Monthly Archives: June 2024

Entrance: City of God (Schutte) AOV 1/57 Psalm 84 (McKenna) Lord, show us your mercy and love, and grant us your salvation. Gifts: God Has Chosen Me (Farrell) AOV 1/21 Communion: From the Many Make Us One (Huck/Alonso) Recessional: Go … Continue reading →

Entrance: Christ be Our Light  (Farrell) AOV 2/3 Psalm 122 (McKenna) Our eyes are fixed on the Lord, pleading for his mercy. Gifts: The Servant Song (Gillard) AOV 2/169 Communion: Gift of Finest Wheat  (Westendorf/Kreutz) CWB II 651 Recessional: Here I … Continue reading →

Entrance: Christ Light, Shining in the Darkness (Grant) CWBII 468 Psalm 29 ( McKenna) I will praise you, Lord, for you have rescued me. Gifts: Blessed Be Our God  (McKenna) AOV NG 13 Communion: Table of Plenty (Schutte) AOV 2/20 … Continue reading →

Entrance: Canticle of Creation (Watts-O’Brien) AOV NG 20 Psalm 106 (McKenna) Give thanks to the Lord, his love is everlasting. Gifts:  Bless Our Gifts (Grant) AOVD Communion: Be Not Afraid (Dufford) AOV 1/114 Recessional: Though the Mountains May Fall  (Schutte)  AOV 1/182

Entrance: All the Ends of the Earth (Dufford) AOV 1/76) Psalm 91 (McKenna) Lord it is good to give thanks to you, it is good to give thanks to you. Gifts: Harvest (Grant) AOVD Communion: Seed, Scattered and Sown (Feiten) CWB … Continue reading →

Entrance: All Are Welcome (Haugen) Psalm 129 (McKenna) With the Lord there is mercy and fullness of redemption Gifts: Be Merciful (Haugen) Communion: Mercy from the Heart of God (O’Brien/Ogilive) AOVD Recessional: The Summons  (Maule-Bell) AOV NG 149 I was planning … Continue reading →

I have got to the “Social Concern” section of the hymns in Gather 3rd edition. This is a text by Fred Kaan that I have already blogged here, but Gather use none of the three settings suggested there, rather using … Continue reading →

My current quixotic survey is of Gather 3rd edition – fortunately I have already covered many of the songs already so I am up to this song in the Discipleship section with a text from Sylvia Dunstan set by Paul … Continue reading →

This is a typically blunt text from John Bell that has a specific use for adult baptism but fits the discipleship section Gather 3rd ed. well enough. It is set to a traditional Scottish tune, O GIN I WERE A … Continue reading →

This is a bilingual English/Spanish song from Rory Cooney. Or rather he wrote the words and music for the refrain, based on John 21:15, and the verses are Psalm 23 from the The Grail with music by Joseph Gelineau. Cooney … Continue reading →