by admin | Mar 30, 2014 | Easter, Mass Part, Music
This setting is based on the plainchant Mass I which is marked to be sung in the Easter Season. I have taken the chant and simplified it so that the English text can be sung to it. – but I hope that it retains some of the essence of the chant. Lux et origo is...
by admin | Mar 30, 2014 | Lent, RCIA, Text
The hymn text by Horatius Bonar (1808–1889) has 3 verses the 2nd and 3rd of which can be read as referring to the Gospels of the 3rd and 4th Sundays of Lent in Year A – the Samaritan Woman and the Man born blind. These Sundays, together with the 5th, provide...
by admin | Mar 15, 2014 | Piece
A 3 part round based on John 4: 42, 15 (cf. 3rd Sunday of Lent, Year A: Gospel Acclamation): Lord, you are really the Saviour of the world. Give us living water that we may never thirst. Like all rounds it benefits from singing a few times in unison first. In the...
by admin | Mar 15, 2014 | Lectionary 24, Ordinary Time, Sunday
26th Sunday in Ordinary Time 28th Sunday in Ordinary Time Antiphons Ordinary Time IV EA Within your will, O Lord (8) CA I The Lord is good (85) CA II Though many, we are one bread (121) Responsorial Psalm — Year A Psalm 79 (80): 9. 12-16. 19-20. r. Isaiah 5:7 — The...
by admin | Mar 15, 2014 | Ordinary Time, Sunday
Antiphons Ordinary Time III EA O God, come to my assistance (69) CA I You have given us, O Lord (Wis 16) CA II I am the bread of life (35) Responsorial Psalm — Year A Psalm 144 (145): 8-9. 15–18 r. 16 —You open wide your hand, O Lord, you grant our desires. Psalm...
