It’s a style that works for us, and I try to be a month/season in advance picking the music, so it’s just a matter of copy and paste to send it here, and it might be of use to someone else.

The McAuley/Connolly hymns are brilliant, but I suspect there are more than a few parishes that won’t use them because of the non-inclusive language and lack of chords (outside of Together in Song). I think I read an interview with Richard a while back where he made the comment that he has no objection to inclusive language, but putting it into these hymns damaged the poetry.

As an aside, chord calculation can be aided using online tools such as https://www.8notes.com/piano_chord_chart/chord_finder.asp

I think I mentioned it previously, but we have the Gather 3rd ed. hymnal in the pews which is rather problematic (both from a style and hymn tune selection perspective), and normally use home-made seasonal booklets outside of Ordinary Time.

Mass Parts: Mass of St. Ann (Bolduc)
Psalm: You Are a Priest Forever (Alonso)

Gifts: As Christ Is for Us (Whitaker)

Communion: I Am the Bread of Life (Toolan)
To Be Your Bread (Haas)

Closing: City of God (Schutte)

G’Day Chris W

I’m glad the McAuley/Connolly collaborations are still being sung – the poetry is superb and Connolly settings always have such inventiveness.

We sang “Gifts of Finest Wheat” at my last parish and it just about survived a simple guitar backing. We haven’t tackled anything different for a while so I’ll see what the brains trust thinks locally.

cheers

Geoff

BTW thanks for the tips on the more traditional repertoire – I am out of my usual experience here.