All Saints — Saint Mark's Fitzroy

First Reading: Revelation 7.2-4, 9-14: There was a great multitude that no one could count, from every nation, from all tribes and peoples and languages.

Responsorial Psalm: 24. 1-2, 3-4ab (R. 6)

Response:

Second Reading: 1 John 3.1-3: We will see God as he is.

Gospel Acclamation:

Gospel: Matthew 5.1-12a: Rejoice and be glad, for your reward is great in heaven.

Motet: Give me the wings of faith - Kenneth Leighton (1929-1988)

[Choir of Chichester Cathedral (1966)]

Words: Isaac Watts (1674-1748)
Music: Kenneth Leighton (1962)

1.     Give me the wings of faith to rise
         within the veil, and see
         the saints above, how great their joys,
         how bright their glories be.

2.     Once they were mourning here below,
         and wet their couch with tears;
         they wrestled hard, as we do now,
         with sins and doubts and fears.

3.     I ask them whence their victory came;
         they, with united breath,
         ascribe their conquest to the Lamb,
         their triumph to his death.

4.     They marked the footsteps that he trod,
         his zeal inspired their breast,
         and, following their incarnate God,
         possess the promised rest.

5.     Our glorious Leader claims our praise
         for his own pattern given;
         while the long cloud of witnesses
         show the same path to heaven.