Church Music Corner › 19th Sunday after Pentecost 2025 [loc-0024]

Ego clamávi quóniam exaudísti me, Deus: inclína aurem tuam, et exáudi verba mea: custódi me, Dómine, ut pupíllam óculi: sub umbra alárum tuárum prótege me.

I had just flown back from Singapore, so I wasn't able to be present for All Saints Ainslie singing Tallis' Hear the voice and prayer but I did record myself singing all parts to it a week earlier before I flew out:

Hear the voice and prayer of thy servants,

that they make before thee this day:

That thine eyes may be open towards this house night and day,

Ever towards this place, ever towards this place

Of which thou hast said "My name shall be there".

And when thou hear'st, have mercy on them.

I had just flown into Sydney and coming down with a cold from a nightmare flight, but I was still able to stop by Christ Church St. Laurence for their Solemn High Mass. It was a lovely high church service. I wish we were as liturgically refined in Canberra. The Choir performed most of G.P. da Palestrina's Missa Aeterna Christi Munera, which is based on the eponymous Gregorian Chant melody, and Vaughan William's O Taste and See.