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Practicing the responsorial for this weekend, I was accompanied by chirping birds and my cousin Steve on weed whacker. A new percussionist for St. Matt's!

Psalm 65: The Seed that Falls on Good Ground Will Yield a Fruitful Harvest. Responsorial Psalm for the 15th Sunday in Ordinary Time / A. Psalm Tone #27. Ps. 65:10abcd, 10e--11, 12-13, 14 / 103. Text: Verses, The Revised Grail Psalms, © 2010, Conception Abbey and The Grail, admin. by GIA Publications, Inc.; refrain, Lectionary for Mass, © 1969, 1981, 1997, ICEL. Music: Michel Guimont, © 1994, GIA Publications, Inc.

Refrain: The seed that falls on good ground will yield a...

A beautiful hymn of rest and healing by Fr. Michael Joncas. © 1989, GIA Publications. Sung at the Church of St. Mary on 7-9-2017 by Anne, Derek, Kristin and Richard. Mary Joy at piano. Richard on guitar. More info here:

hymnary.org/text/all_who_labor_and_are_burdened

hymnary.org/hymn/GC2/page/484 
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Above (YouTube player): my practice video for Psalm 145: I Will Praise Your Name. 

Below (MP3 player): An unbalanced recording of the psalm as I sung it at the Church of St. Matthew on 7-8-2017. Jill Kilzer at piano.

Psalm 145: I Will Praise Your Name
14th Sunday in Ordinary Time (cycle A)

From Jeff Ostrowski at Corpus Christi Watershed:

THE FRATERNITY of Saint Peter put on a fantastic church music conference last week, and eighty people came from all over North America to attend:

Sacred Music Symposium • Spectacular Success!

"I challenge anyone to read those beautiful testimonies and then say there's no hope for church music in the United States!" – Jeff Ostrowski

Profile submitted by TCS member Maria7Steps

We are a Catholic family band called Simply4Him who believes that music was created to glorify God and to sanctify His people.  We serve in our parish and we are a part of a Catholic Charismatic Community called Couples for Christ. Our children are members of its ministries.  We cannot...

Twelfth Sunday in Ordinary Time - A
Ps. 69:8-10, 14 and 17, 33-35 I 94
Psalm Tone #20

R. Lord, in your great love, answer me.

It is for you that I suffer taunts,
     that shame has covered my face.
To my own kin I have become an outcast,
     a stranger to the children of my mother.
Zeal for your house consumes me,
     and taunts against you fall on me.

But I pray to you, O LORD,
     for a time of your favor.
In your great mercy, answer me, O God,
     with...

1 How wonderful the Three-in-One,
Whose energies of dancing light
Are undivided, pure and good,
Communing love in shared delight.

2 Before the flow of dawn and dark,
Creation's Lover dreamed of earth,
And with a caring deep and wise,
All things conceived and brought to birth.

3 The Lover's own Belov'd, in time,
Between a cradle and a cross,
At home in flesh, gave love and life
To heal our brokenness and loss.

4 Their Equal Friend all life sustains...

Text: John Oxenham (1908). Based on Galatians 3:23.
Tune: MC KEE. Originally an Irish tune taken to the United States, it was adapted by African American slaves. Arranger: H. T. Burleigh.

1 In Christ there is no east or west,
in him no south or north,...