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, comeChorus
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
The liturgy team for this week has selected these songs:
Entrance: The King of Glory (Jabusch)
Psalm: He is the King of Kings (Unknown) as response
Gifts: Companions on a Journey (Landry) AOV 1/188
Communion: Bread for the World (Farrell) Spirit and Song 1/157
Table Song (Haas)
Recessional: All the Ends of the Earth (Dufford) AOV 1/76
The liturgy team for this week has selected these songs:
Entrance: Gather Us In (Haugen) AOV 1 /12
Psalm: Centre of My Life (Inwood) AOV 2/170
Gifts: Amazing Grace (Newton/Rees) AOV 1/29
Communion: I’ll Be Always Loving You (Watts) AOV 1/82)
Table of Plenty (Schutte) AOV 2/20
Recessional: You Are Mine (Haas) AOV 2/2
The liturgy team for this week has selected these songs:
Entrance: Anthem (Conroy)
Psalm: Praise the Lord My Soul (Bolduc) Voices As One Vol 2 326
Gifts: St Theresa’s Prayer (Talbot)
Communion: Table of Plenty (Schutte) AOV 2/20
The Cry of the Poor (Foley) AOV 1/83
Recessional: Go Make a Difference (Angrisano & Tomaszcek) AOV NG 52
The Psalm by Ed Bolduc is really quite lovely with an easy refrain and more challenging verses best designed for a cantor. I have made a backing for myself to learn it and I would love to share it with you so you could hear it and if you liked it buy the music from WLP but they have told me not to.
Entrance: Isaiah 49 (Landry) AOV 1/89
Psalm Response: I Love the Lord (Kids Priase)
Gifts: As Gentle As Silence (White)
Communion: I’ll Be Always Loving You (Watts) AOV 1/82)
A New Commandment (Unknown) Gather Australia 318
Recessional: Let There Be Peace on Earth (Miller/Jackson) AOV 1/190
