Choral Mass on the Fifth Sunday of Easter

Mass is celebrated at the All Saints Altar by Fr Iain Faulkner The music is provided by a group of the Choirmen. Introit Hymn Good Christian men, rejoice and sing! Now is the triumph of our King: To all the world glad news we bring: Alleluya! The Lord of Life is risen for ay: Bring flowers of song to strew his way; Let all mankind rejoice and say: Alleluya! Praise we in songs of victory That Love, that Life, which cannot die, And sing with hearts uplifted high: Alleluya! Thy name we bless, O risen Lord, And sing today with one accord The life laid down, the life restored: Alleluya! Merbecke Offertory Hymn O praise our great and gracious Lord, And call upon his name, To strains of joy tune every chord, His mighty acts proclaim: Tell how he freed his chosen race From Pharaoh’s heavy hand, And led them by his sovereign grace To seek the promised land. He gave the shadowing cloud by day, The moving fire by night, To guide his people on their way, And make their darkness light: To us, the light of Christ our Lord Illumines all our ways; He leads us by his gospel word, And turns our sighs to praise. We too have manna from on high, The bread that came from heaven, And he who brought salvation nigh Has living water given: A rock is ours, from whence the spring In rich abundance flows, And Christ that rock, our priest and king, Both life and health bestows. Come, let us prize this heavenly food, And trust our heavenly guide, So shall we find death’s fearful flood Serene as Jordan’s tide; And safely reach th’eternal shore No more by ills opprest; Where saints their Lord and God adore, And in his glory, rest. Communion – Jesus Rex admirabilis – G P da Palestrina Chaconne in G minor – Louis Couperin