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I can skip over Dan Schutte’s “Glory in the Cross” having blogged it already and turn to Bob Hurd’s “O Sacred Head”. The tune is his but the first two verses are adapted from Bernard of Clairvaux with Bob Hurd … Continue reading →

This week I took some ideas from parts the second reading from Phillipians 2 that I didn’t use a few weeks ago when it came up. I sat at the piano and plunked out a tune to fit my very … Continue reading →

This song by Lenny LeBlanc and Paul Baloche is listed for Holy Week in Spirit and Song Vol 2. It has a fiddly tune with broadway pretensions that is unsuitable for assembly use but it would work fine as a … Continue reading →

I’ve moved from Lent to Holy Week in Spirit & Song Vol 2 and come to Twila Paris’s “Your Only Son”. It sounds like a traditional celtic folk tune but apparently she wrote it in 1985. It has adventurous rhymes … Continue reading →

The last of a very generous selection of songs for Lent in Spirit & Song Vol 2 is Matt Maher’s “40 Days”. A mid tempo rocker with a lot a charm, this song is singable, so if if fits your … Continue reading →

Bob Hurd wrote the next Lent song in Spirit and Song 2 as well.  It hasn’t the appeal of “Remember Not the Things of the Past” but is again a song for the the assembly and the text is intelligent … Continue reading →

We are relying on Jenny O’Brien’s excellent psalms to use as sung responses at the moment. Other easily available and excellent options are Amanda McKenna’s from As One Voice and Kate Keefe’s free responses.  We should be singing, at the … Continue reading →

I don’t remember hearing this one before and it will be one to remember for Lent next year. It is by Bob Hurd and he uses sources from Isaiah, Phillipians and John’s Gospel for the excellent text but it is … Continue reading →

This song in the Lent section of Spirit and Song Vol 2 is another perfectly suited to private prayer or performance in Lent, but really unsuited to liturgy. It is by Brian Doerksen. I’m struggling with these lyrics — do I … Continue reading →

I should have done this earlier this week.   Entrance: Gather Your People (Hurd) AOV 1/71 Psalm 45 (O’Brien) The Lord is near, the Lord is near to all who call. Gifts: Come to Me (Norbet) AOV 1/37 Communion: Seed Scattered … Continue reading →