This Saturday is the 23rd Sunday in Ordinary Time.
Our music for September has been approved with no changes. Father Charlie's only comment was that we should work with the congregation on our Communion song, as it's one that they're not as familiar with. The refrain is also a bit on the long side.
We did 'Lead Me, Lord' last week as our Offertory song. Repeating it wasn't intentional; I just didn't realize I had it down two weeks in a row until after finalizing the music for September. Regardless, we may want to take this slightly faster to make it more appropriate for Gathering. Also, just a reminder to watch the rhythms on the refrain (especially phrases such as 'lead me, Lord...' and 'be my way...'), as everyone wasn't doing them the same way last week.
Stay tuned for a proposal regarding creating a cantor rotation; in the meantime, if anyone would like to cantor, let me know.
'We Come Today' is our Communion song for September. If you don't know this one, please look it over before Saturday. Since the rest of the tunes for this week are familiar, I'd like to focus on this before Mass to make sure we're confident and comfortable with it. My suggestion would again be to start this right at the beginning of Communion rather than waiting until everyone returns (as long as we have the numbers, of course). Having one or two singers and a couple of instruments would probably be enough.
As you know, 'I Danced in the Morning' is one of Father Charlie's favorites -- lets have fun with it! The song is very 'wordy', though, and can be difficult to keep together, so we don't want to muddle the lyrics by trying to take it too fast.
I know it's a holiday weekend, so please give me a heads up if you're planning to be out. If I don't see you, happy Labor Day! The same goes for next Saturday, 11/10, as I'll be tied up that night and won't be at Mass.
UPDATE: 08/30: Jim will be out this week.
UPDATE: 9/02: Jonathan and Barry will be joining us on Saturday, bringing our instrument compliment (more-or-less) back up to full strength :-)
Gathering:
SS #107 – Lead Me, Lord
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Glory to God:
Mass of Creation
Response:
SS #056 – Ps 19 – Your Words Are Spirit and Life
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Gospel Acclamation:
Mass of Creation
Offertory:
GC #688 – Two Fisherman
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Holy, Holy, Holy:
Mass of Creation
Eucharistic Acclamation:
Mass of Creation
Eucharistic Doxology:
Mass of Creation
Lamb of God:
Mass of Creation
Communion:
SS #167 – We Come Today
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Closing:
GC #708 – I Danced in the Morning
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