Church Music

When I blogged Haugen’s revised Mass of Creation I only did one of the Memorial Acclamations.

This is another, requested by Ken:

We proclaim your death O Lord,

and profess your resurrection until you come again, until you come again.

This song by Rory Cooney was requested by Ken.

Cooney has written a lovely blog post about the song’s inspiration and he has included the text here.

The sheet music can be purchased for download at various sites on the internet including musicnotes.

The music liturgy team has chosen this music for the celebration of Mass this week.

Entrance: Christ Be Our Light (Farrell) AOV 2/3

Psalm 146 (Keefe)

Praise the Lord who heals the broken hearted.

Gifts: Blessed Be Our God (McKenna) AOV NG 13

Communion: Bread Broken, Wine Shared (Horner) AOV 2/155

You Are Mine (Haas)  AOV 2/2

Thanksgiving: Galilee Song (Andersen) AOV 1/15

Recessional: Strong and Constant  (Andersen) AOV 1/110

Entrance: Praise to You O Christ Our Saviour (Farrell) AOV 1/28

Psalm 94 (Mason)

If today you hear his voice , harden not your heart.

Gifts: Come to Set Us Free (Farrell) AOV 1/39

Communion: Bread of Life (Farrell) AOV 1/164

Will You Love Me? (Boniwell) AOV 1/40

Thanksgiving: We Remember (Haugen) AOV 1/81

Recessional: Lord the Light of Your Love (Kendrick) AOV 2/59

Entrance: Galilee Song (Andersen) AOV 1/15

Psalm 24 McKenna

Teach me your ways, O Lord. Teach me your ways.

Gifts: Be Not Afraid (Dufford) AOV 1/114

Communion: Table of Plenty (Schutte) AOV 2/20

The Servant Song (Gillard) AOV 2/169

Thanksgiving: You Are Mine (Haas)  AOV 2/2

Recessional: City of God (Schutte) AOV 1/57

I am away for a few weeks so here are the music liturgy team’s selection for the next few weeks.  We are casting our net wide for music for the Psalm responses over the coming masses, including the wonderful Kate Keefe, Amanda McKenna and Paul Mason.

Entrance: Here I Am Lord (Schutte) AOV 1/90

Psalm 39 (Keefe)  Kate Keefe’s site

Here I am, Lord, I come to do your will.

Gifts: Come to Me (Norbet) AOV 1/37

Communion: We Are Many Parts (Haugen) AOV 1/86

Song of the Body of Christ  (Haas) AOV 1/27

Thanksgiving: The Summons (Maule-Bell) AOV NG 149

Recessional: We Are Called (Haas) AOV 2/60

This song about the communal nature of sacraments is by the heavyweight team of Matt Maher and Tom Booth and is the last song in Spirit & Song Vol 2. I’m not sure if it is a communal song however. The second verse is a confiteor of sorts if that is useful.

The text is at spiritandsong where the sheet music can be purchased for download.

My backing is the first done I’ve done with Band in a Box 2015 and shamelessly uses spaghetti western guitar doodling:

Matt Maher:

Live:

A fine cover:

This is really another P&W song by Matt Maher with help for the text from Paul George. It gets oddly conversational for a song lyric at points. It has a pre-chorus, a call and response bridge leading into final refrain with a key change after the first line. In short every tweak and gimmick known to man. It’s still a fair enough pop song, especially considering the sacramental theology embedded it it.

The text is at spiritandsong where the sheet music can be purchased for download.

Matt Maher:

Since “Sweet Redeemer” is also in AOV NG, I’ve already blogged that song here, so I can move to the next song in Spirit & Song Vol 2.

“Yes, I Believe” is a pop song by Joel Lindsay and Tony Wood and was performed by “Point of Grace”. It is the basis for a musical for young people.

The text is here. The sheet music can be purchased for download at musicnotes.

Point of Grace:

Covers:

“Open the Eyes of My Heart” is also in AOV NG so I’ve already blogged that song here.

That gets me to this wonderful song with a text by Genevieve Glen OSB set to music by Scot Crandal. This song stands out from the ususual spiritandsong mold by being very singable by an assembly and sounding fresh. The text is poetic and allusive and the song would be good for healing masses or if an environmental theme is found in the readings.

The text can be found in this sample at Crandal’s site. You can listen to the original here.

The song has two voices in the verses which I have distinguished with different sounding melody lines.