Monthly Archives: September 2019

This is Christopher Willcock’s setting of Psalm 25. It is based on The Grail but he appears to have slightly altered some of the words. At this site (scroll down) the antiphon is verse one. Verse one in CWB II … Continue reading →

It is always a joy to have a text by Shirley Erena Murray come up. This song has a timeless environmental theme. It is set to TENDERNESS by Colin Gibson. The lyrics are at Hope Publishing Company along with links … Continue reading →

Entrance: A New Heart for a New World   (O’Brien/Watts) AOV 1/158 Psalm 50 (McKenna) I will rise and go to my father. I will rise and go to my father. Gifts: Be Merciful (Haugen) Communion: Table of Plenty   (Schutte) AOV … Continue reading →

Yet another relatively recent text to an old tune in CWB II. Fred R. Anderson paraphrased Psalm 150 for this c20 text and it is set to DARWELL a c18 tune by John Darwell. The text for this stirring song … Continue reading →

When you take out the hymns available in As One Voice from Catholic Worship Book II you are left with a lot of fairly recent texts to rather old tunes. This is another one is by the very prolific Michael … Continue reading →

Bernard Sexton wrote this song for the Fiftieth International Eucharistic Congress in Dublin in 2012. The text is here, although CWB II has five verses and I’ve seen six. Apart from from the range being somewhat too wide for the … Continue reading →

I’ve already blogged this text by Frederick William Faber here set to HYFRYDOL. Catholic Worship Book II prefers IN BABILONE. The text has more stanzas than CWB II uses (see here) but those chosen by the editors, which I have … Continue reading →

This is a song for Pentecost with a social justice edge by Brian Wren set to LAUDS by John W. Wilson. I’m sure it has a liturgical fit more generally as well and CWB II is to be applauded for … Continue reading →

I missed the meeting at which the songs were chosen for the next few weeks as I was accompanying my daughter to an antenatal class of all things. So with thanks to the team here are this weeks’ selections. We … Continue reading →