Author Archives: maddg

This song is in AOV Next Gen (No 91) and I blogged about it here last year. Why not spend the next seven and a half minutes not being busy. Find out more about the nice people at Willow here.  

Donna Pena wrote “Digo ‘Si’ Senor” and AOV has the English version. As a recessional it would cap a service with a justice theme very well. I suspect the original language fits the tune better and the tune varies a little … Continue reading →

This is a South African hymn so naturally you’d want to listen to it in this video from Holland. For a bigger sound this choir from the West Indies does their arrangement here. You can find lots of other versions on … Continue reading →

A wildly popular song by Michael Joncas based on Ps 91.  Sometimes called the “Yoohoo” song because of its startling and inventive opening two notes it is rightly lauded as a beautiful and subtle tune but also the cause of a … Continue reading →

A Taize chant for Good Friday by Jacques Berthier.  Best done with little or no backing and repeated until all are suitable drained, teary and upset. Listen here. Jesus, remember me when you come into your Kingdom. Jesus, remember me when … Continue reading →

This is another Marty Haugen song that I’ve never heard sung, except in the sample at AOV and the sample from GIA. We use Dan Schutte’s “Table of Plenty” instead, which is in AOV 2. It can be purchased at … Continue reading →

I’m still using my battered (so battered it is no longer combined) combined AOV Vol1&2 guitar book I bought years ago.  I was looking around the AOV site for something else and discovered it has been reissued with the new mass … Continue reading →

This song sounds very seventies from the perspective of lyrics.  Writen by Gregory Norbet in the seventies when he was still a monk, there is something vaguely disturbing about a line ” and for me that’s just where it is”. We’ve … Continue reading →

Christopher Walker wrote this paraphrase of the Nicene Creed back in the 80s when that was OK.  I suspect it isn’t any more as “we” don’t believe anymore, “I” believe. Incredibly he manages this without ever using the word consubstantial. … Continue reading →

This song by David Haas has always been in high rotation at our church. You can hear it done properly here. There is no way an assembly can do the light and shade shown there and the long high notes at … Continue reading →