Fiona Dyball finished up her presentation on “road tested repetoire for prayer services at Catholic Secondary Schools” following Taizé with people imitating Taizé.
Incidentally, the link from her presentation to her article on school liturgy is now dead but it can still be accessed here.
A bit like her presentation at the APMN conference, I bet everyone’s heads were spinning after all that music in one sitting. There was actually even more but I was able to axe all the David Haas selections, which slimmed things down a bit.
I Will Walk in the Presence of God by Tony Alonso
This is new to me and a mantra that is a call to prayer. The sheet music is at GIA and the text is in their preview.
Jesus Christ: Yesterday, Today and Forever by Sr Suzanne Toolan
Toolan wrote this in the style of Taizé. The link Dyball provides goes to a collection at OCP, but it is available as a single sheet from GIA just not under it’s title – use this link. The text is in their preview.
Where Two or Three by Br Michael Herry
The sheet music is free at the Marist website. Caution is advised – you may get stuck there looking at all the music he has written and never emerge. He is the third Australian to get selected here after Fr Rob Galea and Gen Bryant – not counting Hillsong, of course.
So, Fiona Dyball’s presentation is a great resource for high schools, but also for sung prayer suggestions more generally and she deserves congratulations for her road testing.