Assuming our lock down is only three days and we are back at church next week, we will use these selections.
Entrance: Here I Am Lord (Schutte) AOV 1/90
Psalm 39 (McKenna)
Here I am, Lord; O come to do your will.
Gifts: Blessed be Our God (McKenna) AOV NG 13
Communion: Bread Broken, Wine Shared Bread (Horner) AOV 2/155
Thanksgiving: The Summons (Maule-Bell) AOV NG 149
Recessional: Lord the Light of Your Love (Kendrick) AOV 2/59
This Kyrie by Carol E. Browning is allocated to Lent by Gather 3rd ed. I suppose a plea for mercy is especially meaningful in Lent, but a good Kyrie is for year round use.
I’ve had no luck finding this as an individual piece of sheet music at GIA, so I guess you’ll have to find it in Gather 3rd ed. collection.
For once the cantor gets only one word at a time and the assembly gets to sing everything else.
Kyrie eléison, Christe eléison, Kyrie eléison
For Greater Brisbane it is a return to lockdown so no mass this weekend. We have had one case of the UK mutant Covid 19 out and about, so the city and surrounds are under restrictions for now. Hopefully, the virus has not spread and we can back to normal next week.
In the meantime, Gather 3rd ed. has a lot of songs for Lent for me to do before Lent is upon us. After all these years and thousands of hymns the leftover ones I am coming across now are ones that may not have caught on around here. These songs tend to be Spanish, Gospel, require a cantor or were written by women and so ignored.
This one is by Paul Tate and requires a cantor. The assembly gets to repeat lines in the refrain and defer to a cantor or choir for the verses, so participation is reduced. That said it is an impressive choir piece.
This another that GIA only have in the handbell version as a single item but sheetmusicplus will sell the sheet music and the text is in their preview.
My backing is another fun Irish 6/8 version, so out of place for Lent.
This is an African American spiritual that is in Gather 3rd ed. and selected by them for Lent.
The verse is call and response. I suspect it’s place is for choirs and assemblies where the spiritual is part of local culture.
The hymn is public domain. I can’t find GIA’s arrangement for sale as a download there (except for handbells).
Chorus
Somebody’s knockin’ at your door.
Somebody’s knockin’ at your door.
O sinner, why don’t you answer?
Somebody’s knockin’ at your door.
1 Knocks like Jesus,
Somebody’s knockin’ at your door.
Knocks like Jesus,
Somebody’s knockin’ at your door.
O sinner, why don’t you answer?
Somebody’s knockin’ at your door.2 Can’t you hear him?
Somebody’s knockin’ at your door.
Can’t you hear him?
Somebody’s knockin’ at your door.
O sinner, why don’t you answer?
Somebody’s knockin’ at your door.
3 Jesus calls you,
Somebody’s knockin’ at your door.
Jesus calls you,
Somebody’s knockin’ at your door.
O sinner, why don’t you answer?
Somebody’s knockin’ at your door.
4 Can’t you trust him?
Somebody’s knockin’ at your door.
Can’t you trust him?
Somebody’s knockin’ at your door.
O sinner, why don’t you answer?
Somebody’s knockin’ at your door.
Lent is very early this year so Ash Wednesday is only weeks away. Paul A Tate wrote this song for that very celebration. His text is from the ICEL Sacramentary for the refrain and based on Joel 2:12-18 and 2 Cor 5:20-6:2 for the verses. He provide several additional verse tropes for Lent.
The sheet music can be purchased from sheetmusicplus, where the text is in their preview. GIA only seem to have the handbell music available to download, although they do have it in this collection.
The verse is call and response between the cantor and assembly. I would usually say that could be ignored but the repetition here makes no sense without it. There is a counter melody for the refrain if needed.
Entrance: Come to the Water (Andersen) AOV 1/74
Isaiah 12 (McKenna)
You will draw water joyfully from the springs of salvation
Gifts: Springs of Salvation (Andersen)
Communion: Table of Plenty (Schutte) AOV 2/20
Thanksgiving: Baptised in Water (Saward; tune BUNESSAN) CWB II 99
Recessional: Send Down the Fire (Haugen) AOV 2/164
This is a song for Epiphany from The Dameans. The text is by Mike Balhoff and the music by Darryl Ducote and Gary Daigle.
The text is here on page three. I can’t find the sheet music other than on handbells on GIA so you could look in the collections noted at Hymnary.
Just in time for Epiphany I have got to the songs in Gather 3rd ed. for that feast.
This is one that I haven’t covered before, with a text by Francis Patrick O’Brien a Boston priest who appears to be a house hymn writer for GIA. It is set to the well known tune BEACH SPRING, which is always a good idea for a song that is used only once a year.
The text is here. GIA sell the sheet music.
This is a “Mary” song from Gather 3rd edition. The text is by M.D. Ridge and set to THE FLIGHT OF THE EARLS a traditional Irish tune.
The text is at Cantus Mundi. GIA sell the arrangement by Michael Joncas. The tune is PD however and available at various places on the web, including here.
Since it is the Feast of the Holy Family this excellent John Bell piece is made for today.
The text is here. This is another that GIA only seems to sell for handbells these days, although they do have this very inexpensive collection that contains the song. I also have it in a copy in Heaven Shall Not Wait, although there he has it in the original key of F – GIA bring it down to Eb – thanks be to God. It still has a fair old range to it.
