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Entrance: Hearts on Fire  (Mangan) AOV NG 62 Psalm 15 (McKenna) Keep me safe, O God; you are my hope. Keep me safe, O God; you are my hope. Gifts: Will You Love Me?  (Boniwell) AOV 1/40 Communion: Come to the Table (Burland) … Continue reading →

I’m slogging through the largely traditional Advent repertoire of CWB II and I’ve already done: 247 The Angel Gabriel  I have actually done a version of this song too as “The Advent of Our King”. This is a different translation … Continue reading →

This is another hymn for Advent. The text is Martin Luther’s adaptation of St Ambrose’s text, Veni Redemptor gentium. The translation is by William Reynolds, but the text in CWB II has a different translation from halfway through verse 3 by … Continue reading →

I’ve blogged the next few in CWB II already: 242 O Come, O Come Emmanuel 243 Open the Heavens, Lord (Brian Boniwell gets a well deserved Advent slot!) 244 On Jordan’s Bank the Baptists’s Cry “Prepare the Way, O Zion” … Continue reading →

Entrance: Gather Us In (Haugen) AOV 1/12 Psalm 145 (McKenna) Praise the Lord, my soul! Praise the Lord, my soul! Gifts: The Cry of the Poor (Foley) AOV 1/83 Communion: A Place at the Table (Shirley Erena Murray – Lori True) AOV NG … Continue reading →

This is another late entry for completeness from when I was away. Entrance: Gather As One (McKenna) AOV NG 48 Psalm 17 (McKenna) I love you Lord, my strength. Gifts: A New Commandment (Unknown) Communion: I Have Loved You (Joncas) AOV 1/126 Thanksgiving: … Continue reading →

Since I use this blog myself to search for suggestions from three years ago, I’ll catch up with the local suggestions for liturgical music from when I was away, so that in three years time I’ll know what we used … Continue reading →

… I’ll resume in a couple of weeks.

Just when it appears there is nothing but traditional hymns for Advent, CWB II drops this Michael Mangan bombshell. Admittedly it is twenty-three years old already but it was not originally written in Latin so that is a point of … Continue reading →

This is another traditional hymn for Advent. The text is by Abbé Simon-Joseph Pellegrin (1663-1745), translated by Sister Mary of St Philip in 1877. The tune is VENEZ DIVIN MESSIE a sixteenth century French tune that is a 6/8 carol … Continue reading →