Yes, I did two Masses on Easter Sunday, but by chance that is my usual on the 4th Sunday morning of the month. I would also usually play at Saturday evening Mass at St Joachim’son 4th Sunday but their Sunday 6pm group look after the Easter Vigil. I did not attend a Easter Vigil this year, which is the first in many years.

If you listen to the recording of “Blessed Are You”, it is written to be used within the readings on Holy Thursday.

Did you back up for Easter Sunday, Chris. I played along with a large group for the Triduum and left it at that.

I’ve never heard Schutte’s “Blessed Are You” from “Glory in Cross”, which sounds just as useful backing an action as for the readings and then as a response.

https://youtu.be/TKmK-x1lNqc

Geoff

Night Prayer (9.15pm)
Hymn: Holy Darkness (Schutte) – verses 2, 3 & 5
Anthem to the Blessed Virgin: Hail, Queen of Heaven
Concluding Hymn: O Silent God (Zaragoza)

Good Friday
Celebration of the Passion of the Lord (3pm – St Joseph’s, Corinda)
Psalm: Father I put my life in your hands (DeBruyn)
Gospel Acc: Lenten Gospel Acclamation from Mass Shalom
During Passion Reading: Behold the Lamb of God; Were You There; Mary (Howard)
Instrumental Musical Reflection: Passion Chorale
General Intercessions Response: O Loving Father (Moore)
Showing of the Cross: Behold the Wood (Schutte) – refrain unaccompanied x 3
Public Adoration of the Cross: Behold the Wood (Schutte) – verses 1-3 & 5
Response to Hebrews Reading: Glory in the Cross (Schutte) with Good Friday verses
Communion: Now We Remain (Haas); Unless a Grain of Wheat (Farrell)
Private Adoration of the Cross: Stay Here and Keep Watch (Taize); We Sing the Saviour’s Glory (Schutte); When I Survey the Wondrous Cross; Jesus, Remember Me (Taize)

Easter Sunday (7.30am, St Joachim’s, Holland Park)
Gathering: Sing a New Song (Schutte)
Mass Setting: Mass Shalom
Psalm: Jenny O’Brien version
Gospel Acc: Celtic Alleluia with verse of the day
Sprinkling: River of Glory (Schutte) – verses 3 & 4
POG: Quiet music
Communion: Table of Plenty (Schutte); Glory in the Cross (Schutte) – Easter verses
Sending Forth: Alleluia No. 1 (Fishel)

Easter Sunday (9.30am, Christ the King, Graceville)
Gathering: Behold the Glory of God (O’Connor)
Mass Setting: Mass Shalom
Psalm: Let Us Rejoice (Haugen)
Gospel Acc: Celtic Alleluia with verse of the day
Litany: Litany of the Saints (Becker)
Sprinkling: River of Glory (Schutte) – verses 3 & 4
POG: Glory in the Cross (Schutte) – Easter verses
Communion: I Am the Bread of Life (Toolan)
After Communion: Alleluia No. 1 (Fishel)
Sending Forth: By Your Kingly Power (McAuley)

youth choir
opening: Jesus Christ Is Risen Today (easter hymn)
Psalm 118: This is the Day (Joncas)
sequence: Christians, to the Paschal Victim (chant, mode i)
gospel acclamation (Alstott)
sprinkling: Baptized in Water (Saward; bunessan)
offertory: Bread of Angels (Stephan)
communion: Worthy is the Lamb (Manalo), Ye Sons and Daughters (o filii et filiae), I am the Bread of Life (Toolan)
closing: Alleluia! Alleluia! (Wordsworth; hymn to joy)

Gathering: Sing With All the Saints in Glory (Irons; HYMN TO JOY)

Sprinkling: Springs of Water (Haugen)

Gloria: Mass for a Servant Church (Guimont)

Psalm 118: This Is the Day (Joncas)

Sequence: Christ the Lord Is Risen Today (trans. Leeson; VICTIMAE PASCHALI)

Celtic Alleluia (O’Carroll/Walker)

Gifts: Christ the Lord Is Risen Today (Wesley; LLANFAIR)

Mass Parts: Mass for a Servant Church (Guimont)

Communion: Take and Eat (Joncas)
Sing to the Mountains (Dufford)
Alleluia, Alleluia Give Thanks (Fishel)

Closing: Jesus Christ Is Risen Today (EASTER HYMN)

Easter Vigil:

Exsultet: Chant

Psalm 104: Lord, Send Out Your Spirit (Zsigray)
Psalm 16: You Are My Inheritance, O Lord (Alstott)
3rd Reading: Exodus Reading for the Great Vigil (Cooney) – music played “under” the reading with the acclamations sang at the end of each paragraph
Exodus 15: Let Us Sing to the Lord
Psalm 30: I Will Praise You, Lord
Isaiah 12: You Will Draw Water Joyfully
Psalm 19: Lord, You Have the Words (Haas)
Psalm 42: Like a Deer That Longs for Running Streams (Alstott)
Gloria: Mass for a Servant Church (Guimont)
Celtic Alleluia (O’Carroll/Walker)

Litany of the Saints: Chant
Blessing the Water: Springs of Water refrain (Haugen)
Blessing with Water: Up From the Waters (Haugen)

Confirmation: Veni Sante Spiritus (Berthier) – played/sang by the choir “under” the confirmation act starting very softly and building each time repeated

Gifts: Sing With All the Saints in Glory (Irons; HYMN TO JOY)

Mass Parts: Mass for a Servant Church (Guimont)

Communion: Take and Eat (Joncas)

Closing: Jesus Christ Is Risen Today (EASTER HYMN)

*Courtney, not Courtnry, sorry about that!

Stations of the Cross by the youth group

Now We Remain (Haas)

the stations were done to “The Way of the Cross” by Manoling Francisco

In Remembrance of Me (Courtnry, Red)

Mass
Resp. Psalm: Psalm 31 (Alstott)
Lenten Gospel Acclamation (Wright)
Veneration: Lord, We Adore You (Walker), Behold the Wood (Schutte), Jesus, Remember Me (Berthier)
communion: Now We Remain (Haas), I Love You, Lord (Klein), Pie Jesu (Rutter)

Holy Thursday:
Presentation of oils – Glory in the Cross (Schutte) with Holy Thursday verses
Gathering – Gather Your People (Hurd)
Mass setting – Mass of St Francis
Psalm – The Name of God (Haas)
Gospel Acc – Praise to Your O Christ with vs 3 (Farrell)
Washing of Feet – So You Must Do (Haugen)
Preparation of Altar – To Be Your Bread (Haas)
Communion – Table Song (Haas), Come and Eat This Bread (Haugen)
Procession to Altar of Repose – Pange Lingua
Closing – Stay Here and Keep Watch (Taize)

Good Friday – Stations of the Cross
Rolling out of fabric cross – His State Was Divine (Andersen)
After each station – sing refrain only of In the Cross of Christ (Haugen)

Good Friday – Veneration
Gather in silence
Psalm – Father I put my life in your hands (McKeon)
Gospel Acc – Lenten Gospel Acclamation from Mass of Creation
During Passion Reading – Pie Jesu
Veneration of the Cross – Behold the Wood (Schutte), Glory in the Cross (Schutte) with Good Friday verses, Behold the Cross (Hurd), Only This Want (Schutte)
Communion – Behold the Lamb of God (Dufford), Now We Remain (Haas)

Easter Vigil
Proclamation – Exsultet
Psalm – Blest be the God of our Ancestors
Mass Setting – Mass of St Francis
Remembrance Alleluia with Easter verse
After presentation of baptism candidates – Litany of the Saints (Becker)
Procession of the Water – We Shall Draw Water Joyfully (Inwood)
Entrance of newly baptised – With Drums and Dancing (Schutte)
Communion – Christ is Here (Walker), Surrexit Christus (Taize)
Post-communion – Out of Darkness (Walker)
Recessional – By Your Kingly Power (McAuley)