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Entrance: We Three Kings Psalm 71 ( McKenna) Lord, every nation on earth will adore you, will adore you. Gifts: Star Child (Shirley Erina Murray – Carlton R. Young) AOV 2/43   Communion: The First Noel – verses 3-5 Recessional: Joy … Continue reading →

Entrance: Joy to the World Psalm 127 (McKenna) Happy are those who fear the Lord and walk in his ways. Gifts: What Child Is This Communion: Summoned by Love  (O’Brien/Watts) AOV 2/18 Recessional: Angels We Have Heard On High

A long time ago in a parish far far away a liturgy team put together the Christmas liturgy of all time. Instead of a few hoary old carols there was a pre-mass extravanganza of readings and marvellously selected songs like … Continue reading →

This is another of Monica Brown’s mantras that indulges her skill in mixing up time signatures. It is a sung prayer for private contemplation that would still fit in liturgy. You can down load the whole sheet music collection, Holy … Continue reading →

This Monica Brown mantra from Holy Ground, is based on Luke 23:46. You can buy the sheet music for almost nothing at Emmaus. She is very fond of changes in time signatures in these mantras but it seems to work. … Continue reading →

This mantra by Monica Brown is based on John 6:67-69 and has liturgical uses (eg Gifts) as well as being for private contemplation. The sheet music is on the collection Holy Ground ($A5 at Emmaus). To whom shall we go … Continue reading →

This is another marvellous mantra from Monica Brown that we used back at St Edwards in the day. It is a sentiment from the psalms and still most relevant for now. The text is at Emmaus and the collection, Holy … Continue reading →

I came across a hard copy of Monica Brown‘s book of mantras. Monica Brown is an Australian composer whose music just seemed to be there when I was at St Edward’s, Daisy Hill back in the late 1990s and 2000s, … Continue reading →

The last song in the collection, Hymns and Spiritual Songs Vol 1 from Liturgical Song, is this song for the Easter Sequence. This is Paul Mason’s setting of c11 text by Wipo of Burgundy, Victimae Paschale Laudes in the ICEL … Continue reading →

Paul Mason has included this arrangement by himself and Seth Harsh of William Henry Monk’s hymn in the collection Hymns and Spiritual Songs Vol 1 (available at Liturgical Song). Rounding out the nine new releases is a wonderful contemporary piano … Continue reading →