Every twenty hymns or so in the New Living Parish Hymn book I’ll have a diversion just so I don’t completely regress to the past.
As far as I know, GIA don’t have anything like the annual cull and replacement of songs like for OCP’s Breaking Bread selections, but they do have GIA Unbound where newish songs are highlighted. Since they include a preview of the sheet music I’m going do just that for a few selections from GIA Unbound.
This one is for Christmas and has a text by Jacque B. Jones and is set by Randall Sensmeier.
It has a thoughtful lyrics and an inventive tune but the octave leap from D to D is too much for me.
The sheet music can be purchased at GIA, where the words are in the preview. They also sell this hymn set to SLANE.