Entrance: Come to Set Us Free (Farrell) AOV 1/39
Psalm 15 (McKenna)
Keep Me Safe, O God; you are my hope.
Keep me safe, O God; you are my hope.
Gifts: Centre of My Life (Inwood) AOV 2/170
Communion: Bread Broken, Wine Shared Bread (Horner) AOV 2/155
Recessional: Glory in the Cross (Schutte)
Entrance: Christ Be Near Us (Ogilvy/O’Brien) AOV NG 21
Psalm 145 (McKenna)
Praise the Lord my soul!
Praise the Lord my soul!
Gifts: Harvest (Grant) AOV Digital
Communion: Bread of Life (Farrell) AOV 1/164
Recessional: Sing of the Lord’s Goodness (Sands) AOV 1/131
Entrance: Glory and Praise to Our God (Schutte) AOV 1/16
Psalm 17 (McKenna)
I love you, Lord, my strength.
I love you, Lord, my strength.
Gifts: Centre of My Life (Inwood) AOV 2/170
Communion: I Have Loved You (Joncas) AOV 1/126
Recessional: We Remember (Haugen) AOV 1/81
Entrance: All the Ends of the Earth (Dufford) AOV 1/76)
Psalm 125 (McKenna)
The Lord has done great things for us, we are filled with joy.
Gifts: Bless Our Gifts (Grant) AOVD
Communion: Table of Plenty (Schutte) AOV 2/20
Recessional: Hearts on Fire (Mangan) AOV NG 62
Entrance: Christ be Our Light (Farrell) AOV 2/3
Psalm 32 (McKenna)
Lord, let your mercy be on us, as we place our trust in you.
Gifts: A Trusting Psalm (Bates) AOV 1/115
Communion: From the Many Make Us One (Huck/Alonso)
Recessional: Bring Forth the Kingdom (Haugen) AOV 2/4
Entrance: Christ Light, Shining in the Darkness (Grant) CWBII 468
Psalm 89 (McKenna)
Fill us with your love, O Lord, and we will sing for joy!
Gifts: Blessed Be Our God (McKenna) AOV NG 13
Communion: The Summons (Maule-Bell) AOV NG 149
Recessional: Send Us Out (Bryant) AOVD
Too late for this but for future reference (I have been busy!):
Entrance: All You Works of God (Haugen) AOV 1/19
Gifts: Blessing the Marriage (Bell/Maule) SUSSEX CAROL AOV 2/35
Communion: Come to the Feast (Haugen) AOV 1/151
Recessional: City of God (Schutte) AOV 1/57
This is a song I wrote for Eucharist that I have used over the years as it is simple and easy to sing. It is based in part on passages from the Didache.
1. We are broken bread
Scattered upon the hills,
But when we gather in Your name
We can become one still.
2. We are the branches
Of God’s holy vine.
Pressed to each other,
When we drink Your wine.
3. We will find the fish
To feed the poor,
And as we freely give
we shall receive more.
Rpt 1. We are broken bread
Scattered upon the hills,
But when we gather in Your name
We can become one still.
This was the song I wrote for Preparation of the Gifts and I think it has merit as a tune but strikes me as a bit melodramatic. The text obviously draws on the Beatitudes.
I wrote it in A then updated the lyrics (? worse or better) and made it much too high in C in case a talented soloist wanted a crack at it. The lower key is more suitable if an assembly wanted to do it.
This is in C though:
- Are we the poor in spirit?
Are we with those who grieve?
Are we the gentle? Are we the meek?
Can we be people who hunger and thirst for justice,
the pure in heart, the peacemakers.
Chorus
We give bread, we give wine, we give what we’re able.
But we are the gifts we bring to this table.
- Within the reign of heaven, can we bring God’s peace?
Are we a fam’ly for times to come?
Sat at table spread for all of God’s righteousness,
Unbounded love… the face of God.
Chorus
These are various demos and practices I found.
I’m labelling my songs here “Collab project” to make them easy for me to find and to look towards collaboration amongst parish song writers. Also, since I wrote many of these before I knew anything about liturgical music, they are lessons about what not to do, and may be adaptable by others into something usable in other contexts.
I am trying to remember what was going on here. I remember there was a special celebration of some sort that was to happen at church but got cancelled. I had the thought that the Creed could be set to Affirmation by Savage Garden, a local Logan band that became world famous. I got permission to do that for one performance only, but it never happened due to the cancellation.
Sometime after that I was writing my misguided mass and while not using their tune did try to make it a dance number. I note that I started hand written corrections after the text was made worse, but funnily enough it looks like a gave up at consubstantial, a word rarely used in dance music.
I made a demo, but the lesson may be that the creed is hard to set, especially now, and probably isn’t best as a techno track.
The music group obviously toned things down several notches in rehearsal.
Here is Savage Garden:
