Entrance: Gather Your People (Hurd) AOV 1/71
Psalm 53 (McKenna)
The Lord upholds my life. The Lord upholds my life.
Gifts: The Cry of the Poor (Foley) AOV 1/83
Communion: From the Many Make Us One (Huck/Alonso)
Recessional: A New Heart for a New World (O’Brien/Watts) AOV 1/158
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CWB2:451 As We Gather at Your Table [Daw, Jr. / NETTLETON]
CWB2:308 Lord, You Give the Great Commission [Rowthorn / ABBOT’S LEIGH]
CWB2:482 Draw Near and Take the Body of the Lord [Neale / GUSTATE]
CWB2:489 Forth in the Peace of Christ We Go [Quinn / SONG 34]
Gathering: Come, Now Is the Time to Worship (Doerksen)
Mass Parts: Mass of St. Ann (Bolduc)
Psalm: The Lord Upholds My Life (Alonso – The Lyric Psalter)
Gifts: Prayer of St. Francis (Temple)
Communion: God’s Holy Gifts (Schutte)
The Summons (Bell)
Closing: Companions on the Journey (Landry)
If you’re interested in what OCP has planned for next year’s Breaking Bread, the songs being added, changed, and removed are posted here: https://www.icrmusic.org/en-us/14/page/503
Of the songs being added, most don’t do much for me. I like “The Feast Meant for Everyone” by Sarah Hart and Tom Booth, which my home parish used a couple times during the COVID era when hymnals were removed and only a cantor was singing. I also like Janet Sullivan Whitaker’s song “Keep Me in Your Heart.” It’s an older song of hers, but I like its simplicity.
Nothing too surprising on the removal side this year. Probably the most surprising removal is “Hail Thee, Festival Day,” which gets some play around here during the Easter season, though not at my own parish. I’ve only been following the contents of Breaking Bread closely for the past 5-6 years since my parish started using it, but I’m definitely seeing songs on the “removed” list that were on the “added” list not long ago. I think most parishes have a pretty stable repertoire, so it’s hard to get the new additions to break through. OCP seems to give new songs about 3-5 years and if they don’t take hold, they’re out.
Thanks, Ryan.
I had noticed the drop of new songs and I’ll look at them later in the year. As we’ve discussed before, the concept of OCP saying you don’t play “Hail Thee, Festival Day” anymore, for example, is alien to me and would cause a riot in any parish I’ve worked in here.
OCP will probably suffer from their lack of patience with new material. Five years is nothing in a parish new music time.
Thanks for the heads up, Ryan. You are our US correspondent and just under half the traffic here is from America.
Geoff