Entrance: Sing a New Song (Schutte) AOV 1/80
Psalm 95 (McKenna)
Give the Lord glory and honour.
Give the Lord glory and honour.
Gifts: All the Hungry, Come (Doherty)
Communion: On This Sacred Ground (Janke, Heaney)
Recessional: Glory and Praise to Our God (Schutte) AOV 1/16
Entrance: Gather As One (McKenna) AOV NG 48
Psalm 22 (McKenna)
I shall live in the house of the Lord all the days of my life.
Gifts: The Cry of the Poor (Foley) AOV 1/83
Communion: On This Sacred Ground (Janke, Heaney)
Recessional: The Lord is My Shepherd (Boniwell) AOV 1/26
Entrance: One Body In Christ (McKenna) AOV NG 102
Psalm 79 (McKenna)
The vineyard of the Lord is the House of Israel.
Gifts: Blessed be Our God (McKenna)
Communion: On This Sacred Ground (Janke, Heaney)
Recessional: Send Us Out (Bryant) AOVD
Entrance: Canticle of the Sun (Haugen) AOV 1/3
Psalm 24 (McKenna)
Remember your mercies, O Lord.
Gifts: A Trusting Psalm (Bates) AOV 1/115
Communion: Tend the Ground (Stephan)
Recessional: A New Heart for a New World (O’Brien/Watts) AOV 1/158
Entrance: Seek Ye First (Lafferty) AOV 1/48
Psalm 144 (McKenna)
The Lord is near to all who call him.
Gifts: Bless Our Gifts (Grant) AOVD
Communion: Tend the Ground (Stephan)
Recessional: Hope in Love (Bierer, Deegan, Hart, Lynch, Watts)
Entrance: I’ll Be Always Loving You (Watts) AOV 1/82
Psalm 102 (McKenna)
The Lord is kind and merciful; slow to anger and rich in compassion.
Gifts: All the Hungry, Come (Doherty)
Communion: Tend the Ground (Stephan)
Recessional: All You Works of God (Haugen) AOV 1/19
For the Season of Creation, we have songs with that theme selected for Mass during September.
Entrance: Canticle of Creation (Watts-O’Brien) AOV NG 20
Psalm 94 (McKenna)
O that today you would listen to his voice!
Harden not your hearts.
Gifts: Harvest (Grant) AOV Digital
Communion: Tend the Ground (Stephan)
Recessional: Shout to the Lord (Zschech) AOV NG 114
Putting up music selections up until Advent is is an act of hope over reality for me. Our priest is leaving by late September and we have no inkling if or when he will be replaced. The most likely outcome is no priest for a least some time, with someone coming up from the nearest major centre to fill in once a week. Our priest also covers two even smaller rural churches alternate weeks and I have no idea what will happen there.
If we are down to one mass a weekend from two, there will be a need to reorganise local rosters.
For now, though:
Entrance: Mercy from the Heart of God (O’Brien/Ogilive) AOVD
Psalm 62 (McKenna)
My soul is thirsting for you, O Lord my God.
Gifts: The Fullness of God (Andersen) AOV 2/62
Communion: My Soul Is Thirsting (Angrisano) AOV NG 97
Recessional: Be Hope (Bryant, Jorna, McNally, Madden)
This is Frank Andersen’s, “Eagles Wings”, a beloved Australian classic, here arranged by John de Luca. I hadn’t noticed before that the verses are actually a paraphrase of Psalm 105, taken from Psalms Now by Leslie F. Brandt. Andersen’s antiphon is based on Exodus 9:4.
Godsongs found more YouTube clips than I did, and adds some background.
The Missionaries of the Sacred Heart Store is currently down for maintenance, but is where you would usually go to purchase his music online.
Father Frank gave strict instructions that the assembly should only sing the refain of this song, never the verses, which is quite properly ignored. The verse order varies depending on the version of the sheet music you have – verse 5 sometimes is moved to verse 3.
I blogged this here with a perfectly reasonable backing for a change, but obviously I had another look at it, because de Luca has a knack of improving simple songs.
He resisted wholesale changed to more sophisticated chord options this time, merely replacing a C with an Am7 in the last line of the verse. He also retained most of the exclamation marks, so Father Frank would be pleased.
Compared to Erica Marshall’s original arrangement he has added a lot more movement in the bass. In my backing I co-opted some of his extra organ arrangement into a harp and celeste track (thank you Spitfire audio free plugins).
Antiphon:
I have carried you on eagle’s wings!
I will care for you in all your years!1 My heart is full of peace;
You have been within my life!
Your guiding hand has always covered me,
I am full of confidence in You!2 My soul is like a child,
Cradled safe within your arms!
You have carried me across my years,
Leading me thru sorrow and thru joy.3 Never need I be afraid!
No matter how uncertain things may be!
Sometimes thru me, sometimes in spite of me,
You seem to find your purpose in my life!4 I know failure in my life
The weakness so central to my heart!
When I have strayed or fallen in my life
You gently set me on my feet again!5 You have bridged the flowing streams!
And moved aside the mountains tall!
You have kept me through the stormy past,
I know that you secure and guide me still!© 1979 Frank Andersen
We had a meeting about the Season of Creation and the Jubilee year of St Francis of Assisi during September 2026.
Some songs that were suggested:
All You Works of God (Haugen)
Canticle of the Sun (Haugen)
On This Sacred Ground (Heaney, Janke)
Prayer of St Francis (Temple)
Canticle of Creation (Watts/O’Brien)
All Creatures of Our God and King (text attributed to St Francis)
Brother Wind (Susan Saint Sing)
Lord Make Us Servants of Your Peace (McKinley)
Make Me a Servant of Your Peace (McKenna)
Kapayapaan (Nieva)
Sacred Creation (Zaragoa)
Litany for the Earth (Bridge)
Tend the Ground (Stephan)
If you search on this site, there is information on all these songs.
We played through most them and liked many, but of those we hadn’t used before, Stephan’s “Tend the Ground” was the most congenial.
