Tom Booth wrote this low key recessional, which has been included in Breaking Bread for 2021. The words spring from a quote from St Teresa of Calcutta,” Seek out the poor, the sick, those in spiritual need”. OCP offer some commentary here.
OCP sell the sheet music and the text is in their preview.
I have done a slow country swing backing on BIAB:
Rufino Zaragosa wrote this fine new addition to Breaking Bread for 2021.
It is hymn for Holy Week with three verses for communion and three specifically for Good Friday. The tune wanders off through some interesting excursions through unexpected chords.
OCP sell the sheet music and provide the text in their preview.
‘They’ll Know We Are Christians” by Peter Scholtes is given an affectionate reboot by Tom Kendzia in this hymn selected for Breaking Bread in 2021. The text is adapted by Kendzia and his music is new but with nods to the original.
The text is in the preview at OCP where they sell the sheet music.
This is another of the songs added to Breaking Bread for 2021. Lourdes Montgomery has crafted a song of consolation from the Beatitudes for use in funerals (or this week for All Souls), or of welcome for confirmations.
I am quite taken with the gentle singable tune. The songs has English and Spanish words.
OCP sell the sheet music and the text is in their preview. BIAB shines with Latin rhythms.
This 2003 song for Eucharist with a text by Ricky Manalo and Pia de Leon and music by Manalo has been re-added to Breaking Bread for 2021.
The Filipino language component is just the title so it isn’t much of a stretch for English speakers. I’d bring it down from F to Eb as a matter of charity – capo3 to 1 for guitarists.
The text is here. OCP sell the sheet music. It sounds to me like a slow burn P&W song.
I made a new backing for this song, then realised it must have been dropped from Breaking Bread by OCP and now has been reinstated. It is by Bernadette Farrell and Owen Alstott and was written for the 2001 conference on “Global Capitalism and the Gospel of Justice”.
I blogged the song here. OCP sell the sheet music and the text is in their preview.
For what it is worth here is the new backing:
Something different due to the way the dates fall this year.
Entrance: We Walk By Faith (Haugen) AOV 1/63
Psalm 23 (McKenna)
Lord, this is the people that longs to see your face.
Gifts: The Beatitudes (Kearney) CWB II 456
Communion: Be Not Afraid (Dufford) AOV 1/114
Thanksgiving: Come To Me (Norbet) AOV 1/37
Recessional: All the Ends of the Earth (Dufford) AOV 1/76)
With pretty much all I ever intend to cover in Gather Australia done, I’m turning from GIA to OCP and their selections adding to Breaking Bread for 2021. It’s nice to see what new songs are out there.
This solemn and singable hymn is an obvious choice for funerals, anointing and situations where hope is needed – like now. If an assembly were doing it, I’d bring it down a notch or two.
Barbara Bridge was inspired by the words of Julian of Norwich for the refrain and Psalm 121 for the verses and she wrote the music. It starts with a nod to “Abide with Me” that I suppose was a deliberate allusion to set the stage.
The sheet music can be purchased at OCP. The text is in their preview, which also facilitated the making of a BIAB backing.
Chris Brunelle is way ahead of me with his demonstrations of the new Breaking Bread songs.
Getting to Christ the King means I’ve pretty much covered the songs for Feasts and Seasons in Gather Australia that I hadn’t already done from other sources.
This text by George K.A. Bell is here set to BEVERLY by Charles R. Anders. It is often set to VULPIUS.
The text is here. Mary at Godsongs has details of its origin and other settings.
My backing is more fake BIAB organ. GA usually provides the chords but not in this case so I had to work out my own.
This is another one of the selections in Gather Australia for the Body and Blood of Christ.
Christopher Willcock wrote the tune and used 1 Cor 11:24-25 for the refrain and 1 Tim 3:16 for the verses. The tune drifts from one time signature to another and the third verse has a different tune. This is for a choir.
The text of the refrain is actually the ICEL text based on 1 Cor 11:24-25:
… the proper Communion Antiphon for Holy Thursday (Evening Mass) is “This body will be given for you. This is the cup of the new covenant in my blood; whenever you receive them, do so in remembrance of me” (1 Cor. 11: 24-25).
http://www.canticanova.com/articles/feedback/arteah1.htm
