Music for OT-26-A (Sep 25)

Prelude:           Trio: Tambling
Processional Hymn: 285: All Hail The Power Of Jesus Name
Penitential Rite:  -spoken-
Gloria:            113: Glory To God: Andrews
Readings:          653
Intercessions:     -spoken-
Offertory:         Lead me Lord: Wesley
Acclamations:      103-104-105: Mass of Creation: Haugen
Agnus Dei:         108: Mass of Creation: Haugen
Communion Hymn:    850: Adoro te devote
Final Hymn:        362: The Church's One Foundation
Postlude:          Trumpet Tune: Tambling

Music Notes:


Samuel Sebastian Wesley (1810-1876) was born in London England, started (1819) music as a choir boy in the Chapel Royal, by age 16 was organist and began writing sacred music; his contributions include hymn texts (e.g., Hymnal 362) and anthems. Characterized by some as the first great composer of sacred music in the Victorian era, his career took him through Hereford (1832-), Exeter (1835-), Leeds (1842-), Winchester (1849-), Gloucester (1865-). His anthem "Lead me Lord" with its text from the Psalms (5:8 and 4:9) is part of a large-scale almost cantata-like work entitled "Praise the Lord, O my soul".


Christopher Tambling (1964-) attended (1976-82) Christ's Hospital School (founded 1552 by King Edward VI) and was organ scholar at St Peter's College Oxford. In Scotland
(1991-), he was conductor of Perth Symphony Orchestra, Perth city organist, choirmaster and music director at Trinity College Glenalmond. In England (1995-), he is Director of Music at Downside School and Master of the Schola Cantorum of Downside Abbey. Composed: musicals, pieces for organ, service music, several books of arrangements and anthems for choirs, music theory resource book.


His "Trio" has three concurrent lines of music, one for the feet and one for each hand (played on separate manuals with contrasting registrations) while his "Trumpet Tune (1981)" has several alternating solo and interlude sections (it is interesting to note that it was written in September of his senior year of high school!).


Downside Abbey was founded 1605 by English Benedictines in Douai France (due to Henry VIII and Reformation) and provided a school for English gentry; the monks suffered during the French Revolution; they returned to England, first to Shropshire (1795), then Downside (1814); community status raised (1899) from Priory to Abbey; the monks teach and supply priests for parish churches and mission churches in the area.

Bp Vigneron: Ten rules for handling disagreement like a Christian

1. The Rule of Charity:
"Charity is primary."
2. The Rule of Publicity:
"Think with the mind of the Church."
corollary: "Measure everything against the authoritative documents of the Magisterium."
3. The Rule of Legitimate Freedom:
"What the Church allows is not to be disallowed."
4. The Rule of Catholic Freedom:
"There's something for everybody, but not everything is for everybody."
5. The Rule of Modesty:
"Not all of my causes are God's causes."
6. The Rule of Integrity:
"To do evil in order to accomplish good is really to do evil."
7. The Rule of Realism:
"Remember that Satan is eager to corrupt my efforts to build up the Kingdom,
and he's smart enough to figure out a way to do it."
8. The Rule of Mystery:
"Not all the habits and attitudes which belong to a society governed
by a representative democracy are appropriate in the Church."
9. The Petrine Rule:
"Nobody ever built up the Church by tearing down the pope."
10. The Eschatological Rule:
"The victory is assured; my job is to run out the clock with style."

Bishop Vigneron has a column in (almost) every issue of The Catholic Voice, the Oakland diocese newspaper. The above is a summary of the article containing the list, and his explanatory commentary.

http://www.catholicvoiceoakland.org/05-09-19/bishopscolumn.htm