Monthly Archives: June 2020

I have blogged this Tom Kendzia song years ago when covering the Spirit and Song collections here. I have revisited it because OCP have a simpler, more assembly friendly version in their Guitar Accompaniment Book. They got rid of an … Continue reading →

This is an Advent song with a fine old hymn tune. It is from a Latin original Instantis adventum Dei by Charles Coffin and translated by Robert Campbell. It is set to OPTATUS VOTIS OMNION of unknown authorship but collected … Continue reading →

I missed the music liturgy meeting, which is a shame because we may be heading back to normality (OK a new normal) with no community spread in Queensland of Covid 19. I was going to play at mass last night … Continue reading →

The ongoing quest for an acceptable Palm Sunday entrance song continues. This Cyprian Consiglio song is better than some of the hymns for this purpose I’ve used in the past but its only a maybe. The text is a bit … Continue reading →

Jumping from GIA back to OCP’s Guitar Accompaniment Book c2005, I find this Advent hymn by Harry Hagen set to CHRISTE SANCTORUM. The text reads like a poem and sounds great without music. OCP provide the text in their preview … Continue reading →

The last of the five songs being provided for a short time by GIA here, is this song by Christian Cosas. It is a WLP song, but they have been swallowed up by GIA. It was the Association of Catholic … Continue reading →

This is another of the “Hymns for Healing” posted by GIA here. GIA provide the text for John Bell’s powerful hymn here. If you are strong enough, you sing it to the tune WER NUR DEN LIEBEN GOTT by Georg … Continue reading →

I’m looking at hymns that GIA has posted here. This one is by Adam Tice asks of God the question “will you bring something good” out of the pain of existence. It is set to INTERCESSOR by C Hubert H … Continue reading →

GIA has posted , for a short time, some hymns to help us through the current state of the world. You can download the sheet music from GIA here. Mary Louise Bringle wrote the text of this song and is … Continue reading →

GIA sent an e-mail about some Hymns for Healing for which they were posting sheet music until September 1st. There are five of them to look at and “Shelter Me” by Father Joncas was so good I thought I’d look … Continue reading →