A gentle gathering song by Victoria Thomson and Trevor Thomson that also could be used for Eucharist. I’m worried the tune will be a bit bland, but the range is certainly singable.
The text is at spiritandsong where you can purchase the sheet music for download.
This is the original but don’t expect them to follow the notes they wrote.
Since everyone else was preoccupied with the Easter liturgies it was up to our fearless leader to select music on her own — we owe her many thanks. We are still using the Mass of St Francis by Paul Taylor and, with Lent over, are back to greeting the Gospel with the Celtic Alleluia. Hopefully we can sing in the joy of the Fifty days of Pentecost.
Entrance: Alleluia No 1 (Fishel) AOV 1/15
Psalm 118 (O’Brien)
We give you thanks, O God, for you are good,
Your love endures forever.
Gifts: We Walk by Faith (Haugen) AOV 1/63.
Communion: Bread of Life (Farrell) AOV 1/60
Gather Your People (Hurd) AOV 1/71
Thanksgiving: Without Seeing You (Haas) AOV 2/158
Recessional: Sing to the Mountains (Dufford) AOV 1/92
This is an unusual song from M D Ridge. Her pretty flowing melody is embellished by rhythmic treats — the 4/4 to 6/8 step rewards the practice required.
The text is at spiritandsong, where there is a snippet that starts in Vietnamese. The sheet music can be purchased for download at OCP, where the snippet is all English with the trumpet and flutes going berserk and there is a hint of the harmony line before it fades out.
Youtube has some promising versions ruined by talkative assemblies. I didn’t bother with the harmony line in my backing but these clips give the melody and the descant. She also does the baritone and alto parts if you want to go looking. There isn’t enough of this useful sharing of knowledge and the St Kateri choir is to be applauded.
This song by Ken Canedo is amongst the gathering and sending forth songs in Spirit and Song Vol 1 and might fill that role for Pentecost, but otherwise is a good selection for Confirmation services. He writes about the song here. We’d probably use one of Michael Mangan’s Holy Spirit songs instead but this song has much to recommend it. The cantor sings the verses while the assembly continues to sing the ostinato refrain, although you could also split the assembly or have a choir sing the verses. Since it might go for a while a bit of Taizé style instrumental soloing wouldn’t go astray.
The text is at spiritandsong, where you can purchase the sheet music for download and hear a snippet.
This clip shows its use at a confirmation service but the tempo is too fast and it seems to trip over itself a bit.
These kids keep it simple and at a reasonable speed.
I really like this gentle, latin flavoured gathering song by Janet Vogt. Having blogged all of As One Voice, which heavily relies on OCP resources, I’m missing out all the songs from Spirit & Song that were used in As One Voice. That leaves a lot of the latin flavoured material. While there is a small Spanish and Latin American community in Australia our ethnic mix is extremely varied and no one culture other than perhaps Irish and Italian Australian really has enough of a presence to demand their music be mainstream in the church, which is very different to the USA.
The text is at spiritandsong where you can hear a snippet and purchase the sheet music for download. The lilting syncopated tune is lovely but there is a mental block about syncopation in some people that I don’t understand but fear is a hard wired problem. The verses are long runs of triplets so be forewarned.
That means I get to play with the latin rhythms of Band in a Box.
I’m working my way through the gathering and sending forth songs from Spirit & Song Vol 1 and on Good Friday I’m up to “Go Tell It on the Mountain”, which I suppose is here as a Christmas recessional. The text by John W Work Jnr is here and the tune is a traditional spiritual.
For some of us, the original lyric is unfamiliar as our first exposure was its use as a civil rights song with the “let my people go” phrase inserted and the verse rewritten using the exodus story. That text is here.
This is a more reflective and subtle recessional written by Chris Rice.
The text is at spiritandsong. This is another song with a key change that recommends guitarist take a capo off, which I think is impractical — just accept that the key change makes life hard and play the barred chords.
There are lots of different versions to purchase for download on the net but many are in a different key to the one in Spirit and Song and be careful, many have simplified the melody. The one at sheetmusicplus matches the key I have and has all the grace notes retained.
This song by Tom Booth is an obvious choice as a recessional. It has a lively African beat, percussion breaks, a Swahili bridge and a French countermelody. It is massively syncopated so sing it while up on your feet and moving.
The text is here (without the Swahili) at spiritandsong where you can also purchase the sheet music for download.
It is a terrific song but has three key changes (D to Eb then Eb to E then E to F) that are suggested to be done by taking a capo on and off – really? Also, my copy in Spirit and Song Vol 1 has a missing Eb chord p224 second last line second bar.
This rehearsal is nice and they substitute alternate English lyrics in the bridge.
We will be singing the whole of Paul Mason’s setting of Ps115 on Holy Thursday night. It is from his “Psalms for All Time.” The octave leap in the verse should wake us all up.
Response
Our Blessing cup is a communion with the blood of Christ
1 How can I repay the Lord for his goodness to me?
The cup of salvation I will raise; I will call on the Lord’s name.
2 O precious in the eyes of the Lord is the death of his faithful.
Your servant, Lord, your servant am I; you have loosened my bonds.
3 A thanksgiving sacrifice I make; I will call the Lord’s name.
My vows to the Lord I will fulfil before all his people.
Here goes:
Parts of the mass from Taylor’s Mass of St Francis
(+ Lenten Gospel Acclamation by Mason until Vigil)
Holy Thursday:
Table of Plenty (Schutte)
Psalm “Our Blessing Cup” (Mason)
Washing of the feet
The Lord Jesus (Norbet)
As I Have Done for You (Schutte)
Gifts -Blessed Be Our God (McKenna)
Communion – Bread Broken, Wine Shared (Horner)
A New Commandment (anon)
Procession to Altar
Holy Darkness (Schutte)
Good Friday
Response – Psalm 31
O Father I put my life, my life in Your hand. (Bonighton)
Will You Love Me (Boniwell)
Behold the Wood (Schutte)
Were You There? (trad)
Into the Darkness (Dawn)
Tree of Life (Thompson)
We Remember (Haugen)
Glory in the Cross (Schutte)
Jesus Remember Me (Berthier)
Communion
Unless a Grain of Wheat (Farrell)
I Have Loved You (Joncas)
Recessional
Jesus Remember Me (Berthier)
Easter Vigil
Exultet – Christ Our Light – tune: Christ Be Our Light (Farrell)
Response – Canticle of Creation (Watts – O’Brien)
Psalm – Behold the Glory of God (O’Connor)
Psalm – Springs of Salvation (Andersen)
Gospel Acclamation Celtic Alleluia (O’Carroll – Walker)
Baptism – River of Glory (Schutte)
Gifts – Blessed be Our God (McKenna)
Communion
Our Supper Invitation (Bates)
Gather Us In (Haugen)
Alleluia No 1 (Fishel)
Thanksgiving – Jesus Is Risen (O’Brien – Ogilvie)
Recessional – Lord the Light of Your Love (Kendrick)
Easter Sunday
Morning Has Broken (Farjeon)
Ps 118 (O’Brien)
This is the day the Lord has made
Let us rejoice and be glad Alleluia.
Gospel Acclamation – Celtic Alleluia (O’Carroll – Walker)
Gifts – Jesus is Risen (O’Brien – Ogilvie)
Communion
Table of Plenty (Schutte)
Come to the Table (Burland)
Thanksgiving – Lord the Light of Your Love (Kendrick)
Recessional – Sing to the Mountains (Dufford)
