Author Archives: maddg

This is Marty Haugen’s setting of the Magnificat that is in Gather Comprehensive. It is another call and response between an assembly and a cantor that could also be sung through just by the assembly. The sheet music is at … Continue reading →

I’m up to the last four Marty Haugen songs in Gather Comprehensive that I haven’t covered elsewhere. I love this tune Marty Haugen wrote to set his adaptation of a text by St Augustine. It is a song of comfort … Continue reading →

Entrance: Come As You Are (Brown) AOV 1/31 Psalm 102(McKenna) The Lord is kind and merciful Gifts: A Trusting Psalm (Bates) AOV 1/115 Communion: In the Breaking of the Bread (Hurd)  AOV 1/58 Thanksgiving: Be Merciful (Haugen) Recessional: Lift Up … Continue reading →

I must be getting near the end of the Marty Haugen songs in Gather Comprehensive that haven’t turned up elsewhere in the collections I have blogged to date. This is a song for Eucharist but could be used to gather … Continue reading →

This is another Marty Haugen tune setting a text by another author, in this case Herbert O’Driscoll. It is a great entrance hymn and you could pick the verses to suit the liturgy. The text is at Hymnary. I see … Continue reading →

I’m back to looking at Marty Haugen songs in Gather Comprehensive not already covered on this blog. This one is his setting of Ruth Duck’s marvellous text, which fits with the fishermen songs I’ve done this week as a call … Continue reading →

This is another call to mission with the fishing motif from last week’s gospel that Ryan heard at mass last week. This is a challenging text by Sylvia Dunstan set to AURELIA by Samuel Sebastian Wesley. The tune is also … Continue reading →

I am digressing from my Haugenfest to look at songs for fishermen that turned up in a liturgy Ryan attended last Sunday. They went all out with three of them to flog the gospel, two of which I was unaware. … Continue reading →

Marty Haugen based this sweet song on Luke 12:22-34. The text is here. The sheet music can be purchased at GIA.

Entrance: God has Chosen Me (Farrell) AOV 1/21 Psalm 1 (McKenna) Happy are they who hope in the Lord. Happy are they! Happy are they! Gifts: Blessed Be Our God (McKenna) AOV NG 13 Communion: Bread of Life (Farrell) AOV … Continue reading →