Singing from the Lectionary: October 2009

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Index of abbreviations (roughly alphabetical):

AA: Alleluia Aotearoa (New Zealand Hymnbook Trust)
A&M: Ancient and Modern (2013 Edition of Hymns Ancient and Modern)
AoV, AoV2, AoVK, AoVNG: As One Voice, As One Voice 2, As One Voice For Kids and As One Voice The Next Generation
AHB: The Australian Hymn Book, published as "With One Voice" in NZ, UK (1977)
ATN, ATA, ATOK, ATE, ATW, ATFG: "All Together Now", "All Together Again", "All Together Everybody", "All Together OK", "All Together Whatever", "All Together For Good".
CH: Church Hymnary 4 (a.k.a. "Hymns of Glory Songs of Praise")
Cha: Chalice Hymnal
CoC: Carol our Christmas
CP: Common Praise. Anglican (Canada).
CP(E): Common Praise. Church of England.
ELW: Evangelical Lutheran Worship
FFS: Faith Forever Singing
GA: Gather Australia
G(II) / GC / GC(II) / G(3): Gather 2nd Edition, Gather Comprehensive, Gather Comprehensive 2, Gather 3.
GTB: Gospelling to the Beat
GtG: Glory to God (sampler of New Presbyterian Hymnal)
HiOS: Hope is our Song (NZ Hymbook Trust)
HPP: Hymns for a Pilgrim People
HPSS / PH: Presbyterian (USA) Hymnal.
Iona: Various Songbooks from the Iona community
Lau: Laudate (Decani)
LBW: Lutheran Book of Worship.
MV: More Voices (United Church of Canada).
NCH: New Century Hymnal
PfAS: Psalms for all seasons
SFFS: Sing the Faith/The Faith we Sing
SP: Sing Praise, a new book from Hymns Ancient and Modern
SP&P: Sing! Prayer and Praise, new book
Srce: The Source
StB: Sound the Bamboo, (Christian Conference of Asia)
StS/StJ: Sing the Story, Sing the Journey
Taize: Various Songbooks from the Taize community
TiS:Together in Song
TOSB: The Other Song Book
Tune In: A collection of songs from Brunswick Uniting Church (my church!). Songbook available here.
UMH: United Methodist Hymnal
URW: Upper Room Worshipbook
VU: Voices United
W&R: Worship and Rejoice
WoV: With one Voice (Lutheran Book of Worship)
ZSS: Zion Still Sings

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Tuesday, October 27, 2009

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Songs and Hymns for Christ the King / Reign of Christ Sunday Year B (November 22nd 2009)

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