With more than 840 titles and a perfectly balanced repertoire of traditional, contemporary and multicultural music,
Journeysongs, Second Edition, is the permanent hymnal that gives voice to every worshiping community.
Features- Complete Order of Mass with music (Celtic Mass)
- Eight additional Mass settings and a comprehensive section of supplemental service music, including a setting of the Eucharistic Prayer II for Children
- Contemporary Psalter, with more than 100 psalms and canticles
- More than 840 titles! A large section of general music for the liturgical year, including over 400 new hymns and songs
- A generous selection of music for seasons, solemnities and feasts throughout the year
- An expanded section for the rites, including ritual texts and music: Order of Christian Funerals, Christian Initiation/RCIA and benediction, plus a substantial amount of music for marriage, pastoral care of the sick and penance (reconciliation)
- Assembly Edition with Lectionary Readings includes verbatim musical settings of the responsorial psalms and Gospel acclamations
- Musical settings for morning and evening prayer
- Well organized, easy-to-follow topical arrangement
- Full set of indexes, including metrical, scriptural and topical indexes, as well as an index of suggested psalms for the liturgical year
- Large-print format
- Beautifully bound, elegant, durable, hardbound cover
- Plastic pocket on inside back cover of hymnals to accommodate Music Supplements
More Traditional MusicTraditional music accounts for more than 35% of the contents, and includes:
- Traditional hymns -- now with complete-text versions!
- Traditional Latin chant, with English translations
- Well-known American folk tunes
- Spirituals
- Hymns by respected hymn text writers, including Delores Dufner, OSB; Harry Hagan, OSB; Genevieve Glen, OSB; and others
Meets the needs of multicultural parishes- Offers a well-balanced repertoire, with songs drawn from a variety of cultures
- Every common psalm is bilingual, with verses in both English and Spanish
"As a teacher of liturgical theology and as a permanent deacon I find Journeysongs, Second Edition, excellent. In an age when too easily battle lines are drawn over church music, there is found here a sensible balance that speaks to the different tastes found throughout the Church. Journeysongs, Second Edition, is like the scribe of the Gospel who brings out of his treasure new things and old. It is a fine pastoral resource for widespread use in parishes. If a deacon had his own copy, he would immediately have at his disposal a form for Liturgy of the Hours (morning and evening prayer), the Lectionary for Sundays and major celebrations, and a feast of hymns for congregational as well as for one''s own personal use in prayer and meditation. I am happy to commend it."
-- Owen F. Cummings, Regents Professor of Theology, Mount Angel Seminary
"Journeysongs, Second Edition, arrived just a few days ago. . . . I was impressed with the variety of music found in its pages. Quite a number of pieces should be familiar to people in the assembly. I was happy to see the works of several fine composers . . . . It is obvious your music advisory committee worked carefully to include a singable selection of music to help people to pray."
-- Brother Howard Hughes, SM
"I am so very impressed and pleased to see the many wonderful new texts that OCP has incorporated into Journeysongs, Second Edition. There are solid, theologically significant, poetically evocative texts for virtually every liturgical season and rite. While many are accompanied by fine new tunes; many use tunes out of the common repertoire to facilitate wide use of prayerful texts that might otherwise be passed by. I recommend Journeysongs, Second Edition, to everyone serious about ''singing the liturgy'' and not only singing ''at'' the liturgy. OCP has made a giant contribution to the English-speaking Church."
-- Father Gerald T. Chinchar, SM, Campus Minister for Catechetical programs, University of Dayton
"I would like to commend you on a hymnal that is flexible in its approach to how parish communities worship and responsive to the diverse cultural needs of worship yet retains a connection to the musical heritage of the Church."
-- Most Rev. Donald W. Trautman, Bishop of Erie, PA
Designed to enhance the repertoire of any hymnal or missal program, OCP''s series of music supplements offers songs that suit the particular needs of your community. The slim, paperbound volumes fit easily into OCP''s large missal covers and hardcover hymnals with plastic pockets on the inside back cover, such as Journeysongs, Second Edition. They''re also sturdy enough to stand alone in your pew shelves. Each supplement provides more than 50 pages of music, greatly expanding the selection in your current missals and hymnals.
Latin Music Supplement
Laus Tibi, Christe
Contemporary Spanish Music Supplement
Sal de la Tierra
Contemporary Vietnamese Music Supplement
Chon Ngai
Spanish Music Supplement
Cantos para Celebrar
Assembly Edition with Lectionary Readings
- Three-year cycle of Scripture readings for Sundays and holy days
- Musical settings for responsorial psalms and Gospel acclamations for the 3-year Lectionary cycle (drawn from A Lectionary Psalter by Rev. John Schiavone)
- Plastic pocket for Music Supplement
Choir/Cantor Edition- Includes entire contents of Assembly Edition
- Includes choral arrangements
- Plastic pocket for Music Supplement
Keyboard Accompaniment Book- Organ or piano
- Three volumes
- Plastic-coil bound
Guitar Accompaniment Book- With selected choral harmony
- Two volumes
- Plastic-coil bound
Solo Instrument Book- Parts for most hymns and songs
- For a variety of instruments
- Plastic-coil bound
CD Recording Library- 23-CD set
- Contains recordings of more than 700 titles
- Learn songs more quickly and thoroughly