Claude Bernard (poet)

Claude Bernard (born March 6, 1935 in Saint-Martin-des-Tilleuls , Département Vendée ) is a French poet of texts for Catholic church music .

Bernard holds a degree in theology , worked as a nurse in nuclear medicine, and is now retired. He was one of the founding members of the ACCREL organization , in which church authors and composers have come together, and was its president from 1992 to 1996. Together with Marie-Thérèse van Lunen Chenu, he is co-president of the organization Femmes et Hommes en Église 'Women and Men in the Church' , which campaigns for gender equality in the Church. He is also involved in Jonah groups that strive to assert the spirit of the Second Vatican Council against opposing official church tendencies.

Bernard prefers to work with Jean-Marie Vincent and Jo Akepsimas .

Works set to music (selection)

• Set to music by Jean-Marie Aubry and Chleide Thierry: Veilleurs en ta maison: hymnes et chants pour l'office divin, la messe, les veillées de prière . Studio SM, Paris 2001, ISBN 2-85691-297-4 (18 songs for one to four-part choir with piano accompaniment)
• Set to music by Étienne Daniel and Jean-Jo Roux: Messe pour un siècle nouveau . CD Ateliers du Fresne, 1999
• Set to music by Michel Wackenheim : Nous l'avons rencontré, il nous fait vivre. Studio SM, 1992, ISBN 2-85691-156-0
• Set to music by Michel Wackenheim and Jo Akepsimas : Une veillée pour Noël , Studio SM; Paris 1992
• Set to music by Michel Roy and Michèle Finet: Route de lumière . Editions Rideau rouge, Paris 1985
• Set to music by Jo Akepsimas: Signes par milliers . Studio SM, Paris 1987, ISBN 2-85691-095-5 (12 choral songs for 4 mixed voices)

Book publications

• Le Temps de coeur nouveau: chants et prières. Le Centurion, Paris 1983, ISBN 2-227-36038-0
• Chanter notre aventure: chants psalmiques . Desclé, Paris 1978, ISBN 2-7189-0142-X
• Together with Marie-Odile Métral and Bernard Feillet: Franchir le seuil: textes de la Communion de Saint-Bern . Mame, Tours 1974, ISBN 2-250-00617-2