Church Music Corner › 15th Sunday after Pentecost 2026 [loc-005C]

Iustus es Dómine, et rectum iudícium tuum: fac cum servo tuo secúndum misericórdiam tuam.
Back again at St. Michael and All Saints.

I am in Edinburgh this week for the combined LFCS/Plotkin/Wadler event so I stopped into my favourite church St. Michael and all Saints to sing in their choir for Mass today. We sang Darke's Mass in F (where I sang the tenor solo), chant propers (which I intoned) and Ola Gjeilo's Ubi Caritas. I linked to our performance in the livestream because SMAS's audio system is quite good and we sang it rather well I think.

Ubi cáritas et amor, Deus ibi est. Where there is charity and love, there God is.
Congregávit nos in unum Christi amor; The love of Christ has gathered us as one;
Exultémus et in ipso iucundémur; Let us then exult and delight in him;
Timeámus et amémus Deum vivum, Let us fear and love the living God,
Et ex corde diligámus nos sincéro. And love each other with sincere hearts.
Ubi cáritas et amor, Deus ibi est. Where there is charity and love, there God is.
Amen. Amen.

I understand my usual choir at All Saints Ainslie sang Pitoni's Cantate Domino.

I also joined the choir at Old St. Paul's for Evensong and Benediction. We sang canticles by Attwood Walmisley (both Magnificat and Nunc Dimittis), and Wesley's anthem Lead me, Lord:

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.