This traditional Advent hymn is our gathering piece in the season of Advent. We sing it with the song leader leading the congregation in echoing each phrase. We sing a version with updated lyrics by Philip Cunningham and Ken Meltz O come, O come, Emmanuel And with your people always dwell Who mourn in mortal […]
Squeezebox is a place for our Song Leaders, as well as congregants, to learn the songs we sing at St. Lydia’s. Lydians will know just how much I (Emily) love them based on the fact that I’m willing to post this incredibly nerdy recording of me singing harmonies WITH MYSELF on the hymn “People Look […]
Squeezebox is a place for our Song Leaders, as well as congregants, to learn the songs we sing at St. Lydia’s. We’ll sing this simple chant, calling for God to be a presence of liberation among us, during the season of Advent as our Candle Lighting Song. The piece if from the Iona Community […]
Squeezebox is a place for our Song Leaders, as well as congregants, to learn the songs we sing at St. Lydia’s. Here are the parts for “Comfort, Comfort Now My People,” our final hymn for November and Advent. Links for the sheet music and recordings of the four harmony parts are below. This hymn […]
Squeezebox is a place for our Song Leaders, as well as congregants, to learn the songs we sing at St. Lydia’s. Our final hymn for October will be “God, Whose Giving Knows No Ending.” Links for the sheet music and recordings of the four harmony parts are below. As always, the featured harmony in each file […]
Squeezebox is a place for our Song Leaders, as well as congregants, to learn the songs we sing at St. Lydia’s. Listen to the Ordinary Time Table Acclamation we’ll be using during Ordinary Time (the Autumn months as well as the time between Christmas and Lent) to sing our Eucharistic Blessing at the table. This […]
Squeezebox is a place for our Song Leaders, as well as congregants, to learn the songs we sing at St. Lydia’s. We sing this piece from Zimbabwe, by Alexander Gondo as a gathering piece. The original text is in in Shona, but we’ll sing the piece in English. Listen to Come All You People Lydia’s […]
Squeezebox is a place for our Song Leaders, as well as congregants, to learn the songs we sing at St. Lydia’s. We sing “Christ is Our Guiding Light” as a lamp lighting hymn. It’s a beautiful round, written by Rev. Eric Law of the Kaleidoscope Institute, and published in Music By Heart. Listen to “Christ […]
Dear harmonizing Lydians, Here is “Come Thou Fount of Every Blessing,” which we’ll be singing through September. The files below use a recording made at our retreat in July, when a number of us learned the harmonies for this hymn. (Thank you, Rachel Hurn, for recording us!) The harmony part is always illustrated in the […]
Dear Lydians, Here’s “Day Is Done,” a bit of a St. Lydia’s tradition. It was our closing hymn for a number of weeks in a row when we were first starting out as a congregation. Now we sing it toward the end of the Summer, as we will this August. Not to be confused […]