Music Leader Thread Part III - Song Lists, Suggestions, and Comments

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VAC said:
Does anyone have good song ideas for Lent.? Especially communion songs.
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For Lent, we use

Attende Domine/ Draw Near O Lord
Lord Let Me Walk
Near the Cross

For Communion, At That First Eucharist works well. I try to stick to older stuff and I usually avoid more “celebratory” communion hymns during Lent.
 
pianomany2k said:
What Mass Setting are you all using for Lent? I’m planning on Heritage Mass.
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At one of my churches, we usually use the Mass of St. Agnes during Lent. I don’t know, yet, what we’re doing at the other parish.
 
RE: Lenten music

I usually use Mass XVIII during Lent, in terms of Ordinary, and I take a bit off the organ, except for the fourth Sunday (Laetare).

Hymn-wise, the Lent section of almost any hymnal that’s sectioned off by season/feast/topic (e.g., Worship III/IV, We Celebrate, etc.) provides a good chunk of really good hymnody. Most hymnals also have a topical/seasonal index that helps even more with extra titles listed under “Lent”, but not necessarily confined to the Lent section of the hymnal.

I also use:
“Parce Domine” by Fr. Carlo Rossini
“Jesu, Salvator Mundi”, also by Fr. Rossini
“My God, My Father, while I stray”, in the back of the St. Gregory Hymnal
“Attende Domine”, Mode V chant
“Our Father, we have wandered” (tune: Passion Chorale)

Many more I can list 😉
Peace,
BMP
 
isnark said:
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I also use:
“Parce Domine” by Fr. Carlo Rossini
“Jesu, Salvator Mundi”, also by Fr. Rossini
“My God, My Father, while I stray”, in the back of the St. Gregory Hymnal
“Attende Domine”, Mode V chant
“Our Father, we have wandered” (tune: Passion Chorale)

Many more I can list 😉
Peace,
BMP
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Where would I find “Our Father we have wandered”?
 
pnewton said:
Mass of Creation here. I have heard it is hard to use one that has been revised, but we really had not problem transitioning.
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A few of the revised versions we used had a pretty quick transition: Heritage Mass, Deutsche Mass and Community Mass. It took about 6 months or so to get down the Mass of Creation (mainly the Gloria) but they have most of it now. Some people are still singing the Lamb of God the old way, and they belt it out with gusto :p, but they should eventually get it right.
 
VAC said:
Where would I find “Our Father we have wandered”?
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Worship III, #755. I think it was retained for Worship IV, but I’m not sure. We Celebrate was using it as well, I believe. The text author is Kevin Nichols, and the text has an ICEL copyright.
BMP
 
Sarabande said:
I know that it’s in the WLP “We Celebrate” hymnal and it’s in the “Gather” Hymnal.
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I don’t have access to ‘gather’ and my wlp book is from 1979:o; it’s not in there. If anyone could pm and email me a copy of the ‘Passion Chorale’ version I’d appreciate it, I love that tune and I really like the lyrics I found online. I found sheet music with those lyrics, but to a different tune:(.
 
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Sarabande said:
A few of the revised versions we used had a pretty quick transition: Heritage Mass, Deutsche Mass and Community Mass. It took about 6 months or so to get down the Mass of Creation (mainly the Gloria) but they have most of it now. Some people are still singing the Lamb of God the old way, and they belt it out with gusto :p, but they should eventually get it right.
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I absolutely HATE the revised MoC. However, it is so well known I ONLY use it during the summer (I live in a tourist town), funerals, and weddings. September - June are other settings 🙂

My parish got the Sactus down after five weeks, but I refuse to use the Gloria from that Mass. It is so darn difficult. My small choir is really good at learning new songs and revisions of old ones. The Gloria from MoC was so difficult for them that I said forget it.
 
pianomany2k said:
I absolutely HATE the revised MoC. However, it is so well known I ONLY use it during the summer (I live in a tourist town), funerals, and weddings. September - June are other settings
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We change settings seasonally, or did anyway. Last year we had to learn the new translation, so we only had one setting for the year. We are now in the process of deciding what we want to add to change things seasonally. I have given my priest three possible paths and am waiting for an answer.
 
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