This article originally published May 11, 2017

Here is the result of a collaboration done in two days between me, Dan-Vi Nguyen (user asiansa09) and André van Haren. Dan-Vi's original post is here – you can see how the song progressed.

4/29/2017: A piano-guitar-voice score (PDF file) has been added to the end of this story. It is free for you to download. I am grateful to my colleague, composer André van Haren, for doing an engraving (music score) of his piano arrangement using Sibelius.

5/1/2017: I changed "I see blood" to "I saw blood." It sounded too much like "icy blood." I also decided to sing "I saw blood and water flowing" as a connected phrase. There was previously too much space in the middle of the phrase. This works out well to offset the vocal harmonies which now now provide counterpoint (polyphony). I also worked hard to thin out the mix in Apple Logic Pro. I had built up a wall of sound when I first added...

I was inspired by lyrics posted by TCS member asiansa09, in her blog post here at TCS: "For the Love of Humanity." Dan was hoping that someone could set her lyrics to music. I took on the challenge. 

Initially, I composed an upbeat Folk-Gospel styled song which greatly modified Dan's lyrics. It is called God's Gift to All the World and is posted here.

Next, I created a chant-styled song that is much more faithful to Dan's original lyrics and is totally different than the Folk-Gospel version. Listen to it below. I sing along with my dulcimer.

Let me know what you like and do not like. I appreciate the feedback. Let me know if you would like notated sheet music for this. 

For the Love of Humanity

CHORUS
I have seen water and blood 
flowing out from the heart of Christ.
Blessing my brothers and sisters 
for all generations.

VERSE
A message from Christ to Sister Faustina
for the love of humanity:
Christ wants to illuminate the way for us
and draw every soul to his heart.
His image is a fountain of... 

Originally posted May 3, 2017

As part of my series on Catholic hymns, I have chosen a hymn that was written by Father Frederick Faber in 1861. Father Faber was a convert to Catholicism and began writing hymns in 1848. How many times during our lives do we seem lost in earth’s dark night? How often does some anxiety overwhelms us, some fear because of the words or actions of others?

Please take a few moments to read about this beautiful collection of daily invocations to the Blessed Mother for her help, her intercession, and her protection.

Please visit my website Mother of Mercy Catholic Hymns and click on HYMN OF THE MONTH.

https://www.motherofmercycatholichymns.com/mary-dearest-mother/

LYRICS:
     
Alleluia  alleluia  alleluia   alleluia                                                                                                                                         
1 You rose from the dead victorious

2 Your body and soul all glorious

3 The angels sang in divine harmony

4 All nature rejoiced exultantly

https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PL24R5dMl53I9nvY897_twC2x3l2wtEa-c&si=DIf1EaRQB1WN8QE1

A blessed and happy Holy Saturday to you all!

We share above the playlist for the psalms sung in response to the readings at this evening's vigil mass. These settings have been composed by the Pilgrim People choirs of Singapore and re-published here with their blessing.

Please click on the link above to access.

Peace,

Our Lady of the Rosary,
Verdun,
St. John,
Barbados.

Salmos Responsoriales y Aclamaciones, Palm Sunday through Easter. Get free guitar lead sheets by clicking on links. See our YouTube playlist.

Domingo de Pascua – Salmo 117 – Éste es el día del triunfo del Señor. Aleluya.
Vigilia Pascual en la Noche Santa – Salmo 18 – Tú tienes, Señor, palabras de vida eterna
Vigilia Pascual en la Noche Santa – Isaías 12 – Sacarán agua con gozo de la fuente de la salvación
Vigilia Pascual en la Noche Santa – Salmo 29 – Te alabaré, Señor, eternamente
Vigilia Pascual en la Noche Santa – Éxodo 15 – Alabemos al Señor por su victoria
Vigilia Pascual en la Noche Santa – Salmo 15 – Protégeme, Dios mío, porque me refugio en ti
Vigilia Pascual en la Noche Santa – Salmo 103 – Bendice al Señor, alma mía
Viernes Santo de la Pasión del Señor – Salmo 30 – Padre, en tus manos encomiendo mi espíritu
Jueves Santo: Misa vespertina de la Cena del Señor ABC – Salmo 115 – Gracias, Señor, por tu sangre que nos lava
Domingo de Ramos ABC – Salmo 21 – Dios mío, ¿por qué me has abandonado?
 

See our Liturgical calendar / Ver nuestro calendario litúrgico

More responsorial psalms in Spanish / Mas salmos reponsoriales: insong.org/salmos-responsoriales-y-aclamaciones/

Music © 2019, Anthony Moran, insong.org

Originally published April 4, 2023

This is the translation/version of the Liturgy of the Hours(Ibreviery)
My God, my God, why have you forsaken me? *
You are far from my plea and the cry of my distress.
O my God, I call by day and you give no reply; *
I call by night and I find no peace.
Yet you, O God, are holy, *
enthroned on the praises of Israel.
In you our fathers put their trust; *
they trusted and you set them free.
When they cried to you, they escaped. *
In you, they trusted and never in vain.
But I am a worm and no man, *
scorned by men, despised by the people.
All who see me deride me. *
They curl their lips, they toss their heads.
“He trusted in the Lord, let him save him; *

Responsorial Psalm 115(116):12-13,15-18 for Maundy Thursday

The blessing-cup that we bless is a communion with the blood of Christ.

How can I repay the Lord
for his goodness to me?
The cup of salvation I will raise;
I will call on the Lord’s name.

The blessing-cup that we bless is a communion with the blood of Christ.

Wine Press No greater Love or deeper anguish there ever was or will be Than on the cross on Golgotha And in the olive garden of Gethsemane There all the world’s sin guilt and utter sorrow Was laid on you for you to bear There you were crushed By all the weight of our human despair Like in a wine press your body sweat blood and all because of your love for us No one could know the depths you suffered Except Him who knew you perfectly God your Father No one could give the sacrifice you offered all holy and pure And by your cross stood your Holy Mother A sword of sorrow pierced her heart And in your sacrifice she took part And in utter anguish you cried out My God my God why have you forsaken me You prayed Psalm twenty-two Then in pure Faith into your Father’s hands you

I wrote this song in the 1990s about an athetoid cerebral palsy student who came into my class at the age of 14. He had no control of his limbs save some control of his head and was unable to speak. 
He needed total care. He seemed to have normal intelligence. This was confirmed when we got him a computer with a program that enabled him to select words and sentences using his head to control a switch. He had a wonderful family who were devout Catholics.

I had some wonderful conversations with him about his condition in relation to his faith in the good Lord and about heaven where the  Lord will give us a new glorified body like his own. Between the loving care he received from his mom, dad, and brother and the gift of Faith, he was grateful to be alive and prayed for us all. I was truly blessed to know him and his family.

Responsorial Psalm 30(31):2,6,12-13,15-17,25 for Good Friday

Father, into your hands I commend my spirit.

In you, O Lord, I take refuge.
Let me never be put to shame.
In your justice, set me free,
Into your hands I commend my spirit.
It is you who will redeem me, Lord.

Father, into your hands I commend my spirit.

Hi! As we celebrated St. Joseph this week, I wanted to make this week some experiments with AI, using Suno. The results are below, and they do not sound that bad... What do you think of it?

The Church leads us to follow Christ in his suffering, death, and Resurrection, in a focused way, during the liturgical days it calls the Triduum.  Following Christ helps us through our own small or sometimes heavy experiences of various kinds of suffering and “death(s)” that we can offer up in union with Christ for the salvation of others. The Church has experienced this in her history as in the case of the protestant reformation in England, when the church underwent great persecution, martyrdom, and seeming death. We will all experience a final suffering and physical death and by God’s grace our resurrection. The Church teaches us that there will be a final suffering, death, and, resurrection of the Church at the end time. How or when it happens is not specified.

Responsorial Psalm 21(22):8-9,17-20,23-24 for Palm Sunday

My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?

All who see me deride me.
They curl their lips, they toss their heads.
‘He trusted in the Lord, let him save him;
let him release him if this is his friend.’

My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?

Many dogs have surrounded me,

Salmo responsorial: Domingo de Ramos ABC - Salmo 21 - Dios mío, ¿por qué me has abandonado? Descarga gratuita de partituras en el siguiente enlace. Todos los versos del salmo están disponibles. / Responsorial psalm in Spanish for Passion Sunday (Palm Sunday). Free download of sheet music at the following link. All the psalm verses are available.

https://catholicliturgyinsong.org/product/domingo-de-ramos-abc-salmo-21-dios-mio-por-que-me-has-abandonado/

Music © 2019, Anthony Moran, https://catholicliturgyinsong.org

Originally published April 6, 2022