Liturgy Planning
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Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary
| Entrance | Holy Are You | "Worthy is the One on the throne / Worthy is the Lamb Who was slain / Holy holy / Holy holy are You / Lord God almighty / Who was Who is Who is to come / All blessing and honor / Glory and power to You Jesus" mirrors Revelation 12:10 — "Now have salvation and power come, and the Kingdom of our God and the authority of his Anointed One" — placing the assembly inside the heavenly worship scene that frames the feast from its very first reading. | SongSelect | ONE LICENSE |
| Offertory | My Bride | "You are mine sit beside me let me surprise you / Lock your eyes with mine my bride / And let me love you / How could I dismiss that which is of greatest importance to me / You are my priority" connects to Psalm 45:10-11 — "The queen takes her place at your right hand in gold of Ophir… so shall the king desire your beauty." Mary honored as queen and bride at the King's side is the central image of the psalm on this feast. | SongSelect | ONE LICENSE |
| Communion | Rise | "Take my hand / Rise from sleep / Let it go / Give me everything / You are found / You are free / I live in you / And you in me" connects directly to 1 Corinthians 15:22 — "just as in Adam all die, so too in Christ shall all be brought to life." The Assumption proclaims Mary's bodily rising as the first fruit of that promise for all the faithful; receiving the Eucharist unites us to the same risen life we celebrate in her today. | SongSelect | ONE LICENSE |
| Sending | Death Is Not The End | "He says leave hell behind / Claim new life / Death is not the end / Behold the glory of the Savior" directly proclaims 1 Corinthians 15:26 — "The last enemy to be destroyed is death" — and the joy of the Magnificat: "the Almighty has done great things for me and holy is his Name" (Luke 1:49). The congregation departs carrying Mary's triumph — body and soul assumed into glory — as their own certain hope. | SongSelect | ONE LICENSE |
20th Sunday in Ordinary Time
| Entrance | Proclaim | "Lord everything declares who You are / The heavens declare Your glory / The rocks cry out your fame / The world proclaims Your Name" mirrors Psalm 67:4 — "May the peoples praise you, O God; may all the peoples praise you!" — the exact universal-nations praise this Sunday celebrates. | SongSelect | ONE LICENSE |
| Offertory | Move My Mountains | "My spirit is willing / But my flesh is weak / Savior Messiah / Set my captives free" echoes the persistence of the Canaanite woman in Matthew 15:22-28, whose unrelenting request Jesus finally answers: "O woman, great is your faith! Let it be done for you as you wish." | SongSelect | ONE LICENSE |
| Communion | Real Presence | "And You call us to Your table / To Your banquet wedding feast / And we respond in love" fulfills Isaiah 56:7 — "my house shall be called a house of prayer for all peoples" — a table opened, as the Gospel insists, to more than "the lost sheep of the house of Israel" alone. | SongSelect | ONE LICENSE |
| Sending | Declare | "I'll declare it everywhere / In the valleys / From the mountains / In every season" sends the assembly out with the Alleluia's own charge — "Jesus proclaimed the Gospel of the kingdom" — and Romans 11:14, Paul's hope to "save some" through his ministry to the Gentiles. | SongSelect | ONE LICENSE |
21st Sunday in Ordinary Time
| Entrance | Lord Of All | "Lift high the Name of Jesus / King of glory Son of God / No other Name deserves our worship / Lord of all Jesus Christ" opens the liturgy with the very confession Peter makes in the Gospel — "You are the Christ, the Son of the living God" — and anticipates Romans 11:36's doxology, "for from him and through him and for him are all things." | SongSelect | ONE LICENSE |
| Offertory | Frame | "Before my frame was fashioned / My name You knew" mirrors Matthew 16:17-18 — "Blessed are you, Simon son of Jonah… you are Peter" — the moment Jesus names and re-forms Simon's identity, echoed in Isaiah 22:20's naming of Eliakim as the one entrusted with the keys. | SongSelect | ONE LICENSE |
| Communion | Behold The Mystery | "I believe it is You the Son of God / Every knee will bow and tongue confess" is nearly a direct quotation of Peter's confession in Matthew 16:16 — "You are the Christ, the Son of the living God" — sung as the assembly itself confesses that same truth at the altar. | SongSelect | ONE LICENSE |
| Sending | You Are Jesus | "You are Jesus / King of heaven and earth" closes with the doxology of Romans 11:36 — "To him be glory forever. Amen" — and answers the Alleluia's own confession: "You are Peter and upon this rock I will build my Church." | SongSelect | ONE LICENSE |
22nd Sunday in Ordinary Time
| Entrance | Fire Of My Father | "May the fire of my Father / Be the one to guide me home / Burn away all my desires" directly sets Jeremiah 20:9 to music — "it becomes like fire burning in my heart, imprisoned in my bones; I grow weary holding it in, I cannot endure it." | SongSelect | ONE LICENSE |
| Offertory | On This Altar | "I'm laying down / Laying down to You on this altar / Take my heart it's Yours / To You alone it's poured" is a direct musical setting of Romans 12:1 — "offer your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and pleasing to God, your spiritual worship." | SongSelect | ONE LICENSE |
| Communion | Depths Of My Heart | "I bow down / Before You now / I surrender all / At the foot of the cross" enacts Matthew 16:24 — "Whoever wishes to come after me must deny himself, take up his cross, and follow me" — the very posture of surrender the Gospel calls for, offered at the altar. | SongSelect | ONE LICENSE |
| Sending | Desert | "In the desert / He speaks to me / He says I've been there too / So won't you just trust me" answers Psalm 63:2 — "my flesh pines and my soul thirsts like the earth, parched, lifeless and without water" — sending the assembly out still thirsting, but assured of God's presence in the dry places. | SongSelect | ONE LICENSE |
23rd Sunday in Ordinary Time
| Entrance | Open My Lips (Praise The Lord) | "Come let us bow / Come let us bend / Our knees before our maker" directly quotes Psalm 95:6 — "Come, let us bow down in worship; let us kneel before the LORD who made us" — this Sunday's responsorial refrain in action. | SongSelect | ONE LICENSE |
| Offertory | Even Still | "Even still You came for me / My Savior killed by shame and greed / In my place You died for me" embodies Romans 13:10 — "Love does no evil to the neighbor; hence, love is the fulfillment of the law" — love enacted even toward the undeserving. | SongSelect | ONE LICENSE |
| Communion | Draw Us In | "Draw us in / Draw us closer / To You Lord / To one another" directly sets Matthew 18:20 to music — "For where two or three are gathered together in my name, there am I in the midst of them" — the very promise fulfilled at this table. | SongSelect | ONE LICENSE |
| Sending | All God's People | "Let me hear you singin' out Jesus' name" sends the congregation out as the watchman of Ezekiel 33:7 — appointed "to warn them for me" — using their voice as those entrusted with the message of reconciliation (2 Corinthians 5:19, this Sunday's Alleluia). | SongSelect | ONE LICENSE |
24th Sunday in Ordinary Time
| Entrance | Heart Of Mercy | "Into the heart into the heart of mercy / That bore my shame and broke my chains at Calvary" mirrors Psalm 103:8 — "The Lord is kind and merciful, slow to anger, and rich in compassion" — the refrain that frames this Sunday's entire liturgy of the Word. | SongSelect | ONE LICENSE |
| Offertory | You Never Tire | "And I'll return a thousand times / To the arms that won't let go… never tires of welcoming me home" contrasts sharply with the unforgiving servant of Matthew 18:23-35, offering instead the patient master who "moved with compassion… forgave him the loan." | SongSelect | ONE LICENSE |
| Communion | Because Of You | "Amazing grace falls like the rain / Because of You" answers Psalm 103:12 — "As far as the east is from the west, so far has he put our transgressions from us" — the pardon received at communion, mirrored in the mercy Sirach 28:2 urges us to extend. | SongSelect | ONE LICENSE |
| Sending | Live For You | "Jesus we live for You / You're all that we need" is a direct musical setting of Romans 14:8 — "whether we live or die, we are the Lord's" — the exact phrase the second reading uses to describe belonging entirely to Christ. | SongSelect | ONE LICENSE |
25th Sunday in Ordinary Time
| Entrance | Greater Measure | "My beloved let go / Yes I'll take it / You don't have to try to receive this" mirrors the landowner's generosity in Matthew 20:14-15 — "Am I not free to do as I wish with my own money? Are you envious because I am generous?" — grace given, not earned, exactly as Isaiah 55:8 insists: "my thoughts are not your thoughts." | SongSelect | ONE LICENSE |
| Offertory | Vessel | "Empty me of myself / May I not be what's left / Fill me up with Yourself" answers Philippians 1:21 — "to me life is Christ" — the self-emptying that makes room for Christ to be all in all. | SongSelect | ONE LICENSE |
| Communion | Attuned | "You can have my heart / I give it freely… Keep me in awe of You" sets Philippians 1:21-24 to music — Paul's total surrender between life and death, "caught between the two," entirely given over to Christ. | SongSelect | ONE LICENSE |
| Sending | Start Again (The Glory Song) | "If you wanna live in a world without end / Don't worry what you did / Pick up and start again" mirrors the landowner's grace toward the workers hired at the eleventh hour (Matthew 20:9-10) — a fresh start given freely, regardless of when one arrives. | SongSelect | ONE LICENSE |
26th Sunday in Ordinary Time
| Entrance | Renew Me | "Call me back to You… Through ev'ry fall and ev'ry fear / We rise with You again" mirrors Ezekiel 18:28 — "since he has turned away from all the sins that he has committed, he shall surely live" — the turning and rising this Sunday's first reading promises. | SongSelect | ONE LICENSE |
| Offertory | Thorn To Throne | "So my will subsides / And Yours may rise / And lead my life" is a direct musical setting of Philippians 2:7-8 — "he emptied himself… becoming obedient to the point of death" — the kenosis the second reading calls the whole congregation to imitate. | SongSelect | ONE LICENSE |
| Communion | I Do Not Die | "I no longer live within myself / I cannot live without God" reflects Philippians 2:8 — Christ "obedient to the point of death" — and the total self-surrender the two sons in the Gospel are asked, and fail or succeed, to make of themselves. | SongSelect | ONE LICENSE |
| Sending | Made Your Way | "You turned my weeping to laughter… I am alive more than ever" sends the assembly out with Ezekiel 18:28's promise — turning from wickedness "he shall surely live, he shall not die" — the same reversal from mourning to life the psalm and Gospel both hold out. | SongSelect | ONE LICENSE |
27th Sunday in Ordinary Time
| Entrance | Give Me Life | "Give me peace when the night falls… Though my doubt dims Your promise / You still walk with me" answers Philippians 4:6-7 — "Have no anxiety at all… the peace of God that surpasses all understanding will guard your hearts and minds in Christ Jesus." | SongSelect | ONE LICENSE |
| Offertory | Grafted | "Bitter the branch / Once grafted on the tree… All-embracing sacrifice / Freely given at a price" draws on the vine and vineyard imagery of Isaiah 5:1-7 and Psalm 80:9 — "a vine from Egypt you transplanted" — offered here as the fruit God has always sought from His planting. | SongSelect | ONE LICENSE |
| Communion | Say The Word | "O Lord I am not worthy / Of the gift before me… But say the word / And my soul shall be healed" carries the trust of Philippians 4:9 — "Then the God of peace will be with you" — into the moment of reception, the cornerstone the builders rejected now received in humility. | SongSelect | ONE LICENSE |
| Sending | Beautiful One | "Jesus / Oh Jesus / Let Your Name be on my lips / I want nothing more than this" sends the congregation out fixed on Philippians 4:8 — "whatever is true, whatever is honorable… think about these things" — a single-minded focus on Christ above all. | SongSelect | ONE LICENSE |
28th Sunday in Ordinary Time
| Entrance | In Every Place | "Holy holy / In every place You come / Worthy worthy / In every song that's sung" mirrors Isaiah 25:6 — "On this mountain the LORD of hosts will provide for all peoples a feast" — a banquet, and worship, thrown open everywhere and to everyone. | SongSelect | ONE LICENSE |
| Offertory | My Strength (All Around) | "I find myself in Your embrace / You'll fight my battles all my days / Your presence is my strength" directly echoes Philippians 4:13 — "I can do all things in him who strengthens me" — offered as trust in God's provision regardless of abundance or need (4:12). | SongSelect | ONE LICENSE |
| Communion | Come To The Feast | "You have come come to the table / You have come come to the feast / The bread has been broken / The wine has been blessed" fulfills Isaiah 25:6 — "a feast of rich food and choice wines" — and Psalm 23:5 — "You spread the table before me… my cup overflows." | SongSelect | ONE LICENSE |
| Sending | Death Is Not The End | "He says leave hell behind / Claim new life / Death is not the end" answers Isaiah 25:8 — "he will destroy death forever… wipe away the tears from every face" — the promise the entire feast on the mountain looks toward. | SongSelect | ONE LICENSE |
29th Sunday in Ordinary Time
| Entrance | Son Of Man | "Praise to the One who made me / Praise to the God who knows my name… Great are You Lord" directly sets Psalm 96:1-3 to music — "Sing to the LORD a new song… tell his glory among the nations." | SongSelect | ONE LICENSE |
| Offertory | Chosen | "You chose me from the start / With a promise full of peace and full of healing… My name is written / In the scars on Your hands" mirrors 1 Thessalonians 1:4 — Paul "knowing, brothers and sisters loved by God, how you were chosen." | SongSelect | ONE LICENSE |
| Communion | Holy Are You | "Worthy is the One on the throne… Lord God almighty" mirrors Isaiah 45:5-6 — "I am the LORD and there is no other, there is no God besides me" — the same sovereignty behind Jesus' words at Communion, "Repay to God what belongs to God." | SongSelect | ONE LICENSE |
| Sending | You Shine | "You are the light in the darkness… Oh You shine" is a direct musical setting of this Sunday's Alleluia — Philippians 2:15 — "Shine like lights in the world as you hold on to the word of life" — sending the assembly out to do exactly that. | SongSelect | ONE LICENSE |
30th Sunday in Ordinary Time
| Entrance | Honest | "Jesus I just wanna be honest / In giving my heart to You" mirrors 1 Thessalonians 1:9 — "how you turned to God from idols to serve the living and true God" — an honest, undivided turning of the heart toward God alone. | SongSelect | ONE LICENSE |
| Offertory | Alabaster | "Our worship is the oil for Your feet / We lay it all down… And all we have / Is what we've come to bring" embodies Exodus 22:26's God who hears the cry of the poor, offered here as total self-giving in response — the love of neighbor Jesus names as inseparable from love of God. | SongSelect | ONE LICENSE |
| Communion | Prepare Our Hearts | "We worship You our God / The only one who saves… We welcome You in this place" enacts Matthew 22:37 — "You shall love the Lord, your God, with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your mind" — the greatest commandment lived out at the table. | SongSelect | ONE LICENSE |
| Sending | Ablaze | "I will be a witness of Your love / I will be a witness of Your grace… To be called to be Your witnesses" sends the congregation out to live the second half of the great commandment — "You shall love your neighbor as yourself" — in visible, active witness. | SongSelect | ONE LICENSE |