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This is a C17 hymn from Germany, and I have to tread carefully because the Lutheran hymns in CWB have been tricking me up. This one has a text by Johann Heerman, that CWB says was translated by Robert Bridges … Continue reading →

This is the Grail text for Psalm 32 (33) as set by Margaret Daly, which found its way into CWB in Australia. It’s great that CWB was looking to England for material, but it does make it harder to track … Continue reading →

This is a Suzanne Toolan song, that while a GIA copyright, is not available at their site. She based the words on Ephesians 2:21 and 3:17. It is in CWB and Alleluia! Amen! at least if you are looking second … Continue reading →

CWB I did not choose the common version of this text by F.W. Wetherall, but chose a different text by Mary Trainor RSM with the same first two lines and the same setting LIEBSTER IMMANUEL. No wonder I get confused. … Continue reading →

I drove down for this today but issues with parking meant I left at the sign of peace and watched the rest when I got home. There was a lot of two hour parking for some distance around the cathedral … Continue reading →

This Marian hymn has Stanbrook Abbey listed as the author with Alan Rees OSB as the tunesmith. The background to the text is at Breviary Hymns and the text itself here. I made up some chords: I can find many … Continue reading →

This is Jerome Leaman of St Joseph’s Abbey’s paraphrase of Mane nobiscum Domine set to OLD HUNDREDTH. It is in CWB I and CBW III. OLD HUNDREDTH is imprinted on my brain as the doxology sung every week in the … Continue reading →

I wasn’t going to mention this one, because it is indeed “Be Thou My Vision,” (blogged here) but we all were looking at different versions in the comments on a recent post and it struck me that the editors of … Continue reading →

This is an interesting 60s pop song hymn by Patrick Robert Norman Appleford – I love that CWB likes long names as if they were sentencing a murderer. This is a communion hymn with origins in the youth ministry of … Continue reading →

This hymn for Lent with a text by Benedictine monk Ralph Wright did survive from CWB I to CWB II but there set to ST BERNARD. I suspect this was the original setting by his colleague Austin Wright called FORGIVENESS. … Continue reading →