Church Music

Entrance: You Are Welcome (Watt)

Psalm 88 (McKenna)

Forever I will sing the goodness of the Lord.

Gifts:  Harvest (Grant) AOV Digital

Communion: All the Hungry, Come (Doherty)

Recessional: Christ Light, Shining in the Darkness (Grant) CWBII 468

Entrance: Gather As One (McKenna) AOV NG 48

Psalm 68 (McKenna)

Lord, in your great love, answer me, answer me.

Gifts: A Trusting Psalm (Bates) AOV 1/115

Communion: Here at the Table (Ogilvie/Harvey)

Recessional: Hope in Love (Bierer, Deegan, Hart, Lynch, Watts)

Entrance: Summoned by Love (O’Brien/Watts) AOV 2/18

Psalm 99 (McKenna)

We are his people, the sheep of his flock

Gifts: Harvest (Grant) AOV Digital

Communion: All the Hungry, Come (Doherty)

Recessional: Send Us Out (Bryant) AOVD

Entrance: You Are Welcome (Watt)

Psalm 147 (McKenna)

Praise the Lord, Jerusalem

Gifts: This Blessing Cup (Andersen)

Communion: To the Table We Are Called (O’Brien/Harvey) AOVD

Recessional: Be Hope (Bryant, Jorna, McNally, Madden)

With few exceptions, I’m managing to select Australian songs for Mass.

Entrance: One Body In Christ (McKenna) AOV NG 102

Daniel 3 (McKenna)

Glory and praise forever.

Gifts: Trinity Song (Andersen)

Communion: I Believe in God the Father (Perry, STUTTGART) CWB II 392

Meditation on the Trinity (Madden)

Recessional: Be Hope (Bryant, Jorna, McNally, Madden)

This is in fact Kumbayah, the ultimate three chord folk song, except John de Luca has usefully changed the words and used somewhat more than just 3 chords.

It was originally an African-American spiritual that was taken up by the folk revival of the 1950s.

A typical chord chart in D with the original lyrics would be:

D            G            D
Kum-ba-ya my Lord, kum-ba-ya
D           G             A
Kum-ba-ya my Lord, kum-ba-ya
D            G            D
Kum-ba-ya my Lord, kum-ba-ya
G  D     A      D
Oh Lord, kum-ba-ya

But de Luca uses instead:

D      Bm7   D     G      D    Em    D
Kum-ba-ya my Lord, kum-ba-ya (Kum-ba-ya)
D  Bm F#m    Gmaj7 Em     G           A
Kum-ba-ya my Lord, kum-ba-ya  (Kum-ba-ya)
D      Bm7   D     G     Dmaj7
Kum-ba-ya my Lord, kum-ba-ya
G  D     A7     D       G   D
Oh Lord, kum-ba-ya (Kum-ba-ya)

Much more fun.

I did a backing:

1 Come again my Lord, come again! (come again)

Come again my Lord, come again! (come again)

Come again my Lord, come again!

O Lord, come again! (come again)

2 To reward the just, come again! (come again)

To bring sinners home, come again! (come again)

To make all things new, come again!

O Lord, come again! (come again)

3 Source of unity, come again! (come again)

Light of all the world, come again! (come again)

Brother of all men, come again!

O Lord, come again! (come again)

4 When my eyelids close, come again! (come again)

When my life is done, come again! (come again)

One with you at last, come again!

O Lord, come again! (come again)

I’m not going to find this version on You-Tube but listening to Judith Durham will compensate.

I am finding some hymns in the New Living Parish Hymnal that I have still not yet covered in all these years of blogging.

This one is an obvious choice for Christ the King. The text is by I.J.E Daniel and it is set to DRESDEN adapted by Richard Redhead.

I got the chords from LiturgyShare where Chris also has the sheet music.

1 Christ is King of earth and heaven!
Let His subjects all proclaim
In the splendour of his temple
Honour to His holy name.

2 Christ is King! No soul created
Can refuse to bend the knee
To the God made man who reigneth,
As ’twas promised, from the tree.

3 Christ is King! Let humble sorrow
For our past neglect atone,
For the lack of faithful service
to the Master whom we own.

4 Christ is King! Let joy and gladness
Greet him; let His courts resound
With the praise of faithful subjects
To His love in honour bound.

5 Christ is King! In health and sickness,
Till we breathe our dying breath,
Till we greet in highest heaven
Christ the victor over death.

While this is a text that is new to me, but was in fact the original words to the tune, BUNESSAN. It is Mary Macdonald’s Gaelic Christmas song, ‘Leanabh an Aigh’ translated by Lachlan Macbean. Bunessan was actually Mary Macdonald’s birthplace on the Isle of Mull (thanks Hymnary).

Godsongs has more background as it is right in Mary’s wheelhouse.

In the New Living Parish Hymn Book we are favoured with the editor, John de Luca’s, arrangement, which has a lot more chords than usual so is worth a look. I like the diminished chord particularly. I used them all in my new backing:

1 Child in the manger, infant of Mary;
Outcast and stranger, Lord of all!
Child who inherits all our transgressions,
All our demerits on him fall.

2 Once the most holy child of salvation
Gently and lowly lived below;
Now, as our glorious mighty Redeemer,
See him victorious o’er each foe.

3 Prophets foretold him, infant of wonder;
Angels behold him on his throne;
Worthy our Saviour of all their praises;
Happy forever are his own.

This song shares it’s refrain’s tune with yesterday’s hymn but has completely different verses.

That means it is by James Phillip McAuley and Richard Connolly. It is a Eucharist song, especially intended for Corpus Christi, which comes up soon. I have blogged it before in TIS. Since then it appeared in CWB II 462.

McAuley’s texts just don’t sound like other hymns. He was a great poet no doubt, but his hymn lyrics lose none of their poetry by being blunt and concise. Connelly’s setting are always inventive and memorable.

Willow have the sheet music.

Whereas I have avoided church organ in the past for my backings, for this collection I have frequently resorted to the wind up BIAB organ style, but have used more lines of the music to fill things out.

Refrain

By your priestly pow’r, O risen Lord.

All we lost and needed is restored.

God in our communion be adored.

1 At your hands, Lord, we are fed,

Hands that guide and do not falter,

Wounded hands that broke the bread on this altar.

2 At you hands we seek release

From the evils that assail us

For we know the Bread of Peace will not fail us.

3 In the world that we have known

Selfish, loud, vain passions riot;

Lord, with you, with you alone is deep quiet.

4 To that world we must return

Sharing in its hopes and labour,

Bringing it to Christ’s concern for our neighbour.

This is a delightful Easter hymn by the Australian team of the poet, James Phillip McAuley, and composer Richard Connelly.

I blogged this out of Together In Song, here, which meant they provided the chords. Since then it was published in CWB II 352.

While this hymnal is long out of print, Willow has kept McAuley and Connolly’s work available and the sheet music for this one is available from them.

I’ve redone my backing.

Refrain

By your kingly pow’r, O risen Lord,
All that Adam lost is now restored:
In your resurrection be adored.

1 Sing the joyful Easter cry,
Sound it to the souls in prison,
Shout our triumph to the sky:
Sing Christ risen, sing Christ risen.

2 Sing the joyful Easter cry,
Let all times and peoples listen:
Death has no more victory,
Sing Christ risen, sing Christ risen.

3 Death has lost and life has won;
Ev’ry newborn soul we christen
Now becomes the Father’s son:
Sing Christ risen, sing Christ risen.