Monthly Archives: March 2019

Throughout Lent we will use a seasonal psalm, Marty Haugen’s “Be With Me”. Entrance: Here I Am Lord (Schutte) AOV 1/90 Gifts: Be Merciful (Haugen) Communion: Tree of Life (Thompson) AOV NG 138 Recessional: Holy Darkness (Schutte) AOV 2/24

In the Easter songs in CWB II I’ve done: 352 By Your Kingly Power, O Risen Lord (Outstanding) 353 Christ is Alive, With Joy We Sing (More Easter VULPIUS action) This text is by Michael Weisse and translated by Catherine … Continue reading →

CWB II gives some of these much longer titles but I have still blogged them already. 348 Easter Alleluia 349 O Sons and Daughters 350 Alleluia No.1 This is another Easter tune. It set to LASST UNS ERFREUEN, this time … Continue reading →

I’m into the general Easter songs in CWB II. I’ve already done: 346 Alleluia! Alleluia! Which brings me to this chestnut from 1965 by Lucien Deiss. It is a lively 6/8 song with an interesting tune in the verses for … Continue reading →

There are two songs specifically set for Easter Sunday in CWB II. Then there are a plethora of general Easter songs that I’ll tackle a bit at a time. 344 Easter Sequence: Christians Praise the Paschal Victim The original words … Continue reading →

Throughout Lent we will use a seasonal psalm, Marty Haugen’s “Be With Me”. Entrance: Christ be Our Light (Farrell) AOV 2/3 Gifts: Song of the Transfiguration (Haas) Communion: We Remember (Haugen) AOV 1/81 Recessional: Lord, The Light of Your Love … Continue reading →

There are three hymns specifically recommended for Easter Vigil in Catholic Worship Book II. I’ve already blogged 341 “At the Lamb’s High Feast We Sing” a nineteenth century translation of a fourth century Latin original. As this is PD, the … Continue reading →

With a minimum of snark from me, let’s see how we are to celebrate the Easter Vigil from the pages of CWB II. I’ll do some of the strictly liturgical elements today. 331-332 The Blessing of the Fire and Preparation … Continue reading →

The very adventurous liturgy at RS’s parish last week included this text by Katherine K. Davis set to a traditional Welsh tune ASH GROVE. It is a song of thanksgiving highlighting God’s majesty through nature. Davis is famous for writing … Continue reading →

RS’s parish doubled down of Laudato Si with a second song from Pope Francis’s encyclical in last week’s liturgy. This one is a recent song by Curtis Stephan. It has seven verses and you can choose those with an environmental … Continue reading →