Singing the Sacraments: Confirmation

When the handout got to confirmation, they don’t mention CWB II’s selections this time but it won’t hurt to go through them. My copy of CWB II has an awful lot of penciled in approximate chords here. In its defence, there are quite useful pieces of liturgy revision scattered throughout the first volume of CWB II:

108 Instructions for the Rite of Confirmation

109 This is our faith Text ICEL Music Arthur Hutchings

110 Holy Spirit of Fire (Mangan) A favorite over many years. sheet music

111 Holy Sacred Spirit (Brown) The assembly sings the ostinato refrain with a soloist singing the verses – works very well. Her website to purchase sheet music.

112 The gift of the Holy Spirit (Kathleen T. Boschetti)

113 Gifts of the Spirit (Text Bell/Maule, PERSONENT HODIE)

Dyball and Whelan do however link to Jenny O’Brien’s amazingly comprehensive list of confirmation music suggestions and her psalms for confirmation. (freely available sheet music)

For example:

Psalm 117 (O’Brien)

You will be my witnesses, my witnesses to all the world.

Their own music recommendations that weren’t also in CWB II were:

Spirit, Come Down (Friedman/Vogt) sheet music

Veni Sanctus Spiritus (Berthier) sheet music Can be very moving.

Enter the Journey (Friedman/Vogt) sheet music

May You Walk (Hart) sheet music

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