Category Archives: Uncategorized

I’m back from a family wedding interstate so this early Paul Inwood marriage song is a happy coincidence for me. It is set to NETTLETON. The first line is repeated in each verse like a chorus and may help people … Continue reading →

This is Pamela Stotter’s translation of a Joseph Gelineau SJ song. The text is credited to AELF, which I gather is the Association Épiscopale Liturgique pour les pays Francophones. It is in CWB and Alleluia! Amen! but I can’t find … Continue reading →

This is a song very useful for Reconciliation and Lent – I like the text written by Rosamund E. Herklots lots. I have blogged two setting of this before. CWB II went with BELMONT, which I covered here. Gather 3rd … Continue reading →

This is an all purpose sung hymn of praise to God, suitable as an entrance. It is also known as “Now to Your Altar, In Answer to Your Call.” It was originally published in 1959 in We Offer the Mass, … Continue reading →

This is a text for infant or child baptism by Canadian hymn writer, Water Henry Farquharson. CWB I set this to OMNI DIE DIC MARIAE (aka SUNRISE). This one appears to have been a Catholic tune taken over by Protestants … Continue reading →

Once again the editors of CWB II thought better of the less common setting of a text in the original CWB and replaced it with the more usual hymn tune. For Frederick Faber’s famous hymn text, CWB I used SAWSTON … Continue reading →

I’m beginning to see a pattern here. The editors of CWB I tended to select the most obscure setting for any text and their successors working on CWB II reverted to the more commonly used setting. I have blogged this … Continue reading →

This is a Trinitarian hymn with a text by James Quinn SJ. It has four settings noted in Hymnary, but CWB I chose none of these, going for HEALING by Douglas Mews instead. The text is here. The chords were … Continue reading →

I am working my way through Australia’s Catholic Worship Book, to look for songs that I haven’t covered from other sources. This one is C7 Latin, Sancti venite, Christi corpus sumite, translated by John Mason Neale in the 1800s. It … Continue reading →

This is a paraphrase by Anthony G. Petti of Verbum supernum prodiens by St Thomas Aquinas. In CWB I it is set to MELCOMBE by Samuel Webbe. This tune has been used to set dozens of texts, but I can’t … Continue reading →