Author Archives: maddg

Another notional music selection: Entrance: All the Ends of the Earth (Dufford) AOV 1/76) Gifts: We Walk By Faith (Haugen) AOV 1/63 Communion: One Body (O’Brien- Watts) AOV 2/146 Thanksgiving: Holy Spirit Come (Mangan) AOV NG 67 Recessional: Lord, the Light of … Continue reading →

My never ending survey of the songs from my copy of OCP’s Guitar Accompaniment Book c2005, continues with this text by Gail Coon. It is a passionate hymn of social justice so I suppose it is out of fashion – … Continue reading →

This setting of the ICEL text of Psalm 51 has a tune by Robert Kreutz. The verses are chant so that’s over to you, but I’ll do a backing for the two refrain options. Remember your love and your faithfulness … Continue reading →

OCP list the theme as “God’s Kingdom”, which is fair enough, but this is basically a text for All Saints Day by Harry Hagan. I have blogged another version of this with a chorus here, but this one lacks that … Continue reading →

I’m a sucker for O WALY WALY and when matched with this delicate paraphrase of Psalm 42 by Danna Harkin it is quite lovely. This is the 4/4 version of the traditional tune. OCP sell the sheet music and the … Continue reading →

This is Tom Conry’s paraphrase of Psalm 23. It is a lovely song but I suspect it is a solo vehicle as the verses are awfully fiddly with triplets in some verses and not others. The sheet music can be … Continue reading →

This is a hymn of thankfulness and praise by Father Michael Kwatera set to OLD 100TH. I can’t find the text anywhere on the internet and it is copyright so I’ll leave it be at that today. I can’t even … Continue reading →

This is another virtual list for a gathering that didn’t happen. Entrance: Holy Spirit Come (Mangan) AOV NG 69 Gifts: A New Commandment (Unknown) Communion: I Have Loved You (Joncas) AOV 1/126 Thanksgiving: As Gentle As Silence (White) CWB II 580 Recessional: Jesus Is … Continue reading →

I have blogged this song set to AUSTRIA in CWB II here, but GAB take the safer route of setting it to HYMN TO JOY so I thought I would put it in again. The text is based on Psalm … Continue reading →

This is Ricky Manalo’s setting of this text by St Thomas Aquinas sung in Latin. Like yesterday’s hymn it has an ostinato refrain for the assembly (Pange lingua gloriósi córporis mystérium) underpinning the cantor or choir’s verse part. Like most … Continue reading →