Author Archives: maddg

I will break my moratorium on US based hymns to look at OCP’s additions to Breaking Bread for 2023. This is one of many hymns based on Micah 6:8, on this occasion written by the wonderful Bernadette Farrell and dating … Continue reading →

Entrance: O Come, O Come Emmanuel (Neale) AOV 1/174 Gifts: Advent Chant (Porter/Kirkland) AOV 2/123 Communion: Blessed One (Thompson) VAO 2/215 Recessional: Emmanuel (Angrisano) SAS 2/290

Entrance: O Emmanuel (Mangan) CWB II 241 Gifts: Like a Candle (O’Brien/Ogilvie) AOV NG 91 Communion: Bread Broken, Wine Shared Bread  (Horner) AOV 2/155 Recessional: Emmanuel (Angrisano) SAS 2/290

Entrance: Prepare the Way of the Lord (Boniwell) CWB II 250 Gifts: Advent Chant (Porter/Kirkland) AOV 2/123 Communion: Seed, Scattered and Sown (Feiten) CWB II 592 Recessional: A Voice in the Wilderness  (Robinson) AOV 1/60

We will take a leaf from my previous parishes practice and use “To You, O God, I Lift Up My Soul” (AOV 2/12 by Bob Hurd) as a seasonal psalm for Advent. Otherwise: Entrance: O Emmanuel (Mangan) CWB II 241 … Continue reading →

I’ll have a break from Shirley Erena Murray for a while after this sung prayer from Alleluia Aotearoa. The text and sheet music are at Hope Publishing. It is set to LITTLE VENICE by Gerald Knight. I got the chords … Continue reading →

This is another gathering hymn from Shirley Murray with yet another insightful text in Alleluia Aotearoa. The text and the sheet music for the setting by Colin Gibson (KNOX COLLEGE), which is also the one selected in AA, is at … Continue reading →

This is a Beatitude in song for the peacemakers from Shirley Erina Murray in Alleluia Aotearoa. The text is at Hope Publishing. They set it to GONFALON ROYAL by Percy C. Buck. I took the BIAB file from Small Church … Continue reading →

My survey of Shirley Erena Murray songs from Alleluia Aotearoa continues with this text for offering that I suppose we Catholics could use for Gifts. It is in her usual direct pithy style. Be convicted by her text available at … Continue reading →

This is a song that ties our gathering to our need to act. The text from Shirley Murray highlights the shared table and welcoming the dispossessed. In Alleluia Aotearoa it is set by Colin Gibson (KHAO I DANG). The sheet … Continue reading →