Author Archives: maddg

I’m still working through the Marty Haugen folio All Are Welcome and I have come to this adaptation of Psalm 116 that he suggests as a processional hymn or as the responsorial psalm for the second Sunday of Lent Year B. … Continue reading →

I’ve blogged this before but I only did the refrain so I thought I do the whole thing in which it is made clear that this is a song for funerals. The text for the refrain and first verse is … Continue reading →

This is another song from the “All Are Welcome” folio. Here Haugen has set a text by Ruth Duck to his tune LA GRANGE. The words can also be sung to the tune for “How Can I Keep from Singing”. … Continue reading →

Years ago I wanted the sheet music to a song by Marty Haugen called “The Hand of God Shall Hold You”. I found it in a folio called “All Are Welcome” and started using that song as well. I haven’t … Continue reading →

Entrance: Come to the Water (Andersen) AOV 1/74 Psalm 144 (McKenna) The Lord is near to all who call him. Gifts: Open My Eyes  (Manibusan) AOV 1/166 Communion: Seed Scattered and Sown (Feiten) GA 195 One Bread One Body (Foley) AOV 1/129 Thanksgiving: You Are … Continue reading →

This is a text by Thomas Aquinas that deSilva has set to a tune he learned in India at school. His sheet music is here. Hymnary have more background and other settings. BIAB made up the chords and I made … Continue reading →

This is Chris deSilva’s tasteful adaption of “Salve Regina”. The sheet music is here. My backing is BIAB strings noodling under the melody. Hail, holy Queen, Mother of Mercy. Hail, our life, our sweetness and our hope. To you we … Continue reading →

Chris deSilva has been very involved with the RCIA in Perth and this song certainly relates to that ministry.  It also would be a good recessional (esp vs 2&4) with its focus on discipleship. The sheet music is here at … Continue reading →

I’m working through the songs that Chris deSilva has put up on his website. This is a song for Ascension. It has a couple of clunky rhymes: band/land; meet/paraclete but it works well enough and the tune is, as usual … Continue reading →

I’m having a good time blogging the works of Chris deSilva from Perth.  His songs are liturgically useful and able to be sung, which is a good combination. The verses of “Make a Highway” match the weeks in Advent so … Continue reading →