Author Archives: maddg

This song is a folk styled song from the sixties, and it sounds like it for good or ill. Happily, I love sixties folk music, but this is from before my time in the Catholic church and I was unfamiliar … Continue reading →

This is an anonymous c19 text supposedly based on Isaiah 7:14 set to VENITE ADORAMUS. To be picky it is actually a hymn based on traditional sources from outside the canon that create an aural nativity scene for those in … Continue reading →

This is quite the production for Good Friday; and Lent in anticipation of that. It is by Anne Quigley and starts with a Latin refrain sung by the assembly or choir “at least three times” to begin with. This is … Continue reading →

If you want to know where things are precaution wise with church locally, look here where you can book your free tickets to Mass from next week onwards. Entrance: Canticle of Creation (Watts-O’Brien) AOV NG 20 Psalm 64 (McKenna) The seed … Continue reading →

I mentioned this hymn briefly in this post but since it is in this collection I will give it a blog of its own. This is a text based on Psalm 23 with other inspiration from all over the Bible. … Continue reading →

This is a text from forty-three years ago set to a tune one hundred and fifty years old. The words are by Melvin Farrell and have a specific use for Christ the King. It is set to ICH GLAUB AN … Continue reading →

The songs in OCP’s Guitar Accompaniment Book c2005 that I haven’t covered elsewhere are often of a genre not frequently used in Australia (Gospel, Spanish), require cantors, or are archaic. This is the latter. It is a c19th translation by … Continue reading →

I have blogged this Tom Kendzia song years ago when covering the Spirit and Song collections here. I have revisited it because OCP have a simpler, more assembly friendly version in their Guitar Accompaniment Book. They got rid of an … Continue reading →

This is an Advent song with a fine old hymn tune. It is from a Latin original Instantis adventum Dei by Charles Coffin and translated by Robert Campbell. It is set to OPTATUS VOTIS OMNION of unknown authorship but collected … Continue reading →

I missed the music liturgy meeting, which is a shame because we may be heading back to normality (OK a new normal) with no community spread in Queensland of Covid 19. I was going to play at mass last night … Continue reading →