If you offer your food to the hungry and satisfy the needs of the afflicted, then your light shall rise in the darkness and your gloom be like the noonday [NRSV, Isaiah 58:10].
Ash Wednesday [Comments] [Choir Notes]
12:15 pm Choral Eucharist
The Cathedral Singers Quartet
Setting: Mass of St. Thomas, Robert Fleming (1921-76)
Imposition of Ashes: Kyrie from the Mass of St. Thomas
Motet: Lord, for thy tender mercy's sake [Berkeley: text/YouTube], Richard Farrant (1530-80)
Drop, drop slow tears [text/listen], William Walton (1902-83)
Postlude: Passion Chorale: Johann Sebastian Bach
7:30 pm Choral Eucharist
The Cathedral Singers
Setting: Missa Aedis Christi [CCC Dublin: BNQ; BM (info); New College: CML (info)], Herbert Howells (1892-1983)
Imposition of
Ashes: Miserere [text / listen], Gregorio
Allegri (1582-1652)
Motet: Lord, for thy tender mercy's sake [Berkeley: text/YouTube], Richard Farrant (1530-80)
Drop, drop slow tears [text/listen], William Walton (1902-83)
Postlude: Passion Chorale: Johann Sebastian Bach
