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!
They are having a half price sale – best find the details on their Facebook page.
I got Gather 3rd edition for Guitar in 3 volumes, which I will explore at some point.
Entrance: Summoned By Love (O’Brien/Watts) AOV 2/18
Psalm 95 (McKenna)
Give the Lord glory and honour.
Give the Lord glory and honour.
Gifts: I Have Loved You (Joncas) AOV 1/126
Communion: One Bread One Body (Foley) AOV 1/129
Thanksgiving: I Thank My God (Andersen)
Recessional: Sing a New Song (Schutte) AOV 1/80
I’ve jumped all of Christmas because GA has the standard carols that appear elsewhere and so have been blogged already on this site.
This is Jane Wood’s Nunc Dimmittis. The general editor appears to have been tasked with providing a setting for everything for which no set nor satisfactory tune existed at the time. Her music is better than serviceable and is the spine of this collection. I applaud that she didn’t claim copyright on Luke 2:29-32.
Now, Lord, let your servant go in peace just as you promised long ago.
For our eyes have seen the salvation prepared for all the world to see.
A light to shine in the darkness and give glory to your people.
This song is used for the lighting of the Advent candles for four weeks and then a central candle for Christmas. The fifth candle is new to me.
Jane Wood, the editor, wrote the text and music with an ostinato refrain that can be used under the verses. In GA there are readings for each week of Advent and for Christmas.
If anyone continues the Advent candles into Christmas can they let me know whether it works?
The text is on page two of this service handout where it is used as a penitential rite.
I’m working through songs in Gather Australia that I haven’t covered before
This is for non-Eucharistic gatherings. The text is by Kevin Lenehan and the music by Jane Wood
Let our hearts be broken and our lives poured out.
We will serve one another! We will serve one another!
© Kevin Lenehan 1994.
This is another song GA suggest for anointing. The text is by Ruth Duck and the music is FENNVILLE by Robert J. Batastini. It sounds fine for Lent and Reconciliation as well.
The text is at Cantus Mundi.
I found some substitutions she wrote for specific circumstances. The line:
Wounds of the past remain, affecting all we do
can be replaced thusly:
Ruth Duck has provided the following words that may be substituted for those who are seriously ill:
Free us from fear of death, our faith and hope renew…
or, for those who have been abused:
Wounds of abuse remain, affecting all we do…
It is a GIA copyright but I can’t find it for sale there. The sheet music can be purchased at Hymnary.
This Jeanne Cotter’s setting of the ICEL text for this liturgical purpose.
Interestingly she has a song called, “Blessed be God Who Heals Us” for the same situation with the text listed as by Betsey Beckman, which can be purchased here. I have no idea if it is the same tune – this is the one in GA.
Blessed be God who heals us,
Blessed be God who heals us in Christ.
Blessed be God who heals us
Blessed be God who heals us in Christ
