This Dan Schutte song added to Breaking Bread for 2027 is officially the most upbeat song selected. Schutte is 78.
It is based on Phillipians 4 and is a fine hymn of thanksgiving with many applications.
The sheet music can be purchased at OCP where the text is provided in their preview.
I tried to make this at least somewhat rousing in BIAB.
This recording conspires to make things a bit less joyful.
This new song for Breaking Bread in 2027 has uses beyond the obvious Baptism application at Easter and Pentecost.
Its music was written by Casey McKinley, setting text by Bernadette Gasslein, and the sheet music can be purchased at OCP who provide the text in their preview.
It is a majestic hymn and BIAB had fun building things up.
This is another bilingual selection for Breaking Bread in 2027.
It was written by Al Valverde in Spanish and English. It is a simple sung prayer that inevitable sounds better in Spanish.
It does start out following “Shepherd Me O God” pretty closely.
The sheet music is at OCP, as is the text.
That last one has some added elements.
This is a new setting the Prayer of St Francis. It was written by the formidable team of Francesca LaRosa and Sarah Hart.
It has been selected for Breaking Bread for 2027.
It is certainly a lovely setting. The sheet music can be purchased at OCP, where the text is in their preview. If you don’t do an instrumental interlude the refrain only gets sung once, so maybe do the interlude. This has the flowing up and down melody gambit in spades but there are some surprises too with the triplets and the change in the coda to compensate.
My backing went a little overboard with flowery piano in BIAB.
This is another new setting of a James Quinn text this time by Nichlas Schaal and inspired by Psalm 141. Schaal provided the text for the refrain and used Quinn’s words for the verses.
It is a song of comfort in distress, which would also work in Lent. It is another quiet reverent hymn.
Edward Eicker has set this James Quinn Annunciation text, and the result has been added to Breaking Bread for 2027.
It is sedate and reverent.
The sheet music can be purchased at OCP where the text is in their preview.
This recent, gentle song for Eucharist and Gifts was written by Bob Hurd and has been selected for Breaking Bread by OCP in 2027.
He at least waits until the fifth bar of the verse before unleashing the usual downward string of notes motif that I am seeing almost everywhere in OCP selections. When he does something similar in the chorus there is compensating variation and modulation to calm me down.
The sheet music is at OCP as is the text.
This is a bilingual (Spanish/English) ballad for Advent. The music and Spanish lyrics are by Ivan Diaz, with an English text by Francesca La Rosa. It was chosen for Breaking Bread in 2027 by OCP, but with Advent nearly upon us, is worth consideration now.
OCP says the verses are more rhythmically energetic than the reflective refrain – not really – but it is a beautiful slow hymn nonetheless. More likely you could build the whole thing up to slow burn praise and worship noisiness in the refrain if you wish, then bring it back down for the verses. As usual, it sounds better in Spanish.
The sheet music can be purchased at OCP, who have provided the text in their preview.
I made a BIAB backing, which stays restrained and sedate:
This is a relatively new text by Janine Applegate set to OMNE DIE, a C17 German tune. It has been selected for Breaking Bread 2027 by OCP.
It is a song of comfort in despair as found in Christ. OMNE DIE shares an opening motif with BEACH SPRING, but predates that tune by a century or so.
The sheet music, including choral parts, is available at OCP. Her words are in their preview.
I used the free church organ sound from SINE music for this fake BIAB organ backing.
This is well done from OCP ie the choir sounds normal – why my tone of surprise?
This bilingual hymn (Spanish/English) with a text by Pedro Rubalcava to a traditional tune, has been added for Breaking Bread in 2027.
OCP note that it is a well known hymn for Adoration in the Spanish speaking community.
It sounds better in Spanish, so while it has an English text as well, it is likely best for the assemblies who need Spanish or Bilingual hymns – ie not usually Australia.
The sheet music can be purchased at OCP where the texts are in their preview.
My backing is at their stated speed but I prefer the slower pace that is used in the sample music at OCP.
