I want to encourage the use of psalms in liturgy. To this end I have committed to compiling a small booklet of metrical psalms for use this coming Advent (Year B). As with everything else I publish I will release … Continue reading
I have a new project! It’s called Psalter Commons and I would love your help with it. I’d like the words of the psalms to be freely available for liturgy and study, but copyright law means the only truly free … Continue reading
Though my diocesan cathedral in Chelmsford is a bit of a trek for me, I’m privileged in London to be within easy travel distance of both St Paul’s Cathedral and Southwark Cathedral.Yesterday, partly out of curiosity and partly out of … Continue reading
This is the last of the metrical Psalms for this Lent. On Maundy Thursday we’ll be singing Psalm 22, right enough, but it will be a chanted version using the Common Worship text. The plan is to keep that very … Continue reading
This past Sunday — Passion Sunday — was not an All-Age Service, or anything else requiring exceptional liturgy, and so it was back to metrical psalms with a congregational response. I was pleased with this setting of Psalm 130. The … Continue reading
Continuing with the inclusion of psalms to our liturgy during Lent, on 20th March at St Andrew’s we sang Psalm 121. This is a favourite of mine and of many others, and I wanted to use Anglican Chant this time. … Continue reading
Psalm 51 on Wednesday night went well, I thought: the congregation sang their response and the choir led well. There were even some positive comments after the service! For this morning’s service I wanted to keep things simple — fitting … Continue reading
Lent approaches fast and, at St Andrew’s at least, this will be a time of penitence, prayer, purple vestments and psalmody. The latter is my concern. During Advent we tried adapting the Common Worship psalter to a simple plainchant melody … Continue reading
In the final year of my degree I decided I needed to do more singing, and one thing led to another… I am delighted that we’ll be singing and playing Evensong at a church not too far from where I … Continue reading
Over at the Liturgy blog, Rev Bosco Peters has a series of posts on the new Revised Grail Psalter. In the first post he links to the full text of the psalter, and laments the multiplicity of translations, though he … Continue reading