Entrance: Gather As One (McKenna) AOV NG 48
Psalm 145 (McKenna)
Praise the Lord my soul!
Praise the Lord my soul!
Gifts: The Cry of the Poor (Foley) AOV 1/83
Communion: Come to the Table (Burland) AOV NG 33
Thanksgiving: Be Merciful (Haugen)
Recessional: Sing of the Lord’s Goodness (Sands) AOV 1/131
I should have mentioned that CWB II is alphabetical by first line not title so this song is near the end, as its first line is “With every mountain.”
I was going to say this is a more recent song but it still goes back to 1998. It is a Michael Mangan song that I haven’t come across before so that is a nice surprise. It’s from the collection Forever I Will Sing and the text is available in a word file at his site. You can also buy the collection there at Litmus. He based the text on Psalm 98 and it is singable and suitable for adults as well as children.
For all my bleating about CWB II falling well short of a useful collection of hymns, the editing has appeared to be exceptional. There is however an error here, with a D/F# written as D/F on the third line.
This is one of the few times CWB II give chords, so making a backing was easier than usual.
Continuing the pattern of fairly recent texts to old tunes is this hymn, especially relevant for Advent, by James Quinn, which is set to LEIBSTER JESU (c17).
The text is here and there are nice appreciations of the author and text here and here.
My survey of the songs from Catholic Worship Book II that I haven’t already covered is nearing the end.
I am up to this song with a text by Christopher Idle based on Ecclesiasticus 1 according to CWB II and is a hymn to Wisdom. Like many songs here it is a newish text to an old tune, in this case DIX.
The text is at Hope Publishing, where they suggest it is based on many references from proverbs and set it to every tune other than DIX.
This is delightful song from M.D. Ridge and with gathering, baptismal and sending forth verses it is liturgically useful as well.
It is available to purchase from OCP and the text is in their preview. It is in my copy of their Guitar Accompaniment Book as well (590) and that’s where I got the chords for my backing because CWB II wouldn’t include them.
This is Ubi caritas est vera set to chant mode VI.
This site gives the Latin text and an English translation.
You can hear it in Latin here.
How lovely that Richard Connolly did a setting of Ubi Caritas. He paraphrased the Holy Thursday liturgy and set it to his tune, JEREMY.
The text is here. As One Voice have a sample of the sheet music here and you can purchase the sheet music there as well. It is also in Together In Song 434.
Here is an appreciation of Richard Connolly.
Entrance: Gather Us In (Haugen) AOV 1/12
Psalm 112 (McKenna)
Praise the Lord, who lifts up the poor.
Alleluia. Praise the Lord.
Gifts: Will You Love Me? (Boniwell) AOV 1/40
Communion: Gift of Finest Wheat (Westendorf/Kreutz) CWB II 651
Thanksgiving: The Beatitudes (Kearney) CWB II 456
Recessional: Send Down the Fire (Haugen) AOV 2/164
This is a refreshing, challenging and simply amazing text from John Bell.
The text is here and it is set to NETTLETON.
I have several of his songbooks and am only restrained from blogging them by their lack of chords and the work that would cause me. Then again CWB II often has no chords and I’ve managed.
This sheet music is in the same key as CWB II, where it is set as 6/4 rather than the 3/4 found in this version and most others I’ve seen.
This is another newish song that turned up at RS’s parish by Ricky Manalo and Bob Hurd.
OCP sell the sheet music here and the text is in their preview.
There are verses for gathering and Eucharist so pick those that you need.
I made a backing to see how it went. It is quite lovely.
