There are many songs in Gather 3rd edition on the theme of peace, but I have already blogged most of them from other sources.
But not this heartfelt gentle text by Fred Kaan, set the the traditional Irish tune ST COLUMBA. I think it’s fine, but then I didn’t grow up singing it ad nauseum like my cradle Catholic wife, who is having PTSD flashbacks hearing this now. I get that with “Onward Christian Soldiers,” which I don’t think is about peace as such.
The words and music are at Hope Publishing. The version in Gather 3rd ed. was arranged by A. Gregory Murray OSB and is so copyright to Downside Abbey, so GIA fixed that by copyrighting an arrangement by David W. Music, which is available there. Sadly, David W. Music is a real person, a respected music director and editor of The Hymn, not as I hoped a fake name used to make money out of public domain music.
There are lots of arrangements of this one about, but it is best kept simple.
For those who didn’t grow up with “Onward Christian Soldiers”, why should you not suffer – Mea Culpa: