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Having already blogged: 320 Behold the Wood … I can continue to another song for Good Friday in Catholic Worship Book II. This is a chant called CRUX FIDELIS, a c6th Latin sequence by Venantius Fortunatus and translated into English … Continue reading →

Entrance: As a Fire is Meant for Burning (Duck) GA 881 Psalm 91 (McKenna) Lord, it is good to give thanks to you, to give thanks to you. Gifts: Be Thou My Vision (trans Mary E. Byrne SLANE) AOV 1/9 … Continue reading →

With some misgivings I’m going back to a survey of Catholic Worship Book II, which will mean lots of music in a style to which I am not accustomed. I had got up to the songs for Good Friday and … Continue reading →

This is the last of the slightly more obscure Marty Haugen songs in my copy of Gather Comprehensive that I hadn’t blogged when looking at other sources. This another anointing song that would also fit as a recessional or for … Continue reading →

This is another Marty Haugen song that is meant as a call and response between a cantor and the assembly in the vesres, but that I’m sure would work just as well sung through by everyone. It has an obvious … Continue reading →

This is Marty Haugen’s setting of the Magnificat that is in Gather Comprehensive. It is another call and response between an assembly and a cantor that could also be sung through just by the assembly. The sheet music is at … Continue reading →

I’m up to the last four Marty Haugen songs in Gather Comprehensive that I haven’t covered elsewhere. I love this tune Marty Haugen wrote to set his adaptation of a text by St Augustine. It is a song of comfort … Continue reading →

Entrance: Come As You Are (Brown) AOV 1/31 Psalm 102(McKenna) The Lord is kind and merciful Gifts: A Trusting Psalm (Bates) AOV 1/115 Communion: In the Breaking of the Bread (Hurd)  AOV 1/58 Thanksgiving: Be Merciful (Haugen) Recessional: Lift Up … Continue reading →

I must be getting near the end of the Marty Haugen songs in Gather Comprehensive that haven’t turned up elsewhere in the collections I have blogged to date. This is a song for Eucharist but could be used to gather … Continue reading →

This is another Marty Haugen tune setting a text by another author, in this case Herbert O’Driscoll. It is a great entrance hymn and you could pick the verses to suit the liturgy. The text is at Hymnary. I see … Continue reading →