The Singers

 

Selected Programmes

The St Thomas' Singers
conductor Donald Halliday

with
Shirley Britton reader


Sunday 3 May 1992, 6.00 pm

REQUIEM in six parts
Tomás Luis de Victoria [1605]

Reading
A better resurrection Christina Rosetti

Introit
Eternal rest give unto them, O Lord; and let perpetual light shine upon them.
A hymn, O God, becometh Thee in Sion; and a vow shall be paid to Thee in Jerusalem.
O hear my prayer, all flesh shall come to Thee.


Kyrie
Lord, have mercy upon us.
Christ, have mercy upon us.
Lord, have mercy upon us.

Reading
from The Pilgrim's Progress John Bunyan

Gradual
Eternal rest give unto them, O Lord; and let perpetual light shine upon them.
The just shall be in everlasting remembrance, he shall not fear the evil hearing.

Offertory
O Lord Jesus Christ, King of Glory, deliver the souls of all the faithful departed from the pains of hell and from the deep pit: deliver them from the lion's mouth, that hell may not swallow them up, and may they not fall into darkness; but may the holy standard-bearer, Michael, lead them into the holy light: which Thou didst promise to Abraham and to his seed.
Sacrifices and prayers we offer to Thee, O Lord; receive them for those souls for whom we make memorial this day; let them, O Lord, pass from death unto life. Which Thou didst promise to Abraham . . .

Reading
from The Book of Revelations, Chapter 7 vv 9 - 17

Sanctus
Holy, Holy, Holy, Lord God of Hosts, Heaven and Earth are full of Thy glory. Hosanna in the highest.
Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord. Hosanna in the highest.

Agnus Dei
Lamb of God, who takest away the sins of the world, grant them rest.
Lamb of God, who takest away the sins of the world, grant them rest.
Lamb of God, who takest away the sins of the world, grant them eternal rest.

Reading
The Angel, from the Dream of Gerontius John Henry Newman

Communion
May light eternal shine upon them, O Lord. With Thy Saints for ever, for Thou art merciful. Eternal rest give them, O Lord: and let perpetual light shine upon them. With Thy Saints forever, for Thou art merciful.
May they rest in peace.
Amen.

Reading
The Day of Judgement translated from the Gaelic by Dugald Buchanan

Responsory
Deliver me, O Lord, from eternal death in that awful day: When the heavens and the earth shall be moved: When Thou shalt come to judge the world by fire. Dread and trembling have laid hold of me, and I fear exceedingly because of the judgement and the wrath, of sore distress, and of all wretchedness, that great and exceeding bitter day. When Thou shalt come to judge the world by fire. Eternal rest grant upon them, O Lord, and let perpetual light shine upon them. Deliver me, O Lord, from eternal death in that awful day: When the heavens and the earth shall be moved: When Thou shalt come to judge the world by fire.
Lord, have mercy upon us.
Christ, have mercy upon us.
Lord, have mercy upon us.

MAGNIFICAT on the fifth tone in eight parts
Hieronymus Praetorius [1622]

My soul soth magnify the Lord,
and my spirit hath rejoiced in God my Saviour.
For he hath regarded the lowliness of his handmaiden.
For, behold, from henceforth all generations shall call me blessed.
For he that is mighty hath done to me great things;
and holy is his name.
And his mercy is on them that fear him from generation to generation.
He hath shewed strength with his arm, he hath scattered the proud in the imagination of their hearts.
He hath put down the mighty from their seats, and exalted them of low degree.
He hath filled the hungry with good things; and the rich he hath sent empty away.
He hath holpen his servant Israel, in remembrance of his mercy.
As he spake to our fathers, to Abraham and his seed for ever.
Glory be to the Father and to the Son, and to the Holy Ghost
As it was in the beginning is now and every shall be, world without end.
Amen.