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This ancient song being added to Breaking Bread for 2025 by OCP, seems to be there due to a new translation from ICEL promulgated by USCCB. The original Latin text is by Thomas Aquinas and it is set to DUGUET. … Continue reading →

This Marian hymn by Dan Schutte has been added to Breaking Bread for 2025. The choir arrangement sounds nice. Schutte adapted the text from Justin Mulcahy’s “Mary the Dawn”. Sheet music here, text in the preview.

The list of songs added to Breaking Bread for 2025 by OCP continues with Randall DeBruyn‘s setting of the Nunc dimittis. It is appropriate to Christmas and Holy Family liturgies, with the text lending itself to funerals as well. It … Continue reading →

Another of the songs added by OCP to Breaking Bread for 2025 is Casey McKinley‘s recent setting of Father James Quinn‘s paraphrase of “The Prayer of St Francis”. So apart from this music continuing the very sedate trend of recent … Continue reading →

OCP says that this is the setting of the new translation of Tantum ergo sacramentum promulgated by the USCCB. It is in their model for a Holy Hour for Vocations – scroll down to Benediction. The music is Wade’s ST … Continue reading →

Continuing the new songs added for Breaking Bread in 2025 by OCP, is this majestic song for Holy Thursday. It has a text in both Spanish and English and is by Anna Betancourt. The sheet music is at OCP, where … Continue reading →

Janet Sullivan Whitaker‘s 2006 song “Keep Me In Your Heart” has been added to Breaking Bread for 2025 by OCP. This a gentle sung prayer and a hopeful lament. OCP suggests it for times of grief and at a second … Continue reading →

This hymn has a text by Christina Rosetti and set by Gustav Holst. It is has been added to Breaking Bread by OCP for 2025. I love Holst, but this is another Christmas song hopelessly bound to Eurocentric views of … Continue reading →

This is Tantum ergo. I have covered this traditional song on the blog and only mention it here because it has been added to Breaking Bread for 2025. I have an ancient document – Breaking Bread 2012 – and it … Continue reading →

So I am playing for the Sunday morning mass instead of Saturday night for the fourth week in Advent and have decided that, while I still want a Marian hymn, it should be something they know rather than something new, … Continue reading →