For those of you who like Palm Sunday Processional Music, here is my collection, originally put together on 4/4/2020. I have begun to play through it. As I do YouTube will sometimes give me related videos, which I add. Also, I am annotating it
I like it so much that I usually play it for Lauds (Morning Prayer) on Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday of Holy Week.
Thanks for the music links, Jack. But they seem to have disappeared now.
ReplyDeleteOut choir sang "The King of Glory" yesterday for the processional. Not my favorite but a lot of people like it. Last year we used "To Jesus Christ Our Sovereign King". We ran out of verses and started over, because the priest decided to process all around the periphery and up and down the aisles to sprinkle everyone with holy water. The other choir did " All Glory, Laud and Honor". I wished we would have sung that one.
For Holy Week we are doing all the usual services, but are omitting some things, such as the foot washing on Holy Thursday. No one is sad about that. The liturgy committee always had a hard time talking people into getting their feet washed. I always managed to dodge it. Of course no Communion from the chalice this year, and for veneration of the cross on Good Friday we are just going to walk up and bow or make the sign of the cross.
We're going to wash feet, but we have the same struggles getting people to agree to get their feet washed. Formerly, we opened it up to anyone who wanted to come forward, and we'd typically get 30-40 people coming forward. The idea was, you'd get your feet washed, and then you would wash the feet of the next person in line. But the "y'all come" approach might have violated a liturgical rule- at any rate, it's not done anymore. It's a shame, because personally, I thought it was beautiful.
DeleteWe're also doing individual veneration of the cross on Friday similarly to the way you're doing it. We're going to ask people not to touch or kiss the cross. We'll out the cross on the top step of the sanctuary to try to keep it out of reach. (There probably is some bad theology in that :-) but it seems prudent during this time.)
My local parish will be back to what it usually does on Holy Thursday per the bulletin:
ReplyDelete“On Holy Thursday, we will wash feet, and invite the community to wash each other’s feet as the Lord has commanded us. You are most welcome and encouraged to bring your own towel to dry your feet, or we will have plenty of clean towels for anyone to use.”
The whole ceremony is facilitated by high school students. Twelve of them have their feet washed by the pastor at six stations They then begin the washing of those who come forward. Anyone is welcome to have their feet washed and then to wash someone else's feet. Mostly these are family events. It is somewhat like people coming forward for the anointing of the sick. At first there is some hesitation, then people start lining up. Nor everyone or even half the church but about the same substantial numbers as we get for the anointing of the sick.
Jack, thanks for all those links. I listened to some of them yesterday as I caught up here. There is a lot of material there!
ReplyDeleteThis is what we sang on Sunday. It's one of two or three that our music director pulls out. We didn't have the orchestral forces that this recording has; we had piano, a violin and three handbells.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0G-enVqBNAA