Journeysongs Second Edition w/Lectionary Readings

With more than 840 titles and a perfectly balanced repertoire of traditional, contemporary and multicultural music, Journeysongs, Second Edition, is the permanent hymnal that gives voice to every worshiping community.

Features

• New! FREE assembly supplement containing the updated texts, prayers, responses and musical settings you need to implement the changes to the Roman Missal (November 27, 2011). Fits conveniently into the plastic pocket in the hymnal's inside back cover!
• Complete Order of Mass with music (Celtic Mass)
• Eight additional Mass settings and a comprehensive section of supplemental service music, including a setting of the Eucharistic Prayer II for Children
• Contemporary Psalter, with more than 100 psalms and canticles
• More than 840 titles! A large section of general music for the liturgical year, including over 400 new hymns and songs
• A generous selection of music for seasons, solemnities and feasts throughout the year
• An expanded section for the rites, including ritual texts and music: Order of Christian Funerals, Christian Initiation/RCIA and benediction, plus a substantial amount of music for marriage, pastoral care of the sick and penance (reconciliation)
• Verbatim musical settings of the responsorial psalms and Gospel acclamations
• Three-year cycle of Scripture readings for Sundays and holy days
• Musical settings for responsorial psalms and Gospel acclamations for the 3-year Lectionary cycle (drawn from A Lectionary Psalter by Rev. John Schiavone)
• Musical settings for morning and evening prayer
• Well organized, easy-to-follow topical arrangement
• Full set of indexes, including metrical, scriptural and topical indexes, as well as an index of suggested psalms for the liturgical year
• Large-print format
• Beautifully bound, elegant, durable, hardbound cover

More Traditional Music
Traditional music accounts for more than 35% of the contents, and includes:

• Traditional hymns -- now with complete-text versions!
• Traditional Latin chant, with English translations
• Well-known American folk tunes
• Spirituals
• Hymns by respected hymn text writers, including Delores Dufner, OSB; Harry Hagan, OSB; Genevieve Glen, OSB; and others

• Offers a well-balanced repertoire, with songs drawn from a variety of cultures
• Every common psalm is bilingual, with verses in both English and Spanish

Support Materials

Choir/Cantor Edition

• Includes entire contents of Assembly Edition
• Includes choral arrangements
• Plastic pocket for Music Supplement