Music leaders, show us your song list - NEW!!

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CatholicZ09 said:
Again, the Christmas season does not end until Sunday, January 9, 2011. Christmas carols are still appropriate and should be used.
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Thank you for interjecting this point. I have been wanting to jump in here for the Christmas season. Alas, for me it has passed. I am working all next weekend and have hung up my sleigh bells until next year.
 
Suggestions for next week:

Sunday, January 16, 2011 - Second Sunday in Ordinary Time - Year A

Processional Hymn: #203 Blessed By Your Sacrifice ST. ELIZABETH
Preparation of the Gifts: #737 How Firm a Foundation FOUNDATION
Communion Hymn: #335 Behold the Lamb Willett
Recessional Hymn: #410 Church of God, Elect and Glorious HYFRYDOL

This is what my music director has:

Processional Hymn: #553 Glory and Praise to Our God Schutte
Preparation of the Gifts: #540 I Want to Walk as a Child of the Light HOUSTON
Communion Hymn: #335 Behold the Lamb Willett
Recessional Hymn: #573 Sing of the Lord’s Goodness Sands

sigh - back to the same-old same-old next weekend.
 
Our Song List. 1045 Contemporary Choir

Entrance: River of Glory
Gifts: Come to the Water (Matt Maher, Spririt & Song version)
Comm 1: One Bread One Body
Comm2: Flow River Flow
Closer: All the Ends of the Earth
 
Mathias64 said:
Our Song List. 1045 Contemporary Choir

Entrance: River of Glory
Gifts: Come to the Water (Matt Maher, Spririt & Song version)
Comm 1: One Bread One Body
Comm2: Flow River Flow
Closer: All the Ends of the Earth
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Was this what you sang for the Baptism of the Lord or is it for the 2nd Sunday in Ordinary Time?
 
Catholic Schools Week is the end of this month. Any ideas as to hymns that would fit the ‘celebration’ ? My Pastor wants to incorporate (if possible) some hymns that don’t necessarily meet the readings for the day, but will fit the theme for the week.
 
pianomany2k said:
Catholic Schools Week is the end of this month. Any ideas as to hymns that would fit the ‘celebration’ ? My Pastor wants to incorporate (if possible) some hymns that don’t necessarily meet the readings for the day, but will fit the theme for the week.
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What days do you need exactly? I just want to know so I can look at the readings.
 
pianomany2k said:
Presentation of the Lord. I hadn’t seen the readings until a few hours after I posted the question.
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The Presentation of the Lord is a little different because it is a solemnity. In the old calendar, this feast concluded the Christmas Season.

Here is what you can do:

Entrance: Lift Up Your Heads, Ye Mighty Gates
Offertory: Christ Be Our Light
Communion: O Come, All Ye Faithful or Let All Mortal Flesh Keep Silence
Recessional: Lord, Let Your Servant Go In Peace

I am not too fond of Christ Be Our Light, but, the Presentation of the Lord is also known as Candlemass and it is where the candles are blessed. Don’t be afraid to use Christmas carols.

Now, what you could do is have a creche set up in the sanctuary and have one of the students carry in the Christ Child in the entrance processional and lay him there. That is what we did one year.

I hope this helps.
 
Suggestions for next weekend:

Sunday, January 23, 2011 - Third Sunday in Ordinary Time - Year A

Processional Hymn: #313 All People That On Earth Do Dwell OLD HUNDREDTH
Preparation of the Gifts: #375 The Servant Song Gillard
Communion Hymn: #364 Lord, Who At Thy First Eucharist UNDE ET MEMORES
Recessional Hymn: #612 In Christ There Is No East Or West MCKEE

My music director’s suggestions:

Processional Hymn: #304 Gather the People Schutte
Preparation of the Gifts: #381 The Summons KELVINGROVE
Communion Hymn: #519 Pescador de Hombres / Lord, You Have Come Gabarain
Recessional Hymn: #612 In Christ There Is No East Or West MCKEE
 
for next week I’ve chosen-

Christ Be Our Light
The Goodness of the Lord
Pescador De Hombres
Breathe
You Are The Light I Seek
City of God

Now, Pescador De Hombres, I love, and everyone else at church does too. I picked up a Word and Song book from another church last year, and found the song, but it had a slightly different lyrical translation than the Breaking Bread book that I use. I actually like the W&S lyrical translation better than the BB. I don’t know if that song is in the Gather Comprehensive or Catholic Community Hymnal and what the lyrics are if it is.
 
itsmaura said:
City of God
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My bishop has stated in no uncertan terms that this is a heretical song. This is basiclly the crux of what he said
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StCsDavid:
Not that I’m offended by the tune, but in reality we’re not building a city of God. It’s already been built so to speak in the Body of Christ which is the Church. To suggest we have the power to build something apart from that or in addition to that could be considered heretical…though I’m not in that camp myself.
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itsmaura said:
for next week I’ve chosen-

Christ Be Our Light
The Goodness of the Lord
Pescador De Hombres
Breathe
You Are The Light I Seek
City of God

Now, Pescador De Hombres, I love, and everyone else at church does too. I picked up a Word and Song book from another church last year, and found the song, but it had a slightly different lyrical translation than the Breaking Bread book that I use. I actually like the W&S lyrical translation better than the BB. I don’t know if that song is in the Gather Comprehensive or Catholic Community Hymnal and what the lyrics are if it is.
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I tend to shy away from Pescador de Hombres. It’s overblown and overdone down here to the point of ad nauseum. One parish sings it every day for Communion and it’s not even meant for that. It is also too “me” centered, making “me” the focus. If the song weren’t overblown and overdone, I would use it as the recessional. I hope you can understand why I run away from the song.

Now, this is what I would choose:

Entrance: On Jordan’s Bank
Offertory: Father, We Thank Thee Who Has Planted
Communion: Shepherd of Souls
Recessional: Lord, Whose Love In Humble Service
 
“Pescador de Hombres / Lord, You Have Come” is rather popular in my parish. I know it is one of the top picks for funerals. I’m kind of iffy on it. I don’t really have a problem with it, but it isn’t one of my favorites.

One I hope to not hear in a while is “Your Words are Spirit and Life” by Bernadette Farrell.
 
pianomany2k said:
Presentation of the Lord. I hadn’t seen the readings until a few hours after I posted the question.
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Suggestions:

Processional Hymn: In His Temple Now Behold Him ST. THOMAS

(This hymn actually is one that is commonly used on the Solemnity of the Presentation.)

Here are the lyrics:
In his temple now behold him, See the long ex-
pected Lord; Ancient prophets had fore-told him;
God has now fulfilled his word, Now, to praise him,
his redeemed shall break forth with one accord.
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In the arms of her who bore him, Virgin pure, be-
hold him lie, While his aged saints adore him
Ere in faith and hope they die. Alleluia!
Alleluia! Lo, th’incarnate God most high.
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Jesus, by your presentation, When they blest you,
weak and poor, Make us see our great salvation,
Seal us with your promise sure, And present us
in your glory to your Father, cleansed and pure.
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Prince and author of salvation, Be your bound-less
love our theme! Jesus, praise to you be given,
By the world you did redeem, With the Father
and the Spirit, Lord of majesty supreme.
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Preparation of the Gifts: I Want To Walk as a Child of the Light HOUSTON
Communion Hymn: Lo, How a Rose E’er Blooming ES IST EIN’ ROS’ ENTSPRUNGEN
Recessional Hymn: Songs of Thankfulness and Praise SALZBURG
 
Hearing all the OCP today actually didn’t bug me. Maybe it’s because I haven’t heard it since November. I give it a few weeks…😉
 
itsmaura said:
for next week I’ve chosen-

Christ Be Our Light
The Goodness of the Lord
Pescador De Hombres
Breathe
You Are The Light I Seek
City of God

Now, Pescador De Hombres, I love, and everyone else at church does too. I picked up a Word and Song book from another church last year, and found the song, but it had a slightly different lyrical translation than the Breaking Bread book that I use. I actually like the W&S lyrical translation better than the BB. I don’t know if that song is in the Gather Comprehensive or Catholic Community Hymnal and what the lyrics are if it is.
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WOW! I love your song selection. I especially like the song** Breathe. **Try it in combination with Draw Me Close to You. I also love Christ Be Our Light. My band recorded a 4/4 re-write of it that has a faster, more joyous tone. The congregation loves it also. And please don’t shy away from City of God because of those who would overanalyze it. “Let us build a City of God. May our tears be turned into dancing.” What a message! If you are looking for more like these, I suggest the Spirit & Song hymnal. It is one of the primarily music sources for the Lifeteen masses. One of the most notable songs is Matt Maher’s version of Come to the Water. God Bless you. Keep listening to your heart.
 
Mathias64 said:
And please don’t shy away from City of God because of those who would overanalyze it. “Let us build a City of God. May our tears be turned into dancing.” What a message!
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I’m sorry, but the ones among us who “over-analyze” this song are not looking far to see the repeated errors. “Let us build the City of God” is not doctrinally sound. It is not us who “build the city of God”, but Christ who does the building. Write a letter to your diocese, or call your office of worship/office of the bishop if you don’t want to believe me.
 
TheMc said:
“Let us build the City of God” is not doctrinally sound. It is not us who “build the city of God”, but Christ who does the building.
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Great, that’s really convenient; so I guess we can all just sit on our duffs while he does the heavy lifting.

Seriously, though, the song is doctrinally just fine. As Ven. John Paul II remarked in 2002:
The twentieth century often tried to do without that cornerstone [sc. Christ], and attempted to build the city of man without reference to Him. It ended by actually building that city against man! Christians know that it is not possible to reject or ignore God without demeaning man.

The aspiration that humanity nurtures, amid countless injustices and sufferings, is the hope of a new civilization marked by freedom and peace. But for such an undertaking, a new generation of builders is needed. Moved not by fear or violence but by the urgency of genuine love, they must learn to build, brick by brick, the city of God within the city of man.

Allow me, dear young people, to consign this hope of mine to you: you must be those “builders”! You are the men and women of tomorrow. The future is in your hearts and in your hands. God is entrusting to you the task, at once difficult and uplifting, of working with him in the building of the civilization of love.
(Italics in original).
 
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