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I really should pay more attention because I’ve already blogged this one here. This is still an interesting one by Ricky Manalo CSP and I think I’m warming to it after all. It is a song for Pentecost with an … Continue reading →

I saw that RS’s parish were using this Steve Angrisano song a a recessional today. I enjoyed the clip at spiritandsong where the sheet music can be purchased and the lyrics can be found. It’s an alt-folk hoot (or hootnanny) … Continue reading →

I blogged this as Pescador Des Hombres nearly four years ago and the annoying MIDI guitar in my backing still bugs me, so in honour of today’s readings and that many assemblies will be singing it today, I’ve redone the … Continue reading →

Entrance: Hosea (Norbet) AOV 1/30 Gifts: Tree of Life (Thompson) AOV NG 138 Communion: A Place at the Table (Shirley Erena Murray – Lori True) AOV NG 1 Gather Your People (Hurd) AOV 1/71 Thanksgiving: Be Merciful (Haugen) Recessional: Holy Darkness (Schutte) … Continue reading →

Entrance: Christ Be Our Light (Farrell) AOV 2/3 Gifts: God of Second Chances (Haas) Communion: We Remember (Haugen) AOV 1/81 Bread Broken, Wine Shared (Horner) AOV 2/155 Thanksgiving: Be Merciful (Haugen) Recessional: Lord, the Light of Your Love (Kendrick) AOV 2/59

We are changing to Paul Taylor’s Mass of St Francis for Lent but using the Lenten Gospel Acclamation from Paul Mason’s Mass of Glory and Praise. We are using Marty Haugen’s setting of Psalm 91, “Be With Me” as the … Continue reading →

I can skip a lot of songs form OCP’s Guitar Accompaniment Book already blogged: 77 Blest Are They 78 Blest Be the Lord 79 Bread, Blessed and Broken 80 Bread for the World 81 Bread of Life (Cooney) 82 Bread of … Continue reading →

75 Blessed Feasts of Blessed Martyrs   Continuing this survey of OCP’s Guitar Accompaniment Book, we come to this very functional song for gathering. Originally, “Blessed Jesus, at Thy Word,” this is a seventeenth century text by Tobias Clausnitzer translated by Catherine Winkworth. … Continue reading →

I’m obviously just not paying attention, as this song, with a text by Owen Alstott and Jeanne Frolick is set to ST ELIZABETH. I blogged that as the tune of “Beautiful Saviour” not so long ago, but was fool enough … Continue reading →

Another song with a text based on Psalm 103 by Janine Applegate , set by Randall DeBruyn. It is a stirring hymn and when heard in all its glory – brass, harmonies, the lot – is quite a blast. You … Continue reading →