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I’m still in the Lent section of CWB II and finding more Lent songs I didn’t know. This one has a text by Kevin Nichols and is usually set to PASSION CHORALE (Hassler) but in CWB I & II it … Continue reading →

This is a translation of Deus, creator omnium, from the Stanbrook Abbey Hymnal. It is a hymn for Lent from the Divine Office. It is here set to ERHALT UNS, HERR. The text is here.

This is one of the wonderful songs by the team of James Phillip McAuley the poet and Richard Connolly the tunesmith. I can grouch about the over abundance of traditional hymnody in this collection but I always enjoy Connolly’s tunes. … Continue reading →

Entrance: O Come O Come Emmanuel (Neale) AOV 1/174 Wreath: Christ Circle Round Us (Schutte) Psalm: To You O God, I Lift Up My Soul (Hurd) AOV 2/14 Gifts: Praise To You O Christ (Farrell) AOV 1/28 Communion: Bread Broken, Wine Shared (Horner) AOV … Continue reading →

I have done a lot of the Lent songs in CWB II already: 288 Forty Days and Forty Nights 289 From Ashes to the Living Font 290 God of Mercy and Compassion 291 Grant to Us, O Lord 292 Hear … Continue reading →

I thought I’d done every Lent song in Christendom, but CWB II has a few that are new to me. I’ve done: 285 Again We Keep This Solemn Fast 286 Be With Me, Lord This is a tricky one because … Continue reading →

I’ll use the change from “Baptism of the Lord” to Lent in CWB II to slip in this song from Voices As One Volume 2. This is James Marchionda’s setting of the Hail Mary. The sheet music is at WLP. … Continue reading →

I like this text by Timothy Dudley-Smith for its directness and it is, of course, a song for the celebrations of the Baptism of the Lord. It is set to RENDEZ A DIEU, which may be familiar to an assembly … Continue reading →

CWB II has got to songs for the “Baptism of the Lord”. I’ve done: 282 When Jesus Comes to be Baptised already. “When Jesus to the Jordan Came” is chant – text by Ralph Wright OSB and set to JESU … Continue reading →

Stepping back into Voices As One Vol 2 for a break from the traditional hymnody of CWB II takes me to this setting of Psalm 27.  There are plenty of settings of this psalm out there but this is a … Continue reading →