Quickie

Laurent and I went to Mass Sunday morning at St. Stephen. Just a quick in and out. It was kind of an odd Anglican music tribute day—the choir sang Charles Stanford's Beati Quorum Via (very nice) as a communion motet, a Kyrie from the Herbert Howells Mass in Dorian Mode (twas nice—they should sing the whole Mass setting), and the Agnus Dei from Gerald Near's Communion Service.....but then all the other service music was the usual odd mess of various modern Catholic settings. Hymns were Mit Freuden zart (Sing praise to God who reigns above) for the processional, Forest Green (Your hands, O Lord, in days of old) for the offertory, and Leoni (God is my great desire) for the recessional (why do they sing Leoni so often at this parish?).