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Entrance: As a Fire is Meant for Burning  (Duck) GA 881 Psalm 39 (McKenna) Lord, come to my aid! Lord, come to my aid! Gifts: Blessed be Our God  (McKenna) AOV NG 13 Communion: Gift of Finest Wheat (Westendorf/Kreutz) CWB … Continue reading →

Continuing my survey of the songs in Catholic Worship Book II, that I haven’t already blogged when doing As One Voice and other sources, I find a song for Eucharist by John Greally. The third verse was never going to … Continue reading →

James Quinn SJ wrote the text of the Trinitarian hymn for peace and it is set to SONG 46 by Orland Gibbons. The text is on page 5 of this bulletin. I got the chords from TIS as usual.

This is much the same as yesterday’s really. This one has a text by Geoffrey Cox set to Richard Connolly’s SANCTA SOPHIA. I can’t find the text anywhere so you’ll have to sing along from CWB II.

Lucien Deiss wrote this song of praise with the antiphon based on 1 Peter 2:9. I’ve seen up to seventeen potential verses and CWB II picks seven. I’ve found a text here but they pick a different six. The sheet … Continue reading →

Back in Catholic Worship Book II, we have this fine song of praise with a text by Rusty Edwards and here set to NETTLETON. The text and sheet music are available from the wonderful people at Hope Publishing. You could … Continue reading →

Entrance: All Are Welcome (Haugen) Psalm 32 (McKenna) Happy the people the Lord has chosen to be his own. Gifts: We Walk By Faith  (Haugen) AOV 1/63 Communion: Gift of Finest Wheat (Westendorf/Kreutz) CWB II 651 Thanksgiving: Without Seeing You … Continue reading →

This is an anonymous c18 text based on Psalm 148, although the third verse is by Edward Osler. The triumphant nature of texts like this give me pause. The Psalms rarely come from a position of power, so they work … Continue reading →

This is a song of praise with a liturgically useful trinitarian verse. A c9 latin text Christe cunctorum dominator alme, translated by Maxwell J. Blacker and fiddled with by others, it is set to ISTE CONFESSOR. Let’s hope our voices … Continue reading →

When I blogged this text by William Henry Turton here, I noted three variant titles. Here’s a fourth. I found a fifth with “Christ” for “Lord” as well. That a song praying for Christian unity has been tweaked into so … Continue reading →