A meditative piano solo that is featured in the piano series "The Rosary" - meditative piano solos that are to be played as background music while people are praying the Rosary.

YouTube video: https://youtu.be/fd21abtViD4

Learn to sing a psalm in Spanish! Salmo responsorial (responsorial psalm) para Domingo 4 de Pascua A (Ciclo A) – Salmo 22 (Numeración griego-septuaginta) – El Señor es mi pastor, nada me faltará. / Responsorial psalm for 4th Sunday of Easter, Cycle A – Psalm 23 (Hebrew-Masoretic numbering) – The Lord Is My Shepherd.

Free download of sheet music at the following link. All the psalm verses are available.

https://insong.org/product/domingo-4-de-pascua-a-salmo-22-el-senor-es-mi-pastor-nada-me-faltara

Enter into a quiet time of prayer with this 20-minute meditation on Ave Maria. This collection features multiple original settings, each offering a different reflection on the timeless prayer—from gentle and intimate moments to fuller, expressive meditations. Designed to guide the listener into stillness, this continuous musical journey invites peace, prayer, and reflection. Composed and arranged by Stephen DeCesare. May this music bring calm to your heart and draw you into a deeper moment of prayer.

Christ the Lord is ris’n today;
Christians, haste your vows to pay
Offer you praises divinely sweet
At the Paschal Victim’s feet.
For the sheep the Lamb has bled,

YouTube video: https://youtu.be/QYpaxLewErg

Salmo responsorial para Domingo 3 de Pascua A - Salmo 15 - Enséñanos, Señor, el camino de la vida. Descarga gratuita de partituras en el siguiente enlace. Todos los versos del salmo están disponibles. / Responsorial psalm for 3rd Sunday of Easter. Free download of sheet music at the following link. All the psalm verses are available.

https://insong.org/product/domingo-3-de-pascua-a-salmo-15-ensenanos-senor-el-camino-de-la-vida/

Responsorial Psalm 15(16):1-2,5,7-11 for the 3rd Sunday in Easter, Year A - WORDS + CHORDS

                         E            A              E     B  Esus4  E
Response - Show us, Lord, the path of life.

    A                      B                 Esus4        E
Preserve me, God, I take refuge in You.
    B                  A                             Esus4  E
I say to the Lord: ‘You are my God.
        A               B                             E     B            C#m
O Lord, it is You who are my portion and cup;
          A             E                              Bsus4   B
it is You Yourself who are my prize.’

                         E            A              E     B  Esus4  E
Response - Show us, Lord, the path of life.

Scored for a 2-part choir hymn (Women on melody and Men on Harmony), Solo, Oboe and Piano. Simple repetitive chant melody followed by the soloist's counter-melody of the English text. Can be used any time the Holy Spirit is the topic.

Nice communion hymn

Lyrics and chords: Capo 1

Verse 1

D      G        D Bm            G           Em  BmD        A
This is my body which shall be given up     for you

Bm              G                D     Bm  F#m    A           D
This is the cup of the new covenant   in my blood

       F#m A       Bm G         D    A     D
As often as yo do this, remember me

Bm         G     Em   Bm  A         D
And the life that I give to the world

Verse 2

D      G        D Bm            G           Em  BmD        A
This is my body which shall be given up     for you

Bm                G                     D    Bm      F#m  A     D
Take of the blood that is shed in the new covenant  

       F#m A       Bm G         D    A     D
As often as yo do this, remember me

Bm         G     Em   Bm  A         D
And the life that I give to the world

Verse 3

D     G     D  Bm          G      Em  BmD        A
Glorify God in the Body given up    for you

Bm                             G     DBmF#m   A           D
Glorify God in the new covenant    in my blood

       F#m A       Bm G         D    A     D
As often as yo do this, remember me

Bm         G     Em   Bm  A         D
And the life that I give to the world

Gentle jazz harmonic setting of Psalm 16 that is scored for a variety of arrangements. Accessible and appropriate for any church setting.

Amazing Grace and Time
by Richard Schletty and David Gómez Sanz (Segovia, Spain)

Photo by Etienne Wansa, Aslout, Lebanon

Born years ago to a family,
fashioned from stardust and slime.
Spirits of nature have carried me
over the wavelets of time.

This I know, having seen and heard,
tasted, touched, absorbed
a million sense impressions:
Life is good, life is hard,
life is wild, but worth the... 

An offertory song: Self Surrender by Sr Delia Manhit, RC. This is cover on guitar capo 2, G.

Capo 2 G

G        GM7       C                      G
Lord Jesus I unite myself to your
GM7                G        G7       C                D7
perpetual unceasing, universal sacrifice
   G              GM7                     E                Am 
I offer myself to you every day of my life
                     D                            G                        A7            D       D7  G
And every moment of every day, surrender to your most holy will

     G                               GM7        C            D
//You have been the victim of my salvation
G                           GM7        C                  D
I wish to be the victim of your great love
G                  GM7     E                   Am
Accept my desire, take my offering
                        D              G
Graciously, hear my prayer
                E           Am
Let me live for love of you
                            D
Let me die for love of you
                G     GM7       E        Am      D          G
Let my last heartbeat be an act of perfect love//

St. Junipero Serra founded a chain of missions throughout California in the 1700s. A series of anti-Catholic arson and vandalism incidents took place at the missions in recent years, with one in Los Angeles being severely damaged but thankfully now fully repaired. Pray for people who hate the Church, that their hearts will turn to God.

Instrumentation: Voice, guitar, cello
Duration: 1’

I saw your statue before they took it away
Ants are now judging angels but that’s where we are
Don’t expect balance when the mob’s taken control

I saw your mission before they set the fire

Responsorial Psalm 117(118):2-4,13-15,22-24 for Divine Mercy Sunday - WORDS + CHORDS
Key of B
Capo 4

                       G                              D            Em     C                    G      D       C    G
Response - Give thanks to the Lord for He is good, for His love has no end.

               D                        G
Let the sons of Israel say:
          C                  Am  Am7
‘His love has no end.’
                D                        G
Let the sons of Aaron say:
          C                  Am   Am7
‘His love has no end.’
           D                                       Em
Let those who fear the Lord say:
          C     Am      G
‘His love has no end.’

                       G                              D            Em     C                    G      D       C    G
Response - Give thanks to the Lord for He is good, for His love has no end.

1) This is the day of our risen Lord,
Filled with glorious joy and holy light,
on which his  sacred blood has washed
both shame and guilt from all the world

2) Rejoice, O Saints let all of us sing
Glorious hymns to our Lord and risen king
for after death upon the Cross
Christ rose again and gave us eternal life.

REFRAIN   
This is the day of  Jesus our Lord
We sing of in one holy accord
Of his passion, death, and rising in glory
Of his glorious return bringing us home

A simple email from my sister — searching for the Terra Tremuit we once sang at Easter — led me back to an old 1991 cassette from St. Mary’s Choir. Digitizing it opened a door into memories, voices, and a beauty we may never hear again in quite the same way.

I’ve written the story and shared the restored recordings. If you’d like to read the story and hear the restored recordings, you can find them here:
https://www.motherofmercycatholichymns.com/easter-at-st-marys-choir/
 

For some, these sounds will be familiar. For others, they’ll be a first encounter. Either way, I hope they carry a bit of the grace we knew.

Sometimes called the Golden Sequence, is a sequence prescribed in the Roman Liturgy that is sung before the Gospel during the Pentecost Mass. Scored for a variety of arrangements. (with optional chords for an instrumentalist to accompany). Accessible and appropriate for any church setting.

The Second Sunday of Easter is now known as Divine Mercy Sunday, a devotion popularized by Saint Faustina. Here is a list of great songs that can bless your Divine Mercy Sunday.

Original post by Nick Alexander. Edited by Richard Schletty.

• Divine Mercy Flood My Soul by Annie Karto
• Faustina's Song by Mark Mallet
• Jesus, We Trust In You by Critical Mass
• I Will Carry You by Sean Clive
• God's Gift to All the World by Nguyen, Schletty and van Haren
• For the Love of Humanity: a Divine Mercy chant based on messages from Christ to St. Faustina by Nguyen and Schletty
• Give Thanks To The Lord For He Is Good, For His Love Has No End by Michelle A. Sambrano ...

This story was originally published January 25, 2014