This Marian hymn has Stanbrook Abbey listed as the author with Alan Rees OSB as the tunesmith. The background to the text is at Breviary Hymns and the text itself here.
I made up some chords:
I can find many examples of settings other than this one of Youtube, but none with this tune.
This is Jerome Leaman of St Joseph’s Abbey’s paraphrase of Mane nobiscum Domine set to OLD HUNDREDTH.
It is in CWB I and CBW III.
OLD HUNDREDTH is imprinted on my brain as the doxology sung every week in the Presbyterain church I grew up in. This is an ancient backing of mine:
1 Lord Jesus Christ, abide with us,
Now that the sun has run its course;
Let hope not be obscured by night,
But may faith’s darkness be as light.
2 Lord Jesus Christ, grant us your peace,
And when the trials of earth shall cease,
Grant us the morning light of grace,
The radiant splendour of your face.
3 Immortal, holy, three-fold light,
Yours be the kingdon, power and might;
All glory be eternally
To you, lifegiving Trinity.
I wasn’t going to mention this one, because it is indeed “Be Thou My Vision,” (blogged here) but we all were looking at different versions in the comments on a recent post and it struck me that the editors of CWB I made some interesting choices in their text. (ie alt raises is head)
Unlike AOV a few years later they removed “Thou” etc, and went with these lyrics:
1 Lord, be my vision, supreme in my heart,
Bid every rival give way and depart:
You my best thought in the day and the night,
Waking or sleeping, your presence my light.
2 Lord, be my wisdom, and be my true word,
I ever with you and you with me, Lord:
You my great Father and I your true son,
You in me living and I with you one.
3 Lord, be my breastplate, my sword for the fight:
Be my strong armour, for you are my might;
You are my shelter and you my high tower
Raise me to heaven, O Power of my power.
4 I need no riches, nor man’s empty praise:
You my inheritence through all my days;
All of your treasure to me you impart,
High King of heaven, the first in my heart.
5 High King of heaven, when battle is done,
Grant heaven’s joy to me, bright heaven’s sun;
Christ of my own heart, whatever befall,
Still be my vision, O Ruler of all.
The decision that since the archaism “art” is not allowed as a rhyme for “heart” the second line has to be made to fit “depart” is poor and worse adds to the myriad of variations already out there.
This is an interesting 60s pop song hymn by Patrick Robert Norman Appleford – I love that CWB likes long names as if they were sentencing a murderer.
This is a communion hymn with origins in the youth ministry of the Anglican church. The supposed similarity to “Living Doll” is noted and dismissed at Godsongs, but it does sound like something Cliff could have sung.
The text is here.
I got chords from TIS but it was also in lots of UK and Irish hymnals, even the Irish Presbyterian hymnbook – it certainly didn’t reach my Presbyterian church in Australia. I’ve never heard in a Catholic church either, and I suppose it is from an era that has been passed by.
This is the original I think:
Amazingingly to me it has been embraced by choir and organ:
This is more the pop stylings that I would have expected:
This organ version has something of the funfair about it:
This hymn for Lent with a text by Benedictine monk Ralph Wright did survive from CWB I to CWB II but there set to ST BERNARD.
I suspect this was the original setting by his colleague Austin Wright called FORGIVENESS. It is another CWB sourced from ICEL’s Resource Collection of Hymns and Service Music for the Liturgy, which is still available at GIA.
Godsongs has background, lyrics and other settings that have been used.
In the absence of available chords, I made them up for a backing:
This is a lovely short song/prayer with a text by Brian Anthony Moore SJ and set to WINCHESTER OLD – you know “While Shepherds Watched …” and all.
This is an Allans Music copyright and I can only find it in CWB and TIS, so it is likely Australian. Hymnary says the words are “by permission of D. Day, Father Provincial of the Society, Hawthorn, Victoria,” which I gather is the Jesuits. He appears to have written small devotional books. Pauline books say, “Father Brian Moore, SJ, (1931-1997) was an Australian Jesuit priest and writer.” One of his texts was set by fellow Jesuit, Christopher Willcock. Any other information gratefully received.
1 Lord Christ, true peace of all above, sure hope of all below,
Establish in your grace and love your people as we go.
2 Your blessing, Lord, who bless us all, abide with us today;
Your mercy, peace and watchful care surround us on our way.
3 Your presence in our life remain that all the world may know;
How Christ may walk the world again in us himself to show.
This is another “modern” song that was chosen by the editors of CWB in Australia.
It is a joyful song of praise that is noted have words by English folk hymn writer, Michael Cockett and music by Kevin Mayhew that has been adapted by the editors. The copyright is with the Medical Mission Sisters.
Apart from CWB, the sheet music is also in the 20th Century Folk Hymnal. It looks like it was originally published in Go Tell Everyone: Twelve Original Songs Recorded By The Sacred Heart Choir, which is available at great expense at Amazon.
The text is here.
My backing has made up chords:
This is a Marian hymn by Lucien Deiss with eleven verses in CWB.
Breviary Hymns supplies some background and the sheet music appears to still be available at GIA.
The text is here, interspersed with ads.
It looks like I just made up some simple chords for my backing. The young choir singing it below do a fine job.
As published in CWB, this is a funeral song of two verses written by Edmund Stuart Palmer and set to DUN ALUINN.
It does have the terrifying addition of “alt” to the text attribution so it is worth finding out what is going on.
CWB text:
1 Jesus, Son of Mary, fount of life alone,
Here we hail you present, we who are your own.
Think, O lord, in mercy on the souls of those
Who, in faith gone from us, now in death repose.
2 Rest eternal grant them after weary night:
Shed on them the radiance of yur heavenly light.
Lead them onward, upward, to the holy place,
Where your saints made perfect gaze upon your face.
Hymnary says he wrote it in Swahili and translated the song into English and it was a communion song of eight shorter verses:
1 Jesu, Son of Mary,
fount of life alone,
here we hail thee present
on thine altar- throne:2 Humbly we adore thee,
Lord of endless might,
in the mystic symbols
veiled from earthly sight.3 Think, O Lord, in mercy
on the souls of those
who, in faith gone from us,
now in death repose.4 Here ‘mid stress and conflict
toils can never cease;
there, the warfare ended,
bid them rest in peace.5 Often were they wounded
in the deadly strife;
heal them, Good Physician,
with the balm of life.6 Every taint of evil,
frailty and decay,
good and gracious Saviour,
cleanse and purge away.7 Rest eternal grant them,
after weary fight;
shed on them the radiance
of thy heavenly light.8 Lead them onward, upward,
to the holy place,
where thy saints made perfect
gaze upon thy face.
DUN ALUINN is one of seven settings noted at Hymnary but being a mournful Irish tune, it makes sense for an Irish Australian funeral hymn.
I got the chords for the PD tune here.
Here is some personal reflections and background from Anthony Esolen about the hymn, and I know I am way out of my comfort zone hymn wise if I am linking to him.
This is another ICEL song that the editors of CWB got from the Resource Collection and Service Music for the Liturgy, which I note is still available from GIA.
The text was by Ralph Wright and the music Austin Rennick, both Benedictine monks and English hymn writers.
CWB says the text is from John 17 (actually 15). I can find little trace of this hymn on the net.
I made up some very basic chords and stuck to Antiphon 1. Antiphon 2 uses 1 Tim 2:11 and Antiphon 3, Psalm 24:1.
Antiphon 1
As the Father has loved me so have I loved you;
You will remain in my love.
Antiphon 2
If we die with Christ, we shall live with him.
Antiphon 3
I hope in the Lord, I trust his Word.
1 O Father, it is my desire that those you gave to me
Should be with me, that where I am my friends may also be.
2 To them I have revealed your love, your truth, your life, your way,
And now a word abides in them which shall not pass away.
3 The glory that you gave to me to them I have now given
That so they may be one on earth as we are one in heaven.
4 Do not, O Father, take from them the world your hands have made,
But keep them from the evil one from all that is depraved.
5 And teach them how to give their lives like grain into the ground,
That through them others may believe and new life may abound.
6 O Father, it is my desire that all may live as one;
With you in me and I in them that so your reign may come.
