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Good Friday of the Lord’s Passion

Viernes Santo de la Pasión del Señor

18 April 2025

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When He Died upon the Tree
G-6871 - Text Author: Patrick Liebergen, Arranger: Patrick Liebergen
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SATB
O Vos Omnes
G-6483 - Composer: Blake R. Henson
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When He Died upon the Tree
G-6871 - Text Author: Patrick Liebergen, Arranger: Patrick Liebergen
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Adoramus te, Christe
From Les Sept Paroles du Christ
G-5432 - Composer: Theodore Dubois
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Come, Behold the Lamb
G-6376 - Composer: Dana Mengel
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Ave verum corpus
G-5417 - Composer: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
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Ah, Holy Jesus
G-5791 - Composer: Johann Crüger, Text Author: Johann Heermann, Arranger: Hal H. Hopson
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Were You There - SATB edition
G-8911 - Arranger: Marques L. A. Garrett
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Crucifixus etiam pro nobis from "Mass in B Minor"
He Was Crucified for Us
G-6917 - Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach, Arranger: Carlton R. Young
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I See His Blood upon the Rose
G-6420 - Text Author: Joseph Mary Plunkett
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O bone Jesu
G-5431 - Composer: Marc'Antonio Ingegneri
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Forgive Them, Forgive Us
G-5835 - Composer: Carla J. Giomo
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Three Spirituals from "Tryin' to Get Ready"
Tryin' to Get Ready / Calvary / Lord, I Ain't No Stranger Now
G-7006 - Arranger: Clayton White
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What Grace Is This!
G-9314 - Composer: G.A. Hennig, Text Author: Laurie F. Gauger, Arranger: Larry Visser
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Man of Sorrows
G-6857 - Composer: Georg Goltermann, Text Author: Cathy Parks, Arranger: Gary Parks
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Into Your Hands
G-7426 - Composer: Carmen Scialla
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Just for Me
A Communion Medley
G-6899 - Arranger: M. Roger Holland, II
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Good Friday Anthems
Extolling the Glory of the Cross
G-4390 - Composer: Russell Schulz-Widmar
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Defenseless Now He Hangs
G-10018 - Composer: Bob Moore, Text Author: Herman G. Stuempfle, Jr.
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The Old Rugged Cross
G-10201 - Composer: George Bennard, Arranger: Donald Vails
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Don't You Know, Mary?
From "Simon Bore the Cross"
G-10354 - Composer: Margaret Bonds, Text Author: Langston Hughes
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Hymn of the Passion
G-6116 - Composer: Timothy Valentine, Text Author: Thomas Catania, Arranger: Peter Valentine
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O Lamb of God
G-10797 - Composer: Nikolaus Decius, Arranger: Lynn Arthur Koch
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Seven Hymns by African American Holiness-Pentecostal Bishops
G-10202 - Composer: Robert C Lawson
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My Song is Love Unknown
008824 - Composer: William Ferris, Text Author: Samuel Crossman
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3-Part
God So Loved the World
G-7824 - Composer: Noël Goemanne
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The Tree of Life
G-9687 - Text Author: Stephen Starke, Arranger: James Biery
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Were You There?
G-4625 - Arranger: Scott Soper
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What Wondrous Love Is This
G-5717 - Text Author: Alexander Means, Arranger: Richard Robert Rossi
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Ave verum Corpus
Hail True Body
G-4042 - Composer: Josquin Desprez
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O Food of Exiles
G-4983 - Composer: Henrich Isaac, Arranger: Leonard Lechner
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Surely He Has Borne Our Griefs
Vere Languores Nostros
G-2807 - Composer: Antonio Lotti, Arranger: Edward W. Klammer
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What Wondrous Love Is This
G-9195 - Text Author: Alexander Means, Arranger: Robert Hunt
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Ave Verum Corpus
G-8780 - Composer: Stephen R. Johnson
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For Us Christ Was Made Obedient
Christus factus est
G-3120 - Composer: Giacomo Carissimi, Arranger: Edward W. Klammer
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Lamb of God, Pure and Holy
G-4927 - Composer: Nikolaus Decius, Arranger: Lynn L. Petersen
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Ave Verum Corpus
G-9648 - Composer: Bob Moore
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O Crux benedicta
O Cross Most Blessed
G-4562 - Composer: Claudio Monteverdi, Arranger: Bruce R. Smedley
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Kyrie Eleison
008781 - Composer: William Byrd, Arranger: Robert W Schaefer
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Upon the Cross Extended
G-2798 - Composer: Henrich Isaac, Arranger: Leonard Lechner
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Vexilla Regis
G-2978 - Composer: Guillaume Du Fay
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No Weight of Gold or Silver
G-3852 - Composer: Bob Moore, Text Author: Timothy Dudley-Smith
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3-Part
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Jesus, Hanging on the Cross
G-7720 - Composer: Carol Browning, Text Author: Frances Teresa
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Three Marian Classics
At the Cross Her Station Keeping / Mary Immaculate, Star of the Morning / Salve Regina
G-6229 - Arranger: Richard Proulx
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Be Not Far
A Lenten Prayer
G-5107 - Composer: Michael M. Birkley, Text Author: Michael M. Birkley
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His Cross Is Every Tree
G-7520 - Composer: Paul Melley, Text Author: Joseph Mary Plunkett
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I Bind My Heart
G-8996 - Composer: Richard Proulx
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Sing, My Tongue, the Glorious Battle
G-5773 - Text Author: Venantius Fortunatus, Arranger: Gene Grier
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Father, I Stretch My Hands to Thee
G-4246 - Composer: Hugh Wilson, Arranger: Pamela Warrick-Smith
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Unison & Unison w/Descant
A Canticle Intonation for Good Friday or Lent
G-4710 - Composer: Alan Schultz
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Palm Sunday Meditation
G-4358 - Composer: Theodore Dubois, Arranger: Jeremy Young
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Calvary
G-4248 - Composer: Charles Brown
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Responsorial Psalms for Mass

Responsorial Psalms with verses from the Abbey Psalms and Canticles

Father, Into Your Hands - PDF
Psalm for Good Friday of the Passion of the Lord
D-1036009 - Composer: Marty Haugen
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Responsorial Psalms with verses from the Revised Grail Psalter

Good Friday: Celebration of the Passion of the Lord - PDF
D-9260039 - Composer: Robert J. Batastini
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Responsorial Psalms with verses from the Lectionary For Mass

Common Psalm—Holy Week - PDF
My God, my God, why have you abandoned me?
D-e03382053 - Composer: Jerry R. Brubaker
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Mystery Sonatas - Volume 2, Sonatas 6-10
The Mysteries of Sorrow
G-4375 - Composer: Heinrich Ignaz Franz von Biber
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For decades GIA has been a leading publisher of texts and tunes for congregational singing. Unbound makes thousands of those hymns available at the click of a button. Selections previously published in text and tune collections can now be purchased as PDF downloads with full accompaniment included. New material will be added on a rolling basis, featuring works by today's best writers and composers. While OneLicense.net provides permissions for congregational use, Unbound provides full scores for instrumentalists and music leaders.
Here are hymns from the Unbound Series that may be suitable for this celebration.
Because you bore the scourge for us (We Praise Your Cross, O Christ) - PDF
D-803707 - Composer: Richard Robert Rossi, Text Author: Delores Dufner
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Now the Gift of Love Unfathomed - PDF
D-803741 - Text Author: Delores Dufner, Arranger: Richard Proulx
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Glory to You, O Christ (Acclamations for the Passion) - PDF
D-619217 - Composer: Delores Dufner, Text Author: Delores Dufner
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Three holy days enfold us now - PDF
D-619272 - Text Author: Delores Dufner, Arranger: Cecile Gertken
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Jesus, Remember Me - PDF
D-1014909 - Composer: Jacques Berthier
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Mary, Woman Weeping - PDF
D-U00313 - Composer: Bradley Kauffman, Text Author: Delores Dufner
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Stay with Me, the Night Has Come - PDF
D-1010135 - Text Author: David Bjorlin
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Two Trees Rose from the Garden Ground - PDF
D-1010141 - Composer: Benjamin Brody, Text Author: David Bjorlin
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Mary, Woman Weeping - PDF
D-U00558 - Composer: Gustav Holst, Text Author: Delores Dufner
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I Am the Bringer of Living Water - PDF
D-877516 - Text Author: Jacque B. Jones, Arranger: Marty Haugen
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I Am the Bringer of Living Water - PDF
D-929817 - Composer: Benjamin Brody, Text Author: Jacque B. Jones
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Jesus, As He Was Crucified - PDF
D-887919 - Composer: Randall Sensmeier, Text Author: Adam M. L. Tice
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You Seize No Sword - PDF
D-887948 - Composer: Stanford Charles V., Text Author: Adam M. L. Tice
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Shadows Lengthen into Night - PDF
D-686150 - Composer: Larry Harris, Text Author: Mary Louise Bringle
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On the Cross, the World’s Salvation - PDF
D-940229 - Text Author: Delores Dufner, Arranger: Robert J. Batastini
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Speak, Wooden Cross - PDF
D-940235 - Composer: Thomas Tallis, Text Author: Jacque B. Jones
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Who Would Know the Mind of Jesus - PDF
D-940247 - Text Author: Delores Dufner
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Shadows Lengthen into Night - PDF
D-742337 - Composer: Sally Ann Morris, Text Author: Mary Louise Bringle
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New Songs for Holy Week - PDF
D-U01028
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O Christ, We Are the Guilty - PDF
D-U01091 - Composer: Hans Leo Hassler, Text Author: Chris Shelton, Arranger: Johann Sebastian Bach
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That Teacher From the Provinces - PDF
D-H0005 - Text Author: Carl P. Daw, Jr.
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Holy Spirit, Were You There - PDF
D-U01115 - Composer: Bernadette Hoke, Text Author: Jacque B. Jones
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Seven Last Words of the Prince of Peace - PDF
O Prince of Peace Upon the Cross
D-00643322 - Composer: Tony Ward, Text Author: Alan J. Hommerding
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Seven Last Words of the Prince of Peace - PDF
O Prince of Peace Upon the Cross
D-00643323 - Composer: Jonathan Kohrs, Text Author: Alan J. Hommerding
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Seven Last Words of the Prince of Peace - PDF
O Prince of Peace Upon the Cross
D-00643324 - Composer: Orin Johnson, Text Author: Alan J. Hommerding
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Called To The Supper of the Lamb - PDF
Blessed are We
D-00643338 - Composer: Tony Alonso, Text Author: Thomas Aquinas
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This Dreadful Cross - PDF
D-754241 - Composer: Martin Luther, Text Author: Adam M. L. Tice
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My God, My God, Would You Forsake Me? - PDF
D-808929 - Text Author: Adam M. L. Tice, Arranger: Horace Clarence Boyer
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An Intersection Evil Made - PDF
D-U01204 - Text Author: Jacque B. Jones
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Scriptural Stations of the Cross - PDF
D-U01370 - Composer: Jennifer Kerr Breedlove Budziak, Text Author: Alan J. Hommerding, Arranger: Charles D. Knoll
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You Are My Refuge, Faithful God - PDF
D-897349 - Text Author: David Gambrell, Arranger: Gerald Knight
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On the Cross, the World's Salvation - PDF
D-U01480 - Composer: William H. Monk, Text Author: Delores Dufner
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Eternal Intercessor - PDF
D-U01496 - Composer: Hans Leo Hassler, Text Author: Sylvia Dunstan, Arranger: Johann Sebastian Bach
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O Jesus Who Traveled - PDF
D-U01509 - Composer: Sally Ann Morris, Text Author: Hannah C. Brown
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Shadows Gather, Deep and Cold - PDF
D-U01534 - Composer: Joseph Parry, Text Author: Sylvia Dunstan
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This Is Your Coronation - PDF
D-U01554 - Composer: Hans Leo Hassler, Text Author: Sylvia Dunstan, Arranger: Johann Sebastian Bach
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Christ Does Not Need a Crown - PDF
D-U01545 - Composer: George J. Elvey, Text Author: Chris Shelton
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O Face of Christ, Most Holy - PDF
D-U01585 - Composer: Hans Leo Hassler, Text Author: Alan J. Hommerding, Arranger: Johann Sebastian Bach
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We Remember Hands that Tend - PDF
D-U01684 - Composer: Kate Williams, Text Author: Hannah C. Brown
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O Christ, Your Crucifixion - PDF
D-U01859 - Composer: Hans Leo Hassler, Text Author: Hannah C. Brown, Arranger: Johann Sebastian Bach
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A Sower Came - PDF
D-U01892 - Composer: Christian Jesse, Text Author: Herman G. Stuempfle, Jr., Arranger: Ed Bolduc
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The Sorrow Road of Jesus - PDF
D-U01873 - Text Author: Lindy Thompson
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Other Editions for Assembly

Two Simple Songs for Lent
Let Us Return to the Lord / May We Have the Mind of Christ
G-6934 - Composer: Marty Haugen, Text Author: Marty Haugen
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The Cross of Jesus
G-4517 - Composer: Francis Patrick O'Brien
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Glory in the Cross
G-4213 - Composer: Steven R. Janco, Text Author: Venantius Fortunatus
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For God So Loved the World
G-6726 - Composer: Marty Haugen
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Adoramus Te
G-4884 - Composer: J. Michael Joncas, Text Author: Isaac Watts
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Shepherd Me, O God
Gathering Rite
G-4556 - Composer: Marty Haugen
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Come and Eat This Living Bread
G-4586 - Composer: Rob Glover, Text Author: Rob Glover
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Tree of Life
G-2944 - Composer: Marty Haugen
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My God, My God
G-5299 - Composer: Liam Lawton, Text Author: Liam Lawton, Arranger: John McCann
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My People, What Have I Done to You?
The Reproaches
G-9887 - Composer: Jeremy J. Kiolbassa
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Faithful Cross
The Adoration of the Holy Cross
G-9500 - Composer: Chris de Silva
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Triduum Hymn: Wondrous Love
G-3544 - Text Author: Alexander Means, Arranger: Marty Haugen
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Faithful Cross
Adoration of the Holy Cross
G-9315 - Composer: Peter Latona
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God Is Love
Communion Processional
G-4853 - Composer: Richard Proulx, Text Author: Richard Proulx
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Three Songs for Triduum
Ubi caritas Deus ibi est / Crucem tuam / Psallite Deo
G-5575 - Composer: Joseph Gelineau
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Psalm 31: Father, into Your Hands
G-7589 - Composer: Ephrem Feeley
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Holy God
G-5762 - Composer: Marty Haugen, Text Author: Susan R. Briehl
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My Savior, My Friend
G-7575 - Composer: Chris de Silva, Text Author: Frances Teresa
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In the Cross of Christ
Signing of the Senses / Veneration of the Cross
G-4838 - Composer: Marty Haugen
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Father, I Put My Life in Your Hands
G-5716 - Composer: Richard Robert Rossi
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Popule Meus
G-7545 - Composer: William Ferris
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I Place My Life
G-3613 - Composer: Rory Cooney, Text Author: Rory Cooney
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My Life Is in Your Hands
G-4620 - Composer: Scott Soper
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Tree of Life and Glory
G-5452 - Composer: Francis Patrick O'Brien
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Tree of Glory
Hymn Settings for Holy Thursday and Good Friday
G-3779 - Composer: Francis Patrick O'Brien
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Were You There?
G-5831 - Arranger: Carla J. Giomo
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The Living Bread of God
G-3697 - Composer: Kate Cuddy, Text Author: David Haas
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Come to Me and Live
G-4515 - Composer: Francis Patrick O'Brien
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Why Did You Ignore Me?
G-5168 - Composer: John L. Bell, Text Author: John L. Bell
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The Road Leads On Again
G-5346 - Composer: Bob Moore, Text Author: Richard Leach
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My God, My God
Psalm for Palm Sunday
G-5448 - Composer: Francis Patrick O'Brien
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Tell the Gospel's Boundless Riches
G-7598 - Composer: Marty Haugen, Text Author: Delores Dufner
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Dolorosa
G-8277 - Composer: Juan A. Espinosa, Text Author: Rafael de Andrés, Arranger: Chris de Silva
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