Monthly Archives: February 2026

It’s Ash Wednesday already… I’d like to to keep the same songs running throughout Lent. Entrance: Merciful God – Entrance (Alonso) Gifts: All the Hungry (Doherty) Communion: Coming Home (Kirkpatrick) Recessional: Hope in Love (Bierer, Deegan, Hart, Lynch, Watts) While … Continue reading →

There are new Lectionaries that have either arrived or are coming for the English speaking Catholic world. England has theirs already using the ESV-CE translation for the readings, the USA is going with the Catholic American Bible (natch) when they … Continue reading →

Blame Mary for this one. In the context of church songs that may have become country standards, she directed us to this song by Fr. Eamonn (Eddie) Bheartla Ó Connaighle. It is a proper Irish folk song. The background for … Continue reading →

A singer at our church faced with weeks with an absence of musicians, has occasionally used the MyMIDI program and MIDI files to lead the singing at mass. She tells me it is much better if someone else presses the … Continue reading →

This apparently well known song was new to me when it was suggested at a meeting about music for Lent. I found sheet music, which attributes this song to Mary Kirkbride and Marylou Locke, but hymnary adds Peter West to … Continue reading →

Speaking of copyright disasters (see yesterday), Gio has been fossicking in the bowels of his church and found many treasures from long ago, including a hymn book called Festive People. He has scanned it for us. In amongst songs of … Continue reading →

I asked our lovely parish priest if he had any songs he liked for Lent and said to look up a song called “Coming Home”. He has also mentioned a source called With Joyful Lips, so I looked there and, … Continue reading →

I’ve already blogged this song by Gen Bryant, here, and we are using it as a recessional despite being a less than youthful assembly. I purchased the download of the sheet music collection some time ago from Willow, but was … Continue reading →

This song by Danielle Rose turned up in a liturgy posted by Gio and it is not one I have come across before. This is a little bit country and is from her album, I Thirst. It was a WLP … Continue reading →

I’m wondering why so little of this collection is in circulation these days. Nineteen Seventy-eight was pretty late for the folk mass era and a lot of these somgs aren’t really folk anyway. I also suspect WLP was pretty small … Continue reading →