Like Bernadette's previous collections, 'Go Before Us' expresses a commitment to social justice, inviting Jesus to go before and guide us to live in ways that bring peace to the world. Containing psalm settings, songs suitable for children, and music for use in the Liturgy throughout the year. Go Before Us features 13 original songs arranged for organ, piano, guitar, flutes, strings, and brass.
Go Before Us features a beautiful song for a cappella choir, and two songs with texts by Australian poet Shirley Erena Murray. Bernadette wrote 'Christ Beside Us' for the Ursuline Sisters of Jesus for the bicentennial of their founding. Like 'Share The Light', this new collection welcomes participation by the hearing impaired by providing sign language instructions for three songs.
Bernadette dedicated the title track to Jackie Birch (1965 - 2002), a school teacher and close friend of Bernadette's who died unexpectedly.
Appropriate for funerals and other occassions when we pray for God's comfort and healing, 'Go Before Us' is a soothing hopeful song asking Jesus to ' show us the way to our one true home'.