This is a Trinitarian hymn with a text by James Quinn SJ.
It has four settings noted in Hymnary, but CWB I chose none of these, going for HEALING by Douglas Mews instead.
The text is here.
The chords were in Together In Song, which helped with the backing:
I am working my way through Australia’s Catholic Worship Book, to look for songs that I haven’t covered from other sources.
This one is C7 Latin, Sancti venite, Christi corpus sumite, translated by John Mason Neale in the 1800s.
It is obviously for Eucharist and set here to DECREE. Hymnary lists twenty-four settings for this text – none were DECREE.
CWB II set it to GUSTATE instead, which I blogged here.
Draw nigh and take the body of the Lord;
And drink the holy blood for you outpoured.
Saved by his body and his precious blood,
Our souls refreshed, we offer thanks to God.Our true Redeemer, Christ the only Son,
By cross and blood a mighty victory won.
Offering himself for greatest and for least,
Himself the victim, and Himself the priest.The victims offered by the law of old,
As signs from God, eternal mysteries told.
Now Christ our light, the ransom of our race,
Gives to his own this endless source of grace.Let us approach with loving hearts sincere,
And take the pledge of our salvation here.
Christ, who his faithful servants rules and shields,
To all believers life eternal yields.With bread of life he makes the hungry whole,
Gives living waters to each thirsty soul,
Christ Jesus, first and last, is with us now,
To him at end of time we all shall bow.
This is a paraphrase by Anthony G. Petti of Verbum supernum prodiens by St Thomas Aquinas.
In CWB I it is set to MELCOMBE by Samuel Webbe. This tune has been used to set dozens of texts, but I can’t find anywhere apart from CWB I using it for this text.
1 Dear Saviour, victim for our sins, to lead us to eternal life:
Protect and guard us in your grace, and keep us from all earthly strife.
2 To your great name be endless praise, O ever blessed Trinity,
We pray you, grant us perfect life with you throughout eternity.
This is an example of organ music that is impossible to sing with:
This is an early Marty Haugen song based on Psalm 50 (51). I always surprised to come across one of his that I haven’t already heard. It isn’t suitable for use as the psalm but is fine as a hymn.
He has done other settings since, but this one is still available in the collection, I Send My Light, from GIA – still only $US 5.95.
There is a preview of the whole collection at GIA, so you can check the text and sheet music to see if you would like a physical copy. At least it isn’t out of print, like many of the the songs in CWB I.
This is an amazing text by Donald Wynn Hughes that is still relevant in our current violent world, with our “monuments of folly” and the “wreckage of our hatred”. Read it here.
CWB I sets it to AGINCOURT (aka DEO GRACIAS), which is at least a recognised setting of the words for a change.
This is why the tune is called AGINCOURT:
This is a Lutheran hymn for baptising children that found it’s way into the Catholic Worship Book in Australia.
The text is C19 by Nikolai F.S. Grundtvig, translated by Johannes H.V. Knudsen. Then again, other sources claim it is by Jacob Freidrich.
The tune is noted by CWB I to be AVE VIRGO VIRGINUM from Johann Leisentritt’s Catholicum Hymnologium Germanicum. Hymnary calls it GAUDEAMUS PARITER by Jan Roh. It is attributed elsewhere to Johann Horn, but I gather that is the same person. The sheet music is here.
My backing is fake BIAB organ with chords derived from sources on Hymnary.
Cradling children in his arm
Jesus gave his blessing.
To our babes a welcome warm
He is yet addressing.
Take them, Lord, give life anew,
In the living waters!
Keep them always near to you
As your sons and daughters!
Jazz!
Quartet!
Big band style on the organ!
From a Catholic hymnal that supposedly doesn’t mimic Protestant hymnody we have:
This is Ralph Vaughn Williams setting called THE CALL of a George Herbert text that found its way into the Catholic Worship Book.
It’s in every hymnal known to man. Not even CWB I would change “killeth” or set it to something else.
I got the chords from TIS 552 where they have it in Cm rather than Eb.
- Come, my way, my truth, my life:
such a way as gives us breath;
such a truth as ends all strife;
such a life as killeth death.- Come, my light, my feast, my strength:
such a light as shows a feast;
such a feast as mends in length;
such a strength as makes his guest.- Come, my joy, my love, my heart:
such a joy as none can move;
such a love as none can part;
such a heart as joys in love.
This is Ernest Sand’s sung prayer to the Holy Spirit.
The range of the antiphon looks a struggle but maybe taking the key down a few semitones might help. The verses are chant but my metrical soul couldn’t handle that so I have made them fit to 4/4 strict time.
The antiphon is indeed a prayer to the Holy Spirit:
Come, Holy Spirit, fill the hearts of your faithful.
And light up in them the fire of your love.
Send forth your Spirit and they shall be created.
And you will renew the face of the earth.
I’m not sure why “light up” was preferred to “kindle”. I couldn’t find any sheet music to download but it is in other collections if you are looking on the second hand market.
The verses are selections from Psalm 104 in the Grail translation:
Stanza 1 – Verses 1ff
Stanza 2 – Verses 24ff
Stana 3 – Verses 29ff
Stanza 4 – Vereses 33ff
I did these backing some time ago and I’m not sure why I picked this style.
I’m looking at hymns from the Australian Catholic Worship Book, that I haven’t covered from other sources to date.
This is the Benedictine nuns of Stanbrook Abbey’s translation of of the c4 Nunc sancte nobis Spiritus, attributed to St Ambrose. It is from the Liturgy of the Hours.
It Is here set to NIAGARA by Robert Jackson.
I’ve seen a few settings suggested, but chararacteristically for CWB I, none suggesting this one. Similarly, this text is not listed by Hymnary as being set to this tune. Call the editors idiosyncratic with their matching of text to tune.
CWB I places the tune in the key of G rather than Ab as below, thanks be to God.
The text is here.
This is a pretty and joyful hymn with words by Sr Lucia Fay, Jean-Paul Lecot and R.B. Kelly based on St Paul according to CWB I. It is set by Paul Decha, so it is likely there is a French original and Kelly was a translator. Certainly Fay, Lecot and Decha have collaborated on other songs in French (eg here).
This hymn is way out of print and I can find no sources at all for the sheet music. It is a Kevin Mayhew copyright but I can find no sign of it there. Godsongs notes it is also in Alleluia! Amen! and Hymns Old and New, so it is probably known in Ireland. So the second hand market is currently looking the only option, unless someone can find the French version in print.
The text is a bit vague and unfocussed but I’ll blame St Paul for that.
I looks like I made up some simple chords for this one for my backing.
Antiphon
Christ our Lord has come to save his people!
Alleluia! Alleluia! Alleluia!
1 Baptised in Christ our Lord,
Reborn to new life in our Saviour and Lord, alleluia!
For we are the people whom God made his own
Throught the blood of his own Son, our Lord Jesus Christ.
2 O come then, bless the Lord,
The Father of all, who is love without end, alleluia.
Before he created the world with great power,
We were chosen then in Christ, God made us his own.
3 Since time itself began
God loved us and planned to adopt us in Christ, alleluia.
He chose us to live in his glorious name,
As his children and his friends, a people redeemed.
4 Be joyful in the Lord,
Rejoice and give thanks to the Father of all, alleluia.
For Christ is alive and we live now in him;
We are filled now with his life. Rejoice, praise his name!
5 With Christ we are made heirs
And called to belong to the family of God, alleluia.
Christ freed us from sin by his death on the cross,
And has raised us up to life, a life without end.
6 Give glory to God, the Father of all:
To his Son, Jesus Christ, alleluia.
And praise to the Spirit, the gift of his love.
Let us sing out to the Lord forever. Amen.
