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This stirring tune, composed by its namesake, a Belgian Jesuit priest of the 19th Century, has come to be associated in the English-speaking world with the simple majesty of Fr Caswall’s translation of Veni, Creator Spiritus, a hymn to the Holy Spirit associated with Pentecost, Confirmation, Ordination, and even, by custom, the New Year.

This prelude may be played on one or two manuals, with pedal. Consider using it as a communion meditation, to recall or foreshadow the singing of the hymn as a Processional.

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This beautiful tune is wed in in the English language to Fr. Frederick Faber’s Eucharistic text, “Jesus, My Lord, My God, My All”, which first appeared in print in 1849, although the tune originated with a German hymn about Holy Baptism.

This Trio was composed for my oldest daughter’s First Communion. It can be played effectively with a variety of colors and at different tempi, depending on the liturgical context.

Special thanks to Mr. James J. Richardson for his beautiful typesetting of this score, as well as his lovely performance of the piece, linked above.

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This Dutch tune is often associated in Catholic hymnals with two great texts — “There’s a Wideness in God’s Mercy,” by Fr. Frederick Faber, CO, one of the great English Catholic hymn writers of the 19th Century, as well as “Blessed Feasts of Blessed Martyrs,” John Mason Neale’s 19th-Century translation of Pope St. Gregory the Great’s 6th-Century Latin hymn text, “O beata beatorum”.

This prelude is in the style of an ornamented chorale, and is modeled explicitly on J.S. Bach’s “O Mensch, bewein,” from Orgelbüchlein. Stately, calm, and tranquil, it is suitable for use with either text.

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