Songs for Saturday, July 27, 2013

Sorry for the late post, folks -- VBS has been eating up all my time (huge thanks to Joe for lending us a whole bunch of Western items!). This week is the 17th Sunday in Ordinary Time.

First of all, really nice work to the folks who were at mass last week! We were definitely thin on people, but thanks to a few non-regulars who jumped in and Barry's leadership, we managed to do pretty well. Our entrances were very much improved from last week, and there weren't nearly as many mistakes. I had fun despite filling in for no less than three people, and got plenty of compliments on how we sounded. Thankfully, we should (almost) be back to full strength this Saturday with both Jim and Karina returning (Barry will be out-of-town).

Songs for Saturday, July 20, 2013

This week is the 16th Sunday in Ordinary Time. 

Jim and Karina are out this week, leaving Barry and I in charge. They both should be back next Saturday, July 27th. I'd suggest a rehearsal after mass next week to go over Ginny's music for August. No one is scheduled to pick music for September, but with Jonathan returning soon, we'll hold off until we know how he wants to handle that.

I ended up picking some less-familiar tunes for this week, so things may be a little tricky with only one instrument to carry melody (besides guitars). I may try to reach out to Mike Lannagan (violin) to see if he'd be able to come and help us out. He's worked with us in the past, but it's been quite a while since I've seen him.

Songs for Saturday, July 13, 2013

This week is the 15th Sunday in Ordinary Time.

Jim (and possibly Karina) will be out this week. Because of this, Barry has made another minor revision to our program, replacing 'Where Charity and Love Prevail' with 'All That We Have'. The ladder is a fairly new song for us, having only done it a few times previously.

In addition, Ginny has suggested squeezing Killoren's 'We Are the People' somewhere into mass since we'll be celebrating our parish Birthday on Sunday. It might make a good prelude/practice song before mass if Father is willing. Barry is not familiar with this particular tune, though, so I'm not sure if we'll do it or not.

Songs for Saturday, July 6, 2013

This week is the 14th Sunday in Ordinary Time.We're starting a new cycle of music for July, and Ginny already has the songs for August selected. By that time, Jonathan should be back so he'll probably take over song selection.

Father has already made revisions (for the whole month!) and I also made some changes based on what we discussed at rehearsal last week. We have Psalm cantors for all four masses and there's one Baptism next week, July 13th. Finally, Jim will be out on the 13th and 20th due to vacation.