This is a song from the emmanuelworship collection Lifted by James Garrahy that I have already blogged here. We certainly used this in liturgical settings – Pentecost for example.
I am mentioning it again because unlike the rest of the songs it is not out of print! You can purchase the sheet music at Willow.
This is the same old backing from all those years ago.
This song from the emmanuelworship collection “Lifted” goes all the way back to 1994 and was written by Patrick Keady and Natalie Balinger. While known for their up tempo, praise and worship style music, they really shine with their ballads.
This one is based on Romans 8:32 and despite the syncopation and sixteenth notes is actually singable by an assembly and is quite lovely. It changes key with the repeat.
Since it is out of print and with their permission I will post the sheet music.
The BIAB backup needed the new extra chords per bar feature in BIAB 2023 to follow the sheet music.
This is the title track from emmanuelworship‘s 2001 collection Lifted. It’s another up tempo testimony of encouragement, that is more for schools or youth rallies than mass. The words are by James Garrahy and the music by James Garrahy and Patrick Keady.
The sheet music is out of print, so with their permission I am posting it. If anyone is thinking these songs are simple rave ups, check out the triplets, the syncopation, the accidental notes crossing keys and the dynamics and all at breakneck speed. There is a lot going on with all these songs. It also would be great fun for a band to play, especially if you had some brass.
My backing is using the new BIAB 2023. I am still using the 2021 version a lot due to its familiarity, but this song needed the new feature of more than 4 chords to the bar so I used the new edition.
In my quest to cover Australian Catholic music I am looking at emmanuelworship‘s collection Lifted. This one is an energetic vocal testimony.
The text is by Liz Buchanan and the music by her and James Garrahy. It is a solo vehicle for the verses but the chorus could be sung by a crowd.
The collection is out of print and unavailable, so with their permission I’ll put up the sheet music. Hmmm… making backings for these songs take a lot more time than metrical hymns.
This song from the emmanuelworship collection Lifted, is a raucous invocation of the Spirit and a call to action. It was written by James Garrahy. It is not something with which an assembly could easily participate, so it would find a place in performance, schools and youth rallies.
The book is out of print so with their permission I will post the sheet music. I made my usual BIAB backing to help learn it.
As a complete contrast to Shirley Murray’s metrical social justice hymns, I going to cross back over the ditch to Brisbane, Australia and do the collection Lifted from Emmanuel Worship. It is from way back in 2001. This book is long out of print but with their permission I will post the sheet music, except where there is a version available for sale at Willow.
I think they came to my then parish in Daisy Hill, Queensland, which was my introduction to their ministry, and we did use three of the songs from this collection in liturgies for some time. I also went to one of their Ignite conferences around this time as well, looking for different music, although I was already an old man comparatively by then. In this collection there are songs of encouragement for young people, now as then, and they are still worth looking at. Many find their place outside of the mass, but since young people’s usual contact with the church is through school they may find a place there.
“Want to Be With You Lord” was written by the then worship director, James Garrahy. It is a rock song of praise and thankfulness. I have a quibble with the words ” brokenness restored”, which suggests we have been restored to brokenness, but that is pedantry.
Entrance: Come to the Feast (Haugen) AOV 1/151
Gifts: Mercy from the Heart of God (O’Brien/Ogilive) AOVD
Communion: A Place at the Table (Shirley Erena Murray – Lori True) AOV NG 1
Recessional: We Remember (Haugen) AOV 1/81
Entrance: Christ Light, Shining in the Darkness (Grant) CWBII 468
Gifts: Bless Our Gifts (Grant) AOVD
Communion: Shepherd Me O God (Haugen) AOV 1/33
Recessional: Mercy from the Heart of God (O’Brien/Ogilive) AOVD
Entrance: Come to the Water (Foley) Gather 3rd ed. 584
Gifts: Blessed Be Our God (McKenna) AOV NG 13
Communion: Mercy from the Heart of God (O’Brien/Ogilive) AOVD
Recessional: River of Glory (Schutte) Glory and Praise 2nd ed. 454
Entrance: City of God (Schutte) AOV 1/57
Gifts: Lord, to Whom Shall We Go (Herry) AOV 1/6
Communion: Praise To You O Christ (Farrell) AOV 1/28
Recessional: Glory and Praise to Our God (Schutte) AOV 1/16
