Worship—Fourth Edition
The tradition of the Worship hymnals began in 1971. Worship II and Worship—Third Edition followed in 1975 and 1986, respectively. Together, they account for the greatest number of GIA
hymnals used in Catholic parishes in this country over those years, with hundreds of thousands
of the latest edition still in use. It is fitting, then, that our newest top-of-the-line hymnal should
be its fourth edition.
Lots will be new! Unlike its two most recent predecessors, the Fourth Edition will be
comprehensive, much in the style of GIA's RitualSong. While it will include a substantial
collection of the finest organ-based hymnody, it will also include the best-loved contemporary
music, and shorter "world music" pieces; a significant amount of the core material will have
Spanish translations. The single feature about which we are most enthusiastic, though, is its
wide-range exploration of hymn texts by modern writers—those writing for today's church. For
immediate accessibility, a majority of these hymns will be matched with well-known, well-loved
tunes.
The five editors—Kelly Dobbs Mickus, senior editor, Robert Batastini, Fr. James
Chepponis, Charles Gardner, and Fr. Ronald Krisman—have devoted a tremendous amount of
energy and expertise to assembling an outstanding body of hymns matched to each Sunday of the
three-year Lectionary. While these hymns will be distributed throughout the book according to
thematic category, the Hymn of the Day calendar will point directly to an exceptionally
appropriate hymn for each Sunday and solemnity of the church year, with tunes that are likely to
be familiar.
Gather—Third Edition
Though having a somewhat shifted emphasis from Worship, our Gather hymnals, especially the green Gather Comprehensive, have enjoyed unprecedented adoption by parishes across America for a single hymnal edition. Our plans to produce a revised version of Gather Comprehensive—Second Edition have prompted some feedback, and we are now planning instead a new edition called Gather—Third Edition.
Gather—Third Edition will contain many new and revised Mass settings to coordinate with the revised Order of Mass. In addition, GIA wishes to take advantage of the many new titles that have been published since 2004 (when Gather Comprehensive—Second Edition was released) by including 75 new titles in the section of hymns and songs. This third edition of Gather will retain the balance of the two previous editions of Gather Comprehensive: approximately 70% piano/guitar-based titles and 30% organ-based.
Serving on the editorial committee for this project are Kelly Dobbs Mickus, David Anderson, Kate Cuddy, Dominic Trumfio, and Diana Macalintal.
Lead Me, Guide Me—Second Edition
This revision has been a long time coming, and we guarantee it will be worth the wait. The
project began some years ago with a discernment meeting chaired by Archbishop Wilton
Gregory and attended by a distinguished group of African American clergy, liturgists, musicians,
and GIA staff. It gave focus to the revision and spawned a core committee consisting of Msgr.
Raymond East, chairman; Robert Batastini, project coordinator; Dr. James Abbington; Marcia
Berry; Richard Cheri; Dr. Norah Duncan IV; Sr. Joan Angela Edwards, SSM; Kenneth Louis;
and Fr. J-Glenn Murray, SJ.
While the original Lead Me, Guide Me was subtitled "The African American Catholic
Hymnal," the new edition recognizes that many communities, while being predominantly
African American, are in fact significantly multicultural. Lead Me, Guide Me II will be
significantly expanded from the original in that it will include the full breadth of African
American church music that is suitable for Catholic worship, a representative selection of music
from Africa and the Caribbean, and a large cross-section of the common Catholic repertoire of
our day.
The latest music editing advances have enabled significant strides toward printing the
music to reflect performance practices in the African American church more than in the first
edition of this hymnal.
The new LMGM will have a complete three-year set of Lectionary psalms composed by
some of today's finest African American composers.
Oramos Cantando/We Pray in Song
The title of this groundbreaking project is in both Spanish and English to reflect the fact that
every item in the book, from cover to cover, is in both languages. This is the first-ever, truly
bilingual hymnal. It is intended for multicultural, Latino-Anglo parishes for whom praying and
singing in Spanish and English is part of the diverse mix of their ongoing parish life.
The texts of all the Spanish music, whether from Spain, Mexico, the Caribbean, or newly
composed, have been carefully translated into English by skilled bilingual hymnwriters, and all
English-language hymns and songs—traditional and contemporary—have been equally well
translated into Spanish. This book provides options for the multicultural parish that have never
before existed.
The hymnal has been compiled by a group of editors consisting of Fr. Ronald Krisman,
general editor, and an editorial team consisting of Sr. Rosa Maria Icaza, CCVI; Dr. Dolores
Martinez; Donna Peña; and Fr. Juan Sosa. Robert Batastini served as project director until his
retirement when that task was assumed by Fr. Krisman.
Oramos Cantando/We Pray in Song is a truly comprehensive collection that will
thoroughly serve both the Anglo community and the Latino community, and be a tool that can
help bridge the two. It has a complete three-year set of bilingual Lectionary psalms, each of
which can be sung in either language or in a bilingual version. |
