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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 →

Casey McKinley has set this traditional text for a sprinkling rite based on Ezekiel 47 in a pleasant folk, country style. It has been added to Breaking Bread for 2025 by OCP. The sheet music can be purchased at OCP … Continue reading →

This is another Harry Hagan text added to Breaking Bread for 2025 by OCP. The setting is by Steve Angrisano and Curtis Stephan. It is on the theme of mercy, obviously, and uses the blind Bartimeus story from Mark 1o. … Continue reading →

OCP has added Ken Canedo’s 2015 song, “God So Loved” to Breaking Bread for 2025. It is scriptural, obviously, and I wonder if in a stripped down form it would work for Gifts. It is very slow and as you … Continue reading →

I am up to “D” in the new songs for Breaking Bread 2025 from OCP. OK, this is chant, so I’m not making a backing. It is a traditional prayer from the 1700s that has been added to (by popes) … Continue reading →

Continuing with the additions to OCP for 2025 is Justin Wedgewood‘s fairly recent setting of Genevieve Gould‘s text. She has written a fine lyric with a social conscience and it is set beautifully, but I would have to see if … Continue reading →

This is a Mary song for choir or assembly from Australian songwriter Christopher Wilcock that has been added to Breaking Bread this year. Being at Star of the Sea parish locally and living in a port town, it is something … Continue reading →

I was afflicted with a burst of wishful thinking and, as Chris pointed out, put the wrong setting of the this song up yesterday. OCP have included the Daniel Partridge setting of Harry Hagan‘s text with an additional verse by … Continue reading →

This is a timely “Advent Tavern Song” with a text by Harry Hagen OSB set by Timothy R. Smith. He tells the story of how the song happened in the videos below. There is a wordless interlude to be sung … Continue reading →

The next new OCP song is this 2018 offering from Tom Kendzia. It is an entrance with a Gospel tinge. The sheet music is at OCP, where the text is in their preview. Without a sprightly accompaniment, as in the … Continue reading →