Saturday, February 03, 2007

King's College Quire, Cambridge

This is an awesome quire (the old Anglican spelling of choir). I just stumbled upon a video of them singing my favorite processional, Parry's "I was Glad" which is based on Psalm 121(122).

The words are as follows:

"I was glad when they said unto me,'we will go into the house of the Lord.' (verse 1)
Our feet shall stand in thy gates, O Jerusalem. (verse 2)
Jerusalem is builded as a city that is at unity in itself. (verse 3)
O pray for the peace of Jerusalem, they shall prosper that love thee. (verse 6)
Peace be within thy walls, and plenteousness within thy palaces." (verse 7)



Its originally a coronation anthem but would go really well in a wedding, as the text goes very well with the vocation of Fatherhood. Its also good for a Crusade.


This quire is very old, check out this video from the fifties.

Friday, February 02, 2007

HAPPY CANDLEMAS


I apologise to all my readers for not blogging much recently.

I have just started work at Refield College as a teacher and Campion Collge as Master of Students. Once I have sorted out everything I'll be back on the blog.



Until then check out The New Liturgical Movement for the very beautiful sequence for Candlemas day.

Now now no monkey business

Now now no monkey business
indeed