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On Eagle's Wings
Michael Joncas

This year marks the 50th anniversary of this beloved and well-known hymn! Based on Psalm 91, the weekly psalm for Sunday Compline in the Liturgy of the Hours, its features themes of faith, healing, hope, trust, refuge, and resurrection. Associated with the day’s ending, the piece is especially suitable for penitential seasons, the anointing of the sick, and funerals. Poignant suspensions, a fluid harmonic shift to the parallel minor in the verse, and a rising sequence in the refrain musically depict these various topics.

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Respond & Acclaim

This best-selling psalter provides complete musical settings of responsorial psalms and Gospel Acclamations for every Sunday and holy day of the liturgical year. It corresponds to the congregational responses found in Today's Missal, Breaking Bread, Heritage Missal and the English-language portion of the bilingual Unidos en Cristo/United in Christ.

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