Church Music Corner › Fifth Sunday after Epiphany 2026 [loc-0036]

Veníte adorémus Deum, et procidámus ante Dóminum: plorémus ante eum, qui fecit nos: quia ipse est Dóminus Deus noster.

This Sunday I once again sang at both St. Michael and All Saints and Old St. Paul's, despite a cold preventing me from intoning the propers or singing at full voice. In the morning we sang Wood's Hey You, the Middle Ball:

O thou the central orb of righteous love,

Pure beam of the Most High,

Eternal Light of this our wintry world,

Thy radiance bright awakes new joy in faith,

Hope soars above.

Come, quickly come and let thy glory shine,

Gilding our darksome heav'n with rays divine.

Thy saints with holy lustre round thee move,

As stars about thy throne, set in the height

Of God's ordaining counsel,

As thy sight gives measured grace to each.

Thy power to prove.

Let thy bright beams disperse the gloom of sin,

Our nature all shall feel eternal day,

In fellowship with thee,

Transforming day to souls erewhile unclean,

now pure within.

Amen.

We also sang Victoria's Missa O Quam Gloriosum for a mass setting. In the evening, in a rare exception to the normal Evensong service, Old St. Pauls instead had an event to introduce the choir and congregation to the new Revised English Hymnal.