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
Entrance: Christ Light, Shining in the Darkness (Grant) CWBII 468
Psalm 29 ( McKenna)
I will praise you, Lord, for you have rescued me.
Gifts: Blessed Be Our God (McKenna) AOV NG 13
Communion: Table of Plenty (Schutte) AOV 2/20
Recessional: Send Us Out (Bryant) AOVD
Entrance: Canticle of Creation (Watts-O’Brien) AOV NG 20
Psalm 106 (McKenna)
Give thanks to the Lord, his love is everlasting.
Gifts: Bless Our Gifts (Grant) AOVD
Communion: Be Not Afraid (Dufford) AOV 1/114
Recessional: Though the Mountains May Fall (Schutte) AOV 1/182
Entrance: All the Ends of the Earth (Dufford) AOV 1/76)
Psalm 91 (McKenna)
Lord it is good to give thanks to you, it is good to give thanks to you.
Gifts: Harvest (Grant) AOVD
Communion: Seed, Scattered and Sown (Feiten) CWB II 592
Recessional: Bring Forth the Kingdom (Haugen) AOV 2/4
Entrance: All Are Welcome (Haugen)
Psalm 129 (McKenna)
With the Lord there is mercy and fullness of redemption
Gifts: Be Merciful (Haugen)
Communion: Mercy from the Heart of God (O’Brien/Ogilive) AOVD
Recessional: The Summons (Maule-Bell) AOV NG 149
I was planning to do the Mason version of Psalm 129 that we did throughout Lent, but thought it would be too much of a change to sing the whole psalm out of the blue when we normally just do the refrain, without a seasonal explanation.
I have got to the “Social Concern” section of the hymns in Gather 3rd edition. This is a text by Fred Kaan that I have already blogged here, but Gather use none of the three settings suggested there, rather using ST THOMAS by John Wade. I applaud GIA for not copyrighting an arrangement of this one for a change.
The powerful lyrics are at Hope Publishing where they suggest yet another setting, McELRATH by Hal H. Hopson. Ahh – the joys of a metrical hymn that can be set to anything 8.7 8.7 8.7 – bliss.
My current quixotic survey is of Gather 3rd edition – fortunately I have already covered many of the songs already so I am up to this song in the Discipleship section with a text from Sylvia Dunstan set by Paul A. Tate long after her death.
Even my guitar version of Gather has notes for the harmonies, while remaining clear with the chords and melody line – you just have to watch when the lyrics jump above the staves. It is in the Celtic via USA style.
The sheet music can be purchased at GIA and the text is on page 7 of this leaflet.
This is Paul Tate’s own version with all the harmony lines.
This is a typically blunt text from John Bell that has a specific use for adult baptism but fits the discipleship section Gather 3rd ed. well enough.
It is set to a traditional Scottish tune, O GIN I WERE A BARON’S HEIR by Joseph William Holder, not that GIA let you know that in case you find the public domain music elsewhere. I have John Bell’s arrangement in his I Will Not Sing Alone collection, but GIA have an arrangement by Tony Alonso and Michael Mahler. Copyrighting such things is a very lucrative arrangement, but I grant that the guitar version I have shows little of the work that has gone into the full sheet music you can see in their preview at GIA. The text is on page 2 of this leaflet.
In my backing I ignored the notes provided for the interludes and let BIAB use its whistle.
Of the versions below, the original from Wild Goose shreds the admittedly gorgeous Alonso version, but I do like the stripped back versions from the various churches a lot.
Nice to hear Chris Brunelle doing a GIA song:
The original song is a pip:
This is a bilingual English/Spanish song from Rory Cooney. Or rather he wrote the words and music for the refrain, based on John 21:15, and the verses are Psalm 23 from the The Grail with music by Joseph Gelineau.
Cooney gives SATB parts for the refrain if you need them (T&B in unison) and it appears the cantors can be in two parts for the verses.
The sheet music is at GIA and the text here. The music says no guitar in the verses so… no guitar in the verses.
I can skip all the way to the discipleship section of Gather 3rd ed. for this traditional African American Spiritual.
This edition has a harmonisation by Dr Wendell P. Whalum, but the sheet music currently available at GIA is arranged by Avis D. Graves.
Hymnary has a list of the many hymnals in which it is featured.
1 Guide my feet while I run this race, yes, my Lord!
Guide my feet while I run this race, yes, my Lord!
Guide my feet while I run this race,
for I don’t want to run this race in vain! (race in vain!)2 Hold my hand…
3 Stand by me…
4 I’m your child…
