Music for the Eighth Week in Ordinary Time Year C March 1st/2nd 2025

The prolific and celebrated American hymn writer, Ruth Duck, died on Boxing Day. Her text for “As a Fire Is Meant For Burning” is a favourite of mine and set here to the traditional shape note tune BEACH SPRING.

This just about gets us to Lent.

Entrance: Gather Us In (Haugen) AOV 1/12

Psalm 91 (McKenna)

Lord, it is good to give thanks to you,’

To give thanks to you.

 Gifts: Open My Eyes  (Manibusan) AOV 1/166

Communion: To the Table We Are Called (O’Brien/Harvey) AOVD

Recessional: As a Fire is Meant for Burning  (Duck) GA 481

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6 Responses to Music for the Eighth Week in Ordinary Time Year C March 1st/2nd 2025

  1. 500 God, Whose Purpose Is to Kindle [Trueblood / IN BABILONE]
    480 Deliver Us, O Lord of Truth [Stuempfle, Jr. / SAINT BERNARD]
    638 Where There Is Charity and Love [Connolly / JEREMY]
    569 O God, Refine Our Faith [Forster / FRANCONIA]

  2. Ryan says:

    Gathering: Gather Us In (Haugen)
    Mass Parts: Mass of St. Ann (Bolduc)
    Psalm: Lord, It Is Good (Alonso – The Lyric Psalter)
    Gifts: Seek Ye First (Lafferty)
    Communion: Taste and See (Moore)
    Only This I Want (Schutte)
    Closing: Companions on the Journey (Landry)

    • maddg says:

      Snap for a gathering song – I haven’t used “Gather Us In” in ages.

      I can’t bring myself to sing “Companions on a Journey,” have you find a way to give it life?

      Geoff

      • Ryan says:

        It works if the tempo is fast enough. One of our accompanists who likes to do the entrance and closing songs on the organ once played it as a dirge and I couldn’t take it. We usually do two verses of the closing song, but the priest was long gone, the song was barely hanging on after the second refrain, I thought she’d end it, but she went in for verse 2… It was painful, but if it’s taken quickly, it works.

        I think even the original recording is too slow. This one is pretty good: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GBxi0Q_rx2U&ab_channel=SJBChoir

        • maddg says:

          That’s a nice version.

          Matching our music to the liturgical flow takes instincts, especially if that flow is people out the door.

          cheers
          Geoff

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