Church Music Corner › 4th Sunday after Easter 2025 [loc-000Q]

Cantáte Dómino cánticum novum, allelúia: quia mirabília fecit Dóminus, allelúia: ante conspéctum géntium revelávit iustítiam suam, allelúia, allelúia.

This week our choir at All Saints Ainslie were without a director, so I filled in as needed. We sang Samuel Wesley's Lead me, Lord from his larger work, Praise the Lord, My Soul.

Lead me, Lord. Lead me in thy righteousness,

Make thy way plain before my face.

For it is thou, Lord; thou, Lord only,

That makest me dwell in safety.

I also attended Evensong at St. Paul's Manuka. Sadly the normal choir wasn't in today, but it was still a restorative service. They used Common Worship, so it was missing some of the collects I like, but they interestingly included a responsórium breve. The building isn't my favoured sandstone but it's a rather nice brick church. Afterwards I briefly popped into the nearby Catholic St. Christopher's Cathedral for evening Mass. The building is a little bit less pleasant than its Anglican neighbour, but the service was very well attended. The music was entirely forgettable hymn standards.