New Catholic Hymnal

New Catholic Hymnal (1971). The New Catholic Hymnal was published in 1971, edited by Anthony Petti* and Geoffrey Laycock*. It bears the imprint of a church in a post-Vatican II situation; but by any standards, it was a remarkable book for its time. Not only did it publish many new texts and tunes, but it also revised texts into modern speech and syntax, an example followed a decade later by HFTC. Controversially, it was one of the first books to use the ‘you’ form for God, as in ‘Lord, your word abiding’: O that we discerning Its most holy learning, Lord, may love and fear you, Evermore be near you. Although the editors were both Roman Catholics, their preface looked at extant Catholic...