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Chris Walker's 'Bread for the World Broken' is one of those songs in our Church that is not easy to sing and play guitar with, but has wonderful poetry. 

1 All glorious son of the all Holy Father
Most humble son of the most humble Mary
All mercy and just our holy  brother
Lord have mercy- Lord have mercy
  
2 You feed me every day
Your body and blood your very self
You sustain me to eternal life
O Christ within me     O  Christ within me

RERAIN
You give us your  Holy Spirit
And he teaches us  everything
He leads us to.become holy
Like  our Heavenly Father wills us to be 

Free to use Psalm Psalm 32 Happy the people the Lord to has chosen to be his own 19th Sunday Ordinary Time Year C 10 August 2025. 

The world needs positive music to help offset the negativity and false values which infect our lives. How can we write about sin and cultural death in an engaging and affirming way? I have tried to do this in my own lyrics. Here are samples of my lyrics from the album Can't Let Go: schlettysound.com/cant-let-go

Leaving Flesh

Leaving flesh ungates the soul,
like a bird that soars with grace,
like a worm that leaves the hole,
taken to an extraordinary place.

Give your all until the dawn.
Take what little stuff you need.
Smile until the shades are drawn... 

St. Paul in his letter to the Colossians urges us to set our minds on things above. That we should become heavenly-minded.  We were created to be - to live in ecstasy with our Triune God and all the angels and saints forever -sharing in a human way in divine life in a heavenly atmosphere. Pope Benedict in his trilogy on Jesus of Nazareth calls this reality the definitive "evolutionary" step in human existence that is hard for us to grasp. In his Letters, St Paul's vivid description of this difficulty says  - what eye has not seen, nor ear has not heard nor the human heart conceived what God has prepared for those who love Him. Throughout scripture The Good Lord does give is glimpses of the Heavenly reality for us to reflect on and yearn for.
 

 

Happiness begins with gratitude. There's always something or someone in our llife to be thankful for. 

Free to use: Responsorial Psalm for the 18th Sun Ordinary Time. This is Psalm 89 
 

God of day and God of darkness,
Now we stand before the night.
As the shadows stretch and deepen,
Come and make our darkness bright.
All creation still is groaning
For the dawning of your might.
When the Son of peace and justice                  
Fills the earth with His radiant light.

Come Lord Jesus  for you we  yearn
To set us free and live fully
Our love and hearts brightly burn
 

Psalm 137: On the day I called, you answered me O God. Responsorial Psalm for the 17th Sunday in Ordinay Time Year C. Music by Bro Michael Herry, cover by Erwin Cabucos. Lyrics and chords on the video.

Maranatha Together Pray - new advent song composed by yours truly last year.

Psalm 14 Responsorial Psalm for Sunday July 19 2025. Psalm 14: The just will live in the presence of the Lord.

O God whom earth,  sea and sky
adore, acclaim, and glorify,
O  creator of the universe 
Mary you bore in your cloistered womb.

REFRAIN
He chose you most humble lady

         
Ant.  May the Lord be blessed day after Day
May his Name  always be hallowed
  
1 Let God arise, let his foes be scattered. 
2 Let those who hate him flee before him.

I like Brother Michael Herry's Responsorial Psalm arrangements because they're suited to those who have low voice range, but this one sounds like an exception, with a prolonged and hightened 'live' at the end of the response. All the same, the tune bears reverence, traditional (chant), yet emotive.