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This is not an Advent song but was the title track of the Craig Colson album from which “This is Your Justice” derives and I thought it worth a look too. It is a solo vehicle but powerful nonetheless. The … Continue reading →

In an effort to wrench myself back to Advent from the Lent songs in CWB II, I saw this article at the Pray Tell Blog with a playlist for Advent. I though I’d look at the songs suggested and found … Continue reading →

Rounding out lent for CWB II is this translation of a sixth century song Clarum decus jujunii, possibly by Gregory the Great, translated by Maurice Bell. It is set to DEO GRACIAS aka AGINCOURT. I’ve already blogged this with a … Continue reading →

This Marty Haugen song, which he says was originally an entrance hymn for Holy Thursday, is in the Lent section of CWB II because of the extra verses Haugen wrote for each week of Lent. Happily CWB II have the … Continue reading →

Entrance: Emmanuel (Angrisano) Wreath: Christ Circle Round Us (Schutte) Psalm: To You O God, I Lift Up My Soul (Hurd) AOV 2/14 Gifts: Gentle Woman (Landry) GA 544 Communion: O Come, O Come Emmanuel (Neale) AOV 1/174 Thanksgiving: Advent Chant (Porter/Kirkland) AOV 2/123 … Continue reading →

I’ve done Marty Haugen’s “Return to God” 298, so that gets me to this song from The (Unrevised) Grail with the antiphon from Joel 2:17 and the verses from Psalm 51. The antiphon is: Parce Domine, populo tuo, ne in … Continue reading →

I’m still in the Lent section of CWB II and finding more Lent songs I didn’t know. This one has a text by Kevin Nichols and is usually set to PASSION CHORALE (Hassler) but in CWB I & II it … Continue reading →

This is a translation of Deus, creator omnium, from the Stanbrook Abbey Hymnal. It is a hymn for Lent from the Divine Office. It is here set to ERHALT UNS, HERR. The text is here.

This is one of the wonderful songs by the team of James Phillip McAuley the poet and Richard Connolly the tunesmith. I can grouch about the over abundance of traditional hymnody in this collection but I always enjoy Connolly’s tunes. … Continue reading →

Entrance: O Come O Come Emmanuel (Neale) AOV 1/174 Wreath: Christ Circle Round Us (Schutte) Psalm: To You O God, I Lift Up My Soul (Hurd) AOV 2/14 Gifts: Praise To You O Christ (Farrell) AOV 1/28 Communion: Bread Broken, Wine Shared (Horner) AOV … Continue reading →