Three hymns (including one rugby ground "banger" during the semi-closed season) plus the usual Mass parts and a Bach chorale prelude during communion.
Gather us in.
Dear Lord and Father of mankind.
Guide me O thou great Redeemer.
When Morning Gilds The Skies (Laudes Domini)
Light Of The World (Hughes)
In Christ Alone (Townend)
Shi*e Jesus Shi*e (Ken*rick)
Interesting placement of the asterisks in that last one. Pray for me, my brothers and sisters, for I must play the wretched thing (and, purgatorial foretaste, Be Still For The Presence of the Lord) in a couple of weeks. Better stuck behind a bass guitar than singing the things, I suppose.
Yeah, not my regular habitat but it's a long story.
“Jesus is Lord! Creation’s voice proclaims it” (Mansell).
“Jesus is the name we honour” (Lawson-Johnson).
“Join all the glorious names” - Darwall's 148th.
“Meekness and majesty” (Kendrick).
“Name of all majesty” - Majestas.
At our first Sunday in the month "Hymns of Praise" service:
And Can It Be, That I Should Gain / SAGINA
Be Still, My Soul / FINLANDIA
As the Deer Pants for the Water / AS THE DEER
O God beyond All Praising / THAXTED
In Heavenly Love Abiding / PENLAN
This morning I was stewarding at our Cathedral's children and caregivers Eucharist.
We didn't have an organist today so ably led by the clergy member who presided we sang the congregational mass setting acapella.
And it was lovely- children's and adult voices soaring up into the roof of the Lady Chapel.
Parish Communion
Mass of St Thomas
All Creatures of our God and King
In Christ alone
God is love, let heaven adore him- Abbot’s Leigh
Take my life - Nottingham
Now thank we all our God- Nun Danket
@Baptist Trainfan some good ones there. Do you usually sing Darwalls to "Join all the glorious names"? In west country chapels (Methodist usually) they seem to like one called St Godric which has generally been sung lustily when I have had to play it. Must admit to preferring the Darwalls though and I love playing "Name of all majesty" but it is a sadly rare one in rural conservative circles.
Anyway today I was landed with Mattins yet again 😳
Christ whose glory fills the skies (Ratisbon)
All my hope (Michael)
A man there lived in Galilee (Tyrol)
Sent forth by God's blessimg (Ash Grove)
Quite a jolly selection for BCP Mattins I thought and they sang well. The last two were lovely.
We always had to avoid catching the eyes of a particular chorister's parents if we had The Ash Grove in Belfast; they couldn't keep a straight face for thinking of the alternative words ... 😈
Our offerings today:
God is love, his the care - Personent Hodie For I'm building a people of power - Dave Richards May the mind of Christ my saviour - St Leonard's Give me joy in my heart - Sing Hosanna* Blessed assurance - Blessed Assurance
* as the Communion hymn 🙄
I've been asked for my input re: possible future hymn choices, and to that end have (against my better judgement) ordered a copy of the Dreaded Orange Book™ - with just the melody - so that I can make some informed suggestions.
We always had to avoid catching the eyes of a particular chorister's parents if we had The Ash Grove in Belfast; they couldn't keep a straight face for thinking of the alternative words ... 😈
Curiosity got the better of me, but a little googlery took care if it - thank you...
Christ is my firm foundation (The rock on which I stand) Noah built the most enormous boat I can see the promised land (Though there's pain within the plan) A thousand generations (falling down in worship) Jesus, my king, my wonderful saviour
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I've been asked for my input re: possible future hymn choices, and to that end have (against my better judgement) ordered a copy of the Dreaded Orange Book™ - with just the melody - so that I can make some informed suggestions.
Let the games commence! 👹
IIRC it has very useful indexes (not in order): Metrical, Scripture, Lectionary, Tunes, Authors, Composers, Uses. It is also covered as a hymnal by hymnary.org.
Part of the process is apparently to be matching hymns to particular uses (eg Communion), although whether our suggestions will be heeded may be another matter.
Oh, freedom, freedom is coming
This Little Light Of Mine
When Israel was in Egypt's land Anthem: Didn't My Lord Deliver Daniel Anthem: By The Waters Of Babylon
Amazing grace
Swing Low, Sweet Chariot Anthem: Nobody knows the trouble I've seen
Mine eyes have seen the glory
We are marching/Siyahamba Postlude: Hymn To Freedom - Oscar Peterson
They were separated by prayers and brief meditations: the effect of the whole was very moving.
It being the first Sunday of the month, we had Evensong:
Ferial responses
Magnificat & Nunc Dimittis - chants by Robinson and Farrant
Psalm 42: 1-7, chant by Samuel Wesley
Hymns:
Oft in danger, oft in woe - University College Take my life, and let it be - Nottingham Saviour, again to thy dear name we raise - Ellers (gosh that's an old wailer!)
@Piglet If yiu find Ellers a wailer (which it is) I advise you to avoid "Pax Dei" the other tune in A&M. You would not have heard whooping and scooping like it 😩
I had a call at 30 minutes notice to fill in Evensong myself tonight. All pretty uneventful.
O God of Bethel (Martyrdom)
O my Saviour lifted (North Coates)
The day is past and over (St Anatolius)
Choir
God is forgiveness, / Taizé
Spirit of Jesus, if I love my neighbour, / Wren, Damon
Hymns
Let us with a gladsome mind, / Monkland
We know that Christ is raised, / Engelberg
Christians lift your hearts and voices, / Triumph
Alleluia sing to Jesus, / Hyfrydol
I led a Bible study on Revelation in my 20s. Very slow going as the material I sourced went rather in-depth. People joked the Apocalypse would come before we finished. I moved away somewhere around chapter 7 iirc.
Didn't make it to the church I intended to go to to yesterday.
All my hope on God is founded (Michael)
Come, Holy Spirit, Lord of Grace (Tallis' Ordinal; procession to font for baptisms)
Let all mortal flesh keep silence (Picardy; I adore this hymn and was sorry to miss it being sung by the choir)
An upper room did our Lord prepare (O Waly Waly)
Guide me, o Thou great redeemer (Cwm Rhondda)
I led a Bible study on Revelation in my 20s. Very slow going as the material I sourced went rather in-depth. People joked the Apocalypse would come before we finished. I moved away somewhere around chapter 7 iirc.
Didn't make it to the church I intended to go to to yesterday.
All my hope on God is founded (Michael)
Come, Holy Spirit, Lord of Grace (Tallis' Ordinal; procession to font for baptisms)
Let all mortal flesh keep silence (Picardy; I adore this hymn and was sorry to miss it being sung by the choir)
An upper room did our Lord prepare (O Waly Waly)
Guide me, o Thou great redeemer (Cwm Rhondda)
Looking forward to next Sunday, when we have a sort of Songs of Praise instead of Pancakes and Praise, which is taking a summer break. Hoping for some decent hymns.
Back in the olden days when we moved to a new hymnal, a hymn festival of sorts was put on where hymns were nominated by writing 5 on a piece of paper and the "winners" sung at a special get-together. The choir director told me I had good taste in hymns....which I took to mean she liked the ones I did!
Did I say that we enjoyed watching the "Cymanfa Ganu" hymnfest from the National Eisteddfod on Sunday night? https://tinyurl.com/2s4h5ye7. We attended "live" last year when the Eisteddfod was closer to home (and both picked up mild doses of Covid!). They do provide simultaneous translation via an earpiece for non-Welsh speakers.
Let us with a gladsome mind (Monkland) O God our help in ages past (St Anne) Let us break bread together on our knees (Anon) Ye servants of the Lord (Narenza)
Come Spirit blest, our hearts inspire (Richmond) Be exalted, O God [for Psalm 50] Worship the Lord in the beauty of holiness (Was Lebet) I am the bread of life (Bread of Life) Mine eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the Lord (Battle Hymn)
“Holy, holy, holy!” - Nicaea.
“We want to see Jesus lifted high” (Noel Richards).
“Praise the source of faith and learning” - Deerhurst.
“May the mind of Christ, our Saviour” - St Leonards.
“Go forth and tell!” - Woodlands.
At 9 o'clock communion:
Lord, for the Years / LORD OF THE YEARS
*Restore, O Lord, the honour of your name! / Kendrick
All Hail the Power of Jesus' Name / MILES LANE
*We in the congregation struggled a bit with this one as no-one really knew Kendrick's tune
Praise Him, Praise Him! Jesus, Our Blessèd Redeemer (Joyful Song)
Master, Speak! Thy Servant Heareth (Master, Speak! Thy Servant Heareth)
The King Of Love My Shepherd Is (Dominus Regit Me)
All The Way My Saviour Leads Me (All The Way)
The last one doesn't mention shepherds, but we'd learnt by that time that a Shepherd leads his sheep.
Songs of praise:
How great thou art
Great is Thy faithfulness
I the Lord of sea and sky
Seek ye first the kingdom of God
Be still for the presence of the Lord
Thine be the glory
Guide me O thou great redeemer.
All tunes obvious?
There were readings, prayers and introductions explaining why a hymn had been chosen or how it came to be written.
As I was serving (again!!!) I didn't do much singing, but we had:
Immortal, invisible, God only wise - St Denio Morning has broken* - Bunessan Lord Jesus Christ, you have come to us - Living Lord Give thanks with a grateful heart - Don Moen All my hope on God is founded - Michael
* This was actually slated to be May the fragrance of Jesus fill this place. by Guess Who, but our guitar player wasn't able to be there and today's organist (who actually knows what he's doing) didn't fancy it (wise fellow!), so it was changed.
I suppose I should be thankful for small mercies ...
As we had the Proper Organist™, we got a nice rendition of Haydn's St Anthony Chorale as extroit music.
Bunessan is a most lovely tune, but Morning has broken always seems to me to be a bit twee. The Christmas hymn Child in the manger, to the same tune, is Much Better IMHO., but not in August!
Bunessan is a most lovely tune, but Morning has broken always seems to me to be a bit twee.
Oh, but Cat Stevens!
I’m afraid BUNESSAN and “Morning Has Broken” are so firmly melded together in my brain that any other text to that tune just feels wrong to me.
This morning, I found myself (for Reasons), at two different services—first another, nearby church, and then our own place.
The hymns at Service No. 1 were:
“I Sing the Mighty Power of God”/ELLACOMBE
“We’ve Come This Far by Faith”
“Look Who Gathers at Christ’s Table!”/COPELAND
“Now Thank We All Our God”/NUN DANKET ALLE GOTT
The hymns at Service No. 2 were:
“If Thou but Trust in God to Guide Thee”/ WER NUR DEN LIEBEN GOTT
“Great Is Thy Faithfulness”/FAITHFULNESS
“Keep Your Lamps Trimmed and Burning”
“The God of Abraham Praise”/LEONI
Bunessan is a most lovely tune, but Morning has broken always seems to me to be a bit twee. The Christmas hymn Child in the manger, to the same tune, is Much Better IMHO., but not in August!
Let our praise be your welcome (We are here for you) Praise is rising We did not bear the wounds that freed (Or walk the road to Calvary) - a new one to me The Lord's my Shepherd (Crimond) Jesus said that if I thirst
Works well with Albert Bayly's Praise and thanksgiving.
Yes, it does - I had a feeling that there was at least one other hymn that used Bunessan, so thanks for the reminder!
There also “Baptized in Water.”
You mentioned how “Morning Has Broken” always seems a bit twee to you. I wonder how much of that is due to the meter—5.5.5.4.D. Those short lines can give a sense of sing-songiness.
We had:
This is the day (again)
God of great and God of small (a new one on me and both obscure and in copyright so no midi or xml version of the score to be had, so I hammered it into GAELIC LULLABY, commonly used for a version of Jesus loves me, this I know, which came out better than it might have done, even if I did have to add an alleluia and *ahem* finesse the rhythm in places)
I need thee every hour
O God, you search me and you know me
Thine be the glory
You mentioned how “Morning Has Broken” always seems a bit twee to you. I wonder how much of that is due to the meter—5.5.5.4.D. Those short lines can give a sense of sing-songiness.
Brits of a certain age may think of it primarily as a school assembly song. I certainly do (though as a six-year old I probably understood very little of it!)
I used to have the sheet music which included the beautiful Rick Wakeman piano part, but never played it in church!
You mentioned how “Morning Has Broken” always seems a bit twee to you. I wonder how much of that is due to the meter—5.5.5.4.D. Those short lines can give a sense of sing-songiness.
Brits of a certain age may think of it primarily as a school assembly song. I certainly do (though as a six-year old I probably understood very little of it!)
I used to have the sheet music which included the beautiful Rick Wakeman piano part, but never played it in church!
Christ be beside me, as in the "middle verses" of St Patrick's Breastplate? I think I may have sung them to Bunessan, but what I'm remembering from my Church of Ireland days is something different, probably "Deirdre", which misses out the word "be", and is 4 4 4 4 D metre.
You mentioned how “Morning Has Broken” always seems a bit twee to you. I wonder how much of that is due to the meter—5.5.5.4.D. Those short lines can give a sense of sing-songiness.
Brits of a certain age may think of it primarily as a school assembly song. I certainly do (though as a six-year old I probably understood very little of it!)
I used to have the sheet music which included the beautiful Rick Wakeman piano part, but never played it in church!
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Gather us in.
Dear Lord and Father of mankind.
Guide me O thou great Redeemer.
When Morning Gilds The Skies (Laudes Domini)
Light Of The World (Hughes)
In Christ Alone (Townend)
Shi*e Jesus Shi*e (Ken*rick)
Interesting placement of the asterisks in that last one. Pray for me, my brothers and sisters, for I must play the wretched thing (and, purgatorial foretaste, Be Still For The Presence of the Lord) in a couple of weeks. Better stuck behind a bass guitar than singing the things, I suppose.
Yeah, not my regular habitat but it's a long story.
“Jesus is Lord! Creation’s voice proclaims it” (Mansell).
“Jesus is the name we honour” (Lawson-Johnson).
“Join all the glorious names” - Darwall's 148th.
“Meekness and majesty” (Kendrick).
“Name of all majesty” - Majestas.
And Can It Be, That I Should Gain / SAGINA
Be Still, My Soul / FINLANDIA
As the Deer Pants for the Water / AS THE DEER
O God beyond All Praising / THAXTED
In Heavenly Love Abiding / PENLAN
We didn't have an organist today so ably led by the clergy member who presided we sang the congregational mass setting acapella.
And it was lovely- children's and adult voices soaring up into the roof of the Lady Chapel.
Mass of St Thomas
All Creatures of our God and King
In Christ alone
God is love, let heaven adore him- Abbot’s Leigh
Take my life - Nottingham
Now thank we all our God- Nun Danket
Anyway today I was landed with Mattins yet again 😳
Christ whose glory fills the skies (Ratisbon)
All my hope (Michael)
A man there lived in Galilee (Tyrol)
Sent forth by God's blessimg (Ash Grove)
Quite a jolly selection for BCP Mattins I thought and they sang well. The last two were lovely.
Our offerings today:
God is love, his the care - Personent Hodie
For I'm building a people of power - Dave Richards
May the mind of Christ my saviour - St Leonard's
Give me joy in my heart - Sing Hosanna*
Blessed assurance - Blessed Assurance
* as the Communion hymn 🙄
I've been asked for my input re: possible future hymn choices, and to that end have (against my better judgement) ordered a copy of the Dreaded Orange Book™ - with just the melody - so that I can make some informed suggestions.
Let the games commence! 👹
Curiosity got the better of me, but a little googlery took care if it - thank you...
No, I'd consider the proper tune to JATGN to be Croft's 136th, but it's not well known here. I don't know St Godric.
We use this, it goes down well.
Noah built the most enormous boat
I can see the promised land (Though there's pain within the plan)
A thousand generations (falling down in worship)
Jesus, my king, my wonderful saviour
IIRC it has very useful indexes (not in order): Metrical, Scripture, Lectionary, Tunes, Authors, Composers, Uses. It is also covered as a hymnal by hymnary.org.
All Creatures of our God and King
Now Thank We all our God
All my Hope on God is Founded
Part of the process is apparently to be matching hymns to particular uses (eg Communion), although whether our suggestions will be heeded may be another matter.
Oh, freedom, freedom is coming
This Little Light Of Mine
When Israel was in Egypt's land
Anthem: Didn't My Lord Deliver Daniel
Anthem: By The Waters Of Babylon
Amazing grace
Swing Low, Sweet Chariot
Anthem: Nobody knows the trouble I've seen
Mine eyes have seen the glory
We are marching/Siyahamba
Postlude: Hymn To Freedom - Oscar Peterson
They were separated by prayers and brief meditations: the effect of the whole was very moving.
Ferial responses
Magnificat & Nunc Dimittis - chants by Robinson and Farrant
Psalm 42: 1-7, chant by Samuel Wesley
Hymns:
Oft in danger, oft in woe - University College
Take my life, and let it be - Nottingham
Saviour, again to thy dear name we raise - Ellers (gosh that's an old wailer!)
I had a call at 30 minutes notice to fill in Evensong myself tonight. All pretty uneventful.
O God of Bethel (Martyrdom)
O my Saviour lifted (North Coates)
The day is past and over (St Anatolius)
Choir
God is forgiveness, / Taizé
Spirit of Jesus, if I love my neighbour, / Wren, Damon
Hymns
Let us with a gladsome mind, / Monkland
We know that Christ is raised, / Engelberg
Christians lift your hearts and voices, / Triumph
Alleluia sing to Jesus, / Hyfrydol
I led a Bible study on Revelation in my 20s. Very slow going as the material I sourced went rather in-depth. People joked the Apocalypse would come before we finished. I moved away somewhere around chapter 7 iirc.
Didn't make it to the church I intended to go to to yesterday.
All my hope on God is founded (Michael)
Come, Holy Spirit, Lord of Grace (Tallis' Ordinal; procession to font for baptisms)
Let all mortal flesh keep silence (Picardy; I adore this hymn and was sorry to miss it being sung by the choir)
An upper room did our Lord prepare (O Waly Waly)
Guide me, o Thou great redeemer (Cwm Rhondda)
Christ, Whose Glory Fills the Skies (RATISBON)
Christ Is The World's True Light (ST. JOAN)
That's a very decent selection of hymns!
Back in the olden days when we moved to a new hymnal, a hymn festival of sorts was put on where hymns were nominated by writing 5 on a piece of paper and the "winners" sung at a special get-together. The choir director told me I had good taste in hymns....which I took to mean she liked the ones I did!
Let us with a gladsome mind (Monkland)
O God our help in ages past (St Anne)
Let us break bread together on our knees (Anon)
Ye servants of the Lord (Narenza)
Setting: Dudman
Come Spirit blest, our hearts inspire (Richmond)
Be exalted, O God [for Psalm 50]
Worship the Lord in the beauty of holiness (Was Lebet)
I am the bread of life (Bread of Life)
Mine eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the Lord (Battle Hymn)
They are introducing a new hymnal next week.
“We want to see Jesus lifted high” (Noel Richards).
“Praise the source of faith and learning” - Deerhurst.
“May the mind of Christ, our Saviour” - St Leonards.
“Go forth and tell!” - Woodlands.
Lord, for the Years / LORD OF THE YEARS
*Restore, O Lord, the honour of your name! / Kendrick
All Hail the Power of Jesus' Name / MILES LANE
*We in the congregation struggled a bit with this one as no-one really knew Kendrick's tune
Praise Him, Praise Him! Jesus, Our Blessèd Redeemer (Joyful Song)
Master, Speak! Thy Servant Heareth (Master, Speak! Thy Servant Heareth)
The King Of Love My Shepherd Is (Dominus Regit Me)
All The Way My Saviour Leads Me (All The Way)
The last one doesn't mention shepherds, but we'd learnt by that time that a Shepherd leads his sheep.
How great thou art
Great is Thy faithfulness
I the Lord of sea and sky
Seek ye first the kingdom of God
Be still for the presence of the Lord
Thine be the glory
Guide me O thou great redeemer.
All tunes obvious?
There were readings, prayers and introductions explaining why a hymn had been chosen or how it came to be written.
Immortal, invisible, God only wise - St Denio
Morning has broken* - Bunessan
Lord Jesus Christ, you have come to us - Living Lord
Give thanks with a grateful heart - Don Moen
All my hope on God is founded - Michael
* This was actually slated to be May the fragrance of Jesus fill this place. by Guess Who, but our guitar player wasn't able to be there and today's organist (who actually knows what he's doing) didn't fancy it (wise fellow!), so it was changed.
I suppose I should be thankful for small mercies ...
As we had the Proper Organist™, we got a nice rendition of Haydn's St Anthony Chorale as extroit music.
Still, as you say, small mercies...
I’m afraid BUNESSAN and “Morning Has Broken” are so firmly melded together in my brain that any other text to that tune just feels wrong to me.
This morning, I found myself (for Reasons), at two different services—first another, nearby church, and then our own place.
The hymns at Service No. 1 were:
“I Sing the Mighty Power of God”/ELLACOMBE
“We’ve Come This Far by Faith”
“Look Who Gathers at Christ’s Table!”/COPELAND
“Now Thank We All Our God”/NUN DANKET ALLE GOTT
The hymns at Service No. 2 were:
“If Thou but Trust in God to Guide Thee”/ WER NUR DEN LIEBEN GOTT
“Great Is Thy Faithfulness”/FAITHFULNESS
“Keep Your Lamps Trimmed and Burning”
“The God of Abraham Praise”/LEONI
She also wrote People look east.
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Leanabh an àigh, as it is in these parts.
Praise is rising
We did not bear the wounds that freed (Or walk the road to Calvary) - a new one to me
The Lord's my Shepherd (Crimond)
Jesus said that if I thirst
Yes, it does - I had a feeling that there was at least one other hymn that used Bunessan, so thanks for the reminder!
A good choice for Harvest Festival, perhaps as a post-Communion hymn.
You mentioned how “Morning Has Broken” always seems a bit twee to you. I wonder how much of that is due to the meter—5.5.5.4.D. Those short lines can give a sense of sing-songiness.
This is the day (again)
God of great and God of small (a new one on me and both obscure and in copyright so no midi or xml version of the score to be had, so I hammered it into GAELIC LULLABY, commonly used for a version of Jesus loves me, this I know, which came out better than it might have done, even if I did have to add an alleluia and *ahem* finesse the rhythm in places)
I need thee every hour
O God, you search me and you know me
Thine be the glory
Brits of a certain age may think of it primarily as a school assembly song. I certainly do (though as a six-year old I probably understood very little of it!)
I used to have the sheet music which included the beautiful Rick Wakeman piano part, but never played it in church!
Ahem - Cat Stevens
Yes, but it was Rick on the piano!