Monthly Archives: August 2025

I drove down for this today but issues with parking meant I left at the sign of peace and watched the rest when I got home. There was a lot of two hour parking for some distance around the cathedral … Continue reading →

This Marian hymn has Stanbrook Abbey listed as the author with Alan Rees OSB as the tunesmith. The background to the text is at Breviary Hymns and the text itself here. I made up some chords: I can find many … Continue reading →

This is Jerome Leaman of St Joseph’s Abbey’s paraphrase of Mane nobiscum Domine set to OLD HUNDREDTH. It is in CWB I and CBW III. OLD HUNDREDTH is imprinted on my brain as the doxology sung every week in the … Continue reading →

I wasn’t going to mention this one, because it is indeed “Be Thou My Vision,” (blogged here) but we all were looking at different versions in the comments on a recent post and it struck me that the editors of … Continue reading →

This is an interesting 60s pop song hymn by Patrick Robert Norman Appleford – I love that CWB likes long names as if they were sentencing a murderer. This is a communion hymn with origins in the youth ministry of … Continue reading →

This hymn for Lent with a text by Benedictine monk Ralph Wright did survive from CWB I to CWB II but there set to ST BERNARD. I suspect this was the original setting by his colleague Austin Wright called FORGIVENESS. … Continue reading →

This is a lovely short song/prayer with a text by Brian Anthony Moore SJ and set to WINCHESTER OLD – you know “While Shepherds Watched …” and all. This is an Allans Music copyright and I can only find it … Continue reading →

This is another “modern” song that was chosen by the editors of CWB in Australia. It is a joyful song of praise that is noted have words by English folk hymn writer, Michael Cockett and music by Kevin Mayhew that … Continue reading →

This is a Marian hymn by Lucien Deiss with eleven verses in CWB. Breviary Hymns supplies some background and the sheet music appears to still be available at GIA. The text is here, interspersed with ads. It looks like I … Continue reading →

As published in CWB, this is a funeral song of two verses written by Edmund Stuart Palmer and set to DUN ALUINN. It does have the terrifying addition of “alt” to the text attribution so it is worth finding out … Continue reading →