Entrance: All Are Welcome (Haugen)
Psalm 116 (McKenna)
Go out to all the world; and tell the Good News.
Go out to all the world; and tell the Good News.
Gifts: Blessed Be Our God (McKenna) AOV NG 13
Communion: Table of Plenty (Schutte) AOV 2/20
Song of the Body of Christ (Haas) AOV 1/27
Thanksgiving: Be Merciful (Haugen)
Recessional: All the Ends of the Earth (Dufford) AOV 1/76
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St Agatha’s, Clayfield, QLD on Sunday 2016-08-20 at 7am
Gathering Song: Lift up your Hearts (Robert F. O’Connor) GA 416 / CWB2 539
Psalm: read
Preparation of the Gifts: Table of Plenty AOV2 20
Communion: Song of the Body of Christ GA 200
Thanksgiving: Your Love is Finer than Life (Marty Haugen) CWB2 567
Recessional: Praise God, from whom all blessings flow GA 384 / CWB2 394
I have been away for three weeks. This is the first time we pick something for our quiet music at Thanksgiving from the (new) Catholic Worship Book II .
I recently moved about an hour away from my home parish so I’m currently “church shopping” in my new city. Today I went to 2 vigil Masses (very different!). The first was at the cathedral parish of the diocese. It was very traditional with very little congregational singing and the organ drowning out what little there was. It was definitely too traditional for me. The second Mass was at a pretty modern church. The music was a mix of traditional and contemporary with piano and a lot of congregational singing! I was pretty shocked at how well they sang! I really enjoyed this Mass. Next week, I’m going back to see their “band” that plays at the Vigil Mass every other week. I’m afraid that might be too contemporary for me. I can’t win. Anyway, here’s what was sung…
Cathedral Mass:
Gathering: Praise to the Lord, the Almighty (trans. Winkworth: LOBE DE HERREN)
Gloria: Gloria Simplex (Proulx)
Psalm 117: Go Out to All the World (Ostrowski)
Alleluia: Chant, Mode VI
Gifts: Jerusalem, My Happy Home (F.B.P.; LAND OF REST)
Holy/When We Eat/Amen/Lamb of God: Missa Pro Populo (Fielding)
Communion: I Received the Living God (Anonymous; LIVING GOD)
Closing: Ummm…. There was a postlude.
Modern church Mass:
Gathering: Sing a New Church (Dufner; NETTLETON)
Not sure what the Mass setting was.
Psalm 117: Go Out to All the World (Haas)
Gifts: Eye Has Not Seen (Haugen)
Communion: Eat This Bread (Berthier)
Closing: Church of God, Elect and Glorious (Seddon; HYFRYDOL)
The back of the Cathedral’s worship aid had the hymns for the Sunday “modern” mass so here’s that just for fun:
Gathering: Praise to the Lord, the Almighty (trans. Winkworth: LOBE DE HERREN)
Gloria: Melodic Gloria (Chepponis)
Psalm 117: Go Out to All the World (Guimont)
Alleluia: Chant, Mode VI
Gifts: One Bread, One Body (Foley)
Holy/When We Eat/Amen/Lamb of God: Missa Pro Populo (Fielding)
Communion: Now in This Banquet (Haugen)
Closing: They’ll Know We Are Christians (Scholtes)
What a banquet of music, Ryan!
I’ve always found cathedral masses lacking in participation, but that just might be an Australian thing. I suspect I could stand pretty much any musical style if the priest was pastoral and the assembly welcoming.
The modern masses do have a lot of traditional material in the mix don’t they. I’m glad they are a singing assembly. I don’t think I’ve ever heard “Sing a New Church” sung in Australia. I gather it marks a parish out as on the liberal side and there have been campaigns to have it suppressed – unsuccessful.
I’ll be spending a lot of time in the future in a small town in Tasmania where the music comes from a cassette player for some masses. It will be interesting to see how that works out.
Geoff
I emailed the music director to find out what mass setting they used. It’s called the Mass of St. Therese. It was written by resident composer John Griffin. I just searched “Mass of St. Therese John Griffin” on Google and found recordings and the congregational melody line for each piece on their parish website.
I find that most modern parishes (at least the ones I’ve been to) tend to include the traditional tunes into the mix. We’ve used “Sing a New Church” a couple times at my home parish and I was always kind of shocked when we did because we’re generally seen as the most traditional parish in town. Now I’m seeing that “traditional” is a relative term.
I can’t say I’ve ever been to a cassette player mass. It sounds like it could be interesting to experience.
opening: Gather Your People (Hurd)
offertory: Many and Great (Manalo)
communion: This Bread That We Share (MacAller)
closing: Take the Word of God with You (Walker)
This is what I sang tonight at the 6pm mass at St Mary’s Ipswich:
Gathering – Come As You Are (Brown)
Psalm – O Praise the Lord (Willcock, Psalms for the Journey)
Gifts – Hosea (Norbert)
Communion – Our Supper Invitation (Bates) and Song of the Body of Christ (Haas)
Thanksgiving – Only A Shadow (Landry)
Recessional – All the Ends of the Earth (Dufford)
We are still using Mass of Glory and Praise throughout despite direction from the liturgical coordinator to change to Mass Shalom. I’m finding it difficult to learn on guitar and I’m certain the congregation will resist the change!
Shalom has always been a dreadful thing to lead on guitar because you really do need to play all the chords even when it is 4 to the bar and the barred F’s are hurting! It took me ages to get comfortable with it. All I can suggest is play it as slowly as you dare and use an electric with a low action.
Geoff