Many thanks for all the suggestions on streaming masses and I’ve since found there are many more out there.
The Redemptorists prerecord an informal mass in England, that I think will be a backstop for me.
What I went with was Donna’s suggestion of Holy Spirit Parish, Cranbrook, which streams live on Facebook at 8.30am Sundays from suburban Townsville. My wife and I and the grand-daughter joined some tropical birds and a hundred or so other virtual parishioners -and for nonrational, symbolic reasons I think it has to be live – for their morning mass.
When they sang “Jesus Is Risen Today” as an entrance I felt like Easter had started at last. The Emmaus Gospel is great catch up if Easter seemed not to happen this year. The mass was sung but, sorry, I forgot to note the songs. I could not place the mass setting either but it was fine and there were no technical issues.
It was a normal suburban mass with a heart felt homily and actual music. That is my liturgical language so I will be happy to be part of their virtual community unless our local parish starts streaming.
I hope everyone finds a virtual home that speaks their liturgical language until things are back to normal.
I forgot to add the psalm was Psalm 16: The Path of Life by Scott Soper from OCP.
It looks like my first comment did not take while my second did technical difficulties no doubt. We did mass parts from the Mass of Joy and Peace by Tony Alonso from GIA publications and the Mass of Christ the Savior by Dan Schutte from OCP. The hymns were Jesus is Risen from As One Voice Next Generation no 82 by Monica O’Brien and Gina Ogilvie, Lord we come to your table by Michael Herry from the Marist Brothers website, Song for the Journey As One Voice Volume 2 no 106 by Erica Marshall and Jesus Christ is Risen today arranged by Tony Alonso published by World Library Publications and purchased from GIA publications. The Gospel acclamation was the Easter Alleluia by Michael Mangan published by Litmus publications. Thank you for joining us on Sunday for our live stream. For the information of those looking for a new mass to play we also do Glendalough Mass by Liam Lawton arranged by Paul A Tate published by GIA publications and Missa Santa Clara by Erica Marshall published by Willow publications and Mass of St Francis by Paul Taylor published by his parish I think. I greatly appreciate your blog and use its information on a regular basis.
Donna
Thanks for the list of music.
Four masses is impressive. We used to do three but two seems to be enough for us. Liam Lawton’s mass is lovely but a bit scary.
cheers
Geoff
Donna, thank you so much for the list: I love that Gloria! We’ve been looking for a new one and just not finding any. Yours might be it. (But who know what we’ll be going back to when we finally get back into church).
Hi Mary
We did the Gloria from the Mass of Joy and Peace by Tony Alonso from GIA publications. You can purchase the guitar PDF electronically on the GIA publications site saving on freight costs. The whole mass is lovely. Tony Alonso’s and Marty Haugen’s Lyric psalters for each year have some lovely psalm melodies also available at GIA. After the conference in Melbourne last year we now sing Alleluia: Song of the Spirit and From the Many Make Us One both by Tony Alonso (GIA) as well which are great for the participation of the congregation.
Geoff
Yes there are definitely easier masses out there to play but it is the most beautiful I have ever heard. One of our players plays most of the Glendalough Mass and we sing in unison and the rest of our players just play the Kyrie from the Glendalough Mass most of the time for our priest Father John who likes to sing lovely melodies. Our staple Mass is the Mass of Christ the Savior by Dan Schutte which is available in guitar music on PDF from OCP publications which everyone knows and plays at our parish. It is a nice mass to play and sing and not too difficult. I hear it is very popular in the USA. It is worth a try if you have not already tried it.