Author Archives: maddg

This is another of the songs CWB sourced from the Resource Collection of Hymns and Service Music for the Liturgy from ICEL, which can still be purchased at GIA. The text for Advent and Christmas is by Omar Westendorf based … Continue reading →

Father Brian Foley based this hymn on the suffering servant passages in Isaiah 53, so it has a special use for Good Friday. CWB sourced this hymn for the New Catholic Hymnal and followed them by setting the text to … Continue reading →

I have somehow never come across this joyous Marty Haugen Christmas song from back in 1983, but it did appear in Australia’s Catholic Worship Book in 1985. It’s still available at GIA with arrangements for brass quintet and 2 octave … Continue reading →

The editors of CWB picked another James Montgomery (1771-1854) text and this time rather than attaching “alt” they say “adapted”, so I suspect greater changes. It could be for Pentecost but is especially for Ordination. Here , it is set … Continue reading →

In between the venerable hymn tunes with aged texts in CWB, there is the occasional folk mass era song that I somehow have managed not to find from other sources. This is a Joe Wise folk song from the sixties … Continue reading →

This is a Eucharistic text by Australian priest and theologian, David Michael Coffey, who died recently. CWB got it from the New Catholic Hymnal and set it to TALLIS’ CANON. Godsongs notes its use in NZ in the 1970s set … Continue reading →

I am on a voyage through the songs recommended for Australian Catholic Churches in the 1980s by their publication in the Catholic Worship Book. Many have been covered from other collections on this blog, so what I am finding are … Continue reading →

This is a wedding hymn written by Dorothy Frances Gurney for her sister’s wedding that wound up in hundreds of hymnals. CWB set it to HIGHWOOD by Richard Runciman Terry. Hymnary has more blurb than usual about this song. The … Continue reading →

This is evening prayer from the Divine Office with a text by the Benedictine Nuns of Stanbrook Abbey. It survived into CWB II with a different setting, but here it is set to O LIGHT SERENE by Howard Hughes. The … Continue reading →

Entrance: Christ Light, Shining in the Darkness (Grant) CWBII 468 Psalm 121 (McKenna) Let us go rejoicing to the house of the Lord. Gifts: Jesus Remember Me AOV 1/152 Communion: Hymn to Christ the King (Hart et al) Recessional: From … Continue reading →