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A CATHOLIC BOOK of HYMNS a hymnal in the style of historic catholic hymnals The questions that we are most frequently asked, all on one page: You have hymns that I am asked for and cannot find in any modern hymnals, especially for the wake and funerals for older Catholics. I just need 1 hymnal. Is the hardbound hymnal for $18, the only choice?

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I'm leery about spending money on a hardbound hymnal since there are new translations due in 2025. Is this a problem?

This is a true, solid hymnal, 295 hymns that will never be affected by translation adjustments. Nothing else.

Where are the readings and ordinary sung Mass parts? There are none, but you may add them.

On the last page of this catalog, you will find the hymnal pictured and being described as a "Hybrid" hymnal - You are free to insert up to 16 pages securely in the hymnal. Why would you want to do that? There is space for Mass music and Readings or other often used music. In 2025 your current missal/hymnals will be obsolete, once again.

Take the Mass Ordinary, Readings and more music. You print and slip these exra pages in the hymnal where they are securely held yet easy to replace. With many parishes moving to printing weekly music sheets for the congregation, taking control of their music programs using music from many sources, being able to insert multiple pages is welcomed. And they are not left lying in the pews or on the floor.

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When I was twelve I began playing and singing 7am Mass 6 days a week for 5 years, using mainly the St. Gregory Hymnal and Choirbook. During the 60's I went through the transition to English at Mass at my home parish, then at parishes in NYC, followed by a stint with the US Army in Germany. Staying on in Europe I played the organ in Catholic parishes first in Germany and later in Italy. Every so often, I would run into my old friend, the blue St. Gregory hymnal. It has strongly influenced me in the creation of this new hymnal for longevity. The St. Greg is still in use arond the world. It was well-planned.

Call me at 606 756 7979 - you will discover I often answer my own phone.

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The Entire Collection $4.99 downloads available of all hymnals - all hymns legal to freely print, share, podcast and stream.

Essential Editions • Pew Edition - Is there a Catholic Hymnal in full harmony SATB for our congregation? They love to sing!

Hardbound $18.00 Paperback $14.95 Download PDF $4.99 • Choir Edition - Our choir area is really dark, is there a hymnal that is larger print for them? $24.95

• Organist & Choir Director Edition - Is there a Catholic hymnal with a comprehensive Index? $29.95 Created by a former seminarian for Organists, Choir Directors, Clergy, and Cantors

The Choir book plus expanded index of Scriptural References to Hymns - an additional 100+ pages.

This expanded index helps to find hymns matching bible readings.

• Organ Edition I've never had the opportunity to take organ lessons and I am really uncomfortable playing hymns. $24.95 These are full-sounding hymns settings for you that fill the church with sound.

• Simple Organ Edition - Am I the only person recruited from the pews when Father found out I play piano? $24.95 Easier to play while matching the harmony of the hymn throughout.

• Chords Edition - As a priest sometimes I have people willing to play but they can only play with chords! $24.95 Carefully chosen to work with all the hymns and the Simple Organ Edition Samples from the two books below appear following the next page • Organ Preludes on Hymns Edition - I can't find organ preludes on Catholic hymns! $24.95 295 playable pieces only three with pedals, and those pedal parts are easy as well.

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• A Catholic Prayerbook of Hymns Edition - I'd like to pray these hymns, but the music notes distract me! $14.95 For prayer, meditation and Adoration.

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Organ Music on the Hymns Each hymn has an arrangment that may be played before singing a hymn, after the last verse of a closing hymn or in the weeks before singing a new hymn to introduce the hymn to your congregation. Some may be used as accompaniment for choir or soloist.

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As with gladness men of old As with gladness men of old Did the guiding star behold; As with joy they hailed its light, Leading onward, beaming bright; So, most gracious Lord, may we Evermore be led to thee.

As with joyful steps they sped To that lowly manger-bed, There to bend the knee before Him whom heav’n and earth adore; So may we with willing feet Ever seek thy mercy seat.

A Catholic Prayer Book of Hymns True Hymns are prayers carefully and artfully written in very strict meter, making them eminently singable by all.

They also stand on their own, as finely composed literature.

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A Guide A good hymnal is a "tool" designed for one specific purpose and, as a result, easy to use.

Returning traditional Catholic hymns back in the hands of people is our goal now and for many years to come.

Each person in a singing congregation needs one of these in their hands as it is in full harmony for all.

This is a true hymnal, not a combined missal/hymnal to be discarded by the impending translation changes, once again.

These hymns are sung prayers in strict meter totally void of modern paraphrased scripture.

You will recognize excellent hymns that you are currently singing and many that your congregation will grow to love them once again as they were loved by generations before us.

Savings: • No need to purchase required hymn supplements to a missalette • If you use a weekly printed music bulletin this hymnal saves paper, up to 4 pages a week The Music: • The music and texts are original versions without any "tinkering" • All tunes are historic versions in original keys • Alternate lower keys settings available at no charge per request Use:

• These may be sung before and after Latin Masses and at Novus Ordo Masses • Many of these hymns were, and continue to be, sung at Devotional Novenas with Benediction • Your entire congregation is free to sing these hymns in full harmony

People in the congregation who read music, and there are more than you may think, will be pleased to be able to sing their own voice parts, especially families that like to sing together at home.

Composed over the centuries these hymns have made it possible for a poor church to have and to sing beautiful music just as you would hear in a cathedral. They create their own rhythm through sung harmony, unlike songs, which require a piano, guitar or drums to keep on going.

About Organs: Why can an organ be useful? It is not essential but very nice to have. The organ blends with the tones of singing voices, unlike the piano, guitars or drums that impose their own steady rhythmic beat, distracting from the words whose consonants emphasive the word rhythms and vowels the smooth flow of the melody.

Other Instruments: As there are churches that must use instruments other than organ, we have developed the Simple Organ Edition and Chords Edition for them to use - this includes digital keyboards, pianos, and other instruments, as needed. In this way, all of these hymns may be sung at all the Masses celebrated in your parish.

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For centuries in the church, Catholics sang only:

So what does this mean for your parish?

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Gregorian chant relies on the rhythm of the words being sung, to flow, to go from beginning to end.

Gregorian Chant in Latin Devotional Hymns in their local language

These two forms of music are closely related. The Fathers of the church, including Pope St. Gregory the Great, carefully controlled the development of sacred music with a careful eye to keeping it separate in both form and function from secular music.

The simultaneous singing of four notes against each other in hymns adds dimension. Not only are the word rhythms clearly being sung, but the harmonies add color to the sound and reinforce the movement of the melodies with both dissonance and consonance.

As a result both chant and hymns: • • • • •

Once the singers became accustomed to singing melodies, they began singing melodies against each other, challenging the Church. Eventually the art of singing harmonies was perfected and the Church permitted them to be sung.

Are simple to sing Have a limited range of notes Words fit the music exactly Music matches word rhythms They require no accompaniment

Dissonance creates a desire in the ear to move on to consonance. This then takes the words and emphasizes them in different ways, creating a luminous sound. This is not possible in Gregorian chant, which in contrast, revels in its purity of only melodic sound.

One instrument has always been judged closest to the human voice by the Church.

The Organ.

It is a wind instrument, just like the voice, and it was used to give steady pitches to singers, "accompanying," and to fill in for missing sung notes, plus it may "sing" on its own. In France today the organ is "given its voice" during the Mass when the choir is receiving Communion, and other times, as needed.

For centuries the organ has been part of the Catholic Mass, supporting singers when needed, playing as the choir receives Communion, for example.

It also speaks with its own voice when it prepares your congregation for the Mass and most joyfully plays them out after Mass, with majesty.

The Organ, Gregorian Chant and Hymns, are all an integral part of the Catholic experience. .

Our hymnal contains 295 hymns of the church, all in full harmony. The melodies stay within the range of the untrained voice.

Anyone who has sung in school or played a band instrument knows enough music to read, and sing, their own voice part.

Additional accompaniment books ensure that all the instruments you have at Masses will be able to play for singing of the hymns.

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This was the very kind response to our decision to mail A Catholic Book of Hymn Pew Edition to the Vatican for His Holiness.

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“Sacred Music Library’s A Catholic Book of Hymns is an excellent collection of orthodox, inspiring, and beautiful hymns.”

A Review by Jennifer Donelson-Nowicka The collection contains many well-known and beloved English-language hymns, as well as a plethora of hymn tunes and texts which might be unknown to Catholics, but which deserve to be known and loved.

The solid hymns that Catholics love can be found in their best-known tunes, and a number of these texts have been included in additional tune options, allowing parishes to broaden the musical horizons of congregations.

The hymns appear in alphabetical order, and traditional, time-tested poetic renderings of texts appear in their original wording. Hymns which have appeared in multiple keys in common hymnals are usually included in the higher of the typical keys.

The volume is lightweight, but still possessing a large number of hymns on sturdy, mostly-opaque paper. The binding is strong, laying open nicely in the hand of the parishioner.

Hymns for many devotions are available: Our Lady, Star of the Sea, the Sacred Heart, Our Lady of the Rosary, general hymns for patronal saints, prayers for the pope, etc.

Parishes looking for an excellent collection of English-language hymnody will find in this volume a book which raises Catholic congregations’ expectations for the beauty of hymn tune and text.

Several excellent adaptations of sequence texts, music for Benediction, and the most beloved Christmas carols make the volume extremely useful for parish use.

Too, pastors of souls will find in this book hymns which lead the hearts and minds of their flock, through the beauty of poetry and melody, into the heart of the Catholic understanding of the mysteries of the Trinity, the Eucharist, the life of grace, Our Lady’s loving care for her children, the Church as the mystical body of Christ, and great cloud of witnesses in the communion of the saints.

As the Introduction to the volume makes clear, the book’s value is in complementing the integral music of the Roman rite (the propers and ordinary of the Mass, and the Latin hymnody of the Office), and this volume would be the perfect complement to something like the Parish Book of Chant, where one could find the Ordinary texts of the Mass (EF and OF), chants of the Kyriale, and other Gregorian chants for a congregation.

Jennifer Donelson-Nowicka is an associate professor and the director of sacred music at St. Joseph’s Seminary (Dunwoodie) in New York, where she also teaches sacred music courses in the St. Cecilia Academy for Pastoral Musicians.

For this reason, A Catholic Book of Hymns sets forth a truly Catholic understanding of the role of hymnody in parish devotions, in the home, and as a possible ad- Donelson-Nowicka has dition to the integral music of the Mass in the Roman been named as a Consultant to the USCCB’s Comrite. mittee on Divine Worship Beautifully typeset with lovely fonts, the layout is emi- and serves on the Archdionently readable and pleasing to the eye. Typically, three cese of New York’s Liturgiverses of a hymn are set within the musical staves, and cal Music Commission. extra verses are listed in text-only below. (An exception to this comes in hymns of four verses where all the vers- She also co-hosts a podcast entitled “Square Notes: The es are set in the musical system.)

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Why “A Catholic Book of Hymns” Makes a Great Resource for Parishes Review: The Catholic Book of Hymns (2020) brings together 295 English Christian hymns from both the Anglican and English Catholic musical traditions into a handy, beautiful volume.

What do the Anglican hymnals The Hymnal 1982 and The New English Hymnal and their predecessors the Hymnal 1940 and The English Hymnal (among other hymnals of the Anglican patrimony!) all have in common?

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Theologically & literarily rich hymn texts Beautiful music (both the melodies and harmonizations) High-quality binding Elegant font Thorough indices

Thankfully, a plethora of very good hymnals for English-speaking Catholics have been released over the last 10 years, ever since ICEL (the International Commission on English in the Liturgy)’s new, more accurate and poetic 2011 translation of the 3rd Edition of the Roman Missal was released. Here, however, I seek to call particular attention to A Catholic Book of Hymns, first published in 2020.

A Catholic Book of Hymns exhibits all five of the aforementioned qualities.

This hymnal draws strongly from both the Anglican and English Catholic hymn treasuries.

In this way, this hymnal unites these parallel-running, cross-pollinating, English Christian musical traditions.[a] This unification of patrimonies forms the basis of the benefit of an Ordinariate member owning this hymnal. An owner of any of the aforementioned Anglican hymnals will of course already possess the Anglican patrimony but will likely be unfamiliar with some (or more) of these English Catholic hymns. An owner of A Catholic Book of Hymns will not only acquire more English Catholic hymn repertoire but will be able to see how the English Catholic and Anglican hymn patrimonies interact - topically, Scripturally and seasonally.

A Catholic Book of Hymns includes the original hymn texts, unmodernized.

This is patrimonially helpful - when folks know a text a certain way, it is disruptive and disrupting when a text is arbitrarily altered. This hymnal leaves the familiar, personal pronouns (“thee”/“thou”/etc.) intact, which anyone who appreciates more antiquated English grammar will appreciate.

Unlike some similar competitors on the market, A Catholic Book of Hymns is very well-edited and typo-free, and it does not reharmonize hymns arbitrarily.

Indeed, the harmonizations in this hymnal will be familiar to any user of, for example, The Hymnal 1940. The hymnal’s serif fonts are entirely pleasing to the eye.

Finally, the inside of the book does feature an imprimatur, a feature that will be appreciated by many Ordinariate members, as they have sought the authority of the Catholic magisterium in their journey from Anglicanism to the Catholic Church.

Sarah Dzialo completed a Bachelor's in Music at Vassar College before completing a Master's in Religion & Music through Yale's Institute of Sacred Music.

She lives on her cellist/beekeeper's husband's family farm in South Glastonbury, CT and works as an organist and singer for churches all over CT and MA.

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REVIEWS There is much to be said about this essential work.

Just a note to say that the Catholic Book of Hymns in its three versions arrived today.

What a wonderful publication and, finally, a Catholic hymnal that collects the best of tunes and texts consistent with the tradition unapologetically, poetically, and pragmatically with no unproven “filler” standing in the way and fattening the publication!

Would that I were still reviewing.

There is much to be said about this essential work. But suffice it to add that I wish you great success with it and I offer my sincere and humble thanks for the copies that you have shared with me!

Cordial greetings, Haig Maridosian • Reviewer, The American Organist Magazine, Retired I wish my parish was in the market for a new hymnal. This would be perfect . . .

Henry Gaida I looked through this hymnal, and I love it! I’ve been looking for something like this, where I don’t have to go searching through several different hymnals to find what I need. It’s hard to find a hymnal that combines selections that are traditional in the United States and the beautiful British hymns that have good (not sappy) English texts. . . .

[This] also has hymns that are good for Roman Catholic devotions.

Kaoru Tamura Thank you for creating this resource. It’s comforting to see the proper texts and not what seems to be the rage lately, of changing the text to suit the mood of the day.

Michael Keefe

Thank you so much for this wonderful compilation. The whole website is a great contribution to Catholic music.

Daniel Arberg On the whole, a very impressive list. A fine work indeed!

M. Jackson Osborn Many of the songs we sing today found in “Catholic” hymnals are not congregational friendly and are set in to low of a key. It’s only when you pick up a hymn book like “A Catholic Book of Hymns” that you want to start singing hymns again.

Don Howe The parish got______a few months ago........, I was uninformed and unaware of how amazing this hymnal would be. I purchased some copies for my reference. I am certain they will become my ”go to” books in many cases.

They are beautiful and well edited. The four part harmony even in the congregational books really set them over anything else out there! I hope this book is used widely!

Thanks Noel Allen Jones for such a fine contribution to Catholic liturgical music!

Matt Spencer Today received the copy of A Catholic Book of Hymns. The inlaid cover is beautiful, the binding is solid, and the paper is good quality. Thank you so much! Having now seen the book, it is now my favorite Catholic hymnal particularly because it includes the whole hymn, harmony and all. A perfect book to hand to any young aspiring church musician.

D.O. I use it as a reference for me for unfamiliar Catholic Hymns. I am a convert and have found this hymnal very helpful.

I purchased the hardcover, the online copy to print out copies for cantors and a copy with spiral binding.

I used this many times while we had

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just a cantor. I haven’t used it yet now the choir has returned but plan to for upcoming liturgical feasts.

I like the selection of hymns very much. I found a hymn to St. Joseph I had not found anywhere else that I used several time during the year of St. Joseph.

Catherine • Our Lady of Mount Carmel St. Francisville, LA Got my copy of the hymn book with chords. It’s gorgeous! So many old hymn tunes we don’t hear anymore.

Mike Garcia By the way, my organ student, who typically plays block chords for hymn accompaniment, has really benefitted from your simple organ accompaniments. He is able to read the three parts and is starting to sound like a professional (at 13!) Thank you!

Organ Teacher In June 2020, Noel put out a questionnaire on MusicaSacra regarding a new Catholic hymnal containing SATB hymns for a singing congregation. I was happy to contribute a few hymns (Hail Glorious St Patrick and Great St Joseph, which are great favourites in many parishes in Australia). I also suggested alternate hymn tunes aligning with the Australian/Anglo-Irish tradition, and I was pleased that a few hymns have appeared in this hymnal with both the American and English tunes.

It is encouraging to see many classics from the Westminster Hymnal making a resurgence. Many parishes continue to use these old hymns from the UK and Ireland, which are contained in the old words editions of The Living Parish and New Living Parish Hymnals (unfortunately out of prints) or local parish hymnals/print outs. These have not appeared in the newer Gather/As One Voice hymnals, which are dominated by American OCP/GIA. It is good to see them coming back, (with notation!!!), considering the Australian church music heritage has historically

come down from the UK and Irish hymn traditions, until the recent influx of American hymns.

Therefore, this English language hymnal has a more international and less Americentric flavour. One example of a classic hymn that’s returned in this hymnal is Fr Stanfield’s Sweet Sacrament Divine, a hymn that many congregations know but have never encountered before in musical notation.

Great job Noel and to all involved putting this together.

Matthew Ramirez I sing a TLM once a month (a-cappella chant) in a parish where some families have interest in organizing a weekday ”sing along of hymns” to foster singing in their homes. I am trying to convince them to adopt the Book of Hymns as ”common book”. Towards a catholic 21st century version of the shape note ”schools of singing”?.. I told the parishioners that this type of singing is very much a US tradition... Let’s make it a US Catholic one..

Herve Blanquart Today received the copy of A Catholic Book of Hymns. The inlaid cover is beautiful, the binding is solid, and the paper is good quality. Thank you so much!

Having now seen the book, it is now my favorite Catholic hymnal particularly because it includes the whole hymn, harmony and all. A perfect book to hand to any young aspiring church musician.

D.O. Thank you for sending the five copies of the hymnal. They look beautiful.

Everything is well done, cover to cover.

I gave a copy to my pastor tonight after Vespers. He was very interested and impressed.

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Our Hardbound Pew Edition What is smyth-sewn binding?

Smyth sewing is a method of book binding where groups of folded pages (referred to as signatures) are stitched together using binder thread.

You may view them above attached to the yellow spine fabric.

Each folded signature is sewn together individually with multiple stiches and then joined with other signatures to create the complete book block. If you page through a Smyth-sewn book, you may see the thread stitches in the center fold of each signature.

Smyth-sewn binding is associated with durability and quality, and is able to stand up to years of wear and tear. The 100 year old St. Gregory Hymnal on our desk proves this.

Canadian acid-free offset paper and a durable Skivertex® cover, which is water-proof, combined with smyth-sewn binding creates a hymnal with great longevity.

The hymnal is offset-printed and bound in Michigan by an experienced printing company more than 100 years old.

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All of our books are prepared for local spiral binding.

Aside from the hardbound pew hymnal.

They have been laid out with clear space at the spine for binding.

The cost at your local office supply shop is about $5.

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Review • A Catholic Book of Hymns Veronica Brandt · May 24, 2022

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—Jeff Ostrowski

PDF Download • (Organ Accompaniment)

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I created this organ accompaniment booklet for A very intelligen organists who will accompany Vespers on Pentecost he finally come Sunday. Feel free to download it; it might give you some ideas or inspiration. Be warned: It looks pretty sloppy. (The vocis” is. Only organist is the only one who sees it.) “white notes” ( —Jeff Ostrowski

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Revelation • “Re: The Official Rhythm”

A very intelligent singer admitted that only yesterday did he finally come to understand what a “melismatic mora vocis” is. Only yesterday did he come to understand the “white notes” (blank spaces). You can see the Introit for Pentecost Sunday only has two instances of MMV (“melismatic mora vocis”).

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Hymnal

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Hymnal

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$14.95

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$24.95

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$29.99

Organ Book

$24.95

$29.95

$140

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But even with this comparison, the amazing thing with A Catholic Book of Hymns is that you can buy the PDF and it is cleared for printing to your heart’s content. A $5 PDF could be all you need!

If, on the other hand, your parish prefers more durable, hardback pew books, these are also available ($18.95).

In most respects this is a fairly normal hymnbook. The hymns are arranged alphabetically. There are three indices in the pew book: by first lines, by tune name and by meter. The Choir Director’s edition adds three more indices: liturgical, topical and scriptural. If these were not enough, they have also reproduced the indices online for easy searching. The one index they lack is one by author, translator or composer.

A really interesting feature is the Simple Organ edition, which reduces the usual four parts down to three. Generally this is based on deleting the tenor line with some alterations. Repeated notes are often elided to simplify the rhythm. It has opened up many more tunes for me. Sometimes I have struggled with playing the full SATB tune, turned to the simplified three part version, then returned to the full version. Amazing things happen when you practise.

I’ve mentioned a few of the different editions here. The complete list as of writing this article is: Pew paperback Pew hardback Organ edition Simple organ edition Choral edition Organist and Choir Director www.catholicbookofhymns.com Chords (simple organ + chord names above the staff) Prayer Book of Hymns without Music

Organ Preludes – Noel Jones’ arrangements Simple organ edition Choral edition Browsing the Catholic Book of Hymns Webpage, you can find a few different sample PDF documents.

Organist and Choir Director Here is a link (simple to the basic one: Chords organ + chord names above the staff) Prayer Book of Hymns without Music Preludes – Noel Jones’ arrangements ** 61 Organ page sample PDF Browsing the Catholic Book of Hymns Webpage, you can find a few different sample PDF documents.

Here is a link to the basic one: A couple of years ago Views from the Choir Loft ran a series on “Comparison” • 15 Traditional ** 61 page sample PDF Catholic Hymnals which criticised some hymnbooks for preferring Protestant hymns and translators.

I’m reminded of certain people who give to the poor items they no longer have any use A couple of years ago Views from the Choir Loft ran a series on “Comparison” • 15 Traditional for: “Here’s something I don’t want, so you can have it.” Can’t we do better than Catholic Hymnals which criticised some hymnbooks for preferring Protestant hymns and ‘leftovers’ from Protestantism? translators.

The article doesn’t say we should never use Protestant hymns, but rather that a Catholic hymnbook I’m reminded of certain people who give to the poor items they no longer have any use should somehow reorient the reader from the prevailing mindset towards one informed by the older for: “Here’s something I don’t want, so you can have it.” Can’t we do better than patrimony of hymns from the golden age of Chant. The main drawback with this approach is that ‘leftovers’ from Protestantism? the history of English speaking countries has favored Protestants, so as English speaking people we are immersed in references to these famous Protestant hymns. And there are some great tunes there.

The article doesn’t say we should never use Protestant hymns, but rather that a Catholic hymnbook If the Adoremus lists were add in a column for A Catholic of Hymns, this is how it would should somehow50 reorient the to reader from the prevailing mindsetBook towards one informed by the older look: patrimony of hymns from the golden age of Chant. The main drawback with this approach is that the history of English speaking countries has favored Protestants, so as English speaking people we are immersed references these famous Protestant hymns. And there are some great tunes there.

Alleluia! in Sing to Jesus to – Protestant All Glory, Laud, and Honor – Catholic text, Protestant translation Hail the50 Power Jesus’ If the All Adoremus listsof were to Name add in–aProtestant column for A Catholic Book of Hymns, this is how it would look: All People That on Earth Do Dwell – Protestant All You Who Seek a Comfort Sure – Catholic Angels We Have Heard–on High – Catholic Alleluia!

Sing to Jesus Protestant As With Men of Old – Protestant All Glory,Gladness Laud, and Honor – Catholic text, Protestant translation At the Cross Her Station Keeping – Catholic All Hail the Power of Jesus’ Name – Protestant At the Lamb’s FeastDo WeDwell Sing ––Catholic All People ThatHigh on Earth Protestant Away in a Manger – Protestant All You Who Seek a Comfort Sure – Catholic Angels We Have Heard on High – Catholic So, A As Catholic Book of Men Hymns would probably be classed as another Adoremus 50 hymnbook. I With Gladness of Old – Protestant wouldAtargue that this not necessarily bad thing. the Cross Her is Station Keeping –aCatholic At the Lamb’s High Feast We Sing – Catholic www.catholicbookofhymns.com Awayhymns in a Manger Protestant The Latin are few–and far between, but they are there, including:

Away in a Manger – Protestant So, A Catholic Book of Hymns would probably be classed as another Adoremus 50 hymnbook. I would argue that this is not necessarily a bad thing.

The Latin hymns are few and far between, but they are there, including: Panis Angelicus Tantum Ergo (2 tunes) O Salutaris Hostia (2 tunes) O Sanctissima A parish might look into other books for Gregorian chant resources.

There are some unusual and very Catholic titles in the list: Long live the Pope!

O Queen of the Holy Rosary O Godhead Hid, Devoutly I Adore Thee (The Gerard Manley Hopkins translation “Godhead here in hiding” is not included) Michael, Prince of Highest Heaven Many much-loved Catholic authors are included: Fr Faber, Fr Caswall, Fr Ronald Knox, and Blessed Cardinal Newman.

Right now the current threats to Church music do not come from hymns like All People That On Earth Do Dwell but rather new music like Let Us Break Bread Together on Our Knees, and All Are Welcome. The more robust, triumphal hymns of Westminster Abbey would be a welcome change from the dribble in some hymnbooks.

Some hymnbooks take the liberty of “updating” the texts. This book, however, faithfully sticks to the earliest versions, including in the music.

Many parishes use financial strain as an excuse to invest in substandard music. Noel Jones’ book, especially the PDF availability, undercuts them all. There is no excuse now to fall back on cheap folk music. There’s even a chord edition for the guitarists and autochord keyboardists.

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