I have been looking at the new songs chosen for Breaking Bread 2021. “Hail Thee, Festival Day” must have dropped out of favour at OCP but has been reinstated, because it used to be in their book, and I have already blogged it here.
So alphabetically that brings me to this song by Steve Angrisano and Curtis Stephan. It is a song of welcome, mercy and commitment all rolled into one. It is in a P&W style.
OCP will sell you the sheet music and provide the text in their preview.
This old Methodist hymn is being added to Breaking Bread for 2021.
The text was originally in Welsh by William Williams and translated by Peter Williams. It is here set to the exciting tune CWM RHONDDA by John Hughes. It is sung by Welsh Rugby fans.
The text is here. OCP sell the sheet music.
I made a fake organ backing in BIAB.
Entrance: City of God (Schutte) AO)V 1/57
Psalm 62 (McKenna)
My soul is thirsting for you, O Lord my God
Gifts: Holy Wisdom, Lamp of Learning (Duck) tune BEACH SPRING
Communion: Gift of Finest Wheat (Westendorf/Kreutz) CWB II 651
Thanksgiving: My Soul Is Thirsting (Angrisano) AOV NG 97
Recessional: Bring Forth the Kingdom (Haugen) AOV 2/4
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)
