am, Lord

Life of Brian ?

Or should it be life according to Brian. Our deacon, Brian was on hand to deliver the message for the 2 nd Sunday of advent: - Prepare and readiness were his themes while he elegantly painted a picture of what the preparation of Jesus' birth must have been like for Mary and Joseph. We are fortunate to have a deacon in our parish and last weekend Brian celebrated two years of his ordination to the deaconate. Please remember him and all called to serve in your prayers this Christmas. Muscially, choirboy felt rather alone as first Maz and then Jimmy failed to appear. Fortunately Paul was on hand to provide the other half of a scouse duo (although Paul would probably describe Choirboy as a 'woolyback' coming as he does from the Wirral). Father Mark is warming slowly to the 'Concluding Rite'. By Christmas day it will be spot on !

Entry Gather us in

The truth we seek

Kyrie Newquay

Alleluia Alleluia, Alleluia, Alleluia, Alleluia
Prepare a way for the Lord
Prepare a way for our King

Credo/I believe

Offertory In bread we bring You

Holy Holy Gathering Mass

Mem Accl When we eat this bread and drink this cup we proclaim Your death, Jesus my Lord. Until You come in glory, we proclaim Your death, Jesus my Lord. Jesus my Lord, Jesus my Lord, Jesus my Lord, Jesus my Lord.

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

Lamb of God Burntwood Mass
Communion Wait for the Lord

Living Lord

Concluding Rite Priest: The Lord be with you
All: And also with you
Priest: May almighty God bless you, Father, Son and Spirit.

Forever and ever
All: Forever and ever, Amen.
Amen, Amen, Amen.
We go in peace to love and serve You
We go in peace to love and serve You Lord
Amen, Amen, Amen.

Recessional On Jordan’s bank, the Baptist’s cry

1st Sunday of Advent - Prepare !

If today was your last day on earth would you be proud of what you had achieved ? Would you be ready to meet your maker ? This was the challenge posed by Father Mark on this our first sunday in advent. It was also a musical challenge in that we used plenty of new material. In a change from last year, rather than light the advent candle (which is fortunately or unfortunately not in Laudate) we sang 'In truth we seek' (http://www.myspace.com/holytrinitychoirboy), a choirboy composition that we used for our lenten journey ('This promise is for you'). Finally in a liturgical first, Father Mark sang the Concluding Rite written by choirboy. Although slightly aprehensive and with the beginnings of a cold, he managed to sing almost perfectly - we look forward to hearing this again during our season of advent.

Entry The truth we seek

In hope and love, the truth we seek. The truth we find in You (repeat)
In Jesus we shall find, the message of eternal life.
In hope and love, the truth we seek. The truth we find in You (repeat)
Part i) Jesus..
Part ii) In hope and love, the truth we seek. The truth we find in You (repeat)
Repeat from beginning until final part below
In hope and love, the truth we seek. The truth we find in You (repeat).
Jesus

Kyrie Newquay

Alleluia Alleluia, Alleluia, Alleluia, Alleluia
Prepare a way for the Lord
Prepare a way for our King


Offertory Sweet sacrament divine

Holy Holy Gathering Mass

Mem Accl When we eat this bread and drink this cup we proclaim Your death, Jesus my Lord. Until You come in glory, we proclaim Your death, Jesus my Lord. Jesus my Lord, Jesus my Lord, Jesus my Lord, Jesus my Lord.

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

Lamb of God Burntwood Mass

Communion God to enfold you

Eat this bread

Recessional Like a sea without a shore

Concluding Rite

Priest: The Lord be with you
All: And also with you
Priest: May almighty God bless you, Father, Son and Spirit. Forever and ever
All: Forever and ever, Amen.

Amen, Amen, Amen.
We go in peace to love and serve You
We go in peace to love and serve You Lord
Amen, Amen, Amen

Faithfulness - is there any left ?

With plenty of examples where society is lacking in faithfulness (at home, work, society, relationships), Father Mark used the historical perspective of the inception of the feast of Christ the King to ask us to look at areas of our lives where our fidelity may be challenged. Indeed even before mass had begun, Choirboy's faithfulness to the Christian message was challenged by what he felt was an attack on his musical integrity. Wounded but unbowed, he ploughed on resolutely through the musical programme but did commit some howling chord errors during at least two muscial pieces - sorry folks. Musically we had a first for Holy Trinity, a piece of music by Delirious, a Christian Rock group. Choirboy modified some of the lyrics of 'What a friend I've found' and although his strat was slightly out of tune, Mrs Choirboy assures him that everyone joined in !

Entry Hail Redeemer King divine

Gloria

Alleluia Plymouth Alleluia

Creed Credo/I believe

Offertory Take our bread, we ask You

Holy Holy Newquay Mass I

Mem Accl Dying You destroyed our death

Amen

Lamb of God Newquay Mass I

Communion The servant King

What a friend I’ve found

Recessional Mine eyes have seen the glory

The end of time - Are you ready ?

In a sermon that took in Bob Dylan (in response to Brian's Peggy Lee), pub quizes and in theological terms, eschatology, Father Mark challenged us in the run up to advent to ask ourselves some difficult questions. With December approaching rapidly, choirboy has had to give some thought to advent liturgical matters but we still managed a joyous mix of the old and the new even in the absence of Paul (on a trip to Merseyside).

Entry All creatures of our God and King

Gloria

Alleluia Plymouth Alleluia


Offertory All that I am

Holy Holy Newquay Mass I

Mem Accl Dying you destroyed our death

Amen Forever Amen

Lamb of God Newquay Mass I

Communion Father in my life I see

Bless the Lord my soul

Recessional Immortal invisible

Remember, belief, Peggy Lee

Remembrance Sunday. Do you believe in God ? Is that all there is ?

It would seem to be quite difficult to bring these strands together, but Deacon Brian managed it whilst challenging us about our faith. Peggy Lee sang a song in the late 50s entitled 'Is that all there is?' and Brian used this song title to challenge whether or not we truly believed in God, Heaven and the resurrection of the body. Challenging thoughts. I wonder did he know that Peggy Lee had also sung another song 10 years earlier than 'Is that all there is?'. It was called 'Hallelujah, I love him so'. Perhaps this second song title provides the answer to the question that the first one poses.

Our music liturgy reflected the mood of the day and introduced our congregation to two Bernadette Farrell compositions in addtion to some old favorites including a stirring rendition of 'Abide with me'.

'Abide With Me' composed by Henry Francis Lyte in 1847, though the lyrics are usually sung to William Henry Monk's melody, Eventide and this was the tune we used today. Lyte wrote the words to his poem while he lay dying from tuberculosis and lived only three weeks after its completion.

A number of parishioners will have noticed an odd facial growth on Choirboy's face - this is in aid of the Angela Harrison Trust, a charity set up to increase awareness of post natal depression.

Entry Meekness and majesty

Gloria

Alleluia Plymouth Alleluia

Offertory We come to Your table

Holy Holy Newquay mass I

Mem Accl Dying you destroyed our death

Amen Forever Amen

Lamb of God Newquay mass I

Communion God beyond all names

Jesus Lamb of God (V1-4)

Recessional Abide with me

Respect for God's House

Father Mark's theme for today was that of respect - respect for God's House and the fact that we believe that Jesus Christ, body blood, soul and divinity is present in the form of the eucharist in our Church tabernacle. 'We come to Your table' a Choirboy composition echoes this sentiment (http://www.myspace.com/holytrinitychoirboy).

We must at all times be mindful of this truth and conduct ourselves accordingly - not as easy as it sounds sometimes, especially when the junior choirboys are playing up.

Our liturgy today was all the more joyful as we welcomed Maz back safe and sound from Afghanistan. It was great to hear her clarinet ! For the first time in a long while we had electric guitar (Paul) and synthesiser (Caitlin) for the atmospheric 'More love, more power' post communion. Our Gloria had less volume than normal owing to the fact that Choirboy posted the wrong hymn numbers - I guess that sometimes he just has too much on his mind.

Entry Dear Lord and father of mankind

Gloria

Alleluia Plymouth Alleluia

Creed Credo/I believe

Offertory In bread we bring You Lord

Holy Holy Newquay mass I

Mem Accl Christ has died

Amen Forever Amen

Lamb of God Newquay mass I

Communion Amazing grace

More Love, more power

Recessional Freely, freely

Pharisee or tax collector

Are you a pharisee or a tax collector or perhaps as Deacon Brian observed, a bit of both. The theme of today's sermon reflected the gospel reading and was that of humility - something that Choirboy finds a struggle at times. We should aim to be humble in all that we do so that we may serve God more faithfully. Perhaps we can find this humility in the person of Jesus - an ideal reflected in our post communion hymn, 'The truth we seek'. If we seek the Truth through the person of Jesus Christ, we will find the message for eternal life. A high ideal, but one we can achieve if we reflect the humility of Christ in our daily lives.

Entry Hail Queen of Heaven

Kyrie Kyrie

Gloria Gloria

Alleluia Plymouth alleluia

Offertory Blest are you Lord

Holy Holy Newquay mass I

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

Agnus Dei Newquay mass I

Communion This is my body

In hope and love the truth we seek

Recessional I’ll sing a hymn to Mary

The truth we seek
In hope and love
The truth we seek
The truth we find in You (repeat)

In Jesus we shall find
The message of eternal life
In hope and love
The truth we seek
The truth we find in You (repeat)

Part i) Jesus…..
Part ii) In hope and love
The truth we seek
The truth we find in You
The truth we find You (repeat)

In Jesus we shall find
The message of eternal life
In hope and love
The truth we seek
The truth we find in You (repeat)

Part i) Jesus…..
Part ii) In hope and love
The truth we seek
The truth we find in You
The truth we find You (repeat)

Hope, love, truth we seek
The truth we find in You (repeat)
Jesus

What's your mission ?

According to Father Mark, mission begins at home and not in the far flung places that we sometimes associate with missionaries. His sermon would have had a resonance with his predecessor, Father Stephen who would frequently wax lyrically and not so lyrically about Newquay. So it is to home shores that we must turn and regular readers of this blog will know that Choirboy feels that there is plenty of people close to home that need our missionary zeal.
Our music liturgy today was notable for what was included (a solo from Gil full of passion and a post communion composition by Louise that was very prayerful) and what was missing, Jimmy and his guitar and Danny's top E string !

Entry O purest of creatures

Gloria Gloria

Alleluia Plymouth alleluia

Credo Credo/I believe

Offertory Lord we come to Your table
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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 Be still for the presence of the Lord

Ave Maria Louise (solo)

Recessional Holy Virgin by God’s decree

Half full or half empty ?

In case you're wondering whether the theme of today's liturgy was about being an optomist or a pessamist it wasn't. It wasn't about drink in any form either. No the underlying question Father Mark posed to us was 'Are you one of the nine or like the Samaritan who went back'. This searching question (precipitated by the parable of the 1o lepers) was to remind us that me must give thanks to God whenever we can and that prayerful conversation should continue through the good times and the bad - we should thank God for our glass being half full rather than complaining that it is half empty. Easier to say than to do, but with a bit of practice it can become easier....

Today's music liturgy continued our October Marian theme and we welcomed another new guitarist - Danny (not Louise's Danny but an older model belonging to Julie and Robert). Despite the fact that he had no guitar and thought he had lost his music, he agreed to play on borrowed instrument and took a full part in the liturgy. We look forward to hearing his trumpet !

It was great to welcome Ann back to the fold after she had recently been in hospital with a broken hip. We wish her a speedy recovery.

Entry Immaculate Mary

Gloria Gloria

Responsorial Psalm As the deer pants

Alleluia Plymouth alleluia

Offertory Blessed be God

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 Song of a young prophet

Recessional O Mother Blest

Faith of our fathers - it's mustard.

Our gospel today was the parable of the mustard seed and Deacon Brian preached on the importance of faith and how it can lead us to salvation. Indeed he reminded us of an old Frederick Faber hymn, Faith of Our Fathers ; http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Faith_of_Our_Fathers

The link provides the words and a midi song file to the tune on Wikipedia. Choirboy was reminded that his gift of faith was nurtured by his parents, firstly through Baptism and then through encouragement (sometimes not as gentle as choirboy would have liked) both in word and deed. He realised some time ago of the great responsibility that parenthood brings in terms of fostering this gift and helping our children develop a meaningful relationship with God and His Church. This responsibility is to all around us not just our own children, something which we hope to develop at Holy Trinity.

Musically today we had two Marian hymns and our Saturday evening congregation enjoyed music thanks to Bob our newly seconded alternate organist.

Entry I’ll sing a hymn to Mary

Gloria Gloria

Alleluia Plymouth Alleluia

Credo Credo/I believe
Offertory One bread, one body

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 Gifts of bread and wine

Recessional Hail Queen of Heaven

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