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Entrance: Gather Your People (Hurd) AOV 1/71 Gifts: A Trusting Psalm (Bates) AOV 1/115 Communion:  Enemy of Apathy (Bell-Maule) AOV 2/75 Recessional:  Hearts on Fire (Mangan) AOV NG 62

Entrance: Christ Light, Shining in the Darkness (Grant) CWBII 468 Gifts: The Cry of the Poor (Foley) AOV 1/83   Communion: A Place at the Table  (Shirley Erena Murray – Lori True) AOV NG 1 Recessional: Bring Forth the Kingdom (Haugen) … Continue reading →

The last of the Shirley Murray texts in Alleluia Aotearoa is another of her lovely Christmas songs. The text and sheet music by Colin Gibson is at Hope Publishing. My backing on Band in a Box uses approximate chords and … Continue reading →

Shirley Murray has taken this difficult saying of Jesus and crafted a song of unity. It is from the collection Alleluia Aotearoa. With the mother/brother rhyme a given, her words become an avalanche of outrageous rhymes: stigma/enigma; relate us/status, etc. … Continue reading →

I’m nearing the end of a very long series of Shirley Murray songs from Alleluia Aotearoa. She did a lot of Christmas songs that are worthy of consideration. This has simple meaningful lyrics that are available at Hope Publishing, along … Continue reading →

Those playing along at home will note that I have left out the essential song of mourning by Shirley Murray called, “When Human Voices Cannot Sing” AA 151. This is because it showed up in other hymnals and I have … Continue reading →

This is a Shirley Murray that takes us from Advent to Easter with a call to action from Alleluia Aotearoa. The challenging text is at Hope Publishing, along with the sheet music for Colin Gibson’s setting, EXPECTATION. My backing is … Continue reading →

I have already blogged the Colin Gibson setting of the Shirley Murray text honouring God in creation because it is in CWBII. That setting is also in Alleluia Aotearoa. Hope Publishing have the text and two further settings. AI HU … Continue reading →

In the northern hemisphere this would be an Easter song, but for Shirley Murray writing in New Zealand it is a spring carol celebrating new life in the Church. It is 140 in Alleluia Aotearoa. The text and Colin Gibson‘s … Continue reading →

This is a Shirley Murray prayer in song asking forgiveness for our failings. It would suit Lent or a second Rite of Reconciliation. It is one of the many songs with her words in Alleluia Aotearoa. The words and sheet … Continue reading →