Fiona Dyball and Damian Whelan’s session kicked off with songs for baptism.
In the workshop notes they mention the songs from CWB II that are recommended 99-107 – actually 97 as well, so for completeness.
97 Up from the waters (Haugen) sheet music – the syncopated “up”s are great.
98 text from GIRM re Baptism
99 Baptised in water (Saward/BUNESSAN) sheet music – well known tune for participation.
100 Father welcomes all his children (Robin Mann) also AOV 1/24 and TIS 491 if you don’t have CWB II. sheet music.
101 This is a joyous happy day (Tappert) set to LASST UNS ERFRUEN sheet music.
102 Litany of the Saints
Blessing over the Baptismal Water
103 Blessed be God who chose you in Christ (text ICEL, music Arthur Hutchings)
104 Springs of water, bless the Lord (Text ICEL, music Percy Jones)
( Don’t forget Haugen’s setting from “All Are Welcome”)
Profession of Faith
105 You have put on Christ (text ICEL, music Percy Jones)
Presentation of the Lighted Candle
106 Receive the light of Christ (Erica Marshall) also AOV 1/53 sheet music.
Reception
107 There is one Lord (Jennifer O’Brien)
They didn’t go through all of those but started with suitable psalms, if you wanted an alternative to the psalm of the day.
Psalm 22/23 The Lord is my shepherd – they suggest…
You could also look at Paul Mason’s setting – sheet music.
… or Kate Keefe‘s:
… or Amanda McKenna
… or Jenny O’Brien
Psalm 26/27 The Lord is my light and my salvation:
They suggest Francesca La Rosa‘s setting: sheet music.
This me busking her psalm response on BIAB:
If you type “the lord is my light” into my search machine you find many others, but I still think the best ever is by John Bell, from the collection I Will Not Sing Alone:
They suggest two songs for Baptism that aren’t also recommended in CWB II:
We belong to you (Trevor Thomson) also in AOV NG 144. sheet music – this is lovely.
Baptismal Acclamation (Erica Marshall) sheet music – most useful as always from Erica.
Of course you could just type “Baptism” into the search engine here at sixmaddens and find a lot more suggestions.
That was covered in the talk in less than ten minutes – go figure.