Author Archives: maddg

This is a terrific song by Bob Hurd in a Latin style with one set of verses for gathering and another for sending forth. Oddly it sounds a bit like the bush ballad “Augathella Station”. The text of the refrain … Continue reading →

I’m pressing on with Volume Two of Spirit & Song and I’ve got to a section of ritual music. If I skip a song it means I’ve blogged it already. This song by Tom Booth has an obvious use for … Continue reading →

This is a setting of the Nunc Dimmitis by Janet Sullivan Whitaker, who wrote the wonderful “In Every Age.” This is a very nice relaxing setting to pray on your own or with others. The text is at spiritandsong where … Continue reading →

Yola’s parish use this song by Ray Repp from the folk mass era. I’d never heard of it. The text is here. It is from the Twentieth Century Folk Hymnal. You sometimes hear all this Folk mass material was lousy … Continue reading →

Entrance: Gather Us In (Haugen) AOV 1/12 Psalm 85 (O’Brien) Lord, show us your mercy and love and grant us your salvation. Gifts: Be Not Afraid (Dufford) AOV 1/114 Communion: Come to the Table (Burland) AOV NG 33 Do This … Continue reading →

Having been most unwell all week I wasn’t sure whether I’d get a song done. As usual, it is based on the readings for this week. It is played at ~65 bpm and is overly complicated but that’s just how … Continue reading →

I’ve moved to Spirit and Song Vol. 2 and have skipped the redundant Mass settings.  That takes me to the songs for night prayer and “Compline Hymn” with music by Timothy R. Smith, setting a text by Harry Hagan OSB. … Continue reading →

This is a song by John Burland that we will be doing for the next two Sundays because they will be for first communion and the children know the song.  I didn’t so I had to learn it. The text … Continue reading →

This is a first communion service so some of the songs are already chosen because they have been part on the children’s preparation. Entrance: Come to the Water (Andersen) AOV 1/74 Psalm 145 (O’Brien) The hand of the Lord feeds us; … Continue reading →

This song is based on the readings for the seventeenth week in Ordinary Time, Year A and has thoughts from the Psalm, the Book of Kings and the reading in Matthew’s Gospel. I tried to incorporate some lines from the … Continue reading →