Following Remembrance Day, a sung Requiem Mass was celebrated by Msgr Phelim Rowland, St Anthony’s Chaplain, at St Mary’s Hampstead. The liturgy was enriched by the school choir under the direction of music teacher Elliot Thompson. The Introit and Gradual were taken from the Graduale Romanum together with the Kyrie, Sanctus and Agnus Dei.
The choir sang two motets including Elgar’s Ave Verum at Communion. The Last Post and Reveille, sounded on the bugle, at the conclusion of Mass followed by a rousing two verses of the National Anthem. The entire service was characterised by a solemnity appropriate for remembering the Fallen.
May their souls and the souls of all the Faithful Departed rest in peace.
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