Monthly Archives: October 2020

They are having a half price sale – best find the details on their Facebook page. I got Gather 3rd edition for Guitar in 3 volumes, which I will explore at some point.

Entrance: Summoned By Love (O’Brien/Watts) AOV 2/18 Psalm 95 (McKenna) Give the Lord glory and honour. Give the Lord glory and honour. Gifts:  I Have Loved You (Joncas) AOV 1/126 Communion: One Bread One Body (Foley) AOV 1/129 Thanksgiving: I Thank My God … Continue reading →

I’ve jumped all of Christmas because GA has the standard carols that appear elsewhere and so have been blogged already on this site. This is Jane Wood’s Nunc Dimmittis. The general editor appears to have been tasked with providing a … Continue reading →

This song is used for the lighting of the Advent candles for four weeks and then a central candle for Christmas. The fifth candle is new to me. Jane Wood, the editor, wrote the text and music with an ostinato … Continue reading →

I’m working through songs in Gather Australia that I haven’t covered before This is for non-Eucharistic gatherings. The text is by Kevin Lenehan and the music by Jane Wood Let our hearts be broken and our lives poured out. We … Continue reading →

This is another song GA suggest for anointing. The text is by Ruth Duck and the music is FENNVILLE by Robert J. Batastini. It sounds fine for Lent and Reconciliation as well. The text is at Cantus Mundi. I found … Continue reading →

This Jeanne Cotter’s setting of the ICEL text for this liturgical purpose. Interestingly she has a song called, “Blessed be God Who Heals Us” for the same situation with the text listed as by Betsey Beckman, which can be purchased … Continue reading →

More wedded bliss from Shirley Erena Murray, with the text set to Ralph Vaughn William’s DOWN APNEY. Text and sheet music are available from Hope Publishing. She marries the down to earth picture of a wedding with the grand setting … Continue reading →

Church was at maximum allowed capacity this morning with social distancing in place. Things are pretty good Covid wise in Australia with no community spread in all states except Victoria, where numbers are dropping to single digits some days. Next … Continue reading →

It seems a lot of the songs I don’t know already from GA have a text by Shirley Erena Murray. She wrote this wedding song that is set to BUNESSAN. It is a great idea to use a familiar hymn … Continue reading →