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Tantum Ergo for Benediction - a handy one to know. The last two verses of Pange Lingua - the St Thomas Aquinas one.

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Sacris Solemniis - The penultimate verse is the famous Panis Angelicus

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Veni Creator Spiritus - Come Holy Spirit

with some polyphonic verses interleaved in there

Invoking the guidance of the Holy Spirit on the Conclave of Cardinals.

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Veni Sancte Spiritus - pulling out all the stops on the organ

Pentecost - Come Holy Spirit!

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Salve festa dies - Hail festival day! - sung for a procession on Easter Sunday in some places.

Hail festal day! Hallowed forever! On which God defeats hell and seizes heaven!

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Victimae Paschali Laudes with Massive Organ Accompaniment

and the swinging sort of rhythm

This is the sequence for Easter - a whole week of sequences at Mass.

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O Filii et Filiae - alternating voices each line of the verses.

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Crux Fidelis - Venantius Fortunatus 530-609

This Pange Lingua came before St Thomas Aquinas’ famous Pange Lingua.

This comes into the Good Friday liturgy at the veneration of the Cross after the Reproaches.

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Warning - contains piano accompaniment

Stabat Mater - By the cross her vigil keeping

For a long time I thought this tune was the one for the sequence - a hymn related to the alleluia for the feast of the seven sorrows of Our Lady - but turns out the sequence has it’s own tune which varies every two verses like all the other sequences - much more interesting to sing.

But the simple tune is great for stations of the cross and cases when you don’t have the space to follow the chant closely.

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From Fontgombalt - Hail festal day! Hallowed forever! On which God defeats hell and seizes heaven!

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There are many variations on this piece - A New Book of Old Hymns has alternated between an English one used on the Ballarat to Bendigo Christus Rex Pilgrimage and one from Percy Jones’ Pius X Hymnal from Melbourne.

This recording shares elements of both, maybe leaning to the latter - which is handy as that is the current version.

Christ conquers! Christ reigns! Christ rules! - sounds better in Latin

Christus vincit! Christus regnat! Christus imperat!

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Ave verum from the Sistine Chapel Choir - nice alternation between cantors and choir.

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The real Ave Maria - none of your modern Schubert or Bach-Gounod stuff.  This here is the real deal.

Most chant is quite simple - it’s made for everyday use for everyday people - not for prima donnas.  It’s unassuming and reverent and accessible.

This is the treasury of Catholic sacred music - Christian sacred music.

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For Easter - the gradual for Easter Sunday, plus gets repeated in the Divine Office for Easter Week, so you really get to know this one.

This is the most elaborate piece of chant included in A New Book of Old Hymns - mostly so that if students felt some of the other music was too complex, then I could always flip to this one and demonstrate some “real” Gregorian chant.

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This is the tune in A New Book of Old Hymns - it’s not the Gregorian chant setting, but a regular metrical hymn tune.  It is still the one I am most familiar with for Iste Confessor - a general sort of hymn to cover the saints who come under the banner of “Confessors” - witnesses of the Lord.

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Corda Pia - Franciscan hymn

This is one of a few hymns in A New Book of Old Hymns that needed a translation to be made.  This one had much help from a particularly wonderful person who would not put his name to it, but if you could offer a prayer for him that would be fantastic.  I would start with a rough translation, then find someone to fix it - so the good bits are his and the rough bits are mine.

Godly hearts are inflamed while the tokens of Francis’ stigmata are celebrated.

Far be it for us to glory, save in the healing Cross, in the footsteps of Francis. For the devoted man on the mountain, keeping watch, naked, wholly burning, frequently sighs. Therefore, alone, praying with tears meditating on the history of the Cross, he is transfixed with sorrow. The servant sees his Redeemer, the commander of ages, the unassailable assailed. Francis' heart is transformed; soon indeed his body is adorned with the marvellous Stigmata. Therefore the life and death of Christ crucified was his constant meditation. The impression of the Stigmata, shows the force of his heart's fervour outwardly through his limbs.

O Crucifed One, grant that we may be conformed in our mind and actions to the pattern of the Cross. Make us benefit from the fruit of the Cross in the kingdom of light where we may rejoice with the heavenly one. To whom the King of Heaven came, fastened to the cross with serene countenance. Let the Crucified One be praised with Francis who is resting above the plottings of the world.

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The first piece in A New Book of Old Hymns - prayer for our Pope.

I’ll tag it as page 00, although in the book it’s numbered as page iv.