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CatholicZ09
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Have any of you started your planning or have already planned for Christmas? So far, the vigil Mass and the Masses on Christmas Day are planned; Midnight Mass is a work in progress.
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Music Leader Thread Part IV—Song Lists, Suggestions, and Comments
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pnewton
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I have the Vigil Mass pretty much every year. It takes no work. I use eight or nine common carols.Have any of you started your planning or have already planned for Christmas? So far, the vigil Mass and the Masses on Christmas Day are planned; Midnight Mass is a work in progress.
I also have a pre-Mass program with the children. This is my list for that:
Jingle Bell Rock
We Wish You a Merry Christmas
Rudolph
O Christmas Tree
Santa Claus is Coming to Town
Here Comes Santa Clause
Jingle Bells
Twelve Days of Christmas
Do You Hear What I Hear
How Many Kings
One Small Child
Some Children See Him (new song)
What Child is This
Silent Night
What child is This
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liturgyluver
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So, we are had our services of 9 lessons and carols after mass on Sunday, Here is the music list:
Introit hymn: Of the Father’s heart begotten
Bidding Prayer
1st lesson
Processional hymn: Once in Royal David’s City
Choir: Adam Lay ybounden Ord
2nd lesson
Choir : A tender shoot Goldschmidt
Hymn: It came upon the midnight clear
3rd lesson
Choir O Weishart by Part
Hymn: O little Town of Bethlehem
4th lesson
Choir: Hymn to the Virgin Benjamin Britten
Hymn: The Angel Gabriel
5th lesson
Choir : The Shepherds Farewell Berlioz
Hymn: While Shepherds watched
6th lesson
No Small wonder Edwards
7th lesson
O Holy night Adams
Hymn O Come all ye faithful
8th lesson
Tomorrow will be my dancing Day Gardener
Hymn: God Rest you merry gentlemen
9th lesson
Hymn: Hark the Herald Angels Sing
It was standing room only 30 mins before the service started and mulled wine and mince pies for all in the Hall afterwards
Introit hymn: Of the Father’s heart begotten
Bidding Prayer
1st lesson
Processional hymn: Once in Royal David’s City
Choir: Adam Lay ybounden Ord
2nd lesson
Choir : A tender shoot Goldschmidt
Hymn: It came upon the midnight clear
3rd lesson
Choir O Weishart by Part
Hymn: O little Town of Bethlehem
4th lesson
Choir: Hymn to the Virgin Benjamin Britten
Hymn: The Angel Gabriel
5th lesson
Choir : The Shepherds Farewell Berlioz
Hymn: While Shepherds watched
6th lesson
No Small wonder Edwards
7th lesson
O Holy night Adams
Hymn O Come all ye faithful
8th lesson
Tomorrow will be my dancing Day Gardener
Hymn: God Rest you merry gentlemen
9th lesson
Hymn: Hark the Herald Angels Sing
It was standing room only 30 mins before the service started and mulled wine and mince pies for all in the Hall afterwards
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CatholicZ09
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This weekend:
Angels, from the Realms of Glory
The Snow Lay on the Ground
O Little Town of Bethlehem
Good Christian Friends, Rejoice
Solemnity of Mary, the Holy Mother of God:
Sing of Mary
Gospel Canticle: Magnificat (New Britain hymn tune)
Angels We Have Heard on High
Immaculate Mary
Angels, from the Realms of Glory
The Snow Lay on the Ground
O Little Town of Bethlehem
Good Christian Friends, Rejoice
Solemnity of Mary, the Holy Mother of God:
Sing of Mary
Gospel Canticle: Magnificat (New Britain hymn tune)
Angels We Have Heard on High
Immaculate Mary
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CatholicZ09
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Epiphany:
As with Gladness Men of Old
We Three Kings
The First Noel
Hark! The Herald Angels Sing
As with Gladness Men of Old
We Three Kings
The First Noel
Hark! The Herald Angels Sing
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CatholicZ09
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Today:
When Jesus Comes to be Baptized
Of the Father’s Love Begotten
Behold the Lamb
Shall We Gather at the River
When Jesus Comes to be Baptized
Of the Father’s Love Begotten
Behold the Lamb
Shall We Gather at the River
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Gertabelle
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Entrance: On Jordan’s Banks
**Offertory: **Comfort, Comfort, O My People
Communion 1: Simple English Proper (communion antiphon)
**Communion 2: **Where Charity and Love Prevail
Communion 3: Love Is Come
**Marian Antiphon: **Alma Redemptoris Mater
**Closing: **Joy To the World
**Offertory: **Comfort, Comfort, O My People
Communion 1: Simple English Proper (communion antiphon)
**Communion 2: **Where Charity and Love Prevail
Communion 3: Love Is Come
**Marian Antiphon: **Alma Redemptoris Mater
**Closing: **Joy To the World
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CatholicZ09
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This weekend:
Songs of Thankfulness and Praise
All Good Gifts
Lord, Who at Thy First Eucharist
They’ll Know We are Christians
Songs of Thankfulness and Praise
All Good Gifts
Lord, Who at Thy First Eucharist
They’ll Know We are Christians
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CatholicZ09
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Next weekend:
All Glory, Laud, and Honor
O Sacred Head, Surrounded
We Remember
Jesus, Remember Me
All Glory, Laud, and Honor
O Sacred Head, Surrounded
We Remember
Jesus, Remember Me
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pnewton
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I am working on mine, just finished.
The King of Glory (with tamborines!)
The Old Rugged Cross
Were You There
Jesus Remember Me
Lord Let Me Walk
The King of Glory (with tamborines!)
The Old Rugged Cross
Were You There
Jesus Remember Me
Lord Let Me Walk
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CatholicZ09
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Sunday, March 27, 2016 - Easter Sunday of the Resurrection of the Lord
Processional Hymn: Jesus Christ is Risen Today
Responsorial Psalm: This is the Day (Soper)
Gospel Acclamation: Festival Alleluia (Chepponis)
Sequence: Christ, the Lord, is Risen Today (metrical version of Sequence)
Prep: Christ is Risen from the Dead (Cummings)
Communion: We Have Been Told / Behold the Lamb
Recessional: Alleluia! Alleluia!
Sunday, April 3, 2016 - Sunday of Divine Mercy
The Day of Resurrection
Ye Sons and Daughters
Eye Has Not Seen
Jesus is Risen
Processional Hymn: Jesus Christ is Risen Today
Responsorial Psalm: This is the Day (Soper)
Gospel Acclamation: Festival Alleluia (Chepponis)
Sequence: Christ, the Lord, is Risen Today (metrical version of Sequence)
Prep: Christ is Risen from the Dead (Cummings)
Communion: We Have Been Told / Behold the Lamb
Recessional: Alleluia! Alleluia!
Sunday, April 3, 2016 - Sunday of Divine Mercy
The Day of Resurrection
Ye Sons and Daughters
Eye Has Not Seen
Jesus is Risen
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pnewton
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I like Ye Sons and Daughters in its various incarnations, but boy it gets wearisome after ten times around. I am using that version of the sequence. I will pass on using any other song with the tune until the following week.The Day of Resurrection
Ye Sons and Daughters
Eye Has Not Seen
Jesus is Risen
I am going to sing one decade of the divine mercy chaplet for a meditaion this week (during Mass). The full chaplet is for later.
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CatholicZ09
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Next weekend:
At the Lamb’s High Feast
Two were Bound for Emmaus
In the Breaking of the Bread
Alleluia, Give Thanks
Speaking of that sequence I used for Easter, I attended my local cathedral for Mass this weekend, and they use the Worship IV hymnal. That sequence hymn was the processional, and I was a little annoyed because I am so accustomed to the wording used in OCP’s missals, and the Worship IV hymnal has very different wording. Upon further examination as I was singing the hymn, I think I prefer Worship IV’s wording over OCP’s. The wording in WIV seems to be more faithful to the Easter Sequence.
Oh, and the recessional was “The Strife is O’er.” The wording in WIV is so beautiful compared to OCP’s. Wish OCP would change its text.
At the Lamb’s High Feast
Two were Bound for Emmaus
In the Breaking of the Bread
Alleluia, Give Thanks
Speaking of that sequence I used for Easter, I attended my local cathedral for Mass this weekend, and they use the Worship IV hymnal. That sequence hymn was the processional, and I was a little annoyed because I am so accustomed to the wording used in OCP’s missals, and the Worship IV hymnal has very different wording. Upon further examination as I was singing the hymn, I think I prefer Worship IV’s wording over OCP’s. The wording in WIV seems to be more faithful to the Easter Sequence.
Oh, and the recessional was “The Strife is O’er.” The wording in WIV is so beautiful compared to OCP’s. Wish OCP would change its text.
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pnewton
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The only addition I have, thinking ahead, will be to use “The King of Love My Shepherd Is” in two weeks, a sheepish week. I am working all next weekend and will be off.
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Enim
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CatholicZ09
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What we did yesterday:
The God of All Grace
Shepherd of Souls
We Will Rise Again
Christ, the Lord, is Risen Today (Llanfair)
Next weekend:
Sing a New Song (Schutte)
Christians, Let Us Love One Another
We Remember
How Firm a Foundation
The God of All Grace
Shepherd of Souls
We Will Rise Again
Christ, the Lord, is Risen Today (Llanfair)
Next weekend:
Sing a New Song (Schutte)
Christians, Let Us Love One Another
We Remember
How Firm a Foundation
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Lisa_Lavadores
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Dear Music Leaders,
First, let me thank you all for the hope you’ve given me. Reading this thread off and on for the past few months (heck, maybe a year!) has been a great source of comfort for me. I am now aware that there are pro-active musical shepherds who care about their suffering sheep.
Second, please know that I’m from Los Angeles, California, and all my comments should be viewed with knowledge of that fact. However, I have also attended Mass in Las Vegas, Nevada, and in Oregon and Illinois. I have heard the same music at every Mass, so maybe what I’ve experienced these last 20 years is not a solely LA experience.
Third, I’m a convert. I was baptized at the age of 32 in 1993 (looong after Vatican II), and I have no childhood predispositions or prejudices. My Lutheran Grandmother (Dad was atheist) taught me to sing “I Will Make You Fishers of Men” when I was a kid, and I loved it. That’s the extent of my childhood Christian music exposure (in my teens, my Christian music exposure came from the movie Jesus Christ, Superstar).
Fourth, I became highly active in liturgy (and other parish functions and charities) after my baptism. Besides joining other parish groups, I joined the choir and eventually became a cantor and then, beyond that, was asked by my choir director to write lyrics for special occasions. I have mixed memories of this period (mixed in deciding where my guilt lies), but I am grateful to that choir director for teaching me that singing at Mass was not about performing, but about leading the assembly in sung prayer.
Fifth, consider my sour grapes because my liturgical compositions have been uniformly rejected by every Catholic music authority (other than that first choir director), whether the authority is from my parish or from a Catholic Music Publishing House. I cannot emphasize enough how much I want you to consider the possibility that I’m just a bitter old never-been.
Sixth, my request: I’ve written a song in response to the pope’s proclamation of a Jubilee Year of Mercy. I know there are no musical problems with the song because I wrote it to “Beach Spring” (the melody Marty Haugen used for “God of Day and God of Darkness”). Any problems would be with the lyrics. Please, please, please give me your absolutely honest response to the lyrics (how else can I learn?). Specifics would be greatly appreciated because, so far, all I can get from rejectors is “this isn’t the current direction of Catholic music.”
Thank you in advance for reading and, especially, responding (which I hope some do).
GOD OF MERCY
From the void burst God’s creation: space and time and matter born.
From the dust rose men and women, with whom God His world adorned.
Ever Alpha and Omega, Source of truth and grace and peace,
God of all, God wise and holy formed His people’s hearts as free.
Every age and every nation, every culture, every man
Turned his back on his Creator, turned from God’s most holy plan.
We, all sinners, now implore You, God of mercy, God of love,
Treat us not as we’re deserving; rain forgiveness from above.
God the Father, faithful Teacher, Who instructs and Who restrains,
God the Son, our sweetest Brother, Who bore all our wretched pain,
God the holy Holy Spirit, Who creates our hearts anew,
We, your family, beg you humbly, rain down mercy like the dew.
First, let me thank you all for the hope you’ve given me. Reading this thread off and on for the past few months (heck, maybe a year!) has been a great source of comfort for me. I am now aware that there are pro-active musical shepherds who care about their suffering sheep.
Second, please know that I’m from Los Angeles, California, and all my comments should be viewed with knowledge of that fact. However, I have also attended Mass in Las Vegas, Nevada, and in Oregon and Illinois. I have heard the same music at every Mass, so maybe what I’ve experienced these last 20 years is not a solely LA experience.
Third, I’m a convert. I was baptized at the age of 32 in 1993 (looong after Vatican II), and I have no childhood predispositions or prejudices. My Lutheran Grandmother (Dad was atheist) taught me to sing “I Will Make You Fishers of Men” when I was a kid, and I loved it. That’s the extent of my childhood Christian music exposure (in my teens, my Christian music exposure came from the movie Jesus Christ, Superstar).
Fourth, I became highly active in liturgy (and other parish functions and charities) after my baptism. Besides joining other parish groups, I joined the choir and eventually became a cantor and then, beyond that, was asked by my choir director to write lyrics for special occasions. I have mixed memories of this period (mixed in deciding where my guilt lies), but I am grateful to that choir director for teaching me that singing at Mass was not about performing, but about leading the assembly in sung prayer.
Fifth, consider my sour grapes because my liturgical compositions have been uniformly rejected by every Catholic music authority (other than that first choir director), whether the authority is from my parish or from a Catholic Music Publishing House. I cannot emphasize enough how much I want you to consider the possibility that I’m just a bitter old never-been.
Sixth, my request: I’ve written a song in response to the pope’s proclamation of a Jubilee Year of Mercy. I know there are no musical problems with the song because I wrote it to “Beach Spring” (the melody Marty Haugen used for “God of Day and God of Darkness”). Any problems would be with the lyrics. Please, please, please give me your absolutely honest response to the lyrics (how else can I learn?). Specifics would be greatly appreciated because, so far, all I can get from rejectors is “this isn’t the current direction of Catholic music.”
Thank you in advance for reading and, especially, responding (which I hope some do).
GOD OF MERCY
From the void burst God’s creation: space and time and matter born.
From the dust rose men and women, with whom God His world adorned.
Ever Alpha and Omega, Source of truth and grace and peace,
God of all, God wise and holy formed His people’s hearts as free.
Every age and every nation, every culture, every man
Turned his back on his Creator, turned from God’s most holy plan.
We, all sinners, now implore You, God of mercy, God of love,
Treat us not as we’re deserving; rain forgiveness from above.
God the Father, faithful Teacher, Who instructs and Who restrains,
God the Son, our sweetest Brother, Who bore all our wretched pain,
God the holy Holy Spirit, Who creates our hearts anew,
We, your family, beg you humbly, rain down mercy like the dew.
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CatholicZ09
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I’m glad you find this thread as a source of comfort. That’s so nice to hear!GOD OF MERCY
From the void burst God’s creation: space and time and matter born.
From the dust rose men and women, with whom God His world adorned.
Ever Alpha and Omega, Source of truth and grace and peace,
God of all, God wise and holy formed His people’s hearts as free.
Every age and every nation, every culture, every man
Turned his back on his Creator, turned from God’s most holy plan.
We, all sinners, now implore You, God of mercy, God of love,
Treat us not as we’re deserving; rain forgiveness from above.
God the Father, faithful Teacher, Who instructs and Who restrains,
God the Son, our sweetest Brother, Who bore all our wretched pain,
God the holy Holy Spirit, Who creates our hearts anew,
We, your family, beg you humbly, rain down mercy like the dew.
I really like the lyrics to your hymn. I don’t see anything wrong with the theology of the lyrics; they seem to reflect Catholic teaching. I also love “Beach Spring.” Excellent choice!
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Lisa_Lavadores
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Catholic Z09,
Thank you so much for your kind words.
God bless you,
Lisa
Thank you so much for your kind words.
God bless you,
Lisa
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CatholicZ09
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This weekend:
Invitatory: Psalm 95
You are Mine
I Want to Walk as a Child of the Light
Christ is Alive
Invitatory: Psalm 95
You are Mine
I Want to Walk as a Child of the Light
Christ is Alive
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