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When the editors of the Praise to God parish hymnal, stepped away from the major prior hymn books for inspiration, they frequently turned to the Weston Priory and Gregory Norbet. From their collection Locusts and Wild Honey they found four … Continue reading →

OK this is an oddity. There was a record in the 1960s called “Let’s Sing a New Song” from the Sisters of the Good Shepherd in Hobart, recorded at the studios of radio 7HO under the name, The Canician Folk … Continue reading →

The last song I will look at that the Dominican Fathers who put together the Praise To God parish hymn book sourced from The Living Parish Hymnal is this setting of part of the Breastplate of St Patrick. They give … Continue reading →

Going down the rabbit hole of hymnal archeology in the Praise to God collection has led me to this song they sourced from the Living Parish Hymn Book. It is another gorgeous Richard Connolly setting, but this time with his … Continue reading →

I still have a couple of songs from the Living Parish Hymn Book that made their way into the Praise to God hymnal. This is another Richard Connolly song for which he wrote the words for as well as the … Continue reading →

This is another song from the Living Parish Hymn Book that was also used in the Praise to God parish hymn book. The text is C19 by Frederick William Faber and set to the C18 German tune PADERBORN. “O Purest … Continue reading →

My plan for looking through the Praise to God hymnal, was to concentrate on the smaller collections it sourced for hymns, but as I don’t have a copy of the Living Parish Hymnal, I had a look at the very … Continue reading →

Because I am now looking at the songs the Praise to God hymnal sourced from the original Living Parish Hymn Book, I have come across some old Catholic hymns that have escaped my net to date. This one is a … Continue reading →

I don’t have the Living Parish Hymn Book – I do have the New Living Parish Hymn Book, but not its older sibling – so I thought I’d look at the couple of hymns from the older collection not already … Continue reading →

The next source that was used to find material for the Praise to God Hymnal was the collection, Lord of Light from NALR and was called “By Name I Have Called You” by Carey Landry. I have found no trace … Continue reading →