20 June 2012

Bread of the World

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Jeffrey Tucker expressed a desire for the tune 'Rendez-a-Dieu' to receive a worthy Catholic text.  The first verse of 'Bread of the world in mercy broken' by Reginald Heber is beautiful.  Unfortunately, the text is a posthumous one finished by a Protestant friend who did not share Heber's perspective on the theology.  I was asked to try to do something with the text.  I kept one verse that was clearly by Reginald Heber.  I provided three verses that would echo the original but speak in explicitly Catholic terms.  When printed with 'Rendez-a-Dieu' the text appears as though it is two verses long though it is actually four verses in length.  

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