Monthly Archives: November 2025

This is the last song added to Breaking Bread by OCP for 2026. It says something that this gentle minor key song for Easter is one of the more uplifting songs added. I can’t really fault any of the songs … Continue reading →

OCP have chosen this Cyprian Consiglio funeral song for Breaking Bread in 2026. Unfamiliar songs like this at a funerals have to be solos, so if that is that you need it may be a useful hymn. The sheet music … Continue reading →

This is Sarah Hart‘s setting (GAUDENS) of the Caswell translation of Aquinas’s Pange Lingua Gloriosi, which has been added to Breaking Bread by OCP for 2026. This ancient communion hymn is especially suitable for Holy Thursday, Corpus Christi and Adoration. … Continue reading →

Looking further at the new entries for OCP’s Breaking Bread for 2026 is this Bob Hurd text. He has set it to Dvorak’s “Largetto” from the New World Symphony. It is a prayer and a lament for a world that … Continue reading →

This is basically a single sentence mantra from Timothy R. Smith that has been added to Breaking Bread for 2026 by OCP. You can leave it as simple a prayer as you like or build it up into a choral … Continue reading →

This is a moving funeral song from Sarah Hart and Francesca LaRosa with inspiration from In Paridisum. It would be suitable as a solo during the ceremony – OCP suggests the Procession out of the church. It was selected for … Continue reading →

This is a choral song for the Holy Family and Christmas from OCP, that they have added to Breaking Bread for 2026. It was written by Angela Birkhead-Flight who suggests it as a wedding song. It’s a simple text and … Continue reading →

This is another new song for 2026 in OCP’s Breaking Bread with a text by Owen Alstott and a setting by Rick Modlin. OCP describe it thusly: This new text by Alstott is full of social justice concerns and the … Continue reading →

Tom Booth has written a song for Gifts and Eucharist that has been added to Breaking Bread by OCP for 2026. It is a simple song with an impressive bridge. The sheet music can be purchased at OCP where the … Continue reading →

This is another Dan Schutte song that has made OCP’s list for Breaking Bread in 2026. It is a song imagining the vigil of Mary Magdalene at Christ’s tomb. It is a conversation between the Magdalene and Jesus so I … Continue reading →