This Saturday is the Feast of Christ the King, and the last Sunday of Ordinary Time this calendar year.
I'm told we had a fairly small group last week, but everything was solid. However, there was no rehearsal since neither Jonathan or I was available.
If you're interested in doing the Psalm this week (Shepherd Me, O God), please let me know ASAP. A high-quality recording from the last time we did this piece is below.
We have several less-common tunes (at least, for us) planned this week, including 'Whatsoever You Do' and 'Soon and Very Soon'. If either of these are unfamiliar, please take some time to look over them.
Starting this week, I'll be releasing my director's notes/agenda that I've been writing up weekly for the past month for planning purposes (this will be in addition to blog posts). My hope is that these will give you a better idea of the plan in advance. I'll try to get these out by Thursday.
UPDATE (11/21): my director's notes and agenda have been released via email (a bit late; sorry about that...). These can also be viewed here.
Also, we now have a conducting podium to use during masses and rehearsals! The platform is 24 x 24 x 6 inches and is made of shelving composite materials. I'm planning to bring this in on Saturday for a test drive.
In speaking with Jonathan, our focus for rehearsals in the coming weeks will be the music for Advent and Christmas. It's important that as many people as possible attend rehearsals; when we're not working on December mass music, we'll continue refining Mass of Joy & Peace and a to-be-decided choir piece(s).
UPDATE (11/20): the Office let me know this afternoon that we'll be using the Acclamation 'We Proclaim Your Death' when we switch to Mass of Joy & Peace next week.
Finally, in case anyone was wondering, I've been working to cleanup the website by removing and/or merging less-used pages, reducing the menu bar above to one row rather than two. The Calendar, Misc. Music, GC Repertoire, SS Repertoire and Killoren Repertoire pages remain unaffected, while the three Mass Setting pages were merged into one. All others were pulled down, but can be restored at any time. The sidebar was also removed from several pages where it's not needed. As always, feedback and suggestions on the website are appreciated!
There will be practice after mass from 6:30-8:00 PM.
Here are the songs for this week:
Gathering:
GC 486 - The King of Glory
Glory to God:
Mass of Creation
Response (need one):
GC 31 - Shepherd Me, O God (Psalm 23)
Gospel Acclamation (need one):
Mass of Creation
Offertory:
GC 670 - Whatsoever You Do
Holy, Holy, Holy:
Mass of Creation
Eucharistic Acclamation:
Mass of Creation
Eucharistic Doxology:
Mass of Creation
Lamb of God:
Mass of Creation
Communion:
SS 153 - I Am the Bread of Life
Sending:
GC 770 - Soon and Very Soon
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