This is a refreshing, challenging and simply amazing text from John Bell.
The text is here and it is set to NETTLETON.
I have several of his songbooks and am only restrained from blogging them by their lack of chords and the work that would cause me. Then again CWB II often has no chords and I’ve managed.
This sheet music is in the same key as CWB II, where it is set as 6/4 rather than the 3/4 found in this version and most others I’ve seen.
This is another newish song that turned up at RS’s parish by Ricky Manalo and Bob Hurd.
OCP sell the sheet music here and the text is in their preview.
There are verses for gathering and Eucharist so pick those that you need.
I made a backing to see how it went. It is quite lovely.
I’m on the home straight with CWB II, but leaving that for today, this one is from a liturgy as RS’s parish. It is by Bob Hurd and based on Matt 25.
It is a gentle song that goes a bit high in the verse.
The sheet music is available at OCP where the text is in their preview. OCP also provide a useful commentary.
This is Christopher Willcock’s setting of Psalm 25. It is based on The Grail but he appears to have slightly altered some of the words.
At this site (scroll down) the antiphon is verse one. Verse one in CWB II is vss 4-5, verse 2 is vss 8-9 and verse 3 is vss 10 and 14.
This is lovely:
It is always a joy to have a text by Shirley Erena Murray come up. This song has a timeless environmental theme. It is set to TENDERNESS by Colin Gibson.
The lyrics are at Hope Publishing Company along with links to suggested tunes including this one used in CWB II.
My backing has a bit too much twang.
Entrance: A New Heart for a New World (O’Brien/Watts) AOV 1/158
Psalm 50 (McKenna)
I will rise and go to my father.
I will rise and go to my father.
Gifts: Be Merciful (Haugen)
Communion: Table of Plenty (Schutte) AOV 2/20
Thanksgiving: Prayer of St Francis (Temple) AOV 2/126
Recessional: We Are Called (Haas) AOV 2/60
Yet another relatively recent text to an old tune in CWB II.
Fred R. Anderson paraphrased Psalm 150 for this c20 text and it is set to DARWELL a c18 tune by John Darwell.
The text for this stirring song of praise is here.
My backing is more fake organ from BIAB.
This sheet music is in D, but CWB II brings it down to C. (Thanks be to God.)
When you take out the hymns available in As One Voice from Catholic Worship Book II you are left with a lot of fairly recent texts to rather old tunes.
This is another one is by the very prolific Michael Forster and I suspect it is a deep cut because a can find no sign of lyrics or performances anywhere on the net. I can’t even find it on CCLI and OneLicence and there have an awful lot of his material there.
CWB II set the text to NUN DANKET ALLE GOTT, the tune of “Now Thank We All Our God”.
I made a backing in case you want to sing along to learn it from CWB II.
Just for fun here is a secular hymn to the same tune in SATB.
Bernard Sexton wrote this song for the Fiftieth International Eucharistic Congress in Dublin in 2012. The text is here, although CWB II has five verses and I’ve seen six. Apart from from the range being somewhat too wide for the assembly it is, not surprisingly, a liturgically useful hymn for the Eucharist.
I’ve made a backing based on chords I found on the net, but infuriatingly CWB II has none.
The sheet music used to be available to download but the links are dead. I can’t find a way to purchase it online.
I’ve already blogged this text by Frederick William Faber here set to HYFRYDOL.
Catholic Worship Book II prefers IN BABILONE.
The text has more stanzas than CWB II uses (see here) but those chosen by the editors, which I have included below, are extraordinary.
There’s a wideness to God’s mercy like the wideness of the sea,
and forgiveness in his justice sealed for us on Calvary.
There is plentiful redemption through the blood that Christ has shed;
there is joy for all the members in the sorrows of the Head.
For the love of God is broader than the measures of our mind;
and the heart of the Eternal is most wonderfully kind.
But we make his love too narrow by false limits of our own,
and we magnify his strictness with a zeal he will not own.
Restless souls why do you scatter like a crowd of frightened sheep?
Foolish hearts, why do you wander from a love so true and deep?
If our love were more than simple we should take him at his word;
and our lives would be illumined by the goodness of the Lord.
