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It would be uncharitable to suggest that blogging the songs for Easter in Catholic Worship Book II is a Lenten penance… so I won’t say that. 360 Jesus Christ Is Risen Today 361 Jesus Lives, Jesus Lives Today “Now Is … Continue reading →

Christopher Willcock translated Didier Rimuad’s Easter text and set it to music. The text is in the preview at OCP, where you can purchase the sheet music. Listen to the preview to hear the challenging yet marvellous music. I think … Continue reading →

Throughout Lent we will use a seasonal psalm, Marty Haugen’s “Be With Me”. Entrance: Hosea (Norbet) AOV 1/30 Gifts: The Cry of the Poor (Foley) AOV 1/83 Communion: Unless a Grain of Wheat (Farrell) AOV 1/35 Recessional: A New Heart … Continue reading →

CWB II continues its run of traditional hymnody for Easter with: 357 Good Shepherd, You Know Us … and this song set to LLANFAIR with a text by James Quinn. The text is here (thanks, Mary).

This Easter song is by Keith David Pearson based on a text by John of Damascus and set to AVE VIRGO VIRGINUM. The text is here, and it is in Together In Song (391) as well as CWB II.

This is a joyful Easter song from CWB II with a tune for the refrain and two separate verse tunes. The text is by John Edward Bowers and it is set to SALVA FESTES DIES by Ralph Vaughn Williams. I … Continue reading →

Throughout Lent we will use a seasonal psalm, Marty Haugen’s “Be With Me”. Entrance: Here I Am Lord (Schutte) AOV 1/90 Gifts: Be Merciful (Haugen) Communion: Tree of Life (Thompson) AOV NG 138 Recessional: Holy Darkness (Schutte) AOV 2/24

In the Easter songs in CWB II I’ve done: 352 By Your Kingly Power, O Risen Lord (Outstanding) 353 Christ is Alive, With Joy We Sing (More Easter VULPIUS action) This text is by Michael Weisse and translated by Catherine … Continue reading →

CWB II gives some of these much longer titles but I have still blogged them already. 348 Easter Alleluia 349 O Sons and Daughters 350 Alleluia No.1 This is another Easter tune. It set to LASST UNS ERFREUEN, this time … Continue reading →

I’m into the general Easter songs in CWB II. I’ve already done: 346 Alleluia! Alleluia! Which brings me to this chestnut from 1965 by Lucien Deiss. It is a lively 6/8 song with an interesting tune in the verses for … Continue reading →