Let Us Sing to the Lord (Exodus 15)

The last “psalm” in Paul Mason’s Psalms for All Time is from Exodus 15 and it is used as one of the Response Canticles during the Easter Vigil.

The text is in your missal or available as set by Kate Keefe.

I have been working from the first edition, but you can buy the improved second edition with an extra psalm, a revised layout and still only less than $A30 from Liturgical Song. There is all the sheet music (some with extra instrumental parts), an extensive commentary of each psalm (worth the the price of admission alone), planning help and even guitar chords.

This is what they say about the series:

Psalms for All Time equips parishes and schools with a core repertoire of prayerful, memorable, contemporary settings of the psalms for every Mass and liturgical celebration. The responses are instantly singable by the entire assembly, yet bear the weight of repeated singing. In each psalm setting, the response and verses form a single integrated song, drawing the assembly into the experience of the whole psalm.

The sprung metre verses of the Grail text are set to attractive melodies using contemporary composition techniques for melodic, harmonic and rhythmic prosody and contrast. This greatly helps in praying the psalms over and over, being able to readily recall the melodies to which the texts are set.

Psalms for All Time is a method for equipping a parish or school with psalm resources to enable the responsorial psalm to be sung regularly at Mass. The Church is so concerned to encourage the singing of the responsorial psalm that it has designated twenty-five common seasonal psalms, which can be used to replace the psalm of the day for any given Mass. In this way a community can slowly grow their psalm music repertoire, yet still be able to sing the responsorial psalm at all Masses.

After a while most communities will have learned all twenty-five seasonal psalms. They are then ready to learn additional psalm music repertoire so that the psalm of the day can be sung instead of a common seasonal psalm. At that time, Psalms For All Time: Volume 2 can be introduced to the community.

I have purchased Volume 2 and will get around to it in the future.

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I Will Praise Your Name Forever Psalm 144 (145)

This is Paul Mason’s setting for the fourteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time Year A, but is also useful elsewhere in Ordinary Time, Advent and for marriage and confirmation.

It is from the collection Psalms for All Time.

The text is in your missal but it is the same as set here by Kate Keefe.

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His Love Is Everlasting Psalm 135 (136)

This is a common psalm for use at the Easter Vigil that I don’t think turns up on any Sunday but I think is on a weekday mass.

It is from Paul Mason’s Psalms for All Time. What is different here is that the response (“His love is everlasting”) is repeated after each line rather than each stanza. He does it in groups of three lines with a different tune for each line – otherwise it would get monotonous. You really are going to have to see the music written out and follow his instructions, as he has the verses for two different responsorial psalms with the same response and differing verses and it is a little confusing.

For those who can follow along in his book or a missal here is a backing.

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Music for the Twenty-Fifth week in Ordinary Time Year A 24th/25th September 2023

Entrance:  Seek Ye First (Lafferty) AOV 1/48

Psalm 144 (McKenna)

The Lord is near to all who call him.

Gifts: Open My Eyes  (Manibusan) AOV 1/166

Communion: Christ Light, Shining in the Darkness (Grant) CWBII 468

Recessional: Send Us Out (Bryant) AOVD

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Music for the Twenty-Fourth Week in Ordinary Time Year A 16th/17th September 2023

Entrance: Gather As One  (McKenna) AOV NG 48

Psalm 102 (McKenna)

The Lord is kind and merciful; slow to anger and rich in compassion.

Gifts: Harvest (Grant) AOVD

Communion:  Mercy from the Heart of God (O’Brien/Ogilive) AOVD

Recessional: Sing of the Lord’s Goodness   (Sands) AOV 1/131

* I’m unexpectedly away this week and we are fortunate to have a backup guitarist and singer. To keep things simple, so he doesn’t have to use overheads, I did an alternative list that is just from AOV 1&2 so they can use the hymn books.

Seek Ye First

Hosea

One Body

Companions on the Journey

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Music for the Twenty-Third Week in Ordinary Time Year A 9th/10th September 2023

Entrance: Come, Now is the Time to Worship (Doerksen) AOV NG 29

Psalm 94 (McKenna)

O that today you would listen to his voice!

Harden not your hearts.

Gifts: A New Commandment CWB II 443 (Unknown?)

Communion: The Summons  (Maule-Bell) AOV NG 149

Recessional: We Are Many Parts  (Haugen) AOV 1/86

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Music for the Twenty-Second Week in ordinary Time Year A 2nd/3rd September 2023

Entrance: Come to the Feast (Haugen) AOV 1/151

Psalm 62 (McKenna)

My soul is thirsting for you, O Lord my God.

Gifts: Will You Love Me?   (Boniwell) AOV 1/40

Communion: My Soul Is Thirsting (Angrisano) AOV NG 97

Recessional: Send Us Out (Bryant) AOVD

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Music for the Twenty-First Week in Ordinary Time Year A 26th/27th August 2023

Entrance: Sing to the Mountains  (Dufford) AOV 1/92

Psalm 137 (McKenna)

Lord, your love is eternal; do not forsake the work of your hands.

Gifts: The Fullness of God (Andersen) AOV 2/62

Communion: Bread Broken, Wine Shared Bread  (Horner) AOV 2/155

Recessional: Go Make a Difference  (Angrisano/Tomaszek) AOV NG 52

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Music for the Twentieth Week in Ordinary Time Year A 19th/20th August 2023

Entrance: Gather Your People (Hurd) AOV 1/71

Psalm 66 (McKenna)

O God, let all the nations praise you.

Gifts: Bless Our Gifts (Grant) AOVD

Communion: Shepherd Me O God (Haugen) AOV 1/33

Recessional: Though the Mountains May Fall  (Schutte)  AOV 1/182

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Music for the Nineteenth Week in Ordinary Time Year A 12th/13th August 2023

Entrance: Canticle of the Sun (Haugen) AOV 1/3

Psalm 84 (McKenna)

Lord, show us your mercy and love, and grant us your salvation.

Gifts: As Gentle As Silence (White) CWB II 580

Communion: Mercy from the Heart of God (O’Brien/Ogilive) AOVD

Recessional: Send Us Out (Bryant) AOVD

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