30 April 2013

Christ Our Light: Intercession Response – FREE Song Download

This sung response to the Prayer of the Faithful was written for our diocesan pilgrimage to Lourdes in 2012. The pastoral theme in Lourdes for that year was “with Bernadette praying the Rosary” and our archdiocese had chosen to focus, in particular, on the Mysteries of Light.

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Each day the times of prayer and liturgy focused on one of the particular luminous mysteries and we used the corresponding text for the sung response.

Since then we’ve found various opportunities to use this piece as the corresponding scripture texts come up in the cycle of readings, or even adapting new text as we did recently at the Celebrate Conference during Easter week. Continue Reading…

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18 April 2013

A message from Yvonne & Mike Stanley

Dear friends of CJM,

It’s been a while since Mike wrote to update you on how life has been.  We would, first and foremost, like to say thank you for all the messages, cards, prayers and Masses that we have received over the past two years.

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Through so many rounds of chemotherapy and treatment, Mike has continued to find inspiration and strength. He has written many beautiful songs, which we hope will mean as much to you as they do to us.

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15 April 2013

A round-up of the music used at Celebrate Conference 2013

For more than a decade the Celebrate Conference has been one of the highlights of the annual CJM MUSIC ministry calendar. Each year, however, we face the challenge of finding new ways to bring the Liturgy to life in these great days of the Easter octave. The readings are always the same and it would be so easy to just do what we did last year …

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Thursday’s Family Mass | Photo by Michael Woodward

After much prayer, brainstorming and time spent with the readings and that well known liturgical preparation tool – Google, we did come up with a few ideas that we thought we’d share. Continue Reading…

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21 March 2013

I Believe Concert Tour

It’s no surprise of course that for us, the Year of Faith has found expression in music and song. As we approach midway point in the Year of Faith, Jo Boyce and Friends are preparing for the first nine dates of our “I Believe” concert tour.

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We’ve partnered with Dan Callow of www.OneLifeMusic.co.uk whose music has long been a firm favourite in many primary schools across the Archdiocese of Birmingham and beyond. We’ll also be sharing the spotlight and the microphone Continue Reading…

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12 March 2013

Firmly I Believe – FREE Song Download for the Year of Faith

The hymn Firmly I Believe and Truly is a powerful affirmation and proclamation of faith. The text is an adaptation by Anthony Petti of a portion of the 1865 poem, The Dream of Gerontius by John Henry Newman (1801-1890)
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The text captures the fundamental tenets of our faith and makes a great anthem for this Year of Faith. The new tune by Mike Stanley makes the text accessible in a new way for young and old alike.

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11 February 2013

Rejoice ‘n’ Sing Volume 3 – Mass Settings for the Revised Translation

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01 November 2012

A Moving Experience

It’s quite amazing how much stuff you can accumulate in 16 years of music ministry! We found out the hard way as we boxed, shredded and relocated everything we’d crammed into our offices at Don Bosco House over the past decade.

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25 July 2012

Summertime Message from Mike

Summertime Greetings! Many of you will know that an important part of CJM’s ministry over the past 15 years has been their participation in the Birmingham Diocesan Pilgrimage to Lourdes. The pilgrimage has been an opportunity to lead people in music, and so in prayer, with a mixture of traditional and devotional hymns and chants to Our Lady.

It has been very strange for me over the past couple of years, being so involved in the preparations for the pilgrimage but not being able to participate and enjoy the experience. It was my wish to experience

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01 June 2012

Farewell to Anne

For almost 8 years, Anne Appleton’s cheerful voice was the one you were most likely to hear when you rang the number of our little office at Don Bosco House. In Spring this year, Anne took voluntary redundancy from her post as our Events Coordinator and  moved on to pastures new…

As our work continues to adapt and evolve, Anne’s ability to keep us all organised will be greatly missed. It’s just as well most of our admin is digital these days, because we may never find anything again if we had to file hard copies ourselves!!

With gratitude for all she has contributed to our team over the years, we wish Anne and her family well in this next season of their lives.

Thank you, Anne, and God bless.

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