This is Tom Conry’s paraphrase of Psalm 23. It is a lovely song but I suspect it is a solo vehicle as the verses are awfully fiddly with triplets in some verses and not others.
The sheet music can be purchased at OCP, where the text is in their preview.
This is a hymn of thankfulness and praise by Father Michael Kwatera set to OLD 100TH.
I can’t find the text anywhere on the internet and it is copyright so I’ll leave it be at that today. I can’t even find it at OCP.
This is another virtual list for a gathering that didn’t happen.
Entrance: Holy Spirit Come (Mangan) AOV NG 69
Gifts: A New Commandment (Unknown)
Communion: I Have Loved You (Joncas) AOV 1/126
Thanksgiving: As Gentle As Silence (White) CWB II 580
Recessional: Jesus Is Risen (O’Brien- Ogilvie) AOV NG 82
I virtually attended Mass at Holy Spirit Cranbrook again this morning. I thought “As I Have Done For You” was a thoughtful choice for communion.
I have blogged this song set to AUSTRIA in CWB II here, but GAB take the safer route of setting it to HYMN TO JOY so I thought I would put it in again. The text is based on Psalm 148.
Praise the Lord: you heav’ns, adore him;
Praise him, angels in the height;
Sun and moon, rejoice before him;
praise him, all you stars and light.
Praise the Lord, for he has spoken;
worlds his mighty voice obeyed.
Laws which never shall be broken
for their guidance he has made.
Praise the Lord, for he is glorious;
never shall his promise fail.
God has made his saints victorious;
sin and death shall not prevail.
Praise the God of our salvation.
hosts on high, his pow’r proclaim.
Heav’n and earth and all creation
praise and glorify his name.
Worship, honour, glory, blessing,
Lord, we offer as our gift.
Young and old, your praise expressing,
Our glad songs to you we lift.
All the saints in heav’n adore You;
we would join their glad acclaim;
As your angels serve before you,
so on earth we praise your name.
This is Ricky Manalo’s setting of this text by St Thomas Aquinas sung in Latin. Like yesterday’s hymn it has an ostinato refrain for the assembly (Pange lingua gloriósi córporis mystérium) underpinning the cantor or choir’s verse part.
Like most of the songs in this collection, you can buy the sheet music from OCP.
Pange, lingua, gloriósi
Córporis mystérium,
Sanguinísque pretiósi,
Quem in mundi prétium
Fructus ventris generósi
Rex effúdit géntium.
Nobis datus, nobis natus
Ex intácta Vírgine,
Et in mundo conversátus,
Sparso verbi sémine,
Sui moras incolátus
Miro clausit órdine.
In suprémæ nocte coenæ
Recúmbens cum frátribus
Observáta lege plene
Cibis in legálibus,
Cibum turbæ duodénæ
Se dat suis mánibus.Verbum caro, panem verum
Verbo carnem éfficit:
Fitque sanguis Christi merum,
Et si sensus déficit,
Ad firmándum cor sincérum
Sola fides súfficit.Tantum ergo sacraméntum
Venerémur cérnui:
Et antíquum documéntum
Novo cedat rítui:
Præstet fides suppleméntum
Sénsuum deféctui.Genitóri, Genitóque
Laus et jubilátio,
Salus, honor, virtus quoque
Sit et benedíctio:
Procedénti ab utróque
Compar sit laudátio.
Amen. Alleluja.
This is a Christopher Willcock extravaganza for processing on Palm Sunday. I can only see this used for processing around a church as the cantor or choir will need to be near the assembly, so this is perhaps not for processing a long way to the church.
The Ostinato refrain for the assembly anchors the cantor with the sequence:
v.1/refrain/v.2/refrain/v.1/refrain/v.3/refrain/v.1/coda.
OCP have the sheet music for you to buy and also they give you the text in their preview.
This is a lovely song mainly for Easter Vigil by Tom Kendzia.
The verses will need a cantor and the second verse is only suitable for Easter Vigil. The assembly will just about get away with the gently lyrical refrain.
The text is here. OCP sell the sheet music.
I am continuing my survey of songs in the Guitar Accompaniment Book from OCP c2005 that I bought second hand some time ago. I have already covered many songs from other sources so I am skipping over those.
I love this simple Eucharistic hymn by Christopher Walker. The text is adapted from Irish prayers and the refrain is a traditional Irish tune.
The sheet music can be purchased at OCP who have provided the text in their preview.
My backing will let you sing along for the whole eight verses.
Somehow it appears I never made a backing for this popular Christmas Carol.
The text is by Cecil Alexander and the music by Henry J. Gauntlett.
I made my backing by downloading the BIAB file at smallchurchmusic and dumbing his file down to match the sheet music and using simple free organ VSTs on the modified BIAB file.
On the other hand Clyde McLennan at smallchurchmusic records his own playing as a midi file then puts it through proper virtual organs to sound much much better:
1 Once in royal David’s city
stood a lowly cattle shed,
where a mother laid her baby
in a manger for his bed:
Mary was that mother mild,
Jesus Christ, her little child.
2 He came down to earth from heaven
who is God and Lord of all;
and his shelter was a stable
and his cradle was a stall:
with the poor and mean and lowly
lived on earth our Saviour holy.
3 And through all his wondrous childhood
he would honour and obey,
love and watch the gentle mother
in whose tender arms he lay:
Christian children all should be
kind, obedient, good as he.
4 For he is our childhood’s pattern:
day by day like us he grew,
he was little, weak and helpless,
tears and smiles like us he knew;
and he feels for all our sadness,
and he shares in all our gladness.
5 And our eyes at last shall see him,
through his own redeeming love,
for that child so dear and gentle
is our Lord in heaven above;
and he leads his children on
to the place where he is gone.
6 Not in that poor lowly stable
with the oxen standing by,
we shall see him, but in heaven,
set at God’s right hand on high;
there his children gather round
bright like stars, with glory crowned.
This is another notional list based on what I might have suggested to the team selecting music for liturgy. We haven’t used “Among All” yet but it is a Marian hymn that I think passes muster.
Entrance: Lift Up Your Hearts (O’Connor) AOV 1/156
Gifts: A Trusting Psalm (Bates) AOV 1/115
Communion: One Body (O’Brien- Watts) AOV 2/146
Thanksgiving: Among All (Chris de Silva) AOV NG 8
Recessional: City of God (Schutte) AO)V 1/57
Holy Spirit Cranbrook kicked off with “Christ Be Our Light” this morning.
