Below are few ideas for music for forthcoming Sundays and Solemnities.
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Advent 2026
You might consider using one or two items throughout Advent – perhaps changing verses – to unify the season.
Some of these might be useful:
Advent/Christmas Communion Song – Baty
Bread of life – Farrell
Come, Light of the World – Inwood
Come to set us free – Farrell
Gift of God – Haugen
Longing, Trusting – Foster
Litany of the Word – Farrell
The Almighty works marvels for me – Jones
Wait for the Lord – Taizé
We know not when our God will come – Olding
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30 November 2025: 1 Advent A | Stay awake so you may be ready
The time has come, the time to be vigilant for the coming of our God. This is not only a matter for the mind: it calls for a conversion of heart and a renewal of life as we prepare to meet our saviour.
Responsorial Psalm
Settings of Psalm 122 from MusicforLiturgy.online
Hymns and Songs
Advent/Christmas Litany – Inwood
Awake, O Sleeper – Haugen
Come to set us free –Farrell
Dear maker of the starry skies
God is working his purpose out
Hark! A herald voice is calling
In the day of the Lord
Let all mortal flesh keep silence
O Jesus Christ remember
Promised Lord and Christ is he
Remember your mercy Lord – Inwood
There is a longing – Quigley
Though the mountains may fall
Wait for the Lord – Taizé
Wake your power – Lowenthal
Word made flesh
Word of justice – Farrell
Worth exploring
In the Dark of the Night – Paul Inwood
07 December 2025: 2 Advent A | Repent, for the Kingdom of God is close
John the Baptist points us on the way to the coming of Christ. We hope to be sharers in his kingdom – a kingdom of beauty and peace, as Isaiah's vision shows us in today's first reading.
Responsorial Psalm
Settings of Psalm 72 from MusicforLiturgy.online
Hymns and Songs
Across the years
Behold the Lamb of God – Bell
Come, thou long-expected Jesus
God is working his purpose out
Hark! A herald voice is calling
Like a sea without a shore
My soul in stillness waits – Haugen
Now watch for God’s coming
O comfort my people
On Jordan’s bank
Worth exploring
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14 December 2025: 3 Advent A | Are your the one who is to come?
A festive feeling pervades today's celebration as we hear of the wonders which are associated with the coming of the Messiah. We are filled with hope as we hear the Good News which his coming will bring.
Responsorial Psalm
Settings of Psalm 146 from MusicforLiturgy.online
Hymns and Songs
City of God – Schutte
God has chosen me – Farrell
Hail to the Lord’s anointed
In the Lord I'll be ever thankful – Taizé
Lest he be too far from us
Like a sea without a shore
My soul in stillness waits – Haugen
Now watch for God’s coming
O comfort my people
On Jordan’s bank
Promised Lord and Christ is he
Rejoice in the Lord always – Olding
Wait for the Lord – Taizé
Worth exploring
Come, Light of the World – Paul Inwood
Rejoice forever – Martin Barry
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21 December 2025: 4 Advent A | The Maiden is with Child
The birth of Christ is almost upon us now. We are ever reminded in Isaiah's prophecy of the long-awaited Emmanuel – God on our midst. Like Joseph, we need to make room for Jesus to enter our lives and our world.
Responsorial Psalm
Settings of Psalm 24 from MusicforLiturgy.online
Hymns and Songs
A noble flower of Judah
Great is the Lord – Inwood
Hail to the Lord’s anointed
Leader in starlight – Tamblyn
Long ago, prophets knew
Magnificat (Woman asked to bear a son) – Ward
Magnificat Ty Mam Duw – Baty
My soul in stillness waits – Haugen
O come, O come, Emmanuel
The Almighty works marvels for me – Jones
The angel Gabriel from heaven
The coming of our God
Worth exploring
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24/25 December: The Nativity of the Lord
Hymns and Songs
There are far too many well-loved songs and hymns to list here. But do think of the difference between Mass at Night (Angels, Shepherds, Gloria) and Mass During the Day (God among us, Come and worship). Some other items are mentioned below:
Responsorial Psalm
Psalms for Christmas Vigil Mass from MusicforLiturgy.online
Psalms for Christmas Mass at Night from MusicforLiturgy.online
Psalms for Christmas Mass at Dawn from MusicforLiturgy.online
Psalms for Christmas Mass during the Day from MusicforLiturgy.online
Gospel Greeting
Alleluia Lucis – Baty (includes verses for Christmas, Eve and Day, and early Sundays of the year)
Christmas Alleluia – Dean
Communion Songs
Christmas Communion Song – Baty
Bread of life – Farrell
Son of God, Saviour – Dean
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01 January 2026: Mary, Mother of God | God sent us Son, Born of a Woman
God chose one of our race, the virgin Mary, to be the mother of his Son. She is our pattern of response to the Father. By her willingness and humility she has earned the title "Mother of God".
Responsorial Psalm
Settings of Psalm 67 from MusicforLiturgy.online
Hymns and Songs
A noble flower of Judah
At the name of Jesus
God, who made the earth and sky
Great is the Lord – Inwood
In the bleak midwinter
Jesus Christ, yesterday, today and forever
Mother of God’s living word
Sing of Mary, pure and lowly
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04 January 2026: Second After Christmas | The Word was made flesh, and lived among us.
The Christmas festival may be nearly over. But God-made-man still and always lives among us, so that we too may grow in grace and truth and come to share his glory.
Responsorial Psalm
Settings of Psalm 147 from MusicforLiturgy.online
Hymns and Songs
God is love, his the care
Jesus Christ, yesterday, today and forever
Jesus the Word has live among us
Of the Father's love begotten
Sing to the world of Christ – Lee/Sands
The God whom earth and see and sky
The light of Christ
The race that long in darkness pined
Thou whose almighty Word
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06 January 2026 – Epiphany of the Lord (Tuesday) | The Glory of the Lord is Rising on You
The epiphany, or manifestation of God's glory, sums up the whole Christmas season. Like the wise men, we come today to worship our God, to praise him for his wonders and to offer him our thanksgiving, which is the Eucharist.
Responsorial Psalm
Settings of Psalm 71 from MusicforLiturgy.online
Hymns and Songs
All the earth, proclaim the Lord
As with gladness men of old
At the name of Jesus
Bethlehem of noblest cities
Bread of life – Farrell (Christmas verses)
Laudate Dominum – Taizé
Laudate omnes gentes – Taizé
Long ago in depths of winter – Dean
Of the Father’s love begotten
Sing to the world of Christ
The first Nowell (ref v3)
The race that long in darkness pined
We three kings
What child is this?
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08 January 2026: Baptism of the Lord | Jesus Christ, Lord of All Humanity
Jesus is baptised in the Jordan and receives the power of the Spirit to begin his ministry. Through our own baptism we have received that same spirit to be the driving force of our Christian life and work.
Responsorial Psalm
Settings of Psalm 29 from MusicforLiturgy.online
Hymns and Songs
Alleluia, sing to Jesus
Behold the Lamb of God – Bell
Behold the Lamb of God – Dean
Come to the Feast – Haugen
Come to the water – Foley
Hail to the Lord's anointed
Now in this banquet – Haugen
O comfort my people
O praise ye the Lord
On Jordan's bank
Sing of the Lord's goodness – Sands
Sing to the world of Christ – Lee/Sands
The light of Christ
Water of life – Dean
We shall draw water – Inwood
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