This is David Haas’s setting of Fred Pratt Green’s lovely text of social justice.
The text is available from the wonderful people at Hope Publishing.
The sheet music is available very cheaply at GIA in a collection called “To Be Your Bread“.
My backing has guessed chords.
This lovely song from David Haas is based on Phillipians 4:5-9 and would be a suitable prayer in many liturgies, especially funerals. One of the You Tube clips suggest it was written in response to the 9/11 tragedy.
It is a good example of his work that we miss when we don’t go beyond his classics found in AOV 1&2. The tune is simply gorgeous and the text is well adapted. I would bring it down from Ab to F so groaners like me have a chance at the verses.
The text can be found here. You can purchase the sheet music at GIA.
For once I’ve managed a more restrained BIAB backing.
David Haas has written many songs that aren’t heard in Australian churches as many parishes stick to the suggestions in As One Voice, which while excellent are 20 years old now. I’ve blogged some of his songs from other collections and have recently been hoovering up those in Gather Comprehensive that I haven’t heard before.
This one is a folk song strong on social justice (that’s a good thing right) and suitable for ministry and service contexts. The first two verses have three lines for a cantor with the assembly replying and the the third has six. It is rather high and I’d bring it down from Ab to F and I think it could really be sung through by the assembly then.
The text is in the page scans at Hymnary and the sheet music can be purchased at GIA.
I have made up the chords for my backing.
Entrance: Alleluia! Love is Alive. (Angrisano, Manibusan, Hart)
Psalm 21 (McKenna)
I will praise you Lord, in the assembly of your people.
Gifts: We Walk by Faith (Haugen) AOV 1/63
Communion: Unless a Grain of Wheat (Farrell) AOV 1/35
Thanksgiving: A New Commandment (Unknown)
Recessional: Celtic Alleluia – Recessional Version (O’Carroll/Walker) AOV 1/13
This is OCP’s preview of the “Sending Forth” version with the lyrics.
This is part of my review of David Haas songs in my copy of Gather Comprehensive that have not already turned up from AOV or elsewhere on my blog.
It is a song that can be used in most liturgies, especially with a commissioning aspect.
The refrain is singable but the verses go up to Eb -the groaners like me will take it down from Bb to G.
The text is here and the sheet music can be purchased at GIA.
GIA comments:
This song is a call to discipleship and service based on Matthew 16:24–28. A great choice for reflection during confirmations
and ordinations.
You can learn it by singing along to my BIAB backing:
This is a bilingual song by David Haas, with the Spanish translation by Ronald Krisman. It is a song for commissioning, gathering and sending.
I can cop a line “Blest are we, chosen people of God,” if it is followed by “called to serve!”
The sheet music can be purchased at GIA where the lyrics are hidden in the preview.
This is David Haas’s setting of his paraphrase of Numbers 6:24-26. He has adapted ADORE TE DEVOTE for the tune.
The text and sheet music are in the page scans at Hymnary and the priest has a verse followed by the assembly.
My backing has made up chords.
I suspect other settings are more in use.
David Haas based this song on Luke 11:1-13, 17:5. My copy is in Gather Comprehensive.
The text lends itself to preparation of the gifts. The verses vary the tune a little and go high enough to ask for a cantor but the refrain is singable enough.
The text is here.
GIA have the sheet music for sale here, where they recommend the piece for Lent.
This is more from the David Haas songs in my copy of Gather Comprehensive that I haven’t come across before.
This is a song of thanksgiving that really could be used in many liturgical settings – gathering, sending forth, communion etc. GIA also mention RCIA and marriage and I’m sure it would work there as well.
The text is at cantus mundi and the sheet music can be purchased at GIA.
It is reasonably singable despite the wide range of notes in the melody and most uplifting.
This is, obviously, a song of praise, from David Haas.
The verse is call and response between the cantor and the assembly who respond, “We praise you Lord!” There are crossovers between these parts so a cantor is actually needed. The refrain is singable enough for all.
You can buy the sheet music at GIA where the text is hidden in the preview.
My backing has both parts noted. I have ignored the key change for the last verse.
