Monthly Archives: June 2024

Having been raised a Presbyterian, I always struggle with Marian hymns. This one by Tony Alonso in Gather 3rd edition keeps it simple and successfully avoids the oversentimental – he based it on the Litany of Loretto and the “Ave … Continue reading →

It’s a good idea to use a familiar tune for a text used on one day of the year like All Saints or for liturgies where people who aren’t regular parishioners are likely to attend like funerals. To that end, … Continue reading →

I have made a bit of a dent in Gather 3rd edition, picking up all the songs that I haven’t already covered on this blog. This one is for All Saints and is a text by Sylvia Dunstan set here … Continue reading →

John Bell wrote the text for this song for the Annunciation in Gather 3rd edition and it is set to COLUMCILLE, which is a lovely Gaelic tune. GIA sell the sheet music. The text is here.

This song is being sung for mass on Sunday with a joint music group. The music has been chosen by someone whose memory for Catholic music goes back much further than mine – I was brought up Presbyterian – and … Continue reading →

This is another hymn for the Presentation of the Lord, this time from an unknown author in C19, based on Matthew 1:23, and found in Gather 3rd edition. It is set to SWABIA by Johann Speiss. If you can’t find … Continue reading →

This is Ruth Duck’s take on the Nunc dimittis (Luke 2:29-35), with further inspiration, apparently, from the “Narnia Chronicles”. Here it is set to to DICKSON by Norah Duncan IV. It is listed for the “Presentation of the Lord”, but … Continue reading →

More Liam Lawton goodness from Gather 3rd Edition, this time based on John 15:5-14 and so suitable for Easter 5B and 6B where those readings come up. There are harmony lines in the refrain and a descant in the third … Continue reading →

One of the songwriters that I am finding amongst the works in Gather 3rd edition not already covered elsewhere in my blog is Liam Lawton. Obviously huge in Ireland, he hasn’t been a feature in parishes I have played at … Continue reading →

This song is on the theme of the second coming, but is very much a proclamation of social justice and would work in Advent. It is from Gather 3rd edition and the text is by Rory Cooney, based on passages … Continue reading →