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Janet Sullivan Whitaker‘s 2006 song “Keep Me In Your Heart” has been added to Breaking Bread for 2025 by OCP. This a gentle sung prayer and a hopeful lament. OCP suggests it for times of grief and at a second … Continue reading →

This hymn has a text by Christina Rosetti and set by Gustav Holst. It is has been added to Breaking Bread by OCP for 2025. I love Holst, but this is another Christmas song hopelessly bound to Eurocentric views of … Continue reading →

This is Tantum ergo. I have covered this traditional song on the blog and only mention it here because it has been added to Breaking Bread for 2025. I have an ancient document – Breaking Bread 2012 – and it … Continue reading →

So I am playing for the Sunday morning mass instead of Saturday night for the fourth week in Advent and have decided that, while I still want a Marian hymn, it should be something they know rather than something new, … Continue reading →

Casey McKinley has set this traditional text for a sprinkling rite based on Ezekiel 47 in a pleasant folk, country style. It has been added to Breaking Bread for 2025 by OCP. The sheet music can be purchased at OCP … Continue reading →

This is another Harry Hagan text added to Breaking Bread for 2025 by OCP. The setting is by Steve Angrisano and Curtis Stephan. It is on the theme of mercy, obviously, and uses the blind Bartimeus story from Mark 1o. … Continue reading →

OCP has added Ken Canedo’s 2015 song, “God So Loved” to Breaking Bread for 2025. It is scriptural, obviously, and I wonder if in a stripped down form it would work for Gifts. It is very slow and as you … Continue reading →

I am up to “D” in the new songs for Breaking Bread 2025 from OCP. OK, this is chant, so I’m not making a backing. It is a traditional prayer from the 1700s that has been added to (by popes) … Continue reading →

Continuing with the additions to OCP for 2025 is Justin Wedgewood‘s fairly recent setting of Genevieve Gould‘s text. She has written a fine lyric with a social conscience and it is set beautifully, but I would have to see if … Continue reading →

This is a Mary song for choir or assembly from Australian songwriter Christopher Wilcock that has been added to Breaking Bread this year. Being at Star of the Sea parish locally and living in a port town, it is something … Continue reading →