Harold Darke - Gloria from Communion Service in F

The word for the sacrament of Communion, "Eucharist,"  means "thanksgiving".  In one of his talks Walter Brueggemann made a joke about how Catholics and other churches did it every day, some did it every week but it was too much for others to take more than once a month.   Under secularism in the United States it's done once a year, sort of, and then it's too much for even most Christians to take, them turning it into an occasion of gluttony and football, card games and family fights.  Secular thanksgiving is too much for me to take so I'll take a pass.  It's a carnivore holiday and as a lactose intolerant vegetarian it saves my relatives from the hassle of wondering what I'm going to eat.  It's an inaction of kindness, really.

But I thought it would be a good occasion to listen to the Gloria from Harold Darke's Communion Service in F.

Choir of Saint Clement's Philadelphia.

Sorry, don't know the director or organist.  It's a really good choir, though.