Merciful God has verses for Ash Wednesday, Gathering and Communion.
Entrance: Praise To You O Christ (Farrell) AOV 1/28
Gifts: Song of the Transfiguration (Haas)
Communion: Merciful God (Bringle/Alonso)
Recessional: Lord, The Light of Your Love (Kendrick) AOV 2/59
The liturgical goodness in volume one of the collection, Catholic Worship Book II continues for penance – just in time for Lent.
It is always nice for a Michael Mangan tune to surface in CWB II. This one notes help for the text from Peter Hehir. It is part of the collection This Is the Time, available in multiple forms at Litmus. The text is in the word document there as well.
I get a bit too bouncy and “for children” when I do backings for Michael Mangan and I fear I have gone there again. Please note, his songs are safe for adults as well.
Having already blogged the rest of the songs for First Communion in this collection the liturgical movement has reached penance.
This pithy text by Rosamund E. Herklots is here set to BELMONT by William Gardiner (probably the tunesmith).
The text is here. There is a nice appreciation of the hymn here.
I revved up BIAB’s fake organ for this. The sheet music below is in D but CWB II brings it down to C (thanks be to God).
For First Holy Communion, CWB II rightly says it is not a separate rite, it is Eucharist. But they do provide some songs that may be more suitable for children.
This one is another by the prolific Sr Jennifer O’Brien and it has a simple tune and a direct text. It could be used for any Eucharist.
1 Jesus calls us to his table, off’ring us his flesh and blood;
Bread and wine contain the myst’ry of this sacred holy food.
Refrain
Jesus, bread of life, make in us your dwelling place.
Jesus, wine of salvation, fill us with your love and grace.
2 At the table with the Twelve, Jesus blessed and broke the bread.
“Take and eat, this is my body, take and eat,” the Saviour said.
Refrain
3 Giving thanks, he took the cup and passed it to those gathered there.
“Drink of this, my blood poured out, covenant for all to share.”
Refrain
4 We who eat this bread of life and drink this saving cup,
Live in Christ and he is us; one in life and one in love.
© Jennifer R. O’Brien 2014.
This is a John Bell and Graham Maule song suggested for Confirmation in CWB II.
The text is here. The sheet music is available in the collection One is the Body at Wild Goose.
I used a midi file I found on the internet to guess the chords but I don’t think they were accurate. It matters less when the main instrument is the spoons.
CWB II now has two great songs that I have used and found excellent at Confirmation in years past, Michael Mangan’s “Holy Spirit of Fire” and Monica Brown’s “Holy Sacred Spirit”, both of which I have already blogged.
This one by Kathleen T Boschetti is not one I’ve come across, but sounds just as useful. I can’t find the text anywhere on the net, so you’ll have to sing along from CWB II.
When I can’t find chords anywhere I take them from the keyboard arrangement as best I can for my BIAB backing.
CWB II now moves into songs for confirmation. This one is specific for the acclamation after the renewal of baptismal promises, but it has uses outside of confirmation.
It is just the ICEL text: This is our faith. This is the faith of the Church. We are proud to profess it, in Christ Jesus our Lord.
The music is by Arthur Hutchings.
For Lent we will use “Be With Me, Lord” (Haugen) as a seasonal psalm and Mason’s Lenten Gospel Acclamation from the Mass of Glory and Praise. Instead of a thanksgiving hymn there will be silent reflection.
Entrance: A New Heart for a New World (O’Brien/Watts) AOV 1/158
Gifts: Merciful God (Bringle/Alonso)
Communion: Unless a Grain of Wheat (Farrell) AOV 1/35
Recessional: On Eagles Wings (Joncas) AOV 1/153
I am in the liturgical section of CWB II looking for useful songs, and am in the baptism section. There are useful acclamatory phrases (102-106) for various parts the liturgy that remind me of the value of this collection. The second volume is such a disappointing collection of hymns that I wonder if they should have just published Volume One as a specific guide to music for liturgies and bailed on the second volume.
This song is a somewhat longer piece with more lovely music by Jennifer O’Brien. The text is based on Ephesians 4:4-6 and I am pleased that it is not marked as copyrighted. I get furious when I see one or two lines closely paraphrased from scripture and then claimed as copyrighted text. This simple setting has applications in more usual liturgies that reflect on baptism.
There is one Lord, one faith, one baptism,
There is one God who is Father of all;
There is one body, one Spirit of God,
One is the hope into which you were called.
I’ve already blogged a lot of the songs for baptism in CWB II, but this one I have not.
The text is by Roger Tappert and it is set to LASST UNS ERFREUEN.
The text is here (labelled AGPS #238).
