Here are few ideas for music for forthcoming Sundays and Solemnities. However, we recommend The Liturgy Planner which is published by Decani Music. We also recommend Music & Liturgy, the journal of The Society of St Gregory, which includes an excellent music planner and is free to members – worth taking out an annual subscription.
The new Lectionary has arrived. And, with it, a new version of the psalms.
But don’t panic – there’s a three-year grace period during which we can switch!
MusicforLiturgy.online is a new website, carrying settings of the psalms for the new Lectionary. The site is currently showing settings of the psalms from the First Sunday of Advent to the Sundays of Easter by John Ainslie, Nick Baty, Philip Jakob and Alan Smith. More on the way!
Eastertide
There is an endless selection of hymns for the Sundays of Easter so do check the Easter sections of your hymnbook. Those listed below may be less well-known or fit specific Sundays. But any song proclaiming “He is risen”, or “This is the day” can be sung throughout the season.
08 June – Pentecost
• Psalms from Music for Liturgy
Breathe on me, breath of God
Come down, O love divine
Come Holy Ghost, creator, come
God’s spirit is in my heart
Litany of the Spirit – Inwood
Send forth your spirit
Spirit of the living God
Spirit of God – Farrell
Veni Creator Spiritus – Plainsong
Veni Sancte Spiritus – Baty
Veni Sancte Spiritus – Walker
Wisdom, come softly – Barry
15 June – Trinity
• Psalms from Music for Liturgy
Abba, Father, send your spirit
Be still for the presence of the Lord
Come, praise the Lord
Father, in my life I see
Father, Lord of all creation
Father, we adore you
Firmly I believe and truly
God beyond all names
Holy God, we praise your name
Immortal, invisible, God only wise
Praise to the Lord, the almighty
Thou whose almighty word
We Come to Your Table contains 21 songs for the Communion Procession. Each piece has a refrain for the assembly and verses for the cantor.
All can be accompanied by keyboard or guitar, but optional instrument and choir parts are provided for the more adventurous community.
A4 paperback. 64 pages. £12.
ISBN: 9798840779330
22 June – The Body and Blood of Christ
• Psalms from Music for Liturgy
Alleluia! Sing to Jesus
Bread for the world – Farrell
Gifts of bread and wine
Let all mortal flesh keep silence
Love is his word
Now in this banquet – Haugen
Of the glorious body telling
This is my body
Within the reign of God
You are the living bread – Baty (Communion Song)
29 June – Saints Peter and Paul
• Psalms from Music for Liturgy
By all your saints still striving
Church of God, elect and glorious
For all the saints
I will be with you (Communion Song) – Baty
In the Lord I’ll be ever thankful – Taizé
Into a world of darkness
Taste and See (Communion Song) – Baty
The Church’s one foundation
Thy hand, O God, has guided
Unless a grain of wheat – Bernadette Farrell
Until you come again contains a selection of service music in a variety of styles. The collection includes three settings of the Gloria, seven Gospel Greetings and six sets of Eucharistic Acclamations.
All can be accompanied by organ/piano or guitar and often both but optional instrument and choir parts and provided for the more adventurous community.
A4 paperback. 102 pages. £10.