Easter Vigil

[HallamPhil]

Lumen Christi
Exsultet (Missal tones with interpolations)
Psalm: Lord, send forth your spirit (Haugen)
Psalm 15: Preserve me God (Walker)
Exodus Psalm: (Geoffrey Boulton Smith)
Psalm 29: I will praise you Lord (bevenot)
Isaiah: With joy tou will draw water (Haugen)
Psalm 18: You have the message (Bevenot/Boulton Smith)
Psalm: Create in me (Guimont)

Glory to God - New Wine (Jakob)
Easter Alleluia (plainsong)
Easter Alleluia (Hurd) with psalm 118

Litany of Saints (Missal tones)
Springs of water (1998 Missal revised)
You have put on Christ (Walker)
Springs of water bless the Lord (Haugen)
By this sign (Haas)
Celtic Alleluia (Te Deum)
Come holy spirit (Bell)

Christ the Lord is risen again (Rutter)
Glastonbury Acclamations revised (Walker)
Lamb of God - New Wine (Jakob)
O death where is your power (Walker)
Christe lux mundi (Taize)
Tu sei sorgente viva (taize)
Thine be the glory
Dismissal (Missal tones)

We started at 2200, had 3 baptisms and 5 confirmations and ended at 00.30

HAPPY EASTER!
Christus vincit (Walker)

[Nick Baty]

We had three infant baptisms and one reception. Started 8.30pm, ended 10.15pm.
Another baptism to come this morning!
Happy Easter, one and all.

[MaryR]

Our Lady, Lillington (no baptisms)

Christ our Light (Missal tone)
Exsultet - Missal tone (sung valiantly by our new Deacon)

(We've reduced down to five readings)
Psalm after 2nd reading - Protect me God (Wellicome)
Psalm after 3rd reading - I will sing to the Lord (John Gibbons - Psalm Songs 2)
Psalm after 5th reading - We shall draw water (Inwood)
Psalm after 6th reading - You, Lord, have the message of eternal life (Inwood)
Psalm after 7th reading - As the deer longs (Hurd)

Gloria - Psallite
Alleluia Psalm (Haugen)

Litany of Saints (Wellicome)
Springs of Water (Kingsley)
Vidi Aquam (Plainsong)

Offertory - Now the green blade riseth
Eucharistic Acclamations - Spring Sanctus (Martin Barry)
Lamb of God - Bicester Mass (Wellicome)
Communion Processional Song - Surrexit Christus (Taizé)
Recessional - Thine be the glory

[JW]

St Thomas, Rainham (no baptisms, confirmations, receptions):

Lumen Christi
Exsultet: Peter Jones (not sure whether this was a World Premiere )
3 OT readings:
Psalm after Creation reading: Send Forth Your Spirit Lord, Margaret Rizza
Canticle after Exodus Reading: Psallite B-61 but with response altered to match the Missal words more closely: "covered in glory" altered to "glorious his triumph"
Psalm after Ezekiel Reading: Like the Deer, Eugene Monaghan setting (Year B)
Gloria: De Angelis intonation, then Glendalough Mass, Liam Lawton. Bells all the way through.
Solemn Alleluia & Responsorial Psalm: Celtic Alleluia with the Easter Psalm verses. (Congregation so keen that they joined in the Celbrant's intonation!)
Antiphon after Blessing of Water: "Come to the water, all you who thirst, come now and live in me" (altered refrain of 'As Earth that is Dry, Anne Quigley)
During sprinkling: As Earth that is Dry, Quigley, with altered refrain as above
Offertory: Now the Green Blade Riseth
Eucharistic Acclamations & Lamb of God: Glendalough Mass, Liam Lawton
Communion: (1) Surrexit Christus, Taize; (2) Alleluia, Alleluia, Give Thanks to the Risen Lord, Don Fishel
Recessional: Thine be the Glory
Voluntary: Fantasia in F, Johann Krebs

Started at 20.00 (only dusk in Medway by this time); ended at 22.00

[Peter Jones]

Exsultet: Peter Jones (not sure whether this was a World Premiere )

Nope - I was in advance of you by 30 minutes (we begin that early because of the many senior citizens in the parish who are nervous about being out and about late at night. It was quite dark in church though)

[JW]

I'm glad about that, Peter. I have to say it was well received and our deacon-to-be-ordained-shortly expressed an interest, as he's not a singer. Thanks again for everything.

[gwyn]

Our Lady & St. Michael's Abergavenny

Psalm 103 . . . . . Send forth your Spirit, O Lord . . . . . . . . . .(Paul Nicholls)
Exodus Canticle . Of the Lord's glorious trumph I will sing . . . (Gwyn Williams)
Psalm 118 . . . . . Solemn Easter Alleluia with psalm tone

Gloria . . . . . . . . Coventry . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . . . . . . . . .(Peter Jones)

Sprinkling . . . . . .With joy you shall draw water . . . . . . . . . (Bob Hurd)

Offertory . . . . . . This joyful Eastertide

Holy . . . . . . . . . Locally cooked. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . (Gwyn Williams)
Memorial acc'n, . . Save us, save us . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .(Gwyn Williams)

Our Father . . . Korsakof - with embolism and (modified) doxology by Abbot Alan Rees
Agnus Dei . . . . Abbot Alan Rees

Communion . . . Surrexit Christus. Alleluia! . . . Taizé

Recessional - - - Jesus Christ is ris'n today.

[Ros Wood]

Christ the King, South Chingford

Lumen Christi
Exsultet - longer (Missal tone)
Psalm 32: The Lord fills the earth (Ward)
Exodus Psalm: (Wood)
Isaiah: We shall draw water (Inwood)

Glory to God - Lourdes (2010 words)
Easter Alleluia with psalm 118 (Milner)

Litany of Saints (Missal tones)
Springs of water (Wood)
Water of life

Christ is alive
New Christ the King Acclamations (Wood)
Christ the King Lamb of God (Wood)
Now the green blade riseth
Confitemini Domino (Taizé)
He is Lord (last minute addition because of numbers)

Dismissal (Missal tones)
Be not afraid (Taizé)

Started notices and getting everyone outside at 8pm. Fire lit about 8.15pm. 6 baptisms and 7 confirmations. Finished around 10.40pm.

Does anyone have a foolproof way of getting the congregation to hold candles upright?

[contrabordun]

Our Lady & St Kenelm, Halesowen
(I get to employ a proper organist for the Vigil)

Lumen Christi
Exsultet (Missal tones with interpolations)
Psalm: Send forth your spirit (M.Hodgetts)
Exodus Psalm: (M.Hodgetts)
Psalm: With joy you will draw water (Boulton Smith)

Mass Setting - Mass of J.H.Newman (Macmillan)
Easter Alleluia (plainsong)
Easter Alleluia with psalm 118
Litany of Saints (Missal tones)
Vidi Aquam organ improvisation - (P.Carr)
Communion Antiphon - plainsong
Communion Motet - Good Christian Men, Rejoice and Sing (Bullock)
Concluding Voluntary: Toccata Improvisation on Easter Themes (P.Carr)
+ various hymns

[gwyn]

Contrabordun listed:

Communion Antiphon - plainsong

Wonderful.

[contrabordun]

ah, sorry to disappoint...possible confusion here. I didn't mean the plainsong proper..it's a sort of home grown effort. Basically, I don't like the effect of the communion antiphon being said (which is what they did before I started here) so now they chant it, a capella, using a variety of different sorts of chants throughout the year, mostly in harmony.

Now, I know this could most charitably be described as a cut and paste job, taking bits of different GIRM options rather than actually following any of them, and I've read everything that S.C. has said on the subject of these somewhat loose ends, but, while it's on the long term plan, I'm afraid I'm likely to continue this shocking malpractice for a year or two yet - have other fish to fry during my choir practice time.

[gwyn]

Nonetheless, Wonderful!

[contrabordun]

Does anyone have a foolproof way of getting the congregation to hold candles upright?

Take away the little cardboard discs.

[Hare]

What time are people starting this year?

[Nick Baty]

Not sure yet but it's a skin of the teeth job as this is the night the clocks change!