Church Music

Br Martin Conneely has asked for a backing of this song.  Never having been to a Marist school I had no idea, but Chris has come to the party, letting me know that it is to the tune of “For All the Saints,” by Ralph Vaughan Williams. Someone will need to let me know who wrote the lyrics.

My backing is more fake organ, but I’m not sure if the tempo and feel is at all right, so do let me know.

Great man of God, Champagnat shone with zeal,
Strove thru’ his life, his Master to reveal;
With him for guide may we o’er sin prevail,
Praise be to Jesus and to His Mother!

For Mary’s son, this son of Lyon’s soil,
Gave up himself, for youth to pray and toil,
To lead to God, and Satan’s power to foil,
Praise be to Jesus and to His Mother!

So let these words of Great Champagnat ring,
and with one voice let’s praise our God and King.
Let Marist’s sons be ever proud to sing:
Praise be to Jesus and to His Mother!

These hopes that bind us, this purpose and this plan,
Everywhere find us, held by friendship’s hand.
In work, in play, in all, to serve, to pray.
We will be faithful, Servo Fidem.

These are the songs that the liturgy team for this week have chosen:

Entrance: Here I Am Lord (Schutte) AOV 1/90)

Psalm: “I Will Praise You Lord” as response

Gifts: Song of the Body of Christ (Haas) AOV 1/27)

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

One Bread, One Body (Foley) AOV 1/129

Recessional: Companion on the Journey (Landry) AOV 1/188

We just started doing Paul Mason’s Mass of Glory and Praise after many months of Mass Shalom.

I think it is wonderful because Shalom’s a beast on guitar and Glory and Praise is a peach.

I’m still in the miscellaneous file of songs that have been used over the years that aren’t from As One Voice. This Andrew Chinn song can’t have been used much as I don’t remember it at all. It may have been from a school liturgy and it suits that use.  You can hear a sample here.  It is available in the “Together As One” collection that you can order using this form.

Andrew Chinn has requested that I post only an excerpt of my backing.  Please go to his website to purchase his music and CDs.

Chorus

Peace be with you all day
My peace be with you always
Peace be with you all my friends
My peace be with you ‘til the end
My peace be with you always

1. My peace is what I leave with you
It is my own peace I give you
Do not be worried, do not be afraid
In my peace I am with you always

2. And you will never walk alone
For God is with you as you go
My peace it comes from God, it calls us to unite as one
My peace will make and keep you strong

3. And may the peace of Christ guide you
In all you say and all you do
And may his peace, live in your heart
In all its strength, in all you are

4. And may God bless you as you leave
And may the Spirit give you peace
And as you walk along, along life’s road
May Christ be with you all, as you go

© Butterfly Music

This is the one made famous by Sr Janet Mead and was written by Arnold Strals. You can see and hear her sing the song here. I picked up the original sheet music collection called “With You I Am” at a second hand shop. It can still be purchased as a single sheet here.

My backing is another ancient MIDI done on an early version of Band in a Box, recently put through Pro Tools.

Chorus
Our Father
Who art in heaven
Hallowed be Thy name
Thy kingdom come
Thy will be done
On earth as it is in heaven

Chorus 

Verse

Give us this day our daily bread
Forgive us our trespasses
As we forgive them who trespass against us
Forgive us our trespasses

Chorus 

Bridge

Oh Lord lead us not into temptation
But save us from evil
And the kingdom, the power
And the glory forever
Will be Yours

Chorus (Rpt & fade)

© Festival Music, 1973.

This is a particularly gorgeous  song by Br Rufino Zaragoza. It is published by OCP but I couldn’t find a downloadable version.

You can hear a lovely version here.

My version is an exercise in BIAB jazz that is probably unsuitable except for learning the tune.

O silent God, Holy One, God Unseen, God unknown.

Hear my prayer, hear my cry. Have you abandoned me?

In this dying I join your dying; in rising, I join your rising;

In this dying, I join your dying with Jesus, the glory of God.

© OCP Publications, 1988,1990.

I’ve put this in as a communion song a few times, but I suspect I really shouldn’t have. It is probably best left as a P&W thumper.  It is by Brenton Brown and I found it in The Source: New Songs, or you can buy a digital download here.

You can listen to the song here. This is another good version. Brenton Brown also does a more meditative version here.

My backing is rather noisy.

Verse 1
Over all the earth
You reign on high
Every mountain stream every sunset sky
But my one request Lord my only aim
Is that You’d reign in me again

Chorus

Lord reign in me
Reign in Your power
Over all my dreams
In my darkest hour
You are the Lord of all I am
So won’t You reign in me again

Verse 2

Over every thought
Over every word
May my life reflect the beauty of my Lord
‘Cause You mean more to me than any earthly thing
So won’t You reign in me again

Chorus

© Vineyard Songs, 1998.

I can’t for the life of me recall why this song was sung at mass, but it was a long time ago. It is by Bob Ferguson and was made famous by Ferlin Husky. It can be bought online here.

I do remember making this backing though, because I entered every note of the piano part, one note at a time. From the percussion sound it may have been done on Anvil as 6/8 time was always a struggle on BIAB. Nonetheless, it is an old MIDI file that I have put through Pro Tools just for fun.

Verse 1 When Noah had drifted on the flood many days, He searched for land in various ways. Troubles, he had some, but he wasn’t forgotten, God sent down His love on the wings of a dove.   Chorus   On the wings of a snow-white dove, God sent His pure, sweet love; Just a sign from above on the wings of a dove.   Verse2   When troubles surround you, when evil may come, The body grows weak and your spirit grows numb.  When these things beset you, God will not forget you, He’ll send down His love on the wings of a dove. Chorus © Husky Music & Larrick Music

This is another of Monica Brown’s songs that is specific in reference to Australia, but, as I have suggested before, those in the Southern hemisphere often sing songs that are relevant to the Northern hemisphere, so why not sing about the dreamtime in Minnesota.

You can hear it done properly here. You can purchase the collection here.

Verse 1

There is a land, an ancient land.

It bears a vast and rugged face.

Its spirits deep, haunting and free.

It calls to you, it calls to me.

Come find your soul, within my depths.

Come make of me, your homeland true.

Chorus

This is our land, we are its people

A nation that’s free to realise its dream.

A dream that’s for all who dwell in this land.

To live as one people, one people one land.

Verse 2

There is a people, an ancient people.

Their spirits rest deep in this land.

Their dreamtime myth, story and faith,

Make this land a sacred place.

They seek of all a true embrace,

That reconciles all that we are.

Chorus

Bridge

And from distant shores many have come

To find their home in this great southern land

Where the spirit yearns and seeks to unite us all

Chorus

© Monica Brown & Emmaus Productions, 2001.

This is a song by Jack Miffleton, based on Psalm 52:10-11.  We have an olive tree planted outside our church which was a gift in an ecumenical spirit.

The song can be purchased here.

My backing is an ancient MIDI that I haven’t tarted up.