In keeping with this blog’s habit of never quite finishing things (except the As One Voice series – although I never did get to As One Voice for Kids!) with pretty much only a handful Marian hymns to go, I will divert from Gather Australia and follow up some of the songs in the Easter liturgies posted here that I don’t know.
There were several at Ryan’s parish that were new to me, but some of the Psalm settings are a bit hard to track down and I don’t have the books that they come from.
But this one they used is quite the production from Tony Alonso. The refrain has an echoing descant and the verse is call and response between the cantor and the assembly – not the worst idea if this song is mainly used at Easter, as the assembly part is just “Glory in the Cross”.
The sheet music can be purchased for download very cheaply at WLP where the text is in their sample. It’s really lovely but I find it hard to get past Dan Schutte’s similarly themed “Glory in the Cross”.
I have the call and response in the backing but I’ll leave the descant for you to figure out.
The somewhat lifeless original:
Less polished but more alive: