OCP list the theme as “God’s Kingdom”, which is fair enough, but this is basically a text for All Saints Day by Harry Hagan. I have blogged another version of this with a chorus here, but this one lacks that and is set to PROSPECT.
OCP sell the sheet music and provide the text in their preview.
I’m a sucker for O WALY WALY and when matched with this delicate paraphrase of Psalm 42 by Danna Harkin it is quite lovely. This is the 4/4 version of the traditional tune.
OCP sell the sheet music and the text is in their preview.
This is Tom Conry’s paraphrase of Psalm 23. It is a lovely song but I suspect it is a solo vehicle as the verses are awfully fiddly with triplets in some verses and not others.
The sheet music can be purchased at OCP, where the text is in their preview.
This is a hymn of thankfulness and praise by Father Michael Kwatera set to OLD 100TH.
I can’t find the text anywhere on the internet and it is copyright so I’ll leave it be at that today. I can’t even find it at OCP.
This is another virtual list for a gathering that didn’t happen.
Entrance: Holy Spirit Come (Mangan) AOV NG 69
Gifts: A New Commandment (Unknown)
Communion: I Have Loved You (Joncas) AOV 1/126
Thanksgiving: As Gentle As Silence (White) CWB II 580
Recessional: Jesus Is Risen (O’Brien- Ogilvie) AOV NG 82
I virtually attended Mass at Holy Spirit Cranbrook again this morning. I thought “As I Have Done For You” was a thoughtful choice for communion.
I have blogged this song set to AUSTRIA in CWB II here, but GAB take the safer route of setting it to HYMN TO JOY so I thought I would put it in again. The text is based on Psalm 148.
Praise the Lord: you heav’ns, adore him;
Praise him, angels in the height;
Sun and moon, rejoice before him;
praise him, all you stars and light.
Praise the Lord, for he has spoken;
worlds his mighty voice obeyed.
Laws which never shall be broken
for their guidance he has made.
Praise the Lord, for he is glorious;
never shall his promise fail.
God has made his saints victorious;
sin and death shall not prevail.
Praise the God of our salvation.
hosts on high, his pow’r proclaim.
Heav’n and earth and all creation
praise and glorify his name.
Worship, honour, glory, blessing,
Lord, we offer as our gift.
Young and old, your praise expressing,
Our glad songs to you we lift.
All the saints in heav’n adore You;
we would join their glad acclaim;
As your angels serve before you,
so on earth we praise your name.
This is Ricky Manalo’s setting of this text by St Thomas Aquinas sung in Latin. Like yesterday’s hymn it has an ostinato refrain for the assembly (Pange lingua gloriósi córporis mystérium) underpinning the cantor or choir’s verse part.
Like most of the songs in this collection, you can buy the sheet music from OCP.
Pange, lingua, gloriósi
Córporis mystérium,
Sanguinísque pretiósi,
Quem in mundi prétium
Fructus ventris generósi
Rex effúdit géntium.
Nobis datus, nobis natus
Ex intácta Vírgine,
Et in mundo conversátus,
Sparso verbi sémine,
Sui moras incolátus
Miro clausit órdine.
In suprémæ nocte coenæ
Recúmbens cum frátribus
Observáta lege plene
Cibis in legálibus,
Cibum turbæ duodénæ
Se dat suis mánibus.Verbum caro, panem verum
Verbo carnem éfficit:
Fitque sanguis Christi merum,
Et si sensus déficit,
Ad firmándum cor sincérum
Sola fides súfficit.Tantum ergo sacraméntum
Venerémur cérnui:
Et antíquum documéntum
Novo cedat rítui:
Præstet fides suppleméntum
Sénsuum deféctui.Genitóri, Genitóque
Laus et jubilátio,
Salus, honor, virtus quoque
Sit et benedíctio:
Procedénti ab utróque
Compar sit laudátio.
Amen. Alleluja.
This is a Christopher Willcock extravaganza for processing on Palm Sunday. I can only see this used for processing around a church as the cantor or choir will need to be near the assembly, so this is perhaps not for processing a long way to the church.
The Ostinato refrain for the assembly anchors the cantor with the sequence:
v.1/refrain/v.2/refrain/v.1/refrain/v.3/refrain/v.1/coda.
OCP have the sheet music for you to buy and also they give you the text in their preview.
This is a lovely song mainly for Easter Vigil by Tom Kendzia.
The verses will need a cantor and the second verse is only suitable for Easter Vigil. The assembly will just about get away with the gently lyrical refrain.
The text is here. OCP sell the sheet music.
I am continuing my survey of songs in the Guitar Accompaniment Book from OCP c2005 that I bought second hand some time ago. I have already covered many songs from other sources so I am skipping over those.
I love this simple Eucharistic hymn by Christopher Walker. The text is adapted from Irish prayers and the refrain is a traditional Irish tune.
The sheet music can be purchased at OCP who have provided the text in their preview.
My backing will let you sing along for the whole eight verses.
