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This is a text by Robert Bridges set to WERDE MUNTER, which is the famous tune by Johan Schop without Bach’s gorgeous fiddly bits I was expecting. The words are really not straightforward – they appear to try to express … Continue reading →

I did look at this one years ago, but it is this hymnal too, so I thought I would have another look. Set to LAND OF REST, a traditional American tune, the text is described here as a C16 “English … Continue reading →

This is Ray Repp’s “Into Your Hands We Commend Our Spirit, O Lord” which takes inspiration from Psalm 30 (31) for the refrain and Psalm 21 (22) for the verses. It is something to sing in times of distress when … Continue reading →

A Marian hymn from the esteemed team of James Phillip McAuley and Richard Connolly, so little chance of being confused with a Protestant hymn here. It is available to purchase at Willow, where there is a brief snippet and a … Continue reading →

I blogged this couple of years ago when it was added as a new song (!) to OCP’s Breaking Bread. It makes some sense in North America, but it shows how perverse we are in Australia that we could even … Continue reading →

I have blogged this before, but it is always a pleasure to hear the work of Australian poet James Phillip McAuley as set by Richard Connolly, this time,to his tune ARALUEN. The tune is inventive and the unexpected C natural … Continue reading →

This is John de Luca’s arrangement of the Lourdes Hymn, so you can’t get more Catholic than that – no chance of this being in the Presbyterian hymn book I grew up with! I have looked at it before, here, … Continue reading →

This Frank Andersen’s classic “Strong and Constant”, which I blogged in AOV years ago here. We can’t sing “Yahweh” anymore but we can sing “your God”, but we are still singing in the voice of God, which upsets some people. … Continue reading →

This is another song to move my dormant Presbyterian soul, a metrical version of Psalm 120 (121) from the Scottish Psalter of 1615. Even my very strict brother could sing this one, as long as was happy with Granton Douglas … Continue reading →

This is an obscure text you will find nowhere else because it was written by the editor himself, John de Luca. He set the text to his arrangement of AR HAD Y NOS, the Welsh tune for “All Through the … Continue reading →