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The CHURCH HYMNAL With the Liturgy, Canticles and the Litany
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I appreciated that the hymnal is especially scrupulous in listing the inspirations and sources for their texts. A large number of the selections new to me are drawn from scripture, writings of saints, and writings of the church fathers. However, there are many cases where different composers were inspired by the same texts, which makes titles quite confusing. For instance, there are four “Be With Me, Lord”s, three “Come, Holy Spirit, Come”s, and three “I am the Way”s. There are three musical settings of the Prayer of St. Francis with virtually the same text, which seems excessive. I suspect many Roman Catholics will be surprised to not find Marty Haugen’s piece at “Shepherd Me, O God,” or Suzanne Toolan’s piece at “I am the Bread of Life,” or the Taize piece at “Jesus, Remember Me.” It feels a little misleading, almost a bait and switch, to find these new pieces there; it’s also unfair to these new pieces to have to be compared to a more famous piece with the same name.
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