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As With Gladness Men of Old GAB 42

38 Angels We Have Heard On High 39 Anthem 40 As Grains of Wheat 41 As I Have Done For You As I have not surprisingly run across a few of these OCP tunes before, I’m up to 42 in … Continue reading

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Angels From the Realms of Glory GAB 37

This is a  carol I’ve never blogged that is next in the OCP Guitar Accompaniment Book. It is by James Montgomery and the sheet music and the text for his three verses is at Hymnary.  It is set to REGENT … Continue reading

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Mass for Moderns (Revised)

This revision of a very popular Australian mass by Stephen Robinson is available as sheet music at As One Voice. I played the old version for many years and this shares the problem of all revisions of having to unlearn … Continue reading

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Mass Settings

Ming posted this on the page where I blogged the Mass Shalom, but I thought he posed good questions that might provoke some more general discussion and assistance: We have been using Mass Shalom for many months now, after switching … Continue reading

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Music for the Fourth Sunday in Ordinary Time Year C 30th/31st January 2016

Entrance: Summoned By Love (O’Brien/Watts) AOV 2/18 Psalm 70 (McKenna) I will sing of your salvation. Gifts: In Love We Choose to Live (Cotter) AOV 2/63 Communion: Bread of Life (Farrell) AOV 1/164 Seed Scattered and Sown (Feiten) GA 195 Recessional: … Continue reading

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Be With Me: Psalm 91

This setting of Psalm 91 by Marty Haugen will be used as a seasonal psalm all through Lent at our parish this year.  I am familiar with the refrain from years ago at another parish but the verses will need … Continue reading

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There’s a Wideness to God’s Mercy (Ed Bolduc)

Yola’s parish are using this Ed Bolduc song for the Year of Mercy. Bolduc uses Frederick Faber’s text and adds his own refrain text. His tune has two verses/refrain/verse/refrain/interlude/verse/refrain, but that will take it out to more than six minutes, so … Continue reading

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As the Grains of Wheat GA 194

Ming also mentioned this communion song by Marty Haugen as one he uses as an instrumental. The text is based on the Didache and while the tune is nice the whole song is fine for Eucharist. I could find an MP3 … Continue reading

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Water of Life GA 176

Ming’s parish used this song last Sunday. It is suitable for Baptism or a Sprinkling Rite and was written by Stephen Dean. The text is here and the sheet music is at OCP, although my copy is in Gather Australia.

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Music for the Third Sunday in Ordinary Time Year C 23rd/24th January 2016

Entrance: All Are Welcome (Haugen) Psalm 18 (McKenna) Your words, Lord, are spirit and life. Your words, Lord, are spirit and life. Gifts: We are Many Parts (Haugen) AOV 1/86 Communion: One Bread, One Body (Foley) AOV 1/129 Song of the Body … Continue reading

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