Author Archives: maddg

This is a setting of Psalm 137 and coincidentally comes up in a couple of weeks (4th week of Lent Year B).  It is by Paul A. Tate and has a singable refrain for the assembly and good verses for … Continue reading →

Mary mentioned this as a song relatively unknown in Australia but popular in Ireland. The text is by John Glynn and the music Colin Murphy. It appears popular for funerals. The text is here. Is it too poetic or too … Continue reading →

This is another song by the prolific Ed Bolduc, which has liturgical uses (a very Eucharistic text) but the tune is really just too fiddly for the assembly. This talented cantor is having a red hot go and the lyrics … Continue reading →

Entrance: Praise to You O Christ Our Saviour (Farrell) AOV 1/28 Psalm 116 ( O’Brien) I will walk in the presence of the Lord, In the land of the living. Gifts: Heal Me O God (Norbet) AOV 2/52 Communion: I am … Continue reading →

This song was used at Yola’s parish while I was away in January.  The lovely music is by Bernadette Farrell and the text by Owen Alstott is such a lovely prayer for Lent I thought I’d blog it. The song has … Continue reading →

I noticed that Yola’s parish were using this Hillsong song by Reuben Morgan and Ben Fielding in their liturgies. It is a typical P&W slow song that builds to an noisy frenzy if desired. The title sounds like awkward use … Continue reading →

This is pretty much a choir only piece by Joe Mattingly of the Newman Singers in that the tune for each verse gets progressively more difficult and would be unlikely to be easily used by an assembly. Even the refrain has … Continue reading →

This is a lovely hymn written by David Evans in the 1980s but has a classic singable tune. I’ve never heard it before but apparently it is a favourite in many places. The text and some biographical information are at … Continue reading →

To mark the new season of Lent, we are changing to the Mass of St Francis, but will use the Lenten Gospel Acclamation from Mason’s Mass of Glory and Praise.   Entrance: Hosea (Norbet) AOV 1/30 Psalm 25 (O’Brien) Gifts: … Continue reading →

I noticed Chris’s parish were doing this song by Kathleen Thomerson.  I found it in Together in Song. Some background for the song and songwriter is here. It is a delightfully simple and singable hymn. Cantus Mundi has the text … Continue reading →