Songs & Updates for Saturday, August 6, 2016


This Saturday is the 19th Sunday in Ordinary Time.
Mass last week was very solid and definitely one of our strongest in a while! Everything went smoothly (even with a visiting priest) and I heard some excellent vocal and instrumental harmonies. It was great to have both Joe and Jonathan with us as well -- speaking of Joe, I'd like to officially welcome him back to the group as our percussionist!

Our music for August has been approved with no changes. We do have a Baptism this week, so I made the appropriate changes to the program. The Gloria will be used as our Gathering song and Killoren's 'Living Water' will be used for the Sprinkling Rite. I know we typically do 'There is a Well' for this, but I got a request the last time we had a Baptism for a change in pace. Moving forward, we can alternate between the two.

If someone would like to cantor the Psalm, let me know. Note we'll be using Refrain III.

The Killoren arrangement of 'We Are one Body' will be our Communion song for August. At this point, I'm not going to worry about squeezing in an extra practice since we all know the tune; it'll just be a matter of making sure we're on the same page with the arrangement. Again, I'd like to suggest we use the Killoren version as a baseline and tweak it from there. Please plan to be ready to start practice at 4:30 so we have plenty of time to work this out.

For 'In the Day of the Lord', we may only want to do the first three verses. This was originally split between Gathering and Closing before I found out about the Baptism.

Lastly, on an unrelated side note, you might want to take a few minutes to check out the new Parish website. It's still a work-in-progress, but definitely a marked improvement over the original. Chris, who plays piano at the 9 AM Mass and also records Father's homilies, spearheaded this project.

Eva is (tentatively) out this week.

Lisa is out this week and next.

Gathering:
Glory to God (Mass of Creation)

Response:
GC #045 – Ps 33 – Let Your Mercy Be on Us (Ref III)
Materials (audio) (sheet music)

Gospel Acclamation:
Mass of Creation

Sprinkling Rite:
Living Water (Killoren)
Materials (audio) (sheet music)

Offertory:
SS #116 – Holy Spirit
Materials (audio) (sheet music)

Holy, Holy, Holy:
Mass of Creation

Eucharistic Acclamation:
Mass of Creation

Eucharistic Doxology:
Mass of Creation

Lamb of God:
Mass of Creation

Communion:
SS #165 – We Are One Body
Materials (audio) (sheet music)

Closing:
SS #121 – In the Day of the Lord
Materials (audio) (sheet music)

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