These are the songs chosen by the music liturgy team for this week.
Entrance: Bring Forth the Kingdom (Haugen) AOV 2/4
Psalm 112 (Jenny O’Brien)
A light rises in the darkness for the upright
[audio:https://www.sixmaddens.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/Ps112.mp3|titles=Psalm 112]Offertory: Blessed Be Our God (McKenna) AOV NG 13
Communion: Bread Broken Wine Shared (Horner) AOV 2/155
Take and Eat (Russell) AOV 2/162
Thanksgiving: The Summons (Maule/Bell) AOV NG 149
Recessional: Go Make a Difference (Angrisano/Tomaszek) AOV NG 52
I’m playing Sunday morning and will be blessed by the Tongan community choir singing the Offertory and Communion songs, which we will be their choice and language. That means I get off easy.
These are the selections at my parish for 5th Sunday OT.
Gathering: Gather Us In
Psalm: A Light Rises In the Darkness – Guimont
POG: Bring Forth the Kingdom
Communion: Bread for the World
Sending Forth: We Are Called
In West London we love reading the plans of other parishes – really interesting.
And I’m loving it from the West of Ireland too, mainly ‘cos what we sing here is just so limited compared to back home. Am thinking about setting up a blog of “what we’re singing vs what I wish we were singing”!
…and I’m struggling because my new parish has a narrower base of songs than what I’m used to. It may be no coincidence that they participate more in singing because new songs are introduced less often and more gradually but I have worked with one of the other people on the current music liturgy team at the other parish and we are forever seeing a song that is just right liturgically only to be told that the assembly doesn’t know it and then the discussion on whether it can be taught ensues. It is a good discipline to have imposed and a reminder that a parish repertoire is the work of many years.
The mainstays remain 70s/ 80s AOV/OCP I’m afraid. I’d love to be doing Farrell’s “Bread for the World” again, for example, like Chris’s parish, and we are slowly looking at AOV NG songs.
I’d love to see what others are doing. There were others having their say when I was blogging more regularly. Do put up your wish list, Mary!
My Parish has been learning new hymns at a constant rate. POG is always a good time to sing something new for the congregation to learn as this is not a high point in the Mass for them to be singing. When there is something new, we always try to teach the ‘refrain’ etc 5 mins before Mass and works well. You just have to break the piece up into sections and teach one bit and get them to sing it back for each section. Then put what they have learnt all together.
Done. Here ya go: http://pastoralmusicmusings.blogspot.ie/