Now Is Eternal Life CWB II 362

It would be uncharitable to suggest that blogging the songs for Easter in Catholic Worship Book II is a Lenten penance… so I won’t say that.

360 Jesus Christ Is Risen Today

361 Jesus Lives, Jesus Lives Today

“Now Is Eternal Life” fits the pattern of a c20 copyright text set to an older traditional tune. The text is by George Wallace Briggs (1875-1959) and here the setting is HAREWOOD by Samuel Sebastian Wesley (1810-76), although it is usually set to other tunes. (eg CHRISTCHURCH)

The text is here, although CWB II cuts the second verse shown there and with good reason.

I got the chords from Together in Song to make my backing because they certainly weren’t in CWB II.

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