Author Archives: maddg

City of God (Schutte) AOV 1/57 I Have Loved You (Joncas) AOV 1/126 One Bread, One Body (Foley) AOV 1/129 Jesus Is Risen (O’Brien- Ogilvie) AOV NG 82 Selections from my previous parish in Queensland. Entrance Gather As One Gloria Sung Responsorial Psalm … Continue reading →

Jesus Is Risen (O’Brien- Ogilvie) AOV NG 82 Seek Ye First (Lafferty) AOV 1/48 Bread Broken, Wine Shared Bread  (Horner) AOV 2/155 All the Ends of the Earth (Dufford) AOV 1/76) From Queensland: Entrance City of God Gloria Sung Responsorial … Continue reading →

My current parish sings Paul Taylor’s “Mass of St Francis”. This is fine, but other parishes I have played at knew two or three masses, which not only gave variety, but meant you could note changes of season by changing … Continue reading →

Our priest is off for six weeks and all his plans for a locum fell through at the last minute, so we are down to one mass a week until June. Being sensible (and volunteer) church musicians we have organised … Continue reading →

John Bell’s tunes sound traditional, which is not a criticism. When he doesn’t repurpose a folk song he just writes a better one, as in this song about the Christmas story in all its foolishness yet greatness. Wild Goose sell … Continue reading →

The Saturday vigil mass I now play at locally has not had consistent live music for many years. The Sunday mass has a stalwart organist who has kept the flag flying for decades, but she can’t be everywhere. Getting us … Continue reading →

This is another excellent song from the Iona Community that uses an old tune with fresh lyrics, from the collection Heaven Shall Not Wait. It is set to O WALY WALY and covers the life of Christ from birth all … Continue reading →

To recover from too many American hymns I’m going back to Heaven Shall Not Wait from the Iona Community by John Bell and Graham Maule. Bell’s texts are never bland and often surprising and illuminating. The book is for sale … Continue reading →

I have only done a selection of the songs from Never Too Young and I will finish up with this Ken Canedo prayer. It is a slow gospel song that’s sounds like “I Still Call Australia Home” in the introduction, … Continue reading →

This is an old Shaker hymn by Mary Hazard that found it’s way in to Never Too Young. Their arrangement features prominent percussion including shaker, so I hope that wasn’t a misunderstanding. You can hear their arrangement here. While you … Continue reading →