The talk from Fiona Dyball and Damian Whelan continued with Anointing of the Sick. The handout directed us to CWB II 124-129:
124 Useful explanatory summary of the sacrament
125 Blessed be God who heals us (text ICEL, music Jeanne Cotter) sheet music
126 Great God of mercy (text James Quinn, ISTE CONFESSOR) It is also in Together in Song 472.
127 O Christ. the healer, we have come (text Fred Pratt Green, JESU DULCIS MEMORIA)
128 Trust in God, hope in God (text Bernard Kirkpatrick, LARGO – yes Dvorak!)
129 Your hands, O Lord, in days of old (text Edward Hayes Plumptre, MOZART – only maybe by Mozart)
Fortunately, Dyball and Whelan had some better ideas.
They themselves kicked off with a recommended responsorial psalm – Psalm 42/43
Like a Deer (Mason) I haven’t got to Vol 2 & 3 of Psalms for All Times yet but here is the response at least.
Like a deer that longs for running streams,
My soul longs for you, my soul longs for you, my soul longs for you, my God.
The Lord is kind and merciful (Willcock) sheet music or you could pick one of – it feels like -thousands of alternatives.
Restless is the heart (Farrell) sheet music
Bless the Lord, my soul (Berthier) AOV 2/142
NB the link in the handout isn’t correct – it takes you to a Marty Haugen setting. It doesn’t appear to be available as a download from GIA, but I also have it in a collection Songs & Prayers from Taizé.
I heard the voice of Jesus say (text Horatius Bonar KINGSFOLD) sheet music for Tony Alonso’s arrangement.
Be not afraid (Dufford) sheet music (but no-one sings it like that) AOV 1/114, CWB II 653
Shepherd me, O God (Haugen) sheet music AOV 1/33, CWB II 597
Lead Kindly Light (Warner) sheet music Steven C Warner’s adaptation of John Henry Newman’s words, but you wouldn’t know from the cover. Now, you really want to be compared to the Notre Dame Folk Choir don’t you so why not give it a whirl. The refrain of this has umpteen melody lines for the choir – I picked one.
Lead Kindly Light (text John Henry Newman, music Maeve Heaney) The sheet music is available at Willow, despite the suggestion in the handout that it remains unpublished. Pitched very low and may need to be taken to a higher key for many, but her version is sweet cool water on a hot day. I couldn’t get what I wanted in a backing from the preview there, but here are three attempts:
In Every Age (Janet Sullivan Whitaker) sheet music just a delight AOV NG 77
Come to me (Norbert) sheet music AOV 1/37
There are a few very familiar tunes there, but that is fine – participation is enhanced by known tunes as powerful as these.
Apropos of nothing, I would like to propose a new text for KINGSFOLD that might lift some spirits at an anointing.
There’s a worm at the bottom of the garden
Jack Martin / Billy Scott-coomber
And his name is Wiggly Woo
There’s a worm at the bottom of the garden
And all that he can do
Is wiggle all night and wiggle all day
The people around here, they all do say
There’s a worm at the bottom of the garden
And his name is Wiggly Woo