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Entrance: A Place at the Table  (Shirley Erena Murray – Lori True) AOV NG 1 Psalm 14 (McKenna) The just will live in the presence of the Lord. Gifts: Bless Our Gifts (Grant) AOVD Communion: From the Many Make Us One … Continue reading →

Entrance:  All Are Welcome (Haugen) Psalm 33 (McKenna) Taste and see the goodness of the Lord. Gifts: Lord, to Whom Shall We Go (Herry) AOV 1/6 Communion: Come to the Table (Burland) AOV NG 33 Recessional: Send Us Out (Bryant) AOVD

Erwin Cabucos sent me another hymn, this time a gathering song for Advent. It would be good to have more avenues for parish musicians writing hymns to get their songs known, and to collaborate with others. He has other hymns … Continue reading →

I did not intend to spend three months finishing Gather 3rd edition, but having got that out of the way, I can get back to some Australian music. I have been sent two songs by Erwin Cabucos from St Bernadine’s … Continue reading →

These are texts by Fred Kaan set to FARRELL by Thomas J. Porter for Father’s Day and Mother’s Day respectively, so if you need songs for those days they are available. The texts are at Hope Publishing here and here. … Continue reading →

I’m nearly finished the last dregs of Gather 3rd edition songs that I hadn’t blogged elsewhere, with the last funeral song. It appears for all the funereal music I have covered, I have never done the ICEL In paradisium with … Continue reading →

This is a moving funeral song from Liam Lawton in Gather 3rd edition that would likely be a solo vehicle. GIA note its other use for All Souls. The sheet music an be purchased at GIA and the words are … Continue reading →

Using the tune of Danny Boy for a funeral is both good as it is familiar and dangerous as it may venture into the kitsch. Then there is a wide vocal range required to pull it off. John Bell gets … Continue reading →

OK, it turns out there are many funeral songs in Gather 3rd edition that I haven’t looked at before. This is a Delores Dufner text here set to ST THOMAS, by John Wade, but they also suggest LAUDA ANIMA. Using … Continue reading →

Entrance: Come to the Feast (Haugen) AOV 1/151 Psalm 33 (McKenna) Taste and see the goodness of the Lord. Gifts: Enemy of Apathy (Bell-Maule) AOV 2/75 Communion: Bread Broken, Wine Shared Bread  (Horner) AOV 2/155 Recessional: Sing of the Lord’s Goodness … Continue reading →