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This is a song for baptism in Alleluia Aotearoa with a Shirley Murray text. It is a lovely sentiment but uses the Maori word “aroha” so travels only as far as that word is accepted. The text is at Hope … Continue reading →

This text from Shirley Murray in Alleluia Aotearoa, is useful for baptism, confirmation and commissioning as well as Trinity and Pentecost. The text is at Hope Publishing. They give four settings and AA another two and a quick look at … Continue reading →

Shirley Murray rewrote the verses of this already revised George Kitchen text to good effect. I blogged the earlier version here. The triumphalism of some old texts is jarring. Murrays’s adapted text and the sheet music is at Hope Publishing.

This is a wedding song from Shirley Murray in Alleluia Aotearoa. The text is at at Hope Publishing, where, like AA, they set it to KREMSER, a Dutch tune collected by Eduard Kremser. It is also set to THE ROAD … Continue reading →

Entrance: Seek Ye First (Lafferty) AOV 1/48 Gifts: Mercy from the Heart of God (O’Brien/Ogilive) AOVD Communion: Beatitudes (Balhoff/Ducotte) Recessional: Bring Forth the Kingdom (Haugen) AOV 2/4

Entrance: Christ Light, Shining in the Darkness (Grant) CWBII 468 Gifts: Blessed Be Our God  (McKenna) AOV NG 13 Communion: They’ll Know We Are Christians (Scholtes) AOV 1/130 Recessional:  Galilee Song (Andersen) AOV 1/15

Entrance: Prepare the Way of the Lord (Boniwell) CWB II 250 Gifts: Mercy from the Heart of God (O’Brien/Ogilive) AOVD Communion: Here I Am Lord (Schutte) AOV 1/90 Recessional: Send Down the Fire (Haugen) AOV 2/164 PS 18/1/2023 I was … Continue reading →

Entrance: We Three Kings Gifts: Star Child (Shirley Erina Murray – Carlton R. Young) AOV 2/43   Communion: The First Noel – verses 3-5 City of God (Schutte) AOV 1/57

Having Christmas on Sunday really plays up with the usual liturgies – Holy Family and Baptism of the Lord get bumped to weekday masses and we get Mary, Epiphany and then into Ordinary Time. I think I used to understand … Continue reading →

After checking out the future of OCP’s Breaking Bread, I will return to the Shirley Erena Murray texts on Alleluia Aotearoa. Buy the pdf of AA for $NZ30, which is almost nothing, here. This is an ecumenical hymn and a … Continue reading →