This is another Gelineau psalm, this time Psalm 42 (43) by Joseph Gelineau.
Verse six isn’t part of a psalm at all really.
I note The Australian Hymn Book gives two alternative antiphons, written by Anthony Gregory Murray, who we have come across before as 3/4 of the Wiggles.
GIA still sells the unrevised Gelineau Grail Psalms — well the verses at least are the original. (I’m told that including an M dash is a tell that this was written by AI.)
I was going to skip thesepsalms, but I’ve had a go at a backing. I’m pretty sure the tempo between the verses and the refrain is a little off but it’s an attempt.
Antiphon
I will go to the altar of God: praise the God of my joy.
1 Defend me, O God, and plead my cause
against a godless nation.
From deceitful and cunning men
rescue me, O God.2 Since you, O God, are my stronghold,
why have you rejected me?
Why do I go mourning
oppressed by the foe?3 O send forth your light and your truth;
let these be my guide.
Let them bring me to your holy mountain,
to the place where you dwell.4 And I will come to the altar of God,
the God of my joy.
My redeemer, I will thank you on the harp,
O God, my God!5 Why are you cast down my soul,
why groan within me?
Hope in God, I will praise him still,
my Saviour and my God.6 Praise the Father, the Son and Holy Spirit,
both now and forever,
The God who is, who was, and who will be,
world without end.
Would AI write a line as clever as “3/4 of the Wiggles” in a church music blog post? I think not. Thank you for the laugh!
I don’t have the timing skills to successfully sing Gelineau, but as your midi shows, they really do have attractive melodies.
It’s worth mentioning that these were originally published (in English) back in 1963, before we had an English lectionary, so almost all the responses published for the lectionary are later compositions. While books with the original Grail text are still in print, I don’t believe that any with the complete original full psalm and antiphon music (as included in NLP) are. A selection is included in the psalm section of the Worship, 4th ed. hymnal, all be it, with Revised Grail 2010 text.
Outside of the responsorial psalm in the Mass, it is common practise to include a doxology as the final stanza when a psalm is sung/said as part of the Divine Office or a proper at Mass.
I have to ask: where is this M dash you speak of? I can’t see it anywhere!
Chris
4th para.
I remember getting my first proper word processor – an early MS Word on floppies – and inflicting the marker of my assignments with esoteric punctuation just because I could.
I decided with that psalm that if the response was essentially triplets I would do that where feasible in the verses.
Geoff
Em dash!!!!! Now I understand!!!!
I should have called it an em dash I know, but I like the idea that it is the width of a capital M.
Geoff
The AI M-dash is different.
You’re all good.
Unlike the Majellan Sunday Bulletin which has an AI image for every week.
It’s a sigh of relief when I see a parish bulletin with LiturgyHelp or St. Paul’s instead.
AI and Religion belong nowhere together.