Church Music

Kate has a wonderful site with her own mass settings and Psalms that is wonderful gift for us all. I’m going have to sit down and go through her mass setting when I get time.

Visit her here.

Tina requested this song by Rory Cooney. The net is full of hate for this song as heretical. If real presence means anything though, an aspect of it is captured poetically in this song and people should lighten up. I’ve never sung it and had to get chords by playing a snippet from the net through BIAB. You can hear a snippet and purchase it from OCP here.

Refrain

I myself am the bread of life.

You and I are the bread of life.

Taken and blessed, broken and shared by Christ

That the world might live.

Verse 1

This bread is spirit, gift of the Maker’s love,

and we who share it know that we can be one:

a living sign of God in Christ.

Refrain

Verse 2

Here is God’s kingdom given to us as food.

This is our body, this is our blood:

a living sign of God in Christ.

Refrain

Verse 3

Lives broken open, stories shared aloud,

Become a banquet, a shelter for the world:

a living sign of God in Christ.

Refrain

Rory Cooney

© 1987, North American Liturgy Resources, Published by OCP Publications

The liturgy team for this week has selected these songs:

Entrance: We Are Called (Haas) AOV 2/60

Psalm: The Hand of God Shall Hold You (Haugen) as a response before and after the psalm

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

Communion: Bread, Blessed and Broken (Lynch)

Something Wonderful (Kerr) AOV NG 115

Recessional: You Are the Voice (Haas) AOV 2/80

The liiturgy team for this week has chosen these songs:

Entrance: You Are Welcome (Leo Watt)

Psalm: The Lord is My Shepherd “Crimmond”

Gifts: Like a Shepherd (Dufford) AOV 1/160

Communion: Table Song (Haas)

Come As You Are (Browne) AOV 1/31

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

This is a well known song by Carey Landry based on Ps 107 and set to a traditional tune. You can hear it sung by a Church here, or by a fellow with a cool harmonising gadget here.

My backing is a little strange.  It’s an ancient MIDI file of mine put through Pro tools.

1, 5. Peace is flowing like a river,
flowing out of you and me.
Flowing out into the desert,
setting all the captives free.

2. Love is flowing like a river,
flowing out of you and me.
Flowing out into the desert,
setting all the captives free.

3. Healing’s flowing like a river,
flowing out of you and me.
Flowing out into the desert,
setting all the captives free.

4. Alleluia, alleluia.
Alleluia, alleluia.
Alleluia, alleluia.
Alleluia, alleluia.

© 1975 Rev Carey Landry & North American Liturgy Resources

These are two useful pieces from the prolific and talented Michael Mangan. “Bless Us Lord” is available in the Sing Your Joy Collection, but I can’t find “Peace I Give” on Michael’s website.

Peace I give you peace I leave.

My own peace I give to you.

No more trouble, no more fear, peace for ever more.

© Litmus Productions 1993.

Bless us Lord, Keep us safe,

Hold us closely by your side.

Send us strength, give us hope,

Grant us peace and joy.

© Litmus Productions 1993.

The team for this week has chosen these songs:

Entrance: We Are Called (Haas) AOV 2/6

Psalm: A Voice in the Wilderness (Robinson) AOV 1/62

Gifts: Bread Blessed and Broken (Lynch)

Communion: Take and Eat – Mantra (Russell) AOV 1/126

I Have Loved You (Joncas) AOV 1/126

Recessional: All the Ends of the Earth (Dufford) AOV 1/76

I’ll be down at Kingscliff this weekend so I have no idea what I’ll be joining in with.

Frenzy Cool asked for another song, this time by Marty Haugen, that I’ve never heard of and that I don’t have any music for. If we decide to use it locally I’ll buy the music that is available here. You can hear a sample here.

My backing has two verse , the bridge and another verse. It is rather approximate as I’m guessing the tune.

Frenzy Cool asked for this backing of an uplifting song by David Haas. It can bought from GIA here. You can hear the full version, trumpets and all, here.

It would be a great recessional.

I got the lyrics by listening so if you want then you’ll have to find them yourself ot buy the music, and you will have to work out the Spanish verse on your own. Band in a Box figured out the chords and I worked out the notes on my ukulele, so  this is all rather approximate music.

The liturgy team for this week (my group), have selected these songs:

Entrance: You Are Welcome (Leo Watts)

Psalm: The Lord is Kind and Merciful (Booth) Spirit and Song Vol 2/274   refrain only

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

Communion:

Come As You Are (Browne) AOV 1/31

Seed, Scattered and Sown (Feiten) Gather Australia 195

Recessional: Go Make a Difference (Angrisano & Tomasczek) AOV NG 52