This is listed for the Body and Blood of Christ by Gather Australia, but has general Eucharistic applications.
The text is by John Bell and it is set to AFTON WATERS. It is in his collection Enemy of Apathy.
The range will be beyond most assemblies but it is otherwise a lovely traditional Scottish folk tune.
The text is here with different music by David MacGregor. ( If you want hear MacGregor’s backing go to this site.)
My backing is for AFTON WATERS.
This is a Trinitarian hymn with a text by Daniel Thambyarajah Niles. It is set to Elena Granada Maquiso’s tune HALAD.
An extensive analysis of the song including the text is available here.
I got the chords from Together In Song.
Skipping lots of Easter songs in Gather Australia already covered gets to to another challenging text from Shirley Erena Murray. GA leaves out a whole verse about new wineskins that while biblical might have been too challenging for us Catholics. Hope Publications provide the text here.
Here it is set by Rosalie Bonighton. This is a lovely intricate and surprising setting but more likely suitable for a choir. There are echoes for the assembly that are doable, but most of the song needs a cantor or choir especially when the 9/8 time is disrupted by the gorgeous timing changes in the last two lines of each verse.
Hope Publications set this text to what appears a much simpler tune that may be preferable for an assembly.
9/8 is a challenge in BIAB.
I have noticed that songs that did not come to frequent church usage in this collection have been disproportionately been written by women. Since I can’t find a video of this song how about this:
Entrance: All Are Welcome (Haugen) CWB II 535
Psalm 17 (McKenna)
I love you Lord, my strength.
I love you Lord, my strength.
Gifts: A New Commandment (Unknown)
Communion: Will You Love Me? (Boniwell) AOV 1/40
Thanksgiving: Deep In the Spirit (Andersen)
Recessional: A New Heart for a New World (O’Brien/Watts) AOV 1/158
Much of what I haven’t covered in Gather Australia are these useful pieces for specific liturgical purposes like this one, with the text by Kevin Lenehan and Jane Wood and the tune by Jane Wood.
John 4:14 appears to be the inspiration of this song for use during anointing with chrism. It is to be repeated until the liturgical action is complete.
If you need to know how it goes I have done a backing:
You are born of the water, this fountain of life.
Born of the fountain of life.
Called out and sealed as the children of God.
Called as the children of God.
If you were thinking that the one thing wrong with the Easter Vigil readings was that they weren’t long enough, then Jane Wood and Kevin Lenehan have the answer for you. After each of the first seven readings they have a sung response consisting of a refrain and a matching verse for each reading adapted from the Grail. Lenehan and Wood did the refrain text and Wood the unconventional music.
I made a backing for the refrain and the response to the first reading. Since the verses vary it make sense to have a cantor do the verses and the assembly the refrain. Get out your Gather Australia and sing along.
Having the used the church copy of the this book for some years I felt obliged to buy a copy of my own which arrived today. I paid $50, which is astonishing value and Amanda provides sung Psalm responses for every Sunday of every year. We have used them for more than 3 years now and the assembly can pick them up after one hearing and sing the responses well.
AOV’s 50% off sale is now on so you can buy it for $25.00!!!! This is a great chance for churches to buy multiple copies.
Go to their facebook page to get details and view the updated stock list to look for other bargains.
Jumping forward in Gather Australia’s liturgical music to the Easter Vigil, we find more service music from Jane Wood, the general editor.
She provides accompaniment and a descant and it is good enough to warrant repetition until safely inside, away from the fire and ready for the Easter Proclamation.
The text is just:
People of God, O welcome the light! O Welcome the light of Christ! x2
This is a Taize chant for Holy Thursday by Jacques Berthier.
The assembly handle the ostinato refrain and the cantor sings the words of Jesus in the Garden.
The text is here. Hymnary note all the hymnals the song is in here but I can’t find a downloadable version for purchase – well except this hand bell arrangement at GIA.
This is more of Jane Wood’s wonderful music for specific purposes – this time for Passion Sunday.
Her music has a descant, a harmony line and notation for tambourine and triangle.
My BIAB backing includes precisely none of these.
Hosanna! Hosanna! Hosanna to the Son of David!
Hosanna! Hosanna! Hosanna to the Lord!
