Author Archives: maddg

I’m looking at hymns that GIA has posted here. This one is by Adam Tice asks of God the question “will you bring something good” out of the pain of existence. It is set to INTERCESSOR by C Hubert H … Continue reading →

GIA has posted , for a short time, some hymns to help us through the current state of the world. You can download the sheet music from GIA here. Mary Louise Bringle wrote the text of this song and is … Continue reading →

GIA sent an e-mail about some Hymns for Healing for which they were posting sheet music until September 1st. There are five of them to look at and “Shelter Me” by Father Joncas was so good I thought I’d look … Continue reading →

The music is a little curtailed with restricted attendance but we are still doing the Mass parts from the Mass of St Francis with spoken a Psalm and Gospel Acclamation. There is no collection so no music for Gifts. Entrance: … Continue reading →

This is a communion song new to me by Gregory Norbet. It has unfortunate leaps up to a held D at times that will require dropping the key from F to D for groaners like myself – I know the … Continue reading →

This is James E. Moore Jr’s fine setting of this oft set Psalm. There are enough variations and complications in the verses to leave them to a cantor as suggested. It’s not one I’ve heard around here but it appears … Continue reading →

I actually have blogged this one before here, but I made a new backing just for fun.

If you are intending to buy a huge second hand loose leaf collection of songs you may find missing pages. Here I discovered 481 to 483 are missing. The only one of those I haven’t blogged is this one with … Continue reading →

This is folk styled tune by Sebastian Temple for the RCIA or for use for Gifts, as a recessional or commissioning. The text is here. OCP sell the sheet music. The clips below show it is versatile enough to be … Continue reading →