Author Archives: maddg

This is lovely meditative piece with music by Christopher Walker setting Paule Freburg’s text. You could use it at a funeral or as a contemplative piece after communion.  It was used at RS’s parish recently. The sheet music can be … Continue reading →

Having been away I’m looking back at some liturgies posted here from a few weeks ago with this one by Jackie Francois and Audrey Assad. This is a song that might have trouble in a mass, because it seems more … Continue reading →

Entrance: Hosea (Norbet) AOV 1/30 Psalm 50 (McKenna)   I will rise and go to my father. I will rise and go to my father. Gifts: Be Merciful (Haugen) Communion: Table of Plenty (Schutte) AOV 2/20 Table Song (Haas) Thanksgiving: O … Continue reading →

Entrance: Gather Your People (Hurd) AOV 1/71 Psalm 89 (McKenna)   In ev’ry age, O Lord, you have been our refuge. Gifts: Enemy of Apathy (Bell-Maule) AOV 2/75 Communion: Lord, to Whom Shall We Go? (Herry) AOV 1/6 You Are Mine  (Haas)  AOV 2/2 … Continue reading →

Entrance: A Place at the Table (Shirley Erena Murray – Lori True) AOV NG 1 Psalm 67 (McKenna) God, in your goodness, you have made a home for the poor. Gifts: Come to Me (Norbet) AOV 1/37 Communion: Seed, Scattered and Sown (Feiten) … Continue reading →

Entrance: All Are Welcome (Haugen) Psalm 116 (McKenna) Go out to all the world; and tell the Good News. Go out to all the world; and tell the Good News. Gifts: Blessed Be Our God (McKenna) AOV NG 13 Communion: Table … Continue reading →

Entrance: As a Fire is Meant for Burning (Duck) Psalm 39 (McKenna) Lord, come to my aid! Lord, come to my aid! Gifts: The Cry of the Poor (Foley) AOV 1/83 Communion: Bread of Heaven (Manibusan-Hart) We Remember (Haugen) AOV 1/81 … Continue reading →

I will be distracted from the blog for a while so I’m going to put up all the music liturgy selections that were decided on at our Music Liturgy team meeting the other day. There are lots of songs that … Continue reading →

This is a lively Easter song from John Angotti that could also be used as a recessional and the verses suit any Eucharist. The sheet music says it is 136 beats per minute, which is impossibly fast. Bring it down … Continue reading →

Peter Kolar has written a proper liturgical song in a samba beat. It would be a great recessional. The version I have in Voices As One Vol 2 is in English but there are Spanish and bilingual versions as well. … Continue reading →