Monthly Archives: July 2025

I am working my way through Australia’s Catholic Worship Book, to look for songs that I haven’t covered from other sources. This one is C7 Latin, Sancti venite, Christi corpus sumite, translated by John Mason Neale in the 1800s. It … Continue reading →

This is a paraphrase by Anthony G. Petti of Verbum supernum prodiens by St Thomas Aquinas. In CWB I it is set to MELCOMBE by Samuel Webbe. This tune has been used to set dozens of texts, but I can’t … Continue reading →

This is an early Marty Haugen song based on Psalm 50 (51). I always surprised to come across one of his that I haven’t already heard. It isn’t suitable for use as the psalm but is fine as a hymn. … Continue reading →

This is an amazing text by Donald Wynn Hughes that is still relevant in our current violent world, with our “monuments of folly” and the “wreckage of our hatred”. Read it here. CWB I sets it to AGINCOURT (aka DEO … Continue reading →

This is a Lutheran hymn for baptising children that found it’s way into the Catholic Worship Book in Australia. The text is C19 by Nikolai F.S. Grundtvig, translated by Johannes H.V. Knudsen. Then again, other sources claim it is by … Continue reading →

This is Ralph Vaughn Williams setting called THE CALL of a George Herbert text that found its way into the Catholic Worship Book. It’s in every hymnal known to man. Not even CWB I would change “killeth” or set it … Continue reading →

This is Ernest Sand’s sung prayer to the Holy Spirit. The range of the antiphon looks a struggle but maybe taking the key down a few semitones might help. The verses are chant but my metrical soul couldn’t handle that … Continue reading →

I’m looking at hymns from the Australian Catholic Worship Book, that I haven’t covered from other sources to date. This is the Benedictine nuns of Stanbrook Abbey’s translation of of the c4 Nunc sancte nobis Spiritus, attributed to St Ambrose. … Continue reading →

This is a pretty and joyful hymn with words by Sr Lucia Fay, Jean-Paul Lecot and R.B. Kelly based on St Paul according to CWB I. It is set by Paul Decha, so it is likely there is a French … Continue reading →

This is a song by Jean Lebon, the French liturgist, with the text translated by Pamela Stotter. It is the whole Easter story in song. I’ve had no luck finding the sheet music outside of CWB I, but I don’t … Continue reading →