This is the last of the Rory Cooney songs that were requested by Frenzy Cool. It is a lovely simple tune but I’m struggling to place it with a liturgical function.
The sheet music is at GIA and the text at Cooney’s site.
I don’t have the sheet music so I’ve faked up a backing on BIAB. I can’t vouch for its accuracy. I’ve put it to a pop ballad arrangement.
I quite like this version:
This is another Rory Cooney song requested by Frenzy Cool who is obviously a fan of Cooney’s. It is a gently Gospel styled waltz.
The sheet music is available at GIA and I have a copy in Gather Comprehensive 325 although the chords in my backing are guesswork.
The lyrics are at Cooney’s blog. There is a fourth verse that is rather too specific to its time and twenty-seven years later can be dropped. The whole conceit of “walk in the rain/reign” only works if you can see the lyrics.
My backing is very simple.
This version goes way over the top.
This is another request for a Rory Cooney song. I’ve got “Jerusalem, My Destiny” in Gather Comprehensive 399. I don’t find the tune likely to be conducive to assembly singing and it goes too high for groaners like me – maybe bring it from Bb down to G.
The text is at Cantus Mundi.
You can purchase the sheet music at GIA.
Entrance: God of Day and God of Darkness (Haugen) AOV 1/56
Psalm 26 (McKenna)
The Lord is my light and my salvation.
Gifts: Blessed be Our God (McKenna) AOV NG 13
Communion: Seed, Scattered and Sown (Feiten) GA 195
Unless a Grain of Wheat (Farrell) AOV 1/35
Thanksgiving: They’ll Know We Are Christians (Scholtes) AOV 1/130
Recessional: Lord, the Light of Your Love (Kendrick) AOV 2/59
This is a song requested by Frenzy Cool written by Rory Cooney that is an up tempo Easter song.
The sheet music is available at OCP and the text is in the sample there. I have a copy in Glory & Praise 386.
It is probably too high for an assembly and I’d bring it down a few notches. It is an interesting and unorthodox tune.
This is a little staid:
The music liturgy team at St Peter’s, Rochedale selected these songs:
Entrance: Here I Am Lord (Schutte) AOV 1/90
Psalm 39 (McKenna)
Here I am, Lord; I come to do your will.
Gifts: Baptised in Water (Saward; tune BUNESSAN) GA 179
Communion: Table of Plenty (Schutte) AOV 2/20
I Have Loved You (Joncas) AOV 1/126
Thanksgiving: Enemy of Apathy (Bell-Maule) AOV 2/75
Recessional: Send Down the Fire (Haugen) AOV 2/164
I will be playing in George Town, Tasmania since I’m down there for the weekend where their music team have selected:
Here I Am Lord
Spirit Come Transform Us (Norbet) AOV 1/96
One Bread One Body (Foley) AOV 1/129
They’ll Know We Are Christians (Scholtes) AOV 1/130
I’ve never played the Norbet song and only know it from blogging but it looks easy enough.
Entrance: We Three Kings (vs 1-3)
Psalm 71 (McKenna)
Lord ev’ry nation on earth will adore you, will adore you.
Gifts: We Three Kings (vs 4-6)
Communion: One Bread One Body (Foley) AOV 1/129
What Child Is This?
Thanksgiving: Star Child (Shirley Erina Murray – Carlton R. Young) AOV 2/43
Recessional: Christ be Our Light (Farrell) AOV 2/3
Entrance: O Little Town of Bethlehem
Gifts: Hail Mary Gentle Woman
Communion: Hark the Herald Angels Sing
While Shepherds Watched Their Flocks By Night
Thanksgiving: The Magnificat
Recessional: Joy to the World
For the first time in forever I am not playing at a Christmas Mass and I’m actually flying somewhere on Christmas Day. The music at our local church is pretty fixed for Christmas, which is a good thing I suspect.
I’m spending some time living in a small town where I hope to retire in ten years or so now, so I’ll be playing there about once a month and will still fill in at times at my usual parish. I’m over my various minor illnesses for the most part and am hoping the blog will be more active next year as things become more settled.
I’d be delighted for people to share their Christmas selections in the comments section and wish anyone reading this the hope found in the Christ child.
Entrance: Emmanuel (Angrisano)
Candle lighting: Abide with us, Emmanuel. (Haugen)
Psalm: To You O God I Lift Up My Soul (Hurd) AOV 2/14
Gifts: Blessed be Our God (McKenna) AOV NG 13
Communion: O Come O Come Emmanuel (Neale) AOV 1/174
Come to Set Us Free (Farrell) AOV 1/39
Thanksgiving: Christ Circle Round Us (Schutte)
Recessional: Into the Darkness (Dawn) from “Songs of Fellowship” Book Five (No 70)
