Church Music

Music for Mass this week:

Entrance: All Are Welcome (Haugen)

Psalm: Forever I Will Sing – Gather 41

Gifts: I’ll Be Always Loving You (AOV 1/82)

Communion: Jesus Come to Us (AOV 1/148)

Come Back to Me (AOV 1/30)

Recessional: Companions on the Journey ((AOV 1/188)

This mass is for the installation of our new priest.

Entrance: Gather As One (McKenna) AOV NG 48

Psalm: refrain of “Bless the Lord” (Barr)  AOV NG 12

Gifts: Come to the Water (Foley)

Communion: One Body (O’Brien/Watts) AOV 2/146

Table Song (Haas)

Recessional: Go Make a Difference (Angrisano – Tomaszek)  AOV NG 52

Entrance: We Three Kings

Psalm: O Come all Ye Faithful – refrain only “O come let us us adore him” before and after psalm

Gifts: The First Noel

Communion: What Child is This?

Once in Royal David’s City

Recessional: Joy to the World.

My blogging has recently been limited by illness, work and trying to find a way to present this blog to corporations in a way that won’t lead to it being shut down.

Kate Keefe has generously put the music that she has written for her local church up at her site here.

Her Gloria is straight through but with some spots to catch your breath and is bright and interesting, which is a feat in itself.

I ran the mp3 she provided through Band in a Box and came up with some basic chords for guitarists.  Kate must be a keyboard player as no guitarist writes anything in the key of F, so us lazy guitarists would play it capo 3 in D of course.

I did a sketch of the song on BIAB as well that you can sing along to.

Since you can all download the music let me know of any errors that may need clearing up.

Mayfield Gloria  by Kate Keefe

F                                     C

Glory to God in the Highest

Gm                F           Bb                    C

And on earth peace to people of good will.

F                      C          Am

We praise you, we bless you,

Bb

We adore you we glorify you,

F      C          F               Bb    F

We give you thanks for your great glory,

Bb     F       Bb          C       Bb             Dm  F            Bb C/F

Lord God, heavenly King, O God, almighty Father.

F                          C7         Bb

Lord Jesus Christ, only begotten Son,

Bb      F       Bb         C      F                          Bb C

Lord God, Lamb of God, Son of the Father

Bb             C          Bb                       F       Bb   F

You take away the sins of the world, have mercy on us;

Bb           C            Dsus         Bb       F         Bb  F

You take away the sins of the world, receive our prayer,

Bb         C                  Gm              

You are seated at the right hand of the Father,

F        Gm   F   C

Have mercy on us.

C                                F       C

For you alone are the Holy One,

Gm     C    Bb       C

You alone are the Lord,

F         C              Bb       C7    C  Bb  C

You alone are the Most High, Jesus Christ,

Bb             F   C   F       Bb        C             F

With the Holy Spirit in the glory of God the Father.

F /F Bb/F/F

Amen

© Kate Keefe 2011 used with Kate’s kind permission.

I’ll have a look at the other parts of the mass in due course.

This is the music chosen by the liturgy team for this weekend:

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

Psalm: To You O God I Lift Up My Soul  (Hurd) AOV 2/14

Gifts: Holy Darkness (Schutte) AOV 2/24

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

                       O Come, O Come Emmanuel (Neale/Helmore) AOV 1/174

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

This is a farewell mass for our much loved and long serving (& suffering) priest and so we have included songs he likes!

Entrance: Prepare Ye the Way of the Lord (from Godspell)

Psalm: Springs of Salvation (Fr Frank Andersen)

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

Communion: Come to the Water (Foley)

                       Table of Plenty (Schutte) AOV 2/20

                        Great is Thy Faithfulness (Chisholm-Runyon) AOV 2/127

Recessional: Shout to the Lord (Zschech) AOV NG 114.

These are the songs we will be doing this week, chosen by the liturgy team for this week:

Entrance: Gather As One (Mckenna) AOV NG 48

Psalm: To You O God I Lift Up My Soul (Hurd) AOV 2/14

Gifts: Like a Candle (O’Brien/Ogilvie) AOV NG 91

Communion: Come to the Table (Burland) AOV NG 33

O Come O Come Emmanuel (Neale/Helmore) AOV 1/174

Recessional: Into the Darkness (Dawn)

This is a wonderful advent song written by Maggi Dawn.  I found it in a collection called “Songs of Fellowship” Book Five (No 70) when looking for songs for Advent many years ago. We haven’t sung it for a few years because the syncopation got in the way for some people, but I think it is worth another go and it will turn up in a liturgy next week.

This is a lovely solo voice and guitar version.

You can hear a sample and buy the sheet music as a download here, so you can be playing it for Advent services as soon as you wish.

My backing is a little more uptempo and is another ancient MIDI file of mine scrubbed up through ProTools.

Verse 1

Into the darkness of this world;
Into the shadows of the night;
Into this loveless place You came,
Lightened our burdens, eased our pain
And made these hearts Your home.
Into the darkness once again,
Oh come, Lord Jesus, come

Chorus

Come with Your love
To make us whole.
Come with Your light
To lead us on.
Driving the darkness
Far from our souls.
O come, Lord Jesus, come.

Verse 2

Into the longing of our souls;
Into these heavy hearts of stone;
Shine on us now Your piercing light,
Order our lives and souls aright
By grace and love unknown.
Until in You our hearts unite,
Oh come, Lord Jesus, come.

Chorus

Verse 3

O Holy Child, Emmanuel;
Hope of the ages, God with us,
Visit again this broken place,
Till all the earth declares Your praise,
And Your great mercies own.
Now let Your love be born in us,
O come, Lord Jesus, come.

Last Chorus

Come in Your glory
Take Your place.
Jesus, the Name above all names.
We long to see You face to face,
O come, Lord Jesus, come.

Words and Music by Maggi Dawn
© 1993 Kingsway’s Thankyou Music

The liturgy team for this week has selected these songs for the first week in Advent.

For the lighting of the candle we have adapted a New Zealand liturgy where the stars of the Southern Cross are represented by the four Advent candles.

We are still using Mason’s Mass of Glory and Praise but will be substituting his acclamation with Haas’s Advent Gospel Acclamation that takes through to Christmas and beyond:

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

Psalm: To You O God I Lift Up My Soul (Hurd) AOV 2/14

Gifts: I Have Loved You (Joncas) AOV 1/126

Communion: I’ll Be Always Loving You (Watts) AOV 1/82

O Come, O Come Emmanuel (Neale/Helmore) AOV 1/174

Recessional: Sing Out Earth and Skies (Haugen) AOV 2/32)

Kathleen requested this song by Tom Booth.  It is in Spirit & Song 1/171. You can also buy it various formats from OCP here.

You can hear Booth’s version here. A church has put their impressive version on Youtube here.

My version doesn’t get all the chord changes in because they won’t fit into BIAB, which is a pity.

Refrain
Be with me, Lord.
Be with me, my Lord.
When I’m in trouble and I don’t know where to go,
be with me, Lord.

1. When I’m blind, when I cannot see,
when all life’s trouble sweeps over me.
When I’m in darkness and all I see is me,
be with me, Lord.

2. When I refuse to hear your word,
when I hear your voice and do not follow,
when I’m in trouble and I don’t know where to go,
be with me, Lord.

© Tom Booth 1993, published by OCP Publications