In my quest to cover Australian Catholic music I am looking at emmanuelworship‘s collection Lifted. This one is an energetic vocal testimony.
The text is by Liz Buchanan and the music by her and James Garrahy. It is a solo vehicle for the verses but the chorus could be sung by a crowd.
The collection is out of print and unavailable, so with their permission I’ll put up the sheet music. Hmmm… making backings for these songs take a lot more time than metrical hymns.
This song from the emmanuelworship collection Lifted, is a raucous invocation of the Spirit and a call to action. It was written by James Garrahy. It is not something with which an assembly could easily participate, so it would find a place in performance, schools and youth rallies.
The book is out of print so with their permission I will post the sheet music. I made my usual BIAB backing to help learn it.
As a complete contrast to Shirley Murray’s metrical social justice hymns, I going to cross back over the ditch to Brisbane, Australia and do the collection Lifted from Emmanuel Worship. It is from way back in 2001. This book is long out of print but with their permission I will post the sheet music, except where there is a version available for sale at Willow.
I think they came to my then parish in Daisy Hill, Queensland, which was my introduction to their ministry, and we did use three of the songs from this collection in liturgies for some time. I also went to one of their Ignite conferences around this time as well, looking for different music, although I was already an old man comparatively by then. In this collection there are songs of encouragement for young people, now as then, and they are still worth looking at. Many find their place outside of the mass, but since young people’s usual contact with the church is through school they may find a place there.
“Want to Be With You Lord” was written by the then worship director, James Garrahy. It is a rock song of praise and thankfulness. I have a quibble with the words ” brokenness restored”, which suggests we have been restored to brokenness, but that is pedantry.
Entrance: Come to the Feast (Haugen) AOV 1/151
Gifts: Mercy from the Heart of God (O’Brien/Ogilive) AOVD
Communion: A Place at the Table (Shirley Erena Murray – Lori True) AOV NG 1
Recessional: We Remember (Haugen) AOV 1/81
Entrance: Christ Light, Shining in the Darkness (Grant) CWBII 468
Gifts: Bless Our Gifts (Grant) AOVD
Communion: Shepherd Me O God (Haugen) AOV 1/33
Recessional: Mercy from the Heart of God (O’Brien/Ogilive) AOVD
Entrance: Come to the Water (Foley) Gather 3rd ed. 584
Gifts: Blessed Be Our God (McKenna) AOV NG 13
Communion: Mercy from the Heart of God (O’Brien/Ogilive) AOVD
Recessional: River of Glory (Schutte) Glory and Praise 2nd ed. 454
Entrance: City of God (Schutte) AOV 1/57
Gifts: Lord, to Whom Shall We Go (Herry) AOV 1/6
Communion: Praise To You O Christ (Farrell) AOV 1/28
Recessional: Glory and Praise to Our God (Schutte) AOV 1/16
Entrance: A New Heart for a New World (O’Brien/Watts) AOV 1/158
Gifts: A Trusting Psalm (Bates) AOV 1/115
Communion: I Have Loved You (Joncas) AOV 1/126
Recessional: On Eagles Wings (Joncas) AOV 1/153
Entrance: Christ be Our Light (Farrell) AOV 2/3
Gifts: A New Commandment CWB II 443 (Unknown?)
Communion: The Servant Song (Gillard) AOV 2/169
Recessional: Here I Am Lord (Schutte) AOV 1/90
Entrance: Gather Your People (Hurd) AOV 1/71
Gifts: A Trusting Psalm (Bates) AOV 1/115
Communion: Enemy of Apathy (Bell-Maule) AOV 2/75
Recessional: Hearts on Fire (Mangan) AOV NG 62
