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Puer natus est nobis, et fílius datus est nobis: cuius impérium super húmerum eius: et vocábitur nomen eius, magni consílii Angelus.
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\p{This Christmas at [All Saints Ainslie](https://allsaintsainslie.org.au) we reprised Bach's [Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T5Df7f_BLU8), this time with an oboe (our oboist also played the descant lines for the classic Willcocks carols):}
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\p{This Christmas at [All Saints Ainslie](https://allsaintsainslie.org.au) we reprised Bach's [Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T5Df7f_BLU8) at the Midnight Mass, this time with an oboe (our oboist also played the descant lines for the classic Willcocks carols):}
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\line{Jesu, joy of man's desiring,}
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\line{In the love of joys unknown.}
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\p{There were many many stars visible in the night sky on the way to and from the service. Reminds me of the English version of the Cantique de Noël ("O Holy Night").}
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\p{Our director Alasdair cantored solo for the Christmas day mass, so we only had to sing for one service. I also tuned into the livestreamed midnight mass at my old haunt [St. Michael and All Saints](https://smas.church/), and got hit with massive liturgical envy. They did all of the ordinaries and propers in Latin with gregorian chant. Some really great liturgy work in general. I plan to sing with them again for two weeks next month!}
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\date{2025-12-28T02:44:49Z}
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\title{1st Sunday after Christmas 2025}
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\author{liamoc}
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\quote{Deus in loco sancto suo: Deus, qui inhabitáre facit unánimes in domo: ipse dabit virtútem et fortitúdinem plebi suæ.
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Dum médium siléntium tenérent ómnia, et nox in suo cursu médium iter habéret, omnípotens sermo tuus, Dómine, de cælis a regálibus sédibus venit.
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\p{I got up early to attend the BCP service at [St. John's](https://www.stjohnscanberra.org/), but was disappointed to see that the service was following the APBA and not the BCP. I think the BCP is only used after January. Furthermore, even by APBA standards the Eucharistic prayer was rushed and insufficiently reverent. Oh well, it is a lovely little church:}
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\figcaption{Church of St. John the Baptist, Reid.}
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\p{Then I walked to [All Saints Ainslie](https://allsaintsainslie.org.au), and volunteered at the last minute to cantor for this choirless Sunday mass. I sang an old favourite of mine a capella: [The truth sent from above](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y2xZ_qfyApc) (famously used by Ralph Vaughan Williams in his Fantasia on Christmas Carols):}
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\quote{
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\line{This is the truth sent from above,}
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\line{The truth of God, the God of love,}
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\line{Therefore don't turn me from your door}
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\line{But hearken all, both rich and poor.\br}
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\line{The first thing which I do relate}
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\line{Is that God did Man create;}
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\line{The next thing which to you I'll tell:}
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\line{Woman was made with Man to dwell.\br}
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\line{Then after this 'twas God's own choice}
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\line{To place them both in Paradise,}
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\line{There to remain from Evil free,}
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\line{Except they ate of such a tree.\br}
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\line{Thus we were heirs to endless woes}
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\line{Till God the Lord did interpose,}
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\line{And so a promise soon did run}
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\line{That he would redeem us by his Son. \br}
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\line{And at this season of the year,}
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\line{Our blest Redeemer did appear.}
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\line{Here he did live, and here did preach,}
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\line{Any many thousands he did teach.\br}
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\line{Thus he in Love to us behaved,}
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\line{To show us how we must be saved,}
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\line{And if you too want to know the way}
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\line{Be pleased to hear what He did say.}
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\title{Weeknotes 2025-W52}
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\author{liamoc}
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\date{2025-12-28}
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\p{This week, perhaps obviously, has no research or teaching related news to report, but plenty of church engagements kept me busy, along with the usual family Christmas catchup.}
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