I am still in the social concern section of Gather 3rd edition, where I find a Zimbabwean text set to an Zimbabwean adaption of a traditional English tune, LINCOLNSHIRE POACHER, here arranged by John Bell.
That version’s sheet music can be purchased at GIA.
If you believe and I believe and we together pray,
The Holy Spirit must come down and set God’s people free,
And set God’s people free, and set God’s people free;
The Holy Spirit must come down and set God’s people free.
My survey of songs in Gather 3rd edition that I have not covered already on my blog, has turned up some Tony Alonso songs that I had not come across, which is always a joy. Of the two shining GIA hopes of the 2000s, it seems Alonso stayed and Mahler went off to do musicals. Alonso is hopefully coming to Australia next year if there is enough interest. Get on to your local worthies and make sure they tell the APMN he is most welcome.
It is a song for mission and ministry, as well as a suggestion for Christ the King, a notoriously difficult liturgy for which to find music. It is has a musical hook of two triplets across a 3/4 bar to keep you engaged. The guitar sheet music has three part harmony for the refrain.
The sheet music is at GIA and the text on page nine of this booklet. It is based on Matthew 25: 24-41. This passage always reminds of a long deceased patient of mine who despite the burden of mental illness, had an open heart and had a ministry to problems gamblers who had wound up in prison. She made her own decision to ignore my advice that she risked her own health with that sort of volunteering. She used to allow people down on their luck to stay with her so she could care for them, which usually led to her being robbed. I wrote a prescription for her once that simply read, “Don’t take in any more strays”. She is one very few people I have met that I am certain are in whatever heaven is.
This song in Gather 3rd edition is Herman G. Stuemple text, which has been set to SHANTI by Marty Haugen – the tune of “We Walk by Faith“. We are in the social concern section but this song covers more than physical needs.
The text is on page three of this leaflet. GIA don’t appear to sell this but you almost certainly have the music in a hymnal somewhere.
I have already blogged this David E. Trueblood text with other settings (here and here), but Gather 3rd edition sets it to EBENEZER by Thomas Williams.
The text is here.
It is also set to HOLY MANNA, so just so I don’t have to do this a fourth time:
EBENEZER
HOLY MANNA
This is a Delores Duffner text set to a traditional folk tune FOREST GREEN that Ralph Vaughan Williams turned into a hymn tune.
It would be great for any liturgy featuring the feeding the the five thousand.
GIA have other settings of this text for sale but no longer seem to have this one, not even on handbells. The text is in the previews at Hymnary, where they can let you know which hymnals have this version.
I have blogged this marvellous Shirley Erena Murray text twice before with various settings, but I never did a backing for Tony Alonso’s setting, which is in Gather 3rd edition.
The words are at Hope Publishing and this setting’s sheet music at GIA.
Entrance: One Body In Christ (McKenna) AOV NG 102
Psalm 144 (McKenna)
The hand of the Lord feeds us, he answers all our needs.
Gifts: From the Many Make Us One (Huck/Alonso)
Communion: One Body (O’Brien- Watts) AOV 2/146
Recessional: Hearts on Fire (Mangan) AOV NG 62
Entrance: Come As You Are (Brown) AOV 1/31
Psalm 22 (McKenna)
The Lord is my shepherd; there is nothing I shall want.
Gifts: From the Many Make Us One (Huck/Alonso)
Communion: Shepherd Me O God (Haugen) AOV 1/33
Recessional: Send Us Out (Bryant) AOVD
Entrance: City of God (Schutte) AOV 1/57
Psalm 84 (McKenna)
Lord, show us your mercy and love, and grant us your salvation.
Gifts: God Has Chosen Me (Farrell) AOV 1/21
Communion: From the Many Make Us One (Huck/Alonso)
Recessional: Go Make a Difference (Angrisano/Tomaszek) AOV NG 52
Entrance: Christ be Our Light (Farrell) AOV 2/3
Psalm 122 (McKenna)
Our eyes are fixed on the Lord, pleading for his mercy.
Gifts: The Servant Song (Gillard) AOV 2/169
Communion: Gift of Finest Wheat (Westendorf/Kreutz) CWB II 651
Recessional: Here I Am Lord (Schutte) AOV 1/90
