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Day by Day Thanks
is a setting of the Prayer of Richard of Chichester
written for schools during the
Year of Prayer and Vocation
in the Diocese of Northampton
For a Free download of the sheet music
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Day by Day Thanks – SHEET MUSIC pdf
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Audio produced & engineered by Jason Ducker
WHY SING FOR PEACE ON 21ST SEPTEMBER ?
BECAUSE IT’S PEACE DAY
the UN International Day of Peace
and it’s not too late to join in.
www.onedayonechoir.org have lots of ideas
for schools and choirs around the world.
On Peace Day September 21st here in Northampton
Schools could sing for peace at lunch time:
Make me a channel of your peace
Choirs could sing in the evening in different venues:
Dona nobis pacem. Here is the score
Add prayers for peace from Devine Music
here and here
and any other songs and prayers from around the world.
Let us know if you plan to join in. Contact Devine Music
A Novena simply means nine days of prayer.
Pentecost Novenas are held between Ascension Thursday and Pentecost Sunday, when many people and churches join together in prayer.
The Archbishops of Canterbury and York are asking churches to pray for the evangelisation of the nation during the week before Pentecost Sunday.
Premier Christian Radio is praying each day for different groups of people, such as leaders, refugees and young people.
An Ecumenical Pentecost 2016 Novena Prayer Service is being promoted here in the Northampton Diocese, so that prayers are said each day in different churches for the Holy Spirit to renew us, and our church, and our whole world.
More details on the Ecumenical Events page
The violin music Veni Creator Spiritus is based on a prayer to the Holy Spirit, first sung in the 9th century at Pentecost.
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Read and reflect more on the Holy Spirit
here on the Prayer page of this website.
Buy the recording of Veni Creator Spiritus
as an mp3 or on the CD In Search of Peace
in the Devine Music online Shop
The website Pray as you go recently featured this music.
Visit www.pray-as-you-go.org to see and hear more.
YEAR OF MERCY and
MUSIC FOR LENT by Teresa Brown
The God of compassion and love awaits
with tenderness to forgive you now.
Come back to him with all your heart
Receive his mercy and love.
Sheet Music for voice, keyboard, guitar and 2 solo instruments
Available from Devine Music
The song was originally written for Ash Wednesday, with this refrain:
From ashes to ashes, from dust to dust,
from life through death to eternal life.
Now is the time to turn from sin,
be faithful once more to your God
Slideshow of first photos from our Christmas flash mob
Thanks to Gwyn Pritchard and Catherine Mulligan
Singers from nearby churches are
preparing for a Christmas Flashmob in the local shopping centre
Giving out Christmas baubles and invitations to churches celebrating the Birth of Jesus, with Mary, Joseph and three kings making a special appearance.
WHY? To remind shoppers what Christmas is really about, in case they have forgotten, or didn’t know in the first place.
LINK to Christmas Flash mob
MUSIC FOR CHRISTMAS by Teresa Brown
Gloria! Gloria! in excelsis Deo!
Sheet Music available now
Contact Devine Music
But before Christmas, comes ADVENT. Time to prepare!
MUSIC FOR ADVENT by Teresa Brown
Prepare for the Coming of the Lord
Prepare for the Coming of the Lord
Keep watch through the darkness of the night
Wait in joyful hope for the coming of the King
And the dawn of eternal light
Sheet Music for voice, keyboard, guitar, flute and clarinet
Available from Devine Music
Photos by David Griffiths
The theme of this year’s pilgrimage from Northampton Diocese to Walsingham was Mary. Woman of Silence. There was little time for silence for the musicians except when Bishop Peter invited everyone to be silent for a minute during the Mass. That was a very prayerful moment.
The singers and instrumentalists came from Bedford, Milton Keynes and Wellingborough and joined with others from St Aidan’s, St Gregory’s and the Cathedral Choir in Northampton to lead the singing in the Reconciliation Chapel.
Music List here
Walsingham 2015
These fantastic musicians all understand music as a ministry, and they led the singing at the two services very beautifully. It made all the preparations and rehearsals worthwhile!
Having been to Walsingham many times over the years, there are now signs that Something Big is happening in Walsingham, with plans for a new retreat centre, Conference centre and a Catholic Media hub as well as completing the restoration of the Slipper Chapel Shrine, all within the next three years. Details here www.walsinghamdevelopment.org
Changes have already begun, and the Holy Ghost Chapel looks completely different now. For the sake of nostalgia, this is what is used to be like.
Perhaps for health and safety reasons, all the candles that used to be lit in this part of the shrine are now reduced down to one candlestand.
Next, in Northampton, the Sion Community are leading a mission at Sacred Heart Church. The mission theme is ‘I have called you by your name’ and the music will be led by Gerry Markland, who wrote the song ‘Do not be afraid…. for I have redeemed you, I have called you by your name, you are mine.’
Details of the evening services are here Sacred Heart Parish Mission services
Hosted by St Giles Church.
Prayer and Praise for Northampton is held in different churches on the first Monday of the month. Recent photos from the New Testament Church of God and All Nations were taken by Antony Denman.
In December 2014 Helen Boardman spoke about the Force Fire and Faith meeting to be held – with the Police Force, Fire Brigade and Faith leaders – to make Northamptonshire the safest place in England.
In January 2015 Nick Amis came from the Cinnamon Trust to speak about the Faith Audit which is now being carried out, to inform the government of the many good works done by all churches in the county.
In February, Robert Chirgwin spoke about the Prayer Call of 1784, in which it was said that:
The grand object in prayer is to be, that the Holy Spirit may be poured down on our ministers and churches, that sinners may be converted, the saints edified, the interest of religion revived, and the Name of God glorified.
Over 200 years ago, meetings began on the first Monday of the month. . . sounds familiar.