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And he will raise you up on eagle's wings, bear you on the breath of dawn...
--On Eagle's Wings,
by Michael Joncas
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Breaking Bread

Updated annually to meet the changing needs of today's Church

Breaking Bread combines the best elements of a hymnal and a missal. Updated with new music each year, it contains more than 850 songs!

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Breaking Bread combines the best elements of a hymnal and a missal. Updated with new music each year, it contains the entire contents of Music Issue, plus a wide variety of seasonal music, Scripture citations, reading synopses and assembly responses for Sundays and holy days.

  • The best music from OCP and other publishers, including songs by Bernadette Farrell, David Haas, Marty Haugen, Michael Joncas and other well-known liturgical composers
  • Updated every year with new music
  • Entrance and Communion antiphons
  • More than 850 hymns and songs
  • Order of Mass with music, featuring the Celtic Mass
  • Songs that also appear in Choral Praise Comprehensive, Second Edition, referenced by number to that book

New for 2008


  • Eight Taizé-style chants from Hear the Prayers That Rise
  • Two songs from Morning Light, the popular collection from the St. Louis Jesuits
  • Two traditional-style hymns from Sounding Glory, the recent hymn anthology edited by Don Saliers
  • Four new psalm settings from Scott Soper's You Alone Have the Words
  • Two English-Spanish bilingual songs for the Easter Triduum
  • New music from Tom Booth, Jesuit Fathers John Foley and Roc O'Connor, Bob Hurd, Carey Landry, Paulist Father Ricky Manalo, Dan Schutte, Christopher Walker, and other trusted composers
Title Listen Sheet Music
A Child Is Born in Bethlehem
A Christmas Gloria
A Light Has Shone
A Mighty Fortress
A Ti, Dios
A Voice Cries Out
Abba! Father
Abide with Me
Aclamación Conmemorativa III
Ad Orationem Universalem
Adoro Te Devote
Advent Gospel Acclamation
Advent Lamb of God
Advent/Christmas Gospel Acclamation
Again We Keep This Solemn Fast
Age to Age
Agnus Dei
All Are Welcome
All Creatures of Our God and King
All Glory, Laud and Honor
All Good Gifts
All Hail the Power of Jesus' Name
All Hail, Adored Trinity
All I Ask of You
All My Days
All People That on Earth Do Dwell
All Praise and Glad Thanksgiving
All That Is Hidden
All the Earth
All the Ends of the Earth
Psalm 98: All the Ends of the Earth
Psalm 98: All the Ends of the Earth
Alle, Alle, Alleluia
Alleluia
Alleluia
Alleluia No. 1
Alleluia! Alleluia!
Alleluia! Alleluia! Let the Holy Anthem Rise
Alleluia! Give the Glory
Alleluia! Hurry, the Lord Is Near
Alleluia! Raise the Gospel
Alleluia! Sing to Jesus
Alleluia, Word of God
Amazing Grace
Amen
Amen
Amen
Amén
Amen
Amen
Amen
Amen
Amen
Amén. El Cuerpo de Cristo
America
America the Beautiful
Ang Katawan ni Kristo/Behold, the Body of Christ
Angels We Have Heard on High
Angels from the Realms of Glory
Anima Christi
Anthem
As Grains of Wheat
As I Have Done for You
Psalm 42/43: As the Deer Longs
As with Gladness Men of Old
Ashes
Asperges Me
At the Cross Her Station Keeping
At the Lamb's High Feast
At the Name of Jesus
At the Name of Jesus
Ave Maria
Ave Maria
Ave Verum Corpus
Away in a Manger
Baptized in Water
Be Joyful, Mary
Psalm 51: Be Merciful, O Lord
Be Not Afraid
Be Still, My Soul
Be Thou My Vision
Psalm 91: Be with Me, Lord
Beatitudes
Beautiful Savior
Because the Lord Is My Shepherd
Behind Me and Before Me
Behold the Cross
Behold the Lamb
Behold the Lamb of God
Behold the Wood
Behold, before Our Wondering Eyes
Benediction
Luke 1: Benedictus
Luke 1: Benedictus
Beyond the Days
Beyond the Moon and Stars
Bless the Lord
Blessed by Your Sacrifice
Blessed Feasts of Blessed Martyrs
Blessing for Morning prayer
Blessing for Evening Prayer
Blest Are They
Blest Be the Lord
Bread for the World
Bread of Life
Bread of Life
Bread of Life
Bread of Life (Advent/Christmas Setting)
Bread That Was Sown
Bread, Blessed and Broken
Bright as the Sun, Fair as the Moon
By the Waking of Our Hearts
By Your Cross
Call Us to Your Table
Exodus 15: To God Be Praise and Glory
Canticle of the Sun
Canticle of Zachary
Canticle of Zachary
Celtic Alleluia
Celtic Alleluia: Sending Forth
Center of My Life
Change Our Hearts
Child of the Poor
Children, Run Joyfully
Christ Be beside Me
Christ Is the King
Christ Our Light
Christ, Be Our Light
Christ, Be Our Light (Easter Vigil Text)
Christ, Circle Round Us
Christ, the Lord, Is Risen Again
Christ, the Lord, Is Risen Today
Christ, The Lord, Is Risen Today
Christ, the Sun of Light
Christians, Let Us Love One Another
Christians, to the Paschal Victim
Psalm 96: Christmas Psalm/Today a Savior is Born
Church of God, Elect and Glorious
City of God
Come Down, O Love Divine
Come Now, Almighty King
Come to Me
Come to Me and Drink
Come to the Lord
Come to the River
Come to the Water
Come unto Me
Come, Christians, Join to Sing
Come, Holy Ghost
Come, Lord Jesus
Come, O Holy Spirit
Come, O Holy Spirit, Come
Come, O Spirit of God
Come, Thou Long Expected Jesus
Come, Worship the Lord
Come, Ye Faithful, Raise the Strain
Come, Ye Thankful People, Come
Comfort, Comfort, O My People
Community of Christ
Companions on the Journey
Psalm 51: Create a Clean Heart in Me, O God
Psalm 51: Create in Me
Psalm 51: Create in Me
Creator of the Stars of Night
Creator Spirit, By Whose Aid
Crown Him with Many Crowns
Danish Amen
Day Is Done
Dismissal of the Catechumens and the Elect
Dona Nobis Pacem
Dona Nobis Pacem (Round)
Great Amen
Draw Near and Take the Body of the Lord
Dresden Amen
Earthen Vessels
Easter Solemn Dismissal
Eastertide Gospel Acclamation
Eat This Bread
Emmanuel
Enter the Journey
Envía Tu Espíritu
Eternal Father, Strong to Save
Psalm 136: God's Love Is Everlasting
Eucharistic Prayer II: Amen 2
Eucharistic Prayer II: Preface Dialogue
Evening Hymn: Phos Hilaron
Psalm 141: O Lord, Let My Prayer Rise
Every Valley
Eye Has Not Seen
Faith of Our Fathers
Father of Peace
Psalm 31: Father, I Put My Life in Your Hands
Psalm 31: Father, Into Your Hands I Commend My Spirit
Father, into Your Hands
Festival Canticle: Worthy Is Christ
Fill My Cup, Lord
Flow River Flow
Fly Like a Bird
For All the Saints
For the Beauty of the Earth
For the Fruits of This Creation
For the Healing
For You Are My God
Psalm 89: Forever I Will Sing
Forty Days and Forty Nights
From All That Dwell Below the Skies
From North and South, from East to West
From the Depths We Cry to Thee
General Intercessions: Funeral Litany
Gather and Remember
Gather the People
Gather Us In
Gather Us Together
Gather Your People
General Intercessions
General Intercessions
Gift of Finest Wheat
Give Me Jesus
Give Thanks to the Lord
Psalm 118: Give Thanks to the Lord
Gloria
Gloria
Gloria
Daniel 3: Glory and Praise For Ever
Glory and Praise to Our God
Glory in the Cross
Glory to God
Glory to God
Glory to God
Glory to God
Glory to God
Glory to God
Glory to God
Glory to God
Go Forth
Go in Peace
Go in Peace
Go Make a Difference
Go Make of All Disciples
Psalm 117: Go Out to the Whole World
Go, Tell It on the Mountain
God Be in My Head
God Has Chosen Me
God Is Love
God Is Love
Psalm 47: God Mounts His Throne
God of Day and God of Darkness
God of Our Fathers
God of the Hungry
God Rest You Merry, Gentlemen
God, Who Created Hearts to Love
God with Us
God, Beyond All Names
God, We Praise You
God's Love Is Everlasting
Good Christian Friends, Rejoice
Good Friday General Intercessions
Grant Them Eternal Rest
Hail Mary: Gentle Woman
Hail the Day That Sees Him Rise
Hail Thee, Festival Day
Hail, Holy Queen
Hail, Mary, Our Icon
Hail, Redeemer, King Divine
Hark! The Herald Angels Sing
Attende Domine
He Is the Lord
Healing River of the Spirit
Healing Waters
Hear the Prayers That Rise
Hear Us Now, Our God and Father
Here at This Table
Here I Am
Here I Am, Lord
Psalm 40: Here I Am/God, My God, Come to My Aid
Hold Me in Life
Holy
Holy
Holy
Holy
Holy
Holy
Holy
Holy
Holy Darkness
Holy God, We Praise Thy Name
Holy Is His Name
Holy Patron, Thee Saluting
Holy Spirit
Holy Spirit
Holy Wisdom, Lamp of Learning
Holy, Holy, Holy
Holy, Holy, Holy Cry
Hosanna Filio David
Hosanna to the Son of David
Hosea
How Can I Keep from Singing
How Firm a Foundation
How Great Thou Art
How Long, O Lord
How Lovely Is Your Dwelling Place
Psalm 84: How Lovely Is Your Dwelling Place
How Wonderful the Three-in-One
Humbly, Lord, We Worship You
O Come and Hymn Our Mighty Lord
I Am the Bread of Life
I Am the Light of the World
I Am the Living Bread
I Have Loved You
I Heard the Voice of Jesus
I Know that My Redeemer Lives
I Know that My Redeemer Lives
Psalm 25: I Lift Up My Soul
Psalm 18: I Love You, Lord, My Strength
I Received the Living God
Psalm 122: I Rejoiced
I Saw Water Flowing
I Sing the Mighty Power of God
I Want to Praise Your Name
I Want to Walk as a Child of the Light
Psalm 34: I Will Always Thank the Lord
I Will Choose Christ
I Will Lift Up My Eyes
I Will Not Die
Psalm 146: I Will Praise the Lord
Psalm 30: I Will Praise You, Lord
Psalm 145: I Will Praise Your Name / The Hand of the Lord Feeds Us