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This is another song from GIA Unbound. Set to BUNESSAN, Eli Cooper-Nelson has provided a text highlighting the wideness and acceptance in God’s love. The sheet music is available for purchase at GIA where the text is in their preview. … Continue reading →

Chris let me known that it is the fiftieth anniversary of the death of Australia’s greatest hymn writer of his era, James McAuley. When you are looking through old hymn books looking for Australian hymns, he is the standout. It … Continue reading →

Every twenty hymns or so in the New Living Parish Hymn book I’ll have a diversion just so I don’t completely regress to the past. As far as I know, GIA don’t have anything like the annual cull and replacement … Continue reading →

This one was also in CWB I, so I covered it there. It’s a pop song from the sixties by Patrick Appleford. The similarity to “Living Doll” is really only the last few notes of each verse. The text is … Continue reading →

I was supposed to post this yesterday but got out of order. This hymn of humility is a bit of a riddle. The words were written by Notre Dame Sister Mary Xavier (aka Sybil Partridge), but Canon Ernest Wilberforce is … Continue reading →

This poem by Richard Baxter, a C17 Puritan minister famously expelled by the Church of England, is set here to the even older tune FARRANT, attributed to Richard Farrant. This is a hymn of humble acceptance that is marvellously, somehow, … Continue reading →

This is a sensible hymn for Christian unity with a text by the ever reliable Brian Wren and here set to HAMPTON POYLE by Peter Cutts, with its cunning cascade of triplets. The text is at Hope Publishing. If you … Continue reading →

I found another hymn I’ve never covered before in the New Living Parish Hymn Book. The words were written by Rowland Hill who was a pioneer in vaccination of all things. The text was altered by Mary L. Duncan at … Continue reading →

This song of praise is more Protestant hymnody in this Catholic hymnal, with a Charles Wesley text set to HELMSLEY. The editor diplomatically notes that it is a C18 English melody. Hymnary digs deeper: John Wesley attributed the tune HELMSLEY … Continue reading →

This is Gelineau Psalm 41 (42), whose freely sung text is no friend of Band in a Box. It also has a use in funerals. It is the original Grail text. I made backing for the antiphon at least: My … Continue reading →