Entrance: Lift Up Your Hearts (O’Connor) AOV 1/156
Psalm 137 (McKenna)
Lord, your love is eternal; do not forsake the work of your hands
Gifts: The Summons (Maule-Bell) AOV NG 149
Communion: Seed, Scattered and Sown (Feiten) CWB II 592
Thanksgiving: The Fullness of God (Andersen) AOV 2/62
Recessional: Bring Forth the Kingdom (Haugen) AOV 2/4
This is a an old epiphany song, Quem stella sole pulchrior, by Charles Coffin, translated by John Chandler. It is set to PUER NOBIS, which shares some of the melody of “Hickory Dickory Dock”.
OCP sell the sheet music here.
1 What star is this, with beams so bright,
More lovely than the noonday light?
’Tis sent to announce a newborn King,
Glad tidings of our God to bring.
2 ’Tis now fulfilled what God decreed,
“From Jacob shall a star proceed;”
And lo! the eastern sages stand
To read in heav’n the Lord’s command.
3 The guiding star above is bright;
Within them shines a clearer light,
And leads them on with pow’r benign
To seek the Giver of the sign.
4 O Jesus, while the star of grace
Impels us on to seek your face,
Let not our slothful hearts refuse
The guidance of your light to use.
5 To God the Father, heav’nly Light;
To Christ, revealed in eartly night,
To God the Holy Spirit raise
An endless song of thankful praise!
NB GAB omits the third stanza
Donna drew my attention to this Marty Haugen song:
One of our favourites of Marty’s music at Holy Spirit Parish Cranbrook is Love Beyond All Telling published by GIA as a piece of sheet music. It was written for a wedding or a wedding anniversary I believe but we use it at offertory and communion time. It fits many themes including creation and God’s love and mercy to all.
It is indeed lovely.
GIA sell the sheet music and the text is in their preview there.
I made a BIAB backing as usual, but removed the extra instrumental and chorus at the end.
This is Stephen Dean‘s delightful version of the CATALAN CAROL that links Christmas with Easter.
OCP gives you the words in their preview and will sell you the sheet music.
My backing is a bit stodgy.
There are other versions with varying texts including this one:
In fact here are some more lyrics I found:
What shall we give to the Son of Mary?
What shall we give that He will find fine?
We shall give well weighed raisins,
We shall give a basket of figs.What shall we give to the laddie of Mary?
What shall we give to the beautiful Child
Raisins and figs and nuts and olives
Raisins and figs and honey and curd.Tam-tam-tam-pa, the figs are not ripe,
Tam-tam-tam-pa, they’ll surely ripen.
If they’re not ripe on Easter,
They’ll mature on Palm Sunday.
Wikipedia have some more information.
OCP says this Dan Schutte song is for RCIA and it has specific alternative words in the refrain for dismissal. It is a gentle singable waltz that could be uses elsewhere in the liturgy as a reflection or even Gifts.
OCP will let you see the text in their preview and also can sell you the sheet music.
Dismissal version:
Mass was “uncancelled” for this week after all and is definitely on next week – maybe. The local spread of Covid 19 appears to have stopped again, so I’m out of scrubs at work again, but who knows. Since, for the most part, governments in Australia listen to their health advisors, our outbreaks tend to be a combination of bad luck, incompetent application of policy and strange decisions made by individuals to defy precautions. All of the above are likely to recur so everything remains provisional.
Our meetings have been getting messed up by all this as well, so our leader has done the next few weeks on her own. She loves Marty Haugen music, as do I.
Entrance: All Are Welcome (Haugen) CWB II 535
Psalm 68 (McKenna)
O God, let all the nations praise you!
Gifts: A Trusting Psalm (Bates) AOV 1/115
Communion: In the Breaking of the Bread (Hurd) AOV 1/58
Thanksgiving: Be Merciful (Haugen)
Recessional: God of Day and God of Darkness (Haugen) AOV 1/56
This is a hymn by Peter Jones with a text based on Te Deum laudamus. It is a song of praise suitable for gathering when alleluias are allowed. The instructions are to play the song “as fast as seems reasonable”!
OCP provide the text in their preview and can sell you the sheet music.
I followed his instructions for the backing:
This is a restrained song of praise that has two extra verses for weddings. The text based on Psalms 135 and 136 is by Mike Balhoff. The music is by Darryl Ducote and Gary Daigle. The were all members of The Dameans.
OCP will sell you the sheet music and provide the text in their preview. GIA have a choral arrangement that takes the key from C to Eb if you are in performance mode.
I enjoyed making this backing:
It was lovely to hear from Greg again, who has once again sent a song he has written and invited its general use.
He said:
In 1994 the Mary Mackillop Secretariat commissioned me to write a hymn in the lead up to the beatification Mary Mackillop. Since it was first published in an anthology entitled If I Could Tell The Love of God it has been revised. Prior to the pandemic we have used it at Holy Trinity Church Minto as a thanksgiving hymn for weekend masses closest to her feast on August 8. While congregational singing is out of the question in 2020 it may be possible, albeit at fairly short notice, for a cantor to learn this and sing it for the refection hymn… feel free to use it unencumbered by copyright compliance obligations or any form of royalty payment. Liturgy is a gift, not an industry and I’d be delighted if the hymn simply became public property for anyone who wants to celebrate.
Mary Mackillop died 111 years ago on August 8th, which is her feast day.
This is Greg’s text:
1 Living gift she gave to us and showed a wisdom you give.
Dwelling in a land where she she was born your Spirit had always lived.
Her search was to know where your heart yearned to go.
A place no princes could build she trusted in the words of life.
Refrain 1 Your promises would be fulfilled x4
2 She braved the heat, the drought, the flood a lonely distance to know.
Burdens of a people long forgotten calling her to go.
Communing with those your kindred have made.
Outsiders in your place, her action spoke of love she shared.
Refrain 2 Your mem’ry alive in the common bread x4
3 Teaching us in words we know she helped your people to bring
to our darker side your shining light that gives us heart to sing.
Let strangers and poor cry out at your door.
Let children see your face, we praise the gift she did not hide.
Refrain 3 To live your love and never divide x4
He provided these resources:
MP3
SATB
Of course, I had a go with BIAB as well.
This is a simple direct Eucharistic prayer in song written by Cyril A. Reilly.
OCP sell the sheet music and provide the text in their preview.
