Showing posts with label Hymns. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Hymns. Show all posts
Sunday, August 17, 2025

Hymn: Taste and See

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At Communion time this morning in our parish of St. William the Abbot, the congregation sang the hymn "Taste and See the Lord is Good,...
Sunday, May 11, 2025

The King of Love My Shepherd Is

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Today is Good Shepherd Sunday because of its Gospel. Our offertory hymn at St. William's was "The King of Love My Shepherd Is,...
Sunday, November 24, 2024

Hymn, Crown Him with Many Crowns

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Today, the Feast of Christ the King, the pre-recorded Mass from the Passionist Fathers, had as recessional the hymn "Crown Him with Man...
Monday, November 11, 2024

Hymn, We Gather Together

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On Sunday, November 10, 2024, the entrance hymn was "We Gather Together to Ask the Lord's Blessings," strong in purpose and of...
Sunday, May 19, 2024

Hymn at Pentecost

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Our music director made several good choices for Pentecost today. Among the songs at Communion was "Breathe on me, breath of God" ...
Sunday, February 25, 2024

Hymn for Transfiguration

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Today's Gospel was from Mark 9, an account of the Transfiguration. Peter said, "Rabbi, it is good that we are  here." Our proc...
Sunday, December 10, 2023

When the darkness closes in, Come Lord Jesus

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Meri Dell Ridge wrote this morning's entrance hymn, "Come Lord Jesus." It begins, "When the darkness closes in."  M....
Sunday, January 17, 2021

Hymn: The Church's One Foundation

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The Church's One Foundation is Jesus Christ Our Lord. Today I heard this familiar hymn as the entrance song at the Passionist Fathers...
Tuesday, December 1, 2020

Pastor Martin Rinkart and the plague

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Pastor Martin Rinkart wrote "Now Thank We All Our God" despite his parish's tribulations of plague, famine, and war. I refer y...
Sunday, August 23, 2020

Hymn written in 1941

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 This morning, 8.23.2020, the Sunday Mass from the Passionist monastery in Jamaica began with "To Jesus Christ Our Sovereign King....
Saturday, May 16, 2020

CatholicPhilly and copyrights of music and texts

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CatholicPhilly.com is the official news website of the archdiocese of Philadelphia, replacing the weekly Catholic Standard newspaper that fo...
Thursday, April 9, 2020

A hymn for church unity

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On Holy Thursday, 2020, I watched and prayed along with Cardinal Timothy Dolan at the 5:30 p.m. Eucharist from St. Patrick's Cathedral, ...
Wednesday, March 18, 2020

O God, our Help in Ages past

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Isaac Watts (1674-1748), a Congregationalist minister, based "O God, our Help in Ages past" on Psalm 90. William Croft (1678-1727)...
Sunday, December 1, 2019

Wake, O Wake, and sleep no longer

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At the vigil Mass last night, our talented organist ran through the interludes of "Wachet Auf" with enthusiasm and vigor, lifting ...
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Thursday, August 15, 2019

Salve, Regina Coelitum

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Appropriately on the feast of the Assumption of Mary today, our recessional was an English translation of the hymn Salve, Regina coelitum, ...
Sunday, December 23, 2018

Fr. Willard Jabusch, hymnist

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Today we sang at communion "See How the Virgin Waits," with a Slovak folk melody. It saddened me to discover that its composer, Fr...
Sunday, September 30, 2018

Sent forth by God's Blessing

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For recessional today, 9.30.2018, our cantor announced "Sent forth by God's Blessing," which I find a remarkable and beautiful...
Friday, May 11, 2018

Ascension

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Some parishes in central Europe celebrate Jesus's Ascension with a statue hoisted roofward. The link below shows the sequence in Ansing,...
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Monday, August 8, 2016

Hymn: I Want to Walk as a Child of the Light

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Yesterday, 8.7.2016, our music director chose as recessional an inspirational hymn that I had never heard before, "I Want to Walk as a ...
Friday, September 25, 2015

Recessional hymn at Pope's Mass at MSG

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It is 7:40 p.m. on September 25, 2015, and Mass has been celebrated with Pope Francis at Madison Square Garden.  Allow me to point out a spe...