Monthly Archives: January 2017

We will go back to Jenny O’Brien’s psalm settings for a while. Entrance: We Are Called (Haas) AOV 2/60 Psalm 112 (O’Brien) A light rises in the darkness for the upright. Gifts: Beatitudes (Balhoff- Ducote) Communion: Bread Broken, Wine Shared (Horner) AOV … Continue reading →

I can skip a few more that I have already blogged to get to this song by the matchless Ruth Duck. I like the sincere simplicity of the text a lot and the tune is memorable. The text is at … Continue reading →

This song has a text by John Henry Newman and is set to the tune RICHMOND by Thomas Haweis. The text is at Hymnary where they recommend three other tunes, but they do have information, including the sheet music, about … Continue reading →

Haugen’s Exsultet is 406 but I won’t make a backing for that since it has gone liturgically stale due to the change in the text and it goes from 3/4 to 2/4 to 5/8 to 4/4 and BIAB is not … Continue reading →

Gather Australia was published in 1995.  It was a collaboration between the National Liturgical Music Convention and GIA with the support of the Melbourne Archdiocese. The original “As One Voice” was published in 1992 but was independent of the Catholic … Continue reading →

Entrance: Gather Your People (Hurd) AOV 1/71 Psalm 145 (McKenna) Happy the poor in spirit; the kingdom of heaven is theirs! Gifts: Be Merciful (Haugen) Communion: A Place at the Table (Shirley Erena Murray – Lori True) AOV NG 1 Bread … Continue reading →

This is the last of the Rory Cooney songs that were requested by Frenzy Cool. It is a lovely simple tune but I’m struggling to place it with a liturgical function. The sheet music is at GIA and the text … Continue reading →

This is another Rory Cooney song requested by Frenzy Cool who is obviously a fan of Cooney’s. It is a gently Gospel styled waltz. The sheet music is available at GIA and I have a copy in Gather Comprehensive 325 although … Continue reading →

This is another request for a Rory Cooney song. I’ve got “Jerusalem, My Destiny” in Gather Comprehensive 399. I don’t find the tune likely to be conducive to assembly singing and it goes too high for groaners like me – … Continue reading →

Entrance: God of Day and God of Darkness (Haugen) AOV 1/56 Psalm 26 (McKenna) The Lord is my light and my salvation. Gifts: Blessed be Our God (McKenna) AOV NG 13 Communion: Seed, Scattered and Sown (Feiten) GA 195 Unless a Grain of … Continue reading →