This profound collection for Palm Sunday, Triduum, and Easter, deeply infused with the passion of the season, evolves from the worship in the parishes where Rory Cooney and Gary Daigle have served over the years. "Trumpet in the Morning," Rory Cooney's highly inspirational hymn for the millennium, is set to the haunting strains of an early-American melody. The text draws on jubilee imagery, especially from the book of Leviticus, but its point of view is distinctly modern. New hymns resound with the emotions of the season, including the solemn strains of Good Friday's "Precious Blood" and the truly uplifting title song, "This Very Morning." Also included is a new concertato arrangement of Suzanne Toolan's classic, "I Am the Bread of Life." Highlights of this collection include a stirring acclamation for baptism that has been expanded into a song for the sprinkling of the assembly. There is an upbeat "Litany of Saints" to accompany the baptismal procession to the font, appropriately based on "When the Saints Go Marchin' In" and incorporating the refrain from that enduring spiritual.

Song List:

• Trumpet In The Morning
• Quiet Strength
• Palm Sunday Processional
• Lenten Gospel Acclamation
• Precious Blood
• Fraction Rite And "Tableprayer"
• Concertato On "I Am The Bread Of Life"
• Psalm 21 : I Place My Life
• Genesis Reading For The Great Vigil
• Psalm 118 - Easter Alleluia
• A Litany Of The Saints
• You Have Out On Christ
• This Very Morning

Twenty-four common psalm settings for all the seasons of the church year. Appropriate for choral/organ performance as well as smaller liturgical consorts using guitar, piano, bass, and voices.

Song List:

• Psalm 98: All The Ends Of The Earth
• Psalm 25: To You, O Lord
• Psalm 85: Let Us See Your Kindness
• Psalm 72: Every Nation On Earth Will Adore You
• Psalm 19: Lord, You Have The Words
• Psalm 34: Taste And See
• Psalm 91: Be With Me
• Psalm 51: Be Merciful, O Lord
• Psalm 130: With The Lord, There Is Mercy
• Psalm 22: My God, My God
• Psalm 116: Our Blessing Cup
• Psalm 31: I Put My Life In Your Hands
• Psalm 136: His Love Is Everlasting
• Psalm 66: Let All The Earth
• Psalm 118: Let Us Rejoice
• Psalm 47: God Mounts His Throne
• Psalm 95: If Today You Hear His Voice
• Psalm 104: Lord, Send Our Your Spirit
• Psalm 100: We Are His People
• Psalm 27: The Lord Is My Light
• Psalm 63: Your Love Is Finer Than Life
• Psalm 103: The Lord Is Kind And Merciful
• Psalm 145: I Will Praise Your Name
• Psalm 122: Let Us Go Rejoicing
  
  Total Play Time: 1.1 Hour

GIA's venerable Psalms for the Church Year series has a fresh face with this new volume from Malcolm Kogut, who brings his gift for melody and his comfortable jazz-tinged style to this important new collection of psalms.
Malcolm fills some repertoire "holes" with these settings. He has set Psalm 47: "God Mounts His Throne to Shouts of Joy" for Ascension, and Psalm 45: "The Queen Stands at Your Right Hand" for Assumption, along with a mix of other common and lesser-known psalms. Using primarily ICEL refrains and several Grail translations, this volume is a worthy addition to the Psalms for the Church Year series. And, as with the other volumes, it includes reprint boxes of all refrains and a liturgical use index.

Song List:

• Psalm 4: Let Your Face Shine Upon Us
  


• Psalm 17: Lord, When Your Glory Appears
  


• Psalm 22: I Will Praise You, Lord
  


• Psalm 24: Let The Lord Enter
  


• Psalm 42: Like A Deer That Longs
  


• Psalm 45: The Queen Stands At Your Right Hand
  


• Psalm 47: God Mounts His Throne To Shouts Of Joy
  


• Psalm 51: Create In Me A Clean Heart
  


• Psalm 67: May God Bless Us In His Mercy
  


• Psalm 69: Lord, In Your Great Love
  


• Psalm 78: The Lord Gave Them Bread
  


• Psalm 80: Lord, Make Us Turn To You
  


• Psalm 89: For Ever I Will Sing
  


• Psalm 90: Fill Us With Your Love, O Lord
  


• Psalm 112: Like A Lamp In The Darkness
  


• Psalm 137: Let My Tongue Be Silenced
  


• Psalm 145: The Hand Of The Lord Feeds Us
  
  
  Total Play Time: 44.3 Minutes
  

These settings are almost all written for cantor(s), keyboard (with congregation on the refrain), and optional guitar. Instead of adopting a single style for the settings, the words here suggest the countour, pace, harmonies, and melody for the setting. This gives the liturgical planner the freedom to select music according to the prayerful shape of the liturgy. A welcome resource from none other than John Foley.

Song List:

• Psalm 128: Happy Are They
• Psalm 130: If You, O God, Laid Bare Our Guilt
• Psalm 63: My Soul Is Thirsting For You
• Psalm 33: God, Let Your Mercy
• Psalm 104: God, Send Out Your Spirit
• Psalm 23: The Lord Is My Shepherd
• Psalm 96: Give To God Glory And Honor
• Psalm 27: I Believe I Will See
• Psalm 16: Keep Me Safe, O God
• Psalm 66: Let All The Earth
• Psalm 126: Our God Has Done Great Things For Us
• Psalm 89: Forever I Will Sing
• Psalm 116: I Will Walk In The Presence Of God
• Psalm 118: This Is The Day
• Psalm 103: The Lord Is Kind And Merciful
• Psalm 92: Lord, It Is Good To Give Thanks To You
  
  Total Play Time: 54.6 Minutes