Entrance: Table of Plenty (Schutte) AOV 2/20
Psalm 145 (O’Brien)
The hand of the Lord feeds us, God answers all our needs.
Gifts: One Body (O’Brien- Watts) AOV 2/146
Communion: Table Song (Haas)
One Bread, One Body (Foley) AOV 1/129
Thanksgiving: Enemy of Apathy (Bell-Maule) AOV 2/75
Recessional: Shout to the Lord (Zschech) AOV NG 114
Number 98 in Voices As One is an extraordinary song called “We Are One Body” which is also in Spirit and Song so I have already blogged it here.
That gets us to Ed Bolduc’s “We Gather Here” a gathering song for those who’ve sung “Gather Us In” once too often.
It has an odd structure with a long interlude in God’s voice by the cantor between the first and second verses, which are the same, followed by a third verse which isn’t! This might explain why we are still singing “Gather Us In.”
The text is in the sample at WLP where the sheet music can be purchased.
This song was used recently at Ryan’s parish.
The text is suitable for general liturgical uses but the fourth verse is especially apt for reconciliation and penance. The text is by Ralph Finn and the tune is ICH GLAUB AN GOTT. The text and sheet music are at the links to Hymnary.
The refrain sounds a lot like Waltzing Matilda.
This is a social justice prayer in a song reminding us that we are the agents of God’s change in the world.
It is by Paul A Tate and has call and response verses. In the chorus there is a extra melody line for a choir after verses two and three. It could all be sung, apart from the choir responses, by an assembly but it would lose a lot.
The text is in the sample at WLP where the sheet music can be purchased and you can listen to a snippet of the song.
My backing is a little more Latin but the song can handle it.
Entrance: All Are Welcome (Haugen)
Psalm 23 (O’Brien)
Lord, you are my shepherd, there is nothing I shall want.
Gifts: Shepherd Me O God (Haugen) AOV 1/33
Communion: Like a Shepherd (Boniwell) AOV 1/26
The Summons (Maule-Bell) AOV NG 149
Thanksgiving: A Place at the Table (Shirley Erena Murray – Lori True) AOV NG 1
Recessional: We Are Called (Haas) AOV 2/60
This is a hymn from RS’s parish. It has a text by William Whiting and a tune by John B. Dykes.
Hymnary have the text and sheet music. For obvious reasons it is associated with the naval services. The US Navy has some background and a flotilla of alternative verses.
A simple BIAB organ backing:
A real organ:
The U.S. Navy Band Sea Chanters:
Warning – avoid if prone to seasickness – but wait for the excellent choir:
As a normal assembly would sing it:
This is is an interesting song from Ed Bolduc, with assistance from R S Raus for the text. It is suitable for Lent or Eucharist generally.
What is interesting is the key changing from G to Eb to E and back to G in each verse refrain cycle. While that sounds over the top it actually flows pretty well.
The text is in the sample at WLP where you can hear a snippet and purchase the sheet music.
This is a hymn of Lutheran origin with a text by Herman G. Stuempfle. Ryan’s parish sing it to the fine traditional tune KINGSFOLD. The sheet music is at Hymnary.
The text (or at least some of it) is here. GIA hold the copyright on the text but I can’t see the song available to purchase there. Hymnary says it is available in a hymn book called “Singing the New Testament.”
This song by Laura Kutscher is an obvious pick for baptism, sprinkling and associated liturgies (“Baptism of the Lord” etc). Is she the same person as Laura Kutscher-Dankler who works at GIA according to the link?
It has a call and response refrain that will need a cantor and the verses are really fiddly rhythmically, in a different key and are suggested for a cantor so the assembly is just echoing the cantor in the chorus and otherwise just listening. The refrain has a held Eb in the response which isn’t going to fly in our assembly. I like the song a lot, but it is quite impractical.
The guitar music that I have has, to save space, squashed the verses into half the space which is most confusing. The sample of the full music is fine however, and has the text at WLP. The extract to listen to there has a suboperatic cantor that would put me off I’m afraid.
My backing doesn’t sound anything like that and I’ve separated the vocal lines.
This is is a fine communion song from Ricky Manalo CSP that is in use at RS’s parish. Apart from a long held D in the refrain it is most singable. The introduction has a touch of the Titanic about it.
The text is at OCP with a Vietnamese version as well. The sheet music can be purchased for download at OCP as well.
