Beyond the Days isn't your typical music for Lent, Triduum and Easter. Bringing a unique understanding of the relationship between the musician and the liturgy, Ricky offers liturgical pieces as "solutions" to ritual moments found throughout the Lent and Easter seasons; many of them fill specific liturgical niches for which little music exists. Ricky uses a technique which he calls "structural composing" to thematically link the various pieces on Beyond the Days. The key signatures of most of the songs have an inherent structural flow that outlines the movement from Lent to Easter. This connectedness culminates in the Lenten psalms, where the melody and refrains remain the same but the text changes from week to week. In addition to providing continuity appropriate to the season, "structural composing" makes it easier for the assembly to participate because they don't have to learn a new melody each week. This collection is a must-have for the Lent / Easter season.

Contents: Beyond the Days By the Waking of Our Hearts Easter Sequence and Alleluia Go Forth Holy Is God In These Days of Lenten Journey Pange Lingua Proclaim the Message Psalm 91: First Sunday of Lent C The Lord Has Done Great Things We Should Glory in the Cross Worthy Is the Lamb