Church Music

I have the music for some more masses that I thought I should blog.  I’ll be starting with the Glendalough mass.  A friend from church heard it at the recent conference in Wollongong and was very impressed. I’ve paid my US$8.50 to download it from GIA and I’ll put up some comments soon.

Entrance: Gather Us In  (Haugen) AOV 1/12

Psalm 23 by Andrew Kooi An Di

Who is the king of glory?

It is the Lord, it is the Lord. x2

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

Communion: Gather Your People (Hurd) AOV 1/71

Table of Plenty (Schutte) AOV 2/20

Thanksgiving: Come To Set Us Free (Farrell) AOV 1/39

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

The music this week retains the elements being used throughout Advent except:

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

Communion: Holy Is Your Name (Haas) Tune :Wild Mountain Thyme

Recessional: Into the Darkness (Dawn) from “Songs of Fellowship” Book Five (No 70)

 

Entrance: Prepare the Way (Boniwell)

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

Recessional: A Voice in the Wilderness (Robinson) AOV 1/60

… otherwise as for the rest of advent.

 

This is a song suggested by the nice people at St Mary’s Warwick with lyrics by Sr Deidre Browne set to a tune by Jane Wood. This is an important text because it sets Advent in our summer space rather than within the inappropriate Northern hemisphere winter motifs that ring so hollow in Australia.  The tune is quite dark in places but with a call and response with the cantor – the assembly only sings “prepare the way of the Lord, prepare the way of the Lord” in the verses – it should be doable. The fourth verse goes of into a different tune for the cantor to learn.

You can find it in Gather Australia 281.

Refrain

Gather in hope, people of God.

Sing the Advent song!

Song of faith, song of trust,

a song to welcome the Christ.

Verse 1

Let the warmth of our love, like the long summer days,

prepare the way of the Lord, prepare the way of the Lord.

Let our will for justice, as strong as the sun,

prepare the way of the Lord, prepare the way of the Lord.

Refrain

Verse 2

Let our thirst for truth, like the dry, parched earth,

prepare the way of the Lord, prepare the way of the Lord.

Let our dream for peace, as bright as the sky,

prepare the way of the Lord, prepare the way of the Lord.

Refrain

Verse 3

Let the prophet be heard, like the blaze of fire:

prepare the way of the Lord, prepare the way of the Lord.

Let the poor and the rich as the lamb and the lion,

prepare the way of the Lord, prepare the way of the Lord.

Refrain

Verse 4

Stand alert and be ready to welcome the Christ.

Prepare the way of the Lord, prepare the way of the Lord.

Let this be our pray’r as we lift up our hearts:

prepare the way of the Lord, prepare the way of the Lord.

Refrain

© Text: Dierdre Browne 1993, Tune: Jane Wood 1993.

Throughout Advent we are running the same psalm, “To You O God” and Trish Watts’s “All is Wonder” for lighting the advent candle and Amanda McKenna’s “Blessed be our God” for Gifts. We also have the “Advent Chant” as a second communion song. The Mass parts are Paul Taylor’s Mass of St Francis with the Celtic Alleluia for the gospel acclamation.

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

Communion: Table of Plenty (Schutte) AOV 2/20

Recessional: A Voice in the Wilderness (Robinson) AOV 1/60

 

 

 

I was out of the country last week and didn’t get around to putting the music for last Sunday, but the music liturgy team (of which I am part) picked some interesting music, and since advent music is used across the four weeks I thought I’d put it up late anyway.

The parts of the mass have changed to the Mass of St Francis by Paul Taylor.

 

Entrance: Praise to You O Christ Our Saviour (Farrell) AOV 1/28

Lighting the Candle: All is Wonder (Watts) AOV NG 4

Psalm: To You O God I Lift Up My Soul (Hurd) AOV 2/14 (to be used throughout Advent)

Gospel Acclamation: Celtic Alleluia alt verse 8 (O’Carroll/Walker) AOV 1/13

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

Communion: Bread Broken, Wine Shared (Horner) AOV 2/155

Advent Chant (Porter/Kirkland) AOV 2/123

Thanksgiving: Into the Darkness (Dawn) Songs of Fellowship Book 5 No70

Recessional: Christ Be Out Light (Farrell) AOV 2/3

Entrance: The King of Glory (Jabusch – trad)

Psalm 122 Response “Let us go rejoicing to the house of the Lord.”

from Gather Australia (Willcock)

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

Communion: We Remember (Haugen) AOV 1/81

Jesus Remember Me (Berthier) AOV 1/152

Thanksgiving: Hail, Redeemer, King Divine (Brennan- Flood) GA 390

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

The liturgy team for music have selected these songs for this week:

Entrance: Send Down the Fire (Haugen) AOV 2/164

Psalm Response: Ps 97 “The Lord comes, comes to rule the earth with justice.”

Paul Johnstone from the Catholic Worship Book

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

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

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

Thanksgiving: Enemy of Apathy (Bell-Maule) AOV 2/75

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

 

Amongst the reasons I have been blogging infrequently this year (work,travel etc) is that I have been busy doing the GCTS(Liturgy) at ACU. It is a four unit course (I only did three as I had already done the Sacraments unit) that aims to give a firm basis in liturgy and then look for applications in celebrations, sacraments and music. It is an online course, although the music component was done as an intensive this year, which meant your correspondent briefly had to be a full time student for the first time in thirty years and that was a challenge.

A new cohort is to start in 2014 if there is sufficient numbers. I would be horrified if the course does not continue. It is run by Dr Clare Johnson who is the only person in Australian Catholic academia with the necessary expertise in both Liturgy and music to run such a course (correct me if I’m wrong) and considering the patchy assistance given to parishes and schools in this very important area of our church life, this course is vital. Having spoken the APREs and teachers doing the course the need is great in school liturgies and I’m hard pressed to see how a school’s music and liturgy budget would not include sponsoring likely candidates to become involved.

For parishes too, there is a need for this input to develop our parishes towards more beautiful and formative liturgy and encouraging education in this area is a necessary part of a parish’s commitment to health of their church.

I would certainly recommend the course to anyone working with school or parish liturgies.