Monthly Archives: February 2025

This is another song for the Jubilee, this time from Canada. It is the 2025 Catholic Education Week Theme song, and was written by Nancy Bodsworth. It builds slowly into an anthemic song, but it would work kept small too. … Continue reading →

Here is another Jubilee song for schools, with a text by Andrew Chinn and music by Drew Lane. The words and chords are at the Butterfly House site and you can learn it from the YouTube clip. I couldn’t find … Continue reading →

This is Michael Herry‘s hymn for the Jubilee year, co-written with Tricia Murray, and set to BUNESSAN. It has a Marian text and is a natural for the Star of the Sea parish here in George Town. You can hear … Continue reading →

There are a few more Jubilee Year song matters to deal with. The lovely people at CJM music collective have had a crack at the official hymn for the Jubilee, in a style better suited to a “a more contemporary … Continue reading →

Willow’s Pilgrims of Hope collection closes out with another Gen Bryant song, this time in collaboration with Ashen Warnakulasooryia. The sheet music and other bundles for the collection can be purchased at Willow. Like the other songs in the collection, … Continue reading →

This song came about when Gen Bryant, Steph Jorna, Brigid McNally and myself were put together at a songwriter’s retreat last year to write a song for the Jubilee. It can be purchased at Willow in the Pilgrims of Hope … Continue reading →

This is the first song I’ve blogged that was written this year! It is a chant-like reflective sung prayer, from the collection, Pilgrims of Hope, matching the themes of the Jubilee, but with a more universal application. The words are … Continue reading →

This is Patricia Smith‘s contribution to Willow’s new collection, Pilgrims of Hope. She is one of the songwriters, like Peter Grant, David MacGregor and Erica Marshall, who would have been more well known in Australia if circumstances would have allowed … Continue reading →

Beth Doherty has written a lovely song that truly embodies the theme of Hope for the Jubilee. It is in the new Willow collection, Pilgrims of Hope and you can buy the sheet music and other bundles at Willow. Liturgically, … Continue reading →

This is the other song from the collection, Pilgrims of Hope, from Willow, that I have already blogged. This song has a text by Monica O’Brien and a setting from Michael Harvey. We have starting using this for a Eucharist … Continue reading →