Monthly Archives: February 2019

The Reproaches (Joseph Wise) CWB II 323

This is another setting of the Reproaches in Catholic Worship Book II, this time by Joe Wise. This one has a refrain and verses chanted by a cantor. My people, my people, what have I done to you; or in … Continue reading

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The Reproaches CWB II 322

This is Jenny O’Brien’s setting of the Reproaches. She has two sections of chant for cantors and two refrains for the assembly. I’ve done a backing with guessed chords for the first refrain. My people, what have I done to … Continue reading

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Faithful Cross the Saints Rely On CWB II 321

Having already blogged: 320 Behold the Wood … I can continue to another song for Good Friday in Catholic Worship Book II. This is a chant called CRUX FIDELIS, a c6th Latin sequence by Venantius Fortunatus and translated into English … Continue reading

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Music for the Eighth Week of Ordinary Time Year C 2nd/3rd March 2019

Entrance: As a Fire is Meant for Burning (Duck) GA 881 Psalm 91 (McKenna) Lord, it is good to give thanks to you, to give thanks to you. Gifts: Be Thou My Vision (trans Mary E. Byrne SLANE) AOV 1/9 … Continue reading

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Behold, the Wood of the Cross CWB II 319

With some misgivings I’m going back to a survey of Catholic Worship Book II, which will mean lots of music in a style to which I am not accustomed. I had got up to the songs for Good Friday and … Continue reading

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Healer of Our Every Ill GC 854

This is the last of the slightly more obscure Marty Haugen songs in my copy of Gather Comprehensive that I hadn’t blogged when looking at other sources. This another anointing song that would also fit as a recessional or for … Continue reading

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Hands of Healing GC 845

This is another Marty Haugen song that is meant as a call and response between a cantor and the assembly in the vesres, but that I’m sure would work just as well sung through by everyone. It has an obvious … Continue reading

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My Soul Proclaims GC 782

This is Marty Haugen’s setting of the Magnificat that is in Gather Comprehensive. It is another call and response between an assembly and a cantor that could also be sung through just by the assembly. The sheet music is at … Continue reading

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Watch, O Lord GC 753

I’m up to the last four Marty Haugen songs in Gather Comprehensive that I haven’t covered elsewhere. I love this tune Marty Haugen wrote to set his adaptation of a text by St Augustine. It is a song of comfort … Continue reading

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Music for the Seventh Sunday in Ordinary Time Year C 23rd/24th February 2019

Entrance: Come As You Are (Brown) AOV 1/31 Psalm 102(McKenna) The Lord is kind and merciful Gifts: A Trusting Psalm (Bates) AOV 1/115 Communion: In the Breaking of the Bread (Hurd)  AOV 1/58 Thanksgiving: Be Merciful (Haugen) Recessional: Lift Up … Continue reading

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