Monthly Archives: September 2025

This is a setting of Psalm 26(27) from the Grail by Tobias Colgan OSB. He is a Benedictine from St. Meinrad Archabbey in southern Indiana. They have kindly posted a songbook that includes this song’s words and music on page … Continue reading →

This is another song CWB sourced from the New Catholic Hymnal, and is a paraphrase by Anthony G. Petti of a song by Thomas Aquinas called Verbum supernum prodiens. It is both Eucharistic and Trinitarian. CWB set it to Percy … Continue reading →

This is a Dutch hymn for confirmation by Huub Oosterhuis. CWB I sets it to a traditional Dutch tune, GELUKKIG IS HET LAND. The translation is by Anthony Barr. The words and music are in this sample at Hymnary. OCP … Continue reading →

This is some 60s folk mass goodness from Joe Wise and yet another update of Psalm 22 (23). The original has an extra bar in verse 3 only but I note Marty Haugen’s arrangement for GIA smoothed things out with … Continue reading →

This is a reimagining of Psalm 22 (23) by Christopher Idle. CWB used CRIMOND to set it, which is doubling down I suppose. Jubilate have the text, Hope the sheet music and Praise the backstory. Job done. Now to find … Continue reading →

The is a bit of an orphan setting of Psalm 26 (27) by Marty Haugen. You would expect Haugen’s work to be available but he wrote a more useable setting later on and that appears to have superceded this one. … Continue reading →

This lyric for Holy Week, by the poet Margaret Cropper, is set in CWB to MORNING SONG. It is admirably succinct. 1 The glory of our King was seenwhen he came riding by,and all the children waved and sang‘Hosanna, King … Continue reading →

This is a translation of St Ambrose’s Aeterna Christi munera translated by John Mason Neale and here set to the tradional tune AGINCOURT. I blogged this as part of a group of songs in CWB II, but I’ll give it … Continue reading →

This is another of the songs CWB sourced from the Resource Collection of Hymns and Service Music for the Liturgy from ICEL, which can still be purchased at GIA. The text for Advent and Christmas is by Omar Westendorf based … Continue reading →

Father Brian Foley based this hymn on the suffering servant passages in Isaiah 53, so it has a special use for Good Friday. CWB sourced this hymn for the New Catholic Hymnal and followed them by setting the text to … Continue reading →