Entrance: Table of Plenty (Schutte) AOV 2/20
Psalm 67 (McKenna)
God, in your goodness, you have made a home for the poor.
Gifts: Come To Me (Norbet) AOV 1/37
Communion: Gift of Finest Wheat (Westendorf/Kreutz) CWB II 651
Thanksgiving: Sing of the Lord’s Goodness (Sands) AOV 1/131
Recessional: City of God (Schutte) AOV 1/57
I have already looked at this song here as set to OLD HUNDREDTH.
The text by Charles William Everest is here set to ERHALT UNS HERR.
1 “Take up your cross,” the Savior said,
“if you would my disciple be;
take up your cross with willing heart,
and humbly follow after me.”
2 Take up your cross; let not its weight
fill your weak spirit with alarm;
Christ’s strength shall bear your spirit up
and brace your heart and nerve your arm.
3 Take up your cross, heed not the shame,
and let your foolish heart be still;
the Lord for you accepted death
upon a cross, on Calv’ry’s hill.
4 Take up your cross, then, in Christ’s strength,
and calmly ev’ry danger brave:
it guides you to abundant life
and leads to vict’ry o’er the grave.
This is Michael Herry’s setting of the same test for Psalm 34 from The Grail That was in yesterday’s post.
He provides the full text and sheet music for free here, although it is in C rather than D as in CWB II. He sings the refrain here (19B). The verses are chanted.
The first line of the antiphon in CWB II is all that is needed. There is a second line there not in Herry’s online version, that instead of repeating “Taste and see the goodness of the Lord,” adds “Come receive the living bread of God,” which would make it unsuitable for the Psalm but fine for Eucharist as a mantra I suppose.
My string band backing is just the chorus because BIAB can’t do chant.
As promised, more settings of Psalm 34. This time it is by Christopher Willcock, setting the text from The Grail. The refrain is singable by an assembly, if you drop the key somewhat, and the verses will test your cantor.
The sheet music is at OCP where they do lower it from Eb to D. This version of the text is in their preview.
In my survey of Catholic Worship Book II, I have come to a series of “Taste and See” songs that are new to me. These are based on Psalm 34.
This one is by Stephen Dean.
The sheet music can be purchased at OCP where the text is in their preview.
Christopher Walker has set this song to his arrangement of the Skye Boat Song.
OCP suggests it for confirmation or marriage but it would find a place in more usual liturgies in times of trouble with a need for reassurance.
The sheet music can be purchased at OCP, where the text is in their preview. The tune itself is public domain and available all over the internet. This arrangement is in the same key as CWB II.
My backing has unforgivable fake bagpipes.
Interestingly, the same tune is used for a song called “Spirit of God, Unseen as the Wind” written by Margaret Old from 1971. Perhaps the Skye Boat Song suggests the Holy Spirit on action.
Entrance: A Place at the Table (Shirley Erena Murray – Lori True) AOV NG 1
Psalm 116 (McKenna)
Go out to all the world; and tell the Good News.
Go out to all the world; and tell the Good News.
Gifts: Song of the Body of Christ (Haas) AOV 1/27
Communion: Gift of Finest Wheat (Westendorf/Kreutz) CWB II 651
Thanksgiving: We Are Many Parts (Haugen) AOV 1/86
Recessional: All the Ends of the Earth (Dufford) AOV 1/76
John Moloney wrote this text based on Psalm 102. It is set to a “traditional french melody” in CWB II, but they aren’t more specific than that.
John Moloney was an Irish priest and author (1916-2014). I can’t find the lyrics anywhere on the internet so you’ll have to sing along from CWB II, unless you have the Irish version of Hymns Old and New.
I made up the chords for my backing and made it more Irish than French.
This is a lovely song of praise based on Psalm 98 that I had forgotten was in As One Voice, so I made another backing for it!
The text is by Timothy Dudley Smith and it is set to ONSLOW SQUARE by David Wilson.
There is a joyous octave leap that would be fun. The text and sheet music are available for free from Hope Publishing who are extremely wonderful.
My BIAB backing has some feral harmonica in there somewhere but otherwise can be used to learn the hymn by singing along.
I sometimes think that Catholic Worship Book II is never ending, but my survey continues with this song with a Eucharistic text by Omar Westendorf, of “Gifts of Finest Wheat” fame, which is here set to NEUMARK by Georg Neumark. Westendorf founded WLP.
CWB II has 6 verses and you will find the first three verses of the text on this page. Godsongs give some background as does Breviary Hymns.
I got the chords from Together In Song to make a backing.
