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The ongoing quest for an acceptable Palm Sunday entrance song continues. This Cyprian Consiglio song is better than some of the hymns for this purpose I’ve used in the past but its only a maybe. The text is a bit … Continue reading →

Jumping from GIA back to OCP’s Guitar Accompaniment Book c2005, I find this Advent hymn by Harry Hagen set to CHRISTE SANCTORUM. The text reads like a poem and sounds great without music. OCP provide the text in their preview … Continue reading →

The last of the five songs being provided for a short time by GIA here, is this song by Christian Cosas. It is a WLP song, but they have been swallowed up by GIA. It was the Association of Catholic … Continue reading →

This is another of the “Hymns for Healing” posted by GIA here. GIA provide the text for John Bell’s powerful hymn here. If you are strong enough, you sing it to the tune WER NUR DEN LIEBEN GOTT by Georg … Continue reading →

I’m looking at hymns that GIA has posted here. This one is by Adam Tice asks of God the question “will you bring something good” out of the pain of existence. It is set to INTERCESSOR by C Hubert H … Continue reading →

GIA has posted , for a short time, some hymns to help us through the current state of the world. You can download the sheet music from GIA here. Mary Louise Bringle wrote the text of this song and is … Continue reading →

GIA sent an e-mail about some Hymns for Healing for which they were posting sheet music until September 1st. There are five of them to look at and “Shelter Me” by Father Joncas was so good I thought I’d look … Continue reading →

The music is a little curtailed with restricted attendance but we are still doing the Mass parts from the Mass of St Francis with spoken a Psalm and Gospel Acclamation. There is no collection so no music for Gifts. Entrance: … Continue reading →

This is a communion song new to me by Gregory Norbet. It has unfortunate leaps up to a held D at times that will require dropping the key from F to D for groaners like myself – I know the … Continue reading →

This is James E. Moore Jr’s fine setting of this oft set Psalm. There are enough variations and complications in the verses to leave them to a cantor as suggested. It’s not one I’ve heard around here but it appears … Continue reading →