Author Archives: maddg

I’m still blogging “Voices As One” but I’m interspersing that with songs from liturgies from commenters and random songs I’ve run across recently. This lovely song is by Stuart Townend. It’s 5/4 time, but BIAB needs to be 4/4 2/4 … Continue reading →

Here is more music from Joe Mattingly in Voices As One, just in time for Pentecost. This one is not as choir orientated as some but does have a call and response in the verses between cantor and assembly. The … Continue reading →

Last Wednesday was the second session of the Archbishop’s series called “Living Biblically in a Secular World.” (Audio of the  second session.) After last time objecting to Bible stories being labelled as myth he moves from discussing the myth of … Continue reading →

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 … Continue reading →

Entrance: Lift Up Your Hearts (O’Connor) Gather Australia 416 (AOV 1/156 as Behold the Glory of God) Psalm 118 (O’Brien) The stone rejected by the builders has become the cornerstone. Gifts: Shepherd Me O God (Haugen) AOV 1/33 Communion: Table Song (Haas) … Continue reading →

This song turned up in an Easter liturgy belonging to a commenter to this blog. It is by Steve Merkel but I gather Michael W Smith may have popularised it. The chorus is a Kyrie that the assembly could sing … Continue reading →

I have already blogged “In the Light” because it is one of the few WLP songs that were used in AOV:NG. The next song in Voices As One therefore is a restrained song from Ed Bolduc that really needs the counter-melodies … Continue reading →

This is a communion song by Kevin Keil and Robert H Frenzel that I noticed one of the parishes doing over Easter. The tune borrows quite a lot from “The Water is Wide”. The text is here (page 15) and … Continue reading →

Marcy Weckler has written a lovely shepherd song to use if you are sick of “Shepherd Me O God” etc. It is also good for funerals. The verses start out the same but the second one goes off on a tangent so … Continue reading →

This is another song that was done at the parish of one of my correspondents over Easter.  It is by Ray Repp and goes back to the folk mass era but is pleasant and singable. It is in the voice … Continue reading →