tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-39535740415443105502024-03-19T03:50:15.848-07:00Singing from the LectionaryWeekly song, hymn and recorded music suggestions and resources for worship - based on the Revised Common Lectionary, with an eye to inclusive and gender-expansive language. Check indexes for Scripture based suggestions.Lectionary Singer (Natalie Sims)http://www.blogger.com/profile/15635861565689089555noreply@blogger.comBlogger226125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3953574041544310550.post-67749959357937493912024-03-18T12:30:00.000-07:002024-03-19T03:49:42.270-07:00Index to song suggestions for coming Sundays...<script async="" src="https://www.googletagmanager.com/gtag/js?id=G-E0N4VFC2F8"></script>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #38761d;"><b>Coming up...</b></span></span><br /><ul style="text-align: left;"><li><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://lectionarysong.blogspot.com/2010/08/springtime-songs-and-hymns.html" target="_blank">Springtime songs</a> (Northern Hemisphere)</span></li><li><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://lectionarysong.blogspot.com/2017/03/songs-for-autumn-fall.html" target="_blank">Autumn songs</a> (Southern Hemisphere) <br /></span></li><li><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="http://lectionarysong.blogspot.com/2014/03/songs-hymns-music-for-palm-sunday-13.html" target="_blank">Palm Sunday</a> (24 March 2024)</span></li><li><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://lectionarysong.blogspot.com/2015/03/songs-hymns-and-music-for-passion.html" target="_blank">Passion Sunday</a> (24 March 2024)</span></li><li><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://lectionarysong.blogspot.com/2015/03/songs-hymns-and-music-for-maundy.html" target="_blank">Maundy Thursday</a> (28 March 2024)</span></li><li><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://lectionarysong.blogspot.com/2015/03/songs-hymns-and-music-for-good-friday.html" target="_blank">Good Friday</a> (29 March 2024)</span></li><li><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://lectionarysong.blogspot.com/2015/03/songs-hymns-and-music-for-easter-sunday.html" target="_blank">Easter Sunday</a> (31 March 2024)<br /></span></li></ul><a href="https://lectionarysong.blogspot.com/p/lectionary-index.html"><b><span style="font-size: large;">Lectionary Index</span></b></a><div><div>
<i><span style="font-size: large;">If you are planning further ahead, <a href="https://lectionarysong.blogspot.com/p/lectionary-index.html">you can find suggestions for other Sundays here</a>.</span></i><br />
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<a href="https://lectionarysong.blogspot.com/p/scripture-index.html"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>Scripture Index</b></span></a>
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<i>If you are not using the Lectionary, here is an index to <a href="https://lectionarysong.blogspot.com/p/scripture-index.html">suggestions for specific readings</a>.</i></div>
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</span><a href="http://lectionarysong.blogspot.com.au/2014/04/sanctus-holy-holy-communion-settings.html">Sanctus / Holy Holy</a></div><div><a href="http://lectionarysong.blogspot.com.au/2014/04/sanctus-holy-holy-communion-settings.html">Communion settings</a> <br />
<a href="http://lectionarysong.blogspot.com.au/2014/04/gloria-gloria.html">Gloria! </a><br />
<a href="http://lectionarysong.blogspot.com/2010/02/communion-eucharist-hymns.html">Communion songs</a><br />
<a href="http://lectionarysong.blogspot.com.au/2015/03/songs-hymns-and-music-for-maundy.html">Agnus Dei </a><br />
<a href="http://lectionarysong.blogspot.com/2010/12/alleluia-hallelujah-heleluya-heleluyan.html">Alleluias</a><br />
<a href="http://lectionarysong.blogspot.com/2010/06/kyrie-eleison-lord-have-mercy.html">Kyries </a><br />
<a href="http://lectionarysong.blogspot.com/2016/07/songs-and-hymns-for-proper-12c-ordinary.html">The Lord's Prayer</a><br />
<a href="http://lectionarysong.blogspot.com.au/2009/12/songs-and-hymns-for-epiphany-3c-january.html">Offering songs and doxologies </a><br />
<a href="http://lectionarysong.blogspot.com.au/2012/04/songs-hymns-and-music-for-intercessory.html">Intercessory Prayer responses</a><br />
<a href="http://www.lectionarysong.blogspot.com/2012/01/songs-of-farewell.html">Benedictions</a> <br />
<a href="http://lectionarysong.blogspot.com.au/2014/11/amen.html">Amens </a><br />
<a href="http://lectionarysong.blogspot.com.au/2009/11/song-and-hymns-for-christmas-1c.html">Creeds</a><span style="font-size: large;"></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large; font-weight: bold;">Special Occasions</span><br />
<a href="http://lectionarysong.blogspot.com/2008/11/baptism-baptismal-songs-and-blessings.html">Baptism songs</a><a href="http://lectionarysong.blogspot.com/2008/11/baptism-baptismal-songs-and-blessings.html"> and blessings</a><br />
<a href="http://www.lectionarysong.blogspot.com/2012/01/songs-of-farewell.html">Farewell songs</a> <br />
<a href="http://lectionarysong.blogspot.com/2011/01/songs-for-confirmation.html">Confirmation songs</a><br />
<a href="http://lectionarysong.blogspot.com/2011/10/songs-to-welcome-new-church-members.html">Welcoming new members</a> <br />
<a href="http://lectionarysong.blogspot.com/2011/02/songs-for-ordinations-and.html">Ordinations / Commissionings</a><br />
<a href="http://lectionarysong.blogspot.com/2009/05/funeral-songs.html">Funeral songs</a><br />
<a href="http://lectionarysong.blogspot.com/2009/08/songs-and-hymns-for-weddings-and.html">Wedding and marriage songs</a><br />
<a href="http://lectionarysong.blogspot.com/2015/04/songs-for-mothers-day-mothering-sunday.html">Mother's Day / Mothering Sunday</a> <br />
<a href="http://lectionarysong.blogspot.com/2009/08/refugee-and-migrant-sunday-august-30.html">Songs for refugee and migrant awareness</a><br />
<a href="http://lectionarysong.blogspot.com/2009/02/songs-of-lament-for-sunday-february.html">Songs of lament (natural disasters / bushfires)</a><br />
<a href="http://lectionarysong.blogspot.com/2008/08/overdose-awareness-day-song-suggestions.html">Songs of grief and lament (Overdose Awareness Day) </a><br />
<a href="http://lectionarysong.blogspot.com.au/2016/06/songs-and-music-to-lament-mass-murder.html">Songs for LGBTQI welcome</a> <br />
<a href="http://lectionarysong.blogspot.com.au/2016/01/songs-hymns-music-for-lent-1c-february.html">Harvest</a> <br />
<a href="http://lectionarysong.blogspot.com.au/2016/09/songs-for-international-day-of-peace.html">Songs of Peace</a><br />
<a href="http://lectionarysong.blogspot.com/2009/11/2nd-sunday-after-christmas-christmas-2c.html">Church Anniversary </a><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://lectionarysong.blogspot.com/p/other-occasions.html"><b>Other Occasions (including Seasons of Creation)</b></a></span> </div>
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</div>Lectionary Singer (Natalie Sims)http://www.blogger.com/profile/15635861565689089555noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3953574041544310550.post-52389128067917248292024-03-18T01:53:00.000-07:002024-03-19T03:46:40.899-07:00Songs, Hymns and Music for Easter Sunday (31 March 2024)<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="font-size: large;"><b><a href="https://lectionary.library.vanderbilt.edu/texts.php?id=132#hebrew_reading">Acts 10:34-43</a><i> or <a href="https://lectionary.library.vanderbilt.edu/texts.php?id=132#hebrew_oth_reading">Isaiah 65:17-25</a></i> </b></span></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><a href="https://lectionary.library.vanderbilt.edu/texts.php?id=132#epistle_reading">1 Corinthians 15:19-26</a><i> or <a href="https://lectionary.library.vanderbilt.edu/texts.php?id=132#epistle_oth_reading">Acts 10:34-43</a></i> </b></span></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><a href="https://lectionary.library.vanderbilt.edu/texts.php?id=132#gospel_reading">John 20:1-18</a><i> or <a href="https://lectionary.library.vanderbilt.edu/texts.php?id=132#gospel_oth_reading">Luke 24:1-12</a></i></b></span><br />
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<li><b style="color: #990000;">Online Resource </b><span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;">Roll away the stone before us</span> (Hannah Brown) Excellent new words set to the traditional tune RESTORATION. I really like the energy of the refrain "Tell your people all my story, I will rise again with you". <a href="https://www.giamusic.com/store/resource/roll-away-the-stone-pdf-du01526" target="_blank">Sheet music sample and purchasing options</a>. <b style="color: #990000;"><br /></b></li><li><b style="color: #990000;">Tune In / Online Resource </b><span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;">God is walking in the garden</span> (Dave Brown) A gentle song perfect for Easter. <a href="http://brunswick.unitingchurch.org.au/worship/the-arts-in-worship/tune-in/">Free downloadable songbook and recordings. </a></li>
<li><b style="color: #990000;">TiS 383</b> <span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;"> Joyful the morning when Jesus Christ is risen </span>(Traditional Torres Strait Islander) It's beautiful and joyful and from the Torres
Strait Islands! We sang this last year (and the year before) at our dawn service and it was lovely <a href="https://www.smallchurchmusic.com/Song_Display-New.php?SID=4464">Sound sample.</a> </li><li><span style="color: #990000; font-weight: bold;">Online Resource / Resounding Voices </span><span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;">Christ Sophia, Child of Wisdom </span>(Ellen Clark-King) Excellent words of Christ "breaking through death's seeming ending". Can be sung to your favourite 878787 tune; I think it's particularly powerful with PRAISE MY SOUL. <a href="https://gracecathedralsermons.libsyn.com/the-very-rev-dr-malcolm-c-young-43" target="_blank">Lyrics</a> (scroll down). <a href="https://thehymnsociety.org/resources/resounding-voices/" target="_blank">Free book download here</a>. <span style="color: orange;">New words to old tunes</span>.</li>
<li><b style="color: #990000;">Tune In / Online Resource </b><span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;">Making things new</span> (Sheree Anderson). A groovy one. Great for kids, and lots of fun. <a href="http://brunswick.unitingchurch.org.au/worship/the-arts-in-worship/tune-in/">Free downloadable songbook and recordings</a>. <span style="color: magenta;">Good for kids.</span><span style="color: #990000; font-weight: bold;"> </span></li>
<li><b style="color: #990000;">BUC Song Project </b><span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;">I will sing of love / Celebrate</span> (Dave Brown) A song that celebrates new beginnings and the beauty of creation. It's a bit like a salsa. It's cool. </li>
<li><span style="color: #990000; font-weight: bold;">Online Resource / CH408 </span><span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;"> At dawn the women made their way </span>
(Mary Louise Bringle) Lovely gentle lyrics of the women discovering the
empty tomb to an old tune that may be familiar (VOX DILECTI). <a href="https://www.giamusic.com/store/resource/at-dawn-the-women-made-their-way-pdf-d588406" target="">Sheet music sample, lyrics, and purchasing options</a>. <span style="color: orange;">New words to old tunes</span>.</li>
<li><b style="color: #990000;">BUC Song Project </b><span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;">Jesus set me free</span> (Dave Brown) Celebrating Jesus' presence and the freedom we have in Christ. It will need to be sung by the musicians first, I reckon.</li>
<li><span style="color: #990000; font-weight: bold;">CH428 </span><span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;"> Alleluia alleluia Jesus risen Lord of life! / Word of the Father: Jesus Christ!</span> (Bernadette
Farrell) A good song to start an Easter Sunday service, or for an
Easter vigil. It uses a cantor line for the call, and the congregation
responds "Jesus Christ!". Very joyous. Eastertide Acclamation. <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XitwJP5Jo60">Sound sample (Youtube)</a>. </li>
<li><b style="color: #990000;">Tune In / Online Resource </b><span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;">In the shape of a cross</span> (Dave Brown) A cry to God for help and a call for God to enter our world. <a href="http://brunswick.unitingchurch.org.au/worship/the-arts-in-worship/tune-in/">Free downloadable songbook and recordings. </a></li>
<li><span style="color: #990000; font-weight: bold;">NCH231 / VU178 / AA007 / PH105 / GtG249 / W&R292 </span><span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;"> Because you live O Christ </span> (Shirley Murray) Excellent words to the well known Easter tune VRUECHTEN. AA
has it set to CRAWSHAW which is less familiar. <a href="http://www.hopepublishing.com/html/main.isx?sitesec=40.2.1.0&hymnID=2849">Lyrics</a>.<span style="color: #990000; font-weight: bold;"> </span><span style="color: orange;">New words to old tunes</span></li>
<li><span style="color: #990000; font-weight: bold;">GtG229 </span><span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;"> In the darkness of the morning </span> (Adam Tice) Excellent story telling song; particularly good for a dawn service. Sung to a simple Latvian folk tune. <a href="http://www.hymnary.org/tune/kas_dziedaja">Sheet music sample</a>.</li>
<li><span style="color: #990000; font-weight: bold;">TiS 660 / CP235 </span><span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;"> Myrrh-bearing Mary From Magdala came </span> (Rae Whitney) A song that follows the Marys involved in the adult life, death and resurrection of Christ. <a href="https://www.riteseries.org/song/vf/1803/">Sheet music and sound sample</a>. </li>
<li><span style="color: #990000; font-weight: bold;">Iona (LFB) / CH409 / A&M206 / SP079 / StF304 </span><span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;"> Jesus is risen alleluia! </span>(Bernard Kyamanywa) From Tanzania, and set to a traditional Tanzanian melody. Pretty good and straightforward. The use of a small group to sing the harmony "responses" would be great, and particularly wonderful at an Easter Vigil or at the start of an Easter Morning service. <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2o4sIZRDqA0">Choral version</a> (I'd do it more energetically). <a href="https://digitalsongsandhymns.com/songs/6300">Lyrics</a>.</li>
<li><b><span style="color: #990000;">GC(II)464 / CP230</span> </b> <span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;"> The Tomb Is Empty </span>
(Sylvia Dunstan) This one is so joyful it gives me goosebumps! It would be a
great start to worship on Easter Day. The verses say "Come and see",
"Come and hear", "Come and touch", "Come and meet", "Come and serve". <a href="http://c1824532.cdn.cloudfiles.rackspacecloud.com/GC2_464-1.jpg">Lyrics and sample sheet music. </a> <a href="http://c1824532.cdn.cloudfiles.rackspacecloud.com/GC2_464-1.mp3">Sound sample</a>.</li>
<li><span style="color: #990000; font-weight: bold;"> ELW375 / HPP199 / GtG253 </span><span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;"> Alleluia Christ is arisen / Aleluya! Cristo resucitó </span> (Luis Bojos) A cool Latin American hymn. I would sing the refrain twice each time because it's short, and so joyful! <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dLxG8eXsqz4" target="_blank">Sound sample (choral version)</a>. <br /></li>
<li><span style="color: #990000; font-weight: bold;">CH422 / AA015 </span><span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;"> Christ is alive and the universe must celebrate </span> (Shirley Murray) Good celebratory Easter words. The tune will need to be taught. <a href="http://www.hopepublishing.com/html/main.isx?sitesec=40.2.1.0&hymnID=2931&themeSearch=%20Easter">Lyrics and sheet music</a>. </li>
<li><b style="color: #990000;">ACS938 / CH430 / SFFS2115 / GtG231 / G(II)308 / GC452 / GC(II)465 / G(3)530 / </b><b style="color: #990000;"><b style="color: #990000;">Iona / </b>StF296</b> <span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;"> Christ has risen while earth slumbers </span> (John Bell / Graham Maule) There are a number of tune setting for this. I prefer HOLY MANNA. <a href="http://c1824532.cdn.cloudfiles.rackspacecloud.com/GC_451-1.jpg">Lead sheet</a>. <a href="http://c1824532.cdn.cloudfiles.rackspacecloud.com/GC_451.mp3">Sound Sample</a>. <span style="color: orange;">New words to old tunes</span>.</li>
<li><span style="color: #990000; font-weight: bold;">TiS 393 / GA365 / Lau270 </span><span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;"> Christ is alive with joy we sing </span> (Pamela Stotter) Joyful alleluias, and Easter images of Christ as grain of
wheat, rising sun, vine and bread. Sung to the familiar tune VULPIUS. <a href="https://www.godsongs.net/2015/05/christ-is-alive-with-joy-we-sing-alleluia-pamela-stotter.html">Lyrics (powerpoint slides) and videos</a>.</li><li><b style="color: #990000;"> Singing the Journey </b><span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;">Alleluia Christ is risen</span> (Cecily Sheehy / Douglas Simper) Great words "Love has overcome our fear"... and a powerful tune. <a href="https://www.mediacomeducation.org.au/shop/singing-the-journey/" target="_blank">Book available here</a>. <br /></li>
<li><b style="color: #990000;">FFS55</b> <span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;"> Relentless lover God in Christ </span> (Marnie Barrell) Great words! Can also be sung to KINGSFOLD if you don't want to explore a new tune. <a href="http://www.oremus.org/hymnal/barrell/mb10.html">Lyrics</a>.</li>
<li><b style="color: #990000;">CH348 / StS001 / LBW196 / ELW843 / A&M762 / G(3)625 / CP397 / W&R93 / SP304 / URW090</b> <span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;"> Praise the One Who Breaks the Darkness </span>
(Rusty Edwards) Good words of Christ's ministry to all. Can be sung to the
familiar tune NETTLETON, or the less familiar and very lovely tune JOEL.
<a href="https://hymnary.org/text/praise_the_one_who_breaks_the_darkness">Lyrics</a>.<span style="color: #990000; font-weight: bold;"> </span><span style="color: orange;">New words to old tunes</span></li>
<li><span style="color: #990000; font-weight: bold;">ACS933 / GtG242 </span><span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;"> Day of delight and beauty unbounded </span>
(Delores Dufner) A joyful 16th century dance tune, and happy lyrics of
salvation and life! <a href="https://hymnary.org/text/sing_of_the_sun_from_darkness_appearing">Sheet music (including lyrics) and sound sample</a>.</li>
<li><span style="color: #990000; font-weight: bold;">ACS935 / GtG241 / Cha223 </span><span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;"> Woman Weeping in the Garden </span>
(Daniel Damon) Great words about the woman weeping, then waiting, then
walking, then weeping again, then dancing. <a href="https://www.hopepublishing.com/find-hymns-hw/hw3645.aspx">Free sheet music and lyrics</a>. <br /></li>
<li><b style="color: #990000;">TiS 363 / AHB 281 / NCH244 / CH431 / UMH317 / VU170 / LBW514 / ELW820 / A&M213 / GtG235 / PH116 / GC423 / GC(II)446 / G(3)532 / CP228 / CP(E)154 / W&R313 / Cha220 / 82Hml-203 / Lau280 </b><span style="color: #000099;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">O sons and daughters let us sing</span> </span>(Jean Tisserand) Many versions and many verses. AHB has emphasis on
Thomas verses, but Gather hymnals have some nice verses about the women
finding Christ risen. This tune can be really pretty cool - either as
plainchant, hymn or fairly majestic contemporary mass music. <a href="https://hymnary.org/text/o_sons_and_daughters_let_us_sing">Lyrics and sheet music.</a> <span style="color: orange;">Oldy-but-a-goody.</span></li>
<li><b style="color: #990000;">TiS
242 / AHB 183 / AoV1-018 / ATN 27 / CH404 / UMH261 / VU352 / A&M667 / HPP163 /
GtG157 / PH302 / G(II)481 / GC708 / GC(II)689 / G(3)796 / CP(E) 468 / W&R118 / Lau765</b> <span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;">I danced in the morning / Lord of the Dance</span> (Sydney Carter). <a href="https://stainer.co.uk/lord-of-the-dance/">Lyrics and tune sample</a>. You all know this one, right? <span style="color: magenta;">Good for kids</span></li>
<li><b style="color: #990000;">Online Resource </b><span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;">Sweet the morning</span> (Pat Mayberry) More a song for a choir, or for your musicians to present to the congregation - flexible arrangement - works in unison or SSA, SAA, or SAB. Excellent lyrics, and a Hallelujah-filled chorus. <a href="https://sites.google.com/site/davidwkaismusic/home/sweet-the-morning" target="_blank">Free sheet music and sound samples</a>. <br /></li><li><b style="color: #990000;">ATW 452</b> <span style="color: #000099;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Halle Halle / Why do you look among the dead</span> </span>(Robin Mann) Storytelling Easter song, with catchy hallelujahs. <a href="http://www.robinmann.com.au/rs/7/sites/1178/user_uploads/File/All%20Songs%20%28PDF%29/whydoyoulook.pdf">Lyrics</a>.<span style="color: #990000; font-weight: bold;"> </span></li><li><b style="color: #990000;">Online Resource</b><span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;"> I am full of the Spirit </span>
(Heather Price) A joyful song that celebrates that, because of Christ, death is not the
end. <span style="color: magenta;">Good for kids</span>. <a href="https://heatherprice.com.au/downloads/full-of-the-spirit-album/" target="_blank">Sound sample and music for purchase</a>. </li>
<li><b style="color: #990000;">TiS
380 / AHB 303 / NCH253 / CH419 / UMH308 / VU173 / LBW145 / ELW376 /
A&M218 / HPP203 / GtG238 / PH122 / CP210 / CP(E)160 / W&R310 / Cha218 / Srce694</b><b style="color: #990000;"> / Lau287 / StF313 / MP689</b> <span style="color: #000099;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Thine be the glory risen</span><span style="font-weight: bold;"> conquering Son</span> </span>(Edmond Budry) One of the few older hymns that doesn't require updating, and beautiful harmonies... A great classic hymn! <a href="https://hymnary.org/text/thine_is_the_glory_risen_conquering">Lyrics and tune</a>. <span style="color: orange;">Oldy-but-a-goody. </span></li>
<li><b style="color: #990000;">Online Resource </b><b style="color: #990000;"><span style="color: #000099;">Yours be the glory, risen dauntless Love </span></b>(Sarah Agnew) A rewrite of Thine be the glory that you may like to use. <a href="http://praythestory.blogspot.com/2019/04/open-invitation-now-abundant-life.html">Lyrics</a>. <span style="color: orange;">New words to old tunes</span>. </li><li><b style="color: #990000;">TiS
370 / AHB 290 / NCH367 / CH411 / UMH302 / VU157 / LBW128 / ELW369 /
GtG245 / G(II)315 / GC437 / GC(II)439 / G(3)523 / CP206 / W&R288
/ Lau273 / StF298 / MP076</b><span style="color: #000099;"> <span style="font-weight: bold;">Christ the</span><span style="font-weight: bold;"> Lord is risen today</span> </span>(Charles Wesley)
It's not quite Easter for me without this hymn, but be aware that the lyrics
vary widely between hymnals. TiS is good, although some may not like the
Kingly language. If you want fully inclusive language, the NCH has good
lyrics. <a href="http://www.hymnsite.com/lyrics/umh302.sht">An example of lyrics and tune</a>. <span style="color: orange;">Oldy-but-a-goody.</span></li>
<li><b style="color: #990000;">TiS
382 / AoV2-131 / ATN 15 / NCH238 / CH417 / UMH311 / VU186 / LBW280 /
ELW570 / GA364 / A&M212 / HPP210 / GtG247 / G(II)318 / GC444 / GC(II)456 / G(3)534 / CP237 / CP(E)
153 / W&R311 / Cha230 / 82Hml-204 / Lau278 / StF306</b> <span style="color: #000099;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Now</span><span style="font-weight: bold;"> the green blade rises</span> </span>(John McLeod Campbell Crum) I love these words and this simple French folk tune. I
particularly like this played to guitar, but TiS has an excellent piano
arrangement too. <a href="http://nethymnal.org/htm/n/g/ngbrises.htm">Lyrics and tune sample</a>.<span style="color: orange;"> New words to old tunes</span>. </li><li><span style="color: #990000; font-weight: bold;">Online Resource / Resounding Voices </span><span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;">Let us sing of Mary</span>
(Hannah Brown) If you choose to focus on the role of Mary as follower
of Christ and first to witness the resurrection, this would be a good song to choose. <a href="https://thehymnsociety.org/resources/resounding-voices/" target="_blank">Free book download here</a>. <span style="color: orange;">New words to old tunes</span>. <span style="color: #990000; font-weight: bold;"> </span></li><li><span style="color: #990000; font-weight: bold;">Online Resource / CH407 </span><span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;"> Comes Mary to the grave </span>
(Michael Perry) Simple words focused on the peaceful morning and Mary's
joy at finding the risen Christ. Tune in CH (CHURCH CLOSE) is simple,
but probably best sung by a soloist or small group. <a href="http://www.hopepublishing.com/html/main.isx?sitesec=40.2.1.0&hymnID=4283">Lyrics</a>. <a href="https://music.churchofscotland.org.uk/hymn/407-comes-mary-to-the-grave" target="_blank">Sound sample</a>. <a href="https://www.jubilate.co.uk/songs/comes_mary_to_the_grave" target="_blank">Lyrics and purchasable score for a different tune</a> (PASCAL DAWN) which is not that easy either. </li>
<li><b style="color: #990000;">TiS 392 </b><span style="color: #000099;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">At the dawning of salvation</span> </span>(Jock Curle) Good hymn words of Easter theology and Christ’s presence at Creation to a fun standard American folk tune (NETTLETON). <a href="https://hymnary.org/text/at_the_dawning_of_salvation" target="_blank">Lyrics</a>. <span style="color: orange;">New words to old tunes</span>.</li>
<li><b style="color: #990000;">TiS 367 / AHB 287 / NCH242 / CH412 / UMH306 / VU159 / LBW135 / ELW366 / A&M217 / GtG236 / PH119 / GC446 / GC(II)459 / G(3)525 / CP212 / CP(E)159 / W&R290 / Cha221 / 82Hml-208 / Lau275 / MP670</b> <b style="color: #000099;">The strife is o'er the battle done</b>
(Francis Pott) There are two possible tunes for this hymn. I prefer to sing it
to the tune by James Minchin (THE STRIFE IS O’ER), which is found in the
Australian Hymn Book, rather than the more traditional minstrellish
VULPIUS. The newer tune is pretty groovy (I loved it as a kid!), and has
lots and lots of alleluias. The words also vary a lot between hymnals.
So, the best would be a combination of the TiS words and the AHB tune
287 (ii). Yeah, this was my other church rock favourite of 1979. <a href="https://hymnary.org/text/the_strife_is_oer_the_battle_done" target="_blank">Lyrics</a>.<span style="color: #990000; font-weight: bold;"> </span></li>
<li><span style="color: #990000; font-weight: bold;">VU168 / StS101 / ELW390 / GtG257 </span><span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;"> The risen Christ who walks on wounded feet </span>
(Nigel Weaver) Good words of resurrection and an excellent outward looking
last verse. A good final hymn for Easter Day "May we Christ's body walk
and serva dn stand with the oppressed in this and every land, till all
are blessed and can a blessing be, restored in Christ to true humanity".
Sung to the familiar tune WOODLANDS / GREATOREX. <a href="http://www.peacelutheranseattle.org/?m=201104">Lyrics</a>. <span style="color: orange;">New words to old tunes</span></li>
<li><span style="color: #990000; font-weight: bold;">ELW375 / HPP199 / GtG253 </span><span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;"> Alleluia Christ is arisen / Aleluya! Cristo resucit</span><span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;">ó </span>(Luis Bojos) A cool Latin American hymn. I would sing the refrain twice each time because it's short, and so joyful! <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C708N8A859E" target="_blank">Sound sample</a>. <span style="color: #990000; font-weight: bold;"> </span></li>
<li><span style="color: #990000; font-weight: bold;">G(II)312 / GC432 / GC(II)443 / G(3)535 </span><span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;"> Resucit</span><span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;">ó </span> (Kiko Arguello) This is delightful! <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lsLBLxzt65g">Here's a great version</a>! </li>
<li><b style="color: #990000;">ATA 160</b> <span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;"> The Son is up the Word is out / Resurrection shout </span>(Robin Mann) A bit silly, but could be fun on Easter day with lots of kids who have had a chance to learn it. <a href="http://www.robinmann.com.au/My-Songs-All-Together-Again-Resurrection-Shout-pg30649.html" target="_blank">Lyrics</a>. <span style="color: magenta;">Good for kids.</span></li>
<li><b style="color: #990000;">ATW 445 </b><span style="color: #000099;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Roll the rock</span> </span>(Leigh Newton) It’s pretty silly, again probably more for a church camp. <a href="https://tabs.ultimate-guitar.com/tab/leigh-newton/roll-the-rock-chords-3670205" target="_blank">Lyrics and chords</a>. It has a lot of words, but the chorus is catchy and <span style="color: magenta;">Good for kids.</span></li>
<li><span style="color: #990000; font-weight: bold;">TiS 381 / AHB 302 /
NCH232 / CH415 / VU177 / WoV676 / LBW149 / ELW391 / A&M219 /
GtG244 / GC434 / CP(E) 161 / W&R308 / 82Hml-192 / Lau286 / StF314 </span><span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;"> This joyful Eastertide </span> (George Woodward) A fairly old-school traditional hymn; still good! <a href="https://hymnary.org/text/this_joyful_eastertide_away_with_sin" target="_blank">Lyrics</a>.<br /></li>
<li><span style="color: #990000; font-weight: bold;">TiS 387 / CH416 / UMH318 / VU158 / PH108 / LBW363 / ELW389 / A&M199 / GtG246 / PH108 / CP(E) 140 / W&R312 / 82Hml-182 / Lau272 / StF297 </span><span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;"> Christ is alive Let Christians sing </span>
(Brian Wren) Excellent words of Christ's saving, and still relevant grace. A
couple of tunes are offered in different hymn books. I prefer TRURO. <a href="http://www.hymnary.org/text/christ_is_alive_let_christians_sing">Lyrics, sound sample and sheet music</a>.</li>
<li><b style="color: #990000;">Iona (TI1AU) / MV038</b> <span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;"> Glory to God / Nzamuranza </span>
(Mozambique / Matsikenyiri) Simple African call and response song.
Great harmonies and particularly good for Easter Day. Thanks to Noodle
Thrower for this suggestion. <a href="https://www.giamusic.com/store/resource/cross-culture-recording-cd568" target="_blank">Sound sample</a>. <br /></li>
<li><span style="color: #990000; font-weight: bold;">FFS21 </span><span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;"> Forgive us O God </span> (Colin Gibson) Touching lyrics of the ways we have crucified Christ again, and the hope we have in Easter. A more solemn prayer of confession than is often used on Easter Day, but could work well. </li><li><span style="color: #990000; font-weight: bold;">Online Resource </span><span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;">I have seen, I know what I know </span> (Richard Bruxvoort-Colligan) A powerful chant about believing in our own experiences, and the stories of women. I love this. <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wz42dA7GPxE">Meditation video</a>. <br /></li>
</ul>
<span style="font-size: large;">Shorter songs </span><br />
<span style="color: #38761d;"><b><i><span>Of course, you might like to sing an Alleluia!</span> <a href="http://lectionarysong.blogspot.com.au/2010/12/alleluia-hallelujah-heleluya-heleluyan.html">Here's a list!</a></i></b></span><br />
<ul style="text-align: left;">
<li><b style="color: #990000;">TiS 728 </b><span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;">Jesuchristo reina reina ya! </span>(Unknown) A fun Latin American song. It's particularly fun if someone is brave enough to yell out a "call" at the start of each verse. <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z_EQcWShWSA" target="_blank">Sound sample</a>. <span style="color: magenta;">Good for kids.</span></li>
<li><span style="color: #990000; font-weight: bold;">Taizé / GtG243 / G(3)516 </span><span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;"> Be not afraid sing out for joy / Nebojte se </span> (Jacques Berthier) Happy joyful Taizé chant! <a href="http://www.taize.fr/spip.php?page=chant&song=484&lang=en">Sheet music and sound samples</a>. </li>
<li><b style="color: #990000;">Music by heart 43 </b><b style="color: #000099;">Dying you destroyed our death </b> (Marilyn Haskel) A very simple round of Christ's death and resurrection.</li>
<li><b style="color: #990000;">Iona (Love From Below) / CH434 / CP232</b> <b style="color: #000099;">Jesus is risen from the grave </b>(John Bell) Good, simple rhythm and tune. You can even make up some verses if you like. <a href="https://music.churchofscotland.org.uk/hymn/434-jesus-is-risen-from-the-grave" target="_blank">Sound sample</a>. <span style="color: magenta;">Good for kids.</span><b style="color: #990000;"> </b></li>
<li><span style="color: #990000; font-weight: bold;">Taizé / ATA 107 / VU247 / GC555 / CP308 / W&R303 / Lau691 </span><span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;"> Jubilate Deo </span> (Praetorius) A very simple fun round from the community at Taizé. <a href="http://www.taize.fr/spip.php?page=chant&song=357&lang=en">Sound sample and practice parts</a>. <span style="color: magenta;">Good for kids.</span></li>
<li><b style="color: #990000;">TiS
720 / AHB 295 / AoVK-85 / AoV2-046 / ATOK 319 / NCH236 / Iona (Many
& Great, There is one among us) / CH345 / VU958 / StJ / A&M836 / SFFS 2026 /
HPP571 / GtG591 / GC(II)261 / G(3)329 / W&R005
/ Cha041 / ZSS76 / SP324 / PfAS150G / URW370 </b><b style="color: #990000;">/ Lau178 </b><span style="color: #000099;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Halle halle hallelujah </span>(</span>Traditional
Caribbean) A good Alleluia would work well for this passage, and I
think this one is particularly excellent – simple, great for kids, good
rhythm. <span style="color: magenta;">Good for kids.</span> <a href="https://hymnary.org/text/halle_halle_halleluja">Sheet music and lyrics</a>. <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xjf6bYQRbtU">Sound sample (youtube)</a>.<br /></li>
<li><b style="color: #990000;">GA338 </b> <span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;"> People of God O welcome the light </span> (Jane Wood) Quite good simple refrain for the start of an Easter celebration </li>
<li><span style="color: #990000; font-weight: bold;">82Hml-713 </span><span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;"> Christ is arisen / Christ ist erstanden Alleluia </span> (German hymn adapted by Richard Rudolf Klein) Based on an ancient Easter Day round. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christ_ist_erstanden" target="_blank">History</a>. <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B5gt-xp1qvs" target="_blank">Sound sample</a> (not as a round). <a href="https://hymnary.org/text/christ_is_arisen_alleluia" target="_blank">Lyrics</a>.<br /></li>
<li><b style="color: #990000;"><span style="color: #990000; font-weight: bold;"><b style="color: #990000;"></b>CH753 / SFFS 2078 / GtG589 / GC(II)271 / G(3)338 / PfAS147A </span><span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;"> Alleluia alleluia </span></b>(Glover / Honduras) I would just sing the refrain of this. It would make a great introit or postlude for Easter Day. <a href="http://c1824532.cdn.cloudfiles.rackspacecloud.com/GC2_271-1.jpg">Sheet music and lyrics</a> (chorus only). I'm not wild about the <a href="http://c1824532.cdn.cloudfiles.rackspacecloud.com/GC2_271-1.mp3">sound sample</a>, but it gives you some ideas.</li>
<li><b style="color: #990000;">ATW
463 / Iona (T1AU) / ELW721 / SFFS 2219 / A&M835 / GtG750
/ GC(II)451 / G(3)528 / W&R296 / URW436 </b> <span style="color: #000099;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Goodness is stronger than evil</span> </span>(Desmond Tutu
/ Iona) Words from Archbishop Desmond Tutu. "Victory is ours, victory
is ours, through him who loves us". Some congregations change the last
line to "Compassion is ours, compassion is ours...". It depends on the
context in which you sing it, I suppose. <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s1ydJ4JTEYw">Sound sample</a> (I like how they drop the organ partway through!).<span style="color: magenta;"> Good for kids.</span></li>
<li><b style="color: #990000;">TiS
541 / CH674 / WoV722 / ELW535 / GtG538 / G(II)394 / GC562 / GC(II)529 / G(3)626 /
CP082 / SP&P190 / W&R709 / ZSS198 / URW400</b> <span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;">Hallelujah we sing your praises / Haleluyah! Pelo Tsa Rona</span> (Traditional South African) Joyous and simple song. <a href="http://c1824532.cdn.cloudfiles.rackspacecloud.com/G3_626-1.mp3">Sound sample</a>. <a href="http://c1824532.cdn.cloudfiles.rackspacecloud.com/G3_626-1.jpg">Sheet music sample</a>.<span style="color: magenta;"> Good for kids.</span></li>
<li><b style="color: #990000;">CH797</b> <span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;"> The Lord is risen from the dead </span> (Dimi Halleyi) Simple chant, that can be sung in a round for Easter day. <a href="https://music.churchofscotland.org.uk/hymn/797-the-lord-is-risen-from-the-dead" target="_blank">Sound sample</a>. <span style="color: magenta;">Good for kids.</span></li>
</ul>
<span style="font-size: large;"><b><a href="https://lectionary.library.vanderbilt.edu/texts.php?id=132#psalm_reading">Psalm 118:1-2, 14-24</a> </b></span><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">Any <a href="http://lectionarysong.blogspot.com/2010/01/song-and-hymns-for-epiphany-5c-february.html">Holy, holy, holy</a> / <a href="http://lectionarysong.blogspot.com/2010/01/song-and-hymns-for-epiphany-5c-february.html">Sanctus</a> will work well. </span><br />
<span style="color: #274e13;"><b><span style="font-style: italic;">I will suggest some of these again next week, so this could be a good time to introduce a new song. </span></b></span><br />
<ul style="text-align: left;">
<li><b style="color: #990000;">Linnea Good </b><b style="color: #990000;"> / MV008</b> <span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;">And on this path </span>(Linnea Good) An energetic gospel style song. Here's a <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oTuuIAQHjwI">youtube video</a>.
We sing it much slower than this and as a gospel style song with big
chords and a groovy bass part. I thought I'd never say that we sing
something slower than anyone! <span style="color: magenta;">Good for kids.</span></li>
<li><b style="color: #990000;">TiS 74 / GA070 </b><span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;">This is the day the Lord has made </span>(Christopher Willcock)
Unusual timing in this refrain, but once you've nailed it, it will be
stuck in your head for the rest of the week, which is what I like about
Psalm refrains. <a href="https://music.apple.com/us/song/psalm-118-this-is-the-day/1241740467" target="_blank">Sound sample</a>. <br /></li>
<li><span style="color: #990000; font-weight: bold;">STB046 </span><span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;"> Your Word Will Be A Lamp (Malaysia) </span> (translated Calvin Chelliah) This song is in English and set to a Tamil melody, so will need to be taught. It's a little tricky.</li>
<li><span style="color: #990000; font-weight: bold;">VU175 </span><span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;"> This is the day that God has made </span> (Natalie Sleeth) <span style="color: magenta;">Good for kids</span> especially. <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xbozoV-jadI" target="_blank">Here's some cute kids in choir robes singing it</a>. <br /></li>
<li><b style="color: #990000;">MV122 / Online Resource</b> <span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;"> This is the day </span> (Bruce Harding) This is a really simple nice jazzy song. <a href="https://evensong.ca/wp-content/uploads/this_is_the_day.pdf">Sheet music</a>. <span style="color: magenta;">Good for kids.</span></li>
<li><span style="color: #990000; font-weight: bold;">PfAS118D </span><span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;"> This is the day the lord has made </span>
(Joy Patterson) A good 7/8 setting of the Psalm. It will need to be taught, but will be enjoyed. <a href="https://www.hopepublishing.com/find-hymns-hw/hw3172.aspx" target="_blank">Sheet music and lyrics</a>. </li>
<li><span style="color: #990000; font-weight: bold;">Online Resource / PfAS118G </span><span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;"> This is the day the lord has made </span> (Leon Roberts) A bright and cheerful refrain for the Psalm. <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fK3XmctnEmE" target="_blank">Sound sample </a>(choral version). <br /></li>
<li><span style="color: #990000; font-weight: bold;">TiS
156 / AHB 91 / AoV1-135 / ATA 123 / CH212 / UMH145 / VU409 / ELW556 /
GA537 / A&M545 / HPP267 / GtG664 / PH469 / G(II)546 / GC756 / GC(II)748 / G(3)855 / CP003 / W&R35 /
Cha053 / URW186 / 82Hml-008 / StF136 / Lau671 / MP467</span> <span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;">Morning has broken</span> (Eleanor Farjeon) This song makes me smile every time. Here's Yusuf Islam (when he was Cat Stevens) <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U5sSEkZ86ts&feature=related">in 1976</a> (love those green boots).<span style="color: orange;">Oldy-but-a-goody.</span></li>
<li><b style="color: #990000;">Taizé / MV016 / StJ / ELW528 / GA430 / SFFS 2157 / HPP410 / G(II)398 / GC570 / GC(II)550 / RS710 / CP402 / URW378</b> <span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;"> Come and Fill our hearts/ Confitemini Domino </span>
(Jacques Berthier) Can be sun in English as "Come and fill our hearts with your peace, you
alone O God are holy. Come and fill our hearts with your peace,
Alleluia". <a href="http://www.taize.fr/spip.php?page=chant&song=312&lang=en">Sound samples and sheet music.</a></li>
<li><span style="color: #990000; font-weight: bold;">VU956 </span><span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;"> Your word is a lamp</span> (Eleanor Daley) A simple refrain for this Psalm, or could be used as a response before reading the scriptures. </li>
<li><span style="color: #990000;"><b>NCH387 / PH443 / GC(II)646 / RS782 / CP524 / Lau829</b></span><span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;"> O Christ the great foundation </span>
(Timothy T'ingfang Lew) Excellent words of salvation and justice from Timothy Tingfang
Lew, sung to the tune of "The church's one foundation" (AURELIA). <a href="https://www.topcatholicsongs.com/node/753">Lyrics</a></li>
<li><span style="color: #990000; font-weight: bold;">MV187 / ELW682 </span><span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;"> We give our thanks / Re a mo leboga </span> (Traditional Botswana) A great song to sing for the offering. <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U1i3v16vUmU" target="_blank">Older style version</a>. <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6jD-7CgSK4I" target="_blank">More upbeat version</a>. <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wQRZcTI1fc8" target="_blank">Amazing video with a newer version</a>. <span style="color: magenta;">Good for kids.</span></li>
<li><span style="color: #990000; font-weight: bold;">STB019 </span><span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;"> Glory be to You O God / Joy Probhu tomari joy (Bangladesh) </span> (Shaha) A happy song from Bangladesh. The tune will need to be taught, but it's not difficult and the words are quite simple in English. The first phrase could be sung in Bengali if you would like to include some language other than English, but don't want to learn a lot of words in another language. <a href="https://hymnary.org/text/joy_probhu_tomari_joy" target="_blank">Sheet music sample</a>. <br /></li>
<li><b style="color: #990000;">Online Resource/ TiS
48 / AoV1-153 / ATOK 411 / VU808 / WoV779 / ELW787 / GA452 / HPP385 /
G(II)433 / GC611 / GC(II)593 / G(3)691 / CP531 / W&R438 / PfAS091E / Cha077 / Lau952</b> <span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;"> You who dwell in the shelter of the Lord / On Eagle's Wings </span>
(Michael Joncas)
This is a big favourite all over the place. It has masculine imagery for God. This doesn't have to be sung slowly and meditatively - it also works very well as a more upbeat song. If it is not familiar to you, a cantor can be used for the verses. It is not inclusive in all sources. <a href="https://www.ocp.org/en-us/songs/1526/on-eagles-wings-en-sus-alas" target="_blank">Sound samples, sheet music samples, and purchasing options</a>. <br /></li>
<li><span style="color: #990000;"><b>Cry Hosanna 14</b></span> <span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;">This, this is the day</span> (Brian Howard) I really like this song. <a href="https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=3&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=2ahUKEwiohvidzYzoAhWr8HMBHT7DBzoQFjACegQIAxAB&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.fpcedgewood.org%2Fuploads%2F2%2F3%2F8%2F3%2F23831749%2Fthis_this_is_the_day.pdf&usg=AOvVaw2jswI9ARZY4ik6sYQi9srs">Sheet music</a>. <a href="http://conservativeweasel.blogspot.com.au/2010/12/daily-devotional-monday-6th-december.html">Here's a youtube version;</a> a little more strident than I would sing it, but it will give you an idea.</li>
<li><b style="color: #990000;">TiS 653 / NCH417 / CH526 / UMH383 / GC(II)453 / W&R355 / Cha518 </b> <span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;"> This is a day of new beginnings </span>(Brian Wren) "This
is a day of new beginnings, time to remember and move on, time to
believe what love is bringing, laying to rest the pain that's gone." Excellent
words of reconciliation. A good start to the Easter
season. There are two possible tunes. I prefer the more simple hymn-like
tune by Carlton Young which is in most resources (including TiS). There is an optional final verse that can be used for Communion. <a href="http://selahpub.com/Choral/ChoralTitles/425-871-ThisIsADay.html">Lyrics</a>.</li>
</ul>
<i><span style="color: #274e13;"><b>What will you be singing? If it's something not listed here, please let me know in the comments below.</b></span></i>
</div>Lectionary Singer (Natalie Sims)http://www.blogger.com/profile/15635861565689089555noreply@blogger.com11tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3953574041544310550.post-52723605879345708962024-03-17T04:15:00.000-07:002024-03-19T03:32:01.863-07:00Springtime songs and hymns<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="font-style: italic;">Spring is coming to the Northern Hemisphere!</span><br />
<ul style="text-align: left;">
<li><span style="color: #990000;"><b>Online Resource</b></span> <span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;">As the winter days grow longer </span>
(Mary Louise Bringle) A joyful song of the exuberance of spring. Set to the old tune PLEADING SAVIOUR. <a href="https://www.giamusic.com/store/resource/as-the-winter-days-grow-longer-pdf-d686105" target="_blank">Sheet music sample, lyrics, and purchasing options</a>. <span style="color: #ffa400;">New words to old tunes</span>.<span style="color: #990000;"><b> </b></span><b style="color: #990000;"><br /></b></li><li><b style="color: #990000;">NCH34 / Iona (SL) / CH138 / SgTJ1065</b> <span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;">
Nourished by the rainfall the earth can come alive / Flowers of every
colour now raise their heads in pride / As the rain is falling /
Alabanza </span> (Pablo Fernández-Badillo) Complex words, but a simple repetitive tune.
Inclusive, earthy. Great for a temperate Springtime. There are quite a
few different English translations of this Puerto Rican song. I
particularly like the translation in Church Hymnary / Hymns of Glory Songs
of Praise. <a href="https://music.churchofscotland.org.uk/hymn/138-nourished-by-the-rainfall">Downloadable sound sample</a>. <br /></li>
<li><b style="color: #990000;">VU632 / StS100 / WoV695 / ELW447 / SFFS 2076 / StF617</b> <span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;"> O blessed Spring where word and sign </span> (Susan Palo Cherwien) Imagery of Christ the vine and the changes that the seasons bring, this song speaks of all four seasons. Hymnals vary in the tune selected. I like it best to O WALY WALY. <a href="http://southwood.typepad.com/southwoodlutheran/2010/04/o-blessed-spring.html">Lyrics</a>. <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KzcHXhF2T4w">Video telling the story of the hymn with sound sample</a>. <br /></li>
<li><b style="color: #990000;">FFS59</b> <span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;"> Spirit of springtime in creation's garden </span> (Shirley Murray) Good tune and words, and very Antipodean. "Beauty will break through rotted leaves and ashes, joy will erupt and life will leap free!". <a href="https://www.hopepublishing.com/find-hymns-hw/hw367.aspx">Lyrics</a>.</li>
<li><span style="color: #990000;"><b>NCH005 / VU243</b></span> <span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;"> Praise to God praise to God for the greenness </span>(Nobuaki Hanaoka) Earth's beauty; sung to a simple Japanese tune (SAKURA). A good hymn for kids who can read. <a href="https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=8&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=2ahUKEwilite0uf_nAhUBXSsKHVD2B-gQFjAHegQIAhAB&url=http%3A%2F%2Fpeaceuccstl.org%2Ffiles%2FUCCstory.pdf&usg=AOvVaw1_vugSOFKlFm609Ceiq9qB">Lyrics</a> (downloads a PDF). <span style="color: magenta;">Good for kids</span>. </li>
<li><b style="color: #990000;">NCH402</b> <span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;"> Sing of colours (De Colores) </span> I love this traditional Mexican song. Not too hard in Spanish, really easy and catchy in English. <a href="http://c1824532.cdn.cloudfiles.rackspacecloud.com/OC_067-1.jpg">Partial lyrics and sheet music</a>. <a href="http://www.mamalisa.com/?t=es&p=1124&c=12">Lyrics and midi</a>. <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QwjVsvUdwRY&feature=related">Slightly silly version on youtube.</a></li>
<li><b style="color: #990000;">NCH433 / CH727 / UMH707 / VU703 / HPP474 / GtG250 / W&R515 / Cha638</b> <span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;"> In the bulb there is a flower </span>
(Natalie Sleeth) A simple song of hope symbolised in nature. <a href="http://www.hymnlyrics.org/lyricsi/in_the_bulb_there_is_a_flower.html">Lyrics</a>. <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sDpByzZqeQ4">Youtube sound sample with lyrics</a>.<br /></li>
<li><b style="color: #990000;">FFS51</b> <span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;"> O spring in the desert </span> (David Adam) Christ's presence in water and light; Christ as guide. Excellent imagery, good tune. <a href="https://coachdelmonte.com/2013/01/02/launching-2013-with-daily-quiet-time-vs-dirty-rotten-attitudes/">Lyrics</a>.</li>
<li><b style="color: #990000;">CH224 / VU187 / AA140</b> <span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;"> The spring has come </span> (Shirley Murray) Joyful tune and words. Fun rhythms. <a href="https://www.hopepublishing.com/find-hymns-hw/hw2916.aspx">Lyrics & sheet music sample</a>. </li>
<li><b style="color: #990000;">UMH508 / VU644 / Cha535</b> <span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;"> Faith while trees are still in blossom </span>(Anders Frostenson) Excellent words of faith when things seem a bit hopeless. Sings of Noah and Moses. <a href="http://www.hymnary.org/hymn/UMH/508">Lyrics</a>.<b style="color: #990000;"> </b></li>
<li><span style="color: #990000; font-weight: bold;">STB288 </span><span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;"> May the Lord bless you with joy / Mar ba zey </span> (Burma / Karen Blessing) A blessing from the Karen people of Burma. Would not be too hard to sing in Karen, but there is also a lovely English translation. Would be particularly nice in Spring time when the flowers are all in bloom. <a href="https://hymnary.org/hymn/STB2000/288" target="_blank">Sheet music sample</a>. <br /></li>
<li><b style="color: #990000;">Online Resource / Tune In </b><span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;">Making things new</span> (Sheree Anderson). A groovy one. Great for kids, and lots of fun. <a href="http://brunswick.unitingchurch.org.au/worship/the-arts-in-worship/tune-in/">Free downloadable sheet music, reference recording</a>. <span style="color: magenta;">Good for kids.</span> </li>
<li><b style="color: #990000;">Online Resource </b><span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;">The glory of the spring how sweet!</span> (Thomas Hornblower Gill / Janet Reus-Smit) Excellent traditional words of renewal, sung to KING'S LANGLEY, an old English May Day carol. <a href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/1f78AcBaDE9zklSRE3JOUclBX1Z0D3-a1XPMiS2zqcg4/edit?usp=sharing">Updated lyrics</a>. <a href="https://hymnary.org/tune/kings_langley_english">Tune sheet music</a>. <span style="color: magenta;">Good for kids.</span> </li><li><span style="color: #990000;"><b>Online Resource</b></span> <span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;">For brightly greening spring </span>
(Adam Tice) Excellent words welcoming the greening of the earth, and the nurturing of God. Sung to the familiar tune TERRA BEATA. <a href="https://giamusic.com/resource/for-brightly-greening-spring-pdf-d800312" target="_blank">Lyrics, sheet music sample and purchasing options</a>. <span style="color: #ffa400;">New words to old tunes</span>.<span style="color: #990000;"><b> </b></span><b style="color: #990000;"><br /></b> </li>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><i><span style="font-weight: bold;">Songs with a focus on all seasons</span></i></span><br />
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<li><b style="color: #990000;">Unknown Source</b><span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;"> We'll weave a love / Song of Community </span>(Carolyn McDade) A song of all seasons. It's a little bit tricky to learn, but once learned, you will not forget it "We'll weave a love that greens sure as spring, then deepens in summer to the fall autumn brings". <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cMNwYBUbXF4">Youtube with lyrics</a>.</li>
<li><b style="color: #990000;">Not Online Resource </b><span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;">Flow'ring in the summer / Faithful Seasons </span>(Helen Wiltshire) Australian imagery for all the seasons, and how it's worth celebrating them! This resource is not available online anymore, but if you have a copy, you may like to use this song.<br /></li>
<li><span style="color: #990000; font-weight: bold;">CH141 / A&M548 / SP250 / URW077 / StF114 </span><span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;"> Oh the life of the world is a joy and a treasure </span>
(Kathy Galloway) Good inclusive words about God's presence in "the life of
the world" (nature, seasons, childbirth, justice). The tune is a simple
Celtic-style melody. <a href="http://thoughtsthattransform.blogspot.com/2007/12/oh-life-of-world.html">Lyrics</a>. <a href="https://music.churchofscotland.org.uk/hymn/141-oh-the-life-of-the-world-is-a-joy-and-a-treasure">Tune sample</a>.</li>
<li><span style="color: #990000; font-weight: bold;"> STB026 </span><span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;"> Seasons Come Seasons Go / Ella kaladollu </span>
(Bhajan) I think this song from India would not be too hard to learn,
but it will need to be taught because the melody (THANDHEYU) will not be
familiar. The words are really quite lovely, including the English
translation. <a href="https://hymnary.org/text/thandhey_nii_ne_thayiyu_niine" target="_blank">Sheet music sample</a>. <br /></li>
<li><b style="color: #990000;">VU632 / StS100 / WoV695 / ELW447 / SFFS 2076 / StF617</b><span style="color: #990000;"><b> / LUYH794 </b></span><span style="color: #990000;"><b> </b></span><span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;"><span style="color: #990000;"> </span>O blessed Spring where word and sign </span>
(Susan Palo Cherwien) Imagery of Christ the vine and the changes that the seasons
bring, this song speaks of all four seasons. Hymnals vary in the tune
selected. I like it best to O WALY WALY. <a href="http://southwood.typepad.com/southwoodlutheran/2010/04/o-blessed-spring.html">Lyrics</a>.</li>
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<span style="color: #38761d;"><i><b>Any other songs about Springtime or the seasons that you'd like to suggest? Please add a comment below. </b></i></span> <br />
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<li> <b style="color: #990000;">HiOS008</b> <span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;"> Autumn comes in all its fullness </span> (Bill Wallace) Lovely hopeful words sung to a fairly standard sounding hymn tune, which will be pretty easy to sing. <a href="https://progressivechristianity.org/resources/autumn-comes-in-all-its-fullness/">Lyrics</a>.</li>
<li><b style="color: #990000;">ATN38</b> <span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;">One by one you call us home / Like autumn leaves upon the ground</span> (Robin Mann) Lovely words of comfort to a folk tune. <a href="http://www.robinmann.com.au/My-Songs-All-Together-Now-One-by-one-you-call-us-home-pg30528.html">Lyrics</a>.</li>
<li> <b style="color: #990000;">UMH086</b> <span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;"> Mountains are all aglow </span> (Ok In Lim) Good lyrics of harvest. I am not sure about the tune, because I don't have this book. <a href="http://www.hymnary.org/text/mountains_are_all_aglow">Lyrics</a></li>
<li><span style="color: #990000;"><b>BUC Song Project</b></span> <span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;">There's a single leaf left on my tree / Jesus Set Us Free </span> (Dave Brown) A great new song from Dave; not yet published, but it could be sung at BUC. </li>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><i><span style="font-weight: bold;">Songs with a focus on all seasons</span></i></span><br />
<ul style="text-align: left;"><li><b style="color: #990000;">Unknown Source</b><span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;"> We'll weave a love / Song of Community </span>(Carolyn
McDade) A song of all seasons. It's a little bit tricky to learn, but
once learned, you will not forget it "We'll weave a love that greens
sure as spring, then deepens in summer to the fall autumn brings". <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cMNwYBUbXF4">Youtube with lyrics</a>.</li><li><b style="color: #990000;">Not Online Resource </b><span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;">Flow'ring in the summer / Faithful Seasons </span>(Helen Wiltshire) Australian imagery for all the seasons, and how it's worth celebrating them! If you have a copy of this, it's worth digging out. Unfortunately, it's not available online anymore. <br /></li><li><span style="color: #990000; font-weight: bold;">CH141 / A&M548 / SP250 / URW077 / StF114 </span><span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;"> Oh the life of the world is a joy and a treasure </span>
(Kathy Galloway) Good inclusive words about God's presence in "the life of
the world" (nature, seasons, childbirth, justice). The tune is a simple
Celtic-style melody. <a href="http://thoughtsthattransform.blogspot.com/2007/12/oh-life-of-world.html">Lyrics</a>. <a href="https://music.churchofscotland.org.uk/hymn/141-oh-the-life-of-the-world-is-a-joy-and-a-treasure">Tune sample</a>.</li><li><span style="color: #990000; font-weight: bold;"> STB026 </span><span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;"> Seasons Come Seasons Go / Ella kaladollu </span>
(Bhajan) I think this song from India would not be too hard to learn,
but it will need to be taught because the melody (THANDHEYU) will not be
familiar. The words are really quite lovely, including the English
translation. <a href="https://hymnary.org/text/thandhey_nii_ne_thayiyu_niine" target="_blank">Sheet music sample</a>. </li><li><b style="color: #990000;">VU632 / StS100 / WoV695 / ELW447 / SFFS 2076 / StF617</b><span style="color: #990000;"><b> / LUYH794 </b></span><span style="color: #990000;"><b> </b></span><span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;"><span style="color: #990000;"> </span>O blessed Spring where word and sign </span>
(Susan Palo Cherwien) Imagery of Christ the vine and the changes that the seasons
bring, this song speaks of all four seasons. Hymnals vary in the tune
selected. I like it best to O WALY WALY. <a href="http://southwood.typepad.com/southwoodlutheran/2010/04/o-blessed-spring.html">Lyrics</a>.</li></ul><span style="color: #274e13;"><i><b>Does your congregation have a favourite seasonal song? Add a comment below! </b></i></span>
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<b><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://lectionary.library.vanderbilt.edu/texts.php?id=129#hebrew_reading">Isaiah 52:13-53:12</a></span></b> <br />
<span style="font-style: italic;">The despised suffering one; </span><br />
<span style="color: #38761d;"><b><span style="font-style: italic;">You may like to repeat an Agnus Dei (Lamb of God) from <a href="http://lectionarysong.blogspot.com.au/2015/03/songs-hymns-and-music-for-maundy.html">Maundy Thursday</a>.</span></b></span><br />
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<li><b><span style="color: #990000;">Online Resource / TiS 356 / CH385 / Cha203 / StF273</span></b> <span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;">Here hangs a man discarded </span>(Brian Wren) Excellent words, particularly for this reading “Can such a
clown of sorrows still bring a useful word where faith and love seem
phantoms and every hope absurd?”. Also works very well with TiS 339
(Passion Chorale) if your congregation is scared of new tunes. <a href="http://www.hopepublishing.com/html/main.isx?sitesec=40.2.1.0&hymnID=2598">Lyrics and sheet music</a>. <span style="color: orange;">New words to old tunes</span>.</li>
<li><b style="color: #990000;">Online Resource / TiS 345 / AHB 261 / AoV1-103 / NCH229 / UMH288 / VU144 / LBW81 / ELW353 /
GA336 / A&M144 / HPP185 / GtG228 / PH102 / G(II)302 / GC416 /
GC(II)438 / G(3)511 / CP192 / CP(E) 126 / W&R283 / Cha198 /
82Hml-172 / Lau225 / StF285 / MP745 </b><span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;">Were you there when they crucified my Lord? </span>(African-American traditional) A classic - well known, beautiful to sing and listen to. <a href="https://hymnary.org/text/were_you_there_when_they_crucified_my_lo">Lyrics and sheet music</a>. And a youtube of <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PeJkbSi0vMA">Johnny Cash</a>. <span style="color: orange;">Oldy-but-a-goody</span>.</li>
<li><b style="color: #990000;">Iona (TCTSN) / CH389</b> <span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;"> Behold the holy Lamb of God! </span>
(Malawi hymn) This will take some practice, I think. A song with a
Cantor and response; you will need a small group to lead the
congregation in the response. MWANA MWERERE. <a href="http://www.hymnary.org/hymn/CH4/389">Lyrics</a>.</li>
<li><b style="color: #990000;">Online Resource / </b><b style="color: #990000;">Tune In</b> <span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;">A grain of wheat</span>
(Sheree Anderson) Unless a grain of wheat falls to the ground and dies,
it won't form roots and grow. A boppy song with deeply meaningful
lyrics. <a href="http://brunswick.unitingchurch.org.au/worship/the-arts-in-worship/tune-in/">Free downloadable songbook and sound samples</a>. </li>
<li><b style="color: #990000;">Online Resource / </b><b style="color: #990000;">Tune In</b> <span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;"></span><span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;">In the shape of a cross</span> (Dave Brown) A cry to God for help and a call for God to enter our world. <a href="http://brunswick.unitingchurch.org.au/worship/the-arts-in-worship/tune-in/">Free downloadable songbook and sound samples</a>. </li>
<li><b style="color: #990000;">Online Resource / </b><b style="color: #990000;">Tune In</b> <span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;"></span><span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;">See our God with the tear-streaked face / Our God who weeps</span> (Kate Scull) Very simple folk tune and challenging and hopeful lyrics. <a href="http://brunswick.unitingchurch.org.au/worship/the-arts-in-worship/tune-in/">Free downloadable songbook and sound samples</a>. </li>
<li><b style="color: #990000;">Online Resource / Worldmaking.net</b> <span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;">O Christ, Lamb of God </span> (Richard Bruxvoort-Colligan) A more modern Agnus Dei, with Christ sharing our weakness. <a href="https://psalmimmersion.bandcamp.com/track/o-christ-lamb-of-god-an-agnus-dei">Lyrics and sound sample</a>.</li><li><b style="color: #990000;">Online Resource / Full of the Spirit</b><span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;"> When I carry the cross </span>
(Heather Price) A very singable song about how we are strengthened and strengthen each other through carrying each others crosses together. <a href="https://heatherprice.com.au/downloads/full-of-the-spirit-album/" target="_blank">Sound sample and music for purchase</a>. </li><li><b><span style="color: #990000;">ACS927</span></b> <span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;">Christ is the life of all that is </span>(Susan Palo Cherwien) Excellent words of Christ as creation's birth, life and death. A lovely new tune by Kenneth Naylor too. Can also be sung to KINGSFOLD if your congregation needs something familiar. <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EfwEfHgkFM8" target="_blank">Sound sample</a>. </li>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><a href="https://lectionary.library.vanderbilt.edu/texts.php?id=129#psalm_reading">Psalm 22</a> </b></span><br />
<span style="font-style: italic;">Crying out to God. A Psalm of suffering.</span><br />
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<li><b style="color: #990000;">Emergent Psalter</b><b style="color: #990000;"> </b><span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;">My god, my god </span>(Isaac Everett) A simple refrain, and well-written spoken words for the Psalm itself. <a href="https://www.churchpublishing.org/emergentpsalter">Piano music for refrain</a>.</li>
<li><b style="color: #990000;">CH537 / AA147 / A&M572 / SP256 / StF717</b> <span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;"> We do not hope to ease our minds </span>
(Marnie Barrell) Excellent words of standing with the crucified Christ against
injustice. A number of different tunes are offered. I do not have a
copy of Alleluia Aotearoa which has two possible tunes. MARY MORISON is
the tune in Church Hymnary 4, and it is very straightforward. <a href="https://www.seatonroad.org.uk/may2014.pdf">Lyrics</a> (downloads a pdf)</li>
<li><span style="color: #990000; font-weight: bold;">STB274 </span><span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;"> My God my God why why have you forsaken me? / Tuhanku Tuhanku, mengapa Kautingalkan aku </span>
(Fridolin Ukur / Francisco Feliciano) This can be sung either as a unison
refrain, a tricky 4 part harmony chorale, or an even trickier chant with
a solost (or reader). The words said by the reader, or sung by the
cantor are quite challenging, and coming more from the perspective of
poorer nations. This would be pretty amazing to do, and as there are
many options, it's quite achievable. The refrain can be sung in English,
Bahasa Indonesian, Pilipino, Mandarin or Thamilz.</li>
<li><span style="color: #990000; font-weight: bold;">STB189 </span><span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;"> Why have you forsaken me? </span> (Bill Wallace) Quite formal and sorrowful words of Christ's sorrows, including his crucifixion and the death of Lazarus. Helpful. Set to a lovely Japanese melody - will need to be taught. <a href="http://www.methodist.org.nz/files/docs/music/10a.pdf">Sheet music</a>. </li>
<li><b style="color: #990000;">NCH192 / VU146 / SFFS 2106 / HPP183 / GtG194 / PH312 / Cha199 / 82Hml-715</b><span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;"> When Jesus wept </span>
(William Billings) I like this simple round. Partly because it's by a Sacred
Harp composer - William Billings! It's also very restful and beautiful. <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hOVSfYFhNZw&feature=related">I quite like this video sound sample.</a> This might be a good song for the musicians to sing during the offering, or in a prayer of confession.</li>
<li><b style="color: #990000;">Tune In / Online Resource / ATAR663 </b><span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;">Save us in the time of trial </span>(Shawn Whelan) Reflective chant-like chorus and verses. <a href="http://brunswick.unitingchurch.org.au/worship/the-arts-in-worship/tune-in/">Free downloadable songbook and sound samples</a>. </li>
<li><b><span style="color: #990000;">VU745 / PfAS022F</span> </b> <span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;"> In the presence of your people </span> (Brent Chambers) This is a very well known song in our congregation, but usually sung as a
very upbeat, slightly crazy celebration song, but I like the way these books suggest using just the lines "In the presence of your people I will praise your name" as a refrain for a responsively read version of this quite sad, but still hopeful Psalm (for verses 19-31 only, with the refrain sung after vs 22, 24, 28, and 31).
I think this could work extremely well. <a href="https://hymnary.org/text/in_the_presence_of_your_people">Sound sample</a>. </li>
<li><b><span style="color: #990000;">MV073 / LBW320 / ELW703 / GC(II)570 / G(3)668</span> </b> <span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;"> O God Why Are You Silent? </span> (Marty Haugen) Excellent seeking words expressing grief and fear and the absence of God. Sung to the familiar PASSION CHORALE. <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7SQFPxpBI5E">Youtube</a>. <a href="https://miahimnareto.wordpress.com/2008/07/01/o-god-why-are-you-silent/">Lyrics, sample sheet music</a>.<span style="color: orange;">New words to old tunes</span>.</li>
<li><b style="color: #990000;">GtG210 / PH168 / PfAS022B</b> <span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;">Lord Why Have You Forsaken Me</span> (Christopher Webber) Simple and honest lyrics. A paraphrase of the psalm to one of my favourite shape note tunes (DISTRESS). <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IEWlpL7cwpg" target="_blank">Sound sample</a>.<b style="color: #990000;"><br /></b></li>
<li><b style="color: #990000;">VU744 / G(II)28 / GC29 / GC(II)22 / G(3)033</b> <span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;">My God My God O why have you abandoned me?</span> (Marty Haugen) Simple chant and good cantor lines. <a href="http://c1824532.cdn.cloudfiles.rackspacecloud.com/g_2664_ps22.jpg">Chant lead sheet</a>.</li>
<li><b style="color: #990000;">Online resource</b> <span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;">Why my God?</span> (Bruce Harding) A lovely haunting round with an optional descant part. <a href="https://evensong.ca/lyrics-search-results/?search-query=why" target="_blank">Free sheet music</a>. <br /></li>
<li><span style="color: #990000; font-weight: bold;"> Iona (Common Ground) / VU704 / CP297 / StF612 </span><span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;"> God give us life </span>
(John Bell) Good words, to a fairly straightforward, but unfamiliar
tune. This song is often suggested for funerals, but I think the reflection on the power of life over death is valuable for Good Friday also.
<a href="https://hymnary.org/text/god_give_us_life_when_all_around">Sheet music sample</a>. </li>
</ul>
</div>
<span style="font-size: large;"><b><a href="https://lectionary.library.vanderbilt.edu/texts.php?id=129#epistle_reading">Hebrews 10:16-25</a><i> or <a href="https://lectionary.library.vanderbilt.edu/texts.php?id=129#epistle_oth_reading">Hebrews 4:14-16; 5:7-9</a></i></b></span><br />
<span style="font-style: italic;">God’s new covenant, our new confidence, Christ as high priest.</span><br />
<ul style="text-align: left;">
<li><b style="color: #990000;">Online Resource / Worldmaking.net</b> <span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;">O Christ, Lamb of God </span>(Richard Bruxvoort-Colligan) A more modern Agnus Dei, with Christ sharing our weakness. <a href="https://psalmimmersion.bandcamp.com/track/o-christ-lamb-of-god-an-agnus-dei">Lyrics and sound sample</a>.</li>
<li><b style="color: #990000;">TiS 259 / Iona (Love From Below) </b> <span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;"><b> </b>Among us and before us Lord you stand </span> (John Bell). Good words. The set tune (GATEHOUSE) will need to be taught. It can also be sung to SURSUM CORDA. <a href="http://www.knoxchurch.co.nz/data/oos/201803290000_TENEBRAE%20-%20A%20service%20for%20Maundy%20Thursday%202018.pdf">Lyrics (downloads an order of service)</a>. <span style="color: orange;">New words to old tunes</span>.</li>
<li><b style="color: #990000;">TIS 624 / W&R453 / StF492</b> <span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;">Christ be my leader by night as by day </span>(Timothy Dudley Smith) Excellent words of following Christ in times of struggle to a traditional Scottish melody. <a href="http://www.traditionalmusic.co.uk/hymn-lyrics/christ_be_my_leader_by_night_as_by_day.htm">Lyrics</a> <span style="color: orange;">New words to old tunes</span>.</li>
<li><b style="color: #990000;">TiS 542 / STB082</b> <span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;"> Far beyond our mind's grasp </span>
(Francisco Feliciano) These beautiful devotional words are sung to a traditional
Filipino tune. The tune is not easy, but is very haunting once you get
to know it. If it is new to your congregation, it would be good to ask a
soloist to sing it. STB has it in Pilipino as well as English. <a href="https://books.google.com.au/books?id=emHjyVRa7AgC&pg=PA24&lpg=PA24&dq=%22Far+beyond+our+mind%27s+grasp+and+our+tongue%27s+declaring%22&source=bl&ots=pag8DGoG9n&sig=zlUM1Kwk4dAxaqmni_5v-kt1Bos&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjwgJbM5rXLAhVI02MKHYI5CFQQ6AEIHTAA#v=onepage&q=%22Far%20beyond%20our%20mind%27s%20grasp%20and%20our%20tongue%27s%20declaring%22&f=false">Lyrics</a>.</li>
<li><b style="color: #990000;">TiS 529 / AHB 598 </b><span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;">By your priestly power O risen Lord</span>
(James McAuley) Formal and beautiful words. This would work well if
some of the bread from Thursday remains on the communion table. The
responsive chant could also be used on its own “By your priestly power O
risen Lord, All we lost and needed is restored. God in our communion be
adored. <a href="https://www.sixmaddens.org/?p=6587">Sound sample</a>.</li>
<li><span style="color: #990000; font-weight: bold;">GtG217 </span><span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;"> On a barren hilltop / Come Boldly </span>
(Christopher Webber) A song about atonement and victory over
evil, to a familiar tune (KINGS'S WESTON). Maybe best sung by a soloist. <a href="https://coslutheran.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/Good-Friday-2022-with-Graphics.pdf" target="_blank">Lyrics</a> (downloads a PDF).
<span style="color: orange;">New words to old tunes</span>.</li>
</ul>
<span style="font-size: large;"><b><a href="https://lectionary.library.vanderbilt.edu/texts.php?id=129#gospel_reading">John 18:1-19:42</a></b></span><br />
<span style="font-style: italic;">The long story of Jesus’ arrest, betrayal and crucifixion</span><br />
<ul style="text-align: left;">
<li><b style="color: #990000;">BUC Songs </b><span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;">His life for coin / Christ our Lord</span> (David Stephens) This is a simple song written for Good Friday about 10
years ago at BUC, and we've been singing it again through Lent this year. </li><li><b><span style="color: #990000;">BUC Resource</span></b><span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;"> We are humbled by your grace </span>
(David Stephens, Ian Ferguson, Saide Cameron) Some years ago, this song
was written for Maundy Thursday, Good Friday and Easter Sunday. It is
in our folders. </li><li><span style="color: #990000; font-weight: bold;">Online Resource / Resounding Voices </span><span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;">Cloaked in the dark </span>(Jacque
Jones / Bernadette Hoke) Words that take us on the journey from Jesus'
ride into Jerusalem, through Judas' betrayal and Peter's denial, to the
crucifixion. Set to a mournful and beautiful tune. This could be used
for a single service, or throughout Holy Week. <a href="https://www.giamusic.com/store/resource/cloaked-in-the-dark-pdf-du01114" target="_blank">Sheet music sample and purchasing options</a>. <a href="https://thehymnsociety.org/resources/resounding-voices/" target="_blank">Free book download here</a>. <span style="color: orange;">New words to old tunes</span>. <br /></li><li><span bold="" font-weight:=""><span style="color: #990000;"><b>Online Resource</b></span> </span><span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;">As evening fragrance fills the air </span>
(Mary Louise Bringle) Beautiful words reflecting on the women who bore
witness to Jesus' anointing and death. Particularly apt for an evening
service. <a href="https://giamusic.com/resource/as-evening-fragrance-fills-the-air-pdf-d588404" target="_blank">Sheet music sample, lyrics and purchasing options</a>.</li><li><b style="color: #990000;">Songs from the still strange land</b> <span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;">Empty empty I come empty to the bleeding Lord</span> (Andrew Dutney) Thanks to Paul Walton for finding this simple and beautiful
chant.</li>
<li><b style="color: #990000;">Iona
(Common Ground, M&G, T1AU) / CH805 / MV151 / StJ / A&M412 /
ELW741 / G(II)416 / GC592 / SP210 / URW440 / StF760</b> <span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;"> Your will be done on earth, O Lord / </span><span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;">Mayenziwe 'ntando yakho</span>
(South African - Xhosa) This is a really good South African song,
simple to sing, beautiful harmonies and would work well for reflection, sung slowly. Maybe it could even be sung in a minor
key? <a href="https://hymnary.org/text/your_will_be_done_on_earth_o_lord" target="_blank">Sound sample, lyrics</a><a href="https://hymnary.org/text/your_will_be_done_on_earth_o_lord" target="_blank">, and sheet music sample.</a> <span style="color: magenta;">Good for kids</span>.</li>
<li><b style="color: #990000;">Online Resource <span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;">O Jesus who travelled </span></b>
(Hannah Brown / Sally Ann Morris) Following Jesus on the journey to the
cross. If you choose to use this, I recommend using it also on Maundy Thursday (but it would also work if sung only at the Good Friday service. The tune is excellent and immediately
singable. Beautiful. <a href="https://www.giamusic.com/store/resource/o-jesus-who-traveled-pdf-du01509" target="_blank">Lyrics, sheet music and sound sample, and purchasing options</a>. <br /></li><li><span style="color: #990000; font-weight: bold;">Online Resource / Recorded Music </span><span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;">Every single stone's a broken stone </span> (Leigh Newton) A very moving song about Peter's denial; written in 2021! <a href="https://leighnewton.com.au/every-single-stone-2/">Sheet music, lyrics & sound sample.</a> <a href="https://leighnewton.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/Every-single-stone.pdf" target="_blank">Sheet music</a>. </li>
<li><b style="color: #990000;">FFS08</b> <span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;">Broken the body</span> (Shirley Murray). Good words of a broken body of Christ and a broken Church seeking healing, unity and courage. <a href="https://www.hopepublishing.com/find-hymns-hw/hw2929.aspx">Lyrics & sheet music</a>.</li>
<li><b style="color: #990000;">TiS 340 / AHB 256</b> <span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;">Before the cock crew twice </span>(Hallgrim Pjetursson) This storytelling song uses words from the 17th century. The tune is a little tricky, but it could work very well if sung by a soloist (even unaccompanied if you have a brave soloist!). <a href="http://ehymnbook.org/CMMS/hymnSong.php?id=pd08607" target="_blank">Lyrics</a>.<br /></li>
<li><b style="color: #990000;">FFS70 </b> <span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;"><b> </b>What have we done to you? </span> (Shirley Murray) Tricky tune. Would be good to have musicians present this the first time. <a href="https://www.hopepublishing.com/find-hymns-hw/hw374.aspx">Lyrics</a>.</li>
<li><b style="color: #990000;">ATA 135 / VU132</b> <span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;"> Bitter was the night </span> (Sydney Carter) Lyrics based on Peter's denial of Christ. <a href="http://www.hopepublishing.com/html/main.isx?sitesec=40.2.1.0&hymnID=4706">Lyrics and sheet music</a></li><li><b style="color: #990000;">Online Resource</b> <span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;">Watch and pray with me a while </span> (Helen Wright) A lovely simple song, particularly appropriate for Maundy Thursday and Good Friday. <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WHlvkGh9-cU&feature=youtu.be">Youtube</a> and link to <a href="https://www.pastemagazine.com/noisetrade/music/heartcries/watch-and-pray">downloads</a>.</li>
<li><b style="color: #990000;">Online resource<span style="font-weight: bold;"> </span></b><span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;">I will drink the cup</span> (Bruce Harding) A simple 4 part chant; best if you have all 4 parts - the tenor part rocks. <a href="https://evensong.ca/lyrics-search-results/?search-query=I+will+drink+the+cup">Free sheet music</a>.</li>
<li><b style="color: #990000;">Online Resource</b> <b style="color: #990000;"><span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;">Jesus went out to a garden </span></b>(Carolyn Winfrey-Gillette)
Set to a standard hymn tune, this story-telling song asks good
questions about the violence of the crucifixion and the God of peace. <a href="http://carolynshymns.com/jesus_went_out_to_a_garden.html">Available here.</a></li>
<li><b style="color: #990000;">Taizé / TiS
730 / AoV1-152 / ATOK 387 / CH775 / UMH488 / WoV740 / ELW616 / GA308 /
A&M838 / HPP214 / GtG227 / PH599 / G(II)293 / GC404 / GC(II)422 /
G(3)510 /
W&R285 /
Cha569 / Srce387 / URW382 / Lau253 / StF777</b><span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;"> Jesus remember me </span>(Jacques Berthier) A beautiful chant, but we have not sung it often. <a href="http://www.taize.fr/spip.php?page=chant&song=356&lang=en">Sheet music and sound samples</a>.</li><li><b style="color: #990000;">Online Resource / Full of the Spirit</b><span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;"> When I carry the cross </span>
(Heather Price) A very singable song about how we are strengthened and
strengthen each other through carrying each others crosses together. <a href="https://heatherprice.com.au/downloads/full-of-the-spirit-album/" target="_blank">Sound sample and music for purchase</a>. </li><li><b style="color: #990000;">Taizé / GA331 / GC421 / Lau233 </b><span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;">All You Who Pass this Way </span>(Jacques Berthier) Simple chant and cantored verses. <a href="http://c1824532.cdn.cloudfiles.rackspacecloud.com/RS_567.midi">Sound sample</a>, <a href="http://c1824532.cdn.cloudfiles.rackspacecloud.com/GC_421-1.jpg">lyrics and sample sheet music</a>.</li><li><b style="color: #990000;">AoV2-048</b> <span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;">See His Hands </span>(Sandra Sears) Excellent. Simple. Crucifixion focus, but not morbid. <a href="https://www.asonevoice.com.au/digital-dowloads/single-song-downloads-1/WPD219">Sound sample</a>. <br /></li>
<li><b style="color: #990000;">Iona (Enemy of Apathy) / GA511</b> <span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;"> I walked through the lonely streets </span> (John Bell) Contemporary reproaches. Very challenging words.</li>
<li><b style="color: #990000;">FFS79 </b> <span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;"><b> </b>Who will carry the cross for me? </span> (Bill Bennett) Simple tune, and good questioning words about who will walk the hard road with Christ</li>
<li><b style="color: #990000;">ATA 171</b> <span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;"> Dying you destroyed our death </span> (Rod Boucher) Simple chant for Good Friday.</li>
<li><b style="color: #990000;">Iona / VU153 / GA510 </b> <span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;"><b> </b>When the son of God was dying </span>
(John Bell) This song has lots of words, which I don't generally like during
a more reflective service, but maybe you like that, and these words are
quite good, and imagine well the scene of the crucifixion. Tune is pretty straightforward. <a href="https://hymnary.org/text/when_the_son_of_god_was_dying_long" target="_blank">Sheet music sample</a>.</li><li><b style="color: #990000;">Online Resource / Recorded Music</b> <span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;">Cannot buy my soul </span>(Kev
Carmody) Not a congregational song, but a reflection on the sufferings
of Aboriginal people in Australia - the final verse draws parallels with
Jesus riding in on the donkey, and his death with integrity. Could be
useful for reflection. Thanks to Claire Foley for suggesting this. <a href="https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=852415348865694" target="_blank">Video</a>. <a href="https://genius.com/Kev-carmody-cannot-buy-my-soul-lyrics" target="_blank">Lyrics and sound sample</a>. <br /></li>
<li><b style="color: #990000;">Recorded Music / AoVNG108</b> <span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;"> See Him </span> (Keith Duke) Quiet reflective and challenging chant, would work well for a soloist. Also available in the book "Sacred Dance" <a href="http://www.asonevoice.com.au/explore-songs/see-him?A=SearchResult&SearchID=19578283&ObjectID=1174979&ObjectType=35">Sound sample</a>. <a href="http://www.sixmaddens.org/?p=612">Lyrics</a>. Also <a href="https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/sacred-dance/id544573074">available to purchase from iTunes</a> if you would like to play a recording. </li>
<li><b style="color: #990000;">Online Resource / NCH192 / VU146 / SFFS 2106 / HPP183 / GtG194 / PH312 / Cha199 / 82Hml-715</b><span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;"><b> </b>When Jesus wept </span>
(William Billings) I like this simple round. Partly because it's by a Sacred
Harp composer - William Billings! It's also very restful and beautiful. This might be a good song for the musicians to sing during the
offering, or in a prayer of confession. <a href="https://www.cpdl.org/wiki/index.php/When_Jesus_wept_(William_Billings)" target="_blank">Sheet music and sound samples</a>. <br /></li><li><b style="color: #990000;">VU610 / StJ / GC(II)572 / G(3)669</b> <span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;"> God remembers pain </span> (Brian Wren) Pretty full on in the first verse, but these words seem somehow
helpful if your congregation has been vulnerable this year. <a href="http://c1824532.cdn.cloudfiles.rackspacecloud.com/GC2_572-1.jpg">Lyrics and sheet music</a>. <a href="http://c1824532.cdn.cloudfiles.rackspacecloud.com/GC2_572-1.mp3">Slightly odd sound sample</a>.</li>
<li><b style="color: #990000;">Online Resource / WoV663 / ELW566 / GtG195 / PH547 / STB161</b> <span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;"> When Twilight Comes / Awit Sa Dapit Hapon </span>
(Moises Andrade) Beautiful words for Good Friday, and for evening. Uses the
theme of the hen gathering her chicks. Unusual Asian tune, which is not
too hard for Western ears. <a href="https://www.giamusic.com/store/resource/when-twilight-comes-print-g8933">Sheet music sample, sound sample, and purchasing options</a>.<br /></li>
<li><b style="color: #990000;">TiS 341 / AHB 257 / NCH222 / CH399 / VU143 / A&M147 / WoV661 / LBW094 /
ELW782 / SFFS 2083 / HPP329 / GtG209 / PH076 / CP184 / CP(E) 112 /
Srce2-426 / 82Hml-458 / Lau752 / StF277 / MP478 </b> <span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;"> My song is love unknown </span>
(Samuel Crossman) I really love this old and beautiful song. I prefer it sung
to LOVE UNKNOWN. <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/My_Song_Is_Love_Unknown">Lyrics</a>. <span style="color: orange;">Oldy but a goody</span>.</li>
<li><span style="color: #990000; font-weight: bold;">UMH257 / VU183 / PH311 / W&R616 / Cha183 </span><span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;"> We Meet You O Christ </span> (Fred Kaan) I like the tune LIFE for this one, which provides a great message of Christ's crucifixion for justice in the world. <a href="https://www.hopepublishing.com/find-hymns-hw/hw3476.aspx" target="_blank">Lyrics</a>.<br /></li>
<li><span style="color: #990000; font-weight: bold;">FFS21 </span><span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;"> Forgive us O God </span> (Colin Gibson) Touching lyrics of the ways we have crucified Christ again, and the hope we have in Easter.</li></ul></div>
<span style="font-size: 130%;"><b>Adoration of the Cross</b></span><br />
<span style="font-style: italic;">If this is a tradition in your congregation, here are some songs that could work well.</span><br />
<ul style="text-align: left;">
<li><b style="color: #990000;"><span style="color: #990000; font-weight: bold;">Online Resource </span><span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;">You hold it all </span> </b>(The Porter's Gate) This very new song seems quite suitable for this part of the service, or perhaps during the offering (if you take an offering on Good Friday). Either way, it seems like a good song for Good Friday. Not really a congregational song, but good for a time of reflection, and it seems like it would be simple enough for your musicians to learn. <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gmjw5279DwY&list=OLAK5uy_lW4mpRIBMD2FIMEk_VgUMWujF7pgK56QA" target="_blank">Youtube</a>.<b style="color: #990000;"><br /></b></li><li><b style="color: #990000;">Songs from the still strange land</b><span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;"> Empty empty I come empty to the bleeding Lord</span> (Andrew Dutney) Thanks to Paul Walton for finding this simple and beautiful
chant.</li>
<li><b style="color: #990000;">CH750 / Lau667 </b> <span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;"> Adoramus te Domine Deus</span> (Margaret Rizza) A fairly simple chant which would be good for an entire congregation to sing. <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rmcceS84EGA" target="_blank">Sound sample (Youtube)</a>. </li>
<li><b style="color: #990000;">GA305 / GC396 / GC(II)400 / RS542 / CP338</b> <span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;"> Adoramus Te Christe </span>
(Marty Haugen) It's really nice. Might be good to some musicians singing this
quietly on Good Friday. The Refrain is a canon which could work on its
own. <a href="http://c1824532.cdn.cloudfiles.rackspacecloud.com/GC_396-1.jpg">Lyrics and sheet music sample.</a> <a href="http://c1824532.cdn.cloudfiles.rackspacecloud.com/GC_396.mp3">Sound sample </a>(maybe a little energetic for my liking).</li>
<li><b style="color: #990000;"><span style="color: #990000; font-weight: bold;">Unusual Source </span><span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;">Your faithfulness </span> </b>(Monique Lisbon and Sandy Jones) From the out-of-print book "Scars of Grace", this reflective song would be best sung by a soloist, with simple accompaniment, and probably some instrumental music, if you'd rather not have a congregational chant. BUC people, there is a copy of this in our Liturgy Library. </li>
<li><b style="color: #990000;">Taizé / URW389 / Lau757 </b> <span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;"> O Christe domine Jesu </span>
(Jacques Berthier) The very simplest, and best known song for this purpose.
Very simple, haunting chant. Cantor verses over the top add more beauty,
but are not neccessary. <a href="http://www.taize.fr/spip.php?page=chant&song=488&lang=en">Sheet music and lyrics</a>.</li>
<li><b><span style="color: #990000;">GA329</span> </b> <span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;"> O my people what have I done? </span>
(Damian Lundy) This song is pretty incredible. The tune is very
straightforward, but I'm not sure how you would use it. It's really
about the veneration of the cross and Christ's suffering. Not a very
popular theme, but important and I think this would work well if you
choose to focus on that. <a href="http://www.ocp.org/compositions/9080#tab:indexes">Sound sample</a>.</li>
<li><span style="color: #990000;"><b>Recorded Music</b></span> <span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;">Scars</span>
(Malcolm Gordon) I find this song quite challenging. I struggle with
the idea of glorifying suffering, but this recognition of the beauty of
Christ's scars will be helpful to many. <a href="http://malcolmgordon.bandcamp.com/track/scars">Sound sample and purchase options</a>. </li>
<li>
<span style="color: #990000; font-weight: bold;"> CH390 </span><span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;"> Open are the gifts of God </span> (William Vanstone) Older style lyrics, that say a lot about the gift of a love that gives and gives and gives and gives. Sung to a traditional older tune (SONG 13). <a href="https://music.churchofscotland.org.uk/hymn/390-open-are-the-gifts-of-god" target="_blank">Sound samples</a>. <br /></li>
<li><span style="color: #990000; font-weight: bold;">CH386 </span><span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;"> Lifted high on your cross </span> (Ian Cowie) The tune seems a little too jolly for these words, which move beyond the sorry of Good Friday and point to healing and recreation. The tune may be known by your congregation (PULLING BRACKEN). I guess you would just play it slowly. <a href="https://music.churchofscotland.org.uk/hymn/386-lifted-high-on-your-cross" target="_blank">Sound sample</a>. <br /></li>
<li><span style="color: #990000;"><b>Recorded music</b></span> <span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;">A Love Supreme</span>
(John Coltrane) Since I first heard it, I have thought that it would be
awesome to play this suite while people reflect on the cross. Or, since
it's 30 minutes long, just Part 1 (Acknowledgement) which is almost 8
minutes long, and includes Coltrane chanting the words "A love supreme".
You need a congregation that likes this type of music, or at least, is
willing to listen to it thoughtfully. <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hsxZuPXNGnU">Youtube with the entire suite</a>. And just as I was thinking "Man, that seems like something that St. John the Divine in NYC would do" I found <a href="http://listen.justinhaaheim.com/track/a-love-supreme-i-acknowledgement">this</a>... sigh... Just <a href="http://listen.justinhaaheim.com/album/good-friday-blues-and-lamentations-live-at-st-john-the-divine-41009">look at the service</a>!</li>
<li><span style="color: #990000; font-weight: bold;">GtG217 </span><span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;"> On a barren hilltop / Come Boldly </span> (Christopher Webber) A song about atonement and victory over evil, to a familiar tune (KINGS'S WESTON). Maybe best sung by a soloist in this context. <a href="https://coslutheran.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/Good-Friday-2022-with-Graphics.pdf" target="_blank">Lyrics</a> (downloads a PDF). <span style="color: orange;">New words to old tunes</span>.</li>
<li><span style="color: #990000; font-weight: bold;">ATOK 335 </span><span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;"> You rode into Jerus'lem </span> (Newton) Excellent words - not so much a congregational song, but a story-telling song that could be used as a reflection on Good Friday or Passion Sunday. I love how it puts us in the crowd watching and participating emotionally in the events of Holy Week. <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yfwUzF9Xq0M&fbclid=IwAR1FH2jS8I7rMC4saeiOEXFQRkvBmcVVZDlr3m9yvezlZlTZFZ1quXTtwHQ">Sound sample</a>. </li>
<li><span style="color: #990000; font-weight: bold;"> StF282 </span><span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;"> Stay here where nails are driven </span> (Alan Gaunt) Good Friday Strong sorrowful words of the crucifixion, sung to the familiar tune SHRUB END. <a href="https://www.methodist.org.uk/our-faith/worship/singing-the-faith-plus/hymns/stay-here-where-nails-are-driven-stf-282/" target="_blank">Sound sample (tune only)</a>. <span style="color: orange;">New words to old tunes</span>.</li>
<li><span style="color: #990000; font-weight: bold;"> Online Resource / VU359 / AA059 / W&R454 / STB205 </span><span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;"> He came singing love </span> (Colin Gibson) Excellent imagery of the silence of Good Friday, and the call for us to follow - it includes resurrection, so if you are really keeping focussed on Good Friday, you may wish to save this for Easter Sunday. I really like this song. Thanks to Craig Miller for suggesting I include it! <a href="https://www.hopepublishing.com/find-hymns-hw/hw3830.aspx" target="_blank">Sheet music and lyrics</a>. <br /></li>
</ul>
<i><span style="color: #274e13;"><b>What will you be singing? Please add a comment below. </b></span></i>Lectionary Singer (Natalie Sims)http://www.blogger.com/profile/15635861565689089555noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3953574041544310550.post-559455560182328102024-03-03T03:47:00.000-08:002024-03-18T04:14:10.709-07:00Songs, Hymns & Music for Palm Sunday (24 March 2024)<script async="" src="https://www.googletagmanager.com/gtag/js?id=G-E0N4VFC2F8"></script>
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<b><span style="font-size: 130%; font-style: italic;">You might also like to sing songs on the theme of <a href="http://lectionarysong.blogspot.com.au/2016/09/songs-for-international-day-of-peace.html" style="font-style: italic;">Peace (some songs listed here)</a>.</span></b><br />
<br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><b><a href="https://lectionary.library.vanderbilt.edu/texts.php?id=76#psalm_reading" target="_blank">Psalm 118:1-2, 19-29</a></b></span><br />
<span style="font-style: italic;">Any <a href="http://lectionarysong.blogspot.com.au/2014/04/sanctus-holy-holy-communion-settings.html">Holy, holy, holy</a> will work well (<a href="http://lectionarysong.blogspot.com/2014/04/sanctus-holy-holy-communion-settings.html">Here's a list</a>). </span><br />
<ul style="text-align: left;">
<li><b style="color: #990000;">MV008</b> <span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;">And on this path </span>(Linnea Good) An energetic gospel style song. Here's a <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oTuuIAQHjwI">Youtube video</a>.
We sing it much slower than this and as a gospel style song with big
chords and a groovy bass part. I thought I'd never say that we sing
something slower than anyone! <span style="color: magenta;">Good for kids</span>.</li>
<li><b style="color: #990000;">TiS 74 / GA070 </b><span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;">This is the day the Lord has made </span>(Christopher Willcock) Unusual timing in this refrain, but once you've nailed it, it will be
stuck in your head for the rest of the week, which is what I like about Psalm refrains. I don't like the cantor part so much, but you could use the refrain with a read Psalm instead. <a href="https://music.apple.com/us/song/psalm-118-this-is-the-day/1241740467" target="_blank">Sound sample</a>. <br /></li>
<li><span style="color: #990000; font-weight: bold;">PfAS118D </span><span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;"> This is the day the lord has made </span>
(Joy Patterson) A good 7/8 setting of the Psalm. It will need to be taught, but will be enjoyed. <a href="https://www.hopepublishing.com/find-hymns-hw/hw3172.aspx">Sheet music and lyrics</a>.</li>
<li><b style="color: #990000;">Online Resource / MV122 </b><span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;">This is the day </span> (Bruce Harding) This is a really simple nice jazzy song. <a href="https://evensong.ca/scripture-reference-psalm-11824/">Sound sample and free sheet music</a>. <span style="color: magenta;">Good for kids.</span>.</li>
<li><span style="color: #990000; font-weight: bold;">Recorded Music </span><span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;">Odecha</span>
(Yasmin Levy) This is something quite different, but will fit well with some services, particularly while reflecting on Christ's journey in the
coming week. Yasmin Levy is a Sephardic Ladino singer (yes, Ladino, I had to look it up too). I really love this sorrowful but also hopeful
version of the Psalm; it focuses entirely on vs 21 and 22. <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7xpXaxpl9Y4">Sound (Youtube)</a>. </li>
<li><span style="color: #990000; font-weight: bold;">G(II)102 / GC114 / GC(II)65 / G(3)081 </span><span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;"> This is the day the Lord has made (Let Us Rejoice) </span> (Marty Haugen) Joyful and sort of minstrelly. Verses should be sung by a
cantor. The same tune can be used for Alleluias for this Psalm when it is not Palm Sunday. <a href="http://c1824532.cdn.cloudfiles.rackspacecloud.com/CCH_041.mp3">Sound sample</a>. <a href="http://c1824532.cdn.cloudfiles.rackspacecloud.com/CCH_041-1.jpg">Sample sheet music</a>.</li>
<li><span style="color: #990000; font-weight: bold;">Online Resource / PfAS118G </span><span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;"> This is the day the lord has made </span> (Leon Roberts) A bright and cheerful refrain for the Psalm. <a href="https://www.giamusic.com/store/resource/this-is-the-day-print-g4600">Sound sample and sheet music (choral arrangement)</a>.<br /></li>
<li><b><span style="color: #990000;">Taizé / MV016 / StJ / ELW528 / GA430 / SFFS 2157 / HPP410 / GtG466 / G(II)398 / GC570 / GC(II)550 / G(3)637 / CP402 / URW378 / Lau701 </span></b> <span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;">Come and Fill our hearts/ Confitemini Domino </span>
(Jacques Berthier) Can be sun in English as "Come and fill our hearts with your
peace, you alone O God are holy. Come and fill our hearts with your peace, Alleluia". A good song of recommitment. Obviously if you don't sing
Alleluias during Lent, this is not for you. You could replace the Alleluia with Hosanna if you really want to sing it. <a href="http://www.taize.fr/spip.php?page=chant&song=312&lang=en">Sound samples and sheet music.</a></li>
<li><span style="color: #990000;"><b>NCH387 / GtG361 / PH443 / GC(II)646 / RS782 / CP524 / Lau829</b></span> <span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;"> O Christ the great foundation </span>
(Timothy T'ingfang Lew) Excellent words of salvation and justice from Timothy Tingfang
Lew, sung to the tune of "The church's one foundation" (AURELIA). There is a second possible tune (ABREU), which is more challenging. Note that the
lyrics in the NCH are slightly different, and more inclusive. <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2LlaPhA1ez0&persist_app=1&app=desktop&hl=en&client=mv-google&gl=US">Youtube video</a>. <span style="color: orange;">New words to old tunes</span> </li>
<li><span style="color: #990000; font-weight: bold;">MV187 / ELW682 </span><span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;"> We give our thanks / Re a mo leboga </span> (Botswana) A great song to sing for the offering. <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U1i3v16vUmU" target="_blank">Older style version</a>. <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6jD-7CgSK4I" target="_blank">More upbeat version</a>. <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wQRZcTI1fc8" target="_blank">Amazing video with a newer version</a>. <span style="color: magenta;">Good for kids</span>.</li>
<li><b style="color: #990000;">TiS
48 / AoV1-153 / ATOK 411 / VU808 / WoV779 / ELW787 / GA452 / HPP385 / GtG043 / G(II)433 / GC611 / GC(II)593 / G(3)691 / CP531 / W&R438 / PfAS091E / Cha077 / Lau952</b> <span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;"> You who dwell in the shelter of the Lord / On Eagle's Wings </span>
(Michael Joncas) This is a big favourite all over the place. It has masculine imagery for God. This doesn't have to be sung slowly and meditatively - it also works very well as a more upbeat song. If it is not familiar to you, a cantor can be used for the verses. It is not inclusive. <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/On_Eagle%27s_Wings">Lyrics</a>.</li><li><b><span style="color: #990000;">ACS929</span></b> <span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;">Blessed is the one / Hosanna </span>(Nathan Houge) A fun refrain, with an optional "Hosanna" part on top. <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YwGtA1JmG_0" target="_blank">Sound sample</a>. </li><li><b style="color: #990000;">Online Resource</b> <span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;">Holy holy holy hosanna </span>(Richard Bruxvoort Colligan) A fun and simple joyful song that could be used as a round too. <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XFR5opb0f2k" target="_blank">Youtube</a>. </li>
</ul>
<i><span style="font-size: large;"><b><a href="http://lectionary.library.vanderbilt.edu/texts.php?id=76#gospel_reading">Mark 11:1-11</a> or <a href="http://lectionary.library.vanderbilt.edu/texts.php?id=76#gospel_oth_reading">John 12:12-16</a> </b>(2024)</span> <span style="font-size: small; font-style: italic;">or <a href="http://lectionary.library.vanderbilt.edu/texts.php?id=123#gospel_reading">Luke 19:28-40 </a></span><span style="font-size: small;">(Year C) </span></i><span style="font-size: small;"><a href="http://lectionary.library.vanderbilt.edu/texts.php?id=29#epistle_reading">Matthew 21:1-11 </a></span><span style="font-size: small;"><i><span>(Year A)</span> <br /></i></span><span style="font-size: small;"><i><span style="font-style: italic;">Christ’s entry into Jerusalem</span></i></span><ul style="text-align: left;">
<li><b style="color: #990000;">Online Resource <span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;">O Jesus who travelled </span></b>
(Hannah Brown / Sally Ann Morris) Following Jesus on the journey to the
cross. If you choose to use this, I recommend using it again on Maundy
Thursday and Good Friday. The tune is excellent and immediately
singable. Beautiful, and new for 2023! <a href="https://www.giamusic.com/store/resource/o-jesus-who-traveled-pdf-du01509" target="_blank">Lyrics, sheet music and sound sample, and purchasing options</a>. </li><li><span style="color: #990000;"><b>Online resource</b></span> <span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;">From the East the Poor are Marching</span><span style="color: #000099;"> </span>
(Daniel Damon) Based on the writings of Borg and Crossan, this hymn
speaks of the two processions coming into Jerusalem on Palm Sunday - the
peasant procession with Jesus, and the Imperial procession with Pilate.<a href="https://www.hopepublishing.com/find-hymns-hw/hw5045.aspx"> Sheet music and lyrics</a>. <br /></li><li><b style="color: #990000;">Online Resource <span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;">Two processions entering Jerusalem </span></b> (Amanda Udis-Kessler) A meditative song based on the book "The Last Week" by Marcus Borg and John Dominic Crossan - not really a congregational song. It would be lovely for a time of thoughtful reflection as the words are very powerful. <a href="https://queersacredmusic.com/track/2294045/two-processions" target="_blank">Sound sample, lyrics, and free sheet music</a>. </li><li><b style="color: #990000;">TiS 279 / AHB 212 / SFFS 2091 / HPP158 / GC487 / GC(II)494 / G(3)572 / CP632 / Lau107 </b><span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;">The King of glory comes the nation rejoices </span>(Willard Jabusch) Fun and energetic song to a traditional Israeli folk melody. A good processional. <a href="http://www.liturgies.net/Liturgies/Catholic/loh/advent/hymns.htm">Lyrics</a> (scroll down). <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oASYa-Wkroc">Watch Stephen Colbert crack some fancy dance moves to this song</a>. <span style="color: magenta;">Good for kids</span>.</li>
<li><b style="color: #990000;">CH366 / AA022</b> <span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;"> Come into the streets with me! </span> (Shirley Murray) Simple folk tune which is great for kids; chorus is "Come and
follow my leader". A good fun choice for Palm Sunday. <a href="https://www.hopepublishing.com/find-hymns-hw/hw2859.aspx">Lyrics and sheet music</a>. <span style="color: magenta;">Good for kids</span>.</li>
<li><b style="color: #990000;">Online Resource / ACS928 / StS073 / SP&P132</b> <span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;"> Jesus is coming / Pave the way with branches </span> (Bret Hesla) Palm Sunday this song has a great rhythm; You could sing "Pave the way with branches" or "Pave the way with justice"; I prefer the year-long version. It would be great for kids, and good for drumming. It's very repetitive so good for kids and non-readers. Other verses include "Hope for the downtrod / Pave the way with justice" and "Debts are forgiven / Pave the way with justice". One year we sang it, with a very strong cantor, all the way up the street to our ecumenical Palm Sunday service. It worked really well! <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HY08ccvDoaE" target="_blank">Video of the song being taught</a>. <span style="color: magenta;">Good for kids</span>.</li>
<li><b style="color: #990000;">VU128 / A&M162 / GtG597 / W&R269 / SP54 / World Council of Churches Assembly 1991 </b> <span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;">Sanna sannanina </span>(South African) An excellent Xhosa processional, which simply means "Hosanna". GtG has
the option of singing the Holy Holy to this tune, but I think that just seems a bit odd. Great for drumming. <a href="https://soundcloud.com/worldcouncilofchurches/sanna-sannanina" target="_blank">Sound sample</a>. <a href="https://www.riteseries.org/song/mhso/1284/">Sheet music sample</a>. <span style="color: magenta;">Good for kids</span>.</li>
<li><b style="color: #990000;">SFFS 2109</b> <span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;"> Jesus rode into Jerusalem</span> (Cathy Townley) Fun call-and-response song. <a href="http://www.digitalsongsandhymns.com/songs/7959">Lyrics</a>.</li>
<li><b style="color: #990000;">ACS910 / StS025 / LBW074 / GtG160 / G(II)269 / GC356 / CP(E) 42 / W&R206 / Cha141 / 82Hml-104</b> <span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;"> A Stable Lamp Is Lighted </span>
(Richard Wilbur) Starting From the stable, ending on the cross. This has a nice celticish tune, which is simple to sing, and a refrain of "and every
stone shall cry". I like it. <a href="http://cantusmundi.blogspot.com.au/2010/12/stable-lamp-is-lighted.html">Lyrics</a> and links to youtube videos of two possible tunes. <a href="https://soundcloud.com/anahermusic/a-stable-lamp-is-lighted">Sound sample</a> and <a href="https://squareup.com/market/ana-hernandez">sheet music</a> from Ana Hernández; this version is probably better for a soloist. It's lovely.</li><li><span style="color: #990000; font-weight: bold;">ACS903 / AoV1-061 / ATOK 355 / GtG359 / SFFS 2194 / G(II)521 / GC72</span><span style="color: #990000; font-weight: bold;">3 / GC(II)707 / G(3)814 / ZSS110 / SgTJ1035 </span><span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;">Freedom is coming</span> (South African) Excellent and lots of fun, especially if you have a keen African-style drummer in your congregation. It's really worth
teaching the parts to your congregation before the service. It can get a bit confusing for the congregation otherwise. <a href="https://www.riseupandsing.org/songs/freedom-coming" target="_blank">A range of sound samples</a> (Youtube). <a href="https://www.umcdiscipleship.org/resources/history-of-hymns-o-freedom-and-freedom-is-coming" target="_blank">History of the song</a>. <a href="https://hymnary.org/hymn/SSS2019/page/45" target="_blank">Sheet music samples</a>. <span style="color: magenta;">Good for kids.</span>
</li>
<li><b style="color: #990000;">SFFS 2111 </b><span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;"> We sang our glad Hosannas</span> (Mary Nelson Keithahn) Good words that follow Christ from Palm Sunday to the Crucifixion. Sung to a hymn tune. <a href="https://hymnary.org/text/we_sang_our_glad_hosannas">Lyrics</a>. </li><li><b style="color: #990000;">Online Resource / Recorded Music</b> <span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;">Cannot buy my soul </span>(Kev Carmody) Not a congregational song, but a reflection on the sufferings of Aboriginal people in Australia - the final verse draws parallels with Jesus riding in on the donkey, and his death with integrity. Could be useful for reflection. Thanks to Claire Foley for suggesting this. <a href="https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=852415348865694" target="_blank">Video</a>. <a href="https://genius.com/Kev-carmody-cannot-buy-my-soul-lyrics" target="_blank">Lyrics and sound sample</a>.</li>
<li><b style="color: #990000;">GA312</b> <span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;"> Hosanna to the son of David </span> (Jane Wood) A simple and energetic Hosanna.</li><li><span style="color: #990000; font-weight: bold;">Online Resource / Resounding Voices </span><span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;">Cloaked in the dark </span>(Jacque
Jones / Bernadette Hoke) Words that take us on the journey from Jesus'
ride into Jerusalem, through Judas' betrayal and Peter's denial, to the
crucifixion. Set to a mournful and beautiful tune. This could be used
for a single service, or throughout Holy Week. <a href="https://www.giamusic.com/store/resource/cloaked-in-the-dark-pdf-du01114" target="_blank">Sheet music sample and purchasing options</a>. <a href="https://thehymnsociety.org/resources/resounding-voices/" target="_blank">Free book download here</a>. <span style="color: orange;">New words to old tunes</span>. <br /></li>
<li><b style="color: #990000;">GtG200 / Cha193</b> <span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;"> A Cheering Chanting Dizzy Crowd </span>
(Timothy Troeger) Lyrics are great; pretty solemn at the end... There are two
possible tunes; I prefer it to the well known folk melody MORNING SONG
(TiS 172), but this requires repeating the last line. <a href="https://revgeary.wordpress.com/2014/04/14/a-cheering-chanting-dizzy-crowd/">Some lyrics and a reflection on these words</a> (scroll). <a href="http://www.ccel.org/cceh/0004/000413a.mid">Tune sample</a>.</li><li><b style="color: #990000;">Online Resource</b> <span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;">O save us Lord! Hosanna! </span>(Chris Shelton) Excellent words of justice and protest sung to the familiar tune ELLACOMBE. Most appropriate for congregations in the USA, where the allusions to Seneca, Stonewall, and Selma will be immediately recognizable. Not so meaningful elsewhere, and I can't think of similar allusions that would work in Australia... Thanks to Hannah for this suggestion. <a href="https://giamusic.com/resource/o-save-us-lord-hosanna-pdf-du00560" target="_blank">Sheet music sample, lyrics and purchasing options</a>. <br /></li>
<li><b style="color: #990000;">Iona (Enemy of Apathy) / CH370 / VU126</b> <span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;">Ride on ride on the time is right </span>(John Bell) This is a really good tune, which perhaps may be better heard first; the congregation could join in as they get to know it. <a href="https://music.churchofscotland.org.uk/hymn/370-ride-on-ride-on-the-time-is-right" target="_blank">Sound sample</a>.</li>
<li><b style="color: #990000;">Iona (The Courage to Say No / Enemy of Apathy)</b> <span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;">Travelling the Road to Freedom </span>(John Bell) Easy tune and excellent words. Who wants to travel the road with me? <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dUEZP0P95-M">Sound sample of a lovely virtual choir with musicians</a>.</li>
<li><b style="color: #990000;">TiS 348 / AHB 264 / NCH215 / CH365 / VU127 / R133 / ELW328 / A&M161 / HPP186 /
GtG198 / PH090 / CP182 / CP(E)129 / W&R268 / 82Hml-156 / Lau230 / StF265 / MP580</b><span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;"> Ride on ride on in majesty </span>(Henry Hart Milman) The lyrics to this hymn contain some amazing imagery, but it is very
inaccessible for young people, people who are new to the church, or people who don't like masculine God-talk. The NCH has excellent
traditional, yet inclusive, lyrics for this hymn. I encourage you to seek them out if you would like to sing something more traditional and
still accessible. <a href="http://www.hymnary.org/text/ride_on_ride_on_in_majesty">Lyrics and sheet music</a>. <span style="color: orange;">Oldy but a (mostly) goody</span>.</li>
<li><b style="color: #990000;">TiS 333 / AHB 250 / NCH216 / CH364 / UMH280 / VU122 / LBW108 / ELW344 / GA309 /
A&M159 / HPP179 / GtG196 / PH088 / GC402 / GC(II)421 / G(3)498 / CP181 / CP(E)128 / W&R265 / Cha192 / 82Hml-154 / Lau229 / StF262 / MP009</b> <span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;">All Glory Laud and Honor / All Glory Laud and Honour </span>(Theodulph of Orleans) Most
hymnals have very non-inclusive language for this hymn. If you would
like an alternative, the NCH has excellent lyrics, which are still
poetic. <a href="https://hymnary.org/text/all_glory_laud_and_honor">Lyrics & sheet music</a>.<span style="color: orange;"> Oldy but a (mostly) goody</span>.</li>
<li><b style="color: #990000;">ATW 444</b> <span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;">Hey King </span>(Paul Grant & Marion Palmer) Good for kids. What sort of King was Jesus, anyway? My niece was obsessed with this when she was 7. I'm not sure if it still holds up. <span style="color: magenta;">Good for kids</span>.</li>
<li><b style="color: #990000;">MV 128 / GC(II)420 / G(3)496</b> <span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;">When they heard that Jesus was coming</span> (Rory Cooney) A simple and excellent antiphon (led by one singer, and a simple repeated chorus by the congregation). It has 11 verses, so you may want to just chose the ones that fit for your service. Just the first 3 would do the trick for Palm Sunday really. It would work really
well to help the whole congregation tell the story, and fun for kids. <a href="http://c1824532.cdn.cloudfiles.rackspacecloud.com/GC2_420-1.jpg">Lyrics and sample sheet music</a>. <a href="http://c1824532.cdn.cloudfiles.rackspacecloud.com/GC2_420-1.mp3">Sound sample</a>. It could be sung much more energetically than the sound sample.</li>
<li><b style="color: #990000;">FFS18 </b> <span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;"> For the crowd another busy day </span> (Colin Gibson) Tune might be a little tricky, but the words are really excellent.</li>
<li><span style="color: #000099;"><b style="color: #990000;">TiS 357 / ATA 147</b> </span><span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;">When his time was over the palms lay where they fell </span>(Robin Mann) A quiet and mournful song that would lead well into Holy Week if you wish to end your Palm Sunday service on a more sombre tone. <a href="http://www.robinmann.com.au/My-Songs-All-Together-Again-When-our-life-began-again-pg30647.html">Lyrics</a>.<b style="color: #990000;"> </b></li>
<li><b style="color: #990000;">TiS 244 / AHB 187 </b> <span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;"><b> </b>Trotting trotting through Jerusalem </span> (Eric Reid) An old favourite. <a href="https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=2&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=2ahUKEwiM9933oKLnAhWoILcAHVnnDooQFjABegQIBBAB&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.standrews.org.nz%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2F2018%2F01%2F2016-03-20-Lent-6-Palm-Sunday-.pdf&usg=AOvVaw2jSYa-Wa5y_uJSdLgIXOmb">Lyrics</a> (downloads pdf).</li>
<li><b style="color: #990000;">Lutheran Service Book </b><span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;">No tramp of soldiers marching feet </span> (Timothy Dudley-Smith) Pretty good words, and sung to a familiar folk tune (STAR OF THE COUNTY DOWN) or to KINGSFOLD. <a href="http://www.hymnary.org/hymn/LSB2006/444">Lyrics</a>.
<span style="color: orange;">New words to old tunes</span>.</li>
<li><span style="color: #990000; font-weight: bold;">G(3)499 </span><span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;"> Blessed is He / Hosanna </span> (Scott Soper) I think the sound sample of this makes it boring, but it could be quite energetic with drums etc. <a href="http://c1824532.cdn.cloudfiles.rackspacecloud.com/CCH_245-1.jpg">Sheet music</a>. <a href="http://c1824532.cdn.cloudfiles.rackspacecloud.com/CCH_245.mp3">Sound Sample</a>.</li>
<li><span style="color: #990000; font-weight: bold;">NCH214 / UMH279 / GtG199 </span><span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;"> Filled with excitement / Mantos y palmas </span> (Rubén Ruiz Ávila) Fun and joyful verses, with an energetic chorus. Can be sung in English or Spanish. Best with percussion! <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ijKDlhKUTYs">Youtube of the organ accompaniment with lyrics and commentary</a>.
<span style="color: magenta;">Good for kids</span>.</li>
<li><span style="color: #990000; font-weight: bold;">Recorded Music </span><span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;">Hosanna </span> (Page CXVI) Not a congregational song. If you've got hipster musicians, they could play and sing this maybe? <a href="https://soundcloud.com/pagecxvi/hosanna">Sound sample</a>. <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TsmW56Odo_8">Youtube with lyrics</a>. </li>
<li><span style="color: #990000; font-weight: bold;">Online Resource </span><span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;">Not on a war horse but on a humble donkey </span> (David Miller) Good words to the familiar tune FINLANDIA. This is one of those hymns that reminds us what will happen later in the week - especially appropriate for churches unable to host Holy Week services. <a href="http://mccourtie-connectingfaithandlife.blogspot.com.au/">Lyrics</a>. <span style="color: orange;">New words to old tunes</span>.</li>
<li><span style="color: #990000; font-weight: bold;">VU124 </span><span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;"> He came riding on a donkey </span> (Gordon Light) Good words and a simple tune to sing. Thanks to Craig Miller for suggesting this song. <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BgEHDp-Qchw">Fun recording</a>.</li><li><span style="color: #990000; font-weight: bold;">Online Resource </span><span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;">This day has challenged us to make good trouble </span> (Tom Keesecker) This song is not specifically about Palm Sunday, but I think it would work well. It is written for choir, but it strikes me that the chorus would work very well as a sung response for the congregation. <a href="https://www.choristersguild.org/store/cga1649-good-trouble-satb-a-cappella/10673/">Sheet music for purchase</a>. <a href="http://www.choristersguild.org/PDF-samples/cga1649.pdf">Sample sheet music</a>. <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2OeQnpwtTvw">Sound sample</a>.</li>
</ul></div>
<i><b><span style="color: #38761d;">What will you be singing as you wave the Palms this week? Add a note in the comments - I'd love to hear your thoughts!</span></b></i>Lectionary Singer (Natalie Sims)http://www.blogger.com/profile/15635861565689089555noreply@blogger.com10tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3953574041544310550.post-69219839931039244282024-03-03T03:42:00.000-08:002024-03-18T04:14:04.748-07:00Songs, Hymns and Music for Maundy Thursday (29 March 2024)<script async="" src="https://www.googletagmanager.com/gtag/js?id=G-E0N4VFC2F8"></script>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><a href="http://lectionary.library.vanderbilt.edu/texts.php?id=34#hebrew_reading">Exodus 12:1-4, (5-10), 11-14</a></b></span>
<span style="font-style: italic;"> </span></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><span style="font-style: italic;">The sacrifice and eating of the Passover lamb. </span></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div style="text-align: left;"><ul style="text-align: left;"><li><b style="color: #990000;">Online Resource</b> <span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;">Remember God your promises </span>(David
Bjorlin) Sometimes we just need God to be God, and to look after all
the suffering in the world. Excellent words to an old tune from Thomas
Tallis which is unlikely to be familiar, but is very beautiful. <a href="https://www.giamusic.com/store/resource/remember-god-your-promises-pdf-d1010134">Lyrics</a><a href="https://www.giamusic.com/store/resource/remember-god-your-promises-pdf-d1010134">, sheet music sample, and purchasing options</a>. <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5cQoE4yb7NM">Sound sample of tune (different words)</a>. <span style="color: orange;">New words to old tunes</span>.</li></ul></div></div>
<i> <span style="font-size: large;"><b>Agnus Dei</b></span></i><br />
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<li><b style="color: #990000;">Online Resource</b> <span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;">O Christ, Lamb of God </span>(Richard Bruxvoort-Colligan) A more modern Agnus Dei, with Christ sharing our weakness. <a href="https://psalmimmersion.bandcamp.com/track/o-christ-lamb-of-god-an-agnus-dei">Lyrics and sound sample</a>.</li>
<li><b style="color: #990000;">Sing Alleluia / Fresh Sounds 041 </b><span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;">Jesus Lamb of God </span>(Betty Pulkingham) This is one of my favourite
Agnus Deis (what's the plural of Agnus Dei?). <a href="http://www.hymnary.org/files/imagecache/product_full/jesus%20215.png">A little bit of the tune</a>. <span style="color: magenta;">Good for kids.</span> </li>
<li><span style="color: #990000; font-weight: bold;">ATAR657 / </span><span style="color: #990000; font-weight: bold;"><span style="color: #990000; font-weight: bold;">The word became a song </span> </span><span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;"> Jesus, lamb of God </span>
(Robin Mann) A nice new Agnus Dei. Quite simple to sing. <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SQI614TyFhc">Youtube</a>.<br /></li>
<li><b style="color: #990000;">Online Resource </b><span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;">Lamb of God you take away the sins of the world </span>(Jane Southwick Cool) A very simple and beautiful Lamb of God. <a href="https://www.hopepublishing.com/Images/HymnodyPDF/hm_5338.pdf">Sheet music (look for the PDF symbol) and lyrics</a>. </li>
<li><span style="color: #990000; font-weight: bold;">ATAR648 / Online Resource </span><span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;"> Lamb of God you take away the sin of the world </span>
(Kevin Keil) A simple and quite lovely extended Agnus Dei (written for Advent, but I think you can sing it in Lent also), with extra verses
of Morning Star, God with Us, Prince of Peace… <a href="https://www.ocp.org/en-us/songs/9472/advent-lamb-of-god">Sound and sheet music samples, and download options</a>.</li>
<li><span style="color: #990000; font-weight: bold;">Iona (CAYP) / SP228 / URW413 / StF790 </span><span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;"> Lamb of God you take away the sin of the world </span>
(John Bell) I really like this one (St Bride setting). A simple, and quite meditative overlapping cantor and
response. It will need to be taught, but it will not take long for
people to pick it up. Keep it slow. <a href="http://www.singingthefaithplus.org.uk/?p=1834">Sound sample</a>. <br /></li>
<li><b style="color: #990000;">AoV1-196 / GC171 / GC(II)152 / RS 329 </b><span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;">Jesus, Lamb of God (Agnus Dei) </span>(Marty Haugen) from the Mass of Creation, so particularly good if you are using that entire setting. <a href="http://cantusmundi.blogspot.com.au/2010/07/jesus-lamb-of-god-you-take-away-sin-of.html">Sound sample and lyrics</a>.</li>
<li><b style="color: #990000;">GC213 / GC(II)319 / RS 469 / URW414</b> <span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;">Jesus Lamb of God </span>(Michael Joncas) from his Psallite Mass. <a href="http://www.hymnary.org/tune/lamb_of_god_the_psallite_mass">Sheet music sample.</a></li>
<li><span style="color: #990000; font-weight: bold;">GtG603 </span><span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;"> Lamb of God </span> (Paul Vasile) This is really nice; will need to be taught. Jazzy chords! <a href="https://lovedintobeing.files.wordpress.com/2008/10/lamb-of-god-preview.pdf">Sheet music preview</a>.</li>
<li><span style="color: #990000; font-weight: bold;">GtG604 </span><span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;"> Lamb of God </span> (Robert Farlee) A nice simple Agnus Dei. <a href="https://hymnary.org/hymn/GG2013/604">Lyrics & sound sample</a>. </li>
<li><span style="color: #990000;"><b>TiS 705 / Iona (Common Ground, EoA) / W&R282 / SP320 / StF234 / Lau610</b></span><b> </b><b> </b><span style="color: #000099;"><b> Behold the Lamb of God who takes away the sin</b> </span> (John Bell) A simple Agnus Dei. Best if you can manage to get all four parts involved. <a href="https://hymnary.org/text/behold_the_lamb_of_god_behold_the_bell">Sheet music sample</a>. </li>
<li><span style="color: #990000; font-weight: bold;">ACS960</span> <b style="color: #000099;">O lamb of God / Oi Jumalan Karitsa </b>
(Petri Laaksonen) A lovely gentle Finnish Agnus Dei. <a href="https://www.facebook.com/watch/live/?ref=watch_permalink&v=457056132868989" target="_blank">Sound sample</a> (scroll forward to 47:11 to hear it in a service). <br /></li>
<li><b style="color: #990000;">AHB 448 </b> <span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;"> Holy most holy Lamb of God </span> (Daniel Thambyrajah Niles) Funky Philippino tune. Yeah, something groovy in the AHB!</li>
<li><b style="color: #990000;">Music by Heart 06</b> <span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;"> Lamb of God </span>
(Robinson McClellan) A simple, and quite lovely call and response. This would
be very easy to sing even if new, provided you have a good song leader. <span style="color: magenta;">Good for kids</span>.</li>
<li><b style="color: #990000;">CH778 </b> <span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;"> Lamb of God you take away </span>
(Fride Gustafsson) A very simple Agnus dei. Easy to sing. </li>
<li><span style="color: #990000; font-weight: bold;">Lau1011 </span><span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;"> Lamb of God (Belmont) </span> (Christopher Walker) A very simple and beautiful meditative Agnus Dei. <a href="http://www.ocp.org/compositions/85023">Sound sample</a></li>
<li><span style="color: #990000; font-weight: bold;">GC(II)318 / G(3)392 </span><span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;"> O Lamb Of God </span> (Robert Batastini) Quite lovely and soothing call-and-response Agnus Dei. </li>
<li><span style="color: #990000; font-weight: bold;">STB129 </span><span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;"> Lamb of God </span>
(Mabel Wu) An unusual Agnus Dei set to a Taiwanese tune. Will need to be
taught </li>
<li> <b style="color: #990000;">WoV621 </b> <span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;"> Lamb of God you take away the sin of the world </span> (Marty Haugen) A canon. In 3/4. Seems quite nice and simple. </li>
<li> <b style="color: #990000;">Iona (T1AU) / CH790 </b> <span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;"> O Lamb of God </span>
(John Bell) St Bride setting. Nice; will need to be taught before you use it. It's a little bit tricky. <a href="https://www.methodist.org.uk/our-faith/worship/singing-the-faith-plus/hymns/lamb-of-god-you-take-away-the-sin-of-the-world-stf-790/">Sound sample</a>.</li>
<li><span style="color: #990000; font-weight: bold;">Public Domain / make it up as you go along </span><span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;">O Lamb Of God</span> (Donald Schmidt) You can sing the Agnus Dei to the traditional tune SHALOM CHAVERIM and sing it as a round. I really like this, and it's very simple. I don't know if it's actually published anywhere. "O Lamb of God that takes away the sin of the world, have mercy on us, have mercy on us, and grant us your peace". <a href="https://www.music-for-music-teachers.com/shalom-chaverim.html">Sheet music</a>. <span style="color: orange;">New words to old tunes</span> <span style="color: magenta;">Good for kids.</span> </li>
<li><b style="color: #990000;">Recorded music </b><span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;">Agnus Dei</span>
There are very very many classical versions of the Agnus Dei. It might
be nice to play a recording while communion is distributed, or while
people light candles for their prayers. Some favourites: Agnus Dei set
to <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?hl=en-GB&v=3e_sm7VUuZE">Samuel Barber's Adagio</a>; I also like <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Pp0XUU6Rmk">Palestrina</a>. And <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z6dvXMnJHrk">Dunstable.</a></li></ul>
<span style="font-size: large;"><b><a href="http://lectionary.library.vanderbilt.edu/texts.php?id=34#psalm_reading">Psalm 116:1-2, 12-19</a></b></span><br />
<span style="font-style: italic;">Commitment to God; lifting the cup of salvation</span><br /><ul style="text-align: left;"><li><b style="color: #990000;">TiS 709 / Taizé</b> <span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;"><b> </b>Chuyo chuyo </span>
(Jacques Berthier) A short Korean chant, appropriate for an intercession
response, and can be sung as a round. Not hard for non-Koreans! It means
"Lord hear us". <span style="color: magenta;">Good for kids</span>.</li><li><b style="color: #990000;">Unknown Source</b> <span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;">Psalm 116</span>
(Linnea Good) is particularly beautiful and simple “I love you God; I know you
listen. You listened on the day I cried. When I called out to you in
anguish, you were my presence and my guide”. I think this is in our folders at church. I cannot find it online. <span style="color: magenta;">Good for kids</span>.</li><li><b style="color: #990000;">URW311 </b> <span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;"> I love you Lord you hear my cry </span>
(Isaac Watts) A simple song with two verses, or <span style="color: #990000; font-weight: bold;">PfAS116D</span> uses it as a Psalm
refrain. It would be pretty amazing if
you can sing it in 4 parts, I reckon. The 2nd verse could be quite
appropriate on its own during intercessions. Older versions are not inclusive. <a href="https://hymnary.org/text/i_love_the_lord_he_heard_my_cries_and_pi">Lyrics</a>.<span style="color: #990000; font-weight: bold;"> </span> <span style="color: orange;">Oldy-but-a-goody.</span><br /></li><li><b style="color: #990000;">TiS 71 / VU617 / G(II)97 / GC108</b> <span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;">I will walk in the presence of the Lord</span> (Richard Proulx) A beautiful cantored Psalm. The refrain is very simple. Doesn’t make sense without the cantor. <a href="https://www.stjames-cathedral.org/Events/2021/Lent%20II%20B%202021.pdf">Lyrics (in an order of worship)</a>.</li><li>
<b style="color: #990000;">GC109</b> <span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;">I Will Walk in the Presence of God</span> (Garry Daigle) A simple lilting refrain. Inclusive verses. This could maybe be used as a chant on its own. <a href="http://c1824532.cdn.cloudfiles.rackspacecloud.com/GC_109-1.jpg">Sheet music & lyrics</a>. <a href="http://c1824532.cdn.cloudfiles.rackspacecloud.com/GC_109.midi">Sound sample</a>.</li><li><b style="color: #990000;">Taizé / TiS
741 / AoV1-017 / ATE 282 / LBW368 / ELW751 / GA431 / SFFS 2200 /
GtG471 / G(II)410 / GC586 / GC(II)566 / G(3)666 / W&R484 / Srce519 / URW390 / Lau929 / PfAS013A / PfAS102A / MP908</b>
<span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;">O Lord hear my prayer </span>
(Jacques Berthier) A simple and very well known Taizé chant. Works well during
intercessions. You could read the Psalm between repeats of this chant,
or just use as a chant as is. <a href="http://www.hymnary.org/text/o_lord_hear_my_prayer_o_lord_hear">Sheet music samples</a>. <span style="color: magenta;">Good for kids</span> </li><li><b style="color: #990000;">TiS 727 / SiS361 / ATE 208 / CH121 / AA70 / PfAS022F </b> <span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;"> In the presence of your people </span>(Brent Chambers) A good Yiddish tune - lots of fun for kids and adults. Good to get fast and dance around on this one. <span style="color: magenta;">Good for kids. </span>Or you could try: <span style="color: #990000; font-weight: bold;">VU745</span> which uses the refrain only for singing with a reading of a
different Psalm, but it would also work for this one too. <a href="https://digitalsongsandhymns.com/songs/4886#tab-lyrics">Lyrics (3 verses, but I only ever sing the first one)</a>.</li><li> <b style="color: #990000;">GC(II)755 / G(3)864</b> <span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;"> O the weary world is trudging / The trumpet in the morning </span> (Rory Cooney) Song of release of prisoners and the trumpet's blast. <a href="http://c1824532.cdn.cloudfiles.rackspacecloud.com/GC2_755-1.mp3">Sound sample</a>. <a href="http://c1824532.cdn.cloudfiles.rackspacecloud.com/GC2_755-1.jpg">Lead sheet</a>.</li></ul>
<span style="font-size: large;"><b><a href="http://lectionary.library.vanderbilt.edu/texts.php?id=34#epistle_reading">1 Corinthians 11:23-26</a> and </b></span><span style="font-size: large;"><b><a href="http://lectionary.library.vanderbilt.edu/texts.php?id=34#gospel_reading">John 13:1-17, 31b-35</a></b></span><br />
<span style="font-style: italic;">The words of institution</span>;<br />
<span style="color: #38761d;"><i><b>You might also like to look at the <a href="http://lectionarysong.blogspot.com/2010/02/communion-eucharist-hymns.html">Communion songs page.</a></b></i></span><br />
<ul style="text-align: left;">
<li><b><span style="color: #990000;">BUC Resource</span></b><span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;"> We are humbled by your grace </span>
(David Stephens, Ian Ferguson, Saide Cameron) Some years ago, this song was written for Maundy Thursday, Good Friday and Easter Sunday. It is in our folders. <b><span style="color: #990000;"><br /></span></b></li><li><b><span style="color: #990000;">Praise for all Seasons</span> </b> <span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;"> I Remember </span>
(David Brown) Our musicians sang this in 2014 while people were moving in to the space for communion "I
remember a man who came for his last meal, ate it with a group of
friends and it changed the world".</li>
<li><span style="color: #990000; font-weight: bold;"> ATAR658 </span><span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;"> Jesus, you are the bread we long for </span>
(Bernadette Farrell) Excellent communion song, with 5 verses about God being bread
and wine for those who starve and thirst; themes of healing,
restoration and justice. Very straightforward flowing melody. We sang this not long ago, and it is really beautiful. It would be good to sing it again. <a href="http://benedson.blogs.com/GBservice.pdf">Lyrics</a> (in an order of service)</li>
<li><span style="color: #990000; font-weight: bold;">ATAR659 </span><span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;"> The night of his betrayal / Remember now my children </span>(John Ylvisaker) A good simple song of the words of institution. Will be easy to sing</li>
<li><span style="color: #990000; font-weight: bold;">Online Resource / WoV701 / ELW487 / URW119 </span><span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;"> What Feast of Love </span>
(Dolores Dufner) Very poetic devotional language about Christ as the bread,
light and wine. Sung to GREENSLEEVES. Maybe better as a solo initially
so people can just listen to the beauty of the words. Perhaps sung
during distribution of communion, or a song to sing while thinking about the prepared table? <a href="https://www.ocp.org/en-us/songs/10339/what-feast-of-love" target="_blank">So</a><a href="https://www.ocp.org/en-us/songs/10339/what-feast-of-love" target="_blank">und sample, lyrics and purchasing options</a>. <span style="color: orange;">New words to old tunes</span> </li>
<li><span style="color: #990000; font-weight: bold;">Online Resource / AoVNG15 </span><span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;">Bread of Life </span>(Michael John Poirier) A nice gentle song. Would be good for distribution of communion.
Particularly good for Maundy Thursday. Our musicians sang it a couple of times in the last few years,
and it was just lovely. <a href="https://willowpublishing.com.au/product/bread-of-life/" target="_blank">Sound sample, sheet music sample, purhasing options</a>.<br /></li>
<li><span style="color: #990000; font-weight: bold;">Online Resourrce / GtG207 </span><span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;"> Sharing Pascal bread and wine / Shadows lengthen into night </span>
(Mary Louise Bringle) Maundy Thursday A great song for a Tenebrae service, with
the chorus "Shadows lengthen into night", but could work for other
services too. <a href="https://www.giamusic.com/store/resource/sharing-paschal-bread-and-wine-pdf-d686150" target="_blank">Sheet music sample and purchasing options</a>. </li>
<li><span style="color: #990000;"><b>CH763 / MV193 </b> </span> <span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;"> God bless to us our bread </span>
(Frederico Pagura / Traditional Argentinian) A lovely simple grace for meals and for
communion. More Voices has Spanish and French lyrics as well as English.
"God bless to us our bread, and give bread to all those who are hungry,
and hunger for justice to those who are fed. God bless to us our
bread". <a href="http://www.emusic.com/album/John-Bell-Sing-with-the-World-MP3-Download/11353296.html">Sound sample (Track 1)</a>. <span style="color: magenta;">Good for kids</span>.</li>
<li><b style="color: #990000;">ELW466 / FFS38 / SFFS 2255 / GtG533 </b><span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;">In the singing in the silence </span>(Shirley Murray) Lovely words, simple tune in FFS; there are quite a few tunes to this. <a href="http://www.hopepublishing.com/html/main.isx?sitesec=40.2.1.0&hymnID=2940#">Lyrics and single-use only downloadable PDF.</a></li>
<li><b style="color: #990000;">NCH344 / Iona (Enemy of Apathy) / GA385 / G(II)611 / Lau638</b> <span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;"> The time was early evening / Song of the Supper </span>(John Bell) Great words to a familiar Celtic folk tune. We used to sing this one
often on Maundy Thursday; would be good to revisit it. "Oh the food comes from the baker, the drink
comes from the vine...". <a href="https://hymnary.org/text/the_time_was_early_evening#pagescans" target="_blank">S</a><a href="https://hymnary.org/text/the_time_was_early_evening#pagescans" target="_blank">ample sheet music</a>.<br /></li>
<li><b style="color: #990000;">ATW 472 / NCYC'99 </b> <span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;"> As we take this bread </span> (Jane Dyson) A lovely simple communion chant. <span style="color: magenta;">Good for kids</span>.</li>
<li><b><span style="color: #990000;">TiS 538 / AoV2-093</span> </b> <span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;"> Feed us now Bread of life</span>
(Robin Mann) One of my favourite communion songs. Simple to sing, and
beautiful simple theology. “Piece of bread, cup of wine, Lord this food
is good”. <a href="http://www.robinmann.com.au/My-songs-Let-s-Sing-it-Again-Feed-us-now-pg31132.html" target="_blank">Lyrics</a></li>
<li><span style="color: #990000; font-weight: bold;">VU458 / AA017 / W&R276 </span><span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;"> Christ let us come with you </span> (Shirley Murray) Tune in AA is simple, but not familiar. Good song for Maundy Thursday and the last week of Lent. <a href="http://www.hopepublishing.com/html/main.isx?sitesec=40.2.1.0&hymnID=2855">Lyrics and sheet music</a>. </li>
<li><span style="color: #990000; font-weight: bold;">ACS966 / GtG498 </span><span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;"> Loaves were broken words were spoken </span> (Herman Stuempfle) Communion Excellent words for communion sung to the familiar tune BEACH SPRING (in GTG) or a new tune by Marty Haugen (in ACS). <a href="https://firstpresbyterian.org/sites/default/files/bulletin/bulletin-08-06-16.pdf">Lyrics</a> (downloads a pdf that you will need to scroll through) <span style="color: orange;">New words to old tunes</span> (if using BEACH SPRING).</li>
<li><b style="color: #990000;">TiS 707 / Iona (Common Ground, LFB) / A&M429 / SP214 / StF576</b> <span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;">Bread is blessed and broken (</span>John Bell / Graham Maule) Very simple. Good for distribution of communion; not all versions are inclusive. <a href="http://www.stpetersaddingham.org.uk/holy-communion-2/">Lyrics</a>.</li><li><b><span style="color: #990000;">ACS931</span></b> <span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;">Where charity and love are shown / Donde hay caridad y amor </span>(Joaquin Madurga) A joyful song telling the story of all of us gathering around the table together. <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Le-i5NBDqKU" target="_blank">Sound sample lyric vid</a><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Le-i5NBDqKU" target="_blank">eo (in Spanish) with guitar chords</a>. </li>
<li><b style="color: #990000;">TiS 536 / AHB 453 / VU130 / GtG202 / PH094 / CP(E) 130 / W&R275 / Cha385 / Lau248 / StF569</b> <span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;">An upper room did our Lord prepare </span> (Fred Pratt Green) I really love this song, but we have not sung it much, even though it's so easy and lovely. <a href="http://www.hopepublishing.com/html/main.isx?sitesec=40.2.1.0&hymnID=2964">Lyrics</a>.<span style="color: orange;">New words to old tunes</span> </li>
<li><b style="color: #990000;">TiS 357 / ATA 147 </b> <span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;">When his time was over the palms lay where they fell / When our life began again </span> (Robin Mann) Beautiful and mournful. <a href="http://www.robinmann.com.au/rs/7/sites/1178/user_uploads/File/All%20Songs%20%28PDF%29/whenourlifebegan.pdf">Lyrics</a>.</li>
<li><b style="color: #990000;">BUC Song Project</b> <span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;">Harvest our love</span>
(Dave Brown). This song is just perfect for every communion service ever. It
would be good to sing this again, because it's been a while. Jazz.</li>
<li><span style="color: #990000;"><b>TiS 737 / Iona (Common Ground, HSNW, T1AU) / A&M516 / SP142 / URW427 / Lau437</b></span> <span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;">Lord Jesus Christ lover of all </span>
(John Bell) A beautiful and simple chant. Note that some versions (T1AU at
least) have a beautiful 4 part harmony arrangement with excellent moving
parts in the lower registers. Would work well during intercessions or during times of movement in the service. <a href="https://soundcloud.com/user-395259634/lord-jesus-christ-tis-737" target="_blank">Sound sample</a>.<br /></li>
<li><b style="color: #990000;">ATA 135 / VU132</b> <span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;"> Bitter was the night </span> (Sydney Carter) Lyrics based on Peter's denial of Christ. <a href="http://www.hopepublishing.com/html/main.isx?sitesec=40.2.1.0&hymnID=4706">Lyrics and sheet music</a>.</li>
<li><b style="color: #990000;">Iona (T1AU) / Cha430</b> <span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;"> Lo I Am With You to the end of the world </span> (John Bell) Simple repetitive verses, in a nice minor key. <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EJX1Ibsfy7Y">Sound sample (youtube).</a></li>
<li><b style="color: #990000;">ATOK 397 / Iona (LFB) / CH658 / VU462 / A&M426 / GtG428 / CP610 / Cha391 / SP211 / StF575</b> <span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;"> Before I take the body of my Lord / These I lay down </span> (John Bell) A pre-communion confession. Lovely tune which is easy to sing. <a href="http://lamillinger.typepad.com/such_small_hands/2004/08/from_death_to_l.html">Lyrics</a>.</li>
<li><b style="color: #990000;">Taizé / TiS
714 / AoV1-125 /ATE 270 / CH661 / UMH628 / VU466 / WoV709 / ELW472 /
GtG527 / GA205 / A&M442 / G(II)588 / GC838 / GC(II)806 / G(3)941 / RS928 / CP063 / W&R697 /
Cha414 / SP229 / URW379 / Lau633 / StF583 </b> <span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;"> Eat this bread drink this cup </span>
(Robert Batastini) Excellent, particularly if you have a capable
cantor. Some resources say "Come to him and never be hungry", but others have "come to me / trust in me".<a href="https://soundcloud.com/user-395259634/eat-this-bread" target="_blank">Sound sample</a>. <br /></li>
<li><b style="color: #990000;">ATW 478 / Iona (T1AU) / CH799 / A&M469 / G(3)951 / SP230 / URW420 </b><span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;">This is the body of Christ </span>
(John Bell) A very simple and gentle chant for distribution of communion
"This is the body of Christ, broken that we may be whole; This cup, as
promised by God, true to God's word, cradles our Lord: food for the good
of the soul." Note, I did a sneaky little lyric change there... see if
you can find it. <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ll50tOlTYVs" target="_blank">Sound sample</a>.</li>
<li><span style="color: #990000; font-weight: bold;">Iona (Enemy of Apathy) </span> <span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;"> He comes in the gathering gloom </span> (John Bell)</li>
<li><b style="color: #990000;">CH484
/ UMH579 / WoV666 / ELW358 / A&M169 / PH353 /
CP442 / CP(E) 133 / W&R55 / SP57 / URW087 / StF499 </b><span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;">Great God Your Love Has Called Us Here </span>
(Brian Wren) Good words to a standard hymn tune (MELITA). Gathering,
confession, response, communion, and sending out all in one hymn. This
is a good all-rounder. <a href="https://www.hopepublishing.com/find-hymns-hw/hw2596.aspx" target="_blank">Sheet music and lyrics</a>. <span style="color: orange;">New words to old tunes</span>. </li>
<li>
<span style="color: #990000; font-weight: bold;"> STB297 </span><span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;"> Broken communion tore you apart / Gallajin apŭmŭl</span><span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;"></span>(Junchol Hong) A simple and solemn Korean chant, including a section that is just hummed; the two sections could be sung at the same time. Can be sung in English or Korean. <a href="https://hymnary.org/text/gallajin_apumul">Sample sheet music</a>.<br /></li>
</ul>
<span style="font-size: large; font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;">Songs for foot-washing: </span><br />
<ul style="text-align: left;">
<li><b style="color: #990000;">TiS 640 / AHB 561 / ATE 310 / NCH498 / UMH432 / VU593 / WoV765 / ELW708 /
HPP446 / GtG203 / PH367 / G(II)296 / GC409 / GC(II)429 / G(3)505 / CP504
/ W&R273 / Cha600 / URW116 / 82Hml-602 / Lau241 / StF249 </b> <span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;">Jesu Jesu fill us with your love / Kneels at the feet of his friends </span>(Tom Colvin & people of Ghana) <a href="http://www.hymnary.org/hymn/PH/367">Lyrics</a>. <span style="color: magenta;">Good for kids</span>.</li>
<li><span style="color: #990000; font-weight: bold;">On the road </span> <span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;"> Mystery of servant love </span> (Ross Langmead) Excellent song, with much feeling about Christ's suffering, death, and servanthood. <a href="http://rosslangmead.50webs.com/rl/songs.html" target="_blank">Sound sample</a>.</li><li><b style="color: #990000;">Online Resource</b> <span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;">In this room a towel and basin </span>(Carolyn Winfrey Gillette) Excellent words, set to a standard hymn tune. <a href="http://www.carolynshymns.com/in_this_room_a_towel_and_basin.html" target="_blank">Lyrics</a>. <br /></li>
<li><span style="color: #990000; font-weight: bold;">Recorded Music </span><span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;">The basin and the towel </span>
(Michael Card) Excellent lyrics about how this story lives again every
time we "wash the feet" of others. You could play the song, or ask your musicians to sing it. Thanks to Pam Purdin in the <a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/SingingFromTheLectionary/">Facebook group</a> for suggesting this song. <a href="http://www.allthelyrics.com/lyrics/card_michael/the_basin_and_the_towel-lyrics-223598.html">Lyrics</a>. <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mR_joIDKqYM">Youtube</a>. <a href="http://store.michaelcard.com/thebasinandthetowel-sheetmusic.aspx">Sheet music</a>.</li>
<li><span style="color: #990000; font-weight: bold;">GC(II)431 / G(3)507 </span><span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;"> Jesus our teacher and our Lord / So you must do </span> (Marty Haugen) A nice song for the musicians to sing during foot-washing; it's not so easy. <a href="http://c1824532.cdn.cloudfiles.rackspacecloud.com/GC2_431-1.jpg">Lead sheet</a>. <a href="http://c1824532.cdn.cloudfiles.rackspacecloud.com/GC2_431-1.mp3">Sound sample</a>.</li>
<li><b style="color: #990000;">Taizé / CH801
/ MV170 / StJ / GtG205 / WoV665 / ELW642 / SFFS 2179 / GC408 /
GC(II)430 / G(3)500 / CP553 / W&R399 / Cha523 / URW394 / StF783 / Lau244b</b> <span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;"> Live in charity / Ubi Caritas </span>(Jacques Berthier)
Usually sung in Latin, but can also be sung just as beautifully as "Live in
charity and steadfast love, live in charity; God will dwell with you."
<a href="http://www.taize.fr/spip.php?page=chant&song=503&lang=en">Sheet music and sound samples for practice</a>. <span>Good for kids.</span> </li>
</ul>
<span style="font-size: large; font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;">End of service:</span><br />
<ul style="text-align: left;">
<li><b style="color: #990000;">Online Resource / BUC Song Project</b><span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;"><b> </b>The night is dark and lonely / In Darkness (for Maundy Thursday) </span>(Julia Potter) A lovely chant that can be sung as a round. It will need to be taught; once you get it, it's mesmerising. <a href="https://brunswick.unitingchurch.org.au/worship/the-arts-in-worship/buc-song-project/" target="_blank">Free sheet music, sound sample and lyrics</a>.<br /></li>
<li><b style="color: #990000;">Iona (The courage to say no) / CH371 / StS085 </b> <span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;"><b> </b>Lay down your head Lord Jesus Christ </span>
(John Bell / Graham Maule) This song would be good for the end of a Maundy Thursday
service, particularly if sung simply by a soloist if it is not familiar
to your congregation. "What lies ahead we fear to guess… Lay down your
head and, by your side, we'll sleep and stay".We sang this a couple of years ago. <a href="https://music.churchofscotland.org.uk/hymn/371-lay-down-your-head-lord-jesus-christ" target="_blank">Sound sample</a>.<br /></li><li><b style="color: #990000;">Online Resource</b> <span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;">Watch and pray with me a while </span> (Helen Wright) A lovely simple song, particularly appropriate for Maundy Thursday and Good Friday. <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WHlvkGh9-cU&feature=youtu.be">Youtube</a> and link to <a href="https://www.pastemagazine.com/noisetrade/music/heartcries/watch-and-pray">downloads</a>. </li>
<li><b style="color: #990000;">Iona (T1AU) / Cha430</b> <span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;"> Lo I am with you to the end of the world </span> (John Bell) Simple repetitive verses, in a nice minor key. <a href="https://hymnary.org/hymn/CH1995/430" target="_blank">Sheet music sample</a>. </li><li><b style="color: #990000;">Online Resource <span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;">O Jesus who travelled </span></b>
(Hannah Brown / Sally Ann Morris) Following Jesus on the journey to the
cross. If you choose to use this, I recommend using it again on Good Friday. The tune is excellent and immediately
singable. Beautiful. <a href="https://www.giamusic.com/store/resource/o-jesus-who-traveled-pdf-du01509" target="_blank">Lyrics, sheet music and sound sample, and purchasing options</a>. <br /></li><li><b style="color: #990000;">Online Resource</b> <span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;">Pray with me the night has come </span>(David
Bjorlin) A beautiful song of waiting and watching; sufficiently repetitive for people to sing without lyrics if you would like. Sung to a beautiful old Welsh tune. <a href="https://www.giamusic.com/store/resource/remember-god-your-promises-pdf-d1010134">Lyrics</a><a href="https://www.giamusic.com/store/resource/stay-with-me-the-night-has-come-pdf-d1010135">, sheet music sample, sound sample, and purchasing options</a>. <span style="color: orange;">New words to old tunes. </span><br /></li>
<li><b style="color: #990000;">Taizé /
AoV2-088 / ATOK 395 / CH793 / VU950 / ELW348 / GA325 / A&M172 /
SFFS 2198 / GtG204 / W&R286 / SP61 / Lau249 / StF780</b> <span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;">Stay with me / Bleibet hier </span>(Jacques Berthier) A very well known chant. <a href="http://www.taize.fr/spip.php?page=chant&song=254&lang=en">Sheet music and sound samples</a>.</li>
<li><b style="color: #990000;">Iona / VU33</b> <span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;"> Watch, watch and pray </span> (John Bell) This Advent chant also has lyrics for Maundy Thursday.</li>
<li><span style="color: #990000; font-weight: bold;">Taizé / ATE 287 / WoV667 / GA321 / G(II)298 / GC411 / GC(II)433 / G(3)502 </span><span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;"> Stay here and keep watch </span>
(Jacques Berthier) Not very well known, but very good for the end of Maundy
Thursday. Most would use "Stay with me, remain with me", but this is a
nice alternative. <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8bZ9Qw0k0jk" target="_blank">Sound sample</a>. </li>
<li><span style="color: #990000; font-weight: bold;">Taizé / CP194 / URW392 </span><span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;"> Stay with us / Bleib mit deiner Gnade / Night will soon fall </span> (Jacques Berthier) Another good one from Taize. The phrase "Night will soon fall" is particularly appropriate for Maundy Thursday. <a href="http://www.taize.fr/spip.php?page=chant&song=254&lang=en">Sheet music and sound samples</a>.</li>
<li><span style="color: #990000; font-weight: bold;">VU182 </span><span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;"> Stay with us through the night </span> (Walter Farquharson) Simple and gentle sorrowful, but hopeful song. <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3FRT5B4xaPs" target="_blank">Instrumental sound sample</a>. <br /></li>
<li><span style="color: #990000; font-weight: bold;">AoV2-024 / URW407 </span><span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;"> Holy Darkness </span> (Dan Schutte) Beautiful words based on John of the Cross. Might want to use a cantor if this is not familiar to your congregation. URW has only the refrain. <a href="http://www.sixmaddens.org/?p=1890">Lyrics and sound sample</a>. </li>
<li><span style="color: #990000; font-weight: bold;"> StF267 </span><span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;"> Jesus in the olive grove </span> (Fred Pratt Green) This is full of the horror of the end of Maundy Thursday and Good Friday. I'm not sure that I actually like it, but Good Friday's not necessary a day full of songs that make you feel good. Particularly suitable for a tenebrae service. <a href="http://ehymnbook.org/CMMS/hymnSong.php?id=pd03270" target="_blank">Lyrics</a>.<br /></li><li><span style="color: #990000;"><b><b style="color: #990000;">Online Resource</b></b></span> <span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;">Darkness is a gift of God </span>
(David Bjorlin / Swee Hong Lim) Not specifically about Maundy Thursday, but since this is one of the few evening services we have at our church, this reflection on the presence of God particularly in darkness could work. <a href="https://www.giamusic.com/store/resource/darkness-is-a-gift-of-god-pdf-d1010110">Lyrics and sheet music sample, and purchasing options</a>. <br /></li>
</ul>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><a href="https://lectionary.library.vanderbilt.edu//texts.php?id=124">Isaiah 50:4-9a</a></b></span><br />
<i>Strength when people mock you</i><br />
<ul><li><b style="color: #990000;">TiS
636 / VU272 / WoV715 / LBW250 / ELW533 / GtG453 /
PfAS078C / PfAS078D / URW076 / 82Hml-536 / Lau472 / MP182</b> <span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;"> God has spoken to his people Alleluia / God has spoken to the people Alleluia </span>
(Hasidic) In many versions this song is not inclusive for
God, or uses specifically Christian lyrics (which is odd, since it's a
Jewish hymn). VU, PfAS GtG and WoV have gender inclusive language for
God: "God has spoken
to the people (Alleluia), God has spoken words of wisdom, Alleluia".
WoV and PfAS also have the traditional Hebrew chorus of "Torah ora torah
ora
hallelujah" which means "The Lord is light" which would be great to sing
and are the original words! PfAS078D simply uses the first two lines of the first verse as a psalm
refrain. <span style="color: magenta;">The chorus is good for kids</span>. <span style="color: orange;">New words to old tunes </span><a href="http://www.missionstclare.com/music/torahora/top.html">One version of the lyrics.</a></li><li>
<span style="color: #990000; font-weight: bold;">Iona (M&G, T1AU) / MV099 / GC(II)673 / G(3)763 / Lau996 </span> <span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;"> Stand O Stand Firm </span> (Cameroon) I love having an excuse to sing this simple and powerful song.
Very easy for your congregation. You can make up cantor parts too “Oh my
sisters…. Oh my brothers… Oh my children….” or you can name countries
you are praying for in your intercessions. <span style="color: magenta;">Good for kids. <a href="http://c1824532.cdn.cloudfiles.rackspacecloud.com/G3_763-1.mp3">Scottish sound sample</a>. <a href="http://c1824532.cdn.cloudfiles.rackspacecloud.com/G3_763-1.jpg">Lead sheet</a></span>.</li><li>
<b style="color: #990000;">Iona (One is the Body) / ATAR601 / MV103</b> <span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;"> Ka mana'o 'i 'o </span>
(Joe Kanoelehua Camacho) Hawai'ian song. Fun to sing and good words. The chorus is not
too hard to sing in Hawai'ian if you teach it. Nice with guitar and/or
ukelele. <a href="https://www.slideshare.net/linneagood/ka-manao-i-o">Lyrics (slide show)</a>.
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><a href="https://lectionary.library.vanderbilt.edu//texts.php?id=124">Psalm 31:9-16</a></b></span><br />
<span style="font-style: italic;">God as refuge and redeemer</span><br />
<ul style="text-align: left;">
<li><span style="color: #990000; font-weight: bold;">PfAS031A </span><span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;"> Empty broken lifeless</span>(Shannon Cerneka and Orin Johnson) A sorrowful chant-like refrain, and verses that should be
best sung by a cantor. A good version for Passion Sunday. <a href="http://oddwalkministries.com/oddblog/lyrics-audio/walk-away-different-lyrics-audio/i-give-my-spirit-ps-31/">Lyrics</a>.</li><li><span style="color: #990000; font-weight: bold;">MV083 / FFS41 </span><span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;"> Let my spirit always sing </span>
(Shirley Murray) Good words about getting old. May be sung to a
number of different tunes. A song for those who are aged or infirm. A
good song to play in nursing homes, or in congregations with a large
proportion of elderly who are wrestling with what it means to live in a
body that doesn't do what it used to manage! <a href="https://www.hopepublishing.com/find-hymns-hw/hw2941.aspx">Lyrics & sheet music</a>. </li><li><span style="color: #990000; font-weight: bold;">Worldmaking.net </span> <span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;"> O Holy One </span>
<span style="color: #990000; font-weight: bold;"> </span>(Richard Bruxvoort-Colligan) A very simple song for the start of worship. It
could be sung altogether as a congregation or responsively. <a href="https://psalmimmersion.bandcamp.com/track/o-holy-one-an-invocation">Sound sample and lyrics.</a> <span style="color: magenta;">Good for kids.</span> </li><li><span style="color: #990000; font-weight: bold;">PfAS031C / URW256 (Refrain 2) </span><span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;"> My times are in your hands </span>
(AnnaMae Meyer Bush) A simple two part. This would be worth teaching. (It's not
the old chorus) It can be sung on its own, or as a Psalm refrain, or
prayer response. Simply: “<i>My times are in your hands. You strengthen me in strife. My hope is in your word. Your love preserves my life.</i>” <a href="https://hymnary.org/text/my_times_are_in_your_hands_you_str" target="_blank">Sheet music sample</a>. <span style="color: magenta;">Good for kids</span>.</li><li> <span style="color: #000099;"> <b style="color: #990000;">TiS 682 / ATW 490 / GA236 / A&M355 / AA151 / SP148</b> </span> <span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;"> When human voices cannot sing </span>
(Shirley Murray) Lovely words of healing in the face of grief. I prefer
this sung to ST COLUMBA, which is the tune in GA and TiS. <a href="http://www.hopepublishing.com/html/main.isx?sitesec=40.2.1.0&hymnID=2919">Lyrics</a> </li><li><b style="color: #990000;">Iona / CH788 / MV104 / GtG659</b> <span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;">Know that God is Good / Mungu ni mwema </span>(Traditional Congo) This traditional African refrain is just lots of fun and very simple to sing. <span style="color: magenta;">Good for kids</span> and adults! <a href="http://hymnary.org/tune/mungu_ni_mwema_swahili">Sheet music sample</a>. <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zaV6-RnleGQ" target="_blank">Sound sample</a>. <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mmHyrWO36D8" target="_blank">Sound sample in Kenyan languages</a>.</li><li><span style="color: #990000; font-weight: bold;">GtG811 / PfAS031D / URW256 (Refrain 1) </span><span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;"> Make your face to shine upon your servant / Haz resplandecer tu rostro </span>
(Jay Weldon Wilkey) This is a lovely song. It can be sung on its own, or as a Psalm refrain, as in URW (use
the section "Make your face to shine… loving kindness save me" as the
refrain, and the section beginning "But as for me" at the conclusion of
the Psalm). <a href="https://hymnary.org/text/make_your_face_to_shine_upon_your_serv">Clunky sound sample</a>. </li><li><span style="color: #990000; font-weight: bold;">ATAR669 </span><span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;"> Be my strength </span> (Robin Mann) Words about familiar comforting things, and about becoming older and more frail. Excellent. <a href="http://www.robinmann.com.au/My-songs-All-Together-All-Right-Be-my-strength-pg30944.html">Lyrics</a>. <b style="color: #990000;"><br /></b></li><li> <b style="color: #990000;">TiS 19 / Iona (PPP&P) / ATOK 339 </b> <span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;"> In you O Lord I have found refuge </span> (John Bell) A simple cantor and response Psalm. <a href="https://www.giamusic.com/store/resource/psalms-of-patience-protest-and-praise-recording-cd313">Sound sample, and mp3 available to purchase and download</a>.</li><li> <b style="color: #990000;">Ps Project</b> <span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;"> Into Your Hands </span> (Richard Bruxvoort-Colligan) A very very very very simple chant. <a href="https://psalmimmersion.bandcamp.com/track/into-your-hands-ps-31">Lyrics and sound sample</a>.</li><li><b style="color: #990000;">CP517 / W&R503</b> <span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;"> O God your constant care and love </span>
(Glen Lanier) Quite good words about God's presence with us through our
lives. Sung to a standard hymn tune (WAREHAM or WINCHESTER NEW). <a href="http://www.hopepublishing.com/html/main.isx?sitesec=40.2.1.0&hymnID=3867&collectionsSearch=Worship">Lyrics</a>. <b style="color: #990000;"> </b><span style="color: orange;">New words to old tunes</span>.</li><li> <b style="color: #990000;">TiS 240 / AHB182 / CH393 / StF640</b> <span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;"> We turn to God when we are sorely pressed </span>
(Dietrich Bonhoeffer) Excellent words of our need for God, God's
suffering, and God's generosity. Sung to a standard hymn tune. <a href="http://cruciality.wordpress.com/2010/05/01/bonhoeffer-hymns/">Lyrics and a number of translations</a>. I much prefer the Church Hymnary version to the translations in TiS and AHB. </li><li> <b style="color: #990000;">CH725 </b> <span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;"> Today I live one day shall come my death </span> (Fred Kaan) An unusual theme remarking on the inevitability of death and that we have no need to fear it. Lovely tune. <a href="http://www.hymnary.org/hymn/CH4/725">Lyrics</a>.</li><li> <b style="color: #990000;">StJ / G(II)346 / GC506 / GC(II)508 / G(3)586</b> <span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;"> You Are All We Have </span> (Francis Patrick O'Brien) A nice refrain and good cantor parts. Somewhat formal. <a href="http://c1824532.cdn.cloudfiles.rackspacecloud.com/GC2_508-1.mp3">Sound sample</a>, <a href="http://c1824532.cdn.cloudfiles.rackspacecloud.com/GC2_508-1.jpg">sheet music sample</a> and <a href="http://www.mennolink.org/books/search.cgi?bk.stj.02.txt&track=4">a different sound sample</a>.</li><li> <b style="color: #990000;">AoV2-070 / ATW 496 / MV090 / StJ / G(3)719</b> <span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;">Don't be afraid (</span>John Bell)
Excellent. I love this song of reassurance. "Don't be afraid, my love
is stronger. My love is stronger than your fear". This song can be used
as a response to intercessions. <span style="color: magenta;">Good for kids.</span> <a href="https://hymnary.org/text/dont_be_afraid_my_love_is_stronger">Sheet music</a>. This song could be
used as a Psalm response I think.</li>
</ul>
<span style="font-size: large;"><b><a href="https://lectionary.library.vanderbilt.edu//texts.php?id=124">Philippians 2:5-11</a></b></span> <br />
<ul><li>
<b style="color: #990000;">TiS 650 / ATA 191 / CH694 / A&M604 / NCH539 / VU595 / ELW659 / AA08 /
SFFS 2222 / HPP442 / GtG727 / G(II)476 / GC683 / GC(II)661 / G(3)751 / CP500 / CP(E) 393 /
W&R391 / Cha490 / SP263 / URW117 / StF611 / Lau924</b><span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;"> Brother, sister, let me serve you / Won't you let me be your servant? </span>(Richard Gillard) I think you all know this one. <a href="http://www.pateys.nf.ca/cgi-bin/lyrics.pl?hymnnumber=635">Lyrics</a>. NCH has a nice turn on the lyrics with "Won't you let me be your servant?" as the first line. <span style="color: orange;">Oldy-but-a-goody</span>.</li><li><span style="color: #990000; font-weight: bold;">TiS 236 / AHB 178 / CH351 / UMH273 / VU570 / HPP157 / W&R634 </span><span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;">Jesus' hands were kind hands</span>
(Margaret Cropper) Good old fashioned children's song. Lots of kids learn to play this on
piano, so if you have some budding piano students in your
congregation, it may be nice to invite one to play. <a href="https://www.hopepublishing.com/find-hymns-hw/hw4154.aspx">Sheet music & lyrics. </a><span style="color: magenta;">Good for kids </span><span style="color: orange;">Oldy-but-a-goody</span>.</li><li><span style="color: #990000;"><b>NCH590 / CH621</b></span> <span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;">Spirit of Jesus, if I love my neighbour</span> (Brian Wren) Challenging
words of offering help from a position of privilege and seeking to be
set free from the entrapment of possessions “If I am hugging safety or
possessions, uncurl my spirit as your love prevails, to join my
neighbours, work for liberation, and find my freedom at the mark of
nails”. Could also be sung to the tune PERFECT LOVE if your congregation
would have trouble with the newer tune. <a href="https://www.hopepublishing.com/find-hymns-hw/hw2606.aspx">Sheet music & lyrics</a>.<span style="color: orange;"> New words to old tunes</span>. </li><li><span style="color: #990000;"><b>TiS 691</b></span><span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;"> Faith will not grow from words alone</span>
(Elizabeth Smith) This is an excellent hymn about doubting and struggling in
faith. The tune is familiar and I find the words very helpful for
thinking and doubting Christians. <a href="https://www.apfb.org.au/low-sunday/" target="_blank">Lyrics</a>.</li><li><b style="color: #990000;">TiS
640 / AHB 561 / ATE 310 / NCH498 / UMH432 / VU593 / WoV765 / ELW708 /
HPP446 / GtG203 / PH367 / G(II)296 / GC409 / GC(II)429 / G(3)505 / CP504
/ W&R273 / Cha600 / URW116 / 82Hml-602 / Lau241 / StF249 </b> <span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;">Jesu Jesu fill us with your love / Kneels at the feet of his friends </span>(Tom Colvin & people of Ghana) <a href="http://www.hymnary.org/hymn/PH/367">Lyrics</a>. <span style="color: magenta;">Good for kids</span><span style="color: orange;">Oldy-but-a-goody</span>.</li><li><span style="color: #990000; font-weight: bold;">TiS 174 / UMH194 / A&M544 / CP(E)259 / 82Hml-585 / StF012 </span><span style="color: #000099;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Morning glory starlit sky</span> </span>(William Hubert Vanstone) Quite formal words, but very very beautiful song of God's
boundless love "Drained is love in making full, bound in setting others
free, poor in making many rich, weak in giving power to be". Not all sources are inclusive. The tune is
not difficult, but will need to be taught to a congregation if not
familiar. The lyrics could also be read as a poem, and challenges the
image of Christ as monarch, but also affirms God's reign. <a href="https://livingwittily.typepad.com/my_weblog/2007/04/around_the_time.html" target="_blank">Lyrics.</a></li><li><span style="color: #990000; font-weight: bold;">TiS 721 / Iona (LFB) / URW431 / StF344 / Lau124 </span><span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;">He became poor that we may be rich </span>(Iona)
A simple chant. Timing is a little bit tricky, so you will need to take
a little time to teach it initially. This has gorgeous parts if you
have some singers. <a href="https://www.methodist.org.uk/our-faith/worship/singing-the-faith-plus/hymns/he-became-poor-that-we-may-be-rich-stf-344/" target="_blank">Sound sample (instrumental)</a>.<br /></li><li><span style="color: #990000; font-weight: bold;">MV155 </span><span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;"> Unbounded spirit breath of God </span> (Brian Wren) Good solid words of commitment to faith and work; a communal song. Simple hymnlike tune. <a href="https://www.hopepublishing.com/find-hymns-hw/hw4187.aspx">Lyrics & sheet music</a>. </li><li><span style="color: #990000; font-weight: bold;">Online Resource / Walk as One </span><span style="color: #000099;"><b>Come come come come together</b></span> (David MacGregor) A boppy song about working together - a good song for sending out the congregation. <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BSid1bYo7EE" target="_blank">Lyric video</a>. <a href="https://www.cmla.org.au/product/walk-as-one-pdf-download/" target="_blank">Sheet music for purchase</a>. </li><li><b style="color: #990000;">CH348 / StS001 / LBW196 / ELW843 / A&M762 / G(3)625 / CP397 / W&R93 / SP304 / URW090</b> <span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;"> Praise the One Who Breaks the Darkness </span>
(Rusty Edwards) Good words of Christ's ministry to all. Can be sung to the
familiar tune NETTLETON, or the less familiar and very lovely tune JOEL. <a href="http://www.hopepublishing.com/html/main.isx?sitesec=40.2.1.0&hymnID=3722">Lyrics</a>. <span style="color: orange;">New words to old tunes </span>.</li><li><span style="color: #990000; font-weight: bold;">AHB 168 / NCH166 / A&M675 / CP(E) 475 / MP328 </span><span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;"> Immortal love for ever full </span>
(John Greenleaf Whittier) Not all versions are inclusive. This is an
older style hymn. <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VXoVvxHmqtU">A beautiful choral version with video</a> (tune is different to hymnals, but the lyrics are the same). Thist would be nice to listen to!
</li><li><b style="color: #990000;">Taizé / MV075 / StS079 / SFFS 2118 / GtG284 / GC(II)479 / G(3)547 / SP99 / URW395 </b> <span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;"> Holy Spirit Come to Us / Veni sancte spiritus tui amoris </span> (Jacques Berthier) Best if you have a cantor, but works well if you don't, too. <a href="http://www.taize.fr/spip.php?page=chant&song=511&lang=en">Sheet music, translations, sound samples</a>.</li><li><b style="color: #990000;">TiS 341 / AHB 257 / NCH222 / CH399 / VU143 / A&M147 / WoV661 / LBW094 /
ELW782 / SFFS 2083 / HPP329 / GtG209 / PH076 / CP184 / CP(E) 112 /
Srce2-426 / 82Hml-458 / Lau752 / StF277 / MP478 </b> <span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;"> My song is love unknown </span>
(Samuel Crossman) I really love this old and beautiful song. I prefer it sung
to LOVE UNKNOWN. <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/My_Song_Is_Love_Unknown">Lyrics</a>. <span style="color: orange;">New words to old tunes</span> </li><li><b style="color: #990000;">Online Resource / Worldmaking</b> <span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;">O Christ, Lamb of God </span>(Richard Bruxvoort-Colligan) A more modern Agnus Dei, with Christ sharing our weakness. <a href="https://psalmimmersion.bandcamp.com/track/o-christ-lamb-of-god-an-agnus-dei" target="_blank">Lyrics and sound sample</a>.</li><li><b style="color: #990000;">TiS
242 / AHB 183 / AoV1-018 / ATN 27 / CH404 / UMH261 / VU352 / A&M667 / HPP163 /
GtG157 / PH302 / G(II)481 / GC708 / GC(II)689 / G(3)796 / CP(E) 468 / W&R118 / Lau765</b><span style="color: #990000;"><b> / StF247</b></span> <span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;">I danced in the morning / Lord of the Dance</span> (Sydney Carter). <a href="https://stainer.co.uk/lord-of-the-dance/">Lyrics and tidbits of info.</a>You all know this one, right? For Passion Sunday, it may be best to
stop this partway through, and sing the rest on Easter Sunday. <span style="color: magenta;">Good for kids</span><span style="color: orange;"> Oldy-but-a-goody.</span> </li><li><b style="color: #990000;">GtB</b> <span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;">God is love and love is giving </span>(Ross Langmead)
A simple kids' song about God's love. A round. <a href="http://rosslangmead.50webs.com/rl/songs.html">Sound sample</a>. <span style="color: magenta;">Good for kids</span>.</li><li><b style="color: #990000;">Tune In / Online Resource <span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;">O Spirit God to you we pray / In the shape of a cross</span></b> (Dave Brown) A cry to God for help. <a href="http://brunswick.unitingchurch.org.au/worship/the-arts-in-worship/tune-in/">Free downloadable songbook and sound samples.</a> </li><li><span style="color: #990000; font-weight: bold;">Online resource / MV047 </span><span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;"> Born in human likeness </span> (Bruce Harding) A simple Christmas round. <a href="https://evensong.ca/lyrics-search-results/?search-query=born+in+human+likeness">Sheet music</a>. <span style="color: magenta;">Good for kids.</span> </li></ul><b><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://lectionary.library.vanderbilt.edu/texts.php?id=77#gospel_reading">Mark 14:1-15:47</a><i> or <a href="https://lectionary.library.vanderbilt.edu/texts.php?id=77#gospel_oth_reading">Mark 15:1-39, (40-47)</a></i><span> (2024)</span></span></b></div><span style="font-size: large;"><b></b></span></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><span style="font-size: small;"><a href="https://lectionary.library.vanderbilt.edu/texts.php?id=124#gospel_reading">or Luke 22:14-23:56</a><i> or <a href="https://lectionary.library.vanderbilt.edu/texts.php?id=124#gospel_oth_reading">Luke 23:1-49</a> (Year C)</i><span class="citation"><i> </i>or </span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><a href="https://lectionary.library.vanderbilt.edu/texts.php?id=30#gospel_reading">Matthew 26:14-27:66</a></span><span style="font-size: small;"><i><span> or <a href="https://lectionary.library.vanderbilt.edu/texts.php?id=30#gospel_oth_reading">Matthew 27:11-54</a> (Year A)</span></i></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span class="citation"> </span></span><br /><i>See also suggestions for <a href="http://lectionarysong.blogspot.com.au/2015/03/songs-hymns-and-music-for-maundy.html">Maundy Thursday</a> and <a href="http://lectionarysong.blogspot.com.au/2015/03/songs-hymns-and-music-for-good-friday.html">Good Friday</a>.</i><br />
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<li><span style="color: #990000; font-weight: bold;">Online Resource / Resounding Voices </span><span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;">Cloaked in the dark </span>(Jacque Jones / Bernadette Hoke) Words that take us on the journey from Jesus' ride into Jerusalem, through Judas' betrayal and Peter's denial, to the crucifixion. Set to a mournful and beautiful tune. This could be used for a single service, or throughout Holy Week. <a href="https://www.giamusic.com/store/resource/cloaked-in-the-dark-pdf-du01114" target="_blank">Sheet music sample and purchasing options</a>. <a href="https://thehymnsociety.org/resources/resounding-voices/" target="_blank">Free book download here</a>. <span style="color: orange;">New words to old tunes</span>.</li><li><span style="color: #990000; font-weight: bold;">Online Resource </span><span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;">Not on a war horse but on a humble donkey </span> (David Miller)
Good words to the familiar tune FINLANDIA. This is one of those hymns for Passion Sunday
that reminds us what will happen later in the week - especially
appropriate for churches unable to host Holy Week services. <a href="http://mccourtie-connectingfaithandlife.blogspot.com.au/">Lyrics</a>. <span style="color: orange;">New words to old tunes</span>.</li>
<li><b><span style="color: #990000; font-weight: bold;">SFFS 2111 </span><span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;"> We Sang Our Glad Hosannas</span></b> (Mary Nelson Keithahn) Good words that follow Christ from Palm Sunday to the Crucifixion. Sung to a hymn tune. <a href="https://hymnary.org/text/we_sang_our_glad_hosannas" target="_blank">Lyrics</a>.</li>
<li><span style="color: #990000; font-weight: bold;">NCH589 / VU679 </span><span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;"> Let there be light O God of hosts! </span>
(Frances Wheeler Davis) Hopeful words seeking an end to
war and unity and understanding between nations. Verse 3 "Perish the sword!". <a href="https://www.hymnsite.com/lyrics/umh440.sht">Lyrics</a>. <a href="https://www.umcdiscipleship.org/resources/history-of-hymns-let-there-be-light">History</a>. </li>
<li><span style="color: #990000; font-weight: bold;">ATOK 335 </span><span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;"> You rode into Jerus'lem </span>
(Leigh Newton) Excellent words - not so much a congregational song, but a
story-telling song that could be used as a reflection on Good Friday or
Passion Sunday. I love how it puts us in the crowd watching and
participating emotionally in the events of Holy Week. <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yfwUzF9Xq0M&fbclid=IwAR1FH2jS8I7rMC4saeiOEXFQRkvBmcVVZDlr3m9yvezlZlTZFZ1quXTtwHQ">Sound sample</a>. </li><li><b style="color: #990000;">Tune In / Online Resource</b><span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;"> A grain of wheat</span>
(Sheree Anderson) Unless a grain of wheat falls to the ground and dies,
it won't form roots and grow. A boppy song with deeply meaningful
lyrics.<a href="http://brunswick.unitingchurch.org.au/worship/the-arts-in-worship/tune-in/"> Free downloadable songbook and sound samples</a>. <br /></li><li><b style="color: #990000;">Online Resource</b> <span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;">Pray with me the night has come </span>(David
Bjorlin) A beautiful song of waiting and watching; sufficiently
repetitive for people to sing without lyrics if you would like. Sung to a
beautiful old Welsh tune. <a href="https://www.giamusic.com/store/resource/remember-god-your-promises-pdf-d1010134">Lyrics</a><a href="https://www.giamusic.com/store/resource/stay-with-me-the-night-has-come-pdf-d1010135">, sheet music sample, sound sample, and purchasing options</a>. <span style="color: orange;">New words to old tunes</span>.</li><li><span style="color: #990000;"><b>Online Resource </b></span><span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;">Leaven us with holy yeast </span>(Hannah
Brown / Ben Brody) Great new words with plentiful bread images, and a
beautiful tune. The chorus works well on its own, or you can use it with
verses (the tune is the same for both). <a href="https://www.giamusic.com/store/resource/leaven-us-with-holy-yeast-pdf-du01584" target="_blank">Sheet music sample and purchasing options</a>. </li><li><span style="color: #990000; font-weight: bold;">Online Resource</span> <span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;">God is found in teeming jungles </span>(David
Bjorlin) A hymn about God being present in all things, including things that do not feel good at the time. Set to
the familiar tune PLEADING SAVIOUR. <a href="https://www.giamusic.com/store/resource/god-is-found-in-teeming-jungles-pdf-d1010116">Sheet music sample and options for purchase</a>. <span style="color: orange;">New words to old tunes</span>. </li><li><span style="color: #990000; font-weight: bold;">Online Resource / Recorded Music </span><span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;">Every single stone's a broken stone </span> (Leigh Newton) A very moving song about Peter's denial; written in 2021! <a href="https://leighnewton.com.au/every-single-stone-2/">Sheet music, lyrics & sound sample.</a> </li><li><span style="color: #990000; font-weight: bold;">TiS
617 / NCH413 / UMH517 / WoV736 / ELW626 / A&M605 / GtG818
/ PH342 / W&R75 / 82Hml-695 / Lau428 </span> <span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;"> By gracious powers so wonderfully sheltered </span>
(Dietrich Bonhoeffer / Fred Pratt Green) Wonderful words by Bonhoeffer, but most
tunes that this has been set to are a bit tricky (INTERCESSOR or
HIGHWOOD). I quite like the tune in NCH (BONHOEFFER). The 5th verse is
omitted in some hymnals. <a href="http://www.hymnary.org/hymn/RL/55">Lyrics.</a><span style="color: #990000; font-weight: bold;"> </span><span style="color: orange;">New words to old tunes</span> There is also a very nice contemporary tune for the same words by Douglas Simper in his book <a href="https://www.mediacomeducation.org.au/shop/singing-the-journey/" target="_blank">Singing the Journey</a>. It makes the words feel much more relevant sung to this tune, but it will need to be taught, or sung by a soloist. <br /></li><li><span style="color: #990000; font-weight: bold;">Online Resource / URW093 </span><span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;"> Christ is the Truth the Way </span> (Ruth Duck) Excellent words of the leadership of Christ, sung to the
majestic tune DIADEMATA. <a href="https://www.giamusic.com/store/resource/christ-is-the-truth-the-way-pdf-d940207" target="_blank">Lyrics</a>. <a href="https://www.giamusic.com/store/resource/christ-is-the-truth-the-way-pdf-d940207" target="_blank">Purchasing options</a>. <span style="color: orange;">New words to old tunes</span> <br /></li><li><b><span style="color: #990000;">MV 145 / CP418 / SP&P123</span></b> <span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;">Draw the circle wide </span>(Gordon Light) A great song about welcoming all people. Chorus is “Draw
the circle wide, draw it wider still. Let this be our song, no-one
stands alone, standing side by side, draw the circle wide”. <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H7ENEaxVxj4" target="_blank">Video with sheet music</a>.</li><li><b style="color: #990000;">TiS
720 / AHB 295 / AoVK-85 / AoV2-046 / ATOK 319 / NCH236 / Iona (Many
& Great, There is one among us) / CH345 / VU958 / StJ / A&M836 / SFFS 2026 /
HPP571 / GtG591 / GC(II)261 / G(3)329 / W&R005
/ Cha041 / ZSS76 / SP324 / PfAS150G / URW370 / Lau178 </b><span style="color: #000099;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Halle halle hallelujah </span>(</span>Traditional
Caribbean) A good Alleluia would work well for this passage, and I
think this one is particularly excellent – simple, great for kids, good
rhythm. PfAS uses it as a Psalm refrain which would work well for any translation of the Psalm. <span style="color: magenta;">Good for kids.</span> <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xjf6bYQRbtU">Sound sample</a>.</li><li><span style="color: #990000;"><b>TiS 626 / AHB 557 / CH500 / GA423 / Lau869</b></span> <span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;"> Lord of creation to you be all praise! </span>(Jack Winslow) A wonderful traditional, and quite inclusive, hymn to the familiar tune SLANE. <a href="http://www.hymnary.org/hymn/RL/68">Lyrics</a>.<span style="color: orange;"> Oldy-but-a-goody</span>.</li><li><span style="color: #990000; font-weight: bold;">TiS 185 </span><span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;"> Alleluia We praise you God Creator Lord </span>
(John Charles McIntyre) A chanted Alleluia based on Pachelbel's canon, coupled with
some nice affirmations of faith from a 2nd part of the congregation, or
cantor. This is quite lovely. </li><li><span style="color: #990000;"><b>NCH398 / MV044 / W&R599 / URW072</b></span> <span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;"> Shadow and Substance </span> (Daniel Damon) Good clear words of being Christ's community in all our diversity. A simple tune. <a href="http://www.hymnary.org/text/shadow_and_substance">Sample sheet music</a>.</li><li><span style="color: #990000; font-weight: bold;">NCH302 / VU212 </span><span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;"> Eternal Christ you rule </span>
(Daniel Damon) Challenging words about how the
rule of Christ is so vastly different from the rulership of popular
earthly leaders. Simple hymnlike tune. <a href="https://www.hopepublishing.com/find-hymns-hw/hw3621.aspx" target="_blank">Lyrics and sheet music</a>.<br /></li><li><b style="color: #990000;">Taizé / TiS
730 / AoV1-152 / ATOK 387 / CH775 / UMH488 / WoV740 / ELW616 / GA308 /
A&M838 / HPP214 / GtG227 / PH599 / G(II)293 / GC404 / GC(II)422 /
G(3)510 /</b><span style="color: #990000;"><b>
<span lang="EN-US">W&R285<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>/
Cha569<span style="mso-tab-count: 2;"> </span>/ Srce387<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>/ URW382<span style="mso-tab-count: 2;"> </span>/ Lau253 / StF777</span></b></span><span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;"> Jesus remember me </span>(Jacques Berthier) A beautiful chant, but we have not sung it often. <a href="http://www.taize.fr/spip.php?page=chant&song=356&lang=en">Sheet music and sound samples</a>.<b style="color: #990000;"> </b> </li><li><b style="color: #990000;">TiS 357 / ATA 147 </b> <span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;">When his time was over the palms lay where they fell </span> (Robin Mann) Beautiful and mournful. <a href="http://www.robinmann.com.au/rs/7/sites/1178/user_uploads/File/All%20Songs%20%28PDF%29/whenourlifebegan.pdf">Lyrics</a>.</li><li><b style="color: #990000;">CH348 / StS001 / LBW196 / ELW843 / A&M762 / G(3)625 / CP397 / W&R93 / SP304 / URW090</b> <span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;"> Praise the One Who Breaks the Darkness </span>
(Rusty Edwards) Good words of Christ's ministry to all. Can be sung to the
familiar tune NETTLETON, or the less familiar and very lovely tune JOEL.
<a href="https://www.hopepublishing.com/find-hymns-hw/hw3722.aspx">Lyrics and sheet music</a>.<span style="color: orange;"> New words to old tunes</span>
</li><li><b><span style="color: #990000;">TiS 356 / CH385 / Cha203 / StF273</span></b> <span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;">Here hangs a man discarded </span>(Brian Wren) Excellent words including “Can such a
clown of sorrows still bring a useful word where faith and love seem
phantoms and every hope absurd?”. Also works very well with TiS 339
(Passion Chorale) if your congregation is scared of new tunes. <a href="http://www.hopepublishing.com/html/main.isx?sitesec=40.2.1.0&hymnID=2598">Lyrics and sheet music</a>. <span style="color: orange;">New words to old tunes</span>.</li><li><b style="color: #990000;">Tune In / Online Resource </b><span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;">In the shape of a cross</span> (Dave Brown) A cry to God for help and a call for God to enter our world. <a href="http://brunswick.unitingchurch.org.au/worship/the-arts-in-worship/tune-in/">Free downloadable songbook and sound samples</a>. </li><li><b style="color: #990000;">Tune In / Online Resource </b><span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;">See our God with the tear-streaked face / Our God who weeps</span> (Kate Scull) Very simple folk tune and challenging and hopeful lyrics. <a href="http://brunswick.unitingchurch.org.au/worship/the-arts-in-worship/tune-in/">Free downloadable songbook and sound samples</a>. </li><li><b style="color: #990000;">Worldmaking.net</b> <span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;">O Christ, Lamb of God </span>(Richard Bruxvoort-Colligan) A more modern Agnus Dei, with Christ sharing our weakness. <a href="https://psalmimmersion.bandcamp.com/track/o-christ-lamb-of-god-an-agnus-dei">Lyrics and sound sample</a>.</li><li><b style="color: #990000;">Protest and Praise / Online Resource</b> <span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;">Two trees rose from the garden ground </span>(David
Bjorlin / Benjamin Brody) A reflection on trees which starts with the
choice of the tree of good and tree of evil, leads to the tree on which
Jesus dies, and ends with the restoration of Eden. <a href="https://www.giamusic.com/store/resource/two-trees-rose-from-the-garden-ground-pdf-d1010141">Lyrics, sheet music sample and purchasing options</a>.</li><li><b style="color: #990000;">Online Resource</b> <span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;">Nothing is wasted </span>(David Bjorlin) A simple gospel-style chorus, which fits well with the idea that even difficult times, death, and suffering are not a waste. <a href="https://giamusic.com/resource/nothing-is-wasted-pdf-du01813?source=gmail&ust=1710845640169000&usg=AOvVaw2gWKJF_OaliTXyhsL7VPEC&utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email" target="_blank">Sheet music sample and purchasing options</a>. <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2vR1KoDfFL0" target="_blank">Sound sample</a>. <br /></li>
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<i><span style="color: #274e13;"><b>What will you be singing? Feel free to add your suggestions in the comments below. </b></span></i>
</div>Lectionary Singer (Natalie Sims)http://www.blogger.com/profile/15635861565689089555noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3953574041544310550.post-47103609594893492402024-02-25T03:46:00.000-08:002024-03-18T04:13:47.510-07:00Songs for Mothering Sunday (10 March 2024) / Mothers' Day (12 May 2024) <script async="" src="https://www.googletagmanager.com/gtag/js?id=G-E0N4VFC2F8"></script>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>Songs about mothers
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<li><span style="color: #990000;"></span><span style="color: #990000;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">WoV692 / ELW419 / GtG324 / RS885</span> </span> <span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;"> For all the faithful women </span>
(Herman Steumpfle) Great words of the faithfulness of women, including
Hannah, Mary, Mary Magdalene, Deborah and Miriam. Sung to a very
familiar tune (AURELIA). You could choose just the verses you want so
it's not too long, (but all the verses are good). Some words are a bit
odd (like the bit about saving "our race" could unfortunately be easily
misconstrued). <a href="http://watchtheshepherd.blogspot.com.au/2013/07/for-all-faithful-women-strength-in-hymn.html">Lyrics</a>. <a href="https://www.smallchurchmusic.com/Song_Display-New.php?SID=155">Sound sample and tune sheet music</a>. <span style="color: orange;">New words to old tunes</span>. <span class="post-author vcard"> </span> </li>
<li><span style="color: #990000;"><b>SFFS 2189</b></span> <span style="color: #000066; font-weight: bold;"><span style="color: #000099;">A mother lined a basket</span> </span>(Mary Nelson Keithahn)
Quite a remarkable song about the nurture mothers provide and the risks they take in letting children go.
"A mother lined a basket to keep her baby dry, then rocked him on a
river lest he awake and cry, She let a princess name him, her son, that
he might live, God's people had a leader, she had such hope to give". Could be sung to other tunes such as THORNBURY if you do not want to learn a new tune. <a href="http://www.hymnary.org/text/a_mother_lined_a_basket">Lyrics</a>. <span style="color: orange;">New words to old tunes</span>. </li>
<li><span style="color: #990000; font-weight: bold;">NCH426 </span> <span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;"> O God whose steadfast love </span>
(James Haddix) A song about family and motherhood. The tune is a very
familiar sounding hymn tune (RHOSYMEDRE). <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SnVyiR9LO2A" target="_blank">Lyric video</a>. <span style="color: orange;">New words to old tunes</span>. </li><li><b style="color: #990000;">Recorded music / Soloist song</b> <span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;">I have travelled many moonless nights / Breath of Heaven </span>
(Amy Grant) Yes! Amy Grant! This song beautifully captures some of the
uncertainty that Mary may have faced, feelings that many expectant
mothers could relate to! <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FWo3qlqyW1c" target="_blank">Youtube</a>. <br /></li>
<li><span style="color: #990000; font-weight: bold;">A&M137 / G(II)646 / GC892 / GC(II)871 / G(3)983 / SP42 / StF119 </span><span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;"> God of Eve and God of Mary </span> (Fred Kaan) A lovely gentle song that celebrates Mary, Eve, and all who play mothering roles. Set to many possible tunes. <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qqWCDKnIUig">Lyrics and one possible tune's sound sample</a>. <a href="https://www.hopepublishing.com/find-hymns-hw/hw3554.aspx">Sheet music</a>. <span style="color: orange;">New words to old tunes</span>. </li>
<li><span style="color: #990000; font-weight: bold;">Online Resource / Recorded Music </span><span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;">For our mothers of faith </span>(Malcolm Gordon) A good song about mothers and other women who have "mothered" us in the faith. Very simple chorus which would be great to sing along to. <a href="http://onevoice.org.nz/2015/05/05/celebrating-the-mothers-of-our-faith/">Sound sample, lyrics, and lead sheet available here</a>. </li>
<li><b style="color: #990000;">TiS
106 / AHB 14 / AoV1-189 / NCH419 / CH182 / UMH102 / VU236 / LBW534 /
ELW840 / GA425 / A&M739 / HPP283 / GtG643 / PH555 / GC565 / GC(II)545 / G(3)636 / </b>
<b style="color: #990000;">CP399 / CP(E)
530 / W&R14 / Cha715 / 82Hml-396 / StF081 / Lau945 / LUYH543 / MP486</b><span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;"> Now thank we all our God / Nun Danket Alle Gott</span>
(Martin Rinkhart) A classic song of thanks, including the line "who from our mothers' arms has blessed us on our way with countless gifts of love, and still is ours today". Thanks Kathy, for this suggestion. The language is not entirely inclusive in all
versions. Chalice has great inclusive words. It's in the public domain,
so changing the older English translation is quite acceptable. <a href="https://hymnary.org/text/now_thank_we_all_our_god">Lyrics and sheet music</a>. <span style="color: orange;">Oldy-but-a-goody</span>.</li>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>God as Mother </b></span><span style="color: #990000; font-weight: bold;"> </span><br />
<ul style="text-align: left;">
<li><span style="color: #990000;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Online Resource / Walk as One</span> </span><span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;">Hear our sorrow Mothering God </span>
(Rosie O'Reilly) A simple chant that would work well during prayers of the people or prayers of confession. By the time Mothers' Day comes around, the writer of this song will be a new mother! <a href="https://www.cmla.org.au/product/walk-as-one-pdf-download/" target="_blank">Book (PDF) for purchase</a>. </li><li><span style="color: #990000; font-weight: bold;">VU270 </span> <span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;"> Dear Mother God your wings are warm </span>
(Janet Wootton) Good images of God as mother; the tune is not known and will
need to be taught. Could also be sung to PERFECT LOVE, I think. <span style="color: orange;">New words to old tunes</span>. <a href="https://www.hopepublishing.com/find-hymns-hw/hw4702.aspx">Sheet music & lyrics</a>. </li>
<li><span style="color: #990000; font-weight: bold;">VU484 </span> <span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;"> God the all-holy Maker and Mother </span> (Brian Wren) A Trinitarian song, with the first verse focussed on God as Mother. Sung to the familiar tune BUNESSAN (Morning has broken). <a href="https://www.hopepublishing.com/find-hymns-hw/hw2569.aspx">Sheet music and lyrics</a>. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bunessan_(hymn_tune)">Sound sample and history of tune</a>. <span style="color: orange;">New words to old tunes</span>.</li>
<li><b style="color: #990000;">NCH467 / CH117 / VU320 / WoV769 / ELW735 / SFFS 2050 / HPP242 / GtG007 / Cha083 / VF072</b> <span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;"> Mothering God you gave me birth </span>
(Jean Janzen) Lovely words to the well known tune MARYTON. Feminine
trinitarian imagery. I like the tune MOTHER JULIAN (CH4 117(I)) best. <a href="https://michaelsprayers.wordpress.com/2015/04/01/mothering-god-you-gave-me-birth/">Lyrics and sound sample (youtube)</a></li>
<li><b style="color: #990000;">AoV1-085 / GtG474 / Lau453 / PfAS131E </b><span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;">Like a child rests in its mother's arms </span>(Christopher Walker) A very beautiful and simple refrain; works well on its own. Note that GtG and PfAS have removed the beautiful rest in the 2nd bar of the song, which is one of the things I love about it! I'm quietly outraged... <a href="http://www.ocp.org/compositions/1849#tab:mp3s">Sound sample and sheet music for (paid) download</a> (including the "restful rest")</li>
<li><span style="color: #990000; font-weight: bold;">VU280 </span> <span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;"> Mother and God </span>
(Miriam Therese Winter) A short song, suitable for before the intercessions or
communion. Beautiful words; some may find the breastfeeding God image a
little challenging. Simple tune. <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wAabITtP7vY" target="_blank">Sound sample</a>. </li>
<li><span style="color: #990000; font-weight: bold;">BUC Song Project </span><span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;">Mother Our God </span> (David Brown) A plain-speaking song that celebrates the image of God as mother, and questions why we have found it hard.</li>
<li><span style="color: #990000; font-weight: bold;">VF136 </span> <span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;"> Mothers call upon the Maker </span>
(Jane Hawes) Words for mothers, sisters and daughters; this hymn draws on ideas of the way that God is mother, sister and daughter too. Sung to an older hymn tune RUSTINGTON. <span style="color: orange;">New words to old tunes</span>. <a href="https://www.riteseries.org/song/vf/1937/">Sheet music and sound samples</a> . </li><li><span style="color: #990000;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Online Resource</span> </span><span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;">As a mother loves her children</span>
(David Bjorlin / Swedish Traditional Tune) Words drawing parallels between God's love for us and the love of a mother for her children. <a href="https://www.giamusic.com/store/resource/as-a-mother-loves-her-children-pdf-d1010102">Sheet music sample, lyrics and purchasing options</a>. </li><li><span style="color: #990000; font-weight: bold;">Online Resource</span> <span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;">God is our Mother / God is here dancing within </span>
(Heather Price) This is such a wonderful song. Could be sung on many Sundays. <a href="https://heatherprice.com.au/downloads/full-of-the-spirit-album/" target="_blank">Sound sample and songbook here</a>. <br /></li>
<li><b style="color: #990000;">Online Resource</b> <span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;">Are you not also a mother? </span>(Christopher Grundy) I really like this relaxed jazzy rendition of the prayer of St. Anselm (from ~1100). More for listening than congregational singing. And yeah, saxophone, right? <a href="https://soundcloud.com/christopher-grundy/st-anselms-prayer-are-you-not-also-a-mother">Live recording</a>. You can find the translation of the prayer <a href="http://aclerkofoxford.blogspot.com.au/2012/06/anselms-prayer-to-st-paul-our-greatest.html">here</a>. </li>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>God as Grandmother </b></span> <br />
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<li><b style="color: #990000;">Online Resource</b> <span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;">Grandmother God / Younger than a youth </span>
(Brian Wren) This is a great two part song, with a simple bass part and then a second part for the rest of the congregation. Great imagery of strong older women. <a href="https://www.hopepublishing.com/W3783-AT_YOUR_ALTARS/" target="_blank">Sheet music sample, and downloadable book available for purchase here.<br /></a></li></ul><p><i style="color: #800180;">P.S. Before your correct my grammar, I know it's really "Mother's Day" not "Mothers' Day", but I believe if we are going to celebrate it in the church, this day should be one for celebrating and supporting all mothers and the motherly aspects of God's nature. I guess my thoughts about this day are more in line with Mothering Sunday.</i><br /></p><ul style="text-align: left;">
</ul>Lectionary Singer (Natalie Sims)http://www.blogger.com/profile/15635861565689089555noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3953574041544310550.post-24345009385893297662024-02-11T02:51:00.000-08:002024-03-18T04:13:39.685-07:00Songs, Hymns & Music for Lent 5B (17 March 2024)<script async="" src="https://www.googletagmanager.com/gtag/js?id=G-E0N4VFC2F8"></script>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><a href="http://lectionary.library.vanderbilt.edu/texts.php?id=75#hebrew_reading">Jeremiah 31:31-34</a>
<span style="font-style: italic;"> </span></b></span><br />
<span style="font-style: italic;">Promise
of a new covenant – God’s law written on Israel’s hearts. All will know
God, not just hear about God. God will forgive their sins.</span><br />
<ul style="text-align: left;">
<li><b style="color: #990000;">Online Resource / TiS 679</b> <span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;"> God of Jeremiah grieving </span>
(Brian Wren) If you are going to focus on Jeremiah for the next few weeks,
this would be a good hymn to learn. The traditional Scottish
tune <a href="http://www.contemplator.com/scotland/kelvin.html">KELVIN GROVE</a> is well known as the tune for "The Summons". <a href="http://www.hopepublishing.com/html/main.isx?sitesec=40.2.1.0&hymnID=2713">Lyrics and free sheet music PDF</a>.</li>
<li><span style="color: #990000; font-weight: bold;">BUC Song Project </span><span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;">Do not worry / The Promise</span>
(Elaine Loukes) A simple song reminding us of God's presence and promise. <span style="color: magenta;">Good for kids.</span> </li>
<li>
<span style="color: #990000; font-weight: bold;">ATW 459 </span><span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;">I don't believe in a God up in the sky / God Version 1.0</span>(Robin Mann) An excellent rock song about how we think about God, or not! <a href="http://www.robinmann.com.au/rs/7/sites/1178/user_uploads/File/All%20Songs%20%28PDF%29/godversion1.pdf">Lyrics</a> and <a href="http://www.robinmann.com.au/rs/7/sites/1178/user_uploads/File/Mp3/06%20God%20Version%201_0.mp3">mp3</a>. <span style="color: magenta;">Good for kids.</span> </li>
<li><b style="color: #990000;">Online Resource / TiS
658 / AoV1-090 / ATE 296 / CH251 / UMH593 / VU509 / WoV752 / ELW574 /
GA496 / A&M494 / HPP541 / GtG069 / PH525 / G(II)492 / GC(II)671 / G(3)777 / CP(E) 470 / W&R559 /
Cha452 / Srce328 / Lau865 / StF663 / MP857</b> <span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;">I the Lord of sea and sky / Here I am Lord </span>(Dan Schutte) Song of God searching for us and our response. <a href="https://www.ocp.org/en-us/songs/1523/here-i-am-lord" target="_blank">Multilingual sound samples, sheet music samples, purchasing options</a>. <br /></li>
<li><b><span style="color: #990000;">UMH729 / VU682 / LBW161 / WoV762 / ELW627 / GtG373 / PH450 / CP573 / W&R539 / Cha711 / URW140 / 82Hml-597 </span></b><span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;">O day of peace that dimly shines </span>
(Carl P Daw) A song of hoped-for peace. The tune in Chalice hymnal is really
nice (CANDLER) or O WALY WALY which is used in URW. Other sources use
JERUSALEM, which is a bit too militaristic for me. <a href="http://www.hopepublishing.com/html/main.isx?sitesec=40.2.1.0&hymnID=3129">Lyrics and JERUSALEM sheet music.</a> <span style="color: orange;">New words to old tunes</span>. </li>
<li><b style="color: #990000;">Worldmaking.net </b> <span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;"> O Holy One </span>
(Richard Bruxvoort-Colligan) A very simple song for the start of worship. It
could be sung altogether as a congregation or responsively. We sang this
every week of Lent one year. <a href="https://psalmimmersion.bandcamp.com/track/o-holy-one-an-invocation">Sound sample and lyrics.</a> </li>
<li><span style="color: #990000;"><b>NCH286 / ATE 218 / VU375 / WoV684 / ELW396 / HPP239 / GtG291 / PH319 / W&R326 / Cha249</b></span> <span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;">Spirit spirit of gentleness </span>(James Manley) Lovely, gentle song. Very easy to sing, but can get slow and ponderous if you're not careful. <a href="http://users.rcn.com/exetercongchurch/Spirit.htm">Lyrics</a> </li>
<li><span style="color: #990000;"><b>ATA 184</b></span> <span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;"> Spring follows winter (Love is the law) </span>
(Robin Mann) Lovely words to a familiar traditional English (?) melody.
Mostly inclusive. Particularly good for the Northern Hemisphere where
it's Spring Equinox. <a href="http://www.robinmann.com.au/My-Songs-All-Together-Again-Love-is-the-law-pg30650.html">Lyrics</a>. <br /></li>
<li><b style="color: #990000;">TiS
560 / AHB 465 / NCH408 / CH192 / UMH132 / VU654/655 / WoV782 / ELW757 /
A&M584 / CP529 / CP(E) 368 / Cha088 / Srce2-15 / 82Hml-665 / Lau959 / StF455 / MP016</b> <span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;"> All my hope on God is founded / is firmly grounded </span>
(Joachim Neander) Be aware that most translations of this well known German hymn are entirely masculine for God; the NCH and WoV have gender neutral language. <a href="https://hymnary.org/hymn/TIS1999/560b">One version of the lyrics</a>. <a href="https://www.foresidechurch.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/2024-01-21-online.pdf" target="_blank">Gender neutral paraphrase (from NCH, scroll to page 4)</a>. <span style="color: orange;">Oldy-but-a-goody</span>.</li>
<li><b><span style="color: #990000;">TiS
90 / AHB 44 / UMH60 / VU867 / GtG806 / PH253 / A&M673
/ CP346 / CP(E) 473 / W&R79 / Cha20 / 82Hml-429 / StF079 / MP320</span> </b> <span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;"><span style="color: #990000;"> </span>I'll praise my Maker while I've breath </span> (Isaac Watts) A great classic hymn. Most sources are not inclusive; Voices United is! <a href="https://www.jubilate.co.uk/songs/ill_praise_my_maker_while_ive_breath_jubilate_version">Lyrics (not the inclusive ones)</a>. <span style="color: orange;"><span style="color: orange;">Oldy-but-a-goody.</span></span>
</li>
<li><span style="color: #990000; font-weight: bold;">TiS 407 / AHB 320 /
NCH292 / CH596 / UMH420 / VU382 / StJ / LBW488 / A&M236 / GA432 / HPP227 /
GtG286 / PH316 / GC800 / GC(II)800 / CP649 / CP(E) 174 / W&R461 / Cha254 /
Srce81 / URW167 / 82Hml-508 / Lau302 / StF370 / MP067 </span> <span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;"> Breathe on me Breath of God </span>
(Edwin Hatch) An older style inclusive hymn. Good words seeking the
spirits gifts of new life, purity and unity with Christ. If you sing<a href="http://www.hymnary.org/hymn/GATHER/800"> this version</a>, it can be sung to a lovely simple, and quite intuitive Celtic tune (ST COLUMBA). If you sing <a href="http://www.hymnary.org/text/breathe_on_me_breath_of_god">this version</a>,
it can also be sung to HAMPTON, TRENTHAM, or DURHAM. Recently, a
reader (Adam Kukuk) posted a reworking of this hymn which I think it
pretty darn cool. <a href="https://soundcloud.com/adamkukuk/breathe-on-me">Have a listen</a> (lead sheets available at the link on his site). <span style="color: orange;">Oldy-but-a-goody</span>.</li>
</ul>
<span style="font-size: large;"><b><a href="http://lectionary.library.vanderbilt.edu/texts.php?id=75#psalm_reading">Psalm 51:1-12</a><span style="font-style: italic;"> </span></b></span><br />
<span style="font-style: italic;">A Prayer for forgiveness and a new heart</span><br />
<span style="font-style: italic;">You might like to sing a <a href="http://lectionarysong.blogspot.com.au/2010/06/kyrie-eleison-lord-have-mercy.html">Kyrie</a>.</span> <br /><ul style="text-align: left;"><li><span style="color: #990000;"><b>Online Resource</b></span> <span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;">Broken </span>(Elaine Loukes) A gentle song for tired pilgrims. <a href="https://brunswick.unitingchurch.org.au/worship/the-arts-in-worship/buc-song-project/" target="_blank">Free sheet music, r</a><a href="https://brunswick.unitingchurch.org.au/worship/the-arts-in-worship/buc-song-project/">ecording and lyrics</a>. <br /></li><li><b style="color: #990000;">Iona (SBL) / MV068 / G(II)405 / GC581 / GtG578 / PfAS009A </b><b><span style="color: #000099;">Kyrie Guarany / On the poor, on the poor / Oré poriajú verekó</span> </b>(Pablo Sosa / Guarani people) A
simple Kyrie from Paraguay; This is our current favourite at Brunswick.
The English translation varies depending on the source (we don't sing On the Poor). <a href="https://soundcloud.com/user-395259634/kyrie-eleison-english" target="_blank">Sound sample in Guarani</a>. <a href="https://soundcloud.com/user-395259634/kyrie-eleison-english" target="_blank">Sound sample in Greek</a> (Hey, that's my family singing!) <span style="color: magenta;">Good for kids.</span> </li><li><b style="color: #990000;">Online Resource</b> <span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;">Open my heart </span> (Ana Hernandez) A beautiful 3 part chant, which also works as a single part chant. <a href="http://anahermusic.blogspot.com.au/2015/02/forget-lent-iii-softening-and-unlearning.html">Sheet music</a>. <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vlnE5GMkSsA">Youtube of the song being taught and sung in 3 parts</a>. </li><li><span style="color: #990000;"><b>Online Resource / Tune In / NCYC '07</b></span> <span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;">Forgive us now </span>(Dave Brown) An excellent ballad. "Forgive us now, O mother love for all the idols we have built, For all
the time we’ve worshiped there in company of dark despair. Forgive us
mother of all hope”. <a href="http://brunswick.unitingchurch.org.au/worship/the-arts-in-worship/tune-in/">Free downloadable songbook and sound samples</a>. </li><li><b style="color: #990000;">Iona (Sent By the Lord) / MV066</b> <span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;">Senzenina? / What have we done? </span>
(South African) This beautiful chant from South Africa asks the
question that we often ask when things go wrong beyond belief. It's
important to know what the song means when singing it. If you have some
part-singers in your congregation, this would be particular good. It's
good to let people ask this question. It is also on the soundtrack for
"The Power of One" so you could also play the recorded music if
appropriate. <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SJP79Zon3Ek">Sound sample</a>. <a href="https://www.8notes.com/scores/16254.asp">Free sheet music</a>. Maybe this could work as a Psalm response?</li><li><span style="color: #990000; font-weight: bold;">MV015 / GA186 </span> <span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;"> Holy Sacred Spirit </span>
(Monica Brown) Gentle chant, which would work well at the start of the
service. Can be used without the cantor part. "Holy Sacred Spirit,
breathe your breath on us". <a href="https://vimeo.com/97628653">Youtube</a> (VERY SLOW) <span style="color: magenta;">Good to help kids settle.</span> </li><li><span style="color: #990000; font-weight: bold;"> STB043 </span><span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;"> Lord we did not live up to your teachings / Amra tomar adesh rupe </span>
(Bart Shaha) A Bengali Kyrie. The translation is good, and quite
challenging. This will need to be taught; it could be sung in Bengali,
because (like a Kyrie) it's repetitive. <a href="https://hymnary.org/text/he_probhu_tumi_doya_koro" target="_blank">Sample sheet music</a>.<br /></li><li><b style="color: #990000;">AoV1-158 / GA438</b> <span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;"> Create a new heart Holy Lord / A new heart for a new world </span>
(Monica O'Brien / Trish Watts) Very simple melody, excellent words "Create a new heart
Holy Lord, beckon our lives through your word, open our eyes to your
call, United as one for your world". <a href="http://www.sixmaddens.org/?p=1637">Lyrics and slightly odd sound sample. </a></li><li><b style="color: #990000;">TiS 712 / AoV2-021 / ATE 269 / The tide has turned songbook</b> <span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;">Create in me / us a clean heart O God </span>(Digby Hannah) A big favourite in our congregation, and a big favourite of mine. <a href="https://www.sixmaddens.org/?p=1879">Lyrics & sound sample</a>. </li><li><b style="color: #990000;">GA040 </b> <span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;"> Create in Me a Clean Heart O God </span> (Monica O'Brien) Nice refrain and simple cantor part for this Psalm.</li><li><span style="color: #990000; font-weight: bold;">GtG423 / W&R378 / PfAS051H </span> <span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;"> Create in Me a Clean Heart O God </span> (John Carter) A very simple, and repetitive version of the Psalm. <a href="http://www.hymnary.org/hymn/WAR2003/389">Lyrics and sheet music sample</a>. </li><li><b style="color: #990000;">GC(II)409 / G(3)477</b> <span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;">Lord Jesus Christ son of the living God </span>(Carol Browning)
A simple chant based on "The Jesus Prayer" with a beautiful (and
optional) cantor which is really worth using. Nice chords! Nice sound sample and
sheet music sample <a href="http://c1824532.cdn.cloudfiles.rackspacecloud.com/GC2_409-1.mp3">Sound sample</a> <a href="http://c1824532.cdn.cloudfiles.rackspacecloud.com/GC2_409-1.jpg">Lead sheet. </a>
</li><li><span style="color: #990000; font-weight: bold;">Cha743 </span> <span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;"> Create in me a clean heart O God </span> (Carl Mueller) Very simple refrain based on a choral work, with a responsive reading. <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1PjDKHeEX7k">Here's a recording of the choral work</a>.<br /></li><li><span style="color: #990000; font-weight: bold;">PfAS051I </span> <span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;"> Lord Have Mercy </span> (Kathleen Hart Brumm) A simple call and response Kyrie. <a href="https://musescore.com/song/kyrie_lord_have_mercy_brumm_kathleen_hart_brumm-2147306">Instrumental sheet music</a>. <span style="color: magenta;">Good for kids if you sing it with some energy</span>.</li><li><span style="color: #990000; font-weight: bold;">GtG431 / SFFS 2134 </span> <span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;"> Forgive Us Lord / Perdon Senor </span>
(Jorge Lockward / Raquel Mora Martínez) Call and response prayer of confession. <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IuuWuaa26ck">Recording</a>.<br /></li><li><span style="color: #990000; font-weight: bold;">NCH784 </span> <span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;"> Create in Me a clean heart </span> (Emma Lou Diemer) Easy to sing. Nice words.
</li><li><b style="color: #990000;">Online Resource</b> <span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;">Create in Me a pure Heart O God </span> (Bruce Harding) A nice round, with an optional descant part. <span style="color: magenta;">Good for kids. <a href="https://evensong.ca/scripture-reference-psalm5110-11/">Free sheet music </a></span>.</li><li><span style="color: #990000; font-weight: bold;"> Iona (Love and Anger) / StS067 / PfAS051G / STB120 </span><span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;"> Have mercy on us Lord / Khudaya rahem kar </span>
(Pakistan) A nice alternative. It would be nice to get your
congregation to sing something from South Asia. PfAS uses only the first
line as a Psalm refrain, which may be the simplest approach for Anglo
congregations to dip their toes into South Asian melodies. Lyrics also
in Urdhu, but works well in
English too. <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zV7vZwfwR_Y">Youtube</a></li><li><b style="color: #990000;">Worldmaking.net</b> <span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;">O Tender God, Have Mercy </span>(Richard Bruxvoort-Colligan) A gentle, modern version of the Kyrie. <a href="https://psalmimmersion.bandcamp.com/track/o-tender-god-have-mercy-ps-51">Sound sample, lyrics and theology</a></li><li><span style="color: #990000; font-weight: bold;">NCH589 / VU679 </span><span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;"> Let there be light O God of hosts! </span>
(Frances Wheeler Davis) Hopeful words seeking an end to
war and unity and understanding between nations. Verse two "Open our lips!" <a href="https://www.hymnsite.com/lyrics/umh440.sht">Lyrics</a>. <a href="https://www.umcdiscipleship.org/resources/history-of-hymns-let-there-be-light">History</a>. </li><li> <b style="color: #990000;">ATOK 399</b> <span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;">Holding out your hand (</span>Gerry Holmes) I like this one. <span style="color: magenta;">Good for kids</span>.</li><li><b style="color: #990000;">Psalm Project - Sharing the Road</b> <span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;">Wash Me Clean </span>(Richard Bruxvoort-Colligan) A nice, gentle reworking of the Psalm. Might be good to ask a musician to sing this one. <a href="https://psalmimmersion.bandcamp.com/track/wash-me-clean-ps-51">Available here</a>.</li><li><b style="color: #990000;">TiS 729 / Iona (HSNW)</b><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="color: #000099;"> Jesus Christ, Son of God have mercy upon us </span></span>(John Bell) A very very simple call and response chant. </li><li><span style="color: #990000; font-weight: bold;">ATOK 354 / ELW801 / SFFS 2152 / GtG695 / SP&P128 / W&R373 / PfAS051A / ZSS178 / Srce95 / MP069 </span> <span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;"> Change my heart O God / Cambiame Senor </span> (Eddie Espinosa) A mushy old favourite. <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CEtsHWFE6-w">Sound sample</a>. </li><li><span style="color: #990000; font-weight: bold;">Online Resource</span> <span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;">Create in Me </span>(Tom Keesecker) A lovely choral piece. Listen to the full sound sample, it just gets better and better. <a href="http://www.canticledistributing.com/two-canticles-for-lent.html">Sound sample, PDF sample, and purchasing options</a>.</li><li><b style="color: #990000;">Online Resource</b> <span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;">Make a new heart </span>
(Richard Bruxvoort Colligan) A simple chorus just right for joining in
on, and good choruses that could be sung by a cantor or a leader. <a href="https://www.worldmaking.net/make-a-new-heart">Sound sample, lyrics and purchasing options</a>. </li></ul><span style="font-size: large;"><b><i>Alternative Psalm: <a href="http://lectionary.library.vanderbilt.edu/texts.php?id=75#psalm_oth_reading">Psalm 119:9-16</a></i></b></span> <br />
<span style="font-style: italic;">A prayer for purity and focussed commitment to God</span><br />
<ul style="text-align: left;">
<li><b style="color: #990000;">Taize / TiS 747 / ATE 214 / Iona (M&G) / GtG842 / PfAS027A / URW393</b> <span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="color: #000099;">The Lord is my light, my light and salvation</span></span>
(Jacques Berthier) A simple and very popular Taize chant. Note that this is really easy on
recorder if you have a kid in your congregation who is learning it. <span style="color: magenta;">Good for kids. </span><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r64gcGMNhDE">Youtube.</a>
<br /></li>
<li><b style="color: #990000;">Iona (WWHW) / MV223</b> <span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;"> We will go with God / Sizohamba naye </span> (Traditional Swaziland) A simple Zulu song from Swaziland. Good for the end of the service. <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VunGjb_mJmQ&feature=related">Video with pronunciation and parts</a>.
Note that MV has a different set of English words; neither are a direct translation. <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H3edl9I5oCg&fbclid=IwAR1g-BWdJG2fyF1RwvKSFzDcL0cGWW6IbwYqVv0HqePDS5UmimKGqOLjIpg" target="_blank">Sound sample of a more traditional version</a>.<span style="color: magenta;"> Good for kids</span>.</li>
<li><b style="color: #990000;">Iona (We walk his way) / G(3)517 </b><span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;">We walk his way / Ewe Thina</span> (South Africa) A joyful, simple African song. I'm guessing it's from South Africa. <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8LHCN6-UrL4">Sound sample</a>.</li>
<li><span style="color: #990000; font-weight: bold;">MV045 / SP&P051 </span><span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;">Hamba nathi</span> (Zulu). There are a lot of translations of this song. I like "Come walk with us, the journey is long". <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S1DawD7YulU">Youtube</a>. <span style="color: magenta;">Good for kids</span>
</li>
<li><b style="color: #990000;">MV008</b> <span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;">And on this path </span>(Linnea Good) An energetic gospel style song. Here's a <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oTuuIAQHjwI">youtube video</a>.
We sing it much slower than this and as a gospel style song with big
chords and a groovy bass part. I thought I'd never say that we sing
something slower than anyone!</li>
<li><span style="color: #990000; font-weight: bold;">TiS 407 / AHB 320 /
NCH292 / CH596 / UMH420 / VU382 / StJ / LBW488 / A&M236 / GA432 / HPP227 /
GtG286 / PH316 / GC800 / GC(II)800 / CP649 / CP(E) 174 / W&R461 / Cha254 /
Srce81 / URW167 / 82Hml-508 / Lau302 / StF370 / MP067 </span> <span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;"> Breathe on me Breath of God </span>
(Edwin Hatch) An older style inclusive hymn. Good words seeking the
spirits gifts of new life, purity and unity with Christ. If you sing<a href="http://www.hymnary.org/hymn/GATHER/800"> this version</a>, it can be sung to a lovely simple, and quite intuitive Celtic tune (ST COLUMBA). If you sing <a href="http://www.hymnary.org/text/breathe_on_me_breath_of_god">this version</a>,
it can also be sung to HAMPTON, TRENTHAM, or DURHAM. Recently, a
reader (Adam Kukuk) posted a reworking of this hymn which I think it
pretty darn cool. <a href="https://soundcloud.com/adamkukuk/breathe-on-me">Have a listen</a> (lead sheets available at the link on his site). <span style="color: orange;">Oldy-but-a-goody</span>.</li>
</ul>
<span style="font-size: large;"><b><a href="http://lectionary.library.vanderbilt.edu/texts.php?id=75#epistle_reading">Hebrews 5:5-10</a> </b></span><br /><div style="text-align: left;">
<span style="font-style: italic;">Suffering son and high priest.</span> </div>
<ul style="text-align: left;"><li> <b style="color: #990000;">NCH162 / LBW417 / ELW718</b> <span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;"> In a lowly manger born </span>
(Ko Yuki) Translations vary in different sources. I like the NCH translation
(by Vern Rossman) best, as it speaks of Christ as a worker and "God the
Human One". Written by a Japanese hymnwriter. There are also a couple of
tunes that work for this and the NCH one is quite singable. <a href="https://digitalsongsandhymns.com/songs/in-a-lowly-manger-born" target="_blank">Lyrics</a>.<br /></li><li><span style="color: #990000; font-weight: bold;">Online Resource / Tune In: </span><span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;">He left his home, fam'ly, friends / A grain of wheat</span>
(Sheree Anderson) Unless a grain of wheat falls to the ground and
dies, it won't form roots and grow. A boppy song with deeply meaningful
lyrics. <a href="http://brunswick.unitingchurch.org.au/worship/the-arts-in-worship/tune-in/">Free downloadable songbook & sound samples. </a><span style="color: magenta;">Good for kids & teenagers</span>.</li><li><span style="color: #990000; font-weight: bold;"><span style="color: #990000; font-weight: bold;">ACS948 / </span>NCH274 / CH118 / SFFS 2046 / GTG003 / CP390 / Cha014 </span> <span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;"> Womb of Life and source of being </span>(Ruth Duck) Feminine Trinitarian imagery. An easier tune, listed in
some hymnals is IN BABILONE. Others have LADUE CHAPEL which is a little
less intuitive. <a href="http://www.hopepublishing.com/html/main.isx?sitesec=40.2.1.0&hymnID=4591">Lyrics</a>.<span style="color: orange;">New words to old tunes</span>.</li><li><span style="color: #990000;"><b>TiS 477 / Iona (LFB, Common Ground) / CH510 / StJ / GA529 / A&M450 / CP059 / SP218 / URW056 / StF028</b></span> <span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;">Jesus calls us here to meet him as through word and song and prayer </span>(John Bell / Graham Maule) Good
words and a rollicking or gentle Celtic tune (depending on how you play
it!). Don't get too gentle though, or it is very hard to sing. Notice
that there should not need to be a breath after EVERY line! <a href="https://knoxchurchdunedin.files.wordpress.com/2018/08/8-5-18am-gospel-with-young-people.pdf">Lyrics</a>
(downloads PDF) 4th verse (not in TiS, but in Iona
sources) leads to communion. “Jesus calls us to confess him Word of life
and Lord of all, sharer of our flesh and frailness saving all who fail
or fall”.</li><li><span style="color: #990000; font-weight: bold;">TiS 721 / Iona (LFB) / URW431 / StF344 / Lau124 </span><span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;">He became poor that we may be rich </span>(John Bell)
A simple chant. Timing is a little bit tricky, so you will need to take
a little time to teach it initially. This has gorgeous parts if you
have some singers. <a href="https://www.methodist.org.uk/our-faith/worship/singing-the-faith-plus/hymns/he-became-poor-that-we-may-be-rich-stf-344/">Sound sample</a>. </li><li><b><span style="color: #990000;">Iona (M&G) / ATAR609 / CH359 / MV033 / GtG137 / ZSS54 / StJ / ELW253 / GA293 / SFFS
2085 / G(II)276 / GC370 / GC(II)364 / G(3)429 / CP368 / W&R402</span></b> <span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;"> He came down that we may have love/ Jesus came bringing us hope </span>
(Traditional Cameroon) A lovely simple song - you can make up words and
have a lot of fun with this if you also use some drums. <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3PKMuSs_OEs">Scottish sound sample</a>. <span style="color: magenta;">Good for kids</span>.</li><li><span style="color: #990000; font-weight: bold;">Online Resource / Tune In: </span><span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;">O Spirit God / In the shape of a cross</span> (Dave Brown) Puts our forgiveness in a global context. A cry to God for help and a call for God to enter our world. <a href="http://brunswick.unitingchurch.org.au/worship/the-arts-in-worship/tune-in/">Free downloadable songbook & sound samples. </a></li><li><b style="color: #990000;">Online Resource / TiS 529 / AHB 598 </b><span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;">By your priestly power O risen Lord</span>
(James McAuley) Formal and beautiful words. The
responsive chant could also be used on its own: “By your priestly power O
risen Lord, All we lost and needed is restored. God in our communion be
adored”. <a href="https://willowpublishing.com.au/product/by-your-priestly-power-o-risen-lord/" target="_blank">Sound sample, sheet music sample, and purchasing options</a>. <br /></li><li><span style="color: #990000;"><b>Worldmaking.net</b></span> <span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;">O Christ, Lamb of God </span>(Richard Bruxvoort-Colligan) A more modern Agnus Dei, with Christ sharing our weakness.<a href="https://psalmimmersion.bandcamp.com/track/o-christ-lamb-of-god-an-agnus-dei">Lyrics and sound sample</a>. See <a href="http://lectionarysong.blogspot.com.au/2012/03/songs-hymns-and-music-for-maundy.html">last week's entry</a> for more Agnus Dei suggestions.</li><li><b style="color: #990000;">TiS 259 / Iona (Love From Below) </b> <span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;"><b> </b>Among us and before us Lord you stand </span> (John Bell). Good words. The set tune (GATEHOUSE) will need to be taught. It can also be sung to SURSUM CORDA. <a href="http://www.morialtauca.org.au/songs/get.php?id=105">Lyrics</a> (downloads a pdf). <span style="color: orange;">New words to old tunes (if sung to SURSUM CORDA)</span>.</li><li><b style="color: #990000;">TIS 624 / W&R453 / StF492</b> <span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;">Christ be my leader by night as by day </span> (John Bell) Excellent words of following Christ in times of struggle to a traditional Scottish melody. <a href="http://www.traditionalmusic.co.uk/hymn-lyrics/christ_be_my_leader_by_night_as_by_day.htm">Lyrics</a> <b style="color: #990000;"> </b><span style="color: orange;">New words to old tunes</span>.</li><li><b style="color: #990000;">TiS 542 / STB082</b> <span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;"> Far beyond our mind's grasp </span>
(Francisco Feliciano) These beautiful devotional words are sung to a traditional
Filipino tune. The tune is not easy, but is very haunting once you get
to know it. If it is new to your congregation, it would be good to ask a
soloist to sing it. STB has it in Pilipino as well as English. <br /></li></ul></div></div><span style="font-size: large;"><b><a href="http://lectionary.library.vanderbilt.edu/texts.php?id=75#gospel_reading">John 12:20-33</a></b></span><br />
<span style="font-style: italic;">Jesus predicts his death. </span><br />
<ul style="text-align: left;">
<li><span style="color: #990000; font-weight: bold;">Online Resource / Tune In </span><span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;">He left his home, fam'ly, friends / A grain of wheat</span>
(Sheree Anderson) Unless a grain of wheat falls to the ground and
dies, it won't form roots and grow. A boppy song with deeply meaningful
lyrics. <a href="http://brunswick.unitingchurch.org.au/worship/the-arts-in-worship/tune-in/">Free downloadable songbook & sound samples</a>.
<span style="color: magenta;">Good for kids & teenagers</span>.</li>
<li><span style="color: #990000; font-weight: bold;">Online Resource / Tune In </span><span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;">O Spirit God / In the shape of a cross</span> (Dave Brown) Puts our forgiveness in a global context. A cry to God for help and a call for God to enter our world. <a href="http://brunswick.unitingchurch.org.au/worship/the-arts-in-worship/tune-in/">Free downloadable songbook & sound samples</a>.</li>
<li><span style="color: #990000; font-weight: bold;">Online Resource / Tune In </span><span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;">Our God who weeps</span>
(Kate Scull) Very simple folk-like tune and challenging and hopeful
lyrics. <a href="http://brunswick.unitingchurch.org.au/worship/the-arts-in-worship/tune-in/">Free downloadable songbook & sound samples</a>. A beautiful song and easy to sing.</li>
<li><b style="color: #990000;">CH348 / StS001 / LBW196 / ELW843 / A&M762 / G(3)625 / CP397 / W&R93 / SP304 / URW090</b> <span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;"> Praise the One Who Breaks the Darkness </span>
(Rusty Edwards) Good words of Christ's ministry to all. Can be sung to the
familiar tune NETTLETON, or the less familiar and very lovely tune JOEL. I will suggest this again next week!
<a href="https://hymnary.org/text/praise_the_one_who_breaks_the_darkness">Lyrics</a> and sheet music. <span style="color: orange;">New words to old tunes</span>.</li>
<li><span style="color: orange;"><b style="color: #990000;">NCH433 / CH727 / UMH707 / VU703 / HPP474 / GtG250 / W&R515 / Cha638</b> </span> <span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;"> In the bulb there is a flower </span>
(Natalie Sleeth) A simple song of hope symbolised in nature. Particularly good
for those churches in colder Northern Hemisphere who have a while to go before
Spring. <a href="http://www.hopepublishing.com/html/main.isx?sitesec=40.2.1.0&hymnID=3983">Lyrics and sheet music</a>.</li>
<li><b style="color: #990000;">Online Resource / WoV768 / ELW737 / CP456 / W&R412</b> <span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;"> He comes to us as one unknown </span> (Timothy Dudley-Smith) Great words to a very familiar hymn tune (REPTON). <a href="https://www.hopepublishing.com/find-hymns-hw/hw2082.aspx" target="_blank">Lyrics, sheet music</a>. <span style="color: orange;">New words to old tunes</span>.</li>
<li><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="color: #990000;">Online Resource / WoV658 / ELW506 / URW078 </span><span style="color: #000099;">The word of God is source and seed</span></span>
(Dolores Dufner) "The Word of God is source and seed; It comes to die and sprout and
grow. So make your dark earth welcome warm; Root deep the grain God bent
to sow." It has been set to multiple tunes. I quite like it set to KEDRON. <a href="https://giamusic.com/resource/the-word-of-god-is-source-and-seed-pdf-d619271" target="_blank">Lyrics, sheet music sample, purchasing options</a>. <br /></li>
<li><b style="color: #990000;">CH401 / VU121 / R139 / ELW334 / GA307 / HPP174 / G(II)288 / GC397 / GC(II)401 / G(3)475 / CP179</b> <span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;"> Tree of life and awesome mystery </span>
(Marty Haugen) Great words about the suffering of Christ, that is really very
positive. "Tree of life and awesome mystery, in your death we are
reborn; though you die in all of history, still you rise with every
morn". <a href="http://cantusmundi.blogspot.com.au/2013/02/tree-of-life-and-awesome-mystery-marty.html">Lyrics and youtubes</a>.</li><li><b><span style="color: #990000;">ACS927</span></b> <span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;">Christ is the life of all that is </span>(Susan Palo Cherwien) Excellent words of Christ as creation's birth, life and death. A lovely new tune by Kenneth Naylor too. Can also be sung to KINGSFOLD if your congregation needs something familiar. <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EfwEfHgkFM8" target="_blank">Sound sample</a>. </li><li><span style="color: #990000; font-weight: bold;">Online Resource <span style="color: #000099;">God beyond our ways of knowing</span></span><span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;"><span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;"> </span></span>(Adam
Tice / Randall Sensmeier)
This hymn starts and ends with a verse seeking God's guidance, and the
middle verse picks up the Gospel reading for each week of Lent in year B
(that's this year). You may like to use it each week. Sung to a simple
and catchy tune. <a href="https://www.giamusic.com/store/resource/god-beyond-our-ways-of-knowing-pdf-d800318" target="_blank">Lyrics, sheet music sample and purchasi</a><a href="https://www.giamusic.com/store/resource/god-beyond-our-ways-of-knowing-pdf-d800318" target="_blank">ng options</a>. <br /></li>
<li><b style="color: #990000;">ATA 145 / NCH223 / CH395 /
UMH292 / VU147 / VU148 / LBW385 / ELW666 / HPP192 / GtG215 / PH085 /
G(II)295 / GC627 / GC(II)614 / CP400 / W&R257 / Cha200 / 82Hml-439 </b> <span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;"><b> </b>What wondrous love is this? </span>
(American folk hymn) I just really like this old hymn, though it would not suit more progressive congregations. Versions vary widely in their
inclusiveness; if you want inclusive language, use the New Century
Hymnal. You might also want to consider the new lyrics penned by Sue Wickham - see the comments below. Here's an <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nu9KjxaVEC4&feature=PlayList&p=2B9206D30F66333C&playnext=1&playnext_from=PL&index=18">awesome bluegrass version. </a><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nu9KjxaVEC4&feature=PlayList&p=2B9206D30F66333C&playnext=1&playnext_from=PL&index=18"> </a>
</li>
<li><b style="color: #990000;">TiS 248 </b><span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;">When Christ was lifted from the earth </span>(Brian Wren)
Powerful words of Christ's sacrifice and acceptance of all people,
without the cultural imperialism of some similar hymns. New hymn tune is
not too hard, but could be replaced with many others if required. I
think WILTSHIRE would work (TiS 112), but LAND OF REST is perhaps too
jolly. <span style="color: orange;">New words to old tunes</span> <a href="https://www.hopepublishing.com/find-hymns-hw/hw4011.aspx">Lyrics. </a></li>
<li><span style="color: #990000; font-weight: bold;">MV125 </span><span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;"> When a grain of wheat / Hitotsubu no </span>
(Toyohiko Kagawa) This is a lovely chant. It will need to be taught as it's a
Japanese melody and the timing is unfamiliar to Western ears, but once
known it should be quite straightforward to sing. Read about the life of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toyohiko_Kagawa">Toyohiko Kagawa here</a> (inspiring!)</li>
</ul><p>
<span style="color: #274e13;"><i><b>What will you be singing? Please share your ideas in a comment below. </b></i></span></p><p><span style="color: #274e13; font-size: xx-small;"><i>Updated 2021 in my back room during the 3rd Melbourne Coronavirus lockdown, and then again in 2024. Wow, how was that 3 years ago?</i></span><br /></p>Lectionary Singer (Natalie Sims)http://www.blogger.com/profile/15635861565689089555noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3953574041544310550.post-61689976877954301752024-02-06T03:12:00.000-08:002024-03-18T04:13:30.564-07:00Songs, Hymns and Music for Lent 4B (10 March 2024)<script async="" src="https://www.googletagmanager.com/gtag/js?id=G-E0N4VFC2F8"></script>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><a href="http://lectionary.library.vanderbilt.edu/texts.php?id=74#hebrew_reading">Numbers 21:4-9</a> </b></span><br />
<span style="font-style: italic;">The Israelites grumble, God sends serpents to bite them, they repent and are healed.</span><br />
<span style="font-style: italic;">You might like to sing a <a href="http://lectionarysong.blogspot.com.au/2010/06/kyrie-eleison-lord-have-mercy.html">Kyrie</a>. </span>
<ul style="text-align: left;">
<li><b style="color: #990000;">Online Resource</b> <span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;">Open my heart </span> (Ana Hernández) A beautiful 3 part chant, which also works as a single part chant. <a href="http://anahermusic.blogspot.com.au/2015/02/forget-lent-iii-softening-and-unlearning.html">Sheet music</a>. <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vlnE5GMkSsA">Youtube of the song being taught and sung in 3 parts</a>. </li>
<li><span style="color: #990000; font-weight: bold;">TiS
569
/ AHB 478 / NCH18/19 / CH167 / UMH127 / VU651 / LBW343 / ELW618 /
StF465 / A&M652 / HPP432 / GtG065 / PH281 / CP565 / CP(E) 455 /
W&R501 / Cha622 / 82Hml690 / StF465 / Lau960 / MP201 </span> <span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;">Guide me O thou great Jehovah / Redeemer </span> (William Williams) A rousing hymn of God’s presence and strength and making it to the other side. "Bread of heaven, feed me now and evermore." <a href="https://hymnary.org/text/guide_me_o_thou_great_jehovah">Sound sample and lyrics</a>. <span style="color: orange;">Oldy-but-a-goody</span>.</li>
<li><span style="color: #990000;"><b>Online Resource / BUC Song Project</b></span> <span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;">Why do we listen and fail to hear / Lament - for a people with a people with a dulled heart </span>(Shawn Whelan) This lament, and its wailing ooooh would fit quite well with this passage. <a href="https://brunswick.unitingchurch.org.au/worship/the-arts-in-worship/buc-song-project/">Sheet music, sound sample, lyrics</a>. <span style="color: magenta;">Good for kids</span>.</li>
<li><span style="color: #990000; font-weight: bold;">MV45 </span><span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;">Hamba nathi</span> (Zulu). There are a lot of translations of this song. <a href="http://www.musicthatmakescommunity.org/paulvasile/go_with_us_lord_and_set_us_all_free_hamba_nathi_mkhululi_wethu">Some translations and sheet music</a>.<span style="color: magenta;">Good for kids</span>
</li>
<li><span style="color: #990000; font-weight: bold;">Online Resource / Tune In </span><span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;">Save us in the time of trial </span>(Shawn Whelan)
Reflective chorus and verses about trying to follow Christ
in the face of difficulties. Chorus is particularly straightforward and
chantlike. <a href="http://brunswick.unitingchurch.org.au/worship/the-arts-in-worship/tune-in/">Free downloadable song book and sound samples.</a>
</li>
<li><span style="color: #990000; font-weight: bold;"> NCH605 </span><span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;"> As Moses raised the serpent up </span> (NCH) Simple words, sung to the familiar tune MORNING SONG. This song appears in other hymnals but the NCH version is most inclusive. </li>
<li><span style="color: #990000; font-weight: bold;"> CH568 </span><span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;"> When I’m feeling down and sad </span>
(Joy Webb) A great song for kids to remember when they are sad; speaks
of God always being with us. Good for adults too! CH has two possible
tunes, and both are very good, and quite different. The 2nd tune is easier to
sing; the 1st is better for soloists, or if you have time to teach it. <a href="https://music.churchofscotland.org.uk/hymn/568-when-im-feeling-down-and-sad">Slightly odd sound sample</a>.
<span style="color: magenta;">Good for kids</span>.</li>
<li><b><span style="color: #990000;">Online Resource / Tune In / NCYC '07</span></b>: <span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;">Forgive us now </span>(Dave Brown)
This is one of the best songs seeking forgiveness that I know, and suitably laid back for a quiet Ash Wednesday service. <a href="http://brunswick.unitingchurch.org.au/worship/the-arts-in-worship/tune-in/">Free downloadable song book and sound samples.</a></li>
</ul>
<span style="font-size: large;"><b><a href="http://lectionary.library.vanderbilt.edu/texts.php?id=74#psalm_reading">Psalm 107:1-3, 17-22</a></b></span><br />
<i>A psalm about the Israelites coming through the wilderness and God hearing their distress<span style="font-style: italic;"> </span></i><br />
<i>See suggestions listed above for the Numbers reading.</i><br />
<ul>
<li><span style="color: #990000; font-weight: bold;">PfAS107A </span><span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;"> Give thanks to God who hears our cries </span>
(Ruth Duck) Excellent words of God hearing those in despair. Sung to the
familiar tune MORNING SONG. It's got 6 verses, so it may be nice to have
half the congregation sing to the other half, or alternate men and
women for the central 4 verses. <a href="https://devotions.urc.org.uk/devotions/2022/09/04/urc-daily-devotion-4-september-2022/" target="_blank">Lyrics</a>. <span style="color: orange;">New words to old tunes.</span>.</li>
<li><b style="color: #990000;">Global Praise 3 / StS094</b> (Cokesbury Press) <span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;">Sithi Bonga / Give thanks</span> (George Mxadana) A joyful song of thanks from South Africa. <a href="http://www.valrogers.org/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/Sithi-Bonga.pdf">Lyrics</a>. <a href="http://www.mennolink.org/books/audio/bk.sts.03.txt/track-4.mp3">Sound sample</a>.</li>
<li><span style="color: #990000; font-weight: bold;">CH568 </span><span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;"> When I’m feeling down and sad </span>
(Joy Webb) A great song for kids to remember when they are sad; speaks
of God always being with us. Good for adults too! CH has two possible
tunes, and both are very good, and quite different. The 2nd is easier to
sing; the 1st is better for soloists, or if you have time to teach it. <a href="https://music.churchofscotland.org.uk/hymn/568-when-im-feeling-down-and-sad">Slightly odd sound sample</a>.
<span style="color: magenta;">Good for kids</span>.</li>
<li><b style="color: #990000;">NCH Psalter</b> <span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;">Consider the steadfast love of God </span>(Marty Haugen) A simple refrain and good inclusive words for the cantor / reader.</li>
<li><span style="color: #990000; font-weight: bold;">UMH416 / AAHH367 </span><span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;"> Tell me how did you feel when you come out the wilderness / I am leaning on the Lord </span>
(African American traditional) There are many versions of this song
and it's great to improvise on. I like how it asks questions too! <a href="http://www.hymnary.org/text/tell_me_how_did_you_feel_when_you_come">Partial sheet music and lyrics</a>.<br /></li>
<li><b><span style="color: #990000;">TiS 67</span></b> <span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;"> Give thanks Give thanks to the Lord </span>
(Jenny O'Brien) A cantored Psalm with a response that is actually fun
and happy! The verses could also be read, rather than cantored. </li>
<li><b style="color: #990000;">Taizé
/ MV016 / StJ / ELW528 / GA430 / SFFS 2157 / HPP410 / GtG466 /
G(II)398 / GC570 / GC(II)550 / G(3)637 / CP402 / URW378 / Lau701 </b> <span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;">Come and Fill our hearts/ Confitemini Domino </span>
(Jacques Berthier) Can be sun in English as "Come and fill our hearts with your
peace, you
alone O God are holy. Come and fill our hearts with your peace,
Alleluia". A good song of recommitment. Obviously if you don't sing
Alleluias during Lent, this is not for you. You could replace the
Alleluia with Hosanna if you really want to sing it. <a href="http://www.taize.fr/spip.php?page=chant&song=312&lang=en">Sound samples and sheet music.</a> </li>
<li><b style="color: #990000;">Taizé / TiS
741 / AoV1-017 / ATE 282 / LBW368 / ELW407 / GA431 / SFFS 2200 /
GtG471 / G(II)410 / GC586 / GC(II)566 / </b><span style="color: #990000;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">G(3)666 / </span></span><b style="color: #990000;">W&R484 / Srce519 / URW390 / Lau929 / PfAS013A / PfAS102A / MP908</b>
<span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;">O Lord hear my prayer </span>
(Jacques Berthier) A simple and very well known Taizé chant. Works well during
intercessions. You could read the Psalm between repeats of this chant,
or just use as a chant as is. <a href="http://www.hymnary.org/text/o_lord_hear_my_prayer_o_lord_hear">Sheet music samples</a>. <span style="color: magenta;">Good for kids</span>.</li></ul></div>
<span style="font-size: large;"><b><a href="http://lectionary.library.vanderbilt.edu/texts.php?id=74#epistle_reading">Ephesians 2:1-10</a></b></span><br />
<span style="font-style: italic;">Dead, but now alive in Christ</span><br />
<ul style="text-align: left;">
<li><b style="color: #990000;">Online Resource / Tune In</b> <span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;">Like the sun upon my skin / God's Mercy </span>(Sheree Anderson) A
beautiful ballad of healing: "Like the sun upon my skin, I can smile
and take it in, and my wounds begin to heal, that's God's mercy". <a href="http://brunswick.unitingchurch.org.au/worship/the-arts-in-worship/tune-in/">Free downloadable song book and sound samples.</a></li>
<li><span style="color: #990000; font-weight: bold;">STB259 </span><span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;"> Christ our peace you make us one </span>
(CCA 9th General Assembly Worship Committee) This song has two parts;
the men sing a simple chant while the women sing the verses. It would be
fun to sing. You may like to select a few verses to sing - it's very
hopeful. <a href="https://hymnary.org/hymn/STB2000/259" target="_blank">Sheet music sample</a>.<br /></li>
<li><span style="color: #990000; font-weight: bold;">Online Resource / Tune In</span><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="color: #990000;"> </span><span style="color: #000099;">Spirit of the Father / Alive in me</span> </span>(Sheree Anderson) Catchy song about God’s spirit living in us. "Take hold of the hope that I give, trust in me, reach out for the love you can live, eternally”. <a href="http://brunswick.unitingchurch.org.au/worship/the-arts-in-worship/tune-in/">Free downloadable song book and sound samples.</a><span style="color: #990000; font-weight: bold;"> </span>
<span style="color: magenta;">Good for kids</span>.</li>
<li><span style="color: #990000;"><b>NCH581 / HPP310 / G(II)523 / GC(II)718 / G(3)827</b></span> <span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;"> Lead us from death to life / World Peace Prayer </span> (Satish Kumar / Marty Haugen) A different take on Christ's power over the forces of death. Quite simple to sing. This Anthem for peace has a really simple and stirring
chorus, which would be excellent on its own, and for kids. Verses could
be sung by a soloist or the whole congregation if you want to use them.
For Lent, I would just use the chorus. Quite simple to sing. <a href="http://c1824532.cdn.cloudfiles.rackspacecloud.com/GC_732-1.jpg">Sheet music sample</a>. <a href="http://c1824532.cdn.cloudfiles.rackspacecloud.com/GC_732.mp3">Slow keyboard sample. </a><span style="color: magenta;">Good for kids</span>.</li>
<li><b style="color: #990000;">A&M504 / GC(II)644 / W&R577 / G(3)743 / Lau836</b> <span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;">Summoned by the God who made us / Sing a New Church </span>(Dolores Dufner)
Excellent words of Christian unity and justice to the well-known tune
NETTLETON (TiS 392). Would be a good final hymn. <a href="https://www.koormuziek.nl/files/lyrics/MKN086L-01-E.pdf">Lyrics</a> <span style="color: orange;">New words to old tunes</span><b style="color: #990000;"> </b></li>
<li><b style="color: #990000;">Iona (Love From Below) / CH317 / CP621 / Lau738</b> <span style="color: #000099;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Before the world began</span> </span>(John Bell) It annoys me a bit that this uses exclusively masculine
language for Christ when it speaks of the presence of Christ in
creation, but if this won't bother your congregation, or you find other
images to balance it out in the service, it is a very beautiful song. <a href="http://www.pateys.nf.ca/cgi-bin/lyrics.pl?hymnnumber=341">Lyrics</a></li>
<li><b style="color: #990000;">NCH565 / LBW408 / ELW678 / GtG716 / PH422 / CP601 / W&R572 / Cha606 / URW091</b><span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;"> God whose giving knows no ending </span>
(Rusty Edwards) Excellent more formal words of thanks for God's many good
gifts to us. Can be sung to a range of tunes including BEACH SPRING,
HYFRYDOL, AUSTRIAN HYMN, RUSTINGTON. <a href="https://hymnary.org/text/god_whose_giving_knows_no_ending">Lyrics and sheet music. </a><span style="color: orange;">New words to old tunes</span>.</li>
<li><b style="color: #990000;">CH401 / VU121 / R139 / ELW334 / GA307 / HPP174 / G(II)288 / GC397 / GC(II)401 / G(3)475 / CP179 </b><span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;"> Tree of life and awesome mystery </span>
(Marty Haugen) Great words about the suffering of Christ, that is really very
positive. "Tree of life and awesome mystery, in your death we are
reborn; though you die in all of history, still you rise with every
morn". <a href="http://cantusmundi.blogspot.com.au/2013/02/tree-of-life-and-awesome-mystery-marty.html">Lyrics and youtubes</a>.</li>
<li><b style="color: #990000;">TiS
382 / AoV2-131 / ATN 15 / NCH238 / CH417 / UMH311 / VU186 / LBW280 /
ELW570 / GA364 / A&M212 / HPP210 / GtG247 / G(II)318 / GC444 / GC(II)456 / G(3)534 / CP237 / CP(E)
153 / W&R311 / Cha230 / 82Hml-204 / Lau278 / StF306</b> <span style="color: #000099;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Now the green blade rises</span> </span>(John Mcleod Campbell Crum) I love these words and this simple French folk tune. I
particularly like this played to guitar, but TiS has an excellent piano
arrangement too. <a href="https://hymnary.org/text/now_the_green_blade_riseth">Lyrics and sheet music</a>. <span style="color: orange;">New words to old tunes</span>.</li>
</ul>
<span style="font-size: large;"><b><a href="http://lectionary.library.vanderbilt.edu/texts.php?id=74#gospel_reading">John 3:14-21</a></b></span> <br />
<span style="font-style: italic;">Christ died to save the world. Yes, well…. you can sing lots of hymns for this one!</span> <br />
<ul style="text-align: left;">
<li><span style="color: #990000; font-weight: bold;">Online Resource / Tune In </span><b><span style="color: #000099; ffont-weight: bold;">He left his home, fam'ly, friends / A grain of wheat</span>
</b> (Sheree Anderson) Unless a grain of wheat falls to the ground and
dies, it won't form roots and grow. A boppy song with deeply meaningful
lyrics. <a href="http://brunswick.unitingchurch.org.au/worship/the-arts-in-worship/tune-in/">Free downloadable song book and sound samples.</a><span style="color: #990000; font-weight: bold;"> </span>
<span style="color: magenta;">Good for kids & teenagers</span>.</li>
<li><span style="color: #990000; font-weight: bold;">Online Resource / Tune In </span><span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;">O Spirit God / In the shape of a cross</span> (Dave Brown) Puts our forgiveness in a global context. A cry to God for help and a call for God to enter our world. <a href="http://brunswick.unitingchurch.org.au/worship/the-arts-in-worship/tune-in/">Free downloadable song book and sound samples.</a></li>
<li><span style="color: #990000; font-weight: bold;">Online Resource / Tune In </span><span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;">Our God who weeps</span>
(Kate Scull) Very simple folk-like tune and challenging and hopeful
lyrics. <a href="http://brunswick.unitingchurch.org.au/worship/the-arts-in-worship/tune-in/">Free downloadable song book and sound samples</a>. A beautiful song and easy to sing.</li><li><span style="color: #990000; font-weight: bold;">Online Resource <span style="color: #000099;">God beyond our ways of knowing</span></span><span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;"><span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;"> </span></span>(Adam
Tice / Randall Sensmeier)
This hymn starts and ends with a verse seeking God's guidance, and the
middle verse picks up the Gospel reading for each week of Lent in year B
(that's this year). You may like to use it each week. Sung to a simple
and catchy tune. <a href="https://www.giamusic.com/store/resource/god-beyond-our-ways-of-knowing-pdf-d800318" target="_blank">Lyrics, sheet music sample and purchasi</a><a href="https://www.giamusic.com/store/resource/god-beyond-our-ways-of-knowing-pdf-d800318" target="_blank">ng options</a>. <br /></li>
<li><b style="color: #990000;">CH348 / StS001 / LBW196 / ELW843 / A&M762 / G(3)625 / CP397 / W&R93 / SP304 / URW090</b> <span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;"> Praise the One Who Breaks the Darkness </span>
(Rusty Edwards) Good words of Christ's ministry to all. Can be sung to the
familiar tune NETTLETON, or the less familiar and very lovely tune JOEL. I will suggest this again next week! <a href="https://www.hopepublishing.com/find-hymns-hw/hw3722.aspx">Sheet music and lyrics</a>. <span style="color: orange;">New words to old tunes</span>.</li>
<li><b style="color: #990000;">GtB</b> <span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;">God is love and love is giving </span>(Ross Langmead)
A simple kids' song about God's love. A round. <a href="http://rosslangmead.50webs.com/rl/songs.html">Sound sample</a>. <span style="color: magenta;">Good for kids</span>.</li>
<li><span style="color: #990000; font-weight: bold;">TiS 721 / Iona (LFB) / URW431 / Lau124 </span><span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;">He became poor that we may be rich </span>(John Bell)
A simple chant. Timing is a little bit tricky, so you will need to take
a little time to teach it initially. This has gorgeous parts if you
have some singers."He became poor, that we may
be rich, loving the world and leaving his throne; King of all kings,
and Lord of all Lords, flesh of our flesh and bone of our bone". <a href="https://www.methodist.org.uk/our-faith/worship/singing-the-faith-plus/hymns/he-became-poor-that-we-may-be-rich-stf-344/">Sound sample</a>. </li>
<li><span style="color: #990000; font-weight: bold;">STB047 </span><span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;"> Sarennam O the Divine Light / Sarennam Dhivya jyothi </span>
(Govada Dyvasirvadam) This song from India will need to be taught, but I
think it's worth it. Quite nice; the English translation is very poetic. <a href="https://hymnary.org/hymn/STB2000/47" target="_blank">Sheet music sample</a>.<br /></li>
<li><b><span style="color: #990000;">Iona (M&G) / ATAR609 / CH359 / MV033 / GtG137 / ZSS54 / StJ / ELW253 / GA293 / SFFS
2085 / G(II)276 / GC370 / GC(II)364 / G(3)429 / CP368 / W&R402</span></b> <span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;"> He came down that we may have love/ Jesus came bringing us hope </span>
(Traditional Cameroon) A lovely simple song - you can make up words and
have a lot of fun with this if you also use some drums. For Brunswick
this year, this will be a nice reminder of Advent, when we sang this
every week. <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3PKMuSs_OEs">Scottish sound sample</a>. <span style="color: magenta;">Good for kids</span>.</li>
<li><b style="color: #990000;">ATW 451 / SoG789 </b><span style="color: #000099;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Jesus Saviour of the world</span> (</span>David Schubert / Sue Westhorp) Simple chant-like song. <a href="https://anglicanfocus.org.au/2022/03/21/jesus-saviour-of-the-world/" target="_blank">Article about it</a>.<br /></li>
<li><span style="color: #990000; font-weight: bold;">TiS 174 / UMH194 / A&M544 / CP(E)259 / 82Hml-585 </span><span style="color: #000099;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Morning glory starlit sky</span> </span>(William Vanstone) Quite formal words, but very very beautiful song of God's
boundless love "Drained is love in making full, bound in setting others
free, poor in making many rich, weak in giving power to be". The tune is
not difficult, but will need to be taught to a congregation if not
familiar; you could also sing it to VIENNA (thanks Jennie) or Jesus Lover of my Soul (thanks Merryl). The lyrics could also be read as a poem. <a href="http://ehymnbook.org/CMMS/hymnSong.php?id=pd08949" target="_blank">Lyrics. </a></li>
<li><b style="color: #990000;">ATA 145 / NCH223 / CH395 /
UMH292 / VU147 / VU148 / LBW385 / ELW666 / HPP192 / GtG215 / PH085 /
G(II)295 / GC627 / GC(II)614 / CP400 / W&R257 / Cha200 / 82Hml-439 </b> <span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;"><b> </b>What wondrous love is this? </span>
(Unknown) I just really like this old hymn, though it may not suit more progressive congregations (especially if you sing the "sinking down" verse! Versions vary widely in their
inclusiveness; if you want inclusive language, use the New Century
Hymnal. Here's an <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nu9KjxaVEC4&feature=PlayList&p=2B9206D30F66333C&playnext=1&playnext_from=PL&index=18">awesome bluegrass version. </a><span style="color: orange;">Oldy-but-a-goody.</span><b>
</b></li>
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<span style="color: #274e13;"><i><b>What will you be singing? Please share your ideas in a comment below!</b></i></span>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><a href="http://lectionary.library.vanderbilt.edu/texts.php?id=73#hebrew_reading">Exodus 20:1-17</a> </b></span><br />
<span style="font-style: italic;">The ten commandments</span><br />
<ul>
<li><span style="color: #990000; font-weight: bold;">Iona / ATOK 311 / CH754 / GA401 </span> <span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;"><span style="color: #990000;"> </span>Be still and know that I am God and there is none beside me </span> (Iona) A simple song reflecting on the 1st commandment. Some versions have a 2nd verse. <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gzv_w8pqD2E" target="_blank">Sound sample and spoken meditation</a>.<br /></li><li><span style="color: #990000; font-weight: bold;">Seeds of Faith</span> <span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;">Ten Commandments (because God loves us)</span>
(Richard Bruxvoort-Colligan) A fun song for musicians to lead and for kids to
join in the counting. Could be a good way of helping kids learn the 10
commandments in a Sunday School setting. <span style="color: magenta;">Good for kids.</span> <a href="https://theriversvoice.bandcamp.com/track/the-ten-commandments-song">Lyrics and sound sample. </a></li><li><span style="color: #990000; font-weight: bold;">Online Resource</span><span style="color: #660000; font-weight: bold;"> </span><span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;">Ten, Ten Commandments</span>
(David Kai) This is pretty silly, but also a lot of fun, and quite catchy. Good for a Sunday School setting. <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z-YBXlXGlZc&feature=youtu.be">Sound samples, sheet music</a>. <span style="color: magenta;">Good for kids.</span> <br /></li><li><span style="color: #990000; font-weight: bold;">AoVK-41</span><span style="color: #660000; font-weight: bold;"> </span><span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;">Moses climbed the mountain high</span>
Another good song to help kids learn the 10 commandments, probably
better for Sunday School than congregational worship. There are other
versions of this out there too, but this one is better.<span style="color: magenta;"> Good for kids</span>.</li><li><b style="color: #990000;">Online Resource</b> <span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;">Let there be rest </span>(Hannah
Brown / Benjamin Brody / Adam Tice) This song, which focuses on sabbath
as a time of rest is very beautiful and I think would be great if you
choose to focus on the practice of resting. <a href="https://www.giamusic.com/store/resource/let-there-be-rest-pdf-du01793" target="_blank">Sheet music sample and purchasing options</a>. </li><li><span style="color: #990000; font-weight: bold;">NCH20 </span><span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;">God of Abraham and Sarah </span>(James Gertmenian) A
great newish but very singable hymn tune with words that pick up the
history of our faith, as well as some of the Psalm and Gospel themes
this week. Excellent words. Could also be sung to NETTLETON if you want a
familiar tune. <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VfCnhEPDzrw" target="_blank">Sound sample (Youtube)</a>. <a href="https://www.stdavidsucc.com/uploads/7/5/6/1/75613023/worship_bulletin_november_7_2021.pdf" target="_blank">Lyrics (downloads a PDF)</a> <span style="color: orange;">New words to old tunes</span>.</li><li><b style="color: #990000;">Protest and Praise / Online Resource</b><span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;"> O Spirit send doubt </span>(David
Bjorlin / Sally Ann Morris) A contemporary and thoughtful melody and
lyrics that celebrate how faith grows through doubt and questions (not specifically about the ten commandments). <a href="https://www.giamusic.com/store/resource/o-spirit-send-doubt-pdf-d1010130">Lyrics, sheet music sample and purchasing options</a>.</li><li><b style="color: #990000;">Protest and Praise / Online Resource</b> <span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;">When God first promised Abram </span>(David
Bjorlin ) A hymn reflecting on how God comes to us in darkness
(features Abram, Jacob, Moses and Rahab). Sung to the traditional tune
CHRISTUS, DER IST MEIN LEBEN. Not specifically about the ten commandments, but about Moses going up the mountain. <a href="https://www.giamusic.com/store/resource/when-god-first-promised-abram-pdf-d1010144">Lyric</a><a href="https://www.giamusic.com/store/resource/when-god-first-promised-abram-pdf-d1010144">s, sheet music sample and purchasing options</a>. <span style="color: orange;">New words to old tunes</span>. <br /></li>
</ul>
<span style="font-size: large;"><b><a href="http://lectionary.library.vanderbilt.edu/texts.php?id=73#psalm_reading">Psalm 19</a></b></span><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">Cosmic praise. God's laws are perfect<span style="font-style: italic;">; God's commands are sweeter than honey; </span></span><br />
<ul style="text-align: left;"><li><span style="color: #990000;"><b>TiS 187 / AoV2-130 / CH149 / StS122 / A&M539 / SP247</b></span> <span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;">Let all creation dance</span> (Brian Wren) I just love the imagery of this one, and it's a very joyous and familiar hymn tune too. <a href="http://www.hymnary.org/hymn/CH4/149">Lyrics</a><span style="color: orange;"> New words to old tunes</span>.</li><li><span style="color: #990000; font-weight: bold;">CH172 / URW062 / StF116 </span> <span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;"><span style="color: #990000;"> </span>Sing for God’s glory that colours the dawn of creation </span>
(Kathy Galloway) Beautiful poetic words of creation (first verse), release
(2nd verse), justice (3rd verse) and saints (4th verse). Would be a good
song to open worship. Sung to a very familiar hymn tune, LOBE DEN
HERREN (TiS 111). <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4koSoT7QcE4" target="_blank">Lyric video</a>.<span style="color: #990000; font-weight: bold;"> </span><span style="color: orange;">New words to old tunes</span>.</li><li><span style="color: #990000; font-weight: bold;">PfAS019C </span> <span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;"> </span><span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;"><span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;">Through the witness of creation / </span>Lord You Have the Words </span>(Gregg DeMey
or Dohms) Two possible refrains to a chanted, read or cantored Psalm.
The first (DeMey) is a lovely lilting refrain. I think this is really
nice; be sure to lead it clearly or teach the congregation during the
service. The second (Dohms) is simpler, and can be used as a round. <a href="https://digitalsongsandhymns.com/songs/3767" target="_blank">Lyrics</a> (DeMey).<br /></li><li><b><span style="color: #990000; font-weight: bold;">MV31 </span><span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;">Pure love </span></b>(Linnea Good) A
simple two-part chant that picks up the Psalmist’s idea of the purity
of God’s law “Pure love, pure truth, pure justice, God”. Would be great
if you can teach it to some of the congregation before worship starts. <a href="https://www.slideshare.net/linneagood/ps-019-pure-love">Lyrics</a>. <span style="color: magenta;">Good for kids.</span>.</li><li><span style="color: #990000;"><b>Emergent Psalter</b></span> <span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;">The heavens declare</span> (Isaac Everett) A simple and quite good Psalm refrain. Everett also suggests using<span style="color: #990000;">:<b> ATA 117</b></span> <span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;"> By the rivers of Babylon </span>
(Frank Farian, George Reyan, Brent Dowe and Trevor McNaughton) as a refrain for this Psalm. This
is the Boney M version. It's not really very mournful. I
can't resist though... <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qlgv4t5SKkA&feature=related">here's a video</a>. It was originally recorded by <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o-5E6_qtXAw">The Melodians</a>. <a href="https://www.churchpublishing.org/emergentpsalter">Sheet music (refrain only)</a>.<span style="color: magenta;">Good for kids</span>.</li><li><span style="color: #990000; font-weight: bold;">Online Resource / TiS
156 / AHB 91 / AoV1-135 / ATA 123 / CH212 / UMH145 / VU409 / ELW556 /
GA537 / A&M545 / HPP267 / GtG664 / PH469 / G(II)546 / GC756 / GC(II)748 / G(3)855 / CP003 / W&R35 /
Cha053 / URW186 / 82Hml-008 / StF136 / Lau671 / MP467</span> <span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;">Morning has broken</span> (Eleanor Farjeon) This song makes me smile every time. Here's Yusuf Islam (when he was Cat Stevens) <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U5sSEkZ86ts&feature=related">in 1976</a> (love those green boots). <a href="https://musescore.com/user/32667617/scores/5645263" target="_blank">Sheet music (including the extra twiddly bits)</a>. <span style="color: orange;">Oldy-but-a-goody</span>.</li><li><span style="color: #990000; font-weight: bold;">GC(II)21 </span><span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;">Words of Everlasting Life / Palabras de vida Eterna</span>
Simple bilingual (English / Spanish refrain) and cantored verses in
either English or Spanish (or I guess you could alternate if you have a
bilingual congregation). <a href="http://c1824532.cdn.cloudfiles.rackspacecloud.com/GC2_021-1.mp3">Sound sample.</a> <a href="http://c1824532.cdn.cloudfiles.rackspacecloud.com/GC2_021-1.jpg">Sheet music sample.</a></li><li><b style="color: #990000;">TiS 163 / AHB 112 / NCH556 / UMH150 / LBW463 / ELW771 / GtG024 / PH268 / W&R644 / Cha651 / URW084 / 82Hml-580 </b><span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;">God who stretched the spangled heavens</span>
(Catherine Cameron) Good words of creation of nature and cities and creative possibilities
for the future. TiS and other more modern sources are more inclusive. There are many possible tunes. I like
it best to HOLY MANNA as in the link. <a href="http://www.hymnary.org/text/god_who_stretched_the_spangled_heavens">Lyrics and sound sample</a>. <span style="color: orange;">New words to old tunes</span>.</li><li><span style="color: #990000; font-weight: bold;">TiS 7 </span><span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;">The sky tells the glory of God </span>(Howard Hughes)
Excellent and simple cantor and refrain. could easily use the refrain
with the Psalm being read also. Don't forget that these Psalm refrains
are also great for smaller kids - they can join in without reading. <a href="https://soundcloud.com/tim-roberts-8/tis007-psalm-19-the-sky-tells-the-glory-of-godhowardhughesicelarrtroberts2020cantor">Sound sample</a>. <span style="color: magenta;">Good for kids</span>.</li><li><span style="color: #990000; font-weight: bold;">Online Resource / AoVK-50 / ATW 430 / NCYC'99 </span><span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;">Come let us praise our God / A voice is heard </span>(Trisha Watts) Excellent and energetic. <a href="http://www.sixmaddens.org/?p=32">Lyrics</a>. <a href="https://willowpublishing.com.au/product/a-voice-is-heard/">Sound sample</a>. <span style="color: magenta;">Good for kids</span>.</li><li><span style="color: #990000; font-weight: bold;">AoVK-113 </span><span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;">Thank you O Lord for this world of ours </span>I like this kid's song. Really fun and interesting with two parts! <span style="color: magenta;">Good for kids</span>.</li><li><span style="color: #990000;"><b>HPP28 / GtG023 / PH285 / W&R24 / URW083</b></span> <span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;">God You Spin the Whirling Planets</span>
(Jane Parker Huber) Excellent words to a very familiar
tune (TiS 772). Really good for the final hymn or response to the
sermon. <a href="https://digitalsongsandhymns.com/songs/6454#tab-lyrics">Lyrics</a>.<span style="color: orange;"> New words to old tunes</span>.</li><li><span style="color: #990000; font-weight: bold;">AoV1-003 / HPP258 / GA394 / G(II)342 / GC497 / GC(II)495 / G(3)576 / Lau693 / MP648 </span><span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;">The heavens are telling the glory of God / Canticle of the Sun</span>
(Marty Haugen) Energetic waltz of cosmic praise with great lyrics "Come
dance in the forest, come play in the field, and sing, sing to the glory
of the Lord". <a href="http://c1824532.cdn.cloudfiles.rackspacecloud.com/CCH_292.midi">Sound sample.</a> <a href="http://c1824532.cdn.cloudfiles.rackspacecloud.com/CCH_292-1.jpg">Lyrics and sheet music sample</a>.</li><li><span style="color: #990000;"><b>Online Resource / Tune In</b></span> <span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;">Now's the time and now's the day / We will sing a new song to the world </span>(Dave Brown) An
energetic song about the gospel, about singing all the new tunes and
rhythms that God provides and creating a new earth. A good sending-out
song. Thanks to Saide for this suggestion. <a href="http://brunswick.unitingchurch.org.au/worship/the-arts-in-worship/tune-in/">Sound sample, lyrics and free downloadable songbook.</a> <br /></li><li><span style="color: #990000; font-weight: bold;">Online Resource</span> <span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;">As rivers flow from a distant spring </span>(David
Bjorlin / William Beckstrand) Beautiful words using imagery of creation
to inspire us to lives based in God's love that care for others,
including the earth. <a href="https://youtu.be/WuomgFeLi3I?t=108" target="_blank">Sound sample</a>. <a href="https://www.giamusic.com/store/resource/protest-and-praise-print-g10101">Book available to purchase and download here</a>. <br /></li><li><span style="color: #990000; font-weight: bold;">ATW 462</span> <span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;">When I consider God's design / Hand in hand</span> (Robin Mann / Norman Habel) Good words of all creation celebrating together. Tune is good, too. <a href="http://www.robinmann.com.au/rs/7/sites/1178/user_uploads/File/All%20Songs%20%28PDF%29/handinhand.pdf">Lyrics</a>.</li><li><b style="color: #990000;">Online Resource</b> <span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;">The Heavens Tell of Your Creative Glory / Los Cielos Cuentan la Gloria de Diosome </span>
(Horacio Vivares transl. David Bjorlin) An excellent folk song. Best
for Spanish-speaking congregations, but works in English too. <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rn6eG7RwA-0">Sound sample</a>. <a href="https://www.giamusic.com/store/resource/protest-and-praise-print-g10101">Songbook for purchase</a>. <br /></li><li><span style="color: #990000; font-weight: bold;">TiS 166 / AHB 102 / GA398 / StB035 </span><span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;">Sing a new song sing a new song</span> (James McAuley) Excellent inclusive words. The last verse annoys me a bit, but the rest is excellent. <a href="http://ehymnbook.org/CMMS/hymnSong.php?folder=p03&id=pd03374">Lyrics. </a></li><li><span style="color: #990000; font-weight: bold;">Online Resource </span><span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;">Every night and every morning </span>
(Adam Tice) Excellent words of God's creation from the atom to the universe, sung to the familiar tune NETTLETON. <a href="https://www.giamusic.com/store/resource/every-night-and-every-morning-pdf-d800311" target="_blank">Sheet music sample and purchasing options</a>. <br /></li><li><b style="color: #990000;">Online Resource / AoV1-019 / CH151 / GA397 / G(II)340 / GC493 / GC(II)498 / G(3)575 / W&R039 </b><span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;">All You Works of God</span> (Marty Haugen) Joyful cantor and response with a rousing chorus. <span style="color: #ff00fe;">Also good for kids</span>. <a href="http://c1824532.cdn.cloudfiles.rackspacecloud.com/GC2_498-1.jpg">Lead sheet and lyrics</a>. <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=STrv8jjRrvo" target="_blank">Lyric video</a>. <a href="https://www.giamusic.com/store/resource/all-you-works-of-god-print-g3481" target="_blank">Sheet music available</a>.</li><li><span style="color: #990000; font-weight: bold;">VU888 / LBW558 / ELW731 / PH458 / RS681 / CP358 / W&R642 / 82Hml-412 </span> <span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;">Earth and All Stars </span>
(Herbert Brokering) Fun words of cosmic praise - great for the start of a school year or term. I thought this tune
was pretty straightforward, but my congregation struggled a bit with
it. I really like the
"boiling test tubes" bit, although this verse is not in all hymnals;
the lyrics vary between sources, and not all are inclusive. <a href="http://www.digitalsongsandhymns.com/songs/6906">One example of the lyrics</a>. <span style="color: magenta;">Good for kids, especially if sung with some humour.</span> </li><li><span style="color: #990000; font-weight: bold;">ELW561 / G(II)552 / GC762 / PfAS1040 / Lau12a </span><span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;"> Joyous Light of Heavenly Glory </span>
(Marty Haugen) Excellent words of light and darkness, sung to a simple
hymn tune. <a href="https://hymnary.org/text/joyous_light_of_heavenly_glory" target="_blank">Sheet music sample</a>. </li></ul><span style="font-size: large;"><b><a href="http://lectionary.library.vanderbilt.edu/texts.php?id=73#epistle_reading">1 Corinthians 1:18-25</a></b></span><span style="font-style: italic;"> </span><br /></div>
<span style="font-style: italic;">The foolishness of the cross </span><br />
<ul><li><b><span style="color: #990000;">Online Resource / TiS 356 / CH385 / Cha203 / StF273</span></b> <span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;">Here hangs a man discarded </span>(Brian
Wren) Excellent words, particularly for this reading “Can such a clown
of sorrows still bring a useful word where faith and love seem phantoms
and every hope absurd?”. Also works very well with TiS 339 (Passion
Chorale) if your congregation is scared of new tunes. <a href="http://www.hopepublishing.com/html/main.isx?sitesec=40.2.1.0&hymnID=2598">Lyrics and sheet music</a>. <span style="color: orange;">New words to old tunes</span>.</li><li><b style="color: #990000;">TiS 422 / CH594 / CP(E) 179</b> <span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;">Come Holy Spirit come inflame our souls with love</span> (Michael Lindsay Forster) Excellent words to a well known hymn tune. It is not gender-inclusive for God. <a href="http://issuu.com/holytrinitykew/docs/2013-05-19_10am_sheet_pentecost">Lyrics</a> (links to a very impressive pew sheet). <span style="color: orange;">New words to old tunes</span>.</li><li><b style="color: #990000;">TiS 179 / NCH273 / VU312 / StJ / URW073</b><span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;"> Praise with Joy the World's Creator </span>(John Bell) One of my favourite hymns - strongly Trinitarian lyrics and excellent imagery. <a href="http://www.standrewparishchurch.com/Bulletin2006-09-17.html">Lyrics</a> (scroll down or search).<span style="color: orange;"> New words to old tunes</span>.</li><li><span style="color: #990000; font-weight: bold;">VU284 / GtG230 / G(II)550 / GC760 / Cha333 </span><span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;"> Joyful Is the Dark </span>(Brian
Wren) I really like these words. Hymnals vary widely in the tunes they
have set these lyrics to. GtG uses a really difficult key but the tune
is nice. VU uses <a href="http://www.hopepublishing.com/html/main.isx?sitesec=40.2.1.0&hymnID=2577">this tune</a>. I'm really not a big fan of either tune, but I think the tune in VU may be simpler.</li><li><b style="color: #990000;">TiS 262</b> <span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;">When pain and terror strike by chance</span>
(Brian Wren) These excellent words may be particularly helpful if you
are in a community where there has been recent loss / disaster. Very
familiar Irish folk tune. <a href="https://www.hopepublishing.com/find-hymns-hw/hw2692.aspx">Lyrics</a>.<br /></li><li><b><span style="color: #990000;">Recorded Music </span><span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;">The cross is foolishness</span></b> (John Michael Talbot) I don't really know this song, but came across a <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CMCwHBbY6_M" target="_blank">sound sample</a> and the <a href="http://blogs.clappingtrees.com/weblogs/singlecatholicwoman.php?id=C4_95_19">lyrics</a>. I think it would be a good one to listen to, or play if someone has the music. </li><li><span style="color: #990000;"><b>Unusual sources</b> </span><span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;">It really is a worry / Right side up </span>
(Downie) A good kid's song about how God's world is not upside down,
but right side up. We have this in the folders at church. It's also in a
book called "Praise God Together" and in "Kidsource 2". <span style="color: magenta;">Good for kids.</span> </li><li><b style="color: #990000;">Unknown source</b> <span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;">Alleluia, the great storm is over</span>
(Bob Franke) lift up your wings and fly! I especially love the image of
the infant sleeping while the mother sang until the bridegroom
returned. The chorus is really catchy and very easy to sing. If not
familiar, you can use a cantor or soloist for the verses and invite the
congregation to join in the chorus. We tend to sing this more like a
gospel anthem, but I don't think we've sung it in quite a while. <a href="https://www.flashlyrics.com/lyrics/john-mccutcheon/the-great-storm-is-over-78">Lyrics</a>. <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uCANAmQizdc">Video with poor image but good sound</a>.</li><li><span style="color: #990000; font-weight: bold;">Online Resource </span><span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;">God is like a foolish farmer </span>
(David Bjorlin) Many images of God as farmer, lover, ruler and
shepherd, all of them "foolish", but all of them more loving and caring
than our usual image of these types of people. Sung to the familiar tune
RESTORATION. <a href="https://giamusic.com/resource/god-is-like-a-foolish-farmer-pdf-du01811?source=gmail&ust=1710194145306000&usg=AOvVaw0kgTKXCPLm85vTcBVfeQ63&utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email" target="_blank">Lyrics and purchasing options</a>. <span style="color: orange;">New words to old tunes</span>. <br /></li></ul>
<span style="font-size: large;"><b><a href="http://lectionary.library.vanderbilt.edu/texts.php?id=73#gospel_reading">John 2:13-22</a></b></span><br />
<span style="font-style: italic;">Jesus casts out the money-changers from the temple</span><br />
<ul style="text-align: left;">
<li><span style="color: #990000;"><b>TiS 674 / Iona (Common Ground, Heaven Shall Not Wait) / A&M562 / CH253 / SP245</b></span> <span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;">Inspired by love and anger </span>(John Bell) Powerful lyrics, simple English folk tune. <a href="https://eppursimuov3.wordpress.com/2012/08/23/inspired-by-love-and-anger/" target="_blank">Lyrics</a>. I love verse three “Don’t query our
position! Don’t criticise our wealth! Don’t mention those exploited by
politics and stealth!”. It’s easy for us to be judgemental on these
things.</li>
<li><b style="color: #990000;">TiS 473 / NCH314 / W&R615 / Cha655 / StF681 / Lau895</b> <span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;"> Community of Christ </span>
(Shirley Murray) Beautiful words to a traditional Hebrew synagogue melody
(LEONI). Easy to sing. <a href="http://www.hopepublishing.com/html/main.isx?sitesec=40.2.1.0&hymnID=2866">Lyrics and sheet music</a>. <span style="color: orange;">New words to old tunes</span>.</li>
<li><b style="color: #990000;">FFS48</b><span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;"> May the anger of Christ be mine</span>
(Colin Gibson) Excellent words and very singable tune. <a href="https://www.hopepublishing.com/find-hymns-hw/hw3835.aspx">Free sheet music and lyrics</a>.</li><li><b style="color: #990000;">Online Resource / Full of the Spirit</b><span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;"> Jesus, barrier breaker / Radical for love </span>
(Heather Price) Gutsy pop song about how Jesus was not a rule maker, but a rule breaker! Highly recommended. <a href="https://heatherprice.com.au/downloads/full-of-the-spirit-album/" target="_blank">Sound sample and music for purchase</a>. </li><li><span style="color: #990000; font-weight: bold;">Online Resource <span style="color: #000099;">God beyond our ways of knowing</span></span><span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;"><span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;"> </span></span>(Adam
Tice / Randall Sensmeier)
This hymn starts and ends with a verse seeking God's guidance, and the
middle verse picks up the Gospel reading for each week of Lent in year B
(that's this year). You may like to use it each week. Sung to a simple
and catchy tune. <a href="https://www.giamusic.com/store/resource/god-beyond-our-ways-of-knowing-pdf-d800318" target="_blank">Lyrics, sheet music sample and purchasi</a><a href="https://www.giamusic.com/store/resource/god-beyond-our-ways-of-knowing-pdf-d800318" target="_blank">ng options</a>. </li><li><b style="color: #990000;">Online Resource</b> <span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;">The church of Christ cannot be sold </span>
(David Bjorlin) Powerful words about how we must move forward as a church without worry about financial security. Set to the familiar folk tune STAR OF THE COUNTY DOWN. <a href="https://www.giamusic.com/store/resource/the-church-of-christ-cannot-be-sold-pdf-d1010136">Sound sample, sheet music and lyrics sample and purchasing options</a>. <span style="color: orange;">New words to old tunes</span> </li>
<li><b style="color: #990000;">TiS 665 / AoV2-008 / Iona (Common Ground) / CH360 / A&M563 / VU117 / StJ / SP246 / Lau889 / StF251</b> <span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;">Jesus Christ is waiting </span>(John Bell) A good hymn that is quite simple to sing. Lyrics <a href="http://morecoherent.wordpress.com/2007/04/20/a-peace-liturgyservice/">here</a> (scroll down just a little bit). <span style="color: #990000;"><span style="color: orange;">New words to old tunes</span></span><span style="color: #990000; font-weight: bold;"> </span> </li>
<li><b style="color: #990000;">TiS 689 / ATE 286 / GtB </b><span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;">Lord hear my praying, listen to me / Sorrowing song </span>(Robin Mann)
Powerful words of lamentation to a simple tune. It's not really an
"angry" song, but it would also work for this reading. Words are
straightforward about asking difficult questions of God. <a href="http://www.robinmann.com.au/rs/7/sites/1178/user_uploads/File/All%20Songs%20%28PDF%29/sorrowingsong.pdf">Lyrics</a>.
</li>
<li><b style="color: #990000;">Online Resource / MV157</b> <span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;">I am a child of God</span>
(Bruce Harding) A simple song with powerful words. Verse 3 is especially
suitable for this week "I am an angry voice, I am compassion and
consternation, I am an angry voice. I am an angry voice". <a href="https://evensong.ca/lyrics-search-results/?search-query=child+of+god">Free sheet music and sound sample</a>. <span style="color: magenta;">Good for kids</span>?</li>
<li><span style="color: #990000; font-weight: bold;">Online Resource </span><span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;">Move </span>
(Richard Bruxvoort-Colligan) This song is based on Psalm 109, but will work
very well for this reading. Minimal words would make this a good song to
memorise and sing while you are next at a protest rally, with someone
singing the verses through a megaphone. But, yeah, you can sing it in
church too! <a href="http://www.psalmimmersion.com/#%21move/cd4h">Lyrics, sound sample and sheet music.</a></li>
<li><span style="color: #990000; font-weight: bold;">Online Resource </span><span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;">Faithfully Angry </span>
(Richard Bruxvoort-Colligan) This is based on Psalm 58, but also works well for
this reading. There is a good tradition of anger in the Psalms...!
While the recording is quite slow and gentle, it would
also work at about double the speed with rocking guitars (but maybe as a
solo instead of a congregational song). <a href="http://www.psalmimmersion.com/#%21faithfully-angry/chfn">Lyrics, sound sample and sheet music.</a></li>
<li><span style="color: #990000; font-weight: bold;"> StF253 </span><span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;"> Love inspired the anger </span> (Andrew Pratt) Excellent words about the transforming power of a loving anger, and a very simple tune. <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QIfzn-6jDnY" target="_blank">Lyric video</a>. </li>
</ul>
<span style="color: #274e13;"><i><b>What will you be singing? I'd love to hear your suggestions. Please add them in a comment below. </b></i></span>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><a href="http://lectionary.library.vanderbilt.edu/texts.php?id=72#hebrew_reading">Genesis 17:1-7, 15-16</a> </b></span> <br />
<span style="font-style: italic;">God’s covenant with Abraham and Sarah</span><br />
<ul style="text-align: left;">
<li><span style="color: #990000;"><b>Online Resource / AoV1-137 / ATOK 403 / GA306 / G(II)286 </b></span> <span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;"> God Of Abraham lead us </span>
(Bernadette Farrell) This one is great. Just don't try to sing all 17 verses!
Choose what you like… I love this energetic call and response with the
response "Lead us to your kingdom". You can sing with a cantor and
response, or you could split your congregation in the middle doing half
and half, or you could just have people singing all the way through. <a href="http://www.sixmaddens.org/?p=1549">Lyrics</a> (and a slow sound sample). <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SwG4rRaed0M" target="_blank">Sound sample</a> (listen to the whole thing and see how they build it up). <a href="https://www.ocp.org/en-us/songs/7775/god-of-abraham" target="_blank">Sheet music samples and purchasing options</a>. <span style="color: magenta;">Good for kids</span>.</li>
<li><b style="color: #990000;">NCH020</b> <span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;">God of Abraham and Sarah, God of Moses, Miriam's Guide </span>(James Gertmenian)
Salvation history in one song with a focus on justice, healing,
courage. I suggested this for Transfiguration as well, so it might be
good to sing it again. Fits well with all themes for this week. Could
also be sung to NETTLETON if you want something familiar. <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VfCnhEPDzrw">Sound sample</a>.<br /></li><li><b style="color: #990000;">VU634 / GtG051 / CP468 </b> <span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;"> To Abraham and Sarah </span> (Judith Fetter) A good interfaith hymn, and excellent words of being a pilgrim people. Sung to the familiar tune THORNBURY. <a href="https://digitalsongsandhymns.com/songs/8933#tab-lyrics">Lyrics</a>. <span style="color: orange;">New words to old tunes</span>.</li>
<li><span style="color: #990000; font-weight: bold;">NCH024 / GtG049 <span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;">The God of Abraham praise </span></span> (ben Judah) This hymn, based on the Jewish Yigdal prayer is quite masculine in most hymnals, which vary
widely in which verses they include. The words are inclusive, yet still
old-fashioned and poetic in NCH and GtG, so look for these versions instead. <span style="color: orange;">New words to old tunes.</span><a href="https://hymnary.org/text/the_god_of_abraham_praise_who_reigns">Mostly older style lyrics</a></li>
<li><b style="color: #990000;">VU255 / CP348</b> <span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;"> The living God be praised </span>
(ben Judah) Another newer translation of the Yigdal "The God of Abraham
praise". Excellent words, and of course, a familiar tune (LEONI).<a href="http://www.hymnary.org/hymn/CP1998/348"> Lyrics</a>. <span style="color: orange;">New words to old tunes</span>.</li><li><span style="color: #990000; font-weight: bold;">Online Resource</span><span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;"> Awake with timbrel and with dance </span>
(Mary Louise Bringle) A joyful celebration of many women of the Scriptures (including Sarah), sung to AZMON. <a href="https://www.giamusic.com/store/resource/awake-with-timbrel-and-with-dance-pdf-d588407" target="_blank">Sheet music sample, lyrics, and purchasing options</a>. <span style="color: orange;">New words to old tunes</span>.</li><li><b style="color: #990000;">Online Resource</b> <span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;">The God of Sarah praise </span> (David Bjorlin) A broadening of the traditional song "The God of Ab'ram
Praise" to include Sarah and Hagar. Set to the traditional melody
LEONI. <a href="https://www.giamusic.com/store/resource/the-god-of-sarah-praise-pdf-d1010137">Sound sample, sheet music and lyrics sample and purchasing options</a>. <span style="color: orange;">New words to old tunes</span>. </li>
<li><b style="color: #990000;">MV 148</b><span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;"> </span><span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;">Hope of Abraham and Sarah </span>(Ruth Duck & Judith Snowdon) This song is simple to sing and speaks of unity for the Abrahamic faiths (Islam, Judaism and Christianity). <a href="https://nwanglicanblog.wordpress.com/2013/02/03/hope-of-abraham-and-sarah-by-ruth-duck-and-judith-snowdon/">Lyrics</a>.</li>
<li><span style="color: #990000; font-weight: bold;">Online Resource </span><span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;"><span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;">I will set my bow in the clouds </span></span>(Daniel Damon)
A good song with lyrics that will fit multiple weeks of Lent. I will
suggest this again during Lent this year. Sung to a simple and catchy tune. <a href="http://www.hopepublishing.com/html/main.isx?sitesec=40.2.1.0&hymnID=3623">Lyrics and sheet music</a>. </li>
<li><span style="color: #990000; font-weight: bold;">NCH501 </span> <span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;"> We are dancing Sarah's circle </span>
(Carole Etzler) Set to the familiar tune of "We are climbing Jacob's ladder",
with positive imagery of increasing the size of the circle of inclusion.
<a href="https://hymnary.org/text/we_are_dancing_sarahs_circle">Lyrics</a>. <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f3JtVLaPJ8U">Sound sample</a>. <span style="color: magenta;">Good for kids</span>.</li>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><a href="http://lectionary.library.vanderbilt.edu/texts.php?id=72#psalm_reading">Psalm 22:23-31</a></b></span><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">God’s constant care. Everyone will worship God.</span></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><span style="font-style: italic;"><span style="color: #38761d;">Most
settings of Psalm 22 focus on the first part of the Psalm (My God, my
God, why have you abandoned me). Here are some that pick up the latter
part of the Psalm.</span></span><span style="color: #38761d;"> </span><br />
<ul style="text-align: left;"><li>
<b style="color: #990000;">NCH007 / VU822 </b><span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;">All people that on earth do dwell </span>(Adapt: Thomas Troeger) Almost every hymnal has quite masculine words for this classic
hymn. I thoroughly recommend you look at this new adaptation. It is
joyous and very lovely. "All people that on earth do dwell, sing out
your faith with cheerful voice; Delight in God whose praise you tell,
whose presence calls you to rejoice". <a href="https://digitalsongsandhymns.com/songs/6984">Lyrics</a>. <span style="color: orange;">New words to old tunes</span>.</li><li><b style="color: #990000;">Online Resource / Tune In </b><span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;">The God that I know</span> (Sheree Anderson) A ballad drawing on God’s strength and comfort; not easy if unfamiliar. <a href="http://brunswick.unitingchurch.org.au/worship/the-arts-in-worship/tune-in/">Free downloadable songbook, sound samples</a>. </li><li>
<span style="color: #990000; font-weight: bold;">PfAS022C </span><span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;"> What wondrous love is this </span>
(Stith Mead) Refrain only, to be sung with a 2 reader version of the Psalm. <a href="http://www.hymntime.com/tch/htm/w/h/a/t/w/whatwond.htm">Here's the whole song, but this only uses the first 2 lines</a>.<span style="color: orange;"> Oldy but a goody</span>.</li><li><b style="color: #990000;">Online Resource / Tune In </b><span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;">Like the sun upon my skin / God’s Mercy </span>(Sheree Anderson) A beautiful ballad about identifying God's mercy in the beauty of creation. <a href="http://brunswick.unitingchurch.org.au/worship/the-arts-in-worship/tune-in/">Free downloadable songbook, sound samples and lyrics</a>. </li><li>
<b style="color: #990000;">Online Resource / AoV1-073 / G(II)467 / GC657</b> <span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;"> I Will Not Die before I've lived to see that land</span>
(Tom Conry) I really quite like this one. The verses may be best sung by a
small group, but a congregation who likes singing will do fine with it.
Some funny he / shes about God in there (in AoV), which kind of work.
Chorus is “For your right hand has delivered us from death. You have
regarded our tears, you who are goodness and grace”. <a href="http://www.angelfire.com/gundam/heavenandhell/Songs/pilots/notdie.html">Lyrics</a>. <a href="https://www.ocp.org/en-us/songs/236/i-will-not-die" target="_blank">Sound and sheet music samples and purchasing options</a>.<br /></li><li><b style="color: #990000;">Online Resource / Tune In</b> <span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;">Shepherd of the night</span>
(Elaine Loukes) "Have you ever felt the velvet night wrap you in her warmth". A
lovely song with a theme of God’s protection. This is tricky for a
congregation, so you might want to ask the musicians to play this. <a href="http://brunswick.unitingchurch.org.au/worship/the-arts-in-worship/tune-in/">Free downloadable songbook, sound samples and lyrics</a>. </li><li><b style="color: #990000;">TiS 727 / SiS361 / ATE 208 / CH121 / AA70 / PfAS022F </b> <span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;"> In the presence of your people </span>(Brent Chambers) A good Yiddish tune - lots of fun for kids and adults. Good to get fast and dance around on this one. <span style="color: magenta;">Good for kids. </span>Or you could try:<span style="color: #990000; font-weight: bold;">VU745 </span> <span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;"> In the presence of your people</span> Refrain only for singing with a reading of
this Psalm. <a href="https://digitalsongsandhymns.com/songs/4886">Lyrics (with two extra verses!)</a>. </li><li><b style="color: #990000;">Online Resource </b><span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;">O Love, you never turned away</span>
(Richard Bruxvoort Colligan) A simple two-part song which is a joyful take on the happy part of this Psalm. Easy to sing. <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bp7xQLpurk4&t=38s" target="_blank">Teaching video and links to resources</a>. <span style="color: magenta;">Good for kids</span>.</li><li>
<b style="color: #990000;">Online resource </b><b style="color: #000099;">All the Ends of the Earth Shall Turn to you, O God </b>(Bruce Harding)
A very simple one-liner from Bruce Harding, suitable for using with a
reading of the Psalm, or intercessions. <a href="https://evensong.ca/wp-content/uploads/all_the_ends_of_the_earth.pdf">Free sheet music</a>.</li><li>
<span style="color: #990000; font-weight: bold;"> VU618 / CP558 </span> <span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;"> God when I stand </span>
(Herbert O'Driscoll) Good words; the tune will probably need to be taught, or
at least played through before the congregation sings it. The 4th verse
focuses on Thomas, but don't omit it, or you won't have the happy
ending. <a href="https://www.hopepublishing.com/find-hymns-hw/hw3819.aspx">Lyrics</a>.</li></ul>
<span style="font-size: large;"><b><a href="http://lectionary.library.vanderbilt.edu/texts.php?id=72#epistle_reading">Romans 4:13-25</a></b></span><br />
<span style="font-style: italic;">The promise to Abraham came through his faith. Belief even in the face of impossibility.</span><br />
<span style="font-style: italic;"><b><span style="color: #274e13;">See also the songs listed for the Genesis Reading, above. </span></b></span><br />
<ul style="text-align: left;">
<li><b style="color: #990000;">Online Resource / AoVK-28 / ATOK 376</b> <span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;"> Faith hope and love </span>
(Trish Watts) This is so easy, and so cool. If you have some groovy
musicians, this can even be a very funky rock song. Very easy, and great
for kids and non-readers. <a href="https://willowpublishing.com.au/product/faith-hope-and-love/" target="_blank">Sound sample and purchasing options</a>. <span style="color: magenta;">Good for kids</span>.</li><li><b style="color: #990000;">NCH461</b> <span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;"> Let us hope when hope seems hopeless </span> (David Beebe) A lilting tune and good words of hope in the face of difficulty. A song of a maturing faith. <a href="http://koober.org/19Oct08/anthem_let_us_hope_when_hope_seems_hopeless.mp3">Sound sample</a> (long introduction). </li><li><span style="color: #990000; font-weight: bold;">TiS 691 </span><span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;">Faith will not grow from words alone</span>
(Elizabeth Smith) This is an excellent hymn about doubting and struggling in
faith. The tune is familiar and I find the words very helpful for
thinking and doubting Christians. <a href="https://www.facebook.com/SaintMartinsAnglicanChurchCampbelltown/posts/for-reflectionthe-words-of-this-hymn-jumped-out-at-me-and-so-i-am-sharingfaith-w/655693384461588/">Lyrics</a></li><li><span style="color: #990000;"><b>Online Resource / AoV1-137 / ATOK 403 / GA306 / G(II)286 </b> </span> <span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;"> God of Abraham lead us </span>
(Bernadette Farrell) I love
this energetic call and response with the response "Lead us to your
kingdom". Don't try to sing all 17 verses!
Choose what you like... You can sing with a cantor and response, or you
could split
your congregation in the middle doing half and half, or you could just
have people singing all the way through. <a href="https://indianamemory.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/collection/IWDC/id/2292/">Lyrics</a>. <a href="https://www.ocp.org/en-us/songs/7775/god-of-abraham" target="_blank">Sound and sheet music samples, and purchasing options</a>. <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SwG4rRaed0M" target="_blank">Sound sample</a> (listen to the whole thing and see how they build it up). <span style="color: magenta;">Good for kids</span>.</li><li><b style="color: #990000;">Online Resource / GC(II)651 / G(3)755 </b> <span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;">You must never give up / Sizo Bambelela</span>
(South African) An excellent song from an amazing church in Capetown,
South Africa. The phrase Bambelela means "Hold on". It would be fun to
get a few singers
together to sing the parts to this. If you purchase the music on this
link, all royalties go to support the JL Zwane Church and their
programs. <a href="https://www.giamusic.com/resource/bambelela-print-g6309" target="_blank">Sheet music sample, sound sample, and purchasing options</a>. <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ktB4owaeXlw&fbclid=IwAR2AYiBJeaEa_3bQFk-XtL_nC0Ac095gVivcV-9moyxBymEI-yjoDb2QfvA" target="_blank">Sound sample</a>. <a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/122662799375/permalink/10160213908839376/" target="_blank">Story</a>. <span style="color: magenta;">Good for kids</span>.</li><li><span style="color: #990000; font-weight: bold;">NCH501 </span> <span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;"> We are dancing Sarah's circle </span>
(Carole Etzler) Set to the familiar tune of "We are climbing Jacob's ladder",
with positive imagery of increasing the size of the circle of inclusion.
<span style="color: magenta;">Good for kids.</span><span style="color: orange;"> New words to old tunes</span>. <a href="https://mudcat.org/detail_pf.cfm?messages__Message_ID=3859539">One version of the lyrics</a>.</li><li><b style="color: #990000;">NCH020</b> <span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;">God of Abraham and Sarah, God of Moses, Miriam's Guide </span>(James Gertmenian)
Salvation history in one song with a focus on justice, healing,
courage. I suggested this for Transfiguration as well, so it might be
good to sing it again. Fits well with all themes for this week. Could
also be sung to NETTLETON if you want something familiar. <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=83VrYDMJ_Ps" target="_blank">Lyric video (kind of quick for a congregation (not to NETTLETON!)</a>. <span style="color: orange;">New words to old tunes</span>.</li><li><b style="color: #990000;">MV148 </b><span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;">Hope of Abraham and Sarah </span>(Ruth Duck) This song is simple to sing and speaks of unity for the Abrahamic faiths (Islam, Judaism and Christianity). <a href="https://nwanglicanblog.wordpress.com/2013/02/03/hope-of-abraham-and-sarah-by-ruth-duck-and-judith-snowdon/">Lyrics</a>.</li><li><span style="color: #990000;"><b>Iona (LFB) / G(II)503 / GC701 / RS818 / StF464 </b></span> <span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;"> God It Was who said to Abraham </span>
(John Bell) Easy tune. Good story words, which includes God's call to
Joseph, along with a canon of others who were called by God. Note that
God is masculine; I think this has been changed in more recent editions
of Love From Below. <a href="http://c1824532.cdn.cloudfiles.rackspacecloud.com/RS_818-1.jpg">Lyrics and sheet music</a>. <a href="http://c1824532.cdn.cloudfiles.rackspacecloud.com/RS_818.midi">Slow sound sample</a>.</li><li><b style="color: #990000;">VU634 / GtG051 / CP468 </b> <span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;"> To Abraham and Sarah </span> (Judith Fetter) A good interfaith hymn, and excellent words of being a pilgrim people. Sung to the familiar tune THORNBURY. <a href="http://www.reformedworship.org/article/march-2005/illuminating-word-using-pod-process-combine-bible-study-and-visual-arts">Lyrics</a> (about half way through the article) <span style="color: orange;">New words to old tunes</span>.</li><li><b><span style="color: #990000;">TiS
125 / AHB 53 / NCH24 / HPP24 / GC544 / CH162 / UMH116 / LBW544 / ELW831
/ A&M791 / HPP24 / GtG049 / PH488 / CP347 / W&R016 /
Cha024 / 82Hml-401 / Lau712 / StF091 / MP645 </span></b><span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;">The God of Abr’am praise / The God of Abraham Praise</span>
(Daniel ben Judah / paraphrased Thomas Olivers) A very well known hymn
based on the Yigdal. NOTE: The lyrics are quite masculine in most
hymnals, which vary
widely in which verses they include. The words are inclusive, yet still
old-fashioned and poetic in the NCH; or even better, sing the new
version listed below. <span style="color: orange;">Oldy-but-a-goody.</span><a href="https://hymnary.org/text/the_god_of_abraham_praise_who_reigns"> Lyrics and sheet music. </a></li><li><b style="color: #990000;">VU255 / CP348</b> <span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;"> The living God be praised </span> (Daniel ben Judah) A new translation of "The God of Abraham praise". Excellent words, and of course, a familiar tune (LEONI).<span style="color: orange;"> New words to old tunes</span>. <a href="https://hymnary.org/text/the_living_god_be_praised">Lyrics and sheet music</a>.</li><li><b style="color: #990000;">Online resource </b><b style="color: #000099;">Broken children everywhere </b>(Jeanne Beale) These powerful lyrics encourage us to think of the impossibility that God loves us even as we are. Sung to tune of "Jesus loves me this I know". This could be a very powerful song, particularly if you have people in your congregation who struggle with feelings of unworthiness since childhood. Lyrics are below, in the comments. <span style="color: orange;">New words to old tunes</span>. </li>
</ul>
<span style="font-size: large;"><b><a href="http://lectionary.library.vanderbilt.edu/texts.php?id=72#gospel_reading">Mark 8:31-38</a></b></span><br />
<span style="font-style: italic;">Jesus predicts his death, Peter rebukes him, those who lose their lives…</span><br />
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<span style="font-style: italic;"><span style="color: #38761d;"><span style="font-style: italic;">You may like to sing an <a href="http://lectionarysong.blogspot.com.au/2015/03/songs-hymns-and-music-for-maundy.html">Agnus Dei</a> (Lamb of God)</span></span> </span></div>
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<li><span style="color: #990000; font-weight: bold;">Online Resource <span style="color: #000099;">God beyond our ways of knowing</span></span><span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;"><span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;"> </span></span>(Adam
Tice / Randall Sensmeier)
This hymn starts and ends with a verse seeking God's guidance, and the
middle verse picks up the Gospel reading for each week of Lent in year B
(that's this year). You may like to use it each week. Sung to a simple
and catchy tune. <a href="https://www.giamusic.com/store/resource/god-beyond-our-ways-of-knowing-pdf-d800318" target="_blank">Lyrics, sheet music sample and purchasi</a><a href="https://www.giamusic.com/store/resource/god-beyond-our-ways-of-knowing-pdf-d800318" target="_blank">ng options</a>. <b><span style="color: #990000;"> <br /></span></b></li><li><b><span style="color: #990000;">TiS
607 / AoV2-126 / ATN 95 / CH528 / VU684 / StJ / A&M725 / SFFS 2171 / HPP406 /
GtG753 / G(II)524 / GC726 / GC(II)721 / G(3)828 / CP(E)519/ W&R587 / Srce 462 / Lau898 / StF707 / MP456</span></b> <span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;">Make me a channel of your peace </span>(Sebastian Temple) Lovely. Nice if you can just start acapella... Some newer versions replace the phrase "O Master" with "O Spirit", which I quite like. <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=djjktLs9Nf0">Youtube video of Sinead O'Connor singing it</a> and <a href="https://hymnary.org/text/make_me_a_channel_of_your_peace" target="_blank">lyrics</a>. <span style="color: orange;">Oldy-but-a-goody</span>.</li>
<li><b style="color: #990000;">TiS 473 / NCH314 / W&R615 / Cha655 / StF681 / Lau895 </b><span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;">Community of Christ </span>
(Shirley Murray) Beautiful words to a traditional Hebrew synagogue melody
(LEONI). Easy to sing. <a href="http://www.hopepublishing.com/html/main.isx?sitesec=40.2.1.0&hymnID=2866">Lyrics and sheet music</a>. <span style="color: orange;">New words to old tunes</span>. Note that this has the same tune as "The God of
Abraham Praise".
</li><li><b style="color: #990000;">CP075 / W&R691</b> <span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;"> With the body that was broken </span>
(Carl P Daw) A more traditional hymn. I'm struggling to find hymns that fit
this passage well and that I like, but this one is pretty good. The tune
is not familiar to me, and is OK, but I think I would prefer it sung to
ST THOMAS. <a href="http://www.hopepublishing.com/html/main.isx?sitesec=40.2.1.0&hymnID=3064">Lyrics and tune sample</a>. <span style="color: orange;">New words to old tunes</span>.</li>
<li><b style="color: #990000;">Online Resource / Tune In </b><span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;">Like the sun upon my skin / God’s Mercy </span>(Sheree Anderson) A beautiful ballad about identifying God's mercy in the beauty of creation. <a href="http://brunswick.unitingchurch.org.au/worship/the-arts-in-worship/tune-in/">Free downloadable songbook</a></li>
<li><b style="color: #990000;">Online Resource / CH401 / VU121 / R139 / ELW334 / GA307 / HPP174 / G(II)288 / GC397 / GC(II)401 / G(3)475 / CP179 / ChaP134</b> <span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;"> Tree of life and awesome mystery </span>
(Marty Haugen) Great words about the suffering of Christ, that is really very
positive. "Tree of life and awesome mystery, in your death we are
reborn; though you die in all of history, still you rise with every
morn". <a href="http://cantusmundi.blogspot.com.au/2013/02/tree-of-life-and-awesome-mystery-marty.html">Lyrics and Youtube</a>. <a href="https://giamusic.com/resource/tree-of-life-print-g2944" target="_blank">Purchasing options</a>.<br /></li>
<li><b style="color: #990000;">ATOK
413 / Iona (HSNW) / CH533 / VU567 / StS039 / A&M510 / ELW798 / GA502 /
SFFS 2130 / HPP317 / GtG726 / G(II)510 / GC700 / GC(II)687 / G(3)790 / CP430 / CP(E) 622 /
W&R350</b><b style="color: #990000;"> / URW060 / Lau877 / StF673</b><span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;"> Will you come and follow me / The Summons </span>
(Iona) A classic.
Don't sing it too slowly or it really drags and takes forever! <a href="https://wordtoworship.com/song/9563" target="_blank">Lyrics</a>. <br /></li><li><b style="color: #990000;">Online Resource / Tune In </b><span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;">In the shape of a cross</span> (Dave Brown) A cry to God for help and a call for God to enter our world. <a href="http://brunswick.unitingchurch.org.au/worship/the-arts-in-worship/tune-in/">Free downloadable songbook</a></li></ul></div>
<i><span style="font-size: large;"><b>Alternate Gospel reading: <a href="http://lectionary.library.vanderbilt.edu/texts.php?id=72#gospel_oth_reading">Mark 9:2-9</a></b></span></i><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">Transfiguration story </span><br />
<ul style="text-align: left;"><li><b style="color: #990000;">ATFG555 / NCYC03</b> <span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;">Open your eyes / See Yourself </span>(Robin Mann)
“see yourself in the one who’s shining on the hill”. Puts the
transfiguration in the context of a whole lot of other New Testament
stories. Excellent newer song; verses are a little tricky. <a href="http://www.robinmann.com.au/My-songs-All-Together-for-Good-See-yourself-pg30927.html" target="_blank">Lyrics</a>. <span style="color: magenta;">Good for kids</span>.</li><li>
<span style="color: #990000; font-weight: bold;"> STB298 </span><span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;"> You are full of Light Lord Jesus / Velivu niranjor lisho </span>
(Syriac Liturgy / South India) A simple song from South India. It's
very beautiful - the tune will need to be taught. Probably simplest to
sing it in English. <a href="https://hymnary.org/text/velivu_niranjor_iisho" target="_blank">Sheet music sample</a>.<br /></li><li><b style="color: #990000;">SFFS 2153 / GC(II)770 / G(3)878 / Cha182</b> <span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;">Transform Us as you, transfigured</span>
(Sylvia Dunstan) Good words to the familiar and quite meditative
hymn tune PICARDY (TiS 497). <span style="color: orange;">New words to old tunes </span><a href="https://hymnary.org/text/transform_us_as_you_transfigured">Lyrics and sheet music preview </a></li><li><b><span style="color: #990000;">TiS474 / AoV1-012
/ ATE 295 / CH623 / SFFS 2236 / HPP553 / A&M363 / GtG401 / G(II)539 / GC839 / GC(II)743 / G(3)848 /
CP465 / W&R649 / Cha284 / SP175 / URW054 / Lau475 </span></b><span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;">Here in this place new light is streaming / Gather us in </span>(Marty Haugen).
Excellent words, very well known. “Nourish us well and teach us to
fashion lives that are holy and hearts that are true”. <a href="http://www.hymnary.org/tune/gather_us_in_haugen">Lyrics and sheet music samples.</a> </li><li><b style="color: #990000;"><b style="color: #990000;"><b style="color: #990000;"><b style="color: #990000;">ACS954 / </b></b>CH355 / VU210 / HPP81 / GtG274 / GC(II)525 / G(3)628 / CP630 / W&R99 / URW098 </b><span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;">You Lord Are Both Lamb and Shepherd </span>
</b>(Sylvia Dunstan) Beautiful words. Can be sung to many tunes. I like it to
PICARDY or WESTMINSTER ABBEY. <a href="https://sistersforsunshine.wordpress.com/2014/05/12/you-lord-are-both-lamb-and-shepherd/" target="_blank">Lyrics and sound samples</a>. <span style="color: orange;">New words to old tunes</span>.</li><li><b style="color: #990000;">NCH182 / VU104 / SFFS 2103 / HPP147 / GtG191 / CP166 / W&R245</b> <span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;"> We have come at Christ's own bidding </span>
(Carl P Daw Jr) Excellent lyrics that bring the images of the transfiguration
to the faith of today. Sung to the familiar and very lovely tune HYFRYDOL (TiS 517). <a href="http://www.hymnary.org/hymn/CPACC/166">Lyrics</a>. <a href="http://www.hymnsite.com/fws/hymn.cgi?2103">Tune sample</a>.<span style="color: orange;">New words to old tunes</span>.</li><li><b style="color: #990000;">Online Resource / AoV2-103 / AoVK-115 / G(II)514 / GC712 / GC(II)715 </b><span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;">Holy Ground </span>(Donna Peña)<span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;"> </span>I
love the energy and passion in this song and the vision of the heavens
embracing the earth. I especially like the “Do you believe in freedom?
Yes we do Lord! Do you believe in justice? Justice for all!” call in the
middle. Bilingual English/Spanish song. <span style="color: magenta;">Good for kids. </span><a href="https://www.giamusic.com/store/resource/on-holy-ground-print-g5309" target="_blank">Sound sample, sheet music sample, and purchasing options (choral version)</a>. </li><li><b style="color: #990000;">Online Resource / ATFG 541 </b><span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;">What is this scene?</span>
(David Froemming / Leigh Newton) A good story telling song. Not too difficult for the congregation to sing
on a first attempt, but it will need a brief “teaching time” for the
melody. You could also ask the musicians to present as part of the
offering. The words are great. <a href="https://leighnewton.com.au/matthew-17-what-is-this-scene/" target="_blank">Free sheet music</a>. <br /></li><li><span style="color: #990000; font-weight: bold;">Online Resource / TiS 255 / CH135 / VU434 / CP018 </span><span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;"> O laughing Light O first-born of creation </span>
(Sylvia Dunstan) A slightly more modern version of the Phos Hilaron.
Words are
good but the tune in TiS (ADRIAN) is a little tricky. You can also use
CHRISTE SANCTORUM. I also very much like the new tune written by David
Sims (no relation) in the link that follows. <a href="https://www.giamusic.com/store/resource/o-laughing-light-pdf-du01521" target="_blank">Lyrics, sheet music sample and purchasing options</a>. <br /></li><li><span style="color: #990000; font-weight: bold;">Online Resource / URW432 </span><span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;"> Radiant light divine </span>
(Rufino Zaragoza) This is pretty lovely. A nice chant based on the Phos
Hilaron. <a href="https://www.ocp.org/en-us/songs/2497/radiant-light-divine" target="_blank">Sound and sheet music samples and purchasing options</a>. <br /></li><li><b style="color: #990000;">Online Resource </b><span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;">Seeing Jesus </span> (Bruce Harding) A simple chant, needs at least 2 of the parts. <a href="https://evensong.ca/lyrics-search-results/?search-query=seeing+jesus">Free sheet music</a>.<br /></li><li><b style="color: #990000;">NCH183 / GtG193</b> <span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;"> Jesus take us to the mountain </span>
(Jaroslav Vajda) A very positive transfiguration hymn that asks good questions
and provides some good challenges and clearly looks onward to Good
Friday. <a href="http://starkekirchenlieder.blogspot.com/2009/02/jesus-take-us-to-mountain.html">Lyrics</a>.</li><li><b style="color: #990000;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><b style="color: #990000;">Online Resource / TiS 268 </b></span><b style="color: #990000;">/
AHB 224 / AoV1-170 / NCH132 / CH320 / UMH246 / VU59 / LBW039 /
ELW267 / GA295 / HPP107 / PH040 / GtG134 / GC343 / GC(II)353 / G(3)437 / CP154 / CP(E)
57 / W&R179 / Cha143 / Srce399 / </b><b style="color: #990000;">82Hml-100</b> <b style="color: #990000;">/ Lau156 / StF330 / MP393</b> <span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;"> Joy to the world The Lord is come </span></b><span style="color: #990000;"><span style="color: #351c75;">
(Isaac Watts) </span></span>So, this was not actually written as a Christmas carol (read
the lyrics: no baby Jesus), and I think it would work well for Christ
the King Sunday and Transfiguration, so maybe it's worth a go! <a href="https://hymnary.org/text/joy_to_the_world_the_lord_is_come" target="_blank">Lyrics and sheet music</a>. <span style="color: orange;">Oldy-but-a-goody</span>.</li><li><b style="color: #990000;">Online
Resource / TiS 234 / AHB 390 / A&M281 / GC778 / GC(II)771 / G(3)877
/ CP167 / CP(E)248 / VU103 / LBW89 / ELW315 / Lau209</b> <span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;">How good Lord to be here / Tis Good Lord to Be Here</span>
(Joseph Robinson) Good solid words and a good solid tune (I like
CARSLISLE best). I like the ending “But since you bid us leave the
mount, come with us to the plain”. <a href="https://www.ocp.org/en-us/songs/30388/tis-good-lord-to-be-here" target="_blank">Sound and sheet music sample (to the tune SWABIA, which is also nice), and purchasing options</a>. <span style="color: orange;">Oldy-but-a-goody</span>.</li><li><b style="color: #990000;">NCYC07</b> <b style="color: #000099;">You shine </b>(Kent Crawford)
A good song, with an excellent chorus "You shine over us, you shine
through us, so let your light shine on around the world". Definitely for
the more youthful congregation. It would also work to play the CD from
NCYC07 if you don't have a band of musicians.<span style="color: magenta;"> Good for teenagers.</span>.</li><li><span style="color: #990000; font-weight: bold;">ATW 447 </span> <span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;"> Thank you Jesus for ordinary miracles </span> (Robin Mann) Fun and joyful. "Up in a cloud in the air"! <a href="http://www.robinmann.com.au/rs/7/sites/1178/user_uploads/File/All%20Songs%20%28PDF%29/ordinarymiracles.pdf">Lyrics.</a> <span style="color: magenta;">Good for kids</span>.</li><li><b style="color: #990000;">Recorded Song </b><span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;">Little Lights </span>(Punch
Brothers) This track from a recent Punch Brothers album sings of the
desire of remaining in a transcendent place, but needing to return to
reality - it made me think of the transfiguration, even though it's not written about it... I particularly like
the line "guide us back to where we are from where we wanna be"... <a href="http://www.azlyrics.com/lyrics/punchbrothers/littlelights.html">Lyrics</a>. <a href="https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/the-phosphorescent-blues/id942080146">Sound</a>. </li><li><b style="color: #990000;">Recorded Song </b><span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;">Transfiguration </span>(Sufjan Stevens) I love this song. <a href="http://www.lyricsmania.com/lyrics/sufjan_stevens_lyrics_4540/seven_swans_lyrics_14685/the_transfiguration_lyrics_170430.html">Lyrics</a>. Here’s a video of him performing it live <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uxNiuuvIDbU">here </a>on
youtube, which is a bit more eclectic than the studio recording. Note: if playing
recorded songs in worship, it's a really good idea to provide lyrics to
the congregation either in a handout or using projection. Or you can get your musicians to play it for the congregation too. </li><li><span style="color: #990000; font-weight: bold;">Lau215 / Online Resource </span><span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;"> Transfigure us O Lord </span> (Bob Hurd) Really excellent words. Maybe better for a soloist. Thanks to the anonymous reader who suggested this. <a href="https://www.ocp.org/en-us/songs/66743/transfigure-us-o-lord">Sound sample & purchase options</a>. <a href="https://ololliturgy.wordpress.com/home/songs/offertory/bb508/">Lyrics</a>. <br /></li><li><span style="color: #990000; font-weight: bold;">Online Resource </span><span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;"> Transfigure me </span> (Christopher Grundy) I particularly like the chorus of this, that could be used as a sung response. The verses are also good. <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7BTAlxEJO4o">Youtube recording</a> (rough, but gives you an idea). <a href="http://sites.fastspring.com/christophergrundy/product/catalog">Sheet music</a>. <a href="http://www.christophergrundy.com/free-bulletin-inserts/">Free Bulletin Insert</a>. </li><li><span style="color: #990000; font-weight: bold;">Online Resource </span><span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;"> Transfiguration </span> (At Average) This song picks up on the disciples' desire for Christ to stay. <a href="https://ataverage.bandcamp.com/track/transfiguration">Lyrics and sound sample</a>. <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U5kawEE6nQg">Instructional video for guitarists</a>. Thanks to Tim Larson for this suggestion. </li></ul>
<span style="color: #274e13;"><i><b>What will you be singing? Please share your ideas in a comment below...</b></i></span>Lectionary Singer (Natalie Sims)http://www.blogger.com/profile/15635861565689089555noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3953574041544310550.post-16283977483511994552024-01-28T02:57:00.001-08:002024-02-13T02:04:51.922-08:00Songs and Hymns for Lent 1B (February 18 2024)<script async="" src="https://www.googletagmanager.com/gtag/js?id=G-E0N4VFC2F8"></script>
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Since Lent is often a time of living more simply, you may wish to sing:
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<li><span style="color: #990000; font-weight: bold;">Online Resource / VU353 / MfL150 / HPP391 / GC(II)657 / G(3)748 / Cha568 / 82Hml-554 </span><span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;"> Tis the gift to be simple </span> (Joseph Brackett) Excellent words to a very familiar tune. You might want to consider some <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dOQC0IDKz64" target="_blank">Shaker dance steps to go with the song</a>. <a href="https://makingmusicfun.net/htm/f_printit_free_printable_sheet_music/simple-gifts-lead-sheet" target="_blank">Free sheet music</a>. <span style="color: orange;">Oldy-but-a-goody. </span>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><a href="http://lectionary.library.vanderbilt.edu/texts.php?id=71#hebrew_reading">Genesis 9:8-17</a>
<span style="font-style: italic;"> </span></b></span><br />
<span style="font-style: italic;">God establishes a covenant with Noah, leaving a rainbow as a sign </span><br />
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<li><span style="color: #990000; font-weight: bold;">Unknown source </span><span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;">When things go wrong and you're feeling blue / Remember the rainbow, God’s promise in the sky</span>
I know this is not very helpful, but I know that at Brunswick we have a
copy of the words and chords in our folders. Maybe your church has it
filed away somewhere too. <span style="color: magenta;">Good for kids.</span> </li>
<li><span style="color: #990000; font-weight: bold;">Online Resource / Tune In </span><span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;">Tune in</span>
(Natalie Sims) A simple kid’s song. “Tune in, tune in, there’s a message
coming in.” Encourages kids to look for signs of God’s love. <span style="color: magenta;">Good for kids.</span> <a href="http://brunswick.unitingchurch.org.au/worship/the-arts-in-worship/tune-in/">Free downloadable songbook and sound sample</a>
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<li><span style="color: #990000; font-weight: bold;">Recorded Music</span> <span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;">Just look up</span>
(Eric Bibb / Michael Jerome Browne) On Eric Bibb's album "Friends"
and on Putumayo's "Folk Playground". "There's a rainbow waiting for
you, just look up". <a href="https://www.justsomelyrics.com/2236866/putumayo-presents-eric-bibb-just-look-up-lyrics.html">Lyrics</a>.
<span style="color: magenta;">Good for kids</span>.</li>
<li><span style="color: #990000; font-weight: bold;">BUC Song Project </span><span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;">Do not worry / The Promise</span>
(Elaine Loukes) A simple song reminding us of God's presence and promise. <span style="color: magenta;">Good for kids</span>.</li>
<li><span style="color: #990000; font-weight: bold;">NCH391 / GtG315 / SFFS 2238
/ Cha458 </span> <span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;"> In the midst of new dimensions </span>
(Julian Rush) "Now and ever, now and ever, now and evermore". I quite like
this one. Good for this week: "God of rainbow, fiery pillar".
Hymnals vary in which verses they include.<a href="https://riverviewfriend.wordpress.com/2013/05/12/a-new-hymn-in-the-midst-of-new-dimensions/"> Lyrics</a>. <a href="https://westpresa2.org/wp-content/uploads/In_the_Midst_of_New_Dimensions.pdf" target="_blank">Sheet music</a>.<br /></li>
<li><span style="color: #990000; font-weight: bold;">Online Resource / MV135 </span> <span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;"> Called by earth and sky </span>
(Pat Mayberry) Gentle song about the blessings of water, air, soil and
fire. <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NGIYVfEaATA">Sound sample</a>. <a href="https://www.convergencemp.com/topics/called-by-earth-and-sky.html" target="_blank">Purchasing options</a>.<br /></li>
<li><b style="color: #990000;">TiS 418 / AoV2-075 / Iona (EoA, Common Ground) / CH593 / GA372 / A&M259 / Cha255 / SP94 / URW165 / Lau305</b> <span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;">She sits like a bird brooding on the waters </span>(John Bell)
Beautiful words and very easy to sing,
provided it is not played too quickly The Iona recordings are generally
very quick, but there are a lot of words to fit in, so keep it elegantly
moderate in speed! <a href="https://hymnsocietygbi.org.uk/2021/07/she-sits-like-a-bird-janet-wooton/" target="_blank">Lyrics, sound sample and reflection</a>. <br /></li><li><span style="color: #990000; font-weight: bold;">Online Resource </span><span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;">Shades of purple shades of blue</span> (Carolyn Winfrey-Gillette) Simple words to the well known hymn tune DIX. <a href="http://www.carolynshymns.com/shades_of_purple_shades_of_blue.html">Lyrics</a>. </li>
<li><span style="color: #990000; font-weight: bold;">Online Resource </span><span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;"><span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;">I will set my bow in the clouds </span></span>(Daniel Damon)
A good song with lyrics that will fit multiple weeks of Lent. I will
suggest this again! Sung to a simple and catchy tune. <a href="http://www.hopepublishing.com/html/main.isx?sitesec=40.2.1.0&hymnID=3623">Lyrics and sheet music</a>. </li>
</ul><span style="font-size: large;"><b><a href="http://lectionary.library.vanderbilt.edu/texts.php?id=71#psalm_reading">Psalm 25:1-10</a></b></span><span style="font-style: italic;"> </span></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><span style="font-style: italic;">Make me know your ways, teach me your paths</span><span style="font-style: italic;">. Trust in God</span><
<ul style="text-align: left;"><li><span style="color: #990000;"><b>URW143 </b></span><span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;">The Grace of God is like a road </span>
(Michael Hudson) Beautiful words of God's presence and call to follow. Sung to a
familiar tune THE GIFT OF LOVE, that is almost the same as O WALY WALY.
Highly recommended. <a href="https://www.facebook.com/124798824299532/posts/hold-on-until-its-truethe-text-below-has-graced-my-days-since-i-first-noticed-it/351348688311210/" target="_blank">Lyrics</a>. <span style="color: orange;">New words to old tunes</span>.</li><li><b style="color: #990000;">Online Resource / Tune In </b><span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;">Like the sun upon my skin / God’s Mercy </span>(Sheree Anderson) A beautiful ballad about identifying God's mercy in the beauty of creation. <a href="http://brunswick.unitingchurch.org.au/worship/the-arts-in-worship/tune-in/">Free downloadable songbook and sound sample</a>.</li><li><b style="color: #990000;">Online Resource</b><span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;">I Lay Open (Psalm 25) </span>(Richard Bruxvoort-Colligan) A calm reflective chant that could be used as a responsive refrain, or as a devotional prayer. <a href="https://soundcloud.com/worldmaking-psalmist/i-lay-open-ps-25">Sound sample & contact details for sheet music. </a>
</li><li><span style="color: #990000; font-weight: bold;">Online Resource / Tune In</span><span style="color: #990000; font-weight: bold;"> Dare to Dream </span>(Elaine Loukes)
A great song about having a vision for the future, being lead by the
light of Bethlehem’s star. "Dare to dream of new beginnings, Paths
untried, by faith supplied". <a href="http://brunswick.unitingchurch.org.au/worship/the-arts-in-worship/tune-in/">Free downloadable songbook and sound sample</a></li><li>
<span style="color: #990000; font-weight: bold;">ATFG563 / NCYC'03 / The Red Book</span> <span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;"> How long must we cry out? </span>
(Robin Mann) This is a big Brunswick favourite, great for young people in
particular. "Teach me to do what is right, walk in the darkness, trust
in the light and may love be the path I walk upon".
<span style="color: magenta;">Good for teenagers</span>. <a href="http://www.robinmann.com.au/My-songs-All-Together-for-Good-How-Long-pg30929.html">Lyrics</a>. <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qJEDa6-0lSU" target="_blank">Lyric video</a>.</li><li><b style="color: #990000;">TiS
666 / AoV2-113 / AoVK-126 / ATOK 409 / NCH526 / Iona (Common Ground,
Freedom is Coming) / CH516 / VU646/647 / WoV650 / ELW866 / A&M483 / SFFS 2235 /
HPP153 / GtG853 / G(II)357 / GC513 / GC(II)516 / G(3)594 / Cha442 / SP235 / Srce737 / StF483 / MP954 </b><span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;">We are marching in the light of God / Siyahamba / Caminando </span>(South
African) A very popular chorus, with possible alternate verses,
depending on your source. Sometimes people get anxious about the word
"marching", but remember that this song comes from apartheid-era South
Africa, where people were protesting so that they could vote in their
own country. And the marching is toi-toing, much less militaristic than
what you may imagine. <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QGOiANtGmhE">Amazing choral sound sample</a>. <a href="https://firstchurchwg.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/Siyahamba.pdf" target="_blank">Sheet music</a>. <span style="color: magenta;">Good for kids</span>.</li><li><span style="color: #990000; font-weight: bold;">NCH Psalter 25 </span><span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;">Your mercy and love have been from of old </span>
(Judy Hunnicutt) A lovely simple Psalm refrain. </li><li><b style="color: #990000;">Emergent Psalter </b><span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;">Let me know your ways </span>(Isaac Everett) A really good psalm response. I just love this book - I think I like every Psalm in it. <a href="https://www.churchpublishing.org/siteassets/pdf/the-emergent-psalter/psalm025.pdf">Sheet music </a>(refrain only).</li><li><b style="color: #990000;">Iona (WWHW) / MV223</b> <span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;"> We will go with God / Sizohamba naye </span> (Traditional Swaziland) A simple Zulu song from Swaziland. Good for the end of the service. <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VunGjb_mJmQ&feature=related">Video with pronunciation and parts</a>.
Note that MV has a different set of English words; neither are a direct translation. <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H3edl9I5oCg&fbclid=IwAR1g-BWdJG2fyF1RwvKSFzDcL0cGWW6IbwYqVv0HqePDS5UmimKGqOLjIpg" target="_blank">Sound sample of a more traditional version</a>.<span style="color: magenta;"> Good for kids</span>.</li><li><span style="color: #990000; font-weight: bold;">Online Resource / VU753 / AA117
/ A&M773 / SP306 </span> <span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;"> Safe in the hands of God / Safe in your hands O God </span>
(Michael Perry) Good paraphrase of the Psalm. Tune will need to be played
through at least once before the congregation join in. <a href="http://www.hopepublishing.com/html/main.isx?sitesec=40.2.1.0&hymnID=4495">Lyrics & Sheet music</a>. </li><li><b style="color: #990000;">Online resource</b> <span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;">Make me know your ways </span>(Bruce Harding) A nice laid back and groovy Psalm response or chant. Can work as a round, too. <a href="https://evensong.ca/wp-content/uploads/make_me_know_your_ways-accomp-higherkey.pdf">Sheet music.</a><span style="color: magenta;"> Good for kids.</span>
</li><li> <b style="color: #990000;">GA280 / GtG089 / G(II)252 / GC328 / GC(II)336 / G(3)415 / Lau111</b> <span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;">For you O Lord my soul in stillness waits </span>(Marty Haugen)
Nice refrain, and verses that contain a good range of images of God.
Might be best for the congregation to join in only in the refrain as
verses are long and have lots of words. <a href="http://c1824532.cdn.cloudfiles.rackspacecloud.com/GC2_336-1.mp3">Sound sample.</a> <a href="http://c1824532.cdn.cloudfiles.rackspacecloud.com/GC2_336-1.jpg">Lead sheet & Lyrics</a></li><li>
<span style="color: #990000;"><b>ATOK
414 / Iona (LFB, Common Ground) / CH501 / GA485 /
A&M788 / G(II)480 / GC673 / GC(II)655 / SP311 / StF513 / Lau850</b> </span> <span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;"> Take this moment, sign and space </span> (John Bell) A fairly well known favourite. Simple melody and beautiful words. <a href="https://goodgoat.wordpress.com/2013/08/07/take-this-moment/" target="_blank">Lyrics</a>.</li><li><span style="color: #990000; font-weight: bold;">Online Resource / MV045 / SP&P051 </span><span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;">Hamba nathi</span> (Zulu) There are a lot of translations of this song. I like "Come walk with us, the journey is long". <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S1DawD7YulU">Sound sample</a>. <a href="https://www.musicthatmakescommunity.org/paulvasile/go_with_us_lord_and_set_us_all_free_hamba_nathi_mkhululi_wethu" target="_blank">Sheet music</a>. <span style="color: magenta;">Good for kids</span> </li><li><b style="color: #990000;">TIS 624 / W&R453 / StF492</b> <span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;">Christ be my leader by night as by day </span> (John Bell) Excellent words of following Christ in times of struggle to a traditional Scottish melody. <a href="http://www.traditionalmusic.co.uk/hymn-lyrics/christ_be_my_leader_by_night_as_by_day.htm">Lyrics</a> <span style="color: orange;">New words to old tunes</span>.</li><li><span style="color: #990000; font-weight: bold;">Online Resource / VU752 / G(II)34 / GC36 / GC(II)26 / G(3)039 / PfAS025A / URW248 </span> <span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;"> To you O God I lift my soul </span>(Marty Haugen) Simple lilting cantor and response "To you O Lord I lift my soul, to you I lift my soul". <a href="http://c1824532.cdn.cloudfiles.rackspacecloud.com/GC_036-1.jpg">Lead sheet</a>. <a href="http://c1824532.cdn.cloudfiles.rackspacecloud.com/GC_036.midi">Sound sample</a>. <a href="https://www.giamusic.com/store/resource/to-you-o-lord-i-lift-my-soul-pdf-d1036301" target="_blank">Purchasing options</a>. <br /></li><li><b style="color: #990000;">AoV2-014</b> <span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;"> To You O God I Lift Up My Soul</span>
(Bob Hurd) I like this; it's pretty groovy, and has good lyrics; you could
also use the chorus on its own, or with a read version of the Psalm. <a href="http://www.spiritandsong.com/compositions/7376">Sound sample and lyrics</a>.</li><li><b style="color: #990000;">TiS 14 / GA026 </b><b style="color: #000099;">To you, O Lord I lift my soul </b>(Christopher Willcock) Good cantor and response. <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aPGlYEpZ1e4">Sound sample</a>.</li><li><b style="color: #990000;">Taizé / CH276 / VU22 / GtG090 / ELW262 / GA283 / A&M053 / G(II)256 / GC332 /
GC(II)340 / G(3)406 / CP094 / W&R166 / PfAS037B / SP28 / URW396 / Lau088</b> <span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;">Wait for the Lord</span> (Jacques Berthier) "Wait for the Lord whose day is near, wait for the lord,
keep watch, take heart". A lovely simple Taizé chant. Some older
versions are not inclusive. <a href="http://www.taize.fr/spip.php?page=chant&song=512&lang=en">Sheet music, translations and sound samples</a>.</li></ul>
</div></div><span style="font-size: large;"><b><a href="http://lectionary.library.vanderbilt.edu/texts.php?id=71#epistle_reading">1 Peter 3:18-22</a></b></span> <br />
<span style="font-style: italic;">Suffering to do good; Jesus’ descent into hell; Baptism.</span><br />
<ul style="text-align: left;"><li><span style="color: #990000; font-weight: bold;">Online Resource / Tune In </span><span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;">He left his home, fam'ly, friends / A grain of wheat</span>
(Sheree Anderson) Unless a grain of wheat falls to the ground and
dies, it won't form roots and grow. A boppy song with deeply meaningful
lyrics. <a href="http://brunswick.unitingchurch.org.au/worship/the-arts-in-worship/tune-in/">Free downloadable songbook and sound sample</a>.
<span style="color: magenta;">Good for kids & teenagers</span>.</li><li>
<span style="color: #990000; font-weight: bold;">Online Resource / Tune In </span><span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;">O Spirit God / In the shape of a cross</span> (Dave Brown) A cry to God for help and a call for God to enter our world.<a href="http://brunswick.unitingchurch.org.au/worship/the-arts-in-worship/tune-in/"> Free downloadable songbook and sound sample</a>.
</li><li><b style="color: #990000;"><span style="color: #990000; font-weight: bold;">NCH575 / VU697 / GtG372 / PH386 / Cha683 </span> <span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;"> O for a world where everyone respects each others ways </span>
</b>(Miriam Therese Winter) A song with good words sung to a well known hymn tune (AZMON).
The words are a prayer for a world of peace and the reign of Christ. <a href="http://worship-organizer.awtrey.com/hymnal/?hymnal=the_presbyterian_hymnal-1990&number=386">Lyrics</a>. <span style="color: orange;">New words to old tunes</span>.</li><li><b style="color: #990000;">TiS 494 / W&R678 / Cha375</b> <span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;"> In water we grow </span> (Brian Wren) Great words, especially if you have a baptism this week. Tune is quite straightforward. <a href="http://www.hopepublishing.com/html/main.isx?sitesec=40.2.1.0&hymnID=2697&titleSearch=in%water%we%grow">Lyrics and sheet music</a>. </li><li><b style="color: #990000;">TiS
590 / AHB 165 / AoVK-117 / NCH506 / UMH526 / VU663 / LBW439 / ELW742 /
HPP408 / GtG465 / PH403 / CP532 / W&R473 / Cha585 / Srce 776 / StF531 / MP746</b> <span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;">What a Friend we have in Jesus</span>
(Joseph Scriven) There is a bit of masculine language, but the song has so many other
good things about it. I like both tunes. AOVK has different lyrics,
written specifically for kids, which I think are worth singing. <a href="https://hymnary.org/text/what_a_friend_we_have_in_jesus_all_our_s" target="_blank">Lyrics and sheet music</a>. <span style="color: magenta;">Good for kids. </span><span style="color: orange;">Oldy-but-a-goody</span>.</li><li><span style="color: #990000; font-weight: bold;">VU306 </span><span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;"> God of the farmlands hear our prayer </span>
(Thomas Charles Hunter-Clare) Good words about harvest, waters, mining
(!), city and industry, guidance for politicians, nation-hood. It's
pretty good, and could fit with this reading if you want to focus on authorities. <a href="https://hymnary.org/text/god_of_the_farmlands_hear_our_prayer">Lyrics and sheet music sample</a>.</li></ul>
<span style="font-size: large;"><b><a href="http://lectionary.library.vanderbilt.edu/texts.php?id=71#gospel_reading">Mark 1:9-15</a></b></span><br />
<span style="font-style: italic;">Not so much the Baptism of Christ, but what happened immediately after. The heavens are torn open, Jesus is driven into the wilderness, John is arrested and Jesus proclaims that the time is
fulfilled… </span><br />
<ul>
<li><span style="color: #990000; font-weight: bold;">Online Resource <span style="color: #000099;">God beyond our ways of knowing</span></span><span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;"><span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;"> </span></span>(Adam Tice / Randall Sensmeier)
This hymn starts and ends with a verse seeking God's guidance, and the middle verse picks up the Gospel reading for each week of Lent in year B (that's this year). You may like to use it each week. Sung to a simple and catchy tune. <a href="https://www.giamusic.com/store/resource/god-beyond-our-ways-of-knowing-pdf-d800318" target="_blank">Lyrics, sheet music sample and purchasi</a><a href="https://www.giamusic.com/store/resource/god-beyond-our-ways-of-knowing-pdf-d800318" target="_blank">ng options</a>. <b style="color: #990000;"><br /></b></li><li><b style="color: #990000;">URW106</b> <span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;"> Here at Jordan's river </span>
(Ruth Duck) Sung to NOEL NOUVELET, this song is just perfect for our
congregation. I really love this. Great for Baptism of Christ or any
baptism. <a href="https://pilgrimwr.unitingchurch.org.au/?p=3225">Lyrics</a> (scroll down) <span style="color: orange;">New words to old tunes</span> </li>
<li><b style="color: #990000;"><b style="color: #990000;">TiS 270 / AHB 199 /
NCH115 / CH334 / VU20 / LBW548 / ELW842 / A&M046 / GtG096 / PH010 / G(II)260 / GC321 /
322 / GC(II)344 / G(3)418 / CP103 / CP(E) 34 / W&R156 / 82Hml-076 / Lau094 / StF182 / MP538</b> <span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;">On Jordan's bank the Baptist's cry </span></b>(Charles Coffin) If
you would like inclusive lyrics, have a look at the New Century
Hymnal’s version. If you’d like a groovy tune, check out AHB 199(ii) /
GC322 – ST JOHN BAPTIST by Gary Lewis Miles and Betty Pulkingham. This
is an excellent, fun tune. You can even combine the words of NCH115
with AHB199(ii) for the best of both worlds. But WINCHESTER NEW is also
very good, and easy to sing if you don’t have a congregation full of
people who grew up in the 60s and 70s. <a href="https://hymnary.org/text/on_jordans_bank_the_baptists_cry">Lyrics and tune sample (Winchester New)</a>.<span style="color: orange;"> Oldy-but-a-goody</span>.</li>
<li><b style="color: #990000;">Online resource</b> <span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;">Down by the Jordan</span> (Carolyn Winfrey
Gillette) Good words based on this reading, set to the well known hymn
tune LOBE DEN HERREN or could be sung to AURELIA (Thanks, Ben!). <a href="http://www.carolynshymns.com/down_by_the_jordan.html" target="_self">Lyrics. </a><span style="color: orange;">New words to old tunes</span>.</li>
<li><span style="color: #990000; font-weight: bold;">TiS 494 / W&R678 / Cha375 </span> <span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;"> In water we grow </span>
(Brian Wren) Great words focussed on all the beautiful imagery of baptism and
its significance for all. Great for Remembrance of Baptism too. Tune
is quite straightforward. <a href="http://www.hymnary.org/hymn/CH1995/375">Lyrics</a></li>
<li><b style="color: #990000;">NCH168 / VU084</b> <span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;"> O radiant christ incarnate word </span> (Ruth Duck) Good words; a little formal. WAREHAM is the easier tune. <a href="http://www.windsorparkunitedchurch.com/notes-on-the-notes-january-12-2014/" target="_blank">Lyrics</a>. <span style="color: orange;">New words to old tunes</span>.</li>
<li><span style="color: #990000;"><b>TiS 710 / CH758 / Iona (Enemy of Apathy) / VU204</b></span> <span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;">Come Holy Spirit gracious heavenly dove</span> (John Bell) A beautiful and simple chant. <a href="https://hymnary.org/tune/come_holy_spirit_gracious_heavenly_bell" target="_blank">Sheet music sample</a>. <br /></li>
<li><span style="color: #990000; font-weight: bold;">Online Resource </span><span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;">Lord Holy Spirit you mark us out in love </span> (Malcolm Gordon) A gentle and very singable song about being driven out to the wild places. <a href="https://malcolmgordon.bandcamp.com/album/mark-illustrated-gospel-project">Sound sample and digital track</a>.</li>
<li><span style="color: #990000; font-weight: bold;">Online Resource </span><span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;">When the carpenter's son / Drive us out </span> (Shawn Whelan) A powerful song asking God to "Drive us out of our safe little spaces". <a href="https://brunswick.unitingchurch.org.au/worship/the-arts-in-worship/buc-song-project/">Lyrics and sheet music</a>. </li>
<li><b style="color: #990000;">TiS
419 / NCH270 / CH592 / A&M252 / UMH544 / VU205 / WoV685 / ELW403 /
HPP222 / GtG285 / PH314 / CP635 / CP(E) 185 / W&R327 / SP92 / 82Hml-513</b><span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;"> <span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;">Like the murmur of the dove's song </span></span>(Carl P Daw) Excellent words and a simple tune about Christian unity. Each verse ends with "Come holy spirit, come". <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r3Hfpd9uBS4">Sound sample (video with lyrics)</a>. <a href="https://www.hopepublishing.com/find-hymns-hw/hw2986.aspx">Lyrics and sheet music.</a></li>
<li><b style="color: #990000;">NCH285 / CH5Carl 91 / SFFS 2123 / URW164</b> <span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;"> O Holy Dove of God descending / Spirit now live in me </span> (Bryan Jeffery Leech) Lovely simple tune, and beautiful words. <a href="http://sdahymnals.com/Hymnal/270-o-holy-dove-of-god-descending/">Lyrics.</a></li>
<li><b style="color: #990000;">VU384 / SFFS 2052 / HPP229 / PH320</b> <span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;">The Lone Wild Bird in lofty flight </span>(Marty Haugen) Familiar tune and excellent words. <a href="http://www.hymnsite.com/fws/hymn.cgi?2052">First 3 verses and tune sample</a>.<span style="color: orange;">New words to old tunes</span>.</li>
<li><span style="color: #990000;"><b>StS008 / SFFS 2089 / GtG163 / PH409 / StF189 </b> </span> <span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;"> Wild and Lone the Prophet's Voice </span> (Daw) Excellent, challenging words. I prefer this sung to ABERYSTWYTH which is well known and easily accessible. <a href="http://www.hymnary.org/text/wild_and_lone_the_prophets_voice">Lyrics and sheet music. </a><span style="color: orange;">New words to old tunes</span>.</li>
<li><b style="color: #990000;">PH071</b> <span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;">Lord When You Came to Jordan </span>(Brian Wren)
I like the questioning words which ask what it might have been like.
Would sing it to Llangllofan or ELLACOMBE (TiS 361) “Lord, bring us to
our Jordan Of newly opened eyes, Through love, immersed in living, As
You were once baptized. <a href="http://www.hopepublishing.com/html/main.isx?sitesec=40.2.1.0&hymnID=4703">Lyric and sheet music</a> </li>
<li><span style="color: #990000;"><b>MV140 </b></span> <span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;"> As long as we follow / Na nzela na lola </span>
(Kabemba) A simple song from the Congo. "As long as we hope there is a
future for creation. We know this, we know this, God's reign will surely
come". <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nlws0cukwFc">Youtube video of a pretty cool church choir</a>. <span style="color: magenta;">Good for kids</span>.</li></ul><span style="color: #38761d;">
<i>What ideas do you have? Please share them in a comment below. </i></span>
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<b style="color: #990000;"> </b><span style="font-size: large; font-weight: bold;">General Ash Wednesday songs:</span><br /></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<ul style="text-align: left;"><li><span style="color: #990000; font-weight: bold;">ATAR626 / VU113 </span><span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;"> To the desert Jesus came / Together through the valley </span>
(Linnea Good) A good contemporary hymn, with a quite classically beautiful
tune, for the start of Lent. A song about going together through the
wilderness of Lent to Easter. <a href="https://www.godsongs.net/2020/03/to-desert-jesus-came-to-wrestle-and-to-seek-gods-way-good.html" target="_blank">Sound samples and some lyrics</a>.</li><li><span style="color: #990000;"><b><span style="color: #990000;"><b>ACS925 / </b></span>Recorded Music</b></span><b> <span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;">Beautiful Things</span></b>
(Gungor) A sweet song. "You make beautiful things, you
make beautiful things out of the dust".... Not so much a congregational
song, although it's not difficult, unless everyone knows it well. It's not hard to play, so if you
have good musicians, they may like to give it a go. It could also work to just sing the chorus as a chant. <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kWooIrU5OwI">Youtube with lyrics</a>. <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0EMNATwzLA4">Guitar instructions</a>. </li><li><b style="color: #990000;">ACS921</b> <span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;">In all affliction / Return to God </span> (Marilyn Haskel) This very simple call and response song could be used in many settings for Ash Wednesday, including evening services where the light is dim since it doesn't require anyone to read words, as they simply follow the song leader. You can also make up your own verses to fit your community. <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wfE8-mYDKPM" target="_blank">Sound sample (I would use a more simple, and slower instrument-free arrangement)</a>. </li><li><span style="color: #990000; font-weight: bold;">Online Resource / Resounding Voices </span><span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;">As evening hastens near </span>(Marissa Hall) Not so much an Ash Wednesday song, but an evening song for Lent, which you may wish to teach your congregation either to sing together if you have evening services, or to sing at home, or at evening small groups. The tune is a simple Icelandic hymn tune. <a href="https://thehymnsociety.org/resources/resounding-voices/" target="_blank">Free book download here</a>. </li><li><span style="color: #990000; font-weight: bold;">Online Resource </span><span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;">We have come from the dust / All of our days </span>(Lisa Waites) A hymn with chorus about the hopes of the period of Lent and commitment to learning together. The verses are pretty straightforward to sing, although the chorus will probably need to be taught. <a href="https://www.sheetmusicdirect.com/se/ID_No/1017944/Product.aspx" target="_blank">Sound sample, sheet music sample and purchasing options</a>. Thanks to Riana Kok for this suggestion. <br /></li></ul>
<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span style="font-size: large; font-weight: bold;">Songs for imposition of the ashes:</span> <br /></b></span></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><i>You may also like to use a Kyrie. <a href="http://lectionarysong.blogspot.com.au/2010/06/kyrie-eleison-lord-have-mercy.html">Here's a list of them</a>. </i><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><span style="font-size: large;"></span><ul style="text-align: left;"><li> <span style="color: #990000; font-weight: bold;">Online Resource / Resounding Voices </span><span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;">Dust remember you are splendor </span>(Susan Palo Cherwien / Anne Krentz) A very new way of thinking about coming from dust and preparing for the season of Lent. The tune is particularly beautiful. For a congregational song, it will need to be taught, but you could ask your musicians to present it for the congregation, or if you have a choir, you could purchase the very beautiful choral version. You will need to be sure that this theme is picked up by the rest of the service, because it is quite a different way of thinking about the ashes.
<a href="https://thehymnsociety.org/resources/resounding-voices/" target="_blank">Free book download here (this has the congregational version)</a>. <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5hM6PyBkQKQ" target="_blank">Choral version sound sample</a>. <a href="https://www.augsburgfortress.org/store/productgroup/2125/Dust-Remember-You-Are-Splendor" target="_blank">Choral version purchasing options</a>. <b style="color: #990000;"><br /></b></li><li><b style="color: #990000;">NCH186 / VU105 / G(II)280 / GC381 / GC(II)392 / G(3)468 / RS539 / URW172</b> <span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;"> Dust and ashes touch our face </span> (Brian Wren). The words to this hymn are very challenging. The tune is good. <a href="http://www.hopepublishing.com/html/main.isx?sitesec=40.2.1.0&hymnID=2567&titleSearch=ashes">Lyrics and sheet music</a>.<b style="color: #990000;"> </b></li><li><b style="color: #990000;">Online Resource / G(3)489 / GtG433</b> <span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;">Sign us with ashes</span> (Mary Louise Bringle / William Rowan) A good refrain with verses that the musicians could sing when ashes are signed. <a href="https://www.giamusic.com/store/resource/sign-us-with-ashes-print-g6588" target="_blank">Sound sample, sheet music sample and purchasing options</a>.<br /></li><li><span style="color: #990000; font-weight: bold;">Online resource </span> <span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;"> From Dust to Dust </span>
(Bruce Harding) A simple song which can be sung as a chant or a round.
Includes Kyries. <a href="https://evensong.ca/wp-content/uploads/from_dust_to_dust.pdf">Sheet music</a>.</li><li><span style="color: #990000; font-weight: bold;">Online resource </span><span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;">With these ashes </span>
(Kathy Douglass) A lovely simple song that would work well to be sung during the imposition of ashes. <a href="https://soundcloud.com/user-693618678/with-these-ashes">Sound sample</a>. <a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B-DUL96YUyIPRmozRVRUQlFNOVE/view?usp=sharing">PDF</a> (thanks to Kathy for sharing this). </li><li><span style="color: #990000; font-weight: bold;">Online resource</span> <span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;">We are children of the Earth </span>(Richard
Bruxvoort Colligan). This song is based on Psalm 90, and would be
appropriate for the anointing with ashes, or other reflective moments in
your service. <a href="http://www.worldmaking.net/ashwed">Sound sample, lyrics and an entire Ash Wednesday order of worship</a>. </li><li><span style="color: #990000; font-weight: bold;">Online resource</span> <span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;">Mark us with the sign of life and death </span>(Richard Bruxvoort Colligan) A positive song emphasizing our part in the community of believers and as one with the earth. <a href="https://www.worldmaking.net/mark-us" target="_blank">Sound sample, lyrics and purchasing options</a>.</li><li><b style="color: #990000;">ACS919</b> <span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;">Remember that you are dust </span> (Mark Mummert). A very simple chant, which can be used as a round. <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-PyYYGdfmh0" target="_blank">Lyric video</a>. </li><li><b style="color: #990000;">ACS920</b> <span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;">All things of dust to dust return </span> (Thomas Troeger) Solemn words, but ultimately hopeful. Set to a tune by Thomas Tallis. <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dpP0kUzqrsE" target="_blank">Sound sample</a>. <span style="color: orange;">New words to old tunes</span>.</li></ul></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="http://lectionary.library.vanderbilt.edu/texts.php?id=117#hebrew_reading" style="font-weight: bold;">Joel 2:1-2, 12-17</a></span><span style="font-style: italic;"><br />Gather everyone with a trumpet to seek forgiveness</span><br />
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<li><span style="color: #990000;"><b>Online Resource / BUC Song Project</b></span> <span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;">Why do we listen and fail to hear / Lament - for a people with a people with a dulled heart </span>(Shawn Whelan) This lament, and its wailing ooooh would fit quite well with this passage. <a href="https://brunswick.unitingchurch.org.au/worship/the-arts-in-worship/buc-song-project/">Lyrics & sheet music</a>. <span style="color: magenta;">Good for kids</span>.</li>
<li><span style="color: #990000; font-weight: bold;">AA085 </span> <span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;"> Let justice roll down like a river</span> (Colin Gibson) Excellent song, and very easy to sing. <a href="https://www.hopepublishing.com/find-hymns-hw/hw3844.aspx">Lyrics and s</a><a href="https://www.hopepublishing.com/find-hymns-hw/hw3844.aspx">heet music</a>. <span style="color: magenta;">Good for kids</span>.</li>
<li><b style="color: #990000;">AoV1-030 / GA213 / G(II)282 / GC386 / GC(II)405 / G(3)484 / Lau842</b> <span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;"> Come back to me / Hosea </span> (Gregory Norbet) Quite beautiful song of return to God. <a href="http://www.ocp.org/compositions/218">Nice sung sound sample</a>. <a href="http://c1824532.cdn.cloudfiles.rackspacecloud.com/GC2_405-1.jpg">Lead sheet</a>.</li>
<li> <b style="color: #990000;">ATOK 331</b> <span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;"> Turn to me with all your heart </span> (John Ylvisaker) I like this one, unfortunately I can't find lyrics or sound samples online.</li>
<li><span style="color: #990000; font-weight: bold;">StS033 / GA515 / G(II)516 / GC716 / GC(II)709 / G(3)810 </span> <span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;"><span style="color: #990000;"> </span>Let Justice Roll Like a River </span> (Marty Haugen) The song is a quite simple gospel song, particularly if you use a soloist for the verses if this is new to you. <a href="http://c1824532.cdn.cloudfiles.rackspacecloud.com/GC_716-1.jpg">Lead sheet</a>. <a href="http://c1824532.cdn.cloudfiles.rackspacecloud.com/GC_716.mp3">Sound sample</a> </li>
<li> <b style="color: #990000;">GC(II)755 / G(3)864</b> <span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;"> O the weary world is trudging / The trumpet in the morning </span> (Rory Cooney) Song of release of prisoners and the trumpet's blast. <a href="http://c1824532.cdn.cloudfiles.rackspacecloud.com/GC2_755-1.mp3">Sound sample</a>. <a href="http://c1824532.cdn.cloudfiles.rackspacecloud.com/GC2_755-1.jpg">Lead sheet</a>.</li>
<li><span style="color: #990000; font-weight: bold;"> GA304 / G(II)283 / GC389 / GC(II)410 / G(3)478 / Lau193 </span> <span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;"> Return to God with all your heart </span> (Marty Haugen) "Return to God with all your heart, the source of grace and mercy" Verses may need a cantor. <a href="http://c1824532.cdn.cloudfiles.rackspacecloud.com/GC_389-1.jpg">Lead sheet</a>. <a href="http://c1824532.cdn.cloudfiles.rackspacecloud.com/GC_389.mp3">Sound sample</a>. </li>
<li><span style="color: #990000; font-weight: bold;">Taiz</span><span style="color: #990000; font-weight: bold;">é / A&M834 / G(3)959 / SP323 / Lau221 </span><span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;"> God is forgiveness / </span><span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;">Bóg jest miłością </span> (Taize community)
"God is forgiveness, love and do not fear". A simple Taize chant which seems to suit this reading quite well. <a href="http://www.taize.fr/spip.php?page=chant&song=257&lang=en">Sheet music, lyrics in many languages, sound samples</a>.</li>
<li><span style="color: #990000;"><b>Online Resource / Tune In / NCYC '07:</b></span> <span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;">Forgive us now </span>(Dave Brown). “As we forgive may we be healed, as we reach out….” An excellent ballad seeking forgiveness in a sinful world. <a href="http://brunswick.unitingchurch.org.au/worship/the-arts-in-worship/tune-in/">Free downloadable songbook</a>. </li>
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<i><span style="font-size: large;"><b>Alternative Hebrew Scripture:</b><a href="http://lectionary.library.vanderbilt.edu/texts.php?id=117#hebrew_oth_reading" style="font-weight: bold;"> Isaiah 58:1-12</a></span><span style="font-weight: bold;"> </span></i><br />
<span style="font-style: italic;">The fast that God seeks is to release the oppressed, share with the hungry, bring the poor into your homes</span><br />
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<li><span style="color: #990000;"><b>CH763 / MV193 </b> </span> <span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;"> God bless to us our bread </span>
(Traditional Argentinian) A lovely simple grace for meals and for
communion. More Voices has Spanish and French lyrics as well as English.
"God bless to us our bread, and give bread to all those who are hungry,
and hunger for justice to those who are fed. God bless to us our
bread". This would be very appropriate if you are celebrating communion
this week. <a href="http://www.emusic.com/album/John-Bell-Sing-with-the-World-MP3-Download/11353296.html">Sound sample (Track 1)</a>.</li>
<li><span style="color: #990000; font-weight: bold;">VU109 / 82Hml-145 </span><span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;"> Now quit your care and anxious fear </span> (Percy Dearmer) A lovely joyful tune for Lent. Good, realistic, although slightly old-fashioned words. "Arise, arise, arise and make a paradise!" This could be sung through the whole Lenten season.<a href="https://hymnary.org/text/now_quit_your_care_and_anxious_fear"> Lyrics</a>. </li>
<li><b style="color: #990000;">TiS 657 / CH263 / VU700 / A&M559 / AA50 / CP(E) 447 / Cha656 / SP242</b> <span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;">God of freedom God of justice</span> (Shirley Murray) Powerful lyrics. Can be sung to either TREDEGAR (new, but not too hard) or PICARDY (very familiar). <a href="http://hymnary.org/text/god_of_freedom_god_of_justice">Lyrics and sheet music sample</a>. <span style="color: orange;">New words to old tunes</span>. There is also a nice tune from Douglas Simper in <a href="https://www.mediacomeducation.org.au/shop/singing-the-journey/" target="_blank">his book</a> if you'd like something quite new, but still hymn-like.</li>
<li> <span style="color: #990000; font-weight: bold;">CH659 / MV173 / StJ / A&M566 / G(3)824 / W&R389 / SP251 / StF712 </span> <span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;"> Put peace into each other’s hands </span> (Fred Kaan) Good words for communion; tune is quite simple and flows nicely. <a href="http://www.hymnary.org/hymn/WAR2003/389">Slow sound sample, sheet music with lyrics.</a><span style="color: magenta;"> Good for kids</span>.</li>
<li><b style="color: #990000;">CH488 / AA130</b> <span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;"> Teach us O loving heart of Christ </span>
(Shirley Murray) Good, powerful words seeking forgiveness for those things we
have not done or said. The tune is new, but fairly simple. <a href="http://www.hymnary.org/hymn/CH4/488">Lyrics.</a></li>
<li><span style="color: #990000; font-weight: bold;">GA304 / G(II)283 / GC389 / GC(II)410 / G(3)478 / Lau193 </span> <span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;"> Return to God with all your heart </span> (Marty Haugen) "Return to God with all your heart, the source of grace and mercy" Verses may need a cantor. <a href="http://c1824532.cdn.cloudfiles.rackspacecloud.com/GC_389-1.jpg">Lead sheet</a>. <a href="http://c1824532.cdn.cloudfiles.rackspacecloud.com/GC_389.mp3">Sound sample</a>. </li><li><span style="color: #990000; font-weight: bold;">CH195 / StS053 / AA061 </span> <span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;"> Here to the house of God we come </span>
(Shirley Murray) Good honest and challenging words and a simple, but
unusual tune. <a href="http://www.hymnary.org/text/here_to_the_house_of_god_we_come">Lyrics</a>. <br /></li>
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<span style="color: #990000; font-weight: bold;">Online Resource </span><span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;">Hear the message we now are proclaiming / El mensaje que hoy proclamamos</span> (Eleazar Torregosa) This
jubilant Colombian song of liberty and new life for the poor and
suffering would fit well with God's care for the Israelites. <a href="https://www.oikoumene.org/sites/default/files/File/El_mensaje_que_hoy_proclamamostorreglosa.pdf">Free sheet music</a>. <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KcRI_Zmed8Q" target="_blank">Lyric video (in Spanish)</a>. <br /></li><li><span style="color: #990000; font-weight: bold;"> Online Resource </span><span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;">Fast from fear and feast on love / The fast that love has chosen </span>
(Amanda Udis-Kessler) Positive words about choosing what we fast from, and what we feast on. It's quite wordy, so I would suggest using it in segments during the service, possibly a bit slower than the recording (though I do like the funky bass). I'd encourage you to get your musicians to sing it as an offering for the congregation, since sometimes the words are tricky to fit in. <a href="https://queersacredmusic.com/track/2383304/the-fast-that-love-has-chosen">Lyrics</a>. <a href="https://queersacredmusic.com/track/2383304/the-fast-that-love-has-chosen" target="_blank">Free sheet music</a>. <br /></li>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><a href="http://lectionary.library.vanderbilt.edu/texts.php?id=117#psalm_reading" style="font-weight: bold;">Psalm 51:1-17</a></span><br />
<span style="font-style: italic;">A Prayer for forgiveness and a new heart</span><br />
<span style="font-style: italic;">You might like to sing a <a href="http://lectionarysong.blogspot.com.au/2010/06/kyrie-eleison-lord-have-mercy.html">Kyrie</a>.</span> <br />
<ul style="text-align: left;"><li><span style="color: #990000;"><b>BUC Song Project</b></span> <span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;">Broken </span>(Elaine Loukes) A gentle song for tired pilgrims. <a href="https://brunswick.unitingchurch.org.au/worship/the-arts-in-worship/buc-song-project/">Recording and lyrics</a>. <br /></li><li><b style="color: #990000;">Iona (SBL) / MV068 / G(II)405 / GC581 / GtG578 / PfAS009A </b><b><span style="color: #000099;">Kyrie Guarany / On the poor, on the poor / Oré poriajú verekó</span></b> (Pablo Sosa / Guarani people) A
simple Kyrie from Paraguay; This is our current favourite at Brunswick.
The English translation varies depending on the source (we don't sing On the Poor). <a href="https://soundcloud.com/user-395259634/kyrie-eleison-english" target="_blank">Sound sample in Guarani</a>. <a href="https://soundcloud.com/user-395259634/kyrie-eleison-english" target="_blank">Sound sample in Greek</a> (Hey, that's my family singing!) <span style="color: magenta;">Good for kids.</span> </li><li><b style="color: #990000;">Online Resource</b> <span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;">Open my heart </span> (Ana Hernandez) A beautiful 3 part chant, which also works as a single part chant. <a href="http://anahermusic.blogspot.com.au/2015/02/forget-lent-iii-softening-and-unlearning.html">Sheet music</a>. <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vlnE5GMkSsA">Youtube of the song being taught and sung in 3 parts</a>. </li><li><span style="color: #990000;"><b>Online Resource / Tune In / NCYC '07</b></span> <span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;">Forgive us now </span>(Dave Brown) An excellent ballad. "Forgive us now, O mother love for all the idols we have built, For all
the time we’ve worshiped there in company of dark despair. Forgive us
mother of all hope”. <a href="http://brunswick.unitingchurch.org.au/worship/the-arts-in-worship/tune-in/">Free downloadable songbook and sound samples</a>. </li><li><b style="color: #990000;">Iona (Sent By the Lord) / MV066</b> <span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;">Senzenina? / What have we done? </span>
(South African) This beautiful chant from South Africa asks the
question that we often ask when things go wrong beyond belief. It's
important to know what the song means when singing it. If you have some
part-singers in your congregation, this would be particular good. It's
good to let people ask this question. It is also on the soundtrack for
"The Power of One" so you could also play the recorded music if
appropriate. <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SJP79Zon3Ek">Sound sample</a>. <a href="https://www.8notes.com/scores/16254.asp">Free sheet music</a>. Maybe this could work as a Psalm response?</li><li><span style="color: #990000; font-weight: bold;">MV015 / GA186 </span> <span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;"> Holy Sacred Spirit </span>
(Monica Brown) Gentle chant, which would work well at the start of the
service. Can be used without the cantor part. "Holy Sacred Spirit,
breathe your breath on us". <a href="https://vimeo.com/97628653">Youtube</a> (VERY SLOW) <span style="color: magenta;">Good to help kids settle.</span> </li><li><span style="color: #990000; font-weight: bold;"> STB043 </span><span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;"> Lord we did not live up to your teachings / Amra tomar adesh rupe </span>
(Bart Shaha) A Bengali Kyrie. The translation is good, and quite
challenging. This will need to be taught; it could be sung in Bengali,
because (like a Kyrie) it's repetitive. <a href="https://hymnary.org/text/he_probhu_tumi_doya_koro#pagescans" target="_blank">Sheet music sample</a>. <br /></li><li><b style="color: #990000;">AoV1-158 / GA438</b> <span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;"> Create a new heart Holy Lord / A new heart for a new world </span>
(Monica O'Brien / Trish Watts) Very simple melody, excellent words "Create a new heart
Holy Lord, beckon our lives through your word, open our eyes to your
call, United as one for your world". <a href="http://www.sixmaddens.org/?p=1637">Lyrics and slightly odd sound sample. </a></li><li><b style="color: #990000;">TiS 712 / AoV2-021 / ATE 269 / The tide has turned songbook</b> <span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;">Create in me / us a clean heart O God </span>(Digby Hannah) A big favourite in our congregation, and a big favourite of mine. <a href="https://www.sixmaddens.org/?p=1879">Lyrics & sound sample</a>. </li><li><b style="color: #990000;">GA040 </b> <span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;"> Create in Me a Clean Heart O God </span> (Monica O'Brien) Nice refrain and simple cantor part for this Psalm.</li><li><span style="color: #990000; font-weight: bold;">GtG423 / W&R378 / PfAS051H </span> <span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;"> Create in Me a Clean Heart O God </span> (John Carter) A very simple, and repetitive version of the Psalm. <a href="http://www.hymnary.org/hymn/WAR2003/389">Lyrics and sheet music sample</a>. </li><li><b style="color: #990000;">GC(II)409 / G(3)477</b> <span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;">Lord Jesus Christ son of the living God </span>(Carol Browning)
A simple chant based on "The Jesus Prayer" with a beautiful (and
optional) cantor which is really worth using. Nice chords! Nice sound sample and
sheet music sample <a href="http://c1824532.cdn.cloudfiles.rackspacecloud.com/GC2_409-1.mp3">Sound sample</a> <a href="http://c1824532.cdn.cloudfiles.rackspacecloud.com/GC2_409-1.jpg">Lead sheet. </a> </li>
<li><span style="color: #990000; font-weight: bold;">Cha743 </span> <span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;"> Create in me a clean heart O God </span> (Carl Mueller) Very simple refrain based on a choral work, with a responsive reading. <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1PjDKHeEX7k">Here's a recording of the choral work</a>.<br /></li><li><span style="color: #990000; font-weight: bold;">PfAS051I </span> <span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;"> Lord Have Mercy </span> (Kathleen Hart Brumm) A simple call and response Kyrie. <a href="https://musescore.com/song/kyrie_lord_have_mercy_brumm_kathleen_hart_brumm-2147306">Instrumental sheet music</a>. <span style="color: magenta;">Good for kids if you sing it with some energy</span>.</li><li><span style="color: #990000; font-weight: bold;">GtG431 / SFFS 2134 </span> <span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;"> Forgive Us Lord / Perdon Senor </span>
(Jorge Lockward / Raquel Mora Martínez) Call and response prayer of confession. <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IuuWuaa26ck">Recording</a>.</li><li><span style="color: #990000; font-weight: bold;">NCH784 </span> <span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;"> Create in Me a clean heart </span> (Emma Lou Diemer) Easy to sing. Nice words.
</li><li><b style="color: #990000;">Online Resource</b> <span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;">Create in Me a pure Heart O God </span> (Bruce Harding) A nice round, with an optional descant part. <span style="color: magenta;">Good for kids. <a href="https://evensong.ca/scripture-reference-psalm5110-11/">Free sheet music </a>.</span><b style="color: #990000;"> </b></li><li><span style="color: #990000; font-weight: bold;"> Iona (Love and Anger) / StS067 / PfAS051G / STB120 </span><span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;"> Have mercy on us Lord / Khudaya rahem kar </span>
(Pakistan) A nice alternative. It would be nice to get your
congregation to sing something from South Asia. PfAS uses only the first
line as a Psalm refrain, which may be the simplest approach for Anglo
congregations to dip their toes into South Asian melodies. Lyrics also
in Urdhu, but works well in
English too. <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zV7vZwfwR_Y">Youtube</a></li><li><b style="color: #990000;">Worldmaking.net</b> <span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;">O Tender God, Have Mercy </span>(Richard Bruxvoort-Colligan) A gentle, modern version of the Kyrie. <a href="https://psalmimmersion.bandcamp.com/track/o-tender-god-have-mercy-ps-51">Sound sample, lyrics and theology</a></li><li><span style="color: #990000; font-weight: bold;">NCH589 / VU679 </span><span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;"> Let there be light O God of hosts! </span>
(Frances Wheeler Davis) Hopeful words seeking an end to
war and unity and understanding between nations. Verse two "Open our lips!" <a href="https://www.hymnsite.com/lyrics/umh440.sht">Lyrics</a>. <a href="https://www.umcdiscipleship.org/resources/history-of-hymns-let-there-be-light">History</a>
</li><li> <b style="color: #990000;">ATOK 399</b> <span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;">Holding out your hand (</span>Gerry Holmes) I like this one. <span style="color: magenta;">Good for kids</span>.</li><li><b style="color: #990000;">Psalm Project - Sharing the Road</b> <span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;">Wash Me Clean </span>(Richard Bruxvoort-Colligan) A nice, gentle reworking of the Psalm. Might be good to ask a musician to sing this one. <a href="https://psalmimmersion.bandcamp.com/track/wash-me-clean-ps-51">Available here</a>.</li><li><b style="color: #990000;">TiS 729 / Iona (HSNW)</b><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="color: #000099;"> Jesus Christ, Son of God have mercy upon us </span></span>(John Bell) A very very simple call and response chant. </li><li><span style="color: #990000; font-weight: bold;">ATOK 354 / ELW801 / SFFS 2152 / GtG695 / SP&P128 / W&R373 / PfAS051A / ZSS178 / Srce95 / MP069 </span> <span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;"> Change my heart O God / Cambiame Senor </span> (Eddie Espinosa) A mushy old favourite. <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CEtsHWFE6-w">Sound sample</a>. </li><li><span style="color: #990000; font-weight: bold;">Online Resource</span> <span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;">Create in Me </span>(Tom Keesecker) A lovely choral piece. Listen to the full sound sample, it just gets better and better. <a href="http://www.canticledistributing.com/two-canticles-for-lent.html">Sound sample, PDF sample, and purchasing options</a>.</li><li><b style="color: #990000;">Online Resource</b> <span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;">Make a new heart </span>
(Richard Bruxvoort Colligan) A simple chorus just right for joining in
on, and good choruses that could be sung by a cantor or a leader. <a href="https://www.worldmaking.net/make-a-new-heart">Sound sample, lyrics and purchasing options</a>. </li><li><b style="color: #990000;">Recorded Music</b> <span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;">Have mercy on me </span>
(Nick Cave) Spoken word with backing music. Profound. You might find this useful. <a href="https://genius.com/Nick-cave-have-mercy-on-me-lyrics" target="_blank">Lyrics</a>. <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o76_WMG6JLo" target="_blank">Recording</a>. <br /></li></ul><span style="font-size: large; font-weight: bold;"><a href="http://lectionary.library.vanderbilt.edu/texts.php?id=117#epistle_reading">2 Corinthians 5:20b-6:10</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-style: italic;">Be reconciled. Despite afflictions, Paul has much; having nothing, but possessing everything.</span><br />
<ul>
<li><b><span style="color: #990000;">TiS
607 / AoV2-126 / ATN 95 / CH528 / VU684 / StJ / A&M725 / SFFS 2171 / HPP406 /
GtG753 / G(II)524 / GC726 / GC(II)721 / G(3)828 / CP(E)519/ W&R587 / Srce 462 / Lau898 / StF707 / MP456 </span></b><span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;">Make me a channel of your peace </span>(Sebastian Temple). Lovely. Nice if you can just start a capella... <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BtJeI4Q9nBE">Youtube video of Sinead O'Connor singing it</a> and <a href="http://www.christianwebresources.co.uk/hymns/hymn/152/#" target="_blank">lyrics and chords.</a></li><li><b style="color: #990000;">NCH495 / HPP443 / GtG761 / PH343 / W&R581 / Cha453 </b><span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;">Called as partners in Christ's service </span>
(Jane Parker Huber) A good song of commitment - particularly good if you are commissioning people to new roles this week, and good for any other
service too. Sung to a standard tune. <a href="https://digitalsongsandhymns.com/songs/6113" target="_blank">Lyrics</a>.<br /></li>
<li><span style="color: #990000; font-weight: bold;">CH527 / A&M717 / SP290 / 82Hml-593 </span> <span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;"> Lord make us servants of your peace </span>
(James Quinn) A nice alternative to "make me a channel of your peace". This
is sung to the very familiar tune "O Waly Waly". It is also sung in the
plural (us and we rather than Me and I), which is nice too. Lyrics
can be found <a href="http://booksallover.blogspot.com/2007/03/lord-make-us-servants-of-your-peace.html">here</a>. </li>
<li><b style="color: #990000;">ATOK 390 </b><span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;">Put on love every day, never hide your love away </span>(Mary Lou Walker) A fun song for kids; probably hard to fit into a solemn Ash Wednesday service, though! <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pE2S3gXm75o" target="_blank">Lyric video</a>. <span style="color: magenta;">Good for kids.</span> </li>
<li><b style="color: #990000;">TiS 414 / CH616 / UMH192 / VU582 / HPP134 / PH433 / GC550 / CP(E) 198 / Cha257 / StF398</b> <span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;"> There's a Spirit in the Air </span>
(Brian Wren) A good song of getting the business of following Christ done.
Speaking out, caring for others, being changed. Good, joyful tune too. <a href="https://www.hopepublishing.com/find-hymns-hw/hw2610.aspx">Lyrics and sheet music. </a> </li>
<li><span style="color: #990000; font-weight: bold;">WoV659 </span> <span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;"> O Sun of Justice / Jesu Dulcis Memoria </span> (Plainsong) I really like these words. They can also be sung to TALLIS CANON if you get nervous about Plainsong.<span style="color: orange;">New words to old tunes</span>.</li>
</ul>
<span style="font-size: large;"><a href="http://lectionary.library.vanderbilt.edu/texts.php?id=117#gospel_reading" style="font-weight: bold;">Matthew 6:1-6, 16-21</a></span><br />
<span style="font-style: italic;">Don't show off about fasting etc.</span><br />
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<li><b style="color: #990000;">TiS 686 / ATE 292</b> <span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;">Lord Jesus we belong to you / Because we bear your name </span>(Robin Mann). A straightforward song with a refrain of "because we bear your name". <a href="http://www.robinmann.com.au/rs/7/sites/1178/user_uploads/File/All%20Songs%20%28PDF%29/becausewebear.pdf">Lyrics</a>.</li>
<li><b style="color: #990000;">Taizé / TiS
739 / AoV2-041 / ATOK 404 / VU290 / GA269 / SFFS 2054 / GtG820 / G(II)451 /
GC639 / GC(II)626 / G(3)733 / CP568 / W&R421 / URW388 / Lau947 / LUYH444/ VF088 </b><span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;">Nothing Can Trouble / Nada te turbe </span>(Theresa of Avila / Taizé) Excellent and quite well known Taizé chant. Spanish lyrics are not too hard for non-Spanish speakers. <a href="http://www.taize.fr/spip.php?page=chant&song=483&lang=en">Sheet music, sound samples, lyrics and translations.</a> <span style="color: magenta;">Good for kids</span>.</li>
</ul></div></div>Lectionary Singer (Natalie Sims)http://www.blogger.com/profile/15635861565689089555noreply@blogger.com12tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3953574041544310550.post-23886794839753048632024-01-20T02:23:00.000-08:002024-01-22T03:03:46.498-08:00Songs and Hymns for Transfiguration B (February 11 2024)<script async="" src="https://www.googletagmanager.com/gtag/js?id=G-E0N4VFC2F8"></script>
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<span style="font-style: italic;">Elisha’s devotion, inheritance</span><i> and grief, </i><span style="font-style: italic;">Elijah taken up by a chariot.</span><br />
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<li><b style="color: #990000;">Seeds of Faith</b> <span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;">Do you know that I am your friend? / I’m Gonna Stick With You</span> (Richard Bruxvoort-Colligan) A fun song for kids. <a href="https://theriversvoice.bandcamp.com/track/im-gonna-stick-with-you-ruth-naomi">Lyrics, and sound sample</a>. <span style="color: magenta;">Good for kids</span>.</li>
<li><b style="color: #990000;"><span style="color: #990000; font-weight: bold;">VU633 / ELW326 / HPP511 / Cha489 / VF142 </span><span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;"> Bless now O God the journey </span></b>
(Sylvia Dunstan) Excellent words of travelling together as a
community of faith. There are a number of possible tunes. If you would
like a familiar one, it fits with LLANGLLOFAN. <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C8-jt1864aI">Video with lyrics</a>. <span style="color: orange;">New words to old tunes.</span> </li>
<li><b style="color: #990000;">ATW 507</b> <span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;">Where you tread</span> (John Beavis)
A beautiful and simple song based on the story of Ruth, but quite
appropriate to the idea of standing alongside others. Very simple for a
congregation to sing first time.</li>
<li><b style="color: #990000;">UMH703 / HPP470 / GtG825 / W&R520 / Cha643</b> <span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;">Swing Low Sweet Chariot</span> (Traditional) If you want to talk about all of us going up to heaven, or to freedom. I'm not sure that this really relates to the reading, but thought I'd list it in case you're looking for it... <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swing_Low,_Sweet_Chariot">Lyrics, sound sample, history.</a></li>
<li><span style="color: #990000; font-weight: bold;">MV179 </span><span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;"> Sisters let us walk together </span> (Judith Snowdon) A mournful song, that can be sung as 3 verses or as a round. It was written for a worship service to honour women killed in the Montreal Massacre of 1989. It would work for any service that reflects on people walking with each other through difficulty, and in grief. I think it reflects nicely the words of Elisha in this passage. <a href="http://www.windsorparkunitedchurch.com/notes-on-the-notes-december-2-2018/">Lyrics and story</a> (scroll down). <br /></li>
<li><b style="color: #990000;">Recorded music</b> <span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;">Elijah</span> (Rich Mullins) Maybe it would be good to sing something like this. <a href="https://genius.com/Rich-mullins-elijah-lyrics">Lyrics.</a> <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KcIYok_NXEA&feature=fvsr">Youtube</a>. </li><li><span style="color: #990000; font-weight: bold;">Recorded Song </span><span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;">Go like Elijah </span> (Chi Coltrane) An energetic song about dying quickly. More a pop-culture reference than a theological statement, but it could be fun for the postlude. Thanks to Aboksu for this suggestion. <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p97oVI2IA3k ">Video</a>. <a href="https://genius.com/Chi-coltrane-go-like-elijah-lyrics">Lyrics</a>. <br /></li>
<li><b style="color: #990000;">AoV2-061 / ATE 249</b> <span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;">As a dream receive your hist'ry </span>(Andrew Tanner)
A big favourite. There are actions too! The
chorus is particularly excellent “We will rise up on wings like eagles,
run and not be tired, show us your dreams and visions, warm our hearts
with tongues of fire, tongues of fire”. I
think this would work well with this reading if you think about the
inheritance that we also receive from our forerunners in the faith. <a href="https://www.sixmaddens.org/dreams-and-visions-aov-261/" target="_blank">Lyrics</a>. <span style="color: magenta;">Good for kids</span>.</li>
<li><b style="color: #990000;">Taizé / MV075 / StS079 / SFFS 2118 / GtG284 / GC(II)479 / G(3)547 / SP100 / URW395 </b> <span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;"> Holy Spirit Come to Us / Veni sancte spiritus / Tui amoris </span> (Jacques Berthier) Best if you have a cantor, but works well if you don't, too. <a href="http://www.taize.fr/spip.php?page=chant&song=501&lang=en">Sheet music, translations, sound samples</a>.</li>
<li><span style="color: #990000; font-weight: bold;">Online Resource / ATAR643 / Walk as One </span><span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;"> Fire of prophet cool wisdom of sage / Spirit lead us </span> (Paul Somerville) An excellent song about knowing God through sacred
stories, and being part of God's sacred story. This would be an
excellent song for the entry of scriptures at the start of the service
if this is your practice. It may be best sung first by a soloist. <a href="https://www.paddingtonuca.org.au/music" target="_blank">Sound sample</a>. <a href="https://www.cmla.org.au/product/walk-as-one-pdf-download/" target="_blank">Book (PDF) available for purchase</a>. </li>
</ul>
<span style="font-size: large;"><b><a href="http://lectionary.library.vanderbilt.edu/texts.php?id=69#%0Apsalm_reading">Psalm 50:1-6</a> </b></span><br />
<span style="font-style: italic;">God the creator; Those who practice thanksgiving and righteousness will be saved.</span><ul><li><b style="color: #990000;">TiS 30</b> <span style="color: #000099;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Be exalted O God above the earth</span> </span>(Jane Marshall)
A simple and beautiful refrain, with an inclusive cantor line. If you
have no cantor, it will work well with the Psalm read as verses between
the refrains.</li><li><span style="color: #990000; font-weight: bold;">AoV1-003 / HPP258 / GA394 / G(II)342 / GC497 / GC(II)495 / G(3)576 / Lau693 / StF803 / MP648 </span><span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;">The heavens are telling the glory of God / Canticle of the Sun</span>
(Marty Haugen) Energetic waltz of cosmic praise with great lyrics "Come
dance in the forest, come play in the field, and sing, sing to the glory
of the Lord". <a href="http://c1824532.cdn.cloudfiles.rackspacecloud.com/CCH_292.midi">Sound sample.</a> <a href="http://c1824532.cdn.cloudfiles.rackspacecloud.com/CCH_292-1.jpg">Lyrics and sheet music sample</a>.</li><li><span style="color: #990000; font-weight: bold;">VU775 </span> <span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;"> The mighty one God the Sovereign </span> (Eleanor Daley) Good refrain and responsive reading</li><li><b style="color: #990000;">Emergent Psalter</b> <span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;">To the wicked God says</span> (Isaac Everett) Powerful words in this refrain. Nice 3/4 rhythm. <a href="https://www.churchpublishing.org/emergentpsalter#inpage3">Sheet music</a></li><li><b style="color: #990000;">TiS 743 / AoVK-31 / CH170 / GGives1</b> <span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;"> Praise and thanksgiving let everyone bring </span> (Edith Lovell Thomas) A simple round. Note that most versions have a masculine God; AoVK has inclusive language. <a href="https://hymnary.org/text/praise_and_thanksgiving_let_everyone_bri">Sample sheet music</a>. <span style="color: magenta;">Good for kids</span>.</li><li><b style="color: #990000;">Iona (T1AU) </b> <span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;"> Give thanks worship and praise </span> (John Bell) A four part short song of thanks. Can be used as a processional. <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1-P_ZEtThlg" target="_blank">Sound sample</a>.</li><li><span style="color: #990000; font-weight: bold;">Music by Heart 79 </span> <span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;"> Out of Zion </span>(Judith Dodge) A simple chant for congregational singing and improvisation. <a href="https://books.google.dk/books?id=R-HGhxAwcuMC&pg=PA154&lpg=PA154&dq=Out+of+Zion+(Judith+Dodge)&source=bl&ots=VPaYmAjq2o&sig=ACfU3U2x8LH7Z9jbY1jXy8u2UHJJBsTo4A&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwiky5vTl_D4AhUaQPEDHcZbAcYQ6AF6BAgCEAM#v=onepage&q=Out%20of%20Zion%20(Judith%20Dodge)&f=false" target="_blank">Sheet music sample</a>.<br /></li><li><b style="color: #990000;">/ AoV2-109 / CH772 / GA429 / GtG654 / A&M334 / SFFS 2195 / G(II)396 /
GC566 / GC(II)546 / G(3)639 / SP128 / URW381 / Lau944 / W&R448 / StF776 / MP865</b> <span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;"> In the Lord I'll Be Ever Thankful / El Senyor </span> (Jacques Berthier) A joyful and bouncy short song. Works well in English, German and Spanish at least. Good for kids. <a href="http://www.taize.fr/spip.php?page=chant&song=322&lang=en">Sheet music, translations into many other languages, sound samples.</a></li><li><b style="color: #990000;">NCH565 / LBW408 / ELW678 / GtG716 / PH422 / CP601 / W&R572 / Cha606 / URW091</b> <span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;"> God whose giving knows no ending </span>
(Rusty Edwards) Excellent more formal words of thanks for God's many good
gifts to us. Can be sung to a range of tunes including BEACH SPRING,
HYFRYDOL, AUSTRIAN HYMN, RUSTINGTON. <a href="https://hymnary.org/text/god_whose_giving_knows_no_ending">Lyrics and sheet music. </a><span style="color: orange;">New words to old tunes</span>.</li><li><span style="color: #990000; font-weight: bold;">TiS 458 / AHB 388 /
NCH095 / CH220 / UMH690 / VU437 / Songs for Liturgy / LBW274 / ELW569 /
GA539 / A&M24 / GtG677 / PH546 / CP029 / CP(E) 22 /
82Hml-024 / Lau679 / StF147 / MP641 </span><span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;"> The day you gave us God is ended </span> (John Ellerton) A lovely older hymn. Suitable only for evening services. <a href="http://www.hymnary.org/text/the_day_thou_gavest_lord_is_ended">Old school lyrics & sheet music</a>.<span style="color: orange;"> Oldy-but-a-goody</span>.</li></ul><span style="font-size: large;"><b><a href="http://lectionary.library.vanderbilt.edu/texts.php?id=69#epistle_reading">2 Corinthians 4:3-6</a></b></span><br />
<span style="font-style: italic;">Light
shining in darkness, God shining in our hearts. Some odd stuff about
the gospel being veiled to those who don’t want to hear it.</span><br />
<ul style="text-align: left;">
<li><span style="color: #990000; font-weight: bold;">AoV2-003
/ ATOK 313 / CH543 / StJ / GA404 / A&M042 / ELW715 / GtG314 /
GC(II)512 / G(3)590 / SP13 / URW114 / Lau883 / StF706 </span><span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;">Longing for light we wait in darkness / Christ, be our light </span>
(Bernadette Farrell) One of my favourites, especially if someone can sing or
play the descant line in the later verses. <a href="http://www.sixmaddens.org/?p=1804">Sound sample and lyrics</a>.
<span style="color: magenta;">Good for kids.</span> </li>
<li><b><span style="color: #990000;">AoVK-40 / NCH524 / UMH585 / ELW677 / A&M808 / HPP466 / G(II)358 / GC514 / GC(II)514 / G(3)591</span></b> <span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;">This little light of mine </span>(Traditional) The AoVK version has excellent verses that actually make the
chorus make sense, but will need to be practiced. Check them out if you have a copy. In the meantime,
watch Bruce Springsteen sing it <a href="http://au.youtube.com/watch?v=rTebgVrHEVM">here</a>. It's amazing... <span style="color: magenta;">Good for kids. </span> </li>
<li><b style="color: #990000;">Taizé / TiS 747 / ATE 214 / Iona (M&G) / GtG842 / PfAS027A / URW393</b> <span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="color: #000099;">The Lord is my light, my light and salvation</span></span>
(Jacques Berthier) A simple and very popular Taizé chant. Note that this is really easy on
recorder if you have a kid in your congregation who is learning it. <span style="color: magenta;">Good for kids. </span><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r64gcGMNhDE">Youtube.</a></li>
<li><b style="color: #990000;">AoV1-053 / AoVK-82 / GA256</b> <span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;">Receive The Light of Christ</span>
(Erica Marshall) Simple round "Receive the light of Christ, May (it) shine
within our hears, May the Christ Light fill us with joy and peace". <a href="http://www.asonevoice.com.au/digital-dowloads/single-song-downloads-1/WPD133">Sound sample</a> (of a non-inclusive version) <span style="color: magenta;">Good for kids</span>.</li>
<li><b style="color: #990000;">Iona (HSNW) / VU019 / A&M839 / SP326</b> <span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;"> Kindle a flame to lighten the dark </span>
and take all fear away (Iona) This song would also work well at various
points in the service, including during intercessions. <span style="color: #ff00fe;">Good for kids</span>. <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=doNNr_n2A1A">Sound sample</a>.</li>
<li><span style="color: #990000;"><b>Online Resource</b></span> <span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;">O Children of the Light / Ay Farzandane Nur</span> (Anonymous Farsi) This is simple enough if you just limit yourself to one verse and chorus
in both languages. <a href="http://www.farsinet.com/farsi_hymns/noor.html">Sheet music, Farsi, transliteration and English translation</a> (the English translation is not for singing). <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IWtr9gQp40I">Sound sample on youtube</a> (which includes a singable English translation). Don't do it too fast!</li>
<li><span style="color: #990000; font-weight: bold;">STB020 </span><span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;"> Praise Lord Jesus / Zan-mei Yesu </span>
(Chun-fa Tung) A joyful song with many hallelujahs and different parts for men
and women. The tune is a Taiwanese melody so will need to be taught,
and would be great with simple percussion (from children?). It is quite
repetitive, so would not be hard to learn. Lyrics in English and
Mandarin - you will probably need a Mandarin speaker to help with the
pronunciation.</li>
<li><span style="color: #990000; font-weight: bold;">Online Resource / Music by Heart 61 </span> <span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;"> Arise shine for your light has come </span>(Ruth Cunningham) A simple two-part chant, which can easily be taught before, or during, the service. <a href="https://www.musicthatmakescommunity.org/arise_shine" target="_blank">Free sheet music</a>. <span style="color: magenta;">Good for kids</span>.</li>
<li><b style="color: #990000;">CH348 / StS001 / ELW843 / A&M762 / G(3)625 / CP397 / W&R93 / SP304 / URW090</b> <span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;"> Praise the One Who Breaks the Darkness </span>
(Rusty Edwards) Good words of Christ's ministry to all. Can be sung to the
familiar tune NETTLETON, or the less familiar and very lovely tune JOEL.
<a href="https://hymnary.org/text/praise_the_one_who_breaks_the_darkness">Lyrics and sheet music</a>. <span style="color: orange;">New words to old tunes</span>.</li>
<li><b style="color: #990000;">Iona (One is the Body) / ATAR601 / MV103</b> <span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;"> Ka mana'o 'i 'o </span>
(Joe Kanoelehua Camacho) Hawai'ian song. Fun to sing and good words. The chorus is not
too hard to sing in Hawai'ian if you teach it. Nice with guitar and/or
ukelele. <a href="http://www.windsorparkunitedchurch.com/notes-on-the-notes-may-14-2017/">Lyrics and story</a> (scroll down). <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y--rixZuf1c">Sound sample</a>.<b style="color: #990000;"> </b></li>
<li><b style="color: #990000;">SFFS 2005 </b><span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;">Arise Shine for your light has come</span> (Gary Smith) A simple call and response. Good for an intro to worship<b>.</b></li>
<li><b style="color: #990000;">TiS 548 / VU629 / HPSS340 / CP(E) 415 / W&R418</b> <span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;">Eternal light shine in my heart</span>
(Christopher Idle) I really love this beautiful inclusive and ancient prayer. It is not
familiar, but would be beautiful sung by a soloist until your
congregation grows to know it. <a href="https://www.hopepublishing.com/find-hymns-hw/hw4773.aspx" target="_blank">Lyrics</a>.<br /></li>
</ul>
<span style="font-size: large;"><b><a href="http://lectionary.library.vanderbilt.edu/texts.php?id=69#gospel_reading">Mark 9:2-9</a></b></span><br />
<span style="font-style: italic;">Transfiguration story </span><br />
<ul style="text-align: left;"><li><b style="color: #990000;">ATFG555 / NCYC03</b> <span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;">Open your eyes / See Yourself </span>(Robin Mann)
“see yourself in the one who’s shining on the hill”. Puts the
transfiguration in the context of a whole lot of other New Testament
stories. Excellent newer song; verses are a little tricky. <a href="http://www.robinmann.com.au/My-songs-All-Together-for-Good-See-yourself-pg30927.html" target="_blank">Lyrics</a>. <span style="color: magenta;">Good for kids</span>.</li><li>
<span style="color: #990000; font-weight: bold;"> STB298 </span><span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;"> You are full of Light Lord Jesus </span>
(Syriac Liturgy) A simple song from South India. It's
very beautiful - the tune will need to be taught. Probably simplest to
sing it in English. </li><li><b style="color: #990000;">SFFS 2153 / GC(II)770 / G(3)878 / Cha182</b> <span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;">Transform Us as you, transfigured</span>
(Sylvia Dunstan) Good words to the familiar and quite meditative
hymn tune PICARDY (TiS 497). <span style="color: orange;">New words to old tunes </span><a href="https://hymnary.org/text/transform_us_as_you_transfigured">Lyrics and sheet music preview </a></li><li><b><span style="color: #990000;">TiS474 / AoV1-012
/ ATE 295 / CH623 / SFFS 2236 / HPP553 / A&M363 / GtG401 / G(II)539 / GC839 / GC(II)743 / G(3)848 /
CP465 / W&R649 / Cha284 / SP175 / URW054 / Lau475 </span></b><span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;">Here in this place new light is streaming / Gather us in </span>(Marty Haugen).
Excellent words, very well known. “Nourish us well and teach us to
fashion lives that are holy and hearts that are true”. <a href="http://www.hymnary.org/tune/gather_us_in_haugen">Lyrics and sheet music samples.</a> </li><li><b style="color: #990000;"><b style="color: #990000;"><b style="color: #990000;"><b style="color: #990000;">ACS954 / </b></b>CH355 / VU210 / HPP81 / GtG274 / GC(II)525 / G(3)628 / CP630 / W&R99 / URW098 </b><span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;">You Lord Are Both Lamb and Shepherd </span>
</b>(Sylvia Dunstan) Beautiful words. Can be sung to many tunes. I like it to
PICARDY or WESTMINSTER ABBEY. <a href="https://sistersforsunshine.wordpress.com/2014/05/12/you-lord-are-both-lamb-and-shepherd/" target="_blank">Lyrics and sound samples</a>. <span style="color: orange;">New words to old tunes</span>.</li><li><b style="color: #990000;">NCH182 / VU104 / SFFS 2103 / HPP147 / GtG191 / CP166 / W&R245</b> <span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;"> We have come at Christ's own bidding </span>
(Carl P Daw Jr) Excellent lyrics that bring the images of the transfiguration
to the faith of today. Sung to the familiar and very lovely tune HYFRYDOL (TiS 517). <a href="http://www.hymnary.org/hymn/CPACC/166">Lyrics</a>. <a href="http://www.hymnsite.com/fws/hymn.cgi?2103">Tune sample</a>.<span style="color: orange;">New words to old tunes</span>.</li><li><b style="color: #990000;">Online Resource / AoV2-103 / AoVK-115 / G(II)514 / GC712 / GC(II)715 </b><span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;">Holy Ground </span>(Donna Peña)<span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;"> </span>I
love the energy and passion in this song and the vision of the heavens
embracing the earth. I especially like the “Do you believe in freedom?
Yes we do Lord! Do you believe in justice? Justice for all!” call in the
middle. Bilingual English/Spanish song. <span style="color: magenta;">Good for kids. </span><a href="https://www.giamusic.com/store/resource/on-holy-ground-print-g5309" target="_blank">Sound sample, sheet music sample, and purchasing options (choral version)</a>. </li><li><b style="color: #990000;">Online Resource / ATFG 541 </b><span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;">What is this scene?</span>
(David Froemming / Leigh Newton) A good story telling song. Not too difficult for the congregation to sing
on a first attempt, but it will need a brief “teaching time” for the
melody. You could also ask the musicians to present as part of the
offering. The words are great. <a href="https://leighnewton.com.au/matthew-17-what-is-this-scene/" target="_blank">Free sheet music</a>. <br /></li><li><span style="color: #990000; font-weight: bold;">Online Resource / TiS 255 / CH135 / VU434 / CP018 </span><span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;"> O laughing Light O first-born of creation </span>
(Sylvia Dunstan) A slightly more modern version of the Phos Hilaron. Words are
good but the tune in TiS (ADRIAN) is a little tricky. You can also use CHRISTE SANCTORUM. I also very much like the new tune written by David Sims (no relation) in the link that follows. <a href="https://www.giamusic.com/store/resource/o-laughing-light-pdf-du01521" target="_blank">Lyrics, sheet music sample and purchasing options</a>. <br /></li><li><span style="color: #990000; font-weight: bold;">Online Resource / URW432 </span><span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;"> Radiant light divine </span>
(Rufino Zaragoza) This is pretty lovely. A nice chant based on the Phos
Hilaron. <a href="https://www.ocp.org/en-us/songs/2497/radiant-light-divine" target="_blank">Sound and sheet music samples and purchasing options</a>. <br /></li><li><b style="color: #990000;">Online Resource </b><span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;">Seeing Jesus </span> (Bruce Harding) A simple chant, needs at least 2 of the parts. <a href="https://evensong.ca/lyrics-search-results/?search-query=seeing+jesus">Free sheet music</a>.<br /></li><li><b style="color: #990000;">NCH183 / GtG193</b> <span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;"> Jesus take us to the mountain </span>
(Jaroslav Vajda) A very positive transfiguration hymn that asks good questions
and provides some good challenges and clearly looks onward to Good
Friday. <a href="http://starkekirchenlieder.blogspot.com/2009/02/jesus-take-us-to-mountain.html">Lyrics</a>.</li><li><b style="color: #990000;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><b style="color: #990000;">Online Resource / TiS 268 </b></span><b style="color: #990000;">/
AHB 224 / AoV1-170 / NCH132 / CH320 / UMH246 / VU59 / LBW039 /
ELW267 / GA295 / HPP107 / PH040 / GtG134 / GC343 / GC(II)353 / G(3)437 / CP154 / CP(E)
57 / W&R179 / Cha143 / Srce399 / </b><b style="color: #990000;">82Hml-100</b> <b style="color: #990000;">/ Lau156 / StF330 / MP393</b> <span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;"> Joy to the world The Lord is come </span></b><span style="color: #990000;"><span style="color: #351c75;">
(Isaac Watts) </span></span>So, this was not actually written as a Christmas carol (read
the lyrics: no baby Jesus), and I think it would work well for Christ
the King Sunday and Transfiguration, so maybe it's worth a go! <a href="https://hymnary.org/text/joy_to_the_world_the_lord_is_come" target="_blank">Lyrics and sheet music</a>. <span style="color: orange;">Oldy-but-a-goody</span>.</li><li><b style="color: #990000;">Online Resource / TiS 234 / AHB 390 / A&M281 / GC778 / GC(II)771 / G(3)877 / CP167 / CP(E)248 / VU103 / LBW89 / ELW315 / Lau209</b> <span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;">How good Lord to be here / Tis Good Lord to Be Here</span>
(Joseph Robinson) Good solid words and a good solid tune (I like
CARSLISLE best). I like the ending “But since you bid us leave the
mount, come with us to the plain”. <a href="https://www.ocp.org/en-us/songs/30388/tis-good-lord-to-be-here" target="_blank">Sound and sheet music sample (to the tune SWABIA, which is also nice), and purchasing options</a>. <span style="color: orange;">Oldy-but-a-goody</span>.</li><li><b style="color: #990000;">NCYC07</b> <b style="color: #000099;">You shine </b>(Kent Crawford)
A good song, with an excellent chorus "You shine over us, you shine
through us, so let your light shine on around the world". Definitely for
the more youthful congregation. It would also work to play the CD from
NCYC07 if you don't have a band of musicians.<span style="color: magenta;"> Good for teenagers.</span>.</li><li><span style="color: #990000; font-weight: bold;">ATW 447 </span> <span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;"> Thank you Jesus for ordinary miracles </span> (Robin Mann) Fun and joyful. "Up in a cloud in the air"! <a href="http://www.robinmann.com.au/rs/7/sites/1178/user_uploads/File/All%20Songs%20%28PDF%29/ordinarymiracles.pdf">Lyrics.</a> <span style="color: magenta;">Good for kids</span>.</li><li><b style="color: #990000;">Recorded Song </b><span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;">Little Lights </span>(Punch
Brothers) This track from a recent Punch Brothers album sings of the
desire of remaining in a transcendent place, but needing to return to
reality - it made me think of the transfiguration, even though it's not written about it... I particularly like
the line "guide us back to where we are from where we wanna be"... <a href="http://www.azlyrics.com/lyrics/punchbrothers/littlelights.html">Lyrics</a>. <a href="https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/the-phosphorescent-blues/id942080146">Sound</a>. </li><li><b style="color: #990000;">Recorded Song </b><span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;">Transfiguration </span>(Sufjan Stevens) I love this song. <a href="http://www.lyricsmania.com/lyrics/sufjan_stevens_lyrics_4540/seven_swans_lyrics_14685/the_transfiguration_lyrics_170430.html">Lyrics</a>. Here’s a video of him performing it live <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uxNiuuvIDbU">here </a>on
youtube, which is a bit more eclectic than the studio recording. Note: if playing
recorded songs in worship, it's a really good idea to provide lyrics to
the congregation either in a handout or using projection. Or you can get your musicians to play it for the congregation too. </li><li><span style="color: #990000; font-weight: bold;">Lau215 / Online Resource </span><span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;"> Transfigure us O Lord </span> (Bob Hurd) Really excellent words. Maybe better for a soloist. Thanks to the anonymous reader who suggested this. <a href="https://www.ocp.org/en-us/songs/66743/transfigure-us-o-lord">Sound sample & purchase options</a>. <a href="https://ololliturgy.wordpress.com/home/songs/offertory/bb508/">Lyrics</a>. <br /></li><li><span style="color: #990000; font-weight: bold;">Online Resource </span><span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;"> Transfigure me </span> (Christopher Grundy) I particularly like the chorus of this, that could be used as a sung response. The verses are also good. <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7BTAlxEJO4o">Youtube recording</a> (rough, but gives you an idea). <a href="http://sites.fastspring.com/christophergrundy/product/catalog">Sheet music</a>. <a href="http://www.christophergrundy.com/free-bulletin-inserts/">Free Bulletin Insert</a>. </li><li><span style="color: #990000; font-weight: bold;">Online Resource </span><span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;"> Transfiguration </span> (At Average) This song picks up on the disciples' desire for Christ to stay. <a href="https://ataverage.bandcamp.com/track/transfiguration">Lyrics and sound sample</a>. <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U5kawEE6nQg">Instructional video for guitarists</a>. Thanks to Tim Larson for this suggestion. </li>
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<i><span style="color: #38761d;"><b>What will you be singing? Add a comment, especially if it's something I haven't thought of!</b></span></i></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><a href="http://lectionary.library.vanderbilt.edu/texts.php?id=64#hebrew_reading">Isaiah 40:21-31</a> </b></span><br />
<ul style="text-align: left;">
<li><b style="color: #990000;">AoV2-061 / ATE 249</b> <span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;">As a dream receive your hist'ry </span>(Andrew Tanner)
A South Australian classic. There are actions too! The
chorus is particularly excellent “We will rise up on wings like eagles,
run and not be tired, show us your dreams and visions, warm our hearts
with tongues of fire, tongues of fire”. <span style="color: #ff00fe;">Good for kids and teenagers</span><span style="color: #073763;">.</span> <a href="http://www.spiritseasons.com/hallway.taf?site_uid1=15416&hallway_uid1=20401&search_id=&catalog_uid1=&link_type_uid1=&person_id=&u_currency_id=5719">Lyrics</a></li>
<li><b style="color: #990000;">NCH497 / SFFS 2208 / GtG741 / PH354 / G(II)508 / GC707 / GC(II)684 G(3)780 / CP513 / ZSS141</b> <span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;">Guide my feet while I run this race</span>
(African-American) An excellent civil rights song. Would work well as a meditative prayer
for guidance or as an uplifting call to action at the end of the
service.You could also make up your own lyrics. <a href="http://www.hymnary.org/hymn/PH/354">Lyrics.</a>
<span style="color: magenta;">Good for kids</span>.</li>
<li><b style="color: #990000;"><b style="color: #990000;">NCH164 / VU79 / StS030 / WoV652 / LBW652 / ELW314 / PH411 / GtG744 / W&R231 / URW138 </b> <span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;"> Arise your light is come!</span></b> (Ruth Duck) Good general words of Christ coming to bring justice to the familiar tune ST. THOMAS (TiS 271). <a href="https://hymnary.org/text/arise_your_light_is_come">Sheet music sample</a>. <span style="color: orange;">New words to old tunes</span>.</li>
<li><b style="color: #990000;">TiS
48 / AoV1-153 / ATOK 411 / VU808 / WoV779 / ELW787 / GA452 / HPP385 /
GtG043 / G(II)433 / GC611 / GC(II)593 / G(3)691 / CP531 / W&R438 / PfAS091E / Cha077 / Lau952</b> <span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;"> You who dwell in the shelter of the Lord / On Eagle's Wings </span>
(Michael Joncas)
This is a big favourite all over the place. It has masculine imagery for God. This doesn't have to be sung slowly and meditatively - it also works very well as a more upbeat song. If it is not familiar to you, a cantor can be used for the verses. It is not inclusive. <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/On_Eagle%27s_Wings">Lyrics</a>.</li>
<li><b style="color: #990000;">ATOK 416</b> <span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;">We will rise up on eagles wings</span> (Trish Watts) I have marked down that I like this one, but can’t tell you why as I don’t have the book right now… </li>
<li><b style="color: #990000;">AoV1-057 / G(II)485 / GC678 / GC(II)663 / G(3)766 / Lau824 </b><span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;">Awake from your slumber / City of God</span>
(Dan Schutte) I love the joyousness and sense of mission in this one. A
really
positive song “Let us build the city of God, let us turn our morning to
dancing, for the Lord, our light and our love, has turned the night into
day”. We have taken to skipping the bridge section ("God is light") -
it makes the song less confusing, and more inclusive - I don't think
anyone has noticed, but it's not a secret anymore... <a href="http://c1824532.cdn.cloudfiles.rackspacecloud.com/CCH_371-1.jpg">Sample sheet music & lyrics.</a> <a href="http://c1824532.cdn.cloudfiles.rackspacecloud.com/GC2_663-1.mp3">Sound sample.</a></li>
<li><b style="color: #990000;">Online Resource / AoVK-47 / HPP51 / A&M656 / W&R80 / Lau973</b> <span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;"> He's Got the Whole World in His Hands </span>(African-American) Most versions of this are not inclusive, but it’s possible to make it so. I’ve seen “God’s got the whole world in
safe hands”, which is a little clumsy. AoVK has "The whole world is in
God's hands" which works really well, or you could sing "You've got the whole world in your hands" (thanks to Reverend Dona Quixote
for this suggestion)! <a href="https://hymnary.org/text/hes_got_the_whole_world_in_his_hands" target="_blank">Sheet music and lyrics</a>. <span style="color: magenta;">Good for kids. </span><span style="color: orange;">Oldy-but-a-goody</span>.</li>
<li><b style="color: #990000;">Recorded Music </b><span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;">Overcome </span>
(Laura Mvula) Not a congregational song, but you may wish to play it. I just love it; it picks up on the idea of running
even when feeling broken by the world. The chorus of "All God's
children run 'round the mountain" just makes me smile. <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L7u9FpJJtEQ">Youtube</a>. <a href="https://play.google.com/music/preview/Tseqdfelde7jofvi6atqatw5q6u?lyrics=1&utm_source=google&utm_medium=search&utm_campaign=lyrics&pcampaignid=kp-lyrics">Lyrics</a>. </li>
<li><span style="color: #990000;"><b>TiS 253 / AoV2-119 / AoVK-103 / GA419</b></span> <span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;">O Lord Jesus Marrkapmirr</span> (Garrawarra family of Milingimbi) This simple song is easy to
sing and talks of the timelessness of God’s love. “O Lord Jesus
Marrkapmirr, all the power belongs to you”.<a href="http://www.sixmaddens.org/?p=2302"> Lyrics</a>. <a href="https://soundcloud.com/user-395259634/o-lord-jesus-marrkapmirr" target="_blank">Sound sample</a>.</li>
<li><b style="color: #990000;">MV175</b> <span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;"> May we but wait </span> (Will Petricko) A simple refrain which would work well as a response for prayers of Intercession, or a responsive reading of this passage.</li>
<li><span style="color: #990000; font-weight: bold;">SFFS 2281 / URW451 </span> <span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;"> May you run and not be weary </span>
(Handt Hanson / Paul Murakami) A nice blessing song. Good for the ending of the
service, but also good if you need to farewell someone. <a href="https://digitalsongsandhymns.com/songs/5946#tab-lyrics">Lyrics</a>.</li><li><b style="color: #990000;">AoVNG43 / StF089 / Srce_2054</b> <span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;">Strength will rise as we wait upon the Lord / Everlasting God </span>(Brenton Brown / Ken Riley) A good, repetitive rock ballad. I love the lines "You are the defender of the weak, you comfort those in need, you lift us up on wings like eagles". <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-yLJfb34N50" target="_blank">Lyric video </a><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-yLJfb34N50" target="_blank">(Youtube)</a>. </li>
</ul>
<span style="font-size: large;"><b><a href="http://lectionary.library.vanderbilt.edu/texts.php?id=64#psalm_reading">Psalm 147:1-11, 20c</a></b></span><br />
<span style="font-style: italic;">God provides for people and animals.</span><ul style="text-align: left;"><li><b style="color: #990000;">NCH Psalter (Psalm 147)</b> <span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;">Great is our God, and abundant in power </span>(Elaine Kirkland). A simple and effective refrain. Can be used to a read or sung cantor part.</li>
<li><b style="color: #990000;">Iona (M&G) / CH267 </b><span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;">Blest be God blest be God for ever</span> (Salvador Martinez)
Beautiful words to a beautiful, but quite tricky Philippino melody.
This would be great to ask a small group to sing, if you have some good
singers in your congregation. <a href="https://music.churchofscotland.org.uk/hymn/267-blest-be-god-blest-be-god-for-ever">Sound sample</a>.</li>
<li><b style="color: #990000;">Online Resource / In Every Corner Sing / AA039 / GA192</b> <span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;">For the bread and wine and blessing </span> (Shirley Murray) Very straightforward tune. Good Eucharist song. Really good song of healing. <a href="https://www.hopepublishing.com/find-hymns-hw/hw2868.aspx" target="_blank">Lyrics and sheet music</a>. <br /></li>
<li><span style="color: #990000; font-weight: bold;">ATE 216 / Iona (SBL) / CH126 / StJ / PH472 / G(II)365 / GC527 / RS 671 / CP417 / W&R15 / StF042</span><span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;"> O sing to the Lord / Cantai ao Senhor / </span>Cantad
al Señor (Traditional Brazilian) A good, fun and simple song that is
easy to learn in Portuguese or Spanish too; note that not all versions
are inclusive. <a href="http://www.hymnary.org/tune/cantai_ao_senhor_brazilian">Sheet music samples</a>.
<span style="color: magenta;">Good for kids!</span>.</li>
<li><span style="color: #990000; font-weight: bold;">TiS
706 / Taize / AoV2-142 / A&M600 / SFFS 2013 / GtG544 / PH224 / GC(II)576 /
G(3)620 / CP360 / PfAS103C / SP194 / Src79 / URW377 / Lau813 </span> <span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;">Bless the Lord my soul </span>(Jacques Berthier) A beautiful and very well known Taize chant. <a href="http://www.taize.fr/spip.php?page=chant&song=256&lang=en">Sound samples, sheet music</a>. <span style="color: magenta;">Good for kids</span>.</li>
<li><b style="color: #990000;">MV037</b> <span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;"> Each blade of grass / Circle of God </span> (Keri Wehlander) Lovely words set to a familiar-feeling folk tune. <a href="http://www.docstoc.com/docs/26656515/Each-blade-of-grass_-every-wing-that-soars_"> Lyrics</a> </li>
<li><b style="color: #990000;">TiS 181 / AoV2-032 / GC(II)497 / G(3)577 / CP589</b> <span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;">Come O God of all the earth / Sing Out Earth and Skies</span>
(Marty Haugen) A very joyful song for cantor and congregation, or small group
and congregation; this is a big favourite in our church. <a href="http://c1824532.cdn.cloudfiles.rackspacecloud.com/GC2_497-1.jpg">Sheet music, lyrics</a> and <a href="http://c1824532.cdn.cloudfiles.rackspacecloud.com/GC2_497-1.mp3">sound sample</a>.</li>
<li><span style="color: #990000; font-weight: bold;">CH753 / SFFS 2078 / GtG589 / GC(II)271 / G(3)338 / PfAS147A </span><span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;"> Alleluia alleluia </span>
(Honduras) Simple and fun Alleluia that works well as a refrain for a
reading of this Psalm.
You could also use a <a href="http://lectionarysong.blogspot.com.au/2010/12/alleluia-hallelujah-heleluya-heleluyan.html">different Alleluia</a>. <span style="color: magenta;">Good for kids</span>.<b style="color: #990000;"> </b></li>
<li><b style="color: #990000;">Online Resource / AoVK-24 / Iona (T1AU) / CH756 </b><span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;">Bless the Lord / My sisters</span>
(Kenyan) Simple and fun Kenyan call and response. "Bless the Lord there
is no other God" Kids would really enjoy this, and with some African
drumming, it would really be excellent. <a href="https://hymnary.org/text/my_sisters_bless_the_lord" target="_blank">Lyrics and sheet music</a>. <span style="color: magenta;">Good for kids</span>.</li>
<li><span style="color: #990000; font-weight: bold;"> <b style="color: #990000;">MV095</b> </span> <span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;"> How deep the peace</span> (Lynn Bauman / Linnea Good) Simple song. Would work particularly well as words of assurance after the prayers of confession. <a href="http://www.slideshare.net/linneagood/ps-032-how-deep-the-peace">Lyrics</a> (a very short slide show).</li>
<li><span style="color: #990000; font-weight: bold;">Online Resource / CH177 / A&M745 / SP300 </span><span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;"> O God of blessings all praise to you! / Soli Deo Gloria </span> (Marty Haugen) Majestic, and a touch schmaltzy, but really very good. <a href="https://www.giamusic.com/store/resource/soli-deo-gloria-print-g5176" target="_blank">Choral version sound sample, sheet music sample, and purchasing options</a>. <br /></li><li><span style="color: #990000; font-weight: bold;">Online Resource / Resounding Voices </span><span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;">Infinite beauty love that moves the Heavens </span>(Susan Palo
Cherwien / David Cherwien) Excellent words about the beauty of God's created world and all that we can learn from it. <a href="https://www.peacelutheranseattle.org/?p=4477" target="_blank">Lyrics</a> (scroll down). <a href="https://thehymnsociety.org/resources/resounding-voices/" target="_blank">Free book download here</a>. </li>
<li><b style="color: #990000;">Iona (SBL) / CH140 / MV181 / WoV727 / ELW554 / G(II)341 / GC495 / STB178</b> <span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;"> Lord Your Hands Have Formed This World / The Earth is the Lord's </span>
(Ramon & Sario Oliano) Good words of creation to a lovely, and not too difficult,
Philippino melody. This would be a nice song for a children's choir or
for the offering. <a href="http://c1824532.cdn.cloudfiles.rackspacecloud.com/GC_495-1.jpg">Lyrics and sample sheet music</a>.</li>
<li><span style="color: #990000; font-weight: bold;">VU888 / LBW558 / ELW731 / PH458 / RS681 / CP358 / W&R642 / 82Hml-412 </span> <span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;">Earth and All Stars </span>
(Herbert Brokering) Fun words of cosmic praise. I thought this tune was pretty straightforward, but our congregation struggled a bit with it. I really like the
"boiling test tubes" bit, although this verse is not in all hymnals; the lyrics vary between sources, and not all are inclusive. <a href="http://www.digitalsongsandhymns.com/songs/6906">One example of the lyrics</a>. <span style="color: magenta;">Good for kids, especially if sung with some humour.</span> </li>
<li><b><span style="color: #990000;">ATN 66 / GGives1</span></b> <span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;"> If I were a butterfly </span>
(Brain Howard) This is a cute kid's song, though I'm not really sure I like it anymore; to make
it gender-inclusive for God you could sing "But I just thank you God
for making me me!". Thanks to Bronwyn Marchant for this suggestion. <a href="http://www.butterflysong.com/">Lyrics, chords and sound sample.</a> <span style="color: magenta;">Good for kids</span>.</li>
</ul>
<span style="font-size: large;"><b><a href="http://lectionary.library.vanderbilt.edu/texts.php?id=64#epistle_reading">1 Corinthians 9:16-23</a></b></span><br />
<span style="font-style: italic;">Paul becomes as those he wishes to save. A call to stand alongside others. A call to evangelism.</span><br />
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<li><span style="color: #990000; font-weight: bold;">NCH437 </span> <span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;"> We shall not give up the fight </span>
(South African) A great song for congregations standing with those in a
struggle for freedom. That should be all of our congregations really. <span style="color: #073763;">Good for kids.</span> I like the version by <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RE6XASr7n2E&feature=related">this choir in France!</a></li><li><span style="color: #990000; font-weight: bold;">Online Resource / Resounding Voices </span><span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;">When the world feels to heavy / Lo Alecha </span>(Natalie Young) This song is about working together for the future. It sort of fits with this reading, but I just wanted to find somewhere to list it. It's not an easy song for congregations, but this would be very helpful to many. You will need to teach the Hebrew pronunciation. <a href="https://thehymnsociety.org/resources/resounding-voices/" target="_blank">Free book download here</a>. <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gHhtN9lwrO0" target="_blank">Sound sample</a>. <br /></li>
<li><b style="color: #990000;">Seeds of Faith</b> <span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;">Do you know that I am your friend? / I’m Gonna Stick With You</span> (Richard Bruxvoort-Colligan) An excellent and fun song for kids. <a href="https://theriversvoice.bandcamp.com/track/im-gonna-stick-with-you-ruth-naomi">Lyrics, sound sample and songbook</a> <span style="color: magenta;">Good for kids</span>.</li>
<li> <span style="color: #990000;"><b>NCH357 / CH680 / G(II)487 / GC680 / GC(II)675 / G(3)774 / Lau425</b></span> <span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;"> You are called to tell the story </span> (Ruth Duck) Excellent words. The simplest tune would be REGENT SQUARE. A range of tunes are used in the sources available. While written for ordination, this song
would work very well as a call to a whole congregation. You could change
the first line to “We are called to tell the story” and eliminate verse
3 (unless you welcome lay people presiding over communion, of course!). <span style="color: orange;">New words to old tunes.</span>
<a href="http://www.pateys.nf.ca/cgi-bin/lyrics.pl?hymnnumber=583">Lyrics </a></li>
<li><b style="color: #990000;">AoVK-36 / VU649 / SFFS 2242 / URW118</b> <span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;"> Walk with me I will walk with you </span> (John Rice) Nice simple words about being sent to do God's work. Also mentions Moses' call. <a href="https://digitalsongsandhymns.com/songs/walk-with-me" target="_blank">Lyrics</a>. <span style="color: magenta;">Good for kids</span>.</li>
<li><b style="color: #990000;">ATW 507</b> <span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;">Where you tread</span> (John Beavis)
A beautiful and simple song based on the story of Ruth, but quite
appropriate to the idea of standing alongside others. Very simple for a
congregation to sing first time.</li>
<li><span style="color: #990000; font-weight: bold;">Online Resource / SFFS 2175 / GtG767 </span><span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;"> Together We Serve </span> (Daniel Damon) Good hymn about service, sung to a very straightforward tune. <a href="https://www.hopepublishing.com/find-hymns-hw/hw2338.aspx" target="_blank">Lyrics and sheet music</a>. <br /></li>
<li><b><span style="color: #990000;">TiS
607 / AoV2-126 / ATN 95 / CH528 / VU684 / StJ / A&M725 / SFFS 2171 / HPP406 /
GtG753 / G(II)524 / GC726 / GC(II)721 / G(3)828 / CP(E)519/ W&R587 / Srce 462 / Lau898 / StF707 / MP456</span></b> <span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;">Make me a channel of your peace </span>(Sebastian Temple). Lovely. Nice if you can just start a cappella... <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=djjktLs9Nf0">Youtube video of Sinead O'Connor singing it</a> and <a href="https://hymnary.org/text/make_me_a_channel_of_your_peace" target="_blank">lyrics</a> <span style="color: orange;">Oldy-but-a-goody</span>.</li>
</ul>
<span style="font-size: large;"><b><a href="http://lectionary.library.vanderbilt.edu/texts.php?id=64#gospel_reading">Mark 1:29-39</a></b></span> </div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><i>Jesus heals Simon’s mother-in-law, lots of others, and prays before proclaiming the message and casting out demons </i><br />
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<li><span style="color: #990000;"><b>ATW 443</b></span><span style="color: #000099;"> </span><span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;">She was in bed with a fever / Like an angel</span> (Robin Mann) Nice to sing. Not too hard. <a href="http://www.robinmann.com.au/rs/7/sites/1178/user_uploads/File/All%20Songs%20%28PDF%29/likeanangel.pdf">Lyrics, and an excellent introduction to the theme of this story and song</a>.
</li><li><span style="color: #990000; font-weight: bold;">W&R640 </span> <span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;"> From Miles Around the sick ones came </span> (Jane Marshall) Good song calling us back to our purpose to stand with the suffering. <a href="http://www.hopepublishing.com/html/main.isx?sitesec=40.2.1.0&hymnID=3972">Lyrics & sheet music</a>. </li>
<li><span style="color: #990000;"><b>TiS 638 / NCH175 / CH717 / A&M518 / GtG793 / PH380 / UMH265 / LBW380 /
ELW610 / PH380 / CP291 / CP(E) 346 / W&R638 / Cha503 / Lau430 / StF653 </b></span><span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;">O Christ the healer we have come</span><span style="font-weight: bold;"> </span>(Fred Pratt Green) Beautiful words and simple to sing. Good for intercessions. I like the tune INVERCARRY best, but it can also be sung to TALLIS' CANON if your congregation needs a more familiar tune. <a href="http://hymnary.org/text/o_christ_the_healer_we_have_come">Lyrics and sound sample</a> (of an alternative tune).<span style="color: orange;"> New words to old tunes</span>.</li>
<li><span style="color: #990000; font-weight: bold;">TiS 236 / AHB 178 / CH351 / UMH273 / VU570 / HPP157 / W&R634 </span><span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;">Jesus' hands were kind hands</span>
(Margaret Cropper) Good old fashioned children's song. Lots of kids learn to play this on
piano, so if you have some budding pianists in your
congregation, it may be nice to invite one to play. <a href="http://www.hopepublishing.com/html/main.isx?sitesec=40.2.1.0&hymnID=4154">Lyrics & sheet music</a>. <span style="color: magenta;">Good for kids</span>.</li>
<li><b style="color: #990000;">Seeds of Faith</b> <span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;">Jesus’ hands are Healing Hands</span> (Richard Bruxvoort-Colligan). A simple and fun kid’s song. "Jesus hands are healing hands, full of love and grace”.<a href="https://theriversvoice.bandcamp.com/track/healing-hands-jesus-heals-the-little-girl">Lyrics, sound sample and songbook</a> <span style="color: magenta;">Good for kids</span>.</li>
<li><b style="color: #990000;">CH348 / StS001 / LBW196 / ELW843 / A&M762 / G(3)625 / CP397 / W&R93 / SP304 / URW090</b> <span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;"> Praise the One Who Breaks the Darkness </span>
(Rusty Edwards) Good words of Christ's ministry to all. Can be sung to the
familiar tune NETTLETON, or the less familiar and very lovely tune JOEL. I will suggest this again next week! <span style="color: orange;">New words to old tunes.</span>
<a href="https://hymnary.org/text/praise_the_one_who_breaks_the_darkness">Lyrics</a>. </li>
<li><b style="color: #990000;">Iona
(Love From Below / common ground) / CH718 / VU613 / A&M522 / GtG797 / G(II)401 / GC575 /
GC(II)558 / G(3)657 / CP292 / CP(E) 348 / W&R628 / SP140 /
URW146 / Lau433 </b><span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;">We Cannot Measure How You Heal</span>
(John Bell) Really very excellent words to a very familiar Celtic air. Easy
to sing; be careful not to get too fast; it's tempting but the words
need a slower tune. <a href="http://c1824532.cdn.cloudfiles.rackspacecloud.com/GC2_558-1.jpg">Sheet music sample</a>. <a href="http://c1824532.cdn.cloudfiles.rackspacecloud.com/GC2_558-1.mp3">Sound sample.</a> </li><li><b style="color: #990000;">Online Resource </b><span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;">Be Still </span>(David MacGregor) Any songs about being still could fit with the way that Jesus prays before he takes action could work well. This is a very simple reflective song, which could really help the congregation to be still! There are lots of other ideas on this theme... see the next few suggestions. <a href="https://vimeo.com/588202766?fbclid=IwAR0Bvjmhe6_oCrq7a6wCxM6YNaJCNfYxk53vz_oAHIC16ysgg_BCFnbvdbA" target="_blank">Sound sample</a>. <a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/SingingFromTheLectionary/permalink/10160852789749871/" target="_blank">Sheet music</a>.<br /></li><li><span style="color: #990000;"><b>Online Resource </b></span><span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;">Rest your body still your mind</span>
(David Bjorlin / Benjamin Brody) This is an excellent acapella round
which would work well at the start of a service or as an introduction to
reading the scriptures. It also has a version of the lyrics for a
Benediction. You could use both! <a href="https://www.giamusic.com/store/resource/rest-your-body-move-your-body-pdf-du01572" target="_blank">Sample sheet music, lyrics and purchasing options</a>. <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tp5eTszMY9g" target="_blank">Youtube</a>. <span style="color: #990000; font-weight: bold;"><br /></span></li><li><span style="color: #990000; font-weight: bold;">AoV2-054
/ Iona (T1AU, LFB) / MV077 / GtG414 / SFFS 2057 / G(II)438 / GC618 /
RS 736 / SP&P111 / PfAS046D / URW409 / Lau909 / StF019 </span> <span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;"> Be still and know that I am God </span>(John Bell
/ Graham Maule) This simple chant is beautiful. Works as a round or in unison. <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MOcSzEmcQ08" target="_blank">Sound sample</a>. <span style="color: magenta;">Good for kids</span>.</li><li><span style="color: #990000; font-weight: bold;">ATN 9 / NCH743 / CH755 / W&R450 / Srce68 / StF018 / MP048 </span><span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;"> Be Still and Know </span>
(Unknown author) This is the old classic. Sources vary in the verses they have
and the level of inclusiveness in the lyrics. </li><li><span style="color: #990000; font-weight: bold;">Online Resource </span> <span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;"> Be still and know that I am God </span>(David Kai) Yet another version of these very catchy words. Sung as a chant it is particularly lovely. <a href="https://sites.google.com/view/musicbydavidwkai/home/be-still-and-know" target="_blank">Sheet music, sound samples</a>.</li></ul></div>
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<i>To learn more about the Day of Mourning, celebrated in Uniting Churches in Australia, and find service resources <a href="https://uniting.church/dayofmourning/">here</a>. There are additional resources here for <a href="https://www.commongrace.org.au/aboriginal_sunday">Aboriginal Sunday</a> from Common Grace; some of the suggestions below come from that resource. There is also an excellent compilation of resources from <a href="https://pilgrimwr.unitingchurch.org.au/?p=298">Pilgrim Uniting Church</a>. </i></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><i> </i></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="font-size: medium;"><i><b>Songs from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Communities and songwriters</b></i></span><br />
<ul style="text-align: left;"><li><span style="color: #990000; font-weight: bold;">TiS 383 </span><span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;"> Joyful the morning when Jesus Christ is risen </span>
(Traditional Torres Strait Islander) It's beautiful and joyful and
Torres Strait Islander! We sometimes sing this at Easter, but could sing
it at other times as well. </li><li><span style="color: #990000;"><b>TiS 253 / AoV2-119 / AoVK-103 / GA419</b></span> <span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;">O Lord Jesus Marrkapmirr</span> (Garrawarra family of Milingimbi) This simple song is easy to
sing and talks of the timelessness of God’s love. “O Lord Jesus
Marrkapmirr, all the power belongs to you”.<a href="http://www.sixmaddens.org/?p=2302"> Lyrics</a>. <a href="https://soundcloud.com/user-395259634/o-lord-jesus-marrkapmirr" target="_blank">Sound sample</a>.</li><li><span style="color: #990000; font-weight: bold;">ATFG574 / NCYC'97 </span><span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;"> You are our Father you live in heaven / Aboriginal Lord's Prayer </span>
(Warmun and Tiwi communities) Aboriginal Australian version of the
Lord's Prayer. </li><li><span style="color: #990000; font-weight: bold;"> ATE 290 </span><span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;"> We are gathering </span>(Unknown
source) While not written by an Aboriginal person or community, this
song is important to many Aboriginal communities. The language for God
is not inclusive. You can hear it here <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v8NznaVxGBg&feature=youtu.be">in English and in Language</a>. </li><li><span style="color: #990000;"><b>Online Resource</b></span><span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;"> Creator God you made this land </span>(Keith Pearson)
Words of reconciliation from the United Aboriginal and Islander
Christian Congress. "Great Spirit in this ancient land, speak in the
stillness deep within. Remove all prejudice and fear, give life to all,
new hope begin. Then help us gently walk as friends, while on this land
your peace descends". Sung to the familiar hymn tune ST PETERSBURG
(TiS375). <a href="http://www.google.com.au/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=3&ved=0CD4QFjAC&url=http%3A%2F%2Fsa.uca.org.au%2Fdocuments%2Fcovenanting%2F2007%2FWorship-Resources-Reconciliation-Sunday-2007.pdf&ei=VaScUbiRM-foiAeK9YGoAw&usg=AFQjCNFLbv0_Z34qMSexM3slh2NjGqRLkQ&sig2=eh6IHZMAp0qDR8uJGLWOvg&bvm=bv.46751780,d.aGc">Lyrics</a> (downloads a pdf) <span style="color: orange;">New words to old tunes</span>. </li><li><b style="color: #990000;">Online Resource</b> <span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;">Yil-Lull </span>(Joe
Geia) This is just a great song, with a verse of praise to God, and the
chorus is easy for the congregation to join in on. It's not immediately
easy for church musicians to play, but if you have a guitarist, you'll
be OK. <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s9BvEa9xxvQ">Youtube</a>. <a href="https://www.facebook.com/joegeia/posts/when-i-wrote-yil-lull-the-song-about-the-aboriginal-land-rights-flag-i-was-livin/1104699792900556/">Story</a>. </li><li><b><span style="color: #990000;">Online Resource </span></b><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="color: #000099;">When the deep cries out </span></span><span style="color: black;">(Nelson
Varcoe) Not really a congregational song, but if you have a good singer
and guitarist, they could play it in a way that the congregation can
join in for the repeated sections in the verses and choruses. Excellent
words about Wisdom, Love and God, crying out to us. It's a good campfire
song. <a href="https://www.mediacomeducation.org.au/shop/gift-of-music/" target="_blank">Book available here</a>. </span></li><li><span style="color: #990000;"><b>Online Resource</b></span> <span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;">Meroo / Water seeping up outta the ground </span>
(Nelson Varcoe) The Dharug / Tharwal word "Meroo" means water. This is a song about the source of water. Simple
chorus and good words about the importance of water, and a chorus about
the rising of the Holy Spirit, carrying our prayers up to the sky. <a href="https://sa.uca.org.au/new-times/gift-of-music" target="_blank">Book available here</a> (BUC people, I have this book!).<b style="color: #990000;"> </b><span style="color: black;"> </span><b><span style="color: #990000;"> </span></b></li></ul><p><b><i>Other songs: </i></b><br /></p>
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<li><span style="color: #990000;"><b>Online Resource</b></span> <span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;">We're standing here on holy ground </span>(John P Brown) Excellent words set to a simple Maluku tune. <a href="https://pilgrimwr.unitingchurch.org.au/?p=298">Lyrics here</a> (scroll through many other excellent resources to get there. <br /></li>
<li><span style="color: #990000;"><b>Online Resource</b></span> <span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;">If we can now say that we're sorry </span>(Kerry Fletcher) Excellent words and a simple enough song to be sung by a congregation. <a href="https://www.philipgriffin.com/sorry-lyrics">Lyrics and sheet music.</a></li><li><span style="color: #990000;"><b>Online Resource</b></span> <span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;">Why Lord O Why? </span>(David MacGregor) A song of lament which does not shy away from the role of the church in colonisation. Probably better to use it reflectively with the musicians singing rather than the congregation, but it's not too difficult for a congregation to join in on as the song goes on. <a href="https://willowpublishing.com.au/product/why-lord-o-why/" target="_blank">Sound sample, sheet music sample and purchasing options</a>. <br /></li><li><span style="color: #990000;"><b>Online Resource / Walk as One</b></span> <span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;">Beneath the Southern Cross </span>(Catherine Burton / Malcolm Gordon) This song was written in New Zealand, but the lyrics are also applicable to Australia, in recognising God's presence under the Southern Cross. <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y2A8MzzT8Qc" target="_blank">Video (with NZ-specific lyrics)</a>. <a href="https://www.cmla.org.au/product/walk-as-one-pdf-download/" target="_blank">Sheet music for purchase here (with lyrics that work in both Australia and New Zealand)</a>. <span style="color: #990000; font-weight: bold;"><br /></span></li>
<li><span style="color: #990000; font-weight: bold;">AoVK-130 </span><span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;"> Around this land we love so well </span>
(Bates) Very specific words; useful if you are talking about Aboriginal
Reconciliation. The tune is quite straightforward, but if it is new it
would work best sung by a soloist.
<span style="color: #990000; font-weight: bold;"> </span></li>
<li><span style="color: #990000;"><b>Online Resource / Walk as One</b></span> <span style="color: #000099;"><b>Here we are in the church</b> </span>(Leigh
Newton) Written for the 2000 Assembly of the Uniting Church, this song
has three verses recognising our roles in the church, in the world, and
in the land Australia. <a href="https://leighnewton.com.au/here-we-are-in-the-church/" target="_blank">Free sheet music</a>. </li>
<li><span style="color: #990000;"><b>Recorded Music</b></span> <span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;">Special treatment</span>
(Paul Kelly) This song could work well during a prayer of confession; I
think Archie Roach has recorded it too, and I like his version better. <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XDdpxgJGXvM">Youtube</a>. <a href="https://genius.com/Paul-kelly-and-the-messengers-special-treatment-lyrics" target="_blank">Lyrics</a></li>
<li><span style="color: #990000;"><b>ATW 433 </b></span><span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;">At the dawn of the ages / You were in this place </span>(Robin Mann)
An Australian song about seeing God in this ancient land and in our
indigenous people, and the blindness of the colonisers in seeing that God was here before the white man came. “Do we take after Jacob, blind to what lies at hand,
needing dreams to inform us God is here in this land?”. Tune is very
smooth and simple. <a href="http://cruciality.wordpress.com/2008/02/08/you-were-in-this-place-but-we-never-knew/">Lyrics.</a></li>
<li><span style="color: #990000;"><b>Online Resource </b></span><b><span style="color: #000099;">Follow the songlines</span></b> (Shirley Murray) Excellent words of God's presence here before colonisation, and our call to follow. <a href="http://www.hopepublishing.com/html/main.isx?sitesec=40.2.1.0&hymnID=2935&titleSearch=songlines">Lyrics and sheet music</a>. </li><li><span style="color: #990000;"><b>Online Resource</b></span><span style="color: #990000;"><b> <span style="color: #000099;">Sing a song of freedom </span></b></span>(Helen Wright) A song calling for justice among us, written for the #ChangeTheHeart prayer services. It will need to be taught. <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WfVxoOD5asQ">Youtube</a>.</li><li><span style="color: #990000;"><b>Online Resource</b></span> <span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;">How shall we sing the Lord's song in a strange land? </span>(Craig Mitchell / David MacGregor) Excellent words for Australians to sing - how can we sing, and how can we move forward. <a href="https://vimeo.com/663295833" target="_blank">Lyric video which you may wish to use in your service</a>. <a href="https://craigmitchell.com.au/how-shall-we-sing-recording/" target="_blank">Lyrics and sound sample</a>. If you have Craig's book "Deeper Water" then you will have the sheet music. It's not so much a congregational song, as a song where the congregation might join in on the chorus. <br /></li><li><b style="color: #990000;">TiS
590 / AHB 165 / AoVK-117 / NCH506 / UMH526 / VU663 / LBW439 / ELW742 /
HPP408 / GtG465 / PH403 / CP532 / W&R473 / Cha585 / Srce 776 / StF531 / MP746</b> <span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;">What a Friend we have in Jesus</span> (Joseph Scriven) This is a favourite in many Aboriginal communities around Australia. There is a bit of masculine language, but the song has so many other
good things about it it's worth singing. I like both tunes. AOVK has different lyrics,
written specifically for kids, which I think are worth singing. <span style="color: magenta;">Good for kids. </span><span style="color: orange;">Oldy-but-a-goody.</span></li></ul></div>Lectionary Singer (Natalie Sims)http://www.blogger.com/profile/15635861565689089555noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3953574041544310550.post-74120737136929175022024-01-06T14:20:00.000-08:002024-01-22T03:04:11.622-08:00Songs, Hymns & Music for Epiphany 4B (January 28, 2024)<script async="" src="https://www.googletagmanager.com/gtag/js?id=G-E0N4VFC2F8"></script>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><a href="http://lectionary.library.vanderbilt.edu/texts.php?id=63#hebrew_reading">Deuteronomy 18:15-20</a></b></span> <br />
<span style="font-style: italic;">The promise of a true prophet</span><br />
<ul style="text-align: left;">
<li><b style="color: #990000;">SiS346 / ATN 77 / G(II)542 / GC749</b> <span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;">O Welcome All You Noble Saints of Old / In Christ There Is a Table Set for All </span>(Robert Stamps)
Radical hospitality. A song about the foretold one who is now with us. Gather hymnals use "In
Christ there is a table set for all" which is much more inclusive than
the old "God and man at table are sat down". Good for celebration of
communion, but is fine without it, too. We haven't sung this in ages. <a href="http://breadandwine.wordpress.com/2007/09/01/radical-political-hospitality/">Lyrics </a>(scroll down). <a href="http://c1824532.cdn.cloudfiles.rackspacecloud.com/GC_749.midi">Clunky sound sample</a> </li>
<li><span style="color: #990000; font-weight: bold;">URW293 </span><span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;"> We Sing to You O God </span> (Gracia Grindal) Good words of God's protection through difficult times to a standard hymn tune (DARWALL'S 148th). <a href="https://digitalsongsandhymns.com/songs/5287#tab-lyrics">Lyrics</a>. <a href="https://hymnary.org/tune/darwall_darwall">Sheet music and sound sample of hymn tune only</a>. <span style="color: orange;">New words to old tunes</span>.</li>
<li><span style="color: #990000; font-weight: bold;">Online Resource / ATAR643 / Walk as One </span><span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;"> Fire of prophet cool wisdom of sage / Spirit lead us </span>
(Paul Somerville) An excellent song about knowing God through sacred
stories, and being part of God's sacred story. This would be an
excellent song for the entry of scriptures at the start of the service
if this is your practice. It may be best sung first by a soloist. <a href="https://www.paddingtonuca.org.au/music" target="_blank">Sound sample</a>. <a href="https://www.cmla.org.au/product/walk-as-one-pdf-download/" target="_blank">Book (PDF) available for purchase</a>. <br /></li>
<li><b style="color: #990000;">Online Resource / AoV2-102 / GA509</b> <span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;"> Who will speak if we don't </span> (Marty Haugen) Could we be prophets? Excellent challenging words. <span style="color: magenta;">Good for teenagers.</span> <a href="https://www.giamusic.com/store/resource/who-will-speak-print-g3964">Sound sample, sheet music sample, and choral version for purchase</a>.</li>
<li><span style="color: #990000;"><b>Online Resource / TiS 283 / HPP87 / CP(E) 58 / W&R167 / Srce2-382 / Lau116 / StF178 </b> </span><span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;">Long ago prophets knew</span>
(Fred Pratt Green) I’m never sure if
I like this one, but lots
of other people do and it fits the reading this week well. Suitable if
you choose to focus on Christ as being the prophet who was foretold.
<a href="https://hymnary.org/text/long_ago_prophets_knew" target="_blank">Lyrics, and sheet music samples</a>. <span style="color: orange;">New words to old tunes</span>. </li>
<li><span style="color: #990000; font-weight: bold;">URW129 </span><span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;"> We gather at your table Lord </span>
(William Martin) A fairly standard communion hymn. A nice joyful old American
tune, and good words about coming together and then a final verse to
sing after communion about going out into the world. This would work
well if you are celebrating communion, particularly the words "Remind us
of our sacred past, our roots in Israel's soil"...<a href="http://www.hopepublishing.com/html/main.isx?sitesec=40.2.1.0&hymnID=3899"> Lyrics</a>. </li>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><a href="http://lectionary.library.vanderbilt.edu/texts.php?id=63#psalm_reading">Psalm 111</a></b></span><br />
<span style="font-style: italic;">The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom; <br />
It would be worth looking for an inclusive translation of this Psalm. You might also like to sing some Alleluias in your service, <span style="color: magenta;">particularly good for kids.</span> <a href="http://lectionarysong.blogspot.com.au/2010/12/alleluia-hallelujah-heleluya-heleluyan.html">Here is a list of some favourites.</a></span>
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<span style="color: #990000;"><b>PfAS111C</b></span> <span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;"> The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom </span> (Jay Weldon Wilkey) A simple Psalm refrain. </li><li>
<b style="color: #990000;">PH274</b> <span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;">O God of Earth and Space </span>(Jane Parker Huber) Terrific
words to a well known Jewish hymn tune (LEONI).
"Wherever freedom reigns, where sin is overthrown, Where justice fused
with mercy rules, there you are known. Give us the courage clear, to
make the earth a home, For all to live in harmony, in Christ’s shalom.
Highly recommended. <a href="https://digitalsongsandhymns.com/songs/4733" target="_blank">Lyrics</a>. <span style="color: orange;">New words to old tunes</span>.</li><li>
<b style="color: #990000;">Emergent Psalter</b> <span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;">With my whole heart</span> (Lacey Brown) A really nice refrain for this Psalm; cool rhythm... <a href="https://www.churchpublishing.org/emergentpsalter#inpage3">Accompaniment sheet music</a>.</li><li><b><span style="color: #990000;">Online Resource / TiS
611 / AHB 543 / NCH436 / UMH577 / VU686 / LBW415 / ELW705 / A&M648 /
HPP456 / PH420 / GtG307 / CP577 / CP(E) 448 / W&R569 / Cha464 /
82Hml-594 / StF682 / MP192 </span></b> <span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;"><span style="color: #990000;"> </span>God of Grace and God of Glory </span>
(Harry Emerson Fosdick) A song about being courageous and wise. There are many
possible tunes and many sets of words to this hymn. NCH has the most
inclusive words, but TiS and AHB are okay too. They don’t hold back in
verse 3. Chorus: “Grant us wisdom, Grant us courage, for the facing of
this hour”. Don’t know about everyone else, but I know best the tune
AHB 543 (ii). <a href="http://www.hymnary.org/hymn/LSB2006/850">Lyrics, sheet music samples, and a purchasing option. </a><span style="color: orange;"> New words to old tunes</span>.</li><li><span style="color: #990000; font-weight: bold;">ACS971 / MV010 / GtG174 / URW099 / VF060 </span> <span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;"> Come and seek the ways of wisdom </span>
(Ruth Duck) This song is more about the personification of Wisdom, but would work
very well as a gathering song in the context of this reading. The tune in ACS, MV and GtG is
a joyful 6/8 tune, but not familiar, so if it seems difficult, you could sing the
same words to PICARDY (TiS 497). VF has a more challenging tune, which may be a bit tricky for a congregation. <a href="http://www.seasonsonline.ca/files/Come%20Seek%20the%20Way%20of%20Wisdom.pdf">Lyrics</a>.</li><li><b style="color: #990000;">NCH Psalter (Psalm 111) </b><span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;">Great, great, great are the works of God</span> (Marty Haugen) An excellent refrain with an inclusive Psalm for reading / cantoring.</li><li><b style="color: #990000;">NCH510</b> <b style="color: #000099;">Grant us wisdom to perceive you </b>(Rae E Whitney)
A hymn with great words seeking wisdom in perception, faithfulness in
prayer, diligence in action, courage in evangelism. Sung to an old
German carol tune which is not too hard. Could also be sung to other
tunes if you like. <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vdbcftZdjk4">Lyric video</a>. <a href="https://hymnary.org/text/grant_us_wisdom_to_perceive_you">Lyrics and sheet music</a>.</li><li><span style="color: #990000; font-weight: bold;">FFS32 </span><span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;">God who sets us on a journey (</span>Joy Dine)
Good words about discernment. I think it would be easy to sing this to
HYFRYDOL or BLAENWERN. <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CtY-sP-Z_fk">Lyrics</a> (in comments of a Youtube video). <span style="color: orange;">New words to old tunes.</span>
</li><li><span style="color: #990000; font-weight: bold;">CH604 </span> <span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;"> Holy wisdom lamp of learning </span>
(Ruth Duck) Great words seeking wisdom, judgement, and celebrating
a searching faith. Sung to a good joyful and easy hymn tune (IN
BABILONE). Could also be sung to BEACH SPRING.
<a href="http://cdn.ocp.org/shared/pdf/preview/22925z2.pdf">Sample music and lyrics</a>. <span style="color: orange;">New words to old tunes</span>.</li><li><b style="color: #990000;">TiS 68 </b><span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;">God established an eternal covenant </span>(Jane Marshall)
A good inclusive and simple refrain with non-inclusive cantor part /
reading. Reading can easily be adapted to make it inclusive<b>.</b></li></ul><span style="font-size: large;"><b><a href="http://lectionary.library.vanderbilt.edu/texts.php?id=63#epistle_reading">1 Corinthians 8:1-13</a><span style="font-style: italic;"> </span></b></span><br />
<span style="font-style: italic;">Take
care that your liberty doesn’t become a stumbling block to others. Know
your limits, and don’t wound the conscience of others if their limits
are different.</span><br />
<ul style="text-align: left;">
<li><b style="color: #990000;">TiS 650 / ATA 191 / CH694 / A&M604 / NCH539 / VU595 / ELW659 / AA08 /
SFFS 2222 / HPP442 / GtG727 / G(II)476 / GC683 / GC(II)661 / G(3)751 / CP500 / CP(E) 393 /
W&R391 / Cha490 / SP263 / URW117 / StF611 / Lau924 / VF124</b><span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;"> Brother, sister, let me serve you / Won't you let me be your servant?</span> (Richard Gillard) I think you all know this one. <a href="http://www.pateys.nf.ca/cgi-bin/lyrics.pl?hymnnumber=635">Lyrics</a>. NCH has a nice turn on the lyrics with "Won't you let me be your servant?" as the first line. <span style="color: orange;">Oldy-but-a-goody.</span>
</li><li><b style="color: #990000;">Online Resource / ATFG561 / Tune In </b><b style="color: #000099;">Part of a fam'ly interconnected / Community</b>(David Brown) A song about being welcomed and how to work together as part of a community. "Part of a family interconnected, this is community; Welcoming strangers, visiting neighbours, this gives us dignity". Very singable song about
building community. A big favourite at Brunswick Uniting. <span style="color: magenta;">Good for kids</span>. <a href="http://brunswick.unitingchurch.org.au/worship/the-arts-in-worship/tune-in/">Sound sample, lyrics & free downloadable songbook. </a></li>
<li><b style="color: #990000;">Taizé / CH801
/ MV170 / StJ / GtG205 / WoV665 / ELW642 / SFFS 2179 / GC408 /
GC(II)430 / G(3)500 / CP553 / W&R399 / Cha523 / URW394 / StF783 / Lau244b</b> <span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;"> Live in charity / Ubi Caritas </span>(Jacques Berthier)
Usually sung in Latin, but can also be sung just as beautifully as "Live in
charity and steadfast love, live in charity; God will dwell with you."
<a href="http://www.taize.fr/spip.php?page=chant&song=503&lang=en">Sheet music and sound samples for practice</a>. <span style="color: magenta;">Good for kids</span>. </li>
<li><span style="color: #990000;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">TiS 686 / ATE 292</span> </span><span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;">Lord Jesus we belong to you / Because we bear your name </span>(Robin
Mann). A straightforward and practical song asking God to help us to
follow Christ well, with a refrain of "because we bear your name". <a href="http://www.robinmann.com.au/rs/7/sites/1178/user_uploads/File/All%20Songs%20%28PDF%29/becausewebear.pdf">Lyrics</a>.</li>
<li><span style="color: #990000; font-weight: bold;">MV141 </span> <span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;"> We are all one people </span> (Joseph Naytowhow) A simple Native American song. <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KeFRLiokO-k">Video</a> (English lyrics start at 2 minutes, so be patient!). </li>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><a href="http://lectionary.library.vanderbilt.edu/texts.php?id=63#gospel_reading">Mark 1:21-28</a></b></span><br />
<span style="font-style: italic;">Jesus drives out an unclean spirit; the spirit names Jesus as the Holy One</span><br />
<ul style="text-align: left;">
<li><b style="color: #990000;">BUC Song Project </b><span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;">Love is the Power</span>
(Sheree Anderson) Suggestion for the congregation at Brunswick as this is not
published yet, but it is in our church folders. It’s a while since we
sang it, but it went down well last time. It's a little bit tricky, but
the chorus is really catchy and great for kids "We are love. Made in the
image". <span style="color: magenta;">Good for kids</span>.</li><li><b style="color: #990000;">Taizé / TiS 725 / ATE 275 / AoV2-167 / ATE 275 / StJ / GA538 / GtG678 / G(II)553 / GC763 / URW391 </b><b style="color: #000099;">In our darkness there is no darkness in your sight / La tenebre </b>(Jacques Berthier) The deepest night is clear as the daylight. Beautiful. Also translated as "Our darkness is never darkness". <a href="http://www.taize.fr/spip.php?page=chant&song=462&lang=en">Sample music and lyrics.</a></li>
<li><b style="color: #990000;">NCH176 / UMH264 / VU620 / HPP159 / GtG180/181 / Cha186</b> <span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;">Silence frenzied unclean spirit</span>
(Thomas Troeger) Storytelling hymn. Not easy to sing, but can be
sung to the more familiar (and easier) tune JEFFERSON (NCH 530). The
words are quite powerful - particularly if you choose to reflect on
mental health issues, and are relevant to our tendency to have busy
overcrowded minds. <a href="https://digitalsongsandhymns.com/songs/6013#tab-lyrics">Lyrics</a>.</li>
<li><span style="color: #990000;"><b>TiS
638 / NCH175 / CH717 / A&M518 / GtG793 / PH380 / UMH265 / LBW380 /
ELW610 / PH380 / CP291 / CP(E) 346 / W&R638 / Cha503 / Lau430 / StF653 </b></span><span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;">O Christ the healer we have come</span><span style="font-weight: bold;"> </span>(Fred Pratt Green) Beautiful words and simple to sing. Good for intercessions. I like the tune INVERCARRY best, but it can also be sung to TALLIS' CANON if your congregation needs a more familiar tune. <a href="http://hymnary.org/text/o_christ_the_healer_we_have_come" style="background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: border-box; background-image: none; background-origin: padding-box; background-position: 0% 0%; background-repeat: repeat; background-size: auto;" title="200 -- OK">Lyrics and sound sample</a> (of an alternative tune).<span style="color: orange;"> New words to old tunes.</span> </li>
<li><b><span style="color: #990000;">Online Resource / Tune In / NCYC '07</span></b>: <span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;">Forgive us now </span>(Dave Brown)
This is one of the best songs seeking forgiveness that I know. Let’s
not forget that sometimes we are the ones waging war against the poor.
“Forgive us now, O holy one For crimes committed in your name For all
the holy wars we wage For all the children we enslave, Forgive us now O
holy one”. I think this could fit if you want to focus on how we label
people as unclean. It also picks up the "Holy One" language of the
reading.<a href="http://brunswick.unitingchurch.org.au/worship/the-arts-in-worship/tune-in/"> Sound sample, lyrics & free downloadable songbook. </a></li>
<li><b style="color: #990000;">CH348 / StS001 / LBW196 / ELW843 / A&M762 / G(3)625 / CP397 / W&R93 / SP304 / URW090</b> <span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;"> Praise the One Who Breaks the Darkness </span>
(Edwards) Good words of Christ's ministry to all. Can be sung to the
familiar tune NETTLETON, or the less familiar and very lovely tune JOEL. I will suggest this again next week! <span style="color: orange;">New words to old tunes.</span>
<a href="http://www.hopepublishing.com/html/main.isx?sitesec=40.2.1.0&hymnID=3722&titleSearch=praise%the%one%who">Lyrics and sheet music. </a></li>
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<span style="color: #274e13;"><i><b>What will you be singing? Got something to add? Please let me know in a comment below. </b></i></span>
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<span style="color: #274e13; font-size: x-small;"><i>This Sunday will mark 23 years since I first attended worship at <a href="http://brunswick.unitingchurch.org.au/">Brunswick Uniting Church</a>. Thanks for being our home, and the place from which this web resource started. </i></span><br /> <br />
<b><a href="http://lectionary.library.vanderbilt.edu/texts.php?id=62#hebrew_reading"><span style="font-size: large;">Jonah 3:1-5, 10</span></a></b> <br />
<i>God gets mad with Nineveh, but doesn't destroy them when they repent.</i><br />
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<li><b><span style="color: #990000;">Online Resource / Tune In / NCYC '07</span></b> <span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;">Forgive us now </span>(Dave Brown) This is one of the best songs seeking forgiveness that I know. Let’s
not forget that sometimes we are the ones waging war against the poor.
“Forgive us now, O holy one For crimes committed in your name For all
the holy wars we wage For all the children we enslave, Forgive us now O
holy one”. <a href="http://brunswick.unitingchurch.org.au/worship/the-arts-in-worship/tune-in/">Free downloadable song book, sound samples and lyrics</a>.</li>
<li><span style="color: #990000; font-weight: bold;">Online Resource / Tune In </span><span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;">You in all our worries / All will finish well</span>
(Dave Brown) “In this world where injustice reigns, you are in the midst of pain”.
Excellent words of reassurance in a difficult world. <a href="http://brunswick.unitingchurch.org.au/worship/the-arts-in-worship/tune-in/">Free downloadable song book, sound samples and lyrics</a>.</li>
<li><span style="color: #990000;"><b>TiS 674 / Iona (Common Ground, Heaven Shall Not Wait) / A&M562 / CH253 / SP245</b></span> <span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;">Inspired by love and anger </span>(John Bell / Graham Maule) Powerful lyrics, simple English folk tune. I love verse three “Don’t query our
position! Don’t criticise our wealth! Don’t mention those exploited by
politics and stealth!”. It’s easy for us to be judgemental on these
things. <a href="https://music.churchofscotland.org.uk/hymn/253-inspired-by-love-and-anger" target="_blank">Sound sample</a>. <a href="https://www.theologyofwork.org/work-in-worship/hymns-psalms-poems/hymns/less-familiar-hymns-related-to-work/inspired-by-love-and-anger-hymn/" target="_blank">Lyrics</a>.<span style="color: #990000; font-weight: bold;"><br /></span></li>
<li><span style="color: #990000; font-weight: bold;">ATAR684 </span><span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;"> Who am I? </span>A good song for kids about all the different people called by God. Mentions Moses, Jonah, Esther and Jesus. <span style="color: magenta;">Good for kids.</span></li>
<li><b style="color: #990000;">TiS 690 / CH259 / A&M557 / StS115 / SP237 / Srce54 / StF693 / MP806</b> <span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;">Beauty for brokenness hope for despair </span>(Graham Kendrick)
Themes of healing from personal and universal suffering and an emotive
chorus. “Refuge from cruel wars, havens from fear, cities for sanctuary,
freedoms to share, peace to the killing-fields, scorched earth to
green; Christ for the bitterness, his cross for the pain”. It's a bit schmaltzy. <a href="https://grahamkendrick.co.uk/godofthepoor/" target="_blank">Lyrics and links to a range of resources</a>.</li>
<li><b style="color: #990000;">Online resource</b> <span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;">Hear the message we now are proclaiming / El mensaje que hoy proclamamos</span> (Eleazar Torreglosa) This jubilant Colombian song of liberty and new life for the poor and suffering would fit well with this reading. <span style="color: magenta;">Good for kids.</span> <a href="https://www.oikoumene.org/sites/default/files/File/El_mensaje_que_hoy_proclamamostorreglosa.pdf" target="_blank">Free sheet music</a>.</li>
<li><b style="color: #990000;">Online Resource / TiS 665 / AoV2-008 / Iona (Common Ground) / CH360 / A&M563 / VU117 / StJ / SP246 / Lau889 / StF251</b> <span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;">Jesus Christ is waiting </span>(John Bell) A good hymn that is quite simple to sing. <a href="https://willowpublishing.com.au/product/jesus-christ-is-waiting/" target="_blank">Sound sample, sheet music sample and purchasing options</a>. <br /></li>
<li><b style="color: #990000;">TiS 689 / ATE 286 / GtB </b><span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;">Lord hear my praying, listen to me / Sorrowing song </span>(Robin Mann) Powerful words of lamentation to a simple tune. Words are straightforward about asking difficult questions of God. <a href="http://www.robinmann.com.au/rs/7/sites/1178/user_uploads/File/All%20Songs%20%28PDF%29/sorrowingsong.pdf">Lyrics</a>. <span style="color: #990000; font-weight: bold;"> </span></li>
<li><span style="color: #990000; font-weight: bold;">ATFG537 </span> <span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;"> Jonah was a prophet who lived many years ago </span>
(Pfeffer) Fun. Sung to the tune of "John Brown's body".
Has more of the book of Jonah than just this reading... <span style="color: magenta;">Good for kids. </span></li>
<li><span style="color: #990000; font-weight: bold;">Youtube / DVD </span><span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;">Jonah was a prophet </span>(VeggieTales)
This is just great! This would be good fun to play, even if only part
of it. "But he never really got it" is a pretty important part of the
Jonah story. <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2qLhAdA5ZXI">Youtube</a>.<span style="color: magenta;"> Great for kids. </span></li></ul>
<span style="font-size: large;"><b><a href="http://lectionary.library.vanderbilt.edu/texts.php?id=62#psalm_reading">Psalm 62:5-12</a></b></span><span style="font-style: italic;"> </span><br />
<span style="font-style: italic;">For God alone my soul waits in silence</span><br />
<ul style="text-align: left;">
<li><b style="color: #990000;">Online Resource</b><span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;"> For you alone my soul </span>(Pat Mayberry / David Kai)
A lovely simple chorus that could be used as a Psalm refrain, or on its own for reflection. The parts are quite beautiful if you can organise that, but it's also fine with just the melody. <a href="https://sites.google.com/site/davidwkaismusic/home/for-you-alone" target="_blank">Sheet music</a>. </li><li><b style="color: #990000;">Taizé / GtG814 / CP563 / PfAS062D</b> <span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;">In God alone my soul can find rest and peace / Mon ame se repose </span>(Jacques Berthier) A beautiful healing chant from Taize; perfectly suited to this Psalm, where it can be used as a Psalm refrain. <a href="http://www.taize.fr/spip.php?page=chant&song=468&lang=en">Words and music and sound samples for learning the parts</a> <span style="color: magenta;">Good for kids</span>.
</li><li><b style="color: #990000;">Online Resource / ELW466 / FFS38 / SFFS 2255 / GtG533 </b><span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;">In the singing in the silence </span>(Shirley Murray) Lovely words, simple tune in FFS; there are quite a few tunes to this. <a href="http://www.hopepublishing.com/html/main.isx?sitesec=40.2.1.0&hymnID=2940#">Lyrics and single-use only downloadable PDF</a></li>
<li><span style="color: #990000; font-weight: bold;">Taizé / GtG843 / URW387 </span><span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;"> My soul is at rest in God alone </span> (Jacques Berthier) A simple and lovely Taize chant. <a href="https://hymnary.org/tune/my_soul_is_at_rest_berthier" target="_blank">Sheet music samples</a>. <br /></li>
<li><span style="color: #990000;"><b>Emergent Psalter</b></span><span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;"> For you alone I wait in silence </span>(Isaac Everett)
A (very) simple and sparse refrain, with a deliberate period of silence
at the end. It can be sung as a round either at the first or second
measure. <a href="https://www.churchpublishing.org/siteassets/pdf/the-emergent-psalter/psalm062.pdf">Sheet music</a> (refrain only).<span style="color: #990000; font-weight: bold;"> </span></li>
<li><span style="color: #990000; font-weight: bold;">GtG790 / PfAS062A </span><span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;"> In silence my soul thirsts </span>
(Sheldon Sorge and Tammy Wiens) A more contemporary setting of this
Psalm. This should be quite simple to sing. The chorus is "God is my
strength, God is my salvation, my refuge, my abinding peace. I shall not
be shaken". <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jf1ByU9LScc" target="_blank">Sound sample</a>. <br /></li>
<li><span style="color: #990000; font-weight: bold;">Online Resource / Iona (T1AU) / URW408 </span> <span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;"> On God alone I wait silently </span>
(John Bell) Simple and lovely chant or psalm refrain. Could work well
with kids to help them to be calm and still and waiting-like. <a href="https://www.ionabooks.com/product/on-god-alone-i-wait-silently-pdf-download/">Sound sample and sheet music PDF for purchase and download</a>. <br /></li>
<li><b style="color: #990000;">TiS 33 / VU779</b> <span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;">Rest in God alone </span>(Robert Batastini)
A lovely simple and inclusive refrain that could be used on its own or
with a sung or read cantor part. <a href="http://c1824532.cdn.cloudfiles.rackspacecloud.com/RS_087GT-1.jpg">Lead sheet</a>. <a href="http://c1824532.cdn.cloudfiles.rackspacecloud.com/RS_087GT.midi">Sound sample</a>.</li>
<li><b style="color: #990000;">GA280 / GtG089 / G(II)252 / GC328 / GC(II)336 / G(3)415 / Lau111</b> <span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;">For you O Lord my soul in stillness waits </span>(Marty Haugen)
Nice refrain, and verses that contain a good range of images of God.
Might be best for the congregation to join in only in the refrain as
verses are long and have lots of words. <a href="http://c1824532.cdn.cloudfiles.rackspacecloud.com/GC2_336-1.mp3">Sound sample.</a> <a href="http://c1824532.cdn.cloudfiles.rackspacecloud.com/GC2_336-1.jpg">Lead sheet & Lyrics</a>.</li><li><span style="color: #990000;"><b>Online Resource</b></span> <span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;">For those who cannot find a way</span>
(Adam Tice / Sally Ann Morris) A beautiful song that expresses our hope
for the healing of pain that others bear. "Why, O God, why?". <a href="https://www.giamusic.com/store/resource/for-those-who-cannot-find-a-way-pdf-d800314" target="_blank">Sheet music sample and purchasing options</a>. </li></ul><span style="font-size: large;"><b><a href="http://lectionary.library.vanderbilt.edu/texts.php?id=62#epistle_reading">1 Corinthians 7:29-31</a></b></span> </div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><span style="font-style: italic;">The present form of this world is passing away; do not be as you are (married, rich, mourning, rejoicing).</span>
</div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><ul style="text-align: left;"><li><b><span style="color: #990000;">Online Resource / TiS
547 / AHB 455 / AoV1-009 / NCH451 / CH465 / A&M595 / UMH451 / VU642 / WoV776 /
ELW793 / HPP353 / GtG450 / PH339 / CP505 / CP(E) 386 / W&R502 / Cha595 /
Srce70 / URW180 / 82Hml-488 / Lau970 / StF545 / MP051</span></b> <span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;"> Be thou my vision O Lord of my heart </span>(8th
century Irish) Most recent hymnals are fairly inclusive for this. Note that the High King phrase has been changed in some
hymnals because it is masculine, but the hymn is based on an ancient
story of St. Patrick refusing to follow the High King Logaire, and choosing instead the "High King of Heaven". <a href="https://hymnary.org/text/be_thou_my_vision_o_lord_of_my_heart" target="_blank">Lyrics, sheet music samples</a>. <span style="color: orange;">Oldy-but-a-goody.</span></li>
<li><span style="color: #990000; font-weight: bold;">TiS 586 / AHB 502 / AoV2-128 / NCH099 / C</span><span style="color: #990000;"><b>H580 / UMH700 / VU436 /
LBW272 / ELW629 / A&M010 / GtG836 / CP024 / CP(E) 10 /
W&R521 / Cha636 / Srce2 / 82Hml-662 / Lau907 / StF141 / MP004</b></span> <span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;"> Abide with me; fast falls the eventide </span> (Henry Francis Lyte) This is not a favourite of mine, but it fits the reading well and many versions (but not all!) are quite inclusive. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abide_with_Me" target="_blank">All the verses</a>!<br /></li>
<li><span style="color: #990000; font-weight: bold;">ATAR676 </span><span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;"> Lord, be the rising </span>
(Sandra Sears) This is quite lovely. The tune is simple and the words seek
God in all goodness. </li>
<li><b><span style="color: #990000;">Online Resource / UMH729 / VU682 / LBW161 / WoV762 / ELW711 / GtG373 / PH450 / CP573 / W&R539 / Cha711 / URW140 / 82Hml-597 / Lau900 </span></b><span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;">O day of peace that dimly shines </span>
(Carl P Daw) A song of hoped-for peace. The tune in Chalice hymnal is really
nice (CANDLER) or O WALY WALY which is used in URW. Other sources use
JERUSALEM, which is a bit too militaristic for me. <a href="https://www.hopepublishing.com/find-hymns-hw/hw3129.aspx">Lyrics and JERUSALEM sheet music.</a> </li>
</ul>
<span style="font-size: large;"><b><a href="http://lectionary.library.vanderbilt.edu/texts.php?id=62#gospel_reading">Mark 1:14-20</a><span style="font-style: italic;"> </span></b></span><br />
<i>John declares the coming of the kingdom. Jesus calls Simon and Andrew, James and John. “Follow me and fish for people!”<br /><span style="color: #274e13;">Some of the songs suggested <a href="http://lectionarysong.blogspot.com.au/2017/12/songs-hymns-music-for-epiphany-2b.html">last week</a> for the calling of Philip and Nathaniel may also be useful.</span></i><br />
<ul style="text-align: left;">
<li><span style="color: #990000;"><b>Online Resource / Tune In</b> </span><span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;">Hail the fisherfolk </span>(Dave Brown)
A bluesy litany of the saints, including the fishermen of yesterday and
the fisherfolk of today. This song celebrates the many people who have
followed God’s call
through the ages. <a href="http://brunswick.unitingchurch.org.au/worship/the-arts-in-worship/tune-in/">Free downloadable song book, sound samples and lyrics</a>.</li>
<li><span style="color: #990000;"><b>SFFS 2101 / G(II)301 / GC688 / GC(II)693 / G(3)798</b></span> <span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;">Two Fishermen</span> <span style="font-weight: normal;">(Suzanne Toolan) A nice medieval / minstrelly sounding tune and good words. This would be fun.</span><a href="http://c1824532.cdn.cloudfiles.rackspacecloud.com/GC_688-1.jpg">Lead sheet</a>. <a href="http://c1824532.cdn.cloudfiles.rackspacecloud.com/GC_688.midi">Sound sample</a>.</li>
<li><span style="color: #990000; font-weight: bold;"><b style="color: #990000;">ATOK
413 / Iona (HSNW) / CH533 / VU567 / StS039 / A&M510 / ELW798 / GA502 /
SFFS 2130 / HPP317 / GtG726 / G(II)510 / GC700 / GC(II)687 / G(3)790 / CP430 / CP(E) 622 /
W&R350</b><b style="color: #990000;"> / URW060 / Lau877 / StF673 </b></span><b style="color: #990000;"> </b><span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;"><b style="color: #990000;"> </b>Will you come and follow me / The Summons </span>(Iona) A classic.
Don't sing it too slowly or it really drags and takes forever! <a href="https://hymnary.org/text/will_you_come_and_follow_me">Sheet music and sound samples</a>. <br /></li>
<li><span style="color: #990000;"><b>NCH504 / StJ / HPP545 / GtG170 / GC(II)679 / GC(3)797</b></span> <span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;"> You Walk along Our Shoreline </span> (Sylvia Dunstan) Good words to a very familiar hymn tune (AURELIA). <a href="https://www.giamusic.com/store/resource/you-walk-along-our-shoreline-pdf-d929847" target="_blank">There is also a new tune by Benjamin Brody available here</a>. <a href="http://catholicsacredhymns.blogspot.com/2014/03/you-walk-along-our-shoreline.html" target="_blank">Lyrics</a>. <span style="color: orange;">New words to old tunes.</span></li>
<li><span style="color: #990000;"><b>ATOK 348 / Iona (HSNW) / G(II)496 / GC692 / GC(II)697 / StF462</b></span> <span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;">Come with me / Sing hey for the carpenter </span>(Iona) Excellent. I love this one. Very joyous, and a big favourite in our congregation. <a href="https://www.jmm.org.au/articles/18976.htm" target="_blank">Lyrics</a>.<span style="color: magenta;"> Good for kids.</span></li>
<li><span style="color: #990000; font-weight: bold;">CH340 </span><span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;"> When Jesus saw the fishermen </span>
(Edith Agnew) Simple words about the calling of the fishermen, set to a
traditional carol tune (THE SEVEN JOYS OF MARY). <a href="https://music.churchofscotland.org.uk/hymn/340-when-jesus-saw-the-fishermen" target="_blank">Sound sample</a>. <span style="color: orange;">New words to old tunes.</span>
</li><li><b style="color: #990000;">TiS
242 / AHB 183 / AoV1-018 / ATN 27 / CH404 / UMH261 / VU352 / A&M667 / HPP163 /
GtG157 / PH302 / G(II)481 / GC708 / GC(II)689 / G(3)796 / CP(E) 468 / W&R118 / Lau765 / StF247</b> <span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;">I danced in the morning / Lord of the Dance</span> (Sydney Carter). <a href="http://ingeb.org/songs/idancedi.html">Lyrics</a>. You all know this one, right? <span style="color: magenta;">Good for kids</span><span style="color: orange;"> Oldy-but-a-goody.</span></li>
<li><span style="color: #990000; font-weight: bold;">Online Resource / FFS62 </span><span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;"> The Lord God walked in Paradise </span>
(Colin Gibson) This tune is quite tricky, but
the words for verse 3 are very appropriate for this reading, which it
weaves into remembering Adam and Eve in the garden and Moses with the burning bush. <a href="https://www.hopepublishing.com/find-hymns-hw/hw3813.aspx" target="_blank">Lyrics and sheet music sample</a>. </li>
<li><b style="color: #990000;">TiS
589 / AHB 505 / NCH171 / CH509 / UMH398 / VU562 / LBW494 / ELW696 /
A&M324 / HPP314 / GtG720 / CP432 / CP(E) 233 / W&R345 /
Cha337 / 82Hml-550 / StF250 / LUYH121 / MP359 / VF128 / VF129</b> <span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;">Jesus calls us; o'er the tumult </span>(Cecil Frances Alexander)
Great words. TiS sets it to ST CATHERINE, but I prefer it to other
tunes (like STUTTGART or RESTORATION) if this is not familiar to your congregation (it’s not hard
though). <a href="https://hymnary.org/text/jesus_calls_us_oer_the_tumult" target="_blank">Lyrics and sheet music samples</a>. <span style="color: orange;">New words to old tunes</span>. </li><li><span style="color: #990000;"><b>Recorded Music</b></span> <span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;">Bring 'em all in </span>(Mike Scott) Thanks to Jonathan Evans for this suggestion. This song could work well as a call to inclusive and welcoming evangelism. <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EuEhb35y2SM">Youtube</a>.</li>
<li><span style="color: #990000;"><b>Online Resource</b></span> <span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;">You keep calling me </span>(David MacGregor) Good song with a ridiculously catchy chorus. <a href="https://togethertocelebrate.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/Keep-calling-me-SCORE.pdf">Sheet music</a>. <a href="https://togethertocelebrate.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/Keep-Calling-Me-2017.mp3">Sound sample</a>. <a href="https://togethertocelebrate.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/Keep-calling-me-LYRICS.docx">Lyrics</a>. <span style="color: magenta;">Good for kids.</span> </li>
</ul></div>
<span style="color: #274e13;"><i><b>What ideas do you have? I'd love to hear them! Please share in a comment below.</b></i></span>
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<a href="http://lectionary.library.vanderbilt.edu/texts.php?id=61#hebrew_reading"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>1 Samuel 3:1-10, (11-20)</b></span></a><span style="font-size: large;"><b> </b></span>
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<span style="font-style: italic;">Samuel is called by God</span><br />
<ul><li><span style="color: #990000; font-weight: bold;">Online Resource / Tune In </span><span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;">Tune in</span>
(Natalie Sims) A simple kid’s song. “Tune in, tune in, there’s a message
coming in.” Encourages kids to look and listen for signs of God’s love. <span style="color: magenta;">Good for kids.</span> <a href="http://brunswick.unitingchurch.org.au/worship/the-arts-in-worship/tune-in/">Free downloadable songbook.</a></li><li><span style="color: #990000; font-weight: bold;">Online Resource / TiS
749 / AoV1-154 / AoVK-131 / ATE 305 / NCH360 / Iona (SBL, Freedom is
coming) / CH800 / UMH497 / VU572 / WoV773 / ELW469 / ELW809 / GA493 / A&M481 / HPP340 / GtG746 / G(II)484
/ GC677 / GC(II)674 / G(3)776 / W&R713 / Cha447 / SP234 / StF782 </span><span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;">Send me Jesus / Thuma mina </span>(South African) You all know this one, right? If you don't - it's great - simple, repetitive, and meaningful.<span style="color: magenta;"> </span>Good for kids.<a href="http://www.hymnary.org/text/send_me_jesus"> Sound sample, sheet </a><a href="https://willowpublishing.com.au/product/send-me-jesus-thuma-mina/" target="_blank">music sample and purchasing options</a>. <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eik2HK7u9xA">Youtube</a>.</li><li><b style="color: #990000;">Online Resource / TiS
658 / AoV1-090 / ATE 296 / CH251 / UMH593 / VU509 / WoV752 / ELW574 /
GA496 / A&M494 / HPP541 / GtG069 / PH525 / G(II)492 / GC(II)671 / G(3)777 / CP(E) 470 / W&R559 /
Cha452 / Srce328 / Lau865 / StF663 / MP857</b> <span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;">I the Lord of sea and sky / Here I am Lord </span>(Dan Schutte) Song of God searching for us and our response. <a href="http://c1824532.cdn.cloudfiles.rackspacecloud.com/GC2_671-1.mp3">Very slow sound sample</a>. <a href="http://c1824532.cdn.cloudfiles.rackspacecloud.com/GC2_671-1.jpg">Lyrics and sample sheet music</a>. <a href="https://www.ocp.org/en-us/songs/1523/here-i-am-lord" target="_blank">Purchasing options</a>. <br /></li><li><b style="color: #990000;">Online Resource / W&R584 / Cha454</b> <span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;">Come Celebrate the Call of God</span>
(Brian Wren) Good words to a lilting intuitive tune. This song is written to
recognise a commissioning or the gift of a particular person's call, but
it can also be sung with "our" instead of "her" to make it a song for a
whole congregation to recognise their own call. <a href="http://www.hopepublishing.com/html/main.isx?sitesec=40.2.1.0&hymnID=2698">Lyrics and sheet music.</a><span style="color: #990000; font-weight: bold;"> </span></li><li><span style="color: #990000; font-weight: bold;">Online Resource / NCH604 / MV167 </span> <span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;"> Hush hush somebody's calling my name </span>
(Traditional African-American) I really like this song. I'm not sure
how it would work as a congregational song, though, since I've never
been in a congregation that has sung it. I know some musicians who would
love to sing it though - especially that deep "Hush" bit. <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b6X2p5v9srE&feature=related">Youtube version from a Ry Cooder album.</a> <a href="https://www.jwpepper.com/Hush%21-Somebody%27s-Callin%27-My-Name/1617984.item" target="_blank">Sheet music for purchase with sample</a>. <br /></li><li><span style="color: #990000; font-weight: bold;">Online Resource / MV161 </span> <span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;"> I have called you by your name </span>
(Dan Damon) This is a great song for confirmations, ordinations, commissionings, but also ordinary Sundays. Easy, natural tune and good
words about having courage to follow where God leads. <a href="https://www.hopepublishing.com/find-hymns-hw/hw2324.aspx">Sheet music & lyrics</a>. <span style="color: #990000;"><b> </b></span></li><li><b style="color: #990000;">NCH495 / HPP443 / GtG761 / PH343 / W&R581 / Cha453 </b><span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;"><b style="color: #990000;"> </b>Called as partners in Christ's service </span>
(Jane Parker Huber) A good song of commitment - particularly good if you are
commisioning people to new roles this week, and good for any other
service too. Sung to a standard tune (BEECHER).<span style="color: orange;"> New words to old tunes</span>. <a href="https://digitalsongsandhymns.com/songs/6113#tab-lyrics">Lyrics</a>.</li><li><span style="color: #990000; font-weight: bold;">ATAR672 </span><span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;"> Hey Hey Samuel </span> (Jonathan Rundman) A very simple song, which is good for kids. Probably better for Sunday School than for a worship service. <a href="https://jonathanrundman.bandcamp.com/track/hey-hey-samuel">Sound sample</a>. <span style="color: magenta;">Good for kids.</span> </li></ul>
<span style="font-size: large;"><b><a href="http://lectionary.library.vanderbilt.edu/texts.php?id=61#psalm_reading">Psalm 139:1-6, 13-18</a></b></span><br />
<span style="font-style: italic;">God knows us better than we know ourselves. We cannot hide.</span><br />
<ul><li><span style="color: #990000; font-weight: bold;">Online Resource / AoV2-031 / ATW 424 / CH97 / A&M747 / GtG029 / GC(II)509 / SP301 / StF728 / Lau779 </span><span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;">O God, you search me and you know me</span> (Bernadette
Farrell). My favourite version of Psalm 139, which fits this reading
too. The tune flows effortlessly and it has a nice little hook at the
end of each verse. <a href="https://www.ocp.org/en-us/songs/10409/o-god-you-search-me">Sound sample and music for purchase</a>. <a href="https://digitalsongsandhymns.com/songs/9638" target="_blank">Lyrics</a>.</li><li><span style="color: #990000; font-weight: bold;">TiS 87 / CH096 / VU862 / GtG028 / PH248 / PfAS139D </span><span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;">You are before me, Lord, you are behind </span>(Ian Pitt-Watson)
Excellent words, set either to the chant-like tune SURSUM CORDA or the
Scottish tune HIGHLAND CATHEDRAL. The words are directly from the Psalm and are very
beautiful. <a href="https://music.churchofscotland.org.uk/hymn/96-you-are-before-me-god-you-are-behind" target="_blank">Sound sample. </a><span style="color: orange;">New words to old tunes</span><span style="font-weight: bold;"></span></li><li><span style="color: #990000; font-weight: bold;">CH145</span> <span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;"> God made me as I am </span>
(Bernadette Farrell)<span style="color: #990000; font-weight: bold;"> </span>A lovely little song. "God made me as I am, part of
creation's plan. No-one else can ever be the part of God's plan that's
me". <span style="color: magenta;">Good for kids</span>. <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ATgKiPDl8nU">Youtube with gestures (maybe American sign language?)</a>. </li><li><span style="color: #990000; font-weight: bold;">PfAS139C </span><span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;"> Lord you have searched me and you know </span> (Hal Hopson) A very simple refrain for a responsive reading or chanted reading of this Psalm. </li><li>
<span style="color: #990000; font-weight: bold;">NCH Psalter 139 </span>(Jane Marshall) is a very simple refrain for this Psalm which is worth a look.</li><li>
<span style="color: #990000; font-weight: bold;">ATOK 320 / NCH351 / VU645 / StJ / WoV770 / ELW740 / SFFS 2051 / GtG488 / HPP516 / W&R680 / Cha075 </span><span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;">I Was There to Hear Your Borning Cry </span>(John Ylvisaker)
A song of God’s presence in all stages of life. Very simple tune to
sing. <a href="http://ingeb.org/spiritua/iwasther.html">Lyrics</a>, and a nice (slow) <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pJI3NFT5T_c">sound sample</a>. </li><li><span style="color: #990000; font-weight: bold;">SP&P084 </span><span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;"> You know my words before they’re said / All My Days </span>
(Laurie Zelman) A good contemporary version of this Psalm. It would be good
sung by a soloist at first. <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yJrDeV2-QmE">Youtube recording</a>.
<span style="color: #990000; font-weight: bold;"><br /></span></li><li><span style="color: #990000; font-weight: bold;">Worldmaking.net</span> <span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;">God of My Breathing </span>(Richard Bruxvoort-Colligan). Excellent words to a well-known hymn tune. <a href="http://www.worldmaking.net/">Sample and lyrics.</a><span style="font-weight: bold;">
</span><span style="color: orange;">New words to old tunes</span></li><li>
<span style="color: #990000; font-weight: bold;">ATW 487 </span><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="color: #000099;">Make your home in me</span> </span>(Fay White) A
simple beautiful invitation by Melbourne songwriter and
teacher. “If you fly to the point of the day’s sunrise or
westward across the sea, if you travel to the uttermost ends of the
earth, there I will be; Make your home in me as I make my home in you.
I am everywhere that you can be. Make your home in me”. This is quite
different to the Vineyard / Josh Young version you can find all over
the internet. <a href="https://soundcloud.com/createminis/05-fay-white-make-your-home-in">Sound sample</a>.</li><li><span style="color: #990000; font-weight: bold;">Taizé / TiS 725 / ATE 275 / AoV2-167 / ATE 275 / StJ / GA538 / GtG678 / G(II)553 / GC763 / URW391 </span><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="color: #000099;">In our darkness there is no darkness in your sight,</span>
</span> the deepest night is clear as the daylight (La tenebre) (Jacques
Berthier) Also translated as "Our darkness is never darkness". <a href="http://www.taize.fr/spip.php?page=chant&song=462&lang=en">Sample music and lyrics.</a></li><li>
<span style="color: #990000; font-weight: bold;"><span style="color: #990000; font-weight: bold;">ACS948 / </span>NCH274 / CH118 / SFFS 2046 / GtG003 / CP390 / Cha014 </span> <span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;"> Womb of Life and source of being </span>(Ruth Duck) Feminine trinitarian imagery. An easier tune, listed in
some hymnals is IN BABILONE. Others have LADUE CHAPEL which is a little
less intuitive. <a href="http://www.hopepublishing.com/html/main.isx?sitesec=40.2.1.0&hymnID=4591">Lyrics</a>.
<span style="color: orange;">New words to old tunes</span></li><li><span style="color: #990000; font-weight: bold;">STB008 </span><span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;"> Come Lord Jesus Christ / Esho hae Probhu (Bangladesh) </span> (Bart Shaha) A good chant
to sing in times of darkness. It has words in English and Bengali. The
tune will need to be taught. <a href="http://www.rudyct.com/hymnal/PKJ_B/pkj1_index.htm">Midi sample (very quick!)</a> (search for Shaha).</li><li><span style="color: #990000; font-weight: bold;">URW349 </span><span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;"> Search me O God </span>
(Jane Marshall) A good and simple Psalm refrain. Great if you
can add some additional parts</li><li><span style="color: #990000; font-weight: bold;"> Online Resource / ATOK 394 </span><span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;"> Search me O God </span>
(Leigh Newton) Set to Beethoven's Sonata Pathetique, this is really
beautiful, and has wonderful words. Thank you Tanya for this suggestion!
<a href="https://leighnewton.com.au/psalm-139-search-me-o-god-a-song/" target="_blank">Free music and sound sample</a>. <br /></li><li><span style="color: #990000; font-weight: bold;">StF109 </span><span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;"> In the darkness of the still night </span>
(Margaret Rizza) Good words connecting God's creative love with our own
lives and concerns. The tune is gentle, but not simple. I suggest
encouraging the congregation to join in on the line "Creator God you are
there" during the verses for the first time it is used (but let them
know that the tune is a little bit different in the middle of the verse,
compared to the end of the verse). <a href="https://afeatheronthebreathofgod.com/2011/02/26/creator-god-you-are-there/">Lyrics</a>. </li><li><span style="color: #990000; font-weight: bold;">URW416 </span><span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;"> Listen to the song of the wind </span> (Thomas Turner) This is quite lovely, and you could choose whichever verses are most appropriate for any service. <a href="https://www.indyfriends.org/blog/2017/1/30/january-25-2017">Lyrics</a>. <span style="color: magenta;">Good for kids</span>.</li><li><span style="color: #990000; font-weight: bold;">VU623 </span><span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;"> Dear weaver of our lives' design </span>
(Nancy Dorian) Beautiful imagery of God as the Weaver. Sung to the
familiar tune REPTON. <span style="color: orange;">New words to old tunes</span>. <a href="https://farfringe.com/hymn-by-hymn/stlt22-dear-weaver-of-our-lives-design/">Lyrics</a>. </li><li><span style="color: #990000; font-weight: bold;">VU384 / SFFS 2052 / HPP229 / PH320 </span><span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;">The Lone Wild Bird in lofty flight </span>(Marty Haugen) Familiar tune and excellent words. <a href="http://www.hymnsite.com/fws/hymn.cgi?2052">First 3 verses and tune sample</a>. <span style="color: orange;">New words to old tunes</span><span style="color: #990000; font-weight: bold;"> </span></li><li><span style="color: #990000; font-weight: bold;">Online Resource / Resounding Voices / VT044 </span><span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;">We long to know her the maker of heaven </span>(Jacque
Jones) Rich feminine imagery of God as creator, wisdom and bringer of
justice. Sung to a tune that may be familiar (STAR OF THE EAST). <a href="https://thehymnsociety.org/resources/resounding-voices/" target="_blank">Free book download here</a>. <span style="color: orange;">New words to old tunes. </span></li><li><span style="color: #990000; font-weight: bold;">Online Resource / AoV2-079 / GA081 </span> <span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;"> How Rich Are The Depths </span> (Christopher Willcock) A good Cantor and refrain version of the Psalm. <a href="https://willowpublishing.com.au/product/how-rich-are-the-depths-of-god/" target="_blank">Sound sample, sheet music sample and purchasing options</a>.<br /></li><li><span style="color: #990000; font-weight: bold;">Music by Heart 15 </span><span style="font-weight: bold;"> <span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;"> Darkness is not dark </span> </span>(Eric Law)
A simple round, with optional cantor part. Good to teach to your
congregation without lyric sheets or projections. Would be appreciated
by kids, as it is simple.
<span style="color: magenta;">Good for kids</span>. <br /></li><li><span style="color: #990000; font-weight: bold;">Worldmaking.net </span><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="color: #000099;">Open unto me light for my darkness</span> </span>(Richard Bruxvoort-Colligan). This is really lovely and meditative. Sample <a href="http://www.worldmaking.net/">here.</a>
</li><li><span style="color: #990000; font-weight: bold;">MV131 </span><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="color: #000099;">You, Creator God, have searched me</span> </span>(George Mulrain) Get
out the maracas for this one! This joyous calypso chorus for this Psalm
is so refreshing. I think it’s really good fun, and very catchy!<span style="font-weight: bold;"> </span>Good fun for kids. <a href="https://www.seasonsonline.ca/files/You%20Creator%20God%20Have%20Searched%20Me.pdf">Lyrics</a>.<span style="font-weight: bold;"> </span><span style="color: magenta;">Good for kids</span></li><li>
<span style="color: #990000; font-weight: bold;"> Online Resource / ATE 224 </span><span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;"> Lord you've searched me / Where could I run from you? </span>
(Paul Gioia) So here's a funny story. The first time I looked at this
song the lyrics gave me a bit of a creepy stalker vibe, but a member of
our congregation (Hi Ruth Sandy!) mentioned how much fun it is and how
much she loves it. So I'm listing it now because really, it is a lot of
fun and very catchy, and it's not really creepy, it's just based on the
Psalm; a good reminder that everyone responds differently! <a href="https://showerofgrace.bandcamp.com/track/where-could-i-run-to" target="_blank">Lyrics and purchasing options</a>.<br /></li><li>
<span style="color: #990000; font-weight: bold;">ATW 423 </span><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="color: #000099;">Examine my heart, explore my mind</span> </span>(Robin Mann) This is a bit tricky, but if familiar to your congregation would be great to sing. <a href="http://www.robinmann.com.au/rs/7/sites/1178/user_uploads/File/All%20Songs%20%28PDF%29/examinemyheart.pdf">Lyrics</a></li><li><span style="color: #990000; font-weight: bold;">Online Resource</span> <span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;">Search me O God </span>(David
MacGregor) A simple devotional song. It works well with the verses, or
just use the chorus as a reflective refrain on its own. <a href="https://togethertocelebrate.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/Search-Me-SCORE.pdf?fbclid=IwAR1-VEnxrkyGqeMQodatYL4uew7NjMw4RM8YdPh_9hcC2s3STE41hODw-UE" target="_blank">Sheet music</a>. </li></ul>
<span style="font-size: large;"><b><a href="http://lectionary.library.vanderbilt.edu/texts.php?id=61#epistle_reading">1 Corinthians 6:12-20</a></b></span><br />
<span style="font-style: italic;">Glorify God with your body. Self-discipline.</span><br />
<ul style="text-align: left;">
<li><b style="color: #990000;">SFFS 2228 / GtG027 / StF618 / Online Resource</b> <span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;">Sacred the Body God has created </span>(Ruth Duck) This is just the song I was seeking for this passage!
Excellent words. The
tune is new, but very simple and beautiful. It will be picked up quickly by most congregations. "Sacred the body God has created, temple
of Spirit that dwells deep inside. Cherish each person; nurture
relation. Treat flesh as holy, that love may abide." <a href="http://www.baylor.edu/christianethics/PChymnDuckLandes.pdf">Tune and lyrics</a> from <a href="http://www.baylor.edu/christianethics/index.php?id=15937">Baylor University Christian Ethics Hymns Library</a> (an excellent resource!).</li>
<li><b style="color: #990000;">ATA 169</b> <span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;">Doin' it all to the glory of God </span>(Rod Boucher)
A fun song for kids. It probably has too many verses for a mixed ages
congregation - at least, it has too many verses for me! <span style="color: magenta;">Good for kids</span></li>
<li><b style="color: #990000;">TiS 599 / AHB 520 / NCH448 /
CH502 / UMH399 / VU506 / LBW406 / ELW685 / A&M787 / HPP349 / GtG697 / PH391
/ CP435 / CP(E) 581 / W&R466 / Cha609 / Srce633 / 82Hml-707 / Lau874 / StF566 / MP624 / VF133 </b><span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;">Take my life and let it be </span> (Frances Havergal) An oldy but a goody. <a href="https://www.christianity.com/church/church-history/timeline/1801-1900/frances-havergal-wrote-take-my-life-and-let-it-be-11630571.html">Lyrics and context</a>
<span style="color: orange;">Oldy-but-a-goody</span>.<span style="color: magenta;"> </span></li>
<li><b style="color: #990000;">W&R543</b> <span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;">Come Build a Church</span>
(Ken Medema) Excellent words ("Come build a church of human frailty, come
build a church of flesh and blood"). Not great for congregational singing, but
excellent for a choir or musicians. <a href="https://www.seasonsonline.ca/files/Come%20Build%20a%20Church.pdf" target="_blank">Lyrics</a>. <a href="http://www.sheetmusicplus.com/title/Come-Build-A-Church/18402296"> Sound sample and sheet music</a>.</li>
<li><b style="color: #990000;">TiS
398 / AHB 310 / AoV1-118 / NCH289 / CH489 / UMH475 / VU367 / GA375 /
A&M238 / LBW508 / ELW804 / GtG282 / PH313 / GC465 / GC(II)471 / G(3)556 / RS617 / CP645 / CP(E)
175 / W&R330 / Cha582 / Srce100 / Lau303 / StF372 / MP089</b> <span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;">Come down O Love divine </span>(Bianco of Siena) Old fashioned, but still inclusive and very well known. <a href="http://hymnary.org/text/come_down_o_love_divine">Words and sheet music</a>. Hymnals vary a lot in the lyrics with respect to thees and thys and words like "vesture". <span style="color: orange;">Oldy-but-a-goody</span>.</li>
</ul>
<span style="font-size: large;"><b><a href="http://lectionary.library.vanderbilt.edu/texts.php?id=61#gospel_reading">John 1:43-51</a></b></span><br />
<i>Jesus calls Philip and Nathaniel. <span style="color: #674ea7;">See also the 1 Samuel passage above</span></i><br />
<ul style="text-align: left;">
<li><span style="color: #990000;"><b>Online Resource / Tune In / NCYC'09 / ATAR598</b></span> <span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;">God has laid a feasting table / Invitation</span>
(Shawn Whelan). Feminine imagery of God gathering her guests to a feasting
table. Fun Cuban rhythm. <a href="http://brunswick.unitingchurch.org.au/worship/the-arts-in-worship/tune-in/">Free downloadable songbook.</a></li>
<li><span style="color: #990000; font-weight: bold;">Online Resource / TiS
749 / AoV1-154 / AoVK-131 / ATE 305 / NCH360 / Iona (SBL, Freedom is
coming) / CH800 / UMH497 / VU572 / WoV773 / ELW469 / ELW809 / GA493 / A&M481 / HPP340 / GtG746 / G(II)484
/ GC677 / GC(II)674 / G(3)776 / W&R713 / Cha447 / SP234 / StF782 </span><span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;">Send me Jesus / Thuma mina </span>(South African) You all know this one, right? If you don't - it's great - simple, repetitive, and meaningful.<span style="color: magenta;"> </span>Good for kids.<a href="http://www.hymnary.org/text/send_me_jesus"> Sound sample, sheet </a><a href="https://willowpublishing.com.au/product/send-me-jesus-thuma-mina/" target="_blank">music sample and purchasing options</a>. <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eik2HK7u9xA">Youtube</a>.</li>
<li><span style="color: #990000; font-weight: bold;">Online Resource / Tune in </span><span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;">We are the dream that's longing / Jesus is waiting</span>
(Dave Brown) An honest catchy rock song about our hesitation to follow and
Jesus not only waiting, but continuing to work and change the world. A
good sending-out song. Come, be our liberator,
bless and make us free. Come be the light upon the shore. Come be the
freedom for the prison of our time. Come now and open up the door”. <a href="http://brunswick.unitingchurch.org.au/worship/the-arts-in-worship/tune-in/">Free downloadable songbook, sound samples, lyrics.</a></li>
<li><span style="color: #990000;"><b>TiS 477 / Iona (LFB, Common Ground) / CH510 / StJ / GA529 / A&M450 / CP059 / SP218 / URW056 / StF028</b></span> <span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;">Jesus calls us here to meet him as through word and song and prayer </span>(John Bell / Graham Maule) Good
words and a rollicking or gentle Celtic tune (depending on how you play
it!). Don't get too gentle though, or it is very hard to sing - there should not need to be a breath after EVERY line! <a href="www.thisischurch.com/churchservices/candlemas_service2014.pdf">Lyrics</a>
(downloads PDF) 4th verse (not in TiS, but in Iona
sources) leads to communion. “Jesus calls us to confess him Word of life
and Lord of all, sharer of our flesh and frailness saving all who fail
or fall”. Be aware that it uses exclusively masculine language for God. </li>
<li><b style="color: #990000;">TiS
589 / AHB 505 / NCH171 / CH509 / UMH398 / VU562 / LBW494 / ELW696 /
A&M324 / HPP314 / GtG720 / CP432 / CP(E) 233 / W&R345 /
Cha337 / 82Hml-550 / StF250 / LUYH121 / MP359 / VF128 / VF129</b> <span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;">Jesus calls us; o'er the tumult </span>(Cecil Frances Alexander)
Great words. TiS sets it to ST CATHERINE, but I prefer it to other
tunes (like STUTTGART or RESTORATION); you might like to try them if this is not familiar to your congregation. <a href="https://hymnary.org/text/jesus_calls_us_oer_the_tumult" target="_blank">Lyrics and sheet music samples</a>. <span style="color: orange;">New words to old tunes</span>. </li>
<li><b style="color: #990000;">SFFS 2129 / HPP322 / W&R344 / Cha344 / Srce2-244 / MP272</b> <span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;">I Have Decided to Follow Jesus / </span><span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;">Jisuni jaman anga jarigken </span>(Nokseng
/ Simon Kama Marak) Good simple chorus, based on the words of an
indigenous Garo martyr in the Assam region of India. <a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/122662799375/permalink/10160395263879376/" target="_blank">My reflection on the origins of this song</a>. You could sing it in its original language (Garo). <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?fbclid=IwAR1m08JVly6TdkZ3DP5JF7i-cEXwxZJDZ97wsg8Cjff43CgDYhMGtSshiDg&v=uzmmwvfPtSE&feature=youtu.be" target="_blank">Lyric video here</a>. <span style="color: orange;">Oldy-but-a-goody</span>.</li>
<li><b style="color: #990000;">ATOK
413 / Iona (HSNW) / CH533 / VU567 / StS039 / A&M510 / ELW798 / GA502 /
SFFS 2130 / HPP317 / GtG726 / G(II)510 / GC700 / GC(II)687 / G(3)790 / CP430 / CP(E) 622 /
W&R350</b><b style="color: #990000;"> / URW060 / Lau877 / StF673 </b><b style="color: #990000;"> </b><span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;"><b style="color: #990000;"> </b>Will you come and follow me / The Summons </span>
(Iona) A classic.
Don't sing it too slowly or it really drags and takes forever!</li>
<li><span style="color: #990000;"><b>ATOK 348 / Iona (HSNW) / G(II)496 / GC692 / GC(II)697 / StF462</b></span> <span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;">Come with me / Sing hey for the carpenter </span>(Iona) Excellent. I love this one. Very joyous, and a big favourite in our congregation. <a href="https://soundcloud.com/user-395259634/sing-hey-for-the-carpenter" target="_blank">Sound sample</a>. <a href="https://www.jmm.org.au/articles/18976.htm" target="_blank">Lyrics</a>.<span style="color: magenta;"> Good for kids.</span></li>
<li><span style="color: #990000; font-weight: bold;">ATAR618 </span><span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;"> Just like Jesus </span>
(Robin Mann) A fun song for kids, pointing out the things Jesus did that
were not really very acceptable! Verse 4 will need to either be
explained or omitted - the song works just fine without it. For this week the song comments on being raised in Nazareth. <span style="color: magenta;">Good for kids.</span></li>
</ul>
<span style="color: magenta;"><i><b><span style="color: #274e13;">Do you have some ideas you'd like to share? Please add them in a comment below. </span></b></i> </span>
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Lectionary Singer (Natalie Sims)http://www.blogger.com/profile/15635861565689089555noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3953574041544310550.post-49121565964714803152023-12-20T02:23:00.000-08:002023-12-20T22:52:29.158-08:00Songs, Hymns & Music for Epiphany 1B / Baptism of Christ (January 7, 2024)<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<i style="color: #38761d;">A song you might want to include this week:</i><br />
<ul style="text-align: left;">
<li><b style="color: #990000;">Online Resource </b><span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;">When the song of the angels is stilled </span>(Howard Thurman / Elizabeth Alexander) A good choral arrangement, or you could read <a href="https://www.poemhunter.com/poem/when-the-song-of-the-angels-is-stilled/" target="_blank">the poem</a>. <a href="https://www.elizabethalexander.com/works/when-the-song-of-the-angels-is-stilled/" target="_blank">Sheet music</a>. <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5xs_P-4ydtE">Youtube</a>. Thanks to <a href="http://revgeary.wordpress.com/">Rev Geary</a> for bringing this to my attention! </li>
</ul>
<i style="color: #38761d;">=All four readings this week have
some similar themes, particularly the role of the Holy Spirit. The
scripture-based divisions of each of these songs is somewhat arbitrary,
so please look at all readings, even if you are only focusing on one
or two.</i><br /><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><b><a href="http://lectionary.library.vanderbilt.edu/texts.php?id=60#hebrew_reading">Genesis 1:1-5</a></b></span></div>
<span style="font-style: italic;">The creation of day and night. “Let there be light”</span><br />
<ul style="text-align: left;">
<li><b><span style="color: #990000;">TiS
447 / AHB 61 / CH112 / VU313 / LBW400 / ELW673 / A&M810 / CP560 / CP(E) 267 / 82Hml-371 / Lau887 / StF106 / MP699</span></b> <span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;">God whose almighty word / Lord your almighty word chaos and darkness heard / Thou, whose almighty word</span> (John Marriott) A good hymny hymn, very familiar, with the memorable “Let there be
light” line at the end of each verse. TiS lyrics are fairly inclusive,
but VU is better. <span style="color: orange;">Oldy-but-a-goody.</span> <a href="https://hymnary.org/hymn/LW1982/317" target="_blank">Lyrics</a>.</li>
<li><span style="color: #990000; font-weight: bold;">VU282 </span><span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;"> Long before the night was born </span> (Carolyn McDade) This is a beautiful creation song; wonderful imagery of
feminine God loving the world into being. The tune is not familiar, and a
little tricky, so best to get your musicians to start the song, and ask
the congregation to join in as they become comfortable. <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tyGQjJU4l8s">Sound sample</a>. </li>
<li><span style="color: #990000; font-weight: bold;">TiS
156 / AHB 91 / AoV1-135 / ATA 123 / CH212 / UMH145 / VU409 / ELW556 /
GA537 / A&M545 / HPP267 / GtG664 / PH469 / G(II)546 / GC756 / GC(II)748 / G(3)855 / CP003 / W&R35 /
Cha053 / URW186 / 82Hml-008 / Lau671 / StF136</span> <span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;">Morning has broken</span> (Eleanor Farjeon) This song makes me smile every time. Here's Yusuf Islam (when he was Cat Stevens) <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U5sSEkZ86ts&feature=related">in 1976</a> (love those green boots).</li>
<li><b style="color: #990000;">Online Resource / TiS 418 / AoV2-075 / Iona (EoA, Common Ground) / CH593 / GA372 / A&M259 / Cha255 / SP94 / URW165 / Lau305</b> <span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;">She sits like a bird brooding on the waters / Enemy of Apathy </span>(John Bell)
Beautiful words and very easy to sing,
provided it is not played too quickly The Iona recordings are generally
very quick, but there are a lot of words to fit in, so keep it elegantly
moderate in speed! <a href="https://hymnsocietygbi.org.uk/2021/07/she-sits-like-a-bird-janet-wooton/" target="_blank">Lyrics, and a reflection on them</a>. <a href="https://willowpublishing.com.au/product/enemy-of-apathy/" target="_blank">Sample sheet music, sound sample, and purchasing options</a>. <br /></li>
<li><span style="color: #990000; font-weight: bold;">AA126 / STB222 / StF396 </span><span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;"> Spirit who broods </span>
(Shirley Murray) Good repetitive words, to a soothing Taiwanese tune
(in STB) or a lilting waltz (in StF). <a href="https://www.hopepublishing.com/find-hymns-hw/hw2911.aspx">Lyrics</a>. </li>
<li><b style="color: #990000;">SSSL31</b> <span style="color: #990000;"><b>(Songs from the Still Strange Land) </b></span><span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;">From the beginning / Let the light shine</span> (Neil Quintrell / Doug Simper) Good song, tricky accompaniment, but once you get it
it's okay. Will need to be taught to most congregations, or could be
presented by the musicians at some point in the service.</li>
<li><b style="color: #990000;">ATW 469</b> <span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;">Wind is moving on the waters </span>(Gerry Holmes) Nice earthy round. Very simple. <span style="color: magenta;">Good for kids</span>. </li>
<li><b style="color: #990000;">CH144</b> <span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;"> I love the sun </span>
(Gwen Smith) Very simple kid's song, that somehow avoids being tacky despite being
really really simple. Little kids would especially like this. <a href="https://hymnary.org/text/i_love_the_sun">Lyrics</a>. <span style="color: magenta;">Good for kids</span></li>
<li><span style="color: #990000;"><b>Online Resource / CP408 / Cha247</b></span> <span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;">Wind upon the waters </span>(Marty Haugen)
I really love the words to this song. “Wind upon the waters, voice upon
the deep, rouse your sons and daughters, wake us from our sleep,
breathing life into all flesh, breathing love into all hearts, living
wind upon the waters of my soul.” Note to our liturgists, I have a copy
of this at home if you would like to use it. <a href="https://www.giamusic.com/store/resource/wind-upon-the-waters-print-g3589">Sound sample, sheet music sample, and purchase options</a>. <br /></li>
<li><b style="color: #990000;">NCH467 / CH117 / VU320 / WoV769 / ELW735 / SFFS 2050 / HPP242 / GtG007 / Cha083</b> <span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;"> Mothering God you gave me birth </span>
(Jean Janzen) Lovely words to the well known tune MARYTON. Feminine
trinitarian imagery. I like the tune MOTHER JULIAN (CH4 117(I)) best. <a href="https://michaelsprayers.wordpress.com/2015/04/01/mothering-god-you-gave-me-birth/">Lyrics</a><span style="color: orange;">New words to old tunes. </span></li>
<li><span style="color: #990000; font-weight: bold;"> Online Resource / NCH033 / UMH151 / VU251 / ELW738 / PH290 </span><span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;"> God created heaven and earth </span>
(Taiwanese) Excellent words of creation, sung to a Pi-po (Taiwanese)
melody. It will need to be taught, but it is not too hard. <a href="https://www.morningstarmusic.com/god-created-heaven-and-earth.html" target="_blank">Sheet music (two parts) for purchase</a>. <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N5Fy3lSDBUA" target="_blank">Sound sample</a>.<br /></li>
<li><b style="color: #990000;">Online Resource</b> <span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;">Let There Be Light </span>(Bruce Harding)
A
simple chant "God said let there be light, and there was
light, and there was light". This can also be used as a round, and would
work well with kids as you tell the creation story. Very easy. <a href="https://evensong.ca/keywords-search-results/?search-query=light">Sheet music</a>. <span style="color: magenta;">Good for kids</span>.</li>
<li><b style="color: #990000;">Online Resource / NCH058 / CH618 / AA125</b> <span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;"> Spirit of love you move within creation </span>
(Shirley Murray) Good words with a theme of the Spirit working a loom. A range
of tunes for this, both familiar and new. I like the Colin Gibson tune
(WEAVER), but it can also be sung to PERFECT LOVE. <a href="https://www.hopepublishing.com/find-hymns-hw/hw2910.aspx" target="_blank">Lyrics and sheet music</a>. <span style="color: orange;">New words to old tunes. </span></li>
<li><b style="color: #990000;">TiS 392 <span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;">At the dawning of salvation</span></b> (Jock Curle) Good hymn words of Easter theology and Christ’s presence at Creation to a fun standard American folk tune (NETTLETON). <a href="https://hymnary.org/text/at_the_dawning_of_salvation" target="_blank">Lyrics</a>. <span style="color: orange;">New words to old tunes. </span></li>
<li><b style="color: #990000;">TiS
668 / AoVK-34 / ATFG587 / NCH569 / CH243 / VU307 / R254 / ELW739 /
AA143 / A&M553 / GtG713 / G(3)805 / W&R38 / Cha693 /
URW189</b> <span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;"> Touch the earth lightly </span>
(Shirley Murray) Sings of the redemption of creation and our complicity in its
destruction. Sources vary in their set tunes. TiS has a good tune
(TENDERNESS) with a nice minor key change to the relative minor for the
second verse. Can also be sung to BUNESSAN, if you need a familiar tune. <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EcwyMmf3q0g">Youtube video with all lyrics</a>. <span style="color: orange;">New words to old tunes. </span></li>
<li><b style="color: #990000;">Online Resource / TiS
135 / AHB 70 / AoVK-110 / NCH31 / A&M533 / CH137 / UMH147 / VU291 / WoV767 /
HPP35 / PH267 / GtG020 / CP415/6 / CP(E) 251 / W&R30 / Cha061 /
Srce21 / StF100 / Lau685 / MP023</b> <span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;"> All things bright and beautiful </span>(Cecil Frances Alexander) The TiS version has beautiful Australian imagery. If you are in Australia and your
congregation only has the AHB or other versions of the music, it is
worth making copies of the TiS lyrics; the congregation will know the
tune. Verse 2 and 5 have masculine language for God. <a href="https://hymnary.org/text/each_little_flower_that_opens" target="_blank">Lyrics and sheet music</a>. <span style="color: orange;">Oldy-but-a-goody</span></li>
<li><span style="color: #990000;"><b>TiS 671 / AoV2-121 </b> </span> <span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;"> Made in God's Likeness </span>(Patricia Lewis / Alister Spence)
"Called to create a new world for the Lord". Excellent images of
rainforest birds praising God. This is one of my very favourite songs. It is not
difficult if you have a good musician at the helm. If it is new to your
congregation, they will be able to join in on the verses by the time
you get to the 3rd one. The change in tone with the verse really lifts
this song. <a href="http://www.sixmaddens.org/?p=2306">Lyrics</a> (search for "Made in").<span style="color: #6600cc;"> </span></li>
<li><span style="color: #990000; font-weight: bold;">ACS948 / NCH274 / CH118 / SFFS 2046 / GTG003 / CP390 / Cha014 </span> <span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;"> Womb of Life and source of being </span>(Ruth Duck) Feminine trinitarian imagery. An easier tune, listed in
some hymnals is IN BABILONE. Others have LADUE CHAPEL which is a little
less intuitive. <a href="http://www.hopepublishing.com/html/main.isx?sitesec=40.2.1.0&hymnID=4591">Lyrics and sheet music</a>.
<span style="color: orange;">New words to old tunes. </span></li>
<li><span style="color: #990000;"><b>TiS 187 / AoV2-130 / CH149 / StS122 / A&M539 / SP247</b></span> <span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;">Let all creation dance</span> (Brian Wren) I just love the imagery of this one, and it's a very joyous and familiar hymn tune too. <a href="http://www.hymnary.org/hymn/CH4/149">Lyrics</a></li>
<li><span style="color: #990000; font-weight: bold;">NCH589 / VU679 </span><span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;"> Let there be light O God of hosts! </span>
(Frances Wheeler Davis) Hopeful words seeking an end to
war and unity and understanding between nations. <a href="https://www.hymnsite.com/lyrics/umh440.sht">Lyrics</a>. <a href="https://www.umcdiscipleship.org/resources/history-of-hymns-let-there-be-light">History</a>. <br /></li>
<li><span style="color: #990000; font-weight: bold;">TiS 179 / NCH273 / VU312 / GA379 / StJ / URW073</span><span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;"> Praise with Joy the World's Creator </span>(John Bell / Graham Maule) One of my favourite hymns - strongly Trinitarian lyrics and excellent imagery. <a href="http://www.standrewparishchurch.com/Bulletin2006-09-17.html">Lyrics</a> (scroll down or search).<span style="color: orange;"> New words to old tunes. </span></li>
<li><b style="color: #990000;">Online resource</b><span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;"> Creator of this great land we adore you / Doxology </span>(Ross Langmead) A strong favourite in our congregation. <a href="http://rosslangmead.50webs.com/rl/songs.html">Sheet music and sound sample</a>.</li>
<li><span style="color: #990000;"><b>Online Resource / Walk as One</b> </span><span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;">Spirit brooding in the silence</span>
(Sharonne Price / Leigh Newton) Excellent words about the Spirit in
creation, at Christ's baptism, and in our lives today. A simple tune to
sing also. <a href="https://www.cmla.org.au/product/walk-as-one-pdf-download/" target="_blank">Book (PDF) available for purchase here</a>. <br /></li><li><b style="color: #990000;">Protest and Praise / Online Resource</b> <span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;">Praise the Source who sang creation </span>(David
Bjorlin) The "singing Trinity" brings forth the cosmos. Excellent lyrics to the well known tune NETTLETON. <a href="https://www.giamusic.com/store/resource/praise-the-source-who-sang-creation-pdf-d1010131">Lyrics, sheet music sample and purchasing options</a>. <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pltKHcjkBK0">Sound sample</a>. <span style="color: orange;">New words to old tunes. </span> </li><li><b style="color: #990000;">Online Resource </b><span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;">People of the earth come tremble </span>(Hannah
Brown) Excellent words about the complex glory of creation, the damage
we have done, our responsibility to care for it, and the joy we find in
its beauty. Can be sung to the known tune PLEADING SAVIOUR or to a new
tune by Benjamin Brody. <a href="https://www.giamusic.com/store/resource/people-of-the-earth-come-tremble-pdf-du01579" target="_blank">Sheet music sample, lyrics and purchasing options</a>. <span style="color: orange;">New words to old tunes</span><span style="color: #990000;">.</span></li>
<li><b style="color: #990000;">TiS
242 / AHB 183 / AoV1-018 / ATN 27 / CH404 / UMH261 / VU352 / A&M667 / HPP163 /
GtG157 / PH302 / G(II)481 / GC708 / GC(II)689 / G(3)796 / CP(E) 468 / W&R118 / Lau765 / StF247</b> <span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;">I danced in the morning / Lord of the Dance</span> (Sydney Carter). <a href="http://ingeb.org/songs/idancedi.html">Lyrics</a>. You all know this one, right? <span style="color: magenta;">Good for kids </span><span style="color: orange;">Oldy-but-a-goody.</span><b style="color: #990000;"> </b></li><li><b style="color: #990000;">Protest and Praise / Online Resource</b> <span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;">Holy Spirit Come / The whisper of a distant wind </span>(David
Bjorlin / Sally Ann Morris) This is really beautiful. The refrain could be used on its own as a meditation, or include the verses, sung slowly either by the congregation or by a soloist. <a href="https://www.giamusic.com/store/resource/protest-and-praise-print-g10101">Songbook for purchase</a>.</li><li><span style="color: #990000;"><b>Online Resource</b></span><span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;"> As breath swept over formless sea </span>(Adam Tice) Beautiful Trinitarian words of creation to the familiar tune CONDITOR ALME SIDERUM. <a href="https://www.giamusic.com/store/resource/as-breath-swept-over-formless-sea-pdf-d808903" target="_blank">Sheet music sample, lyrics and purchasing options</a>. <span style="color: orange;">New words to old tunes</span><span style="color: #990000;">.</span> </li>
<li><span style="color: #990000;"><b>Online Resource / A&M220 / SP81 </b></span> <span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;"> Word that formed creation </span> (Marty Haugen) Really lovely words of creation to the familiar tune NOEL NOUVELET. <a href="https://www.giamusic.com/store/resource/now-the-green-blade-rises-word-that-formed-creation-print-g3545" target="_blank">Sheet music sample, and available to purchase</a>. <span style="color: orange;">New words to old tunes</span><span style="color: #990000; font-weight: bold;"> </span></li>
<li><span style="color: #990000; font-weight: bold;">Online Resource / LBW281 / URW190 </span><span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;"> God who made the earth and heaven </span> (Reginald Heber / Frederick Hosmer) Better for an evening service. Nice words for evening and the hope of the day to come and the work that is to be done. To the familiar tune AR HYD Y NOS. <a href="https://hymnary.org/text/god_who_madest_earth_and_heaven_darknes" target="_blank">Lyrics, sheet music and sound samples</a>. <span style="color: orange;">New and old words to old tunes. </span></li><li><span style="color: #990000; font-weight: bold;">Online Resource </span><span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;">There's nothing I can see / Darkness </span> (John Grummitt) This is not a congregational song, but it might be good to play this recording. It has a focus on needing light to shine in the darkness of depression or other issues of mental health. <a href="https://johngrummitt.bandcamp.com/track/darkness" target="_blank">Recording</a>. Thanks to John for sharing this song with me, and all of us.
</li></ul>
<span style="font-size: large;"><b><a href="http://lectionary.library.vanderbilt.edu/texts.php?id=60#psalm_reading">Psalm 29</a></b></span><br />
<i>God's voice in the thunder. </i><span style="font-style: italic;">Quite a thunderous Psalm! Wind and flame, earthquakes and floods.</span><br />
<ul style="text-align: left;"><li><b style="color: #990000;"> HiOS107 / GtG650 </b><b style="color: #000099;"> O Beauty ever ancient </b>
(Shirley Erena Murray) Lovely words about the ancient yet new beauty
of God in creation, in sound and darkness, and in movement. It has a one
line chorus of "In gratitude, in worship, my being sings to you!". Set
to two different tunes. Both are good. I mildly prefer ANCIENT BEAUTY
(in GtG). <a href="https://www.hopepublishing.com/find-hymns-hw/hw360.aspx#FullDescription" target="_blank">Lyrics</a>. <br /></li><li><b style="color: #990000;">TiS 465 / AHB 399 / ATA 115 / NCH279 / A&M271 / Iona (SBL) / CH116 / GA381 / Lau313 / StF004</b> <span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;"> Our God in heaven / Father in heaven / Loving Creator grant to your children </span>
(Elena Maquiso / Daniel Niles) I really like this hymn, especially the Philippino
folk melody to which it's set. Newer versions of the hymn from the
Christian Conference of Asia have altered the lyrics to "Our God in
heaven / Creator God" in the first verse. Other versions, such as CH4
have "Loving Creator / Parent and God". <a href="https://hymnary.org/text/father_in_heaven_grant_to_your_children">Older version of lyrics</a>. </li><li><span style="color: #990000; font-weight: bold;">PfAS029A </span><span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;"> All on earth and all in heaven </span>
(Michael Mangan) Great words sung to the familiar hymn tune EBENEZER
"At God's voice the clouds assemble, thunder roars and torrents fall"… <a href="http://www.fpcor.org/WeeklyBulletins/011214bul.pdf">Lyrics</a> (downloads PDF) <span style="color: orange;">New words to old tunes</span>.</li><li><b style="color: #990000;">NCH Psalter 29</b> <span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;">The voice of God is full of majesty</span>
(Bob Hurd). A very simple and beautiful refrain with a paraphrase of the
Psalm that is inclusive without losing any of the majesty of this
Psalm. Can be used with a reader or cantor. Highly recommended.</li><li><b style="color: #990000;">Online Resource </b><span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;">This is the moment here is the place </span>(Hannah
Brown / Benjamin Brody) A good song of welcome which talks about the
mystery of worship; sung to a lovely new tune in 6/8. There are enough
verses for the congregation to pick it up the first time. <a href="https://www.giamusic.com/store/resource/this-is-the-moment-pdf-du01678" target="_blank">Sheet music sample, lyrics and purchasing options</a>. </li><li><span style="color: #990000; font-weight: bold;"> GtG010 </span><span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;"> Sing glory to the name of God </span>
(David Gambrell) Good solid words, and joyful Alleluias (LASST UNS
ERFREUEN!). A paraphrase of Psalm 29. <a href="https://hymnary.org/text/sing_glory_to_the_name_of_god">Lyrics, sound and sheet music sample</a>. <span style="color: orange;">New words to old tunes</span></li><li><b style="color: #990000;">AoVK-123
/ NCH3 / Iona (M&G) / UMH148 / VU308 / WoV794 / ELW837 /
GtG021 / PH271 / G(II)338 / GC499 / G(3)911 / CP407 / W&R26 / Cha58 /
URW232 / 82Hml-385</b> <span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;">Many and Great O God are your works / Wakantanka Taku Nitawa</span>
(Philip Frazier) Good words. Simple tune. Sounds great accompanied by a
good Native American-style drum beat, which is a great way to get people <span style="color: magenta;">(especially kids)</span> involved in music-making. <a href="http://www.hymnary.org/hymn/SNC/83">Lyrics</a>.</li><li><b><span style="color: #990000;">TiS
447 / AHB 61 / CH112 / VU313 / LBW400 / ELW673 / A&M810 /
CP560 / CP(E) 267 / 82Hml-371 / Lau887 / StF106 / MP699</span></b> <span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;">God whose almighty word / Lord your almighty word chaos and darkness heard / Thou, whose almighty word</span>
(John Marriott) A good hymny hymn, very familiar, with the memorable “Let there be
light” line at the end of each verse. TiS lyrics are fairly inclusive,
but VU is better. <span style="color: orange;">Oldy-but-a-goody.</span> <a href="https://digitalsongsandhymns.com/songs/7137" target="_blank">Lyrics</a>.</li><li><b style="color: #990000;">TiS 392</b> <span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;">At the dawning of salvation</span>
(Jock Curle) Good hymn words of Easter theology and Christ’s presence
at Creation to a fun standard American folk tune (NETTLETON). <a href="https://hymnary.org/text/at_the_dawning_of_salvation">Lyrics</a>. <span style="color: orange;">New words to old tunes</span></li><li><span style="color: #351c75;"><b style="color: #990000;">TiS 753 / ATFG558 / StS034 / R185 / ELW525 / SP&P082</b> </span><span style="color: #000099;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">You are holy you are whole</span> </span>(Per Harling) A fun and joyous latin-rhythmed song; can also be sung with two parts at the same time. <a href="https://hymnary.org/tune/du_ar_helig_harling">Lyrics</a>.<span style="color: magenta;"> Good for kids.</span> </li><li><b style="color: #990000;">NCH462 / UMH109 / VU265 / WoV757 / ELW684 / PH134 / GC580 / RS711 / CP410 / W&R32 / Cha335 / URW067 / 82Hml-384</b> <span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;">Creating God Your Fingers Trace </span>(Jeffery Rowthorn)
A good Trinitarian hymn about Creating, Sustaining and Redeeming God.
There are many possible tunes. I like the Presence tune better. <a href="https://hymnary.org/text/creating_god_your_fingers_trace">Lyrics and a sound sample</a>.</li><li><span style="color: #990000;"><b>AoV2-089 / Taizé / MV086 / SFFS 2156 </b> </span> <span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;"> Give peace to every heart / Da Pacem Cordium </span> (Jacques Berthier) A good, simple Taize chant. <a href="http://www.taize.fr/spip.php?page=chant&song=314&lang=en">Sound samples, sheet music</a> (not cantor lines though).</li><li><span style="color: #990000;"><b>Recorded music / Online Resource</b> </span><span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;">I will praise you Lord for you have rescued me </span>
(Don Stewart) If I had the sheet music to this, I would get a cantor to
sing the verses, and the congregation could join in the refrain. Not
sure if it's published anywhere, but I love the bagpipe intro (and I'm
trying to guess who played it). <a href="https://dalriada9.wixsite.com/acornmusic/listen" target="_blank">Recording (scroll down)</a>. <br /></li><li><span style="color: #990000; font-weight: bold;"> PfAS029D </span><span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;"> Your voice O Lord is a voice of splendour </span> (Martin Tel) A very simple Psalm refrain. </li><li><span style="color: #990000; font-weight: bold;">TiS
569
/ AHB 478 / NCH18/19 / CH167 / UMH127 / VU651 / LBW343 / ELW618 /
StF465 / A&M652 / HPP432 / GtG065 / PH281 / CP565 / CP(E) 455 /
W&R501 / Cha622 / 82Hml690 / StF465 / Lau960 / MP201 </span> <span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;">Guide me O thou great Jehovah / Redeemer </span>
(William Williams) A rousing hymn of God’s presence and strength and
making it to the other side. "Bread of heaven, feed me now and
evermore." <a href="https://hymnary.org/text/guide_me_o_thou_great_jehovah">Sound sample, lyrics and sheet music</a>. <span style="color: orange;">Oldy-but-a-goody.</span></li></ul><span style="font-size: large;"><b><a href="http://lectionary.library.vanderbilt.edu/texts.php?id=60#epistle_reading">Acts 19:1-7</a></b></span><br />
<span style="font-style: italic;">Paul baptises and the Holy Spirit comes</span><span style="color: #6600cc;"> </span><br />
<ul style="text-align: left;">
<li><span style="color: #990000; font-weight: bold;">ATAR607 </span><span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;"> Spirit of dreaming </span>(Alison Campbell Rate) This is great. Good open-ended words of hope for the
coming of the spirit, and a catching soothing melody, that gets a nice
twist in the chorus. </li>
<li><b style="color: #990000;">Online Resource / TiS 710 / CH758 / Iona (Enemy of Apathy) </b><span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;">Come Holy Spirit gracious heavenly dove</span> (John Bell and Graham Maule) A beautiful and simple chant. <a href="https://www.musicthatmakescommunity.org/come_holy_spirit" target="_blank">Video showing how to teach it</a>. <a href="https://hymnary.org/tune/come_holy_spirit_bell" target="_blank">Sheet music sample and purchasing options</a>. <br /></li>
<li><b style="color: #990000;">Unusual Source: </b><span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;">Blow through me Breath of God </span>(Miriam
Therese Winter) This chant is very beautiful. It takes a few listens
for the congregation to pick it up, or you could ask the musicians to
play it as a prayer for the congregation. "Like a pipe, like a flute,
like a reed making melody". This can be found in "Songlines, Hymns,
Songs, Rounds and Refrains for Prayer and Praise,Crossroad, New York,
1996" or "Womantalk Woman Prayer" (1987)</li>
<li><span style="color: #990000; font-weight: bold;">MV150 </span><span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;"> Spirit God be our breath </span> (Bruce Harding) A lovely gentle song, with a nice descant part. Comforting, but will need to be taught as it's a bit syncopated. <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A1ZB8Yl6e_I" target="_blank">Youtube video</a>. <br /></li>
<li><span style="color: #990000;"><b>Online Resource / AoV1-043 </b></span><span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;">Breathing now the life of God / Warm Our Hearts </span> (Jane Marshall) A round, which is catchy, but will need to be taught, as it's not that simple. "Breathing now the life of God the Spirit in us singing,
come light up our hearts with joy! Heal and clear our eyes to see! Warm
our hearts with peace. Warm our hearts with peace.” When teaching a song that breaks into a round,
it’s best to work with as little accompaniment as possible; no
accompaniment is best. <a href="https://willowpublishing.com.au/product/warm-our-hearts/" target="_blank">Sound sample, sheet music samples and purchasing options</a>. <br /></li>
<li><b style="color: #990000;">SP&P025</b> <span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;"> Breathe on me O breath of God </span>
(Austin) A lovely simple song which can be sung as "breathe on me" or
"breathe on us" depending on whether you want a personal or communal
song.</li>
<li><span style="color: #990000; font-weight: bold;">SP&P034 </span><span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;"> Come and fill all my life </span>
(Richard Bruxvoort-Colligan) A gentle and very simple song. Would be good for a
meditation.
</li>
<li><span style="color: #990000; font-weight: bold;">Online Resource / URW066 </span><span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;"> Holy Spirit wind of heaven </span>
(Steve Garnaas-Holmes) Terrific words sung to the familiar tune ODE TO JOY.
"Holy Spirit, Wind of Heaven, Breath of Life, our warmth and light". <a href="https://unfoldinglight.net/product/holy-spirit-wind-of-heaven/" target="_blank">Lyrics</a>. <span style="color: orange;">New words to old tunes</span>.</li>
<li><b style="color: #990000;">TiS 711 / ATOK 334 / Iona (M&G) / WoV681 / VU383 / SFFS 2124 / GtG283 / G(II)330</b>
<span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;">Come O Holy Spirit / Wa Wa Wa Emimimo </span>(Nigeria)
This song is just fun. And very easy. Please try to sing it in its
original language (Yoruba), it sounds a bit inane in English and it’s
not hard!! Encourage your congregation to dance a simple side-to-side
step to this; they will enjoy it even more. If we can’t go a little
crazy on Pentecost, what hope is there for us, really? A good song to
help us remember that our faith is global, and to think of the church
and all people in Africa. <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qDahug_tKK8">Video</a> <span style="color: magenta;">Good for kids. </span> </li>
</ul>
<span style="font-size: large;"><b><a href="http://lectionary.library.vanderbilt.edu/texts.php?id=60#gospel_reading">Mark 1:4-11</a></b></span><br />
<span style="font-style: italic;">The Baptism of Christ<br />Most of the above songs would be quite suitable</span><br />
<ul style="text-align: left;"><li><b style="color: #990000;">URW106</b> <span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;"> Here at Jordan's river </span>
(Ruth Duck) Sung to NOEL NOUVELET, this song is just perfect for our
congregation. I really love this. Great for Baptism of Christ or any
baptism. <a href="http://www.windsorparkunitedchurch.com/notes-on-the-notes-january-10-2016/">Lyrics</a> (scroll down)<span style="color: orange;">New words to old tunes</span> </li><li><b style="color: #990000;">TiS 270 / AHB 199 /
NCH115 / CH334 / VU20 / LBW548 / ELW842 / A&M046 / GtG096 / PH010 / G(II)260 / GC321 /
322 / GC(II)344 / G(3)418 / CP103 / CP(E) 34 / W&R156 / 82Hml-076 / Lau094 / StF182 / MP538</b> <span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;">On Jordan's bank the Baptist's cry </span>(Charles Coffin) If
you would like inclusive lyrics, have a look at the New Century
Hymnal’s version. If you’d like a groovy tune, check out AHB 199(ii) /
GC322 – ST JOHN BAPTIST by Gary Lewis Miles and Betty Pulkingham. This
is an excellent, fun tune. You can even combine the words of NCH115
with AHB199(ii) for the best of both worlds. But WINCHESTER NEW is also
very good, and easy to sing if you don’t have a congregation full of
people who grew up in the 60s and 70s. <a href="https://hymnary.org/text/on_jordans_bank_the_baptists_cry">Lyrics and sheet music (Winchester New)</a>.<span style="color: orange;">Oldy-but-a-goody</span>.</li><li><b style="color: #990000;">Online resource</b> <span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;">Down by the Jordan</span> (Carolyn Winfrey
Gillette) Good words based on this reading, set to the well known hymn
tune LOBE DEN HERREN or could be sung to AURELIA (Thanks, Ben!). <a href="http://www.carolynshymns.com/down_by_the_jordan.html" target="_self">Lyrics </a><span style="color: orange;">New words to old tunes</span>.</li><li><b style="color: #990000;">PH071</b> <span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;">Lord When You Came to Jordan </span>(Brian Wren)
I like the questioning words which ask what it might have been like.
Would sing it to Llangllofan or ELLACOMBE (TiS 361) “Lord, bring us to
our Jordan Of newly opened eyes, Through love, immersed in living, As
You were once baptized. <a href="https://www.hopepublishing.com/find-hymns-hw/hw4703.aspx">Lyrics</a><a href="https://www.hopepublishing.com/find-hymns-hw/hw4703.aspx"> and sheet music</a>. <span style="color: orange;">New words to old tunes</span>.</li><li><b style="color: #990000;">Online Resource / TiS 710 / CH758 / Iona (Enemy of Apathy) / VU204</b> <span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;">Come Holy Spirit gracious heavenly dove</span> (Iona Community) A beautiful and simple chant. <a href="https://www.musicthatmakescommunity.org/come_holy_spirit" target="_blank">Video showing how to teach it</a>. <a href="https://hymnary.org/tune/come_holy_spirit_bell" target="_blank">Sheet music sample and purchasing options</a>. </li><li> <b style="color: #990000;">NCH168 / VU084</b> <span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;"> O radiant Christ incarnate word </span> (Ruth Duck) Good words; a little formal. WAREHAM is the easier tune. <a href="https://hymnary.org/text/o_radiant_christ_incarnate_word" target="_blank">Sheet music samples</a>. <span style="color: orange;">New words to old tunes</span>.</li><li><b style="color: #990000;">TiS 419 / NCH270 / CH592 / A&M252 / UMH544 / VU205 / WoV685 / ELW403 /
HPP222 / GtG285 / PH314 / CP635 / CP(E) 185 / W&R327 / SP92 / 82Hml-513 / StF389</b><span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;"></span><span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;">Like the murmur of the dove's song </span>(Carl P Daw) Excellent words and a simple tune about Christian unity. Each verse ends with "Come holy spirit, come". <a href="https://www.hopepublishing.com/find-hymns-hw/hw2986.aspx">Lyrics and sheet music.</a> </li><li><span style="color: #990000; font-weight: bold;">ACS916 / GtG164 / CP045 </span><span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;"> Down Galilee's slow roadways </span>
(Sylvia Dunstan) Good words for adult baptism, or for any Sunday that
reflects on Christ's baptism. <a href="https://digitalsongsandhymns.com/songs/down-galilees-slow-roadways-lead-line" target="_blank">Lyrics</a>.<b style="color: #990000;">NCH285 / CH591 / SFFS 2123 / URW164</b> <span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;"> O Holy Dove of God descending / Spirit now live in me </span> (Jeffery Leech) Lovely simple tune, and beautiful words. <a href="https://digitalsongsandhymns.com/songs/7533">Lyrics.</a></li><li><span style="color: #990000;"><b>Online Resource / Walk as One</b> </span><span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;">Spirit brooding in the silence</span>
(Sharonne Price / Leigh Newton) Excellent words about the Spirit in
creation, at Christ's baptism, and in our lives today. A simple tune to
sing also. <a href="https://www.cmla.org.au/product/walk-as-one-pdf-download/" target="_blank">Book (PDF) available for purchase here</a>. </li><li><b style="color: #990000;">VU384 / SFFS 2052 / HPP229 / PH320</b> <span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;">The Lone Wild Bird in lofty flight </span>(Marty Haugen) Familiar tune and excellent words. <a href="http://www.hymnsite.com/fws/hymn.cgi?2052">First 3 verses and tune sample</a>.</li><li><span style="color: #990000;"><b>StS008 / SFFS 2089 / GtG163 / PH409 / StF189 </b> </span> <span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;"> Wild and Lone the Prophet's Voice </span> (Carl P Daw) Excellent, challenging words. I prefer this sung to ABERYSTWYTH which is well known and easily accessible. <a href="http://www.hymnary.org/text/wild_and_lone_the_prophets_voice">Lyrics and sheet music. </a><span style="color: orange;">New words to old tunes</span>.</li><li><span style="color: #990000; font-weight: bold;"> Recorded music </span> <span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;"> Jesus looked down on the Jordan / Sea of God </span> (John Coleman) This song is simple enough for the congregation to learn, or you could play the recording.<a href="http://johncoleman.bandcamp.com/track/sea-of-god"> Source and lyrics</a></li><li><span style="color: #990000; font-weight: bold;"> CH335 </span><span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;"> Out of the flowing river </span>
(Leith Fisher) Beautiful simple words of the Baptism of Christ with
a call to go out and make the love revealed in Christ known through the
world. A simple tune, but it will need to be taught. <a href="https://music.churchofscotland.org.uk/hymn/335-out-of-the-flowing-river" target="_blank">Sound sample</a>. <br /></li><li><span style="color: #990000; font-weight: bold;">CH336 / A&M97 / SP26 </span><span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;"> Christ is our light! the bright and morning star </span>
(Leith Fisher) Good words to the tune HIGHLAND CATHEDRAL. Majestic. <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ma4H9XtobM" target="_blank">Instrumental video with lyrics</a>. <span style="color: orange;">New words to old tunes</span>.</li><li><b style="color: #990000;">Online Resource / UMH252 / WoV647 / LBW647 / ELW305 / PH072 / CP(E) 93 / W&R241</b> <span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;"> When Jesus Came to Jordan </span> (Fred Pratt Green) Good words to a simple English folk tune. A bit formal. <a href="https://www.hopepublishing.com/find-hymns-hw/hw3131.aspx" target="_blank">Lyrics and sheet music</a>. <br /></li><li><span style="color: #990000; font-weight: bold;">Recorded music </span> <span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;"> Jesus looked down on the Jordan / Sea of God </span> (John Coleman) This song is simple enough for the congregation to learn, or you could play the recording.<a href="http://johncoleman.bandcamp.com/track/sea-of-god"> Source and lyrics</a></li><li><span style="color: #990000;"><b>TiS 253 / AoV2-119 / AoVK-103 / GA419</b></span> <span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;">O Lord Jesus Marrkapmirr</span> (Garrawarra family of Milingimbi) This simple song is easy to
sing and talks of the timelessness of God’s love. “O Lord Jesus
Marrkapmirr, all the power belongs to you”.<a href="http://www.sixmaddens.org/?p=2302"> Lyrics</a>. <a href="https://soundcloud.com/user-395259634/o-lord-jesus-marrkapmirr" target="_blank">Sound sample</a>.<span style="color: #990000; font-weight: bold;"> <br /></span></li><li><span style="color: #990000; font-weight: bold;">TiS 250 / VU099 / ELW304 / PH070 / CP(E) 92 / 82Hml-121 </span><span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;"> Christ when for us you were baptized </span>
(Bland Tucker) A couple of different tunes are possible for these words,
that are a story telling song, ending] with the words "Baptize us with
your Spirit now, your cross on us be signed, that likewise in God's
service we may perfect freedom find". Not all versions are inclusive. VU
and PH are. <a href="https://digitalsongsandhymns.com/songs/3340" target="_blank">Lyrics</a>.</li>
</ul>
<span style="color: #274e13;"><i><b>What will you be singing? I'd love to hear of songs I haven't thought of. Please add a comment below!</b></i></span>Lectionary Singer (Natalie Sims)http://www.blogger.com/profile/15635861565689089555noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3953574041544310550.post-73024562095361183712023-12-17T03:21:00.000-08:002024-01-08T00:55:02.697-08:00Songs, Hymns and Music for Epiphany (January 6 2024)<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="color: #274e13; font-size: large;"><b><i>You can still sing <a href="http://lectionarysong.blogspot.com.au/2010/12/big-list-of-christmas-carols.html">Christmas carols</a>! </i></b></span><br />
<ul style="text-align: left;">
<li><b><span style="color: #990000;">Online Resource </span></b><b style="color: #000099;">Praise God all you Christians! </b><span style="color: black;">(Nelson
Varcoe) This song will need to be taught because all the verses are in
Kaurna (the language of the region now known as the Adelaide Plains in
South Australia). A good song for South Australians to learn for
Christmas and Epiphany - the 3rd and 4th verses are especially appropriate for Epiphany. <a href="https://www.mediacomeducation.org.au/shop/gift-of-music/" target="_blank">Book available here</a>. </span></li><li><span style="color: #990000;"><b>Online Resource</b></span> <span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;">Song of the Magi</span> (Anais Mitchell) This powerful song reflects on modern day Bethlehem and the struggles there, and may be appropriate to play to your congregation. <a href="http://www.songlyrics.com/anas-mitchell/song-of-the-magi-lyrics/">Lyrics</a>. <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6gRY6CL0kNo">Original Song</a>. <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LusdSxgaIMY">Powerful video cover version</a> recorded in Bethlehem at the Israeli West Bank barrier. </li>
<li><span style="color: #990000; font-weight: bold;">ACS914 / NCH160 / GtG127 </span><span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;"> Hark the herald angels sing / Jesus the light of the world </span>
(Charles Wesley / George Elderkin) This is a fun variation on Hark
the Herald Angels sing, with a Gospel Chorus of Jesus the Light of the
World. Great for Epiphany. <a href="https://hymnary.org/text/hark_the_herald_angels_sing_jesus_the">Sample sheet music</a>.</li><li><b style="color: #990000;">Online Resource / ACS915 / VU97 / GC(II)376 / G(3)450</b> <span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;"> When a star is shining / Where the Promise Shines </span>(Sylvia Dunstan) This new carol would also be good for Epiphany. <a href="https://www.giamusic.com/store/resource/where-the-promise-shines-print-g6080">Sheet music sample including string quartet if desired, sound sample, and purchasing options</a>.</li>
</ul>
<span style="font-size: large;"><b><a href="http://lectionary.library.vanderbilt.edu/texts.php?id=59#hebrew_reading">Isaiah 60:1-6</a> </b></span><br />
<ul style="text-align: left;">
<li><span style="color: #990000;"><b>Online Resource</b></span> <span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;">O Children of the Light / Ay Farzandane Nur</span> (Anonymous Farsi) This is simple enough if you just limit yourself to one verse and chorus
in both languages. <a href="http://www.farsinet.com/farsi_hymns/noor.html">Sheet music, Farsi, transliteration and English translation</a> (the English translation is not for singing). <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IWtr9gQp40I">Sound sample on youtube</a> (which includes a singable English translation). Don't do it too fast! Here's a <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MU30eaV4tH8" target="_blank">great video teaching the pronunciation</a>.<br /></li>
<li><span style="color: #990000;"><b>Online Resource</b></span> <span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;">Lift your head / Your light has come</span> (Richard Bruxvoort-Colligan) A really lovely refrain that could be used at various points throughout the service. <a href="https://www.umcdiscipleship.org/resources/your-light-has-come-lead-sheet">Sound sample, lyrics & sheet music</a>. Here's <a href="https://youtu.be/VWOYNTbYKUI" target="_blank">some verses</a> from John Grummit (thanks John!). <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wu5ZnGtBSpg" target="_blank">Lyric video</a>. <br /></li>
<li><b style="color: #990000;">NCH164 / VU79 / StS030 / WoV652 / LBW652 / ELW314 / PH411 / GtG744 / W&R231 / URW138 </b> <span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;"> Arise your light is come! </span> (Ruth Duck) Good general words of Christ coming to bring justice to the familiar tune ST. THOMAS (TiS 271). <a href="https://hymnary.org/text/arise_your_light_is_come">Sheet music</a>. <span style="color: orange;">New words to old tunes.</span></li>
<li><b style="color: #990000;">TiS
666 / AoV2-113 / AoVK-126 / ATOK 409 / NCH526 / Iona (Common Ground,
Freedom is Coming) / CH516 / VU646/647 / WoV650 / ELW866 / A&M483 / SFFS 2235 /
HPP153 / GtG853 / G(II)357 / GC513 / GC(II)516 / G(3)594 / Cha442 / SP235 / Srce737 / StF483 / MP954 </b><span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;">We are marching in the light of God / Siyahamba / Caminando </span>(South
African) A very popular chorus, with possible alternate verses,
depending on your source. Sometimes people get anxious about the word
"marching", but remember that this song comes from apartheid-era South
Africa, where people were protesting so that they could vote in their
own country. And the marching is toi-toing, much less militaristic than
what you may imagine. <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QGOiANtGmhE" target="_blank">A pretty impressive concert performance</a>. <span style="color: magenta;">Good for kids. </span></li>
<li><span style="color: #990000; font-weight: bold;">SP&P070 </span> <span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;">Although it looks as if the sky is falling / Isaiah's Dream </span> (Bill Green) Joyful words; the tune will need to be taught. <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hb_15Nq6CoI">Sound sample with a great video for guitarists to see the chords</a>.<br /></li>
<li><b style="color: #990000;">Music by Heart 61 </b> <span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;"> Arise shine for your light has come </span>(Ruth Cunningham) A simple two-part chant, which can easily be taught before, or during, the service. <a href="https://www.musicthatmakescommunity.org/arise_shine">Sheet music</a>. <span style="color: magenta;">Good for kids.</span></li>
<li><span style="color: #990000; font-weight: bold;">UMH725 / SP25 </span> <span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;"> Arise shine out your light has come </span> (Brian Wren) Excellent hopeful words sung to the hymn tune DUNEDIN; it also works quite nicely to CHURCH TRIUMPHANT. <a href="http://www.hymnary.org/hymn/UMH/725">Lyrics</a>.<span style="color: orange;"> New words to old tunes.</span>
</li>
<li><span style="color: #990000; font-weight: bold;">Online resource </span><span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;">Arise, Shine! </span> (Bruce Harding) A simple repeated chorus. It would work well at the end of the service. <a href="https://evensong.ca/lyrics-search-results/?search-query=arise%2C+shine">Free sheet music and Sound sample</a>. </li>
<li><span style="color: #990000; font-weight: bold;">NCH158 / UMH247 / LBW076 / GtG827 / W&R230 / Cha105 </span><span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;"> O Morning Star How Fair and Bright! / O Morning Star how clear and bright </span>
(Philipp Nicolai transl. Catherine Winkworth) A traditional German
Epiphany chorale. <a href="https://hymnary.org/text/o_morning_star_how_fair_and_bright_thou">Lyrics and sound sample</a>. </li>
<li><span style="color: #990000; font-weight: bold;">NCH112 </span> <span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;"> Keep awake be always ready </span>
(Arthur Clyde) New words to the tune for "Wake awake for night is flying". I
particularly like the second verse of this one. WACHET AUF. <a href="http://beavercreekchurchva.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/December2018-online.pdf">Lyrics (in a PDF)</a><b>.</b><span style="color: orange;"> New words to old tunes.</span>
</li><li><b style="color: #990000;">ATOK 389</b> <span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;">Light of the nations</span> (Robin Mann) A simple yet powerful song. <a href="http://www.robinmann.com.au/My-songs-All-Together-OK-Light-of-the-Nations-pg30819.html">Lyrics</a>.</li>
<li><span style="color: #990000; font-weight: bold;">URW432 </span><span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;"> Radiant light divine </span>
(Rufino Zaragoza) This is pretty lovely. A nice chant based on the Phos
Hilaron. <a href="https://www.ocp.org/en-us/songs/2497/radiant-light-divine">Sound sample</a>.<br /></li>
<li><span style="color: #990000; font-weight: bold;"> ATA 128 / NCH584 / VU087 / Cha469 </span><span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;"> I Am the Light of the World you people come and follow me </span>
(Jim Strathdee) Good song for the Christmas season (not immediately
after Christmas day. Reflects on Jesus as the coming of the light, which we should follow. <a href="https://digitalsongsandhymns.com/songs/i-am-the-light-of-the-world-lead-line">Lyrics</a>.<br /></li>
</ul>
<b><a href="http://lectionary.library.vanderbilt.edu/texts.php?id=59#psalm_reading"><span style="font-size: large;">Psalm 72:1-7, 10-14</span></a></b>
<br />
<span style="font-style: italic;">Praise for a just and righteous king Solomon
</span><br />
<ul style="text-align: left;">
<li><span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;"><span style="color: #990000;">Emergent Psalter </span><span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;">For he shall deliver the poor</span> </span>(Isaac Everett) A Psalm refrain. It's not amazing, but I'm having trouble finding good Psalm refrains for this particular Psalm. <a href="https://www.churchpublishing.org/emergentpsalter">Sheet music sample (refrain only)</a>.<br /></li>
<li><span style="color: #990000;"><b>NCH36 / PH219 </b></span><span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;">To God compose a song of joy </span>(Ruth Duck)
“The God of Justice comes to save; let earth make melody; For God will
judge with righteousness and rule with equity” Beautiful words. I prefer
this sung to the tune in NCH – the standard hymn tune <a href="http://www.ccel.org/cceh/0004/000460a.mid">RICHMOND</a> (TiS 425). <span style="color: orange;">New words to old tunes.</span> </li>
<li><span style="color: #990000;"><b>WCC website:</b></span> <span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;">Hear the message we now are proclaiming / El mensaje que hoy proclamamos</span> (Eleazar Torreglosa) This jubilant Colombian song of liberty and new life for the poor and suffering would fit well with this reading. <a href="http://www.oikoumene.org/en/folder/documents-pdf/El_mensaje_que_hoy_proclamamostorreglosa.pdf">Free sheet music</a>.</li>
<li><span style="color: #990000; font-weight: bold;">NCH588 / StJ / WoV763 / ELW717 </span> <span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;"> Let justice flow like streams </span>(Jane Parker Huber) Excellent words to the very familiar tune ST THOMAS. <a href="https://digitalsongsandhymns.com/songs/9202">Lyrics</a>. <span style="color: orange;">New words to old tunes</span> </li>
<li><span style="color: #990000;"><b>SP&P137</b></span> <span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;">The world is hungry for justice / Come Sweet Justice </span> (Louis Gilio / Scott Ressman) This song is new to me, and the words are
very suitable for this reading. It's a ballad and the verses would be
best sung by the musicians at first, with the congregation joining in on
the chorus until they get to know it. <a href="https://youtu.be/DGiMIhM2gjk?t=1583" target="_blank">Sound sample (at the end of a Pentecost service)</a>. <br /></li><li><span style="color: #990000; font-weight: bold;">Online Resource / AoV2-137 / Iona (SBL) / CH262 </span> <span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;"> For the world and all its people </span>(Iona Community) This is a beautiful, haunting song set to the tune of Somos pueblo que camino (Welcome, pilgrims on the journey). It will need to be
taught t, but once your congregation gets it, I'm sure they'll love it.
Particularly good to use during intercessions. <a href="https://www.sixmaddens.org/for-the-world-and-all-its-people-aov-2137/">Lyrics</a>. <a href="https://willowpublishing.com.au/product/for-the-world-and-all-its-people/">Sound sample and purchasing options</a>. <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K3a6K2UbX0Y">More traditional tune sound sample (different words)</a>. </li>
<li><span style="color: #990000; font-weight: bold;">Online Resource </span><span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;">Be a blessing </span>
(Richard Bruxvoort-Colligan) A song of encouragement based on this Psalm. This
would be a wonderful song to sing at someone's commissioning, or as a
benediction song to your congregation. It would be tricky for a
congregation at first, so I would get your musicians to present it as a
gift to the congregation. <a href="http://www.psalmimmersion.com/#%21be-a-blessing/c3nb">Lyrics, sound sample and sheet music.</a></li>
</ul></div>
<b><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="http://lectionary.library.vanderbilt.edu/texts.php?id=59#epistle_reading">Ephesians 3:1-12</a></span> </b><br />
<i>Paul's call & mission; inclusion into the body of Christ.</i><br />
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<li><span style="color: #990000; font-weight: bold;">Iona (M&G, T1AU) / MV099 / GC(II)673 / G(3)763 / Lau996 </span> <span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;"> Stand O Stand Firm </span> (Cameroon) I love having an excuse to sing this simple and powerful song.
Very easy for your congregation. You can make up cantor parts too “Oh my
sisters…. Oh my brothers… Oh my children….” or you can name countries
you are praying for in your intercessions. <span style="color: magenta;">Good for kids. </span><a href="http://c1824532.cdn.cloudfiles.rackspacecloud.com/G3_763-1.mp3">Scottish sound sample</a>. <a href="http://c1824532.cdn.cloudfiles.rackspacecloud.com/G3_763-1.jpg">Lead sheet.</a></li>
<li><span style="color: #990000;"><b>TiS
417 / AoV2-133 / ATW 448 / VU387 / StJ / WoV683 / ELW397 / AA94 /
HPP237 / GtG293 / PH323 / CP657 / W&R135 / Cha244 / URW203 / StB220 / VF051</b></span> <span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;">Loving Spirit, Loving Spirit </span>(Shirley Murray)
There are about a zillion tunes set for this. I prefer FELICITY (by
Colin Gibson TiS 417), but also like RESTORATION and OMNI DIE. <a href="https://www.hopepublishing.com/find-hymns-hw/hw8846_40.aspx" target="_blank">Lyrics and sheet music sample</a>. <br /></li>
<li><b style="color: #990000;">TiS 428 / AHB 340</b> <span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;">Help us O Lord to learn</span>
(William Reid) Great challenging (but quite formal) words about being committed to
learning the faith. Good for a New Year message. Boring tune though. I
would sing it to ST THOMAS (TiS 271 / AHB 198) <a href="https://hymnary.org/text/help_us_o_lord_to_learn">Lyrics</a> (with thees and thys, which are not in TiS).<span style="color: orange;"> New words to old tunes.</span></li><li><span style="color: #990000;"><b>Online Resource / Walk as One</b></span> <span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;">God the great mystery </span>(Sharonne
Price) An excellent hymn of God's abundance, mystery, and
creative power. Set
to the tune BONNIE GEORGE CAMPBELL. <a href="https://www.cmla.org.au/product/walk-as-one-pdf-download/" target="_blank">Book (PDF) for purchase</a>.<span style="color: orange;"> New words to old tunes</span> </li>
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<b><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="http://lectionary.library.vanderbilt.edu/texts.php?id=59#gospel_reading">Matthew 2:1-12</a></span></b>
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<i>Here come the Magi...<br /></i>
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<li><span style="color: #990000;"><b>Online Resource</b></span> <span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;">As the magi scanned the heavens</span> (David Bjorlin) Great lyrics asking us to choose the way of the Magi. Sung to a familiar Polish folk tune. At least, it's familiar to me, but maybe not really to congregations, but it is easy to sing and very beautiful. <a href="https://www.giamusic.com/store/resource/as-the-magi-scanned-the-heavens-pdf-du01116" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Sheet music sample and purchasing option</a>s. <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n7YbCTgrDUU" target="_blank">Youtube video</a>. <b><span style="color: #990000;"> </span></b></li><li><span style="color: #990000; font-weight: bold;">Online Resource </span><span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;">Set the sun dancing </span>(Shirley Murray) Joyful song of celebration, with an uplifting key change for the chorus. <a href="https://www.hopepublishing.com/find-hymns-hw/hw2943.aspx">Lyrics and sheet music</a></li><li><b><span style="color: #990000;">Online Resource</span></b><span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;"> We had seen the star </span>(Leigh Newton) A beautiful song, better for a soloist than a congregation. <a href="http://leighnewton.com.au/a-song-for-epiphany/">Sheet music and sound samples</a>.</li><li><span style="color: #990000; font-weight: bold;">CoC49 </span><span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;"> Who are these who ride by starlight? </span>
(Marnie Barrell) Powerful words! The tune is simple enough
too. <a href="http://www.hymnsandcarolsofchristmas.com/Hymns_and_Carols/who_are_these_who_ride_by_starli.htm">Lyrics</a>. <br /></li><li><span style="color: #990000;"><b>Online Resource</b></span> <span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;">Take us home by another way</span> (Christopher Grundy) An excellent and simple song encouraging a thoughtful response to tyrants. A great song for response after the sermon. <a href="https://soundcloud.com/christopher-grundy/take-us-home-by-another-way-live-demo?si=cd65902679ba44bdb9d29a6befccde55&utm_source=clipboard&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=social_sharing&fbclid=IwAR2d9XYBL-hoNdl8wI_a_taKti8f0TchvyA-5fTfAMWPXW9kHiqG92aszKM">Sound sample</a>. <a href="https://www.convergencemp.com/take-us-home-by-another-way.html?fbclid=IwAR1etLJ7MwZ5VXZKOWaVFG5yeFH21iOhFBDL50UfvcZhDU611a_jOIPdozc">Lyrics and lead sheet and purchasing options</a>.<br /></li><li><span style="color: #990000; font-weight: bold;">CoC51 / Online Resource </span><span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;"> Wise men came journeying </span>(Shirley
Murray) Good, imaginative words, including reference to New Year, sung
either to a new tune or to BONNIE GEORGE CAMPBELL if you need something
familiar. <span style="color: orange;">New words to old tunes.</span> <a href="http://www.hopepublishing.com/html/main.isx?sitesec=40.2.1.0&hymnID=2956">Lyrics and sheet music.</a></li><li><b style="color: #990000;">AoVK-60 / AA04 / CoC05</b> <span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;"> And did you see him little star? </span> (Helen Clyde) I quite like this song. It's very imaginative and <span style="color: magenta;">good for kids</span>. <a href="https://stmartins.org.nz/2013/12/">Lyrics</a> (scroll down). </li>
<li><span style="color: #990000; font-weight: bold;">URW416 </span><span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;"> Listen to the song of the wind </span> (Thomas Turner) This is quite lovely, and you could choose whichever verses are most appropriate for any service; this week, you might like to sing "Listen to the dreams in the night". <a href="https://www.indyfriends.org/blog/2017/1/30/january-25-2017">Lyrics</a>. <span style="color: magenta;">Good for kids</span>.</li>
<li><b style="color: #990000;">NCH370 / W&R685 / URW127</b><span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;"> What gift can we bring? </span> (Jane Marshall) A good offering song. Also good for a church anniversary. <a href="http://www.hymnary.org/hymn/WAR2003/685">Lyrics. </a>This song has great words for the offering, and seems appropriate to both Epiphany and New Year. The tune is a bit tricky.</li>
<li><b style="color: #990000;">VU94 / Cha175 / STB132</b> <span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;"> Lovely star in the sky </span> (Korean text) Good words. Lovely simple Korean tune. The peoples of the two Koreas could do with some songs from us. <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y88UKPgH81Q">Sound sample</a>.<br /></li>
<li><b style="color: #990000;">AA014 / CoC09 / STB144 / StF194</b> <span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;">Child of joy and peace </span>
(Shirley Murray) Excellent words for Christmas and Epiphany; recognises the
poverty of Christ and constrasts it with the greed of Christmas -
without being too heavy handed. I like Ian Render tune (JENNIFER'S
GIFT) best, even though it's a little tricky. <a href="https://www.hopepublishing.com/find-hymns-hw/hw2853.aspx">Lyrics and sheet music sample</a>.</li>
<li><span style="color: #990000; font-weight: bold;">Online Resource / NCH155 </span><span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;"> The magi who to Bethlehem did go / </span><span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;"><span>Los magos que llegaron a Belén</span> </span> (Manuel Fernandez Juncas) Traditional Puerto Rican carol. This is so much fun to sing. A great alternative for Epiphany. <a href="https://www.ocp.org/en-us/songs/77602/los-magos-que-llegaron-a-belen">Sound sample (in Spanish) and purchasing options</a>. <br /></li>
<li> <b style="color: #990000;">VU092</b> <span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;"> In the darkness shines the splendour </span> (Bernadette Gasslein) Good new words sung to the tune IRBY (Once in Royal David's City). <a href="https://digitalsongsandhymns.com/songs/9363">Lyrics</a>. <span style="color: orange;">New words to old tunes.</span> </li><li><span style="color: #990000; font-weight: bold;">Online Resource</span> <span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;">From the void sprang all creation </span>(David
Bjorlin) Words linking the birth of the cosmos to the birth of Christ and all human birth. Set to
the familiar tune AR HYD Y NOS. <a href="https://www.giamusic.com/store/resource/from-the-void-sprang-all-creation-pdf-d1010115">Sheet music sample, lyrics and purchasing options</a>. <span style="color: orange;">New words to old tunes</span>. </li><li><span style="color: #990000; font-weight: bold;">Online Resource</span> <span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;">What can we bring? </span>(Pat Mayberry / David Kai) A simple song offering justice, compassion, respect and recognition of the holiness of all things. This is really lovely. <a href="https://sites.google.com/site/davidwkaismusic/home/what-can-we-bring" target="_blank">Free Sheet music</a>. <br /></li>
<li><b style="color: #990000;">TiS 314 / AHB 239 / NCH159 / CH326 / VU81 / A7M094 / LBW082 / ELW302 / HPP144 / PH063 /
</b><b style="color: #990000;">GtG150 / GC374 / GC(II)384 / CP160 / CP(E) 83 / W&R236 / Cha173 / Srce2-39
/ 82Hml-119 / Lau166 / StF224 / MP039</b> <span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;"> As with gladness men of old / those of old / sages bold </span> (William Dix) A well known traditional Epiphany carol. <span style="color: orange;">Oldy-but-a-goody</span>. <a href="https://hymnary.org/text/as_with_gladness_men_of_old">Lyrics and tune. </a></li><li><span style="color: #990000;"><b>Online Resource</b></span> <span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;">Ancient peoples searched the sky </span>(Adam Tice / Shirley Ann Morris) Gosh, this is lovely. Beautiful tune and words the bring the Magi clearly into focus, as well as our continuing search for light. <a href="https://www.giamusic.com/store/resource/ancient-peoples-searched-the-sky-pdf-d800304" target="_blank">Sound and sheet music sample, purchasing options</a>. There is also a <a href="https://www.giamusic.com/store/resource/ancient-peoples-searched-the-sky-print-g8476" target="_blank">choral version available here</a>. </li><li><b style="color: #990000;">GC(II)386 / G(3)462</b> <span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;">Every nation sees the glory</span>
(Francis Patrick O'Brien) BEACH SPRING (TiS 493) Beautiful words and very familiar
tune. “Every nation sees the glory of a star that pierced the night. As
we tell the wondrous story we are bathed in radiant light. Star sent
forth from highest heaven, dancing light of God’s design, Shine upon the
gift that’s given; Word made flesh now born in time.” Highly
recommended! <a href="http://globalworship.tumblr.com/post/107063723810/epiphany-carol-by-francis-patrick-obrien">Lyrics and sound sample</a>. <span style="color: orange;">New words to old tunes.</span></li>
<li><span style="color: #990000; font-weight: bold;">Online Resource / HiOS105 </span><span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;"> Now the star of Christmas </span> (Shirley Murray) A multifaith epiphany song: "Where the three kings
travel, three great faiths arise: Jesus Christ for Christians, Jesus,
Judah's son, Prophet for the Muslim, wisdom in each one". Some
congregations will find this a bit too much, but others will find much
to celebrate in this song. Can also be sung to NOEL NOUVELET if you
don't want to try a new tune (the new tune is not hard). <a href="https://www.hopepublishing.com/find-hymns-hw/hw4239.aspx">Lyrics and sheet music</a>. <span style="color: orange;">New words to old tunes.</span></li>
<li><b style="color: #990000;">TiS 281 / AHB 214</b> <span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;">When God Almighty came to be one of us</span>
(Michael Hewlett) This is a great Christmas and Epiphany song. It’s also set to a very easy (and fun) tune to sing (URQUHART). I especially love verse 3 "Wise
men, they called them, earnest astrologers, watching for meaning in the
moving stars, science or fancy, learned or laughable, theirs was a
vision that was brought to pass. Sing all you wise men, dance all the
scientists whether your theories are false or true. God uses knowledge,
God uses ignorance. God at his coming had a need of you". <a href="http://barefootandlaughing.blogspot.com/2005/12/merry-christmas.html">Lyrics</a>.<span style="color: magenta;"> Good for kids? I liked it when I was a kid.</span></li>
<li><b style="color: #990000;">UMH243 / VU089 / PH064 / W&R238</b> <span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;"> From a Distant Home / De Tierra Lejana Venimos </span> (Puerto Rican) Nice tune and pretty standard words. Would be a good change for Epiphany. <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kzx3PR_Q5xc">Sound sample</a>. </li>
<li><b style="color: #990000;">SFFS 2094 </b> <span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;"> I sought him dressed in finest clothes </span>
(John Bell) Excellent words that speak of the search for a king in high
places, and finding him among the poor. Sung to a Celtic folkish tune. <a href="http://come-to-the-table.blogspot.com.au/2006/12/god-in-babys-hand-lyrics-by-john-bell.html">Lyrics</a>.</li>
<li><span style="color: #990000; font-weight: bold;">TiS 255 / CH135 / VU434 / CP018 </span><span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;"> O laughing Light O first-born of creation </span>
(Sylvia Dunstan) A slightly more modern version of the Phos Hilaron.
Words are good but the tune in TiS (ADRIAN) is a little tricky.
<a href="https://music.churchofscotland.org.uk/hymn/135-o-laughing-light-o-first-born-of-creation">Sound samples with a range of possible tunes</a>.</li>
<li><b style="color: #990000;">LBW648 / ELW312 / CP437 / W&R669 / SP28 / URW085</b> <span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;"> Jesus come for we invite you </span> (Christopher Idle) Excellent words to a well known hymn tune. This picks up themes
of the Wedding at Cana, the transformative power of Christ to energise
our faith. "Jesus,come! surprise our dullness; Make us willing to
receive More than we can yet imagine, All the best you have to give: Let
us find your hidden riches, Taste your love,believe,and live!". It's
set to the tune UNION SEMINARY, which is not in that many hymnals. You
could also sing it to WESTMINSTER ABBEY (TiS 432). <span style="color: orange;">New words to old tunes.</span> <a href="http://www.hymnary.org/text/jesus_come_for_we_invite_you">Lyric and sheet music</a> </li>
<li><b style="color: #990000;">TiS 307 / AHB 232 / CH300 / VU73 / SFFS 2098 / G(II)264 / GC345 / GC(II)378 / G(3)454 / CP128</b> <span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;">The Virgin Mary had a baby boy </span>(Trinidad traditional, collected by Edric Connor) This fun carol from Trinidad includes those wise men. <a href="https://secondhandsongs.com/performance/1326476 " target="_blank">Sound sample (earliest recording!)</a>. <a href="https://hymnary.org/text/the_virgin_mary_had_a_baby_boy">Lyrics</a>. <span style="color: magenta;">Good for kids </span><span style="color: orange;">Oldy-but-a-goody</span></li>
<li><span style="color: #990000; font-weight: bold;">Previously Online Resource </span><span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;">Last night among the stars </span>(Helen Wiltshire) Imaginative words, to a standard hymn tune about the sorry
of the word, and the hope of the Christ Child. "We join the sages from
afar and bring the gift of who we are". This book is no longer available online - if you have a copy, now's the time to dig it out. <br /></li>
<li><b style="color: #990000;">Recorded Music</b> <span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;">Heavenly Child</span>
(Peter Mayer) This is a great song from the viewpoint of one of the wise men.
A great song for those who have travelled far in their spiritual
journey but hold on to the image of the heavenly child. <a href="http://petermayer.net/music/?id=7">Lyrics and sound sample</a></li>
<li><b style="color: #990000;">TiS
666 / AoV2-113 / AoVK-126 / ATOK 409 / NCH526 / Iona (Common Ground,
Freedom is Coming) / CH516 / VU646/647 / WoV650 / ELW866 / A&M483 / SFFS 2235 /
HPP153 / GtG853 / G(II)357 / GC513 / GC(II)516 / G(3)594 / Cha442 / SP235 / Srce737 / StF483 / MP954 </b><span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;">We are marching in the light of God / Siyahamba / Caminando </span>(South African) A very popular chorus, with possible alternate verses,
depending on your source. Sometimes people get anxious about the word
"marching", but remember that this song comes from apartheid-era South
Africa, where people were protesting so that they could vote in their
own country. And the marching is toi-toing, much less militaristic than
what you may imagine. <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9lzO-y6MTr8">Sound sample</a>. <span style="color: magenta;">Good for kids. </span></li>
<li><b style="color: #990000;">BUC Song Project</b> <span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;"> Jesus Was a Carpenter </span> (Chris Lees) A slightly daggy but cool song for kids. Brunswick UCA only, as it's not published yet. <span style="color: magenta;">Good for kids</span></li><li><span style="color: #990000; font-weight: bold;">URW432 </span><span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;"> Radiant light divine </span> (Rufino Zaragoza) This is pretty lovely. A nice chant based on the Phos Hilaron.
<a href="https://www.ocp.org/en-us/songs/2497/radiant-light-divine">Sound sample</a>.</li>
<li><b style="color: #990000;"> VU093</b> <span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;"> When heaven's bright with mystery </span> (Rob Johns) Good new words to the tune SUSSEX CAROL. <a href="https://stmichaels.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/2022-01-02-Christmas-2C-Church-OOS.pdf" target="_blank">Lyrics (PDF)</a>. <span style="color: orange;">New words to old tunes.</span></li>
<li><span style="color: #990000; font-weight: bold;">Online Resource</span><span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;"> God help the weary travellers </span>(Daniel
Damon) Timely lyrics with reference to travellers who may be refugees,
and/or women fleeing from domestic violence and a lovely simple tune and
our call to travel with love. <a href="https://www.hopepublishing.com/find-hymns-hw/hw8845_21.aspx?FeedbackProgram=PR_" target="_blank">Lyrics and sheet music</a>.</li>
<li><b style="color: #990000;">UMH254
/ WoV646 / GA299 / HPP148 / A&M574 / PH066 / GtG151 /
GC373 / GC(II)382 / CP(E) 91 / W&R233 / Cha172 /
82Hml-128 / Lau170</b> <span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;"> We Three Kings of Orient Are </span> (John Hopkins) I used to think this carol was silly until I read the lyrics properly. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/We_Three_Kings">Lyrics and story</a>. <span style="color: magenta;">Good for kids, just for the O-o-o, bit. </span><span style="color: orange;">Oldy-but-a-goody</span></li>
<li><b style="color: #990000;">VU096</b> <span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;"> Will you come and see the light? </span> (Brian Wren) Excellent Christmas / Epiphany words to the tune KELVINGROVE (The Summons) "Will you hide, or decide to meet the light?". <a href="https://www.hopepublishing.com/find-hymns-hw/hw2387.aspx">Lyrics and sheet music sample</a>. <br /></li>
<li><b style="color: #990000;">Online Resource</b> <span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;">A Star Shone Bright</span> (Richard Garland) Sung to the familiar tune O WALY WALY, this new set of words sing of the star of long ago, still leading us today. <span style="color: orange;">New words to old tunes.</span> <a href="https://www.umcdiscipleship.org/resources/a-star-shone-bright">Free sheet music. </a></li><li><span style="color: #990000;"><b>Online Resource</b></span> <span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;">Wise Men Seeking Jesus</span> (James East) Simple, welcoming words about seeing Jesus in our everyday world. It's a little old-fashioned, and it may help to share the story of the origin of the hymn. Thanks to David Higham for sharing this hymn. <a href="https://hymnary.org/text/wise_men_seeking_jesus">Lyrics and sheet music</a>. <a href="https://ramblingsfromredrose.wordpress.com/2011/01/06/wise-men-seeking-jesus-a-hymn-for-epiphany/">Story of the hymn</a>.
</li>
<li><span style="color: #990000; font-weight: bold;">GtG152 / PH068 / GC378 / GC(II)389 / G(3)461 </span><span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;"> What Star Is This? </span>(Charles Coffin) Slothful hearts could do with singing this sometimes. A standard hymn sung to PUER NOBIS NASCITUR. <a href="https://hymnary.org/text/what_star_is_this_withbeamssobright_more">Lyrics</a>. <span style="color: orange;">Different words to old tunes.</span></li>
<li> <b style="color: #990000;">AoV1-165 /
NCH148 / UMH219 / VU074 / LBW040 / ELW296 / HPP138 / PH053 /
GtG145 / GC380 / GC(II)387 / G(3)466 / CP137 / CP(E) 74 / W&R184 / Cha162 / </b><b style="color: #990000;">82Hml-115 / Lau145</b> <span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;"> What child is this? </span> (William Dix) "Come bring him incense, gold & myrrh"... <a href="https://www.hymnsandcarolsofchristmas.com/Hymns_and_Carols/what_child_is_this_version_1.htm">Lyrics</a>. <span style="color: orange;">Oldy-but-a-goody.</span></li>
<li><span style="color: #990000; font-weight: bold;"> ATAR632 </span><span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;"> Share your gift </span> (Busch) A good song for the offering, particularly on Sundays when the
theme of being part of the body of Christ, or sharing gifts or talents
is being explored. Words are simple enough to make sense to kids. <span style="color: magenta;">Good for kids.</span></li>
</ul>
<i><b><span style="color: #38761d;">What will you be singing? Join the conversation and share your thoughts in a comment below. </span></b></i> </div>Lectionary Singer (Natalie Sims)http://www.blogger.com/profile/15635861565689089555noreply@blogger.com10tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3953574041544310550.post-87438517896258744382023-12-17T02:55:00.000-08:002023-12-18T02:10:43.493-08:00Songs, Hymns & Music for Holy Name of Jesus (January 1 2024)<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="font-size: large;"><b><a href="http://lectionary.library.vanderbilt.edu/texts.php?id=103#hebrew_reading">Numbers 6:22-27</a> </b></span><br />
<i>The Aaronic blessing</i> <br />
<ul style="text-align: left;">
<li><b style="color: #990000;">AoV1-177 / GA441 / Online Resource</b> <span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;">May God Bless and keep you</span>
(Christopher Walker) Simple and inclusive Aaronic blessing that has words everyone
can understand. I strongly suggest having a look at this one as an
alternative to the standard Aaronic blessing. <a href="https://www.ocp.org/en-us/songs/1850/may-god-bless-and-keep-you">Sound sample & sheet music for download</a>. <span style="color: #990000; font-weight: bold;"><br /></span></li>
<li><b style="color: #990000;">TiS 776(ii) / AHB 572 </b><span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;">The Lord bless you and keep you </span>(various tunes, traditional words) The Australian hymn books have two settings for the Aaronic blessing. I prefer tune (ii) rather than the chant version. <span style="color: orange;">Oldy-but-a-goody.</span><span style="color: #990000; font-weight: bold;"> </span></li>
<li><b style="color: #990000;">Iona (Love From Below) </b><span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;">The Lord bless you and keep you </span>(The
Iona community). This is a very nice, but very tricky setting of the
standard Aaronic blessing words. It’s more something you would ask your
choir to sing, if you have one! </li>
<li><span style="color: #990000; font-weight: bold;">MV218 / GtG549 / STB315 </span> <span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;"> May the love of the Lord / Wei yuan shen di ai </span> (Maria Ling Poh Choo) Lovely alternative words to a simple Chinese melody. It will need to be taught, but is not too hard. <a href="http://hopechurchrca.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/10-07-2018-.pdf">Lyrics (on p7 of a PDF)</a>.</li>
<li><span style="color: #990000;"><b>CH796</b></span> <span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;">The Lord bless you and keep you</span> (Lowell Mason) Standard words to a tune by Lowell Mason.</li>
<li><span style="color: #990000; font-weight: bold;">CH785 </span> <span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;"> May god bless you </span> (Aaronic blessing adapted) A nice alternative, and quite simple tune
</li>
<li><span style="color: #990000; font-weight: bold;">Iona (SBL) / CH787 / PH596 / G(II)413 / GC589 / CP661 / URW445 </span> <span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;"> May the Lord Mighty God </span> (Pao-chen Li) Many of these sources are quite masculine, but URW is very good. Sung to a traditional Chinese melody. <a href="http://c1824532.cdn.cloudfiles.rackspacecloud.com/GC_589-1.jpg">Lyrics and lead sheet</a>. <a href="http://c1824532.cdn.cloudfiles.rackspacecloud.com/GC_589.mp3">Sound sample</a>.</li>
<li><span style="color: #990000;"><b>AoV2-089 / Taize / MV086 / SFFS 2156 </b> </span> <span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;"> Give peace to every heart / Da Pacem Cordium </span> (Jacques Berthier) A good, simple Taize chant. <a href="http://www.taize.fr/spip.php?page=chant&song=314&lang=en">Sound samples, sheet music</a> (not cantor lines though). </li>
<li><b style="color: #990000;"> STB080 </b><span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;">May the Lord gracious God bless and keep you forever / Yuan quan-neng zhu shang-di </span>(I-toh Loh) This is quite lovely, and when sung in two parts would be really special. You would need to teach it, or to have your musicians sing it often until the congregation get to know it; if someone can sing in Mandarin, that would be particularly nice. </li>
</ul>
<span style="font-size: large;"><b><a href="http://lectionary.library.vanderbilt.edu/texts.php?id=103#psalm_reading">Psalm 8</a> </b></span><br />
<span style="font-style: italic;">How majestic!</span><br />
<ul style="text-align: left;"><li>
<b style="color: #990000;">Emergent Psalter </b><b style="color: #000099;">O God our sovereign </b>(Isaac Everett) A lovely simple Psalm response and read Psalm over an instrumental backing. <a href="https://www.churchpublishing.org/emergentpsalter">Sheet music</a> (refrain only - click on "Downloads" tab) </li><li><b style="color: #990000;">AoVK-50 / ATW 430 / NCYC'99</b> <span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;">Come let us praise our God / A voice is heard </span>(Trisha Watts) Excellent and energetic. <a href="https://www.sixmaddens.org/?p=32">Lyrics and synthesizer sound sample</a>. <span style="color: magenta;">Good for kids</span>. </li><li><b style="color: #990000;">Online Resource</b><b style="color: #000099;">How Great is your name! </b>(Richard Bruxvoort-Colligan) A fun Psalm refrain for kids with a cantor part. <span style="color: magenta;">Good for kids</span>. <a href="http://psalmimmersion.bandcamp.com/track/how-great-is-your-name-ps-8">Sound sample and sheet music</a>. </li><li>
<b style="color: #990000;">TiS 163 / AHB 112 / NCH556 / UMH150 / LBW463 / ELW771 / GtG024 / PH268 / W&R644 / Cha651 / URW084 / 82Hml-580 </b><span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;">God who stretched the spangled heavens</span>
(Catherine Cameron) Good words of creation of nature and cities and creative possibilities
for the future. AHB has a Father and old language, but it works okay;
TiS and other sources are better. There are many possible tunes. I like
it best to HOLY MANNA as in the link. <a href="http://www.hymnary.org/text/god_who_stretched_the_spangled_heavens">Lyrics and sound sample</a>. <span style="color: orange;">New words to old tunes</span></li><li>
<span style="color: #990000; font-weight: bold;"> PfAS008E </span><span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;"> O Lord Our Lord how majestic is your name </span> (Alfred Fedak) Psalm response. <a href="https://hymnary.org/media/fetch/95497/hymnary/audio/PFAS2012/008E-a_responsorial_setting.mp3">Sound sample (includes plainchant cantor part)</a>.</li><li><span style="color: #990000; font-weight: bold;">Online Resource</span> <span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;">As rivers flow from a distant spring </span>(David
Bjorlin / William Beckstrand) Beautiful words using imagery of creation
to inspire us to lives based in God's love that care for others,
including the earth. Not easy to sing, so maybe better to have a soloist sing it. <a href="https://youtu.be/WuomgFeLi3I?t=109">Sound sample</a>. <a href="https://www.giamusic.com/store/resource/protest-and-praise-print-g10101">Book available to purchase and download here</a>. <br /></li><li>
<span style="color: #990000; font-weight: bold;">CH005 / PfAS008D / URW231 / StF112 </span><span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;"> O Lord our Lord throughout the earth </span>
(John Bell) A lovely hymnlike version of the Psalm, set to a
traditional Scottish tune. I like the questioning nature of this hymn. <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TCq3bETGz8E" target="_blank">Sound sample</a>. <span style="color: orange;">New words to old tunes</span></li><li>
<b style="color: #990000;">ATW 462</b> <span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;">When I consider God's design (Hand in hand)</span> (Norm Habel) Good words of all creation celebrating together. Tune is good, too. <a href="http://www.robinmann.com.au/My-songs-All-Together-Whatever-Hand-in-Hand-pg30838.html">Lyrics</a>.</li><li>
<span style="color: #990000;"><b>VU730 / URW229</b></span> <span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;"> God our God your glorious name </span> (William Sherwin) Inclusive paraphrase of the Psalm with a joyous chorus. <a href="https://hymnary.org/hymn/PsH/8">Lyrics (old version).</a><br /></li><li>
<b style="color: #990000;">AoVK-113</b> <span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;"> Thank you O Lord for this world of ours </span> (Barr) A good kids song in two parts. <span style="color: magenta;">Good for kids.</span></li><li><span style="color: #990000; font-weight: bold;">AoV1-003 / HPP258 / GA394 / G(II)342 / GC497 / GC(II)495 / G(3)576 / Lau693 / StF803 / MP648 </span><span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;">The heavens are telling the glory of God / Canticle of the Sun</span>
(Marty Haugen) Energetic waltz of cosmic praise with great lyrics "Come
dance in the forest, come play in the field, and sing, sing to the glory
of the Lord". <a href="http://c1824532.cdn.cloudfiles.rackspacecloud.com/CCH_292.midi">Sound sample.</a> <a href="http://c1824532.cdn.cloudfiles.rackspacecloud.com/CCH_292-1.jpg">Lyrics and sheet music sample</a>.</li><li><span style="color: #990000;"><b>VU732</b></span> <span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;"> O God our God how glorious is your name </span> (Michel Guimont) Inclusive responsive paraphrase of the Psalm with a simple refrain. </li><li><b><span style="color: #990000;">TiS
90 / AHB 44 / UMH60 / VU867 / GtG806 / PH253 / A&M673
/ CP346 / CP(E) 473 / W&R79 / Cha20 / PfAS146A / 82Hml-429 /
StF079 / MP320</span> </b> <span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;"><span style="color: #990000;"> </span>I'll praise my Maker while I've breath </span> (Isaac Watts) A great classic hymn. Most sources are not inclusive; Voices United and Chalice hymnal are! <a href="http://hymnary.org/text/ill_praise_my_maker_with_my_breath">Lyrics and sheet music samples.</a> <span style="color: orange;">Oldy-but-a-goody.</span><span style="color: #990000; font-weight: bold;"> </span></li><li><span style="color: #990000; font-weight: bold;">NCH Psalter008 </span><span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;">How majestic is your name in all the earth </span>(Lee Dengler) A very simple refrain and chanted Psalm.</li><li><b style="color: #990000;">Online Resource</b> <span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;">The Heavens Tell of Your Creative Glory / Los Cielos Cuentan la Gloria de Diosome </span>
(Horacio Vivares transl. David Bjorlin) An excellent folk song. Best
for Spanish-speaking congregations, but works in English too. <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rn6eG7RwA-0">Sound sample</a>. <a href="https://www.giamusic.com/store/resource/protest-and-praise-print-g10101">Songbook for purchase</a>. <br /></li><li><span style="color: #990000;"><b>URW097</b></span> <span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;"> All you works of God bless the Lord </span>
(Stephen Starke) Joyful words of creation's celebration to the Jamaican tune
LINSTEAD (Let us talents and tongues employ). Fun! <a href="https://digitalsongsandhymns.com/songs/8626#tab-lyrics">Lyrics</a>. <span style="color: orange;">New words to old tunes</span></li></ul>
<span style="font-size: large;"><b><a href="http://lectionary.library.vanderbilt.edu/texts.php?id=103#epistle_reading">Galatians 4:4-7</a></b></span><br />
<span style="font-style: italic;">Being adopted children of God</span><br />
<ul style="text-align: left;"><li><b style="color: #990000;">Online Resource / TiS 465 / AHB 399 / ATA 115 / NCH279 / A&M271 / Iona (SBL) / CH116 / GA381 / Lau313 / StF004</b> <span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;"> Our God in heaven / Father in heaven / Loving Creator grant to your children </span>
(Daniel T Niles / Elena Maquiso) I really like this hymn, especially the Philippino
folk melody to which it's set. Newer versions of the hymn from the
Christian Conference of Asia have altered the lyrics to "Our God in
heaven / Creator God" in the first verse. Other versions, such as CH4
have "Loving Creator / Parent and God". <a href="https://hymnary.org/text/father_in_heaven_grant_to_your_children" target="_blank">Older style lyrics, sheet music and sound samples</a>. <br /></li><li><span style="color: #990000;"><b>TiS
417 / AoV2-133 / ATW 448 / VU387 / StJ / WoV683 / ELW397 / AA94 /
HPP237 / GtG293 / PH323 / CP657 / W&R135 / Cha244 / URW203 / StB220 / VF051</b></span> <span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;">Loving Spirit, Loving Spirit </span>(Shirley Murray).
There are about a zillion tunes set for this. I prefer FELICITY (by
Colin Gibson TiS 417), but also like RESTORATION and OMNI DIE. Lyrics
are <a href="http://spiritlodge.yuku.com/topic/3637/t/Loving-Spirit.html">here. </a><span style="color: orange;">New words to old tunes</span></li><li><b style="color: #990000;">MV157</b> <span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;">I am a child of God</span> (Bruce Harding) A simple song with powerful words. Good for kids and adults alike. Very easy to learn. <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RKs1mJDkwkI" target="_blank">Lyric video</a>. <span style="color: magenta;">Good for kids.</span></li><li><span style="color: #990000; font-weight: bold;">CH329 / AA108 / CoC33 </span> <span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;"> O little Love who comes again / Peace Carol </span>
(Shirley Murray) A lovely gentle and thoughtful Christmas song, which would
also work for Epiphany and the Christmas season. It fits well with this
reading. <a href="https://www.hopepublishing.com/find-hymns-hw/hw9008_40.aspx" target="_blank">Lyrics</a>.<b style="color: #990000;"> </b></li><li><b style="color: #990000;">Online Resource / TiS 303 / AHB 227 </b><b style="color: #990000;">/
AoV1-171 / NCH144 / CH301 / UMH240 / VU048 / LBW060 / ELW270 / GA294
/ HPP123 / PH031 / GtG119 / GC348 / GC(II)356 / G(3)424 / CP138 / CP(E) 53 /
W&R185 / Cha150 / ZSS62 / Srce202 / 82Hml-087 / Lau155</b> <span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;"> Hark the herald angels sing </span> (Charles Wesley) One of those carols that we sing pretty much every year at Brunswick. <a href="https://hymnary.org/text/hark_the_herald_angels_sing_glory_to" target="_blank">Lyrics, sheet music and sound sample</a>. <span style="color: orange;">Oldy-but-a-goody</span>.</li></ul><span style="font-size: large;"><b><i>Alternative Epistle: <a href="http://lectionary.library.vanderbilt.edu/texts.php?id=103#epistle_oth_reading">Philippians 2:5-11</a></i></b></span><br />
<ul style="text-align: left;"><li>
<b style="color: #990000;">TiS 650 / ATA 191 / CH694 / A&M604 / NCH539 / VU595 / ELW659 / AA08 /
SFFS 2222 / HPP442 / GtG727 / G(II)476 / GC683 / GC(II)661 / G(3)751 / CP500 / CP(E) 393 /
W&R391 / Cha490 / SP263 / URW117 / StF611 / Lau924</b><span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;"> Brother, sister, let me serve you / Won't you let me be your servant? </span>(Richard Gillard) I think you all know this one. <a href="http://www.pateys.nf.ca/cgi-bin/lyrics.pl?hymnnumber=635">Lyrics</a>. NCH has a nice turn on the lyrics with "Won't you let me be your servant?" as the first line. <span style="color: orange;">Oldy-but-a-goody.</span></li><li><span style="color: #990000; font-weight: bold;">TiS 236 / AHB 178 / CH351 / UMH273 / VU570 / HPP157 / W&R634 </span><span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;">Jesus' hands were kind hands</span>
(Margaret Cropper) Good old fashioned children's song. Lots of kids learn to play this on
piano, so if you have some budding piano students in your
congregation, it may be nice to invite one to play. <a href="https://www.hopepublishing.com/find-hymns-hw/hw4154.aspx">Sheet music & lyrics. </a><span style="color: magenta;">Good for kids </span><span style="color: orange;">Oldy-but-a-goody.</span></li><li><span style="color: #990000;"><b>NCH590 / CH621</b></span> <span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;">Spirit of Jesus, if I love my neighbour</span> (Brian Wren) Challenging
words of offering help from a position of privilege and seeking to be
set free from the entrapment of possessions “If I am hugging safety or
possessions, uncurl my spirit as your love prevails, to join my
neighbours, work for liberation, and find my freedom at the mark of
nails”. Could also be sung to the tune PERFECT LOVE if your congregation
would have trouble with the newer tune. <a href="https://www.hopepublishing.com/find-hymns-hw/hw2606.aspx">Sheet music & lyrics</a>.<span style="color: orange;"> New words to old tunes</span>. </li><li><span style="color: #990000;"><b>TiS 691</b></span><span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;"> Faith will not grow from words alone</span>
(Elizabeth Smith) This is an excellent hymn about doubting and struggling in
faith. The tune is familiar and I find the words very helpful for
thinking and doubting Christians. <a href="https://www.facebook.com/SaintMartinsAnglicanChurchCampbelltown/posts/655693384461588">Lyrics</a>.</li><li><b style="color: #990000;">TiS
640 / AHB 561 / ATE 310 / NCH498 / UMH432 / VU593 / WoV765 / ELW708 /
HPP446 / GtG203 / PH367 / G(II)296 / GC409 / GC(II)429 / G(3)505 / CP504
/ W&R273 / Cha600 / URW116 / 82Hml-602 / Lau241 / StF249 </b> <span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;">Jesu Jesu fill us with your love / Kneels at the feet of his friends </span>(Tom Colvin & people of Ghana) <a href="http://www.hymnary.org/hymn/PH/367">Lyrics</a>. <span style="color: magenta;">Good for kids</span><span style="color: orange;">Oldy-but-a-goody.</span></li><li><span style="color: #990000; font-weight: bold;">TiS 174 / UMH194 / A&M544 / CP(E)259 / 82Hml-585 / StF012 </span><span style="color: #000099;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Morning glory starlit sky</span> </span>(William Hubert Vanstone) Quite formal words, but very very beautiful song of God's
boundless love "Drained is love in making full, bound in setting others
free, poor in making many rich, weak in giving power to be". Not all sources are inclusive. The tune is
not difficult, but will need to be taught to a congregation if not
familiar. The lyrics could also be read as a poem, and challenges the
image of Christ as monarch, but also affirms God's reign. <a href="https://livingwittily.typepad.com/my_weblog/2007/04/around_the_time.html" target="_blank">Lyrics.</a></li><li><span style="color: #990000; font-weight: bold;">TiS 721 / Iona (LFB) / URW431 / StF344 / Lau124 </span><span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;">He became poor that we may be rich </span>(Iona)
A simple chant. Timing is a little bit tricky, so you will need to take
a little time to teach it initially. This has gorgeous parts if you
have some singers. <a href="https://www.methodist.org.uk/our-faith/worship/singing-the-faith-plus/hymns/he-became-poor-that-we-may-be-rich-stf-344/" target="_blank">Sound sample (instrumental)</a>.<br /></li><li><span style="color: #990000; font-weight: bold;">MV155 </span><span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;"> Unbounded spirit breath of God </span> (Brian Wren) Good solid words of commitment to faith and work; a communal song. Simple hymnlike tune. <a href="https://www.hopepublishing.com/find-hymns-hw/hw4187.aspx">Lyrics & sheet music</a>. </li><li><span style="color: #990000; font-weight: bold;">Online Resource / Walk as One </span><span style="color: #000099;"><b>Come come come come together</b></span> (David MacGregor) A boppy song about working together - a good song for sending out the congregation. <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BSid1bYo7EE" target="_blank">Lyric video</a>. <a href="https://www.cmla.org.au/product/walk-as-one-pdf-download/" target="_blank">Sheet music for purchase</a>. </li><li><b style="color: #990000;">CH348 / StS001 / LBW196 / ELW843 / A&M762 / G(3)625 / CP397 / W&R93 / SP304 / URW090</b> <span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;"> Praise the One Who Breaks the Darkness </span>
(Rusty Edwards) Good words of Christ's ministry to all. Can be sung to the
familiar tune NETTLETON, or the less familiar and very lovely tune JOEL. <a href="http://www.hopepublishing.com/html/main.isx?sitesec=40.2.1.0&hymnID=3722">Lyrics</a>. <span style="color: orange;">New words to old tunes </span> <span style="color: #990000; font-weight: bold;"> </span></li><li><span style="color: #990000; font-weight: bold;">AHB 168 / NCH166 / A&M675 / CP(E) 475 / MP328 </span><span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;"> Immortal love for ever full </span>
(John Greenleaf Whittier) Not all versions are inclusive. This is an
older style hymn. <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VXoVvxHmqtU">A beautiful choral version with video</a> (tune is different to hymnals, but the lyrics are the same). Thist would be nice to listen to!
</li><li><b style="color: #990000;">Taizé / MV075 / StS079 / SFFS 2118 / GtG284 / GC(II)479 / G(3)547 / SP99 / URW395 </b> <span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;"> Holy Spirit Come to Us / Veni sancte spiritus tui amoris </span> (Jacques Berthier) Best if you have a cantor, but works well if you don't, too. <a href="http://www.taize.fr/spip.php?page=chant&song=511&lang=en">Sheet music, translations, sound samples</a>.</li><li><b style="color: #990000;">TiS 341 / AHB 257 / NCH222 / CH399 / VU143 / A&M147 / WoV661 / LBW094 /
ELW782 / SFFS 2083 / HPP329 / GtG209 / PH076 / CP184 / CP(E) 112 /
Srce2-426 / 82Hml-458 / Lau752 / StF277 / MP478 </b> <span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;"> My song is love unknown </span>
(Samuel Crossman) I really love this old and beautiful song. I prefer it sung
to LOVE UNKNOWN. <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/My_Song_Is_Love_Unknown">Lyrics</a>. <span style="color: orange;">New words to old tunes</span> </li><li><b style="color: #990000;">Online Resource / Worldmaking</b> <span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;">O Christ, Lamb of God </span>(Richard Bruxvoort-Colligan) A more modern Agnus Dei, with Christ sharing our weakness. <a href="https://psalmimmersion.bandcamp.com/track/o-christ-lamb-of-god-an-agnus-dei" target="_blank">Lyrics and sound sample</a>.</li><li><b style="color: #990000;">TiS
242 / AHB 183 / AoV1-018 / ATN 27 / CH404 / UMH261 / VU352 / A&M667 / HPP163 /
GtG157 / PH302 / G(II)481 / GC708 / GC(II)689 / G(3)796 / CP(E) 468 / W&R118 / Lau765</b><span style="color: #990000;"><b> / StF247</b></span> <span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;">I danced in the morning / Lord of the Dance</span> (Sydney Carter). <a href="https://stainer.co.uk/lord-of-the-dance/">Lyrics and tidbits of info.</a>You all know this one, right? For Passion Sunday, it may be best to
stop this partway through, and sing the rest on Easter Sunday. <span style="color: magenta;">Good for kids</span><span style="color: orange;"> Oldy-but-a-goody.</span> </li><li><b style="color: #990000;">GtB</b> <span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;">God is love and love is giving </span>(Ross Langmead)
A simple kids' song about God's love. A round. <a href="http://rosslangmead.50webs.com/rl/songs.html">Sound sample</a>. <span style="color: magenta;">Good for kids</span></li><li><b style="color: #990000;">Tune In / Online Resource <span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;">O Spirit God to you we pray / In the shape of a cross</span></b> (Dave Brown) A cry to God for help. <a href="http://brunswick.unitingchurch.org.au/worship/the-arts-in-worship/tune-in/">Free downloadable songbook and sound samples.</a> </li><li><span style="color: #990000; font-weight: bold;">Online resource / MV047 </span><span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;"> Born in human likeness </span> (Bruce Harding) A simple Christmas round. <a href="https://evensong.ca/lyrics-search-results/?search-query=born+in+human+likeness">Sheet music</a>. <span style="color: magenta;">Good for kids.</span> </li></ul>
<span style="font-size: large;"><b><a href="http://lectionary.library.vanderbilt.edu/texts.php?id=103#gospel_reading">Luke 2:15-21</a></b></span><br />
<i>The angels sing; the shepherds arrive!</i><br />
<span style="color: #38761d;"><a href="http://lectionarysong.blogspot.com.au/2010/12/big-list-of-christmas-carols.html">Here's a big list of Christmas carols to choose from.</a></span>
</div>Lectionary Singer (Natalie Sims)http://www.blogger.com/profile/15635861565689089555noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3953574041544310550.post-38439862836359285102023-12-17T02:50:00.000-08:002024-02-04T23:49:35.161-08:00Songs, Hymns & Music for Christmas 1B (31 December 2023)<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="font-size: 130%;"><span style="color: #6aa84f;"><b><i>New Year's songs and hymns are <a href="http://lectionarysong.blogspot.com/2010/11/songs-for-new-years-day.html">here</a>. </i></b><br /></span>
<span style="color: #6aa84f;"><b><i>Don't forget to sing some <a href="http://lectionarysong.blogspot.com/2010/12/big-list-of-christmas-carols.html">Christmas Songs and Carols</a> - it's still Christmas! </i></b></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><a href="http://lectionary.library.vanderbilt.edu/texts.php?id=55#hebrew_reading">Isaiah 61:10-62:3</a></b></span> <br />
<span style="font-style: italic;">A song of rejoicing - you could really sing just about anything....</span><br />
<ul style="text-align: left;">
<li><b><span style="color: #990000;">NCH107 / LBW633 / ELW242 / GtG107 / GC346 / GC(II)351 / G(3)423 / W&R160 / Cha138 / Lau157 </span> </b> <span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;"> Awake Awake and greet the new morn </span>(Marty Haugen) Although this is usually sung in Advent, I think you could sing it in the Epiphany season. <a href="http://www.hymnary.org/text/awake_awake_and_greet_the_new_morn">Lyrics, sound samples & sheet music.</a></li>
<li><b style="color: #990000;">NCH164 / VU79 / StS030 / WoV652 / LBW652 / ELW314 / PH411 / GtG744 / W&R231 / URW138 </b> <span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;"> Arise your light is come! </span> (Ruth Duck) Good general words of Christ coming to bring justice; sung to the familiar tune ST. THOMAS (TiS 271). <a href="http://www.nak-gesangbuch.de/index.php?html=ennehhym500">Lyrics</a>.<span style="color: orange;"> New words to old tunes</span></li>
<li><b style="color: #990000; font-weight: bold;">TiS
224 / AHB 159 / TOSB004 / NCH304 / CH457 / UMH154/5 / VU334 /
LBW328 / LBW329 / ELW634 / A&M223 / HPP215 / PH142/3 / GtG263 /
GC485 / GC(II)490 / G(3)570 / CP321/2 / CP(E)163 / W&R100/106 /
Cha091 / Cha092 / Srce9 / 82Hml-450 / StF342 / Lau323 / MP013 </b><span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;"> All hail the power of Jesus' name </span>(Edward Perronet) Maybe this would work; most versions are not very inclusive. I love the tune DIADEM, but maybe the words are
too obscure for people who haven't grown up in the church... Might need
some words of introduction? I think if you're going to use this reading, then you may as well sing something like this one. <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7vWF_lctSTo" target="_blank">Sound sample (YouTube)</a>. <a href="https://hymnary.org/text/all_hail_the_power_of_jesus_name_let">Lyrics</a>. <span style="color: orange;">Oldy-but-a-goody</span>.</li>
<li><b style="color: #990000;">Traditional / ATA 124 / SLW42 / UMH494 / GtG472 / PH338 / W&R487 / Cha590 / PfAS079A</b> <span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;">Kumbaya, my Lord</span> (South Carolina Creole Song) I think this song is really beautiful sometimes. Sometimes it’s really
awful too, unfortunately. If we sing this as a song from an enslaved
community seeking the presence of God, it is much more meaningful than
if we sing it as a 1960s folk song. <a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/122662799375/permalink/10160084236589376/" target="_blank">My thoughts and some helpful links</a>.</li>
<li><b style="color: #990000;">VU699 / GtG772 / PH332</b> <span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;">Live into hope of captives freed </span>(Jane Parker Huber) Excellent words to the familiar tune TRURO. <a href="http://worship-organizer.awtrey.com/hymnal/?number=332">Lyrics</a>. <span style="color: orange;">New words to old tunes.</span></li>
<li><b style="color: #990000;">Online Resource / Tune In / NCYC '07</b> <span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;">Forgive us now </span>(Dave Brown)
This is one of the best songs seeking forgiveness that I know. <a href="http://brunswick.unitingchurch.org.au/worship/the-arts-in-worship/tune-in/">Free downloadable songbook. </a>"Forgive us now, O mother love for all the idols we have built, For all
the time we’ve worshiped there in company of dark despair. Forgive us
mother of all hope”. </li>
<li><span style="color: #990000; font-weight: bold;">Online Resource / AoVK-124 </span> <span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;"> Shout for joy </span><span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;">to the Lord </span><span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;">all the earth </span> (Nathaniel Ford) A
fun three part song. I found it hard to find a song that would be
appropriate for kids for this reading, but thought that the idea of not
keeping silent, and speaking out might be a good theme. Perhaps this
song would fit. <a href="https://willowpublishing.com.au/product/shout-for-joy/" target="_blank">Sound sample, sheet music sample and purchasing options</a>. <span style="color: magenta;">Good for kids.</span> </li>
<li><span style="color: #990000; font-weight: bold;">StJ / GC(II)670 / G(3)772 </span> <span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;"> How Can We Be Silent? </span>
(Michael Mahler) An energetic song about speaking up about the good news of
Christ. The refrain can also be used as a round, so you could do both,
or just use the refrain if you want something simple. <a href="http://c1824532.cdn.cloudfiles.rackspacecloud.com/CG_221.mp3">Sound sample</a>. <a href="http://c1824532.cdn.cloudfiles.rackspacecloud.com/CG_221-1.jpg">Sheet music sample. </a><span style="color: magenta;">Good for teenagers, or for kids if you use only the chorus.</span><span style="color: #990000;"><b> </b></span></li>
<li><span style="color: #990000;"><b>Online Resource / Tune In: </b></span><span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;">All will finish well</span> (Brown "You, in all our darkness, you offer peace.”…. a simple anthemic song of hope. <a href="http://brunswick.unitingchurch.org.au/worship/the-arts-in-worship/tune-in/">Free downloadable songbook. </a> </li>
</ul>
<span style="font-size: large;"><b><a href="http://lectionary.library.vanderbilt.edu/texts.php?id=55#psalm_reading">Psalm 148</a></b></span> <br />
<span style="font-style: italic;">All creation sings God's praise</span><br />
<ul style="text-align: left;"><li><b style="color: #990000;">TiS 268 /
AHB 224 / AoV1-170 / NCH132 / CH320 / UMH246 / VU59 / LBW039 /
ELW267 / GA295 / HPP107 / PH040 / GtG134 / GC343 / GC(II)353 /
G(3)437 / CP154 / CP(E) 57 / W&R179 / Cha143 / Srce399 / 82Hml-100
/ Lau156 / StF330 / MP393</b> <b style="color: #000099;"> Joy to the world The Lord is come </b>
(Isaac Watts) It's Christmas! Sing Christmas carols! This one is
especially good (even though it's not REALLY a Christmas Carol). <a href="https://hymnary.org/text/joy_to_the_world_the_lord_is_come">Lyrics & sheet music</a>.<a href="http://lectionarysong.blogspot.com/2010/12/big-list-of-christmas-carols.html"> </a><span style="color: orange;">Oldy-but-a-goody</span>.</li><li><b style="color: #990000;">AoV2-120 / AoVK-009</b> <span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;">God Is Good let the sun and moon and stars say "God is Good"</span>
(Kathy Chan) Fun. Not easy, but probably worth the effort if you feel like
learning something new, or giving your musicians a challenge. <a href="https://www.sixmaddens.org/god-is-good-aov-2120/" target="_blank">Lyrics</a>. <a href="http://www.asonevoice.com.au/explore-songs/god-is-good?A=SearchResult&SearchID=61624678&ObjectID=1215091&ObjectType=35">Sound sample</a>. <span style="color: magenta;">Good for kids (but I don't think it has to sound as childish as the sound sample).</span></li><li><span style="color: #990000; font-weight: bold;">GtG018 / PfAS148E </span><span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;"> Hallelujah sing praise to your creator </span>
(Tilly Lubis) Joyful words set to a traditional Indonesian melody
(NYANYIKANLAH NYANYIAN BARU). GtG is more inclusive than PfAS. <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K_BwKtDpLzA">Sound sample (youtube)</a></li><li><span style="color: #990000;"><b>TiS 715 / Srce2-112</b></span> <span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;"> Everything that has breath </span>
(Traditional Czech / trans. Eva Greig) A lovely simple round, set to the tune of "Ah poor bird". Would be a really nice relaxing start to
worship. <span style="color: magenta;">Good for kids. </span><span style="color: orange;">New words to old tunes</span> </li><li><b style="color: #990000;">PH274</b> <span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;">O God of Earth and Space</span>
(Jane Parker Huber) Terrific words by Jane Parker Huber to a well known Jewish hymn
tune (LEONI). "Wherever freedom reigns, where sin is overthrown, Where justice
fused with mercy rules, there you are known. Give us the courage clear,
to make the earth a home, For all to live in harmony, in Christ’s
shalom." Highly recommended. <a href="http://www.digitalsongsandhymns.com/songs/4733">lyrics</a>.<span style="color: orange;">New words to old tunes</span> </li><li><b style="color: #990000;">TiS 281 / AHB 214</b> <span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;">When God Almighty came to be one of us</span> (Michael Hewlett) This is a great Christmas season song, particularly for Epiphany next
week also. It’s also set to a very easy (and fun) tune to sing
(URQUHART). I especially love verse 3 "Wise men, they called them,
earnest astrologers, watching for meaning in the moving stars, science
or fancy, learned or laughable, theirs was a vision that was brought to
pass. Sing all you wise men, dance all the scientists whether your
theories are false or true. God uses knowledge, God uses ignorance. God at his coming had a need of you". <a href="http://barefootandlaughing.blogspot.com.au/2005/12/merry-christmas.html">Lyrics</a>.</li><li><span style="color: #990000; font-weight: bold;">GtG017 </span><span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;"> Sing praise to God you heavens </span> (Herman Stuempfle) A fairly standard paraphrase of the Psalm. I just love the
singing planets, and the mountains thrusting skywards. Ah, it's a
good'un. Oh, and the sheep. I like those singing sheep. <a href="https://hymnary.org/text/sing_praise_to_god_you_heavens">Sheet music & lyrics</a>. </li><li><b style="color: #990000;">ATW 422 / NCYC'99</b> <span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;"> And you sun and moon and stars (Canticle of Daniel) </span> (Don Stewart) This is a big favourite in our congregation. It has wonderful energy and excellent lyrics. <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rWzqPov0k3E" target="_blank">Lyric video</a>. <br /></li><li><span style="color: #990000;"><b>TiS 187 / AoV2-130 / CH149 / StS122 / A&M539 / SP247</b></span> <span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;">Let all creation dance</span> (Brian Wren) I just love the imagery of this one, and it's a very joyous and familiar hymn tune too. <a href="http://www.hopepublishing.com/html/main.isx?sitesec=40.2.1.0&hymnID=2733">Lyrics</a> <span style="color: orange;">New words to old tunes</span></li><li><b style="color: #990000;">TiS 181 / AoV2-032 / GC(II)497 / G(3)577 / CP589</b> <span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;">Come O God of all the earth / Sing Out Earth and Skies</span>
(Marty Haugen) A very joyful song for cantor and congregation, or small group
and congregation; this is a big favourite in our church. <a href="http://c1824532.cdn.cloudfiles.rackspacecloud.com/GC2_497-1.jpg">Sheet music, lyrics</a> and <a href="http://c1824532.cdn.cloudfiles.rackspacecloud.com/GC2_497-1.mp3">sound sample</a>.</li><li><span style="color: #990000; font-weight: bold;">ATE 216 / Iona (SBL) / CH126 / StJ / PH472 / G(II)365 / GC527 / RS 671 / CP417 / W&R15 / StF042</span><span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;"> O sing to the Lord / Cantai ao Senhor / </span>Cantad
al Señor (Traditional Brazilian) A good, fun and simple song that is
easy to learn in Portuguese or Spanish too; note that not all versions
are inclusive. <a href="http://www.hymnary.org/tune/cantai_ao_senhor_brazilian">Sheet music samples</a>.
<span style="color: magenta;">Good for kids!</span></li><li><b style="color: #990000;">TiS
152 / NCH4 / UMH89 / VU232 / LBW551 / ELW836 / HPP22 / GtG611 / PH464 / GC529 /
GC(II)520 / G(3)614 / CP425 / W&R59 / Cha002 / URW065 / 82Hml-376</b> <span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;"> Joyful joyful we adore thee </span>
(Henry van Dyke) Note that this hymn is not always very inclusive. I
prefer more modern translations (e.g. TiS, VU, NCH, GC(II) ). <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hymn_of_Joy">Older version lyrics and tune sample.</a> <span style="color: orange;">Oldy-but-a-goody</span>.</li><li><b style="color: #990000;">TiS
755 / ATA 196 / CH804 / VU884 / SFFS 2278 / A&M484 / HPP219 /
GTG080 / CP662 / W&R710 / SP82 / Srcs830 / URW449 / Lau878 / STF487 / MP796</b> <span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;">You shall go out with joy / The trees of the field </span>(Stuart Dauermann and Steffi Rubins) This is a good hand clappy foot stomping song. Fun. <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g6JoQTrX2ic" target="_blank">Here's a dance you could do</a>. <span style="color: magenta;">Good for kids. </span><span style="color: orange;">Oldy-but-a-goody.</span></li></ul><span style="font-size: large;"><b><a href="http://lectionary.library.vanderbilt.edu/texts.php?id=55#epistle_reading">Galatians 4:4-7</a></b></span><br />
<span style="font-style: italic;">Being adopted children of God</span><br />
<ul style="text-align: left;">
<li><b style="color: #990000;">Online Resource / TiS 465 / AHB 399 / ATA 115 / NCH279 / A&M271 / Iona (SBL) / CH116 / GA381 / Lau313 / StF004</b> <span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;"> Our God in heaven / Father in heaven / Loving Creator grant to your children </span>
(Daniel T Niles / Elena Maquiso) I really like this hymn, especially the Philippino
folk melody to which it's set. Newer versions of the hymn from the
Christian Conference of Asia have altered the lyrics to "Our God in
heaven / Creator God" in the first verse. Other versions, such as CH4
have "Loving Creator / Parent and God". <a href="https://hymnary.org/text/father_in_heaven_grant_to_your_children" target="_blank">Older style lyrics, sheet music and sound samples</a>. <br /></li><li><span style="color: #990000;"><b>TiS
417 / AoV2-133 / ATW 448 / VU387 / StJ / WoV683 / ELW397 / AA94 /
HPP237 / GtG293 / PH323 / CP657 / W&R135 / Cha244 / URW203 / StB220 / VF051</b></span> <span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;">Loving Spirit, Loving Spirit </span>(Shirley Murray).
There are about a zillion tunes set for this. I prefer FELICITY (by
Colin Gibson TiS 417), but also like RESTORATION and OMNI DIE. Lyrics
are <a href="http://spiritlodge.yuku.com/topic/3637/t/Loving-Spirit.html">here. </a><span style="color: orange;">New words to old tunes</span></li><li><b style="color: #990000;">MV157</b> <span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;">I am a child of God</span> (Bruce Harding) A simple song with powerful words. Good for kids and adults alike. Very easy to learn. <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RKs1mJDkwkI" target="_blank">Lyric video</a>. <span style="color: magenta;">Good for kids.</span></li><li><span style="color: #990000; font-weight: bold;">CH329 / AA108 / CoC33 </span> <span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;"> O little Love who comes again / Peace Carol </span>
(Shirley Murray) A lovely gentle and thoughtful Christmas song, which would
also work for Epiphany and the Christmas season. It fits well with this
reading. <a href="https://www.hopepublishing.com/find-hymns-hw/hw9008_40.aspx" target="_blank">Lyrics</a>.<b style="color: #990000;"> </b></li><li><b style="color: #990000;">Online Resource / TiS 303 / AHB 227 </b><b style="color: #990000;">/
AoV1-171 / NCH144 / CH301 / UMH240 / VU048 / LBW060 / ELW270 / GA294
/ HPP123 / PH031 / GtG119 / GC348 / GC(II)356 / G(3)424 / CP138 / CP(E) 53 /
W&R185 / Cha150 / ZSS62 / Srce202 / 82Hml-087 / Lau155</b> <span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;"> Hark the herald angels sing </span> (Charles Wesley) One of those carols that we sing pretty much every year at Brunswick. <a href="https://hymnary.org/text/hark_the_herald_angels_sing_glory_to" target="_blank">Lyrics, sheet music and sound sample</a>. <span style="color: orange;">Oldy-but-a-goody</span>.</li></ul></div>
<span style="font-size: large;"><b><a href="http://lectionary.library.vanderbilt.edu/texts.php?id=55#gospel_reading">Luke 2:22-40</a></b></span><br />
<span style="font-style: italic;">Jesus presented to Anna and Simeon</span><br />
<ul style="text-align: left;">
<li><b style="color: #990000;">Peter Gador-Whyte</b> <span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;">Nunc Dimittis </span>(Peter Gador-Whyte) This
Uniting church minister has written a really nice
setting of the Nunc Dimittis – it has a cantor line and a very simple
refrain, which congregations will pick up very easily. If you don't have
a singer who can act as cantor, a reader can also be used, with the
congregation joining together in the refrain after each line is read.
Christopher Willcock has written a nice accompaniment. I don't know how to get it, but maybe you are lucky and have a copy? </li>
<li><b style="color: #990000;">Online Resource / G(II)562 / GC776 / GC(II)767</b><b style="color: #990000;"> / G(3)874 / URW027</b> <span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;">Now Let Your Servant Go</span>
(Ruth Duck) Excellent words present the Nunc Dimittis to a familiar chant tune. If you have a
non-chanting congregation, just use the tune for "Creator of the stars
of night" (NCH 111) which is an adapted chant and no-one will ever
suspect that they were chanting. <a href="https://www.giamusic.com/store/resource/now-let-your-servant-go-in-peace-pdf-d383329" target="_blank">Lyrics, sheet music sample and purchasing options</a>. <span style="color: #990000; font-weight: bold;"> <br /></span></li>
<li><span style="color: #990000; font-weight: bold;">GtG148 / StF229 </span><span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;"> Mary and Joseph came to the temple </span>
(Andrew Pratt) A song about Mary and Joseph bringing Jesus to the temple to
meet Anna and Simeon. The tune will need to be taught, but is not
terribly hard. Or you could sing it to the more familiar tune BUNESSAN. <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W0wSHa7QyQo" target="_blank">Lyric video (set to BUNESSAN)</a>. <span style="color: orange;">New words to old tunes</span></li>
<li><span style="color: #990000; font-weight: bold;">TiS
733 / VU903 /
PH604 / 82Hml-499 </span> <span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;"> Lord God you now have set your servant free </span> (Rae Whitney) A very straightforward and traditional blessing based on this reading. <a href="http://ehymnbook.org/CMMS/hymnSong.php?id=pd08899" target="_blank">Lyrics</a>.<br /></li>
<li><span style="color: #990000; font-weight: bold;">SP&P207 </span><span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;"> Now you are releasing your servant </span> (Christopher Grundy) A more modern Nunc Dimittis. This will need to be taught, because the timing is a little tricky. <a href="http://www.christophergrundy.com/recordings/">Sound sample</a> (scroll down).</li><li><b style="color: #990000;">Online Resource </b><span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;">The old ones among us </span>(Carolyn Winfrey Gillette) This song honouring our elders is set to CRADLE SONG - the tune for Away in a Manger. <a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/SingingFromTheLectionary/permalink/10160810379499871/" target="_blank">Lyrics</a>.<span style="color: orange;"> New words to old tunes</span></li><li><b style="color: #990000;">Online Resource </b><span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;">Night and Day praying and watching / Anna of Asher </span>(Richard Bruxvoort-Colligan) A lovely song about Anna of Asher and her life of faith, and singing of praise. Probably more a song that you can invite your congregation to listen to, and to join in on the chorus as they get to know it. <a href="https://www.worldmaking.net/anna-of-asher">Lyrics, Youtube video with lyrics, sheet music packages for purchase</a>. </li>
<li><b style="color: #990000;">Online Resource</b> <span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;">Holy One, Now Let Your Servants </span>(Richard Bruxvoort-Colligan) A
nice sending out song that picks up the song of Simeon. Probably too
tricky for a congregation to sing the first time they hear it, but
perhaps your musicians can play it. <a href="http://www.worldmaking.net/holy-one-now-let">Sound sample, lyrics and source.</a></li>
<li><b style="color: #990000;">AoV2-125 / ATA 132</b> <span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;">Lift this child to the sun (Anna's song)</span>
(Norm Habel / Robin Mann) We used to sing this a fair bit at baptisms. It would be nice to
sing it for this story too (even more appropriate, really). Lyrics <a href="http://www.robinmann.com.au/rs/7/sites/1178/user_uploads/File/All%20Songs%20%28PDF%29/annassong.pdf">here</a>.</li>
<li><b style="color: #990000;">TiS 324 / GtG545 / AHB 248 / PH603 / PfAS1051 / </b><span style="color: #990000; font-weight: bold;">URW024</span> <span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;">Lord bid your servant go in peace</span>
(James Quinn) Inclusive save for the last verse which is a Trinitarian
blessing. Familiar American folk tune (LAND OF REST). Lyrics can be found <a href="http://www.splp.org/Word___Sacrament-February_2_2014.pdf">here</a>
in an order of worship. It could also be sung to the tune MORNING SONG
(Awake awake to love and work) - just the first four lines of the tune.<span style="color: #990000; font-weight: bold;"> </span><span style="color: orange;">New words to old tunes</span></li>
<li><span style="color: #990000; font-weight: bold;">Taizé / URW385 </span> <span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;"> Let your servant now go in peace / Nunc Dimittis</span> (Jacques Berthier) Very simple and straightforward. <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HxImvzpzLV0" target="_blank">Sound sample</a>.<br /></li>
<li><span style="color: #990000; font-weight: bold;">URW026 </span><span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;"> Now Lord you have kept your word </span>
(Hal Hopson) Fun arrangement, with a simple chant by the congregation
singing "Go now in peace" on the same two tones while a cantor sings the
Nunc Dimittis over the top. I think this would be worth the effort -
even better if you can teach the congregation more than just the melody
line of the chant. <a href="https://hymnary.org/text/now_lord_you_have_kept_your_word_hopson" target="_blank">Lyrics</a>.<br /></li>
<li><span style="color: #990000; font-weight: bold;">Iona (T1AU) / MV166 / URW425 </span><span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;"> Jesus Christ Jesus Christ son of God among us </span> (John Bell) A simple short song. Good for the Christmas season. <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mmWhpuS7QCE" target="_blank">Sound sample</a>. <span style="color: magenta;">Good for kids</span>.</li>
<li> <span style="color: #990000;"><b>TiS 526 / AHB 451 / A&M712 / CP(E) 505 / StF594 / Lau772 / MP435</b></span> <span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;"> Lord Jesus Christ you have come to us </span> (Patrick Appleford) The second verse is particularly appropriate. I haven't sung this for ages; not sure why. <a href="http://www.breadsite.org/lyrics/388.htm">Lyrics</a>.<span style="color: #990000; font-weight: bold;"> </span></li>
<li><span style="color: #990000; font-weight: bold;">CH333 </span><span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;"> Now Lord according to your word </span>
(Scottish paraphrases) Pretty standard old
fashioned paraphrase to a familiar tune (LAND OF REST). <a href="https://music.churchofscotland.org.uk/hymn/333-now-lord-according-to-thy-word" target="_blank">Sound sample</a>. <span style="color: orange;">New words to old tunes</span></li>
<li><b style="color: #990000;">Online Resource </b><span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;">O God now let your servant depart in peace </span>(Greg Scheer) A peaceful lilting Nunc Dimittis; not immediately easy for a congregation to sing, but it's lovely. <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wd6cJC8cjsM">Youtube.</a> <a href="https://www.google.com.au/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=2&ved=0ahUKEwiPqI2d5IHYAhVCvbwKHccRCFoQFggsMAE&url=http%3A%2F%2Ftgc-documents.s3.amazonaws.com%2FLukeAlbum%2FCharts%2Flord_god_now_let_your_servant_depart_D_CHART_ZS_3.13.13_revised.pdf&usg=AOvVaw0PHYCnB0A-eCWiwPMeyWoN">Chords and lyrics</a>. Thanks Tim Larson for this suggestion (back in 2011!)</li>
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<span style="color: #274e13;"><b><i>What songs will you be singing? I'd love to hear your ideas! Please add them in a comment below. </i></b></span> Lectionary Singer (Natalie Sims)http://www.blogger.com/profile/15635861565689089555noreply@blogger.com3