Church Music

More from Sr Genevieve Glen. With obvious liturgical uses this text is set to WINCHESTER NEW.

The sheet music can be purchased at OCP and the text is in their preview.

Same tune and title – different text:

Entrance: Summoned By Love (O’Brien/Watts) AOV 2/18

Psalm: Canticle of Creation (Watts-O’Brien) AOV NG 20

Gifts: Prayer for Peace  (Haas) AOV 1/91

Communion: Will You Love Me?   (Boniwell) AOV 1/40

Thanksgiving: A Blessing Hymn for Australia (Herry) CWB II 655

Recessional: Advance Australia Fair (McCormick) CWB II 656

I’ve blogged this text before while looking at songs for a Corpus Christi Mass, but OCP set it to MELCOMBE by Samuel Webbe rather than DUGUIT. The words are by St Thomas Aquinas and are here translated by Edward Caswell, with editing by OCP.

O saving Victim, open wide
The gate of heaven to us below,
Our foes press on from every side,
Your aid supply, Your strength bestow.

To your great name be endless praise,
Immortal Godhead, One in Three;
O grant us endless length of days,
In our true native land with Thee. Amen.

Most version online are in Eb, as below, but OCP brings it down to C – thanks be to God.

OCP suggests this hymn for adoration, but it is also obviously a Eucharistic hymn. Irvin Udulutsch OFM write the text for the verses and the refrain is c19 Italian.

It is set to FULDA.

You can purchase the sheet music at OCP where the text is in the preview. Corpus Christi Watershed also have the sheet music. The melody is PD.

This is a text suitable for funerals by Frederick Lucian Hosmer set to GELOBT SEI GOTT.

The sheet music can be purchased at OCP.

1.
O Lord of life, where’er they be,

Safe in your own eternity,

Now live your children gloriously.

Alleluia! Alleluia! Alleluia!

2.
All souls you call, both here and there,

Do rest within your shelt’ring care;

One providence alike they share:

Alleluia! Alleluia! Alleluia!

3.
Your word is true, your ways are just;

Above the chanted “Dust to dust”

Shall rise our song of grateful trust:

Alleluia! Alleluia! Alleluia!

4.
Happy are they in God who rest,

No more by fear and doubt oppressed;

Living or dying, they are blest:

Alleluia! Alleluia! Alleluia!

I am in OCP’s Guitar Accompaniment Book and if I skip something it means I have blogged it elsewhere from another source.

This song by Genevieve Glen OSB is a night time prayer that would work for All Saints.

It is set to WAREHAM.

The sheet music can be purchased at OCP where the text is their preview.

This Christopher Walker song is for anointing or Lent and based on Psalm 61:2-5.

I gather it is the same tune as his song”O God, Hear Us”.

I can’t find the lyrics anywhere but OCP sell it as part of this collection.

Entrance:  Prepare the Way (Boniwell) CWB II 250

Psalm 39 (McKenna)

Here I am, Lord; I come to do your will.

Gifts:  Holy Spirit of Fire  (Mangan) CWB II 110

Communion:  Table of Plenty (Schutte) AOV 2/20

Thanksgiving: Here I Am Lord (Schutte) AOV 1/90

Recessional:  The Spirit Lives to Set Us Free (Lundy) AOV 2/165

Somehow, despite this being in our Christmas liturgy every year, I don’t appear to have blogged this song.

The text is by Phillips Brooks and OCP set it to the tune we use as well, ST LOUIS by Lewis H Redner. It is also sometimes set to FOREST GREEN. OCP sell the sheet music here. Their guitar version keeps things admirably simple.

[Verse 1]
O little town of Bethlehem
How still we see thee lie!
Above thy deep and dreamless sleep
The silent stars go by
Yet in the dark street shineth
The everlasting Light
The hopes and fears of all the years
Are met in thee tonight

[Verse 2]
For Christ is born of Mary
And gathered all above
While mortals sleep, the angels keep
Their watch of wondering love
O morning stars, together
Proclaim the holy birth
And praises sing to God, the King
And peace to men on earth

[Verse 3]
How silently, how silently
The wondrous Gift is given!
So God imparts to human hearts
The blessings of His heaven
No ear may hear His coming
But in this world of sin
Where meek souls will receive Him still
The dear Christ enters in

[Verse 4]
O holy Child of Bethlehem
Descend to us, we pray
Cast out our sin and enter in
Be born in us today
We hear the Christmas angels
The great glad tidings tell
Oh, come to us, abide with us
Our Lord Immanuel!

Back in my old copy of OCP’s Guitar Accompaniment Book is this Carey Landry song. While it has an obvious use for an anointing mass it’s recurrent theme of light opens many other liturgical uses.

The sheet music can be purchased at OCP where the text is in their preview.