Lent is over. We’ve renewed, refreshed, and been revived!Your music should reflect on the resurrection, moving the people to praise with fervor as in no other season!
At St. Vincent’s, we do some simple things to keep from lapsing back into “Ordinary Time Mode” (OTM):
- Sprinkling rite at each mass in the Easter Season (with accompaniment)
- Change the mass setting to something bright, simple and worshipful
- Use the word “Alleluia” as often as is possible
Find a new song and repeat it a few times during the season:
- On the Third Day (Maher) performed by Tim Hughes (reflection-type of hymn
- Resurrection Day (Maher)
- Let Your Love Come Down (Blakesley)
- So We Will Worship (Hart/Hipp)
A couple other things to try:
- Update some of the older hymns like “Jesus Christ is Risen Today”
- Add a brass section for a few weeks
- Make your warm-up more interactive, or just do something different
- Find a new song with hand motions
- Commit to find one new instrumentalist this Easter season
- If you’re a writer, write something new!
- If you’re a keyboardist, use a different preset, or even play a non-synthetic instrument
Me? I’m gonna praise Him just a little more this week on my old 1973 Wurlitzer 200.
Whatever you do, keep it out of the OTM!
God bless you in your ministry.
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