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It is always a joy to have a text by Shirley Erena Murray come up. This song has a timeless environmental theme. It is set to TENDERNESS by Colin Gibson. The lyrics are at Hope Publishing Company along with links … Continue reading →

Entrance: A New Heart for a New World   (O’Brien/Watts) AOV 1/158 Psalm 50 (McKenna) I will rise and go to my father. I will rise and go to my father. Gifts: Be Merciful (Haugen) Communion: Table of Plenty   (Schutte) AOV … Continue reading →

Yet another relatively recent text to an old tune in CWB II. Fred R. Anderson paraphrased Psalm 150 for this c20 text and it is set to DARWELL a c18 tune by John Darwell. The text for this stirring song … Continue reading →

When you take out the hymns available in As One Voice from Catholic Worship Book II you are left with a lot of fairly recent texts to rather old tunes. This is another one is by the very prolific Michael … Continue reading →

Bernard Sexton wrote this song for the Fiftieth International Eucharistic Congress in Dublin in 2012. The text is here, although CWB II has five verses and I’ve seen six. Apart from from the range being somewhat too wide for the … Continue reading →

I’ve already blogged this text by Frederick William Faber here set to HYFRYDOL. Catholic Worship Book II prefers IN BABILONE. The text has more stanzas than CWB II uses (see here) but those chosen by the editors, which I have … Continue reading →

This is a song for Pentecost with a social justice edge by Brian Wren set to LAUDS by John W. Wilson. I’m sure it has a liturgical fit more generally as well and CWB II is to be applauded for … Continue reading →

I missed the meeting at which the songs were chosen for the next few weeks as I was accompanying my daughter to an antenatal class of all things. So with thanks to the team here are this weeks’ selections. We … Continue reading →

This is a c18 text by Thomas Olivers based an older Jewish original and Rev 4-5. There are many other verses and variations but the text below is as per CWB II. Here it is set to LEONI by Meyer … Continue reading →

This is a typical CWB II hymn. A text from c20, with a tune from much further back in time – here c18. The text is by Bryn Rees and will suit any liturgy with a focus on the Reign … Continue reading →