Monthly Archives: January 2020

Entrance:  Prepare the Way (Boniwell) CWB II 250 Psalm 39 (McKenna) Here I am, Lord; I come to do your will. Gifts:  Holy Spirit of Fire  (Mangan) CWB II 110 Communion:  Table of Plenty (Schutte) AOV 2/20 Thanksgiving: Here I … Continue reading →

Somehow, despite this being in our Christmas liturgy every year, I don’t appear to have blogged this song. The text is by Phillips Brooks and OCP set it to the tune we use as well, ST LOUIS by Lewis H … Continue reading →

Back in my old copy of OCP’s Guitar Accompaniment Book is this Carey Landry song. While it has an obvious use for an anointing mass it’s recurrent theme of light opens many other liturgical uses. The sheet music can be … Continue reading →

This is another old Michael Mangan song that might suit an Australia Day liturgy. I have it in his out of print collection Sing Jubilee, but it resurfaced in True Colours Shine and so can be purchased in that collection … Continue reading →

Australia Day falls on a Sunday this year, which I believe means you can use the liturgy for that day rather than the Third Sunday in Ordinary Time. We will have Australian music featured, including Michael Herry’s “A Blessing Hymn … Continue reading →

This song by Genevieve Glen OSB has verses for Christmas and Easter and Ascension so is most useful liturgically. It is set to CANONBURY by Robert Schumann. The sheet music is at OCP where the text is in their sample.

Usually found with “thy” for “your” this text by Henry E. Hardy (aka Father Andrew) is the next song in my survey of my old Guitar Accompaniment Book from OCP. It has an obvious use for veneration of the cross … Continue reading →

Entrance:  Baptised in Water (Saward; tune BUNESSAN) GA 179 Psalm 28 (McKenna) The Lord will bless his people with peace. Gifts:      Springs of Salvation (Andersen) Communion: Gift of Finest Wheat  (Westendorf/Kreutz) CWB II 651 Thanksgiving:    Come to … Continue reading →

I’ve found this Christmas song a week or two late, but as I have not come across it before and it is the next song the Guitar Accompaniment Book I’ll have a look at it. The text is by Johann … Continue reading →

This hymn for morning prayer consists of five verses from the Scottish Psalter and a sixth by Cyprian Consiglio OSB, who wrote the tune SCOTTISH. The text is based on Psalm 95. I was not aware that hymn was a … Continue reading →