my forest
1\date{2026-02-22}
2\import{table-macros}
3\def\percent{\startverb%\stopverb
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5\parent{loc-000P}
6\title{First Sunday of Lent 2026}
7\tag{cmc}
8\author{liamoc}
9\quote{Invocábit me, et ego dixi exáudiam eum: erípiam eum, et glorificábo eum: longitúdine diérum adimplébo eum.
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12\p{This Sunday was a busy one for me, as the choir of [All Saints Ainslie](https://allsaintsainslie.org.au) sings Evensong now on the final Sunday of the month. I, along with a few of our other male singers, sang for the morning mass without the rest of the choir. I sang a special \em{tonus peregrinus} gospel acclamation, and for an anthem I sang Tallis' [Why Fumeth in Sight](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F4LHpA5PWKg), the famous Theme of Ralph Vaughan Williams' \em{Fantasia} fame. I've linked to a recording of me singing the first verse. }
13\quote{\poem{
14 \line{Why fumeth in sight: the Gentils spite,}
15 \line{In fury raging stout?}
16 \line{Why taketh in hond: the people fond,}
17 \line{Vayne thinges to bring about?}
18 \line{The kinges arise: the lordes devise,}
19 \line{in counsayles mett therto:}
20 \line{Agaynst the Lord: with false accord,}
21 \line{against his Christ they go.\br}
22 \line{Let us they say: breake downe their ray,}
23 \line{of all their bondes and cordes:}
24 \line{We will renounce: that they pronounce,}
25 \line{their loores as stately lordes.}
26 \line{But God of might: in heaven so bright,}
27 \line{Shall laugh them all to scorne:}
28 \line{The Lord on hie: shall them defie,}
29 \line{they shall be once forlorne.\br}
30 \line{Then shall his ire: speake all in fire,}
31 \line{to them agayne therfore:}
32 \line{He shall with threate: their malice beate,}
33 \line{in his displeasure sore.}
34 \line{Yet am I set: a king so great,}
35 \line{on Sion hill full fast:}
36 \line{Though me they kill: yet will that hill,}
37 \line{my lawe and worde outlast.}
38}}
39\p{For Evensong we sang Psalm 51 to a nice Anglican chant, and the [Nunc Dimittis](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6YRRgC0bjk0) from Gibbons' Short Service. We didn't get the Magnificat ready in time, so Alasdair and I just sang an antiphonal plainchant Magnificat to the \em{tonus peregrinus.} For the anthem, we sang an old favourite of mine, Morley's [Nolo Mortem Peccatoris](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Et6l-Gop5Es):}
40\poem{
41 \line{\em{Nolo mortem peccatoris,}}
42 \line{\em{Haec sunt verba salvatoris.}\br}
43 \line{Father, I am thine only Son}
44 \line{Sent down from heav'n mankind to save,}
45 \line{Father, all things fulfill'd and done}
46 \line{According to thy will, I have.}
47 \line{Father, my will, now all is this:}
48 \line{\em{Nolo mortem peccatoris.}\br}
49 \line{Father behold my painful smart.}
50 \line{Taken for man on ev'ry side;}
51 \line{E'en from my birth to death most tart,}
52 \line{No kind of pain I have denied}
53 \line{But suffered all, and all for this:}
54 \line{\em{Nolo mortem peccatoris.}\br}
55 \line{\em{Nolo mortem peccatoris.}}
56}
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