Author Archives: maddg

Entrance: Gather As One (McKenna) AOV NG 48 Psalm 68 (McKenna) Lord, in your great love, answer me, answer me. Gifts: A Trusting Psalm (Bates) AOV 1/115 Communion: Here at the Table (Ogilvie/Harvey) Recessional: Hope in Love (Bierer, Deegan, Hart, … Continue reading →

Entrance: Summoned by Love (O’Brien/Watts) AOV 2/18 Psalm 99 (McKenna) We are his people, the sheep of his flock Gifts: Harvest (Grant) AOV Digital Communion: All the Hungry, Come (Doherty) Recessional: Send Us Out (Bryant) AOVD

Entrance: You Are Welcome (Watt) Psalm 147 (McKenna) Praise the Lord, Jerusalem Gifts: This Blessing Cup (Andersen) Communion: To the Table We Are Called (O’Brien/Harvey) AOVD Recessional: Be Hope (Bryant, Jorna, McNally, Madden)

With few exceptions, I’m managing to select Australian songs for Mass. Entrance: One Body In Christ (McKenna) AOV NG 102 Daniel 3 (McKenna) Glory and praise forever. Gifts: Trinity Song (Andersen) Communion: I Believe in God the Father (Perry, STUTTGART) … Continue reading →

This is in fact Kumbayah, the ultimate three chord folk song, except John de Luca has usefully changed the words and used somewhat more than just 3 chords. It was originally an African-American spiritual that was taken up by the … Continue reading →

I am finding some hymns in the New Living Parish Hymnal that I have still not yet covered in all these years of blogging. This one is an obvious choice for Christ the King. The text is by I.J.E Daniel … Continue reading →

While this is a text that is new to me, but was in fact the original words to the tune, BUNESSAN. It is Mary Macdonald’s Gaelic Christmas song, ‘Leanabh an Aigh’ translated by Lachlan Macbean. Bunessan was actually Mary Macdonald’s … Continue reading →

This song shares it’s refrain’s tune with yesterday’s hymn but has completely different verses. That means it is by James Phillip McAuley and Richard Connolly. It is a Eucharist song, especially intended for Corpus Christi, which comes up soon. I … Continue reading →

This is a delightful Easter hymn by the Australian team of the poet, James Phillip McAuley, and composer Richard Connelly. I blogged this out of Together In Song, here, which meant they provided the chords. Since then it was published … Continue reading →

I have looked at this as “At the Cross Her Vigil Keeping”, but not in this translation. This is Stabat Mater in translation by Ronald Knox, which I couldn’t find anywhere so it required typing the whole fifteen verses. More … Continue reading →