When We Walk in Tenderness

This is probably a bad idea, but I found a little book called A Hundredfold: A Contemporary Folk Hymnal second hand many years ago and it intrigues me, so I’m going to have a look at it.

It was published in 1978 by WLP and while GIA took over WLP I can only find two of the songs there, the rest are very out of print indeed. This book seems pretty rare even on the second hand market and, while this was well before my time as a Catholic, it strikes me that the backlash against folk mass style songs had already hit by 1978 and these songs may have been stuck in a dead end.

Nonetheless I find them interesting and perhaps worth another look after all these years. Where the sheet music is not available I have decided to post it, but would be thrilled to take down the material at the request of the authors, especially if they had a way to make it generally available.

This song is by Jack Miffleton. He went on to write a lot of music for young people but this is a wedding song, a solo I suppose.

I can find no recordings of this one anywhere, but I made a backing for learning purposes.

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To the Glory of God

This is the last song from Holy Ground, Monica Brown’s collection of mantras. Thinking about them all, I can see a liturgical use for many of them, apart from their obvious use in personal prayer and retreats.

The sheet music is only $A5 at Emmaus.

To the glory of God let us lift our voices, let us sing from our hearts.

Sing out our praise.

To the Glory of God let us sing.

© 1992 Monica Brown

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Hearts of Joy

This is a bit more than a mantra – it has three harmony lines so let’s call it a piece for a children’s choir. It’s very psalm like.

It is by Monica Brown from her excellent value collection Holy Ground.

My backing has the main melody line all the way through and cycles through the three harmony lines, but of course you will want it all happening at once for maximum effect.

Melody

Let us go with hearts of joy to the place of God’s dwelling.

Let us worship our God withn songs of thanks and praise.

Harmony 1

Let us – Go with – Go with hearts of joy.

Let us – Worship – Worship our God.

Harmony 2a

Go with hearts of joy to the place of God’s dwelling.

Harmony 2b

Worship our God with songs of thanks and praise.

Harmony 3

Let us go with our, with our hearts of joy

To the place of God, of God’s dwelling.

Let us worship our, worship our God

With songs of thanks and praise.

© 1993 Monica Brown

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Gather Us O God

This is another of these mantras that I have looked at before but have reposted in the context of the collection Holy Ground by Monica Brown.

It would make a good entrance chant with minimal to nil accompaniment.

I made a new backing:

Gather us, O God.

Body, spirit, soul and mind.

Gather us, O God.

One in union now with you.

© 1991 Monica Brown

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Music for the Sixth Week in Ordinary Time Year A 14th/15th February 2026

Entrance: You Are Welcome (Watt)

Psalm 118 (McKenna)

Happy are those who follow the law of the Lord

Gifts:  Enemy of Apathy (Bell-Maule) AOV 2/75

Communion: To the Table We Are Called (O’Brien/Harvey) AOVD

Recessional: Glory and Praise to Our God (Schutte) AOV 1/16

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Music for the Fifth Week in Ordinary Time Year A 7th/8th February 2026

Entrance: You Are Welcome (Watt)

Psalm 111 (McKenna)

A light rises in the darkness for the upright, for the upright.

Gifts: The Cry of the Poor (Foley) AOV 1/83  

Communion: All the Hungry, Come (Doherty)

Recessional: Bring Forth the Kingdom (Haugen) AOV 2/4

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Music for the Fourth Week in Ordinary Time Year A 31st January/1st February 2026

Entrance: Gather As One  (McKenna) AOV NG 48

Psalm 145 (McKenna)

Happy the poor in Spirit; the kingdom of heaven is theirs.

Gifts: Seek Ye First (Lafferty) AOV 1/48

Communion: Beatitudes (Balhoff/Ducotte)

Recessional: Send Us Out (Bryant) AOVD

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Music for the Third Week in Ordinary Time Year A 24th/25th January 2026

Entrance: Christ be Our Light  (Farrell) AOV 2/3

Psalm 26 ( McKenna)

The Lord is my light and my salvation

Gifts: How Can I Keep From Singing (Lowry) GA 454

Communion: The Summons  (Maule-Bell) AOV NG 149

Recessional: Galilee Song (Andersen) AOV 1/15

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Music for the Second Week in Ordinary Time Year A 17th/18th January 2026

Entrance: Christ Light, Shining in the Darkness (Grant) CWBII 468

Psalm 39 (McKenna)

Here I am, Lord; I come to do your will.

Gifts: All the Hungry, Come (Doherty)

Communion: Here I Am Lord (Schutte) AOV 1/90

Recessional: Hearts on Fire (Mangan) AOV NG 62

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Fashioned and Formed

I have been looking at the mantras in Monica Brown’s collection Holy Ground that I got second hand. It is still available as a download from Emmaus.

This one is based on 1 Cor 4:7-8. It sounds like something for a retreat.

Fashioned and formed as earthen vessels.

Fragile and easily broken

Yet holding a treasure, a wealth untold.

As earthen vessels we are.

© 1994 Monica Brown

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