Music for the Seventeenth Week in Ordinary Time Year A 25th/26th July 2026

Entrance:  Gather As One (McKenna) AOV NG 48

Psalm 118 (McKenna)

Lord, I love your commands.

Lord, I love your commands.

Gifts: Blessed be Our God (McKenna)

Communion: Old Treasure, New Treasure (Madden)

Recessional: Hope in Love (Bierer, Deegan, Hart, Lynch, Watts)

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Music for the Sixteenth Week in Ordinary Time Year A 18th/19th July 2026

Entrance: A New Heart for a New World (O’Brien/Watts) AOV 1/158

Psalm 85 (McKenna)

Lord you are good and forgiving.

Gifts: Harvest (Grant) AOV Digital

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

Recessional: Be Hope (Bryant, Jorna, McNally, Madden)

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Music for the Fifteenth Week in Ordinary Time Year A 11th/12th July 2026

Entrance: A Voice is Heard (O’Brien/Watts) AOV NG 2

Psalm 64 ( McKenna)

The seed that falls on good ground will yield a fruitful harvest.

Gifts: Here at the Table (Ogilvie/Harvey)

Communion: To the Table We Are Called (O’Brien/Harvey) AOVD

Recessional: Send Us Out (Bryant) AOVD

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Music for the Fourteenth Week in Ordinary Time Year A 4th/5th July 2026

Entrance: Canticle of Creation (Watts-O’Brien) AOV NG 20

Psalm 144 (McKenna)

I will praise your name forever, my king and my God.

Gifts: Bless Our Gifts (Grant) AOVD

Communion: Come to the Table (Burland) AOV NG 33

Recessional: Hope in Love (Bierer, Deegan, Hart, Lynch, Watts)

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Music for the Thirteenth Week in Ordinary Time Year A 27th/28th June 2026

Entrance: You Are Welcome (Watt)

Psalm 88 (McKenna)

Forever I will sing the goodness of the Lord.

Gifts:  Harvest (Grant) AOV Digital

Communion: All the Hungry, Come (Doherty)

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

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Music for the Twelfth Week in Ordinary Time Year A 20th/21st June 2026

Entrance: Gather As One (McKenna) AOV NG 48

Psalm 68 (McKenna)

Lord, in your great love, answer me, answer me.

Gifts: A Trusting Psalm (Bates) AOV 1/115

Communion: Here at the Table (Ogilvie/Harvey)

Recessional: Hope in Love (Bierer, Deegan, Hart, Lynch, Watts)

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Music for the Eleventh Week in Ordinary Time Year A 13th/14th June 2026

Entrance: Summoned by Love (O’Brien/Watts) AOV 2/18

Psalm 99 (McKenna)

We are his people, the sheep of his flock

Gifts: Harvest (Grant) AOV Digital

Communion: All the Hungry, Come (Doherty)

Recessional: Send Us Out (Bryant) AOVD

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Music for the Solemnity of the Most Holy Body and Blood of Christ Year A June 6th/7th 2026

Entrance: You Are Welcome (Watt)

Psalm 147 (McKenna)

Praise the Lord, Jerusalem

Gifts: This Blessing Cup (Andersen)

Communion: To the Table We Are Called (O’Brien/Harvey) AOVD

Recessional: Be Hope (Bryant, Jorna, McNally, Madden)

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Music for the Solemnity of the Most Holy Trinity Year A 30th/31st May 2026

With few exceptions, I’m managing to select Australian songs for Mass.

Entrance: One Body In Christ (McKenna) AOV NG 102

Daniel 3 (McKenna)

Glory and praise forever.

Gifts: Trinity Song (Andersen)

Communion: I Believe in God the Father (Perry, STUTTGART) CWB II 392

Meditation on the Trinity (Madden)

Recessional: Be Hope (Bryant, Jorna, McNally, Madden)

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Come Again, My Lord, Come Again NLPHB 41

This is in fact Kumbayah, the ultimate three chord folk song, except John de Luca has usefully changed the words and used somewhat more than just 3 chords.

It was originally an African-American spiritual that was taken up by the folk revival of the 1950s.

A typical chord chart in D with the original lyrics would be:

D            G            D
Kum-ba-ya my Lord, kum-ba-ya
D G A
Kum-ba-ya my Lord, kum-ba-ya
D G D
Kum-ba-ya my Lord, kum-ba-ya
G D A D
Oh Lord, kum-ba-ya

But de Luca uses instead:

D      Bm7   D     G      D    Em    D
Kum-ba-ya my Lord, kum-ba-ya (Kum-ba-ya)
D Bm F#m Gmaj7 Em G A
Kum-ba-ya my Lord, kum-ba-ya (Kum-ba-ya)
D Bm7 D G Dmaj7
Kum-ba-ya my Lord, kum-ba-ya
G D A7 D G D
Oh Lord, kum-ba-ya (Kum-ba-ya)

Much more fun.

I did a backing:

1 Come again my Lord, come again! (come again)

Come again my Lord, come again! (come again)

Come again my Lord, come again!

O Lord, come again! (come again)

2 To reward the just, come again! (come again)

To bring sinners home, come again! (come again)

To make all things new, come again!

O Lord, come again! (come again)

3 Source of unity, come again! (come again)

Light of all the world, come again! (come again)

Brother of all men, come again!

O Lord, come again! (come again)

4 When my eyelids close, come again! (come again)

When my life is done, come again! (come again)

One with you at last, come again!

O Lord, come again! (come again)

I’m not going to find this version on You-Tube but listening to Judith Durham will compensate.

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