Monthly Archives: August 2019

Christopher Walker has set this song to his arrangement of the Skye Boat Song. OCP suggests it for confirmation or marriage but it would find a place in more usual liturgies in times of trouble with a need for reassurance. … Continue reading →

Entrance: A Place at the Table  (Shirley Erena Murray – Lori True) AOV NG 1 Psalm 116 (McKenna) Go out to all the world; and tell the Good News. Go out to all the world; and tell the Good News. … Continue reading →

John Moloney wrote this text based on Psalm 102. It is set to a “traditional french melody” in CWB II, but they aren’t more specific than that. John Moloney was an Irish priest and author (1916-2014). I can’t find the … Continue reading →

This is a lovely song of praise based on Psalm 98 that I had forgotten was in As One Voice, so I made another backing for it! The text is by Timothy Dudley Smith and it is set to ONSLOW … Continue reading →

I sometimes think that Catholic Worship Book II is never ending, but my survey continues with this song with a Eucharistic text by Omar Westendorf, of “Gifts of Finest Wheat” fame, which is here set to NEUMARK by Georg Neumark. … Continue reading →

This is another is wonderful treasure that is the combination of the poet James McAuley with the composer Richard Connolly with which Australia has been blessed. I am one of those dreadful strummers who are uncomfortable with traditional hymnody, but … Continue reading →

Entrance: As a Fire is Meant for Burning  (Duck) GA 881 Psalm 39 (McKenna) Lord, come to my aid! Lord, come to my aid! Gifts: Blessed be Our God  (McKenna) AOV NG 13 Communion: Gift of Finest Wheat (Westendorf/Kreutz) CWB … Continue reading →

Continuing my survey of the songs in Catholic Worship Book II, that I haven’t already blogged when doing As One Voice and other sources, I find a song for Eucharist by John Greally. The third verse was never going to … Continue reading →

James Quinn SJ wrote the text of the Trinitarian hymn for peace and it is set to SONG 46 by Orland Gibbons. The text is on page 5 of this bulletin. I got the chords from TIS as usual.

This is much the same as yesterday’s really. This one has a text by Geoffrey Cox set to Richard Connolly’s SANCTA SOPHIA. I can’t find the text anywhere so you’ll have to sing along from CWB II.