The last Eucharist song in Gather Australia that I haven’t already covered is this one. The text is by Deidre Browne and Kevin Lenehan. It has an ostinato refrain that can be repeated under the verse melody. Apart from the standard verses for Eucharist, there are Advent, Christmas and Lenten verses. I can see the assembly handling the refrain and leaving the verses for a cantor or choir.
The music is by Jane Wood, the general editor of GA, who does a lot of the heavy lifting with the hymn tunes in this collection.
I’ve done a backing but you’ll need GA for the words.
Most of the songs in Gather Australia for Eucharist are well known staples of Australian Catholic life, and so I have already blogged them in the past. I haven’t come across this one that they have collected before though.
Delores Duffner wrote the text based on Christ’s statements in the Gospel of John. As delightfullly set by Rosalie Broughton in GA you are going to need a cantor for the different tunes in the verses. I’d also bring it down from G to F.
The text is in the preview at GIA here, but they use the setting by Michel Guimont.
Most of the songs for Eucharist in Gather Australia have been covered elsewhere on this blog but this one is new to me.
The text is by Muus Jacobse and translated by Forest Ingram and David Smith and can be found here.
The very interesting and challenging setting is by David Haas. We are no longer using his music locally, which is a shame, but less of a shame than his reported treatment of women. On the other hand he has not been convicted of anything and he may well be less a villain than Donald Trump, a low bar I admit. How do you balance the loss of music that is meaningful to many against the pain it causes to people who have been harmed – I have no idea. GIA have wiped all links to David Haas but the sheet music can be purchased at sheetmusicplus.
This is a song for confirmation with a text by Tom Colvin and a tune he adapted from a Gonja folk song. It is from way back in 1969.
Hope Publications provide the text and the sheet music, although they have different chords to those given in GA. GIA have an arrangement by Rob Glover for choir, assembly, keyboard, guitar and handbells or Orff Instruments (I had to look that up).
I made backing on BIAB:
If you want to buy a MIDI file it is available at mymidiaudio.
While I’m not covering every last piece of liturgical music in Gather Australia, I would never pass up a baptism song with a text by Shirley Erena Murray.
The words are available from those lovely people at Hope Publishing here. They set it to Alan Pote’s GENERATION (and provide the sheet music), but GA uses BUD OF HOPE by David Dell, so I guess both tunes were written specifically for this text.
I haven’t got anymore information on this one and I’m always happy to know if people are using a song or know more about it.
I’ve made a backing for the version in Gather Australia. The first three bars are “Did you ever see a lassie?” but the tune comes into its own after that.
Having done AOV, CWB II, “All Are Welcome” and all the Marty Haugen songs in Gather Comprehensive, I still haven’t scratched the surface of his prolific catalogue it appears.
Gather Australia puts this Marty Haugen song in their baptism section. GIA suggests reconciliation, which works as well. I thought some of the lyrics would recommend its use as a recessional, but on reflection that may look like a criticism of what came before it in the mass.
The text is here and GIA will sell you the sheet music.
* NB I have rewritten this post after Chris Wroblewski educated me on what this song was and where it was from – see comments.
I am going back to delve into Gather Australia again. I only did the songs under the hymns section last time, which left out a whole lot of songs. A lot of parishes still use this collection and to be honest it still is a better collection than Catholic Worship Book 2 in many ways. Because of the paucity of new material in CWB 2, GA is nearly as up to date, despite its 1995 publication date. It also includes guitar chords in the accompaniment edition, which were specifically left out in CWB 2.
I’m still skipping the psalms and the redundant mass settings, and will also skip the songs previously covered and those that are too hard (7/8 time signatures for example!).
So I’ve jumped straight to 167, a song by Marty Haugen with a specific function in the RCIA. I’ve never heard of it before but Chris let me know it was from Haugen’s Mass of Creation. I think it is an excellent song with uses way beyond what its title suggests. I can see it as a gathering song at least.
He used Ephesians 1:4-5, 17-23; 2:19-22.
I really like this tune, but would drop it 2 semitones.
GIA sell the sheet music here, and the text is in their preview. I originally posted the text here but now that I know where it is from I have taken that down. Ephphetha means “be opened” and occurs before the baptism of an adult, hence its place in the RCIA. More information is available here.
I’ve finished the new OCP Breaking Bread songs for 2020 – the 2021 choices have been announced already and I will get to them at some point.
Before I move on to another project though, here is yet another OCP song from Sarah Hart, this time with Tom Booth, who wrote a song for Eucharist that was used at Ryan’s parish last week. It is well worth checking out if you want a new communion song with a marvellous social justice emphasis.
I've worked my way through the As One Voice books and other collections making backings on Band in a Box to help me (& you if you're interested) learn new songs for church. This is aimed at churches and musicians that own the collections but haven't exploited them fully. If you don't have them they are certainly worth buying. This site is educational, nonprofit and designed to enhance the commercial prospects of songwriters. This site does not distribute copyrighted sheet music.
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Mason’s “Mass of Glory and Praise”
To access my backings for Paul Mason's mass go to Feb 2011 in the archive.
