There is no misprint in the title, this is from Catholic Worship Book I. It is also in The New Living Parish Hymn Book 269.
It is a charming 70s song for Eucharist from Mark Arnold. Brett was looking into copyright for it and it resides with the author whom we don’t know how to find. I’ll put it out there for anyone who might know a bit more about the song and its author. Being in the two hymn books noted suggests an Australian songsmith.
The text is here (scroll down).
I’m nearly in the home stretch covering Catholic Worship Book II.
This is a social justice text from the seventies by Fred Pratt Green and set to WAREHAM, an c18 tune by William Knapp.
Both the text and sheet music are freely available at Hope Publications. for which I am grateful.
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.
