~ the universal beauty that invites the involvement of the entire assembly in prayer ~
Welcome!
Liturgical Song is the website of Australian composer and liturgist, Paul Mason. It features his musical settings of the Mass, the responsorial psalms, and other songs for Christian rituals. You can look for a song from Paul's collections to find help in learning and performing them (see example). You can also read about Paul's journal articles, his songbooks,and compilations and CD recordings of his compositions, as well as places where you can order these.
Explore the world of liturgical song
Liturgical song is the category of songs and sacred music that meet all the pre-requisites for singing in the liturgy - liturgically holy, musically beautiful and pastorally universal (see the left sidebar for a summary discussion, based on John Paul II's Chirograph on Sacred Music).
Christian liturgy is a tapestry of many different genres of liturgical song. Each genre has an intrinsic musicality determined by its particular form and its service to the liturgy. You can explore the world of liturgical song using the navigation bar - from silence, to cantillation, to dialogues and acclamations, to litanies, to responsorial psalms, to processional antiphons, to songs and hymns, to instrumental music. Each page presents a summary overview of the song's service to the liturgy, a star rating of its importance for singing, and references to it in key documents.
I hope you find this website helpful for your own particular parish or school situation.
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News
Upcoming Workshops
Workshops on the Roman Missal 3rd Edition, new Mass Settings and Psalms for All Time at the As One Voice National Christian Music Conference.
New Texts, New Tunes: Mass Settings for the English translation of the Roman Missal (3rd Edition)
Coming soon! a new Mass Setting - "Mass of the Saints" - and revisions to Mass Shalom (3rd Edition) and Mass of Glory and Praise (2nd Edition).
Recent article in Worship Magazine
For an in-depth review and guide to pastoral implications of John Paul II's Chirograph on Sacred Music, please read my article in Worship Magazine Volume 82 No 5, published in September 2008.





