Monthly Archives: February 2014

The Great Amen from the Mayfield mass.    

We proclaim your death, O Lord, and profess your resurrection until you come again.     When we eat this bread and drink this cup, we proclaim your death, O Lord, until you come again.   Save us Saviour of … Continue reading →

Continuing with Kate Keefe’s Mayfield Mass, this is the Sanctus. Holy, Holy, Holy Lord God of hosts. Heaven and earth are full of your glory. Hosanna in the highest. Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord. … Continue reading →

This week we are celebrating the installation of our new priest. Entrance: Christ Be Our Light (Farrell) AOV 2/3 Psalm 102 (O’Brien) The Lord is kind and merciful, kind and merciful. Offertory: A Trusting Psalm (Bates) AOV 1/115 Communion: Come … Continue reading →

The Mayfield Mass was written by Kate Keefe and the sheet music is available here. I have blogged the Gloria before here and I’ve finally got around to looking at the whole setting. Since then Kate has put up the real … Continue reading →

I’ve had the chance to play this mass at our new parish for a while now and I think I have the hang of it now. The backings I made for it here are pretty average and the Sanctus is much … Continue reading →

Having made backings to the parts of this mass, I can see why people are so impressed by Liam Lawton‘s setting. The tunes are lovely and, as with most of the masses I’ve looked at here, I’d love to listen … Continue reading →

The last song from Liam Lawton’s Glendalough Mass is his Agnes Dei. This is a reverent litany in a restrained waltz time.  He has John Bell’s knack of writing music that fits so well with its idiom that it could … Continue reading →

The music liturgy team has chosen these songs for mass. We are still using Paul Taylor’s Mass of St Francis, supplemented by the Celtic Alleluia as a Gospel Acclamation. Entrance: Summoned By Love (O’Brien/Watts) AOV 2/18 Psalm 119 (Jenny O’Brien) … Continue reading →

I haven’t bothered with the Lord’s Prayer settings in the past, but one of my current aims is to get our parish singing it.  The options are to learn the Lord’s Prayer of whatever mass setting is being sung, our … Continue reading →