I’m going through the collection “Voices As One: Volume One” making backings to help me learn the songs. I’m also interspersing that with songs that have come up in the music from other parishes that people have posting on the site.
Number 87 in Voices As One is Michael John Poirier’s “Strength for the Journey”, which is also in As One Voice: Next Generation and so I have already blogged that here.
Number 88 is Ed Bolduc’s “The Face of God”. The text is in the sample at WLP where you can hear a snippet and purchase the sheet music. It is an uptempo song that might be an odd fit for the suggested season of Lent. The Easter season might work but as it is a sort of creed it could work in most liturgies.
My backing is gently funky and I’ve included the second vocal line in the refrain: