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This looks like a hymn for the parents at a child’s Baptism. The text is by Frederick Herman Kaan and is here set to ST CLEMENT, by Clement Cotteral Scholefield. The text and sheet music are available from the wonderful … Continue reading →

This a useful Eucharistic hymn by Lucien Deiss. The text is on page eight of this handout: https://www.bbcatholic.org.au/ArticleDocuments/12448/15th%20Sunday%20%20-%20Home%20Liturgy%20a.pdf.aspx CWB got it from Biblical Hymns and Psalms Vol 2, which was published by WLP in 1970, and is now available very … Continue reading →

More necessary prayers for the evening from CWB, this time from St Joseph’s Abbey. The text is here. It is set to the venerable KINGSFOLD.

This is a text by the Benedictine Nuns of St Mary’s Abbey in West Maling. I have it in RitualSong, and other GIA hymnals, as a chant (TE LUCIS ANTE TERMINUM) for night prayer. In CWB it is set to … Continue reading →

I’m not sure what to make of this stirring – nay triumphant – hymn set to an Italian tradition melody NOI VOGLIAM DIO, the tune for the anthem of the Papal States. This in turn was a co-opting of a … Continue reading →

This is a translation by Louis Blenkner OSB of the C4 text Te Deum laudamus by St Nicetas. Blenkner was a scholar who published concerning the Gawain poet. I wrote a very dodgy dissertation on the same poet in the … Continue reading →

This is a song for reconciliation from CWB by Redmond McGoldrick. The text is on page 387 of this document. Here it is set to Joshua Leavett’s HIDING PLACE. Hymnary provided chords for a backing. Here it is in it’s … Continue reading →

This text takes us through many aspects of liturgy. It is C19 text by William Bullock, reworked by Henry Williams Baker and altered by the editors here presumably to make it both more Catholic and less archaic. There is a … Continue reading →

This is a song for Baptism written by Judith Beatrice O’Neill. She was living in Melbourne when she wrote the text in the 1950s. She went on to write junior fiction. CWB sets it to RICHMOND. I got chords from … Continue reading →

Looking back from 2025, it is quite odd to note that Catholic Worship Book was published in 1985 and feels much earlier, while As One Voice was only seven years later in 1992 and seems a quantum leap in song … Continue reading →