"Gate of Heaven" is a collection of original post-Conciliar Sacred hymns and religious songs in the Roman Catholic tradition.
"Mary, Mother of the Eucharist," Part III of "Gate of Heaven," consists of the Eucharistic hymn of the same name, followed by eleven other unison hymns with organ accompaniment.
The hymnody of "Gate of Heaven" is clearly contemporary in style and influence. Though metrical, it draws greatly from the Gregorian chant tradition through its oftentimes linear, chant-like movement, and the use of ancient modes as its melodic basis and harmonic structure.
Often employing ancient, venerable texts drawn from the common patrimony of both the Eastern (Byzantine) and Western (Latin, or Roman) rites, the texts of "Gate of Heaven" seek to reflect, in the words of Pope John Paul II, the "new flowering, the result of the Council, of a new expression of the Catholic Truth in a new theological language..."
