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This is Paul Mason’s setting of “Be With Me, Lord” from his collection, Psalms for All Time. This is the psalm for the first Sunday in Lent Year C, but is also a seasonal psalm for Lent. You could see … Continue reading →

Continuing in Paul Mason’s Psalms for All Time, this is his setting on this psalm of lament for the 19th Sunday in Ordinary Time. He also notes it use as a seasonal psalm during Advent and also for Gifts or … Continue reading →

This is the psalm for Epiphany as set by Paul Mason in Psalms for All Time. This is another wonderful tune and thinking of this as a hymn rather than a psalm it might work for Christ the King for … Continue reading →

This is the psalm for the sixth Sunday of Easter Year A, but also a seasonal Psalm for the Easter Season. It is from Paul Mason’s Psalms for All Time. I have the first edition, but he now sells the … Continue reading →

Psalms for All Time by Paul Mason is a great resource for the responsorial psalms but is also a hymn book with uses outside that specific function. We don’t have cantors – we have starting singing Amanda McKenna’s refrains with … Continue reading →

This setting for one of the options after the seventh reading for the Easter Vigil recycles the tune from “Be Merciful, O Lord”. It uses the second and third verses from with Lent 5 year B. It is from Paul … Continue reading →

I’m covering the psalms set by Paul Mason in his book Psalms for All Time, which is now volume one of a three volume set. This is the psalm for the first week of Lent Year A and for that … Continue reading →

This is Paul Mason’s psalm for the Ascension from Psalms for All Time. He notes its possible use for Transfiguration, Palm Sunday and as an Offertory song. If you don’t have the text it is the same one set here … Continue reading →

This is the psalm for The Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary. Unlike most of Mason’s psalms, I don’t think it has general use a hymn elsewhere, it’s text is too specific to its situation. The sheet music is available … Continue reading →

This psalm from Paul Mason’s Psalms for All Time is for the fourth Sunday in Lent Year C (first three verses) and the nineteenth Sunday in Ordinary time Year B (all four verses). Mason always over delivers content-wise. Apart from … Continue reading →