The Saturday vigil mass I now play at locally has not had consistent live music for many years. The Sunday mass has a stalwart organist who has kept the flag flying for decades, but she can’t be everywhere. Getting us all used to singing again will take some time.
I will also have to look at song selections carefully. As with many Australian parishes who bought the hymn books and started using As One Voice in the 1990s the music repertoire stalled right there, likely due to the comprehensive nature of the collection. I will need to base music choices there and introduce new music slowly. Lent was an opportunity to use Alonso’s “Merciful God” for the whole season so hopefully in years to come there is a memory of the tune. For the fifty days of Pentecost, we can celebrate the joy of the Resurrection with O’Brien and Ogilvie’s “Jesus is Risen” every week and next year maybe add other new songs for the Easter season. I’ve already used “Blessed be Our God” several times for the “Procession of the Gifts” so hopefully it will get a foothold.
Glory and Praise to Our God (Schutte) AOV 1/16
We Walk By Faith (Haugen) AOV 1/63
Jesus Is Risen (O’Brien- Ogilvie) AOV NG 82
Be Not Afraid (Dufford) AOV 1/114
At my previous parish in Queensland they selected these songs:
| Entrance | Alleluia Love is Alive |
| Gloria | Sung |
| Responsorial Psalm | Sung- McKenna |
| Gospel Acclamation | Alleluia No 1 |
| Offertory | Peace I Leave with you my Friends |
| Communion | Bread of Heaven |
| Thanksgiving | We Walk by Faith |
| Recessional | Jesus is Risen Today |
Current Parish…
Gathering: Lift High the Cross (Kitchin/Newbolt; CRUCIFER)
Mass Parts: Mass of St. Ann (Bolduc)
Psalm: This Is the Day (Joncas)
Communion: Eye Has Not Seen (Haugen)
Closing: Blest Be the Lord (Schutte)
A little side note… Our music director left the parish a couple months ago (right before Lent). I haven’t heard anything of a replacement, so I believe we’re just relying on our other musicians at this point. A couple differences I’ve noticed are the absence of seasonal songs on Sundays (they tend to pick songs that could be done all year) and a switch from using the verbatim psalms of The Lyric Psalter and Spirit & Psalm to using the more well-known paraphrases
Home Parish
Gathering: We Walk by Faith (Alford/Haugen)
Sprinkling: Springs of Water, Bless the Lord (Haugen)
Mass Pars: Mass for a Servant Church (Guimont)
Children’s Dismissal for Liturgy of the Word (Batastini)
Psalm: Give Thanks to the Lord (?)
Celtic Alleluia (O’Carroll/Walker)
Gifts: O Sons and Daughters (tr. Neale; O FILII ET FILIAE)
Communion: Bring Your Hand and Feel the Place of the Nails (Angrisano/Hart/Stephan – Let Us All Rejoice)
Alleluia, Alleluia, Give Thanks (Fishel)
Show Me Your Hands, Your Feet, Your Side (Dunstand; LAND OF REST) – choir
Closing: Christ, the Lord, Is Risen Today (Wesley; LLANFAIR)
Ryan
Doing without a music director for Lent is an odd observance.
It’s lovely that other musicians are still there.
Geoff
That Easter Day with Joy Was Bright [Neale / LASST UNS ERFREUEN] – CWB2:366
O Son and Daughters [Neale / O FILII ET FILIAE] – CWB2:349
By Your Kingly Power, O Risen Lord [Mcauley / RUGGIERO] – CWB2:363
We Walk by Faith and Not by Sight [Alford / SHANTI] – CWB2:641
Previous reply not quite right. Corrected:
That Easter Day with Joy Was Bright [Neale / LASST UNS ERFREUEN] – CWB2:366
O Son and Daughters [Neale / O FILII ET FILIAE] – CWB2:349
Now the Green Blade Rises [Crum / NOEL NOUVELET] – CWB2:363
We Walk by Faith and Not by Sight [Alford / SHANTI] – CWB2:641