Monthly Archives: September 2025

This is a song for reconciliation from CWB by Redmond McGoldrick. The text is on page 387 of this document. Here it is set to Joshua Leavett’s HIDING PLACE. Hymnary provided chords for a backing. Here it is in it’s … Continue reading →

This text takes us through many aspects of liturgy. It is C19 text by William Bullock, reworked by Henry Williams Baker and altered by the editors here presumably to make it both more Catholic and less archaic. There is a … Continue reading →

This is a song for Baptism written by Judith Beatrice O’Neill. She was living in Melbourne when she wrote the text in the 1950s. She went on to write junior fiction. CWB sets it to RICHMOND. I got chords from … Continue reading →

Looking back from 2025, it is quite odd to note that Catholic Worship Book was published in 1985 and feels much earlier, while As One Voice was only seven years later in 1992 and seems a quantum leap in song … Continue reading →

The other thing I am turning up in CWB is early Marty Haugen material that I haven’t come across elsewhere. This is by Haugen and based on Psalm 24 (25). It’s a lovely melody but the verses suggest a cantor. … Continue reading →

Slogging through the hymns that I haven’t covered already on this blog from CWB, I am a little disappointed at so few Australian hymns. I’m getting a few forgotten folk mass era songs and lots of old hymns to old … Continue reading →

This is a hymn of praise, which CWB say is a translation of an anonymous C16 work called Summa parentis filio, translated by Edward Caswell and further adapted by the editors. The particular theme of the Sacred Heart of Jesus … Continue reading →

This is a Marty Haugen song that CWB says is based on Psalm 94 (95) and 95 (96). Psalm 118 is obviously involved as well for the refrain. The verse goes into interesting melodic territory – B# in a song … Continue reading →

I’m afraid this is another obscure one from CWB. The text is by Don and Nancy MacNeill. The tune is by Daniel Moe and called OPENING HYMN. It was from a collection called Worship For Today and also was in … Continue reading →

I covered this James Quinn text while I was doing Gather Australia, but they used JESU DULCIS MEMORIA. CWB say they set it to EISENACH, but it is in fact set to JESU DULCIS MEMORIA as well. The words are … Continue reading →