Comments on: Music for the Fifth Week in Ordinary Time Year A 7th/8th February 2026 https://www.sixmaddens.org/music-for-the-fifth-week-in-ordinary-time-year-a-6th-7th-february-2026/ Blogging Catholic Liturgical Music Sat, 14 Feb 2026 23:41:25 +0000 hourly 1 By: Mary https://www.sixmaddens.org/music-for-the-fifth-week-in-ordinary-time-year-a-6th-7th-february-2026/#comment-86961 Sat, 14 Feb 2026 23:41:25 +0000 https://www.sixmaddens.org/?p=20864#comment-86961 In reply to Gio.

“I Want to Walk” is from the charismatic Community of Celebration AKA Celebration International ie a publisher rather than a hymnal. Some of their work, and especially “I Want to Walk”, pops up in unexpected places.

fyi, I’ve got an index to Celebration for Everyone (1994 edition) here: https://www.godsongs.net/2012/04/celebration-hymnal-for-everyone.html

What to call this music is interesting.

“Folk” isn’t right any more: Though “I Want to Walk” is certainly from the folk-era, it’s somehow more than that.

Contemporary may imply American style contemporary-Christian-music. Think guitars, synths and rock-beats initially and then large scale professionally-produced sounds. Maybe contemporary-hymns is better.

The best description I’ve seen is “church-music light” – this was used in some 1970s (ish) English circles. But it’s too long, and sounds a bit demeaning.

]]> By: Gio https://www.sixmaddens.org/music-for-the-fifth-week-in-ordinary-time-year-a-6th-7th-february-2026/#comment-86946 Fri, 13 Feb 2026 14:55:11 +0000 https://www.sixmaddens.org/?p=20864#comment-86946 In reply to Liz Brereton.

‘I want to walk’ was from the 70s, and the music sheet said it’s from Celebration.
I assumed it was Kevin Mayhew’s Celebration Hymnal for Everyone, and combined with it sounding like literally everything else for that era, I call it folk.

Looking deeper into it now, I can’t find it in the Celebration Hymnal index on the McCrimmon website.
The 1997 Word/Integrity Celebration hymnal doesn’t have it either.

It was the first time I noticed the cathedral use anything other than CWB2 for congregational song.

]]> By: Liz Brereton https://www.sixmaddens.org/music-for-the-fifth-week-in-ordinary-time-year-a-6th-7th-february-2026/#comment-86936 Thu, 12 Feb 2026 15:00:13 +0000 https://www.sixmaddens.org/?p=20864#comment-86936 no one uses the term folk music anymore that is 1970s terminology and incorrect. I refer to it as contemporary church music which is more accurate.

]]> By: Gio https://www.sixmaddens.org/music-for-the-fifth-week-in-ordinary-time-year-a-6th-7th-february-2026/#comment-86907 Mon, 09 Feb 2026 00:18:58 +0000 https://www.sixmaddens.org/?p=20864#comment-86907 In reply to maddg.

No. They’re not really meant to, and I don’t hear them sing half the other stuff too.

People don’t tend to join in at Communion, so it’s just decoration music for the mo.

Folk Mass music is weird to hear in a Cathedral.

]]> By: maddg https://www.sixmaddens.org/music-for-the-fifth-week-in-ordinary-time-year-a-6th-7th-february-2026/#comment-86905 Sun, 08 Feb 2026 21:02:16 +0000 https://www.sixmaddens.org/?p=20864#comment-86905 In reply to Gio.

Gio
Does the assembly sing the Mozart Ave?
Geoff

]]> By: Gio https://www.sixmaddens.org/music-for-the-fifth-week-in-ordinary-time-year-a-6th-7th-february-2026/#comment-86901 Sun, 08 Feb 2026 14:04:50 +0000 https://www.sixmaddens.org/?p=20864#comment-86901 Introductory: Christ Be Our Light
Ordinary: Mass Shalom
Alleluia: Murray
Offertory: I want to walk as a child of the light (Thomerson)
Communion: Ave Verum Corpus (Mozart)
Postcommunion: Gift of finest wheat (Kreutz)
Recessional: Bring Forth the Kingdom

This week they’re using more then CWB2. They have Celebration (shudder) too.

]]> By: Ryan https://www.sixmaddens.org/music-for-the-fifth-week-in-ordinary-time-year-a-6th-7th-february-2026/#comment-86891 Sun, 08 Feb 2026 01:48:52 +0000 https://www.sixmaddens.org/?p=20864#comment-86891 Gathering: The Summons (Bell)
Mass Parts: Mass of St. Ann (Bolduc)
Psalm: The Just Man Is a Light in Darkness (Alonso – The Lyric Psalter)
Gifts: As Christ Is for Us (Whitaker)
Communion: Taste and See (Moore)
All That Is Hidden (Farrell)
Closing: Thanks Be to God (Dean)

]]> By: Gio https://www.sixmaddens.org/music-for-the-fifth-week-in-ordinary-time-year-a-6th-7th-february-2026/#comment-86885 Sat, 07 Feb 2026 12:10:50 +0000 https://www.sixmaddens.org/?p=20864#comment-86885 Tonight’s Vigil Mass:
Introductory: Christ Be Our Light (Verses 1, 2, and 5)
Mass Setting: Mass Of St. Margaret (Herry)
Alleluia: Sing Alleluia to the Lord
Offertory: All That we Have (Gary Ault)
Communion/postcommunion: [what was sung differed from the powerpoint]
Godhead Here in Hiding (Verses 1 and 5) [not in powerpoint]
You Did it to Me (Danielle Rose)
[in the powerpoint, Speak Lord I’m Listning was in there for postcommunion]
Recessional: Make me a Channel of your Peace

]]> By: Chris Wroblewski https://www.sixmaddens.org/music-for-the-fifth-week-in-ordinary-time-year-a-6th-7th-february-2026/#comment-86561 Thu, 08 Jan 2026 23:00:00 +0000 https://www.sixmaddens.org/?p=20864#comment-86561 CWB2:551 ‐ Lord, Whose Love in Humble Service [Bayly / IN BABILONE]
CWB2:642 ‐ What Does the Lord Require [Bayly / SHARPTHORNE]
CWB2:467 ‐ Christ Is the World’s Light, Christ and None Other [Green / CHRISTE SANCTORUM]
CWB2:498 ‐ God of Day and God of Darkness [Haugen / BEACH SPRING]

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