I’m switching between blogging “Voice As One” and songs I have come across looking at other parishes liturgies that have been kindly shared with me.
Back in VAO I’m up to “Journey for Home” but I blogged that last year looking for new songs for Lent.
The next song is another with music by Paul A Tate, this time setting William H Draper’s translation of words by St Francis of Assisi.
The song is call and response between cantor and assembly and this time I think it really has to be that way. To add some spice there is a descant that floats above both the other parts in the refrain.
The six verses cover a lot of territory so if you have a cantor this is a bit of a Swiss army knife song for liturgy.
I’m about half way through VAO Vol 1 and the difference between OCP/spiritandsong and WLP seems to be that WLP has more choir songs, more liturgically useful songs and less straight P&W.
The text is in the sample at WLP where you can purchase the sheet music for download. You can hear a snippet where WLP is selling the CD.
I couldn’t fit the descant in but the cantor and assembly parts are panned hard right and left to follow them more easily.