These are the song that the music liturgy team picked for this week at St Peter’s, Rochedale.
If you are looking for songs, remember if you search for any of these songs on this website you find a backing to assist learning and links to where the sheet music can be purchased, – generally for instant download.
I should mention Amanda McKenna’s excellent collection of Responsorial Psalms more often. We don’t have a cantor to sing the verses so they are said, but Amanda’s tunes are very easy to pick up and we sing the response once then the assembly just joins in.
I’m still working through the Marty Haugen folio All Are Welcome and I have come to this adaptation of Psalm 116 that he suggests as a processional hymn or as the responsorial psalm for the second Sunday of Lent Year B.
The sheet music can be purchased from GIA where the text is in their preview.
My backing is a little to much of the Celtic jig and Bluegrass.
I’ve blogged this before but I only did the refrain so I thought I do the whole thing in which it is made clear that this is a song for funerals.
The text for the refrain and first verse is by Marty Haugen who wrote the lovely melody and the second verse is In Paradisum. You’ll need a cantor for the verses.
The text is here and the sheet music can be purchased at GIA.
Years ago I wanted the sheet music to a song by Marty Haugen called “The Hand of God Shall Hold You”. I found it in a folio called “All Are Welcome” and started using that song as well.
I haven’t looked at the other songs in the collection much, but I have heard them because I bought the cassette – it was a long time ago – and I’m going to make backings for them to sing along and learn the songs.
Haugen has written a song of praise that is particularly apposite for a Sprinkling Rite.
This song is mostly for a cantor with the assembly repeating phrases. It isn’t so hard that the assembly couldn’t do all of it but it does make the repetitions sound odd. It is worth noting that Haugen has a least two other settings of this text.
The sheet music can be purchased at GIA, where the text is in their sample.
Chris deSilva has been very involved with the RCIA in Perth and this song certainly relates to that ministry. It also would be a good recessional (esp vs 2&4) with its focus on discipleship.
You could learn it by singing along to my backing.
Refrain
We are answering the call of Jesus,
Seeking to follow his way.
Daring to be loving and faithful
In everything we do and say.
Verse 1
There is a road that we must travel,
The Gospel guiding us at every turn.
Jesus will lead us on our journey;
The way ahead he helps us to discern.
Verse 2
In Jesus’ footsteps we will follow,
For he must be our leader and our guide.
His simple life of loving service
Inspires us to put an end to pride.
Verse 3
Our selfish habits must be ended,
So we can turn our lives away from sin.
Our daily acts of love and kindness
Are outward signs of changes deep within.
Verse 4
Called to be members of Christ’s Body,
With truth and justice our priority;
We spend our time in prayer and witness
Supported by our parish family.
Final Refrain
We are answering the call of Jesus,
Seeking to follow his way.
Daring to be loving and faithful
In everything we do and say;
We are growing to be more like him each day.
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Mason’s “Mass of Glory and Praise”
To access my backings for Paul Mason's mass go to Feb 2011 in the archive.