This fine song is by Richard Connolly and unusually he has done the lyrics himself for this one, and he has done a pretty good job without James McAuley.
I like the tune but I am sure he reused it in a Play School song with nonsense lyrics for children. I just can’t place it.
The text is at smallchurchmusic. The sheet music can be purchased from As One Voice.
I am ploughing on with my quixotic quest to blog Catholic Worship Book II. Since the few recent (ie last 50 years) tunes have mostly been covered here before it means a lot of traditional hymnody and lamentably few new discoveries. I have skipped all the songs that I have covered already from other collections.
I have covered this text by David E. Trueblood before here set to HYMN TO JOY but am reposting because CWB II uses the equally stirring IN BABILONE. The text is here.
Readings: Genesis 14:18-20
Corinthians 11:23-26
Luke 9:11-17
Whatever the strange and dubious origins of this feast, the readings flow and bounce off each other in a thoughtful way. The “bread and wine” of Melchizedek from Genesis are amplified by the Psalm and fulfilled in Paul’s teaching about Eucharist. If the Eucharistic theme of the feeding story in Luke wasn’t already obvious, it certainly is after the three preceding pieces of scripture. Our role in all this depends on the Lukan Jesus saying, “Give them something to eat yourselves.”
Entrance: All Are Welcome (Haugen) CWB II 535
Psalm 109 (McKenna)
You are a priest forever, in the line of Melchizedik
Gifts: Song of the Body of Christ (Haas) AOV 1/27
Communion: Our Blessing Cup (Mason)
Thanksgiving: Bread of Heaven (Manibusan-Hart)
Recessional: Celtic Alleluia (Sending Forth) (O’Carroll/Walker) AOV 1/13
I have looked at this one before as part of a HYFRYDOL post, but CWB II has set George William Briggs text to HYMN TO JOY.
The text is here. I think HYFRYDOL might suit this Trinitarian hymn better, making it less over the top.
I have made a slightly less ridiculous backing but BIAB probably should leave Beethoven alone.
I have blogged this already here set to the more usual tune (at Hymnary and posted clips on Youtube) of ELLACOMBE. CWB II uses AURELIA.
The text by Leon M Atkins is based on Matt 28: 19-20 and can be found here.
This is James Quinn’s paraphrase of Ephesians 1:3-14 in the setting from ICEL’s Resource Collection of Hymns and Service Music for the Liturgy by Carl Schalk (EPHESIANS).
The text is here. It is a hymn of praise with Trinitarian applications.
I sorted the chords from the sheet music, which makes for a fussy backing:
This fine hymn of thankfulness has a text by Fred Pratt Green and is set to the Welsh traditional tune, AR HYD Y NOS.
The wonderful people at Hope Publications claim copyright on his lyrics and have the text and sheet music here. CWB II have copyright residing with Stainer & Bell, which is news to One Licence. Maybe that’s just for England – I will never understand copyright.
I have blogged the version in As One Voice, but CWB II sets the text to LUCERNA LAUDONIAE by David Evans and have chosen a different variant of the text, hence reposting.
For the beauty of the earth,
For the beauty of the skies;
For the love which from our birth,
Over and around us lies;
Lord of all, to you we raise
This our sacrifice of praise.
For the beauty of each hour,
Of the day and of the night;
Hill and vale and tree and flow’r,
Sun and moon, and stars of light;
Lord of all, to you we raise
This our sacrifice of praise.
For the joy of ear and eye, For the heart and brain's delight, For the mystic harmony, Linking sense to song and sight, Lord of all, to you we raise This our sacrifice of praise.
For the joy of human love,
Brother, sister, parent, child;
Friends on Earth and friends above,
For all gentle thoughts and mild;
Lord of all, to you we raise
This our sacrifice of praise.
For Your church that evermore,
Lifts its holy hands above;
Off’ring up on ev’ry shore,
A pure sacrifice of love;
Lord of all, to you we raise
its pure sacrifice of praise.
For yourself, O Gift Divine,
To our world so freely giv’n,
Word incarnate, God's design,
Peace on earth and joy in heav’n.
Lord of all, to you we raise
This our sacrifice of praise.
Readings: Proverbs 8:22-31
Romans 5: 1-5
John 16: 12-15
Entrance: Sing Out Earth and Sky (Haugen) AOV 2/32
Psalm 8 (McKenna)
O Lord our God, how wonderful your name in all the world
Gifts: Blessed be Our God (McKenna) AOV NG 13
Communion: Bread Broken Wine Shared (Horner) AOV 2/155
Thanksgiving: Trinity Song (Andersen)
Recessional: Sing of the Lord’s Goodness (Sands) AOV 1/131
I know this trinitarian hymn is written by John Henry Newman, but it has a touch of the doggerel about it to my ears. All the “I”s make it less wonderful for an assembly as well.
CWB II set it to Elgar’s DRAKE’S BROUGHTON, although other sources suggest SHIPSTON. It is interesting how often CWB II goes with settings that are not the most commonly associated with the text.
Firmly I believe and truly
God is Three, and God is One;
And I next acknowledge duly
Manhood taken by the Son.And I trust and hope most fully
In that manhood crucified;
And each thought and deed unruly
Do to death, as He has died.Simply to His grace and wholly
Light and life and strength belong,
And I love supremely, solely,
Him the holy, Him the strong.And I hold in veneration,
For the love of Him alone,
Holy Church as His creation,
And her teachings are His own.Praise and thanks be ever given,
With and through th’angelic host,
To the God of earth and Heaven,
Father, Son and Holy Ghost.
