I’m afraid this is another obscure one from CWB.
The text is by Don and Nancy MacNeill. The tune is by Daniel Moe and called OPENING HYMN. It was from a collection called Worship For Today and also was in the hymn book, Ecumenical Praise, and of course CWB.
I can’t find a trace of it on the internet and the music is kind of ornery with frequent changes to the time signature.
I guessed the chords and tried to make sense of the rhythm, so for those with CWB I, I made a strange backing.
I covered this James Quinn text while I was doing Gather Australia, but they used JESU DULCIS MEMORIA. CWB say they set it to EISENACH, but it is in fact set to JESU DULCIS MEMORIA as well.
The words are at Hymnary.
I made a simple backing this time with made up (ie wrong) chords, because I piked on the chant last time.
This is a setting of Psalm 26(27) from the Grail by Tobias Colgan OSB.
He is a Benedictine from St. Meinrad Archabbey in southern Indiana.
They have kindly posted a songbook that includes this song’s words and music on page 12.
… which helped a lot with this backing I made:
This is another song CWB sourced from the New Catholic Hymnal, and is a paraphrase by Anthony G. Petti of a song by Thomas Aquinas called Verbum supernum prodiens. It is both Eucharistic and Trinitarian.
CWB set it to Percy Buck’s GONFALEN ROYAL.
I got chords from TIS for a backing:
1 The word of God from heaven came,
But did not leave the Father’s side;
Fulfilled his mission here on earth,
And for mankind was crucified.
2 The very night before he died
And to his passion he was led,
He gave to his disciples life,
His own true self in form of bread.
3 His body and his precious bloood
He offered under either kind,
And in the fullness of his love
Gave food of life to all mankind.
4 Dear Saviour, victim for our sins,
To lead us to eternal life:
Protect and guard us in your grace,
And keep us from all earthly strife.
5 To your great name be endless praise,
O ever blessed Trinity;
We pray you, grant us perfect life
With you throughout eternity.
This is a Dutch hymn for confirmation by Huub Oosterhuis. CWB I sets it to a traditional Dutch tune, GELUKKIG IS HET LAND. The translation is by Anthony Barr.
The words and music are in this sample at Hymnary.
OCP retranslated the text slightly and used a setting by Timothy Smith.
This is some 60s folk mass goodness from Joe Wise and yet another update of Psalm 22 (23).
The original has an extra bar in verse 3 only but I note Marty Haugen’s arrangement for GIA smoothed things out with extra words to make all the verses the same length.
Hymnary has that version in a sample with words and music.
My first backing was too slow so I made another. They both have the Haugen adjustment.
The original:
This is a reimagining of Psalm 22 (23) by Christopher Idle. CWB used CRIMOND to set it, which is doubling down I suppose.
Jubilate have the text, Hope the sheet music and Praise the backstory. Job done.
Now to find a very old backing of mine:
Is this a Catholic song if written by an Anglican minister?
… sung in a reformed church?
… Calvinist?
Psalms are for everyone!
The is a bit of an orphan setting of Psalm 26 (27) by Marty Haugen. You would expect Haugen’s work to be available but he wrote a more useable setting later on and that appears to have superceded this one.
The text is a paraphrase of the Psalm and the editors of CWB have changed it as well, so it would be only be useful as a hymn rather than as a psalm, which is probably why it has disappeared.
That said, I made a backing with made up chords for anyone who has CWB and wants to know how it goes. I haven’t found it available anywhere else.
This lyric for Holy Week, by the poet Margaret Cropper, is set in CWB to MORNING SONG.
It is admirably succinct.
1 The glory of our King was seen
when he came riding by,
and all the children waved and sang
‘Hosanna, King most high!’2 The glory of our King was seen
when, with his arms stretched wide
to show his love to everyone,
Jesus was crucified.3 The glory of our King was seen
on the first Easter day,
when Christ rose up, set free from death,
to love, to guide, to stay.
This is a translation of St Ambrose’s Aeterna Christi munera translated by John Mason Neale and here set to the tradional tune AGINCOURT. I blogged this as part of a group of songs in CWB II, but I’ll give it a post of its own.
Is the answer to my quest for a better hymn for ‘Christ the King”? – I fear not, without lutes and recorders for the medieval touch.
This well put commentary is from one of the clips below:
The Eternal Gifts of Christ the King is a 1851 John Mason Neale (1818-1866) translation of the Ambrosian hymn, Aeterna Christi Munera by St. Ambrose of Milan (340-397). Originally it was sung on Feast Days of Martyrs. In the Roman Breviary it was revised for use during Matins on Feast Days of the Apostles and Evangelists. The Eternal Gifts of Christ the King is set to the 15th century melody, Deo Gratias (Agincourt Carol) attributed to the English composer, John Dunstable (c.1390-1453). In the Liturgy of the Hours, it is used in the Commons of the Apostles.
The text from CWB removes archiac language. I’ve seen some variations in words of the second verse.
1 Th’eternal gifts of Christ the King,
th’apostles’ glory, let us sing;
and all, with hearts of gladness, raise
due hymns of thankful love and praise.2 Their faith in Christ, the Lord, prevailed,
their hope, a light that never failed;
their love ablaze o’er pathways trod
to lead them to the’e-ternal God.3 In them the Father’s glory shone,
in them the will of God the Son,
in them exults the Holy Ghost,
through them rejoice the heav’nly host.4 To you, Redeemer, now we cry,
that you would join to them on high
your servants, who this grace implore,
for ever and for evermore.
