Lent 4 aka Mothering Sunday at Our Place tomorrow:
Sing we of the blessed Mother (Abbots Leigh)
Something from The Sheet Amazing grace (Amazing Grace)
Something from The Sheet
IIRC, the Gospel reading we usually have is the short account of Mary at the foot of the cross, being delivered by Jesus into the care of St John.
FatherInCharge uses any opportunity that crops up to talk about the lady he invariably calls Holy Mary™, but he will also talk about the importance of maintaining Christian Family Life™. I daresay one of the items from The Sheet will be the egregious Onward, Christian families! (St Gertrude)...
To be fair, he arranges for enough posies of Spring flowers to be given out to every lady in the congregation, whether mothers or not.
Mothering Sunday, with the option of the last part of the prophecy of Simeon, or Mary and John at the foot of the cross. Unfortunately received an email that the organist is unwell, so downloading (copyright free) music from smallchurchmusic.com has had to be done. With change of hymn, since Down Ampney is not available except for a fee.
Angel voices ever singing (Angel voices)
The King of Love (Dominus Regit Me)
For the beauty of the earth (Dix)
Evensong in my local cathedral, sung by the Lay Clerks.
Mode iii Now is the healing time decreed
Responses- Tallis
Office hymn- Audi benigne Conditor
Canticles- Wood in G
anthem - Tomkins: Out of the deep
Hymn- There is a green hill
Organ postlude- CPE Bach- Ich ruf zu dir, Herr Jesu Christe
9 o'clock communion service.
For the Beauty of the Earth* - ENGLAND'S LANE
What a Friend We Have in Jesus - CONVERSE
Tell Out, My Soul - WOODLANDS
*Probably chosen for the verse about family which includes the lines For the joy of human love,
brother, sister, parent, child
as it is Mothering Sunday here in UK.
All ladies in the congregation were given a small daffodil posy at the end of the service.
A good turnout at Our Place, despite some of the regulars being absent because Mothering Sunday - given that our Sunday average is 30, today's 41 (including 8 under-16s) is most encouraging.
The Somethings from The Sheet did indeed include the egregious drivel of Onward, Christian families! (St Gertrude), but also a hymn sung to the tune Bunessan, usually associated here with Morning has broken or the Christmas song Child in the manger. Alas! my Spy can't remember the words of the hymn, so maybe some of you can identify it?
The Somethings from The Sheet did indeed include the egregious drivel of Onward, Christian families! (St Gertrude), but also a hymn sung to the tune Bunessan, usually associated here with Morning has broken or the Christmas song Child in the manger. Alas! my Spy can't remember the words of the hymn, so maybe some of you can identify it?
Unfortunately received an email that the organist is unwell, so downloading (copyright free) music from smallchurchmusic.com has had to be done. With change of hymn, since Down Ampney is not available except for a fee.
I use that website - the fees are very modest, about 26p per hymn. There's also "Hymns Without Words".
The Somethings from The Sheet did indeed include the egregious drivel of Onward, Christian families! (St Gertrude), but also a hymn sung to the tune Bunessan, usually associated here with Morning has broken or the Christmas song Child in the manger. Alas! my Spy can't remember the words of the hymn, so maybe some of you can identify it?
Liturgy of St Basil for us as it will be for much of Great Lent.
A few chants about the Cross as that's commemorated and venerated on what is the third Sunday of Lent for us.
I'm sometimes tempted to type 'Liturgy of St John Chrysostom' here each Sunday. 😉
There was a more varied diet on the ecumenical pilgrimage I attended in Walsingham last week, although with a largely Marian theme of course.
We had some good Wesleyan hymns in the village's stolid and historic Methodist chapel and Timothy Dudley-Smith's 'Tell Out My Soul' in the Anglican parish church.
The Orthodox Akathist to the Mother of God in the Anglican shrine with everyone joining in was quite something.
Yesterday, Scottish Voices sang Evensong in St Mary's Cathedral in Edinburgh, marking our conductor, Frikki Walker's last outing with us, as he's retiring.
Introit: O sing joyfully Frikki Walker
Responses: Rose
Psalm 150 - Stanford
Canticles - Walmisley in D minor
Anthem - Save us, O Lord - Bairstow
Hymns: When in our music God is glorified - Engelberg How shall I sing that majesty - Coe Fen
There was a farewell bash afterwards, leaving me a bit zonked in the morning, so I was a Bad Piglet and skived off church*, but if I'd been there I would have sung, with varying degrees of gusto:
Sing we of the blessed Mother - Abbots Leigh An army of ordinary people We have a gospel to proclaim - Fulda In the Lord I'll be ever thankful - Taizé Thy hand, O God has guided - Thornbury
* I'm not being a complete heathen: I'm heading over the road shortly for Compline.
This morning’s Mothering Sunday service had predictable hymns:
Now thank we all our God
Lead us heavenly Father lead us
Lord Jesus Christ- Living Lord
Tell out my soul.
Evensong
Introit : Oculis Omnium -Charles Wood
Responses - Smith
Mag and Nunc in C - Vaughan Williams
Anthem- Verily verily I say unto you- Tallis
Hymns-
All hail the power- Miles Lane
Jesus calls us o’er the tumult- St Andrew
Hail to the Lord’s anointed - Crüger
A good turnout at Our Place, despite some of the regulars being absent because Mothering Sunday - given that our Sunday average is 30, today's 41 (including 8 under-16s) is most encouraging.
The Somethings from The Sheet did indeed include the egregious drivel of Onward, Christian families! (St Gertrude), but also a hymn sung to the tune Bunessan, usually associated here with Morning has broken or the Christmas song Child in the manger. Alas! my Spy can't remember the words of the hymn, so maybe some of you can identify it?
I suspect it might have been 'Fathers and mothers, sisters and brothers' words by Timothy Dudley Smith. We sang it at our place. It's in the most recent A&M (no 136).
A good turnout at Our Place, despite some of the regulars being absent because Mothering Sunday - given that our Sunday average is 30, today's 41 (including 8 under-16s) is most encouraging.
The Somethings from The Sheet did indeed include the egregious drivel of Onward, Christian families! (St Gertrude), but also a hymn sung to the tune Bunessan, usually associated here with Morning has broken or the Christmas song Child in the manger. Alas! my Spy can't remember the words of the hymn, so maybe some of you can identify it?
I suspect it might have been 'Fathers and mothers, sisters and brothers' words by Timothy Dudley Smith. We sang it at our place. It's in the most recent A&M (no 136).
Ah - possibly more in line with FatherInCharge's thinking! He will be celebrating St Patrick at tomorrow evening's Mass. though.
Unfortunately received an email that the organist is unwell, so downloading (copyright free) music from smallchurchmusic.com has had to be done. With change of hymn, since Down Ampney is not available except for a fee.
I use that website - the fees are very modest, about 26p per hymn. There's also "Hymns Without Words".
You can also do a lot starting with a midi file (hymnary.org has a lot) and doing a bit of tweaking in MuseScore. If anyone wants help with that I can talk through what I do.
We have moved house and attended our local church for the first time on Sunday. We sang:
Lead us, Heavenly Father, lead us Father, hear the prayer we offer Behold the Lamb who bears our sins away - a new one to me Tell out, my soul, the greatness of the Lord
Every member of the congregation received Mothering Sunday flowers.
Passion Sunday at Our Place this w/e (Lent 5), and they will spend much of tomorrow morning swathing our ghastly Edwardian tat in great loads of black or purple cloth:
Glory be to Jesus vv1-5 (Caswall) I cannot tell (Londonderry Air) When I survey the wondrous cross (probably Rockingham) Glory be to Jesus vv6-8
The range is a bit of a challenge but manageable if suitably transposed
It's one of those where 'manageable for you' almost certainly means 'not manageable for me' (where 'you' and 'me' are any individual members of the congregation).
The range is a bit of a challenge but manageable if suitably transposed
It's one of those where 'manageable for you' almost certainly means 'not manageable for me' (where 'you' and 'me' are any individual members of the congregation).
The problem is that the key in which it's manageable is different for each person.
The range is a bit of a challenge but manageable if suitably transposed
It's one of those where 'manageable for you' almost certainly means 'not manageable for me' (where 'you' and 'me' are any individual members of the congregation).
The problem is that the key in which it's manageable is different for each person.
Just so. I daresay our organist (who is also a fine singer), and the other lady who acts as cantor, will make a good job of it, but I hope (for the sake of everyone else) that FatherInCharge doesn't attempt to sing...
Mind you, it's the Offertory Hymn, so FInC will be busy preparing the Lord's Table, and waving clouds of incense around the chancel...
The range is a bit of a challenge but manageable if suitably transposed
It's one of those where 'manageable for you' almost certainly means 'not manageable for me' (where 'you' and 'me' are any individual members of the congregation).
The range is a bit of a challenge but manageable if suitably transposed
It's one of those where 'manageable for you' almost certainly means 'not manageable for me' (where 'you' and 'me' are any individual members of the congregation).
The problem is that the key in which it's manageable is different for each person.
John Bell has written a lovely funeral hymn to Danny Boy. But in my experience people at most funerals are mute for even simple well known hymns, let alone for a tune that really stretches competent singers.
John Bell has written a lovely funeral hymn to Danny Boy. But in my experience people at most funerals are mute for even simple well known hymns, let alone for a tune that really stretches competent singers.
CH4 has words by Colin Ferguson (Hear me, dear Lord, in this my time of sorrow) and harmonies by Bell. Is that the one you're thinking of?
9 o'clock communion.
Praise to the Holiest in the height - GERONTIUS
Christ is our cornerstone - HAREWOOD
Take up thy cross, the Saviour said - BRESLAU
A week when no organist or pianist was available. The "techies" were using a different program to provide the organ accompaniment and there was quite a hiatus before the first hymn started. The congregation was also caught out by how long the introduction would be - just the first line or more. A live organist always seems to make it obvious when the introduction ends and the congregation should start singing. It is not always so clear with a recording.
Parish Communion, including a presentation, plus sermon on Stewardship.
Hymns
How deep the Father’s love for us
Take my life - Nottingham
Seek ye first
Lord Jesus Christ - Living Lord
Discussion afterwards , firstly amongst choir members, then with a key PCC member, about the role of the choir, given the financial cost to the church. Very useful and honest exchange of views. I might start a separate thread.
You Servants Of God, Your Master Proclaim (Hanover)
When Morning Gilds The Skies (Laudes Domini)
Jesus Calls Us O'er The Tumult (St Andrew)
There is a Redeemer (Kendrick)
Praise to the holiest - Gerontius I am the bread of life -Toolan Breathe on me, breath of God - Carlisle Jesus, remember me* - Taizé Amazing grace - Amazing Grace
* A nice wee piece, but "wee" is the operative word. We had a fairly full church this morning, and I lost count of how many times we sang it! However, in true Taizé style, I improvised a couple of harmonies, and it actually worked quite well.
Praise to the holiest - Gerontius I am the bread of life -Toolan Breathe on me, breath of God - Carlisle Jesus, remember me* - Taizé Amazing grace - Amazing Grace
* A nice wee piece, but "wee" is the operative word. We had a fairly full church this morning, and I lost count of how many times we sang it! However, in true Taizé style, I improvised a couple of harmonies, and it actually worked quite well.
A fine selection IMHO, though you're right about some Taize chants being sometimes a bit too short and sweet.
FWIW, I'd have omitted the Gradual Hymn, and had I am the bread of life at Communion, instead of Jesus, remember me.
31 at Our Place today - about the average - but they struggled with I cannot tell, despite the efforts of the organist and cantor.
John Bell has written a lovely funeral hymn to Danny Boy. But in my experience people at most funerals are mute for even simple well known hymns, let alone for a tune that really stretches competent singers.
CH4 has words by Colin Ferguson (Hear me, dear Lord, in this my time of sorrow) and harmonies by Bell. Is that the one you're thinking of?
John Bell has written a lovely funeral hymn to Danny Boy. But in my experience people at most funerals are mute for even simple well known hymns, let alone for a tune that really stretches competent singers.
CH4 has words by Colin Ferguson (Hear me, dear Lord, in this my time of sorrow) and harmonies by Bell. Is that the one you're thinking of?
Oh, interesting! CH4 lists that one without a tune, which they only otherwise do for liturgical texts, with the instruction to be read by one voice. Given John Bell convened the compiling committee I wonder what the motivation was for that decision.
I will admit that I would find the very firm connection between Londonderry Air and “Oh, Danny Boy” far too strong to be able to sing a different set of words, much less a hymn in church, to that tune.
Today, we had:
“Come All You People”/UYAI MOSE
“Peace of God Be with You”/AS-SALAAMU LAKUM
“O for a World”/AZMON
“When God Restored Our Common Life” (Ps. 126)/RESIGNATION
“The Lord Now Sends Us Forth” (Enviado soy de Dios)/ENVIADO
Our new local place only having services twice a month we went to a church in a nearby town for the first time and we had:
Come, now is the time to worship God said to us the golden rule is love - with actions (love a good action song!) I have decided to follow Jesus O kneel me down again here at your feet I'm giving you my heart (I surrender all to you) Receive our adoration, Jesus lamb of God Higher than the mountains that I face (Your love never fails, never gives up)
They sure like to sing! Several of these were new to me.
Praise to the holiest - Gerontius I am the bread of life -Toolan Breathe on me, breath of God - Carlisle Jesus, remember me* - Taizé Amazing grace - Amazing Grace
* A nice wee piece, but "wee" is the operative word. We had a fairly full church this morning, and I lost count of how many times we sang it! However, in true Taizé style, I improvised a couple of harmonies, and it actually worked quite well.
Context is everything for a Taizé meditative chant. They’re prayers not hymns, so they rarely work well in a place slotted for a hymn.
And I say this as one who loves them—I’ve rarely encountered them working particularly well in a Eucharist, at least not a Eucharist like would be found most places on a Sunday morning. They require some sense of, for lack of a better word, intimacy, some sense of quiet.
Where they shine is in a meditative morning prayer or evening prayer.
Praise to the holiest - Gerontius I am the bread of life -Toolan Breathe on me, breath of God - Carlisle Jesus, remember me* - Taizé Amazing grace - Amazing Grace
* A nice wee piece, but "wee" is the operative word. We had a fairly full church this morning, and I lost count of how many times we sang it! However, in true Taizé style, I improvised a couple of harmonies, and it actually worked quite well.
We had the Toolan too. Blooming awful thing. The range is too wide and the words don't fit. It was at the end so we cut it short once the procession got to the back of church.
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Not much, and I checked the Youtube views expecting to see more than usual, but no - fewer, in fact.
Sing we of the blessed Mother (Abbots Leigh)
Something from The Sheet
Amazing grace (Amazing Grace)
Something from The Sheet
IIRC, the Gospel reading we usually have is the short account of Mary at the foot of the cross, being delivered by Jesus into the care of St John.
FatherInCharge uses any opportunity that crops up to talk about the lady he invariably calls Holy Mary™, but he will also talk about the importance of maintaining Christian Family Life™. I daresay one of the items from The Sheet will be the egregious Onward, Christian families! (St Gertrude)...
To be fair, he arranges for enough posies of Spring flowers to be given out to every lady in the congregation, whether mothers or not.
Angel voices ever singing (Angel voices)
The King of Love (Dominus Regit Me)
For the beauty of the earth (Dix)
Mode iii Now is the healing time decreed
Responses- Tallis
Office hymn- Audi benigne Conditor
Canticles- Wood in G
anthem - Tomkins: Out of the deep
Hymn- There is a green hill
Organ postlude- CPE Bach- Ich ruf zu dir, Herr Jesu Christe
God Is In His Temple (Groningen)
Jesus, Stand Among Us (Kendrick)
O Breath Of Life, Come Sweeping Through Us (Spiritus Vitae)
For the Beauty of the Earth* - ENGLAND'S LANE
What a Friend We Have in Jesus - CONVERSE
Tell Out, My Soul - WOODLANDS
*Probably chosen for the verse about family which includes the lines
For the joy of human love,
brother, sister, parent, child
as it is Mothering Sunday here in UK.
All ladies in the congregation were given a small daffodil posy at the end of the service.
Think of a world without any flowers
One more step
Everyone got flowers, which is a huge improvement.
The Somethings from The Sheet did indeed include the egregious drivel of Onward, Christian families! (St Gertrude), but also a hymn sung to the tune Bunessan, usually associated here with Morning has broken or the Christmas song Child in the manger. Alas! my Spy can't remember the words of the hymn, so maybe some of you can identify it?
Indeed - you may be right. I shall enquire.
“Living under the shadow of his wing” (David Hadden & Bob Silvester).
“For the beauty of the earth” - Lucerna Laudonae.
“Mothering God” - Maryton.
“Praise to God, the world’s creator” - Blaenwern.
A few chants about the Cross as that's commemorated and venerated on what is the third Sunday of Lent for us.
I'm sometimes tempted to type 'Liturgy of St John Chrysostom' here each Sunday. 😉
There was a more varied diet on the ecumenical pilgrimage I attended in Walsingham last week, although with a largely Marian theme of course.
We had some good Wesleyan hymns in the village's stolid and historic Methodist chapel and Timothy Dudley-Smith's 'Tell Out My Soul' in the Anglican parish church.
The Orthodox Akathist to the Mother of God in the Anglican shrine with everyone joining in was quite something.
Introit: O sing joyfully Frikki Walker
Responses: Rose
Psalm 150 - Stanford
Canticles - Walmisley in D minor
Anthem - Save us, O Lord - Bairstow
Hymns:
When in our music God is glorified - Engelberg
How shall I sing that majesty - Coe Fen
There was a farewell bash afterwards, leaving me a bit zonked in the morning, so I was a Bad Piglet and skived off church*, but if I'd been there I would have sung, with varying degrees of gusto:
Sing we of the blessed Mother - Abbots Leigh
An army of ordinary people
We have a gospel to proclaim - Fulda
In the Lord I'll be ever thankful - Taizé
Thy hand, O God has guided - Thornbury
* I'm not being a complete heathen: I'm heading over the road shortly for Compline.
Now thank we all our God
Lead us heavenly Father lead us
Lord Jesus Christ- Living Lord
Tell out my soul.
Evensong
Introit : Oculis Omnium -Charles Wood
Responses - Smith
Mag and Nunc in C - Vaughan Williams
Anthem- Verily verily I say unto you- Tallis
Hymns-
All hail the power- Miles Lane
Jesus calls us o’er the tumult- St Andrew
Hail to the Lord’s anointed - Crüger
I suspect it might have been 'Fathers and mothers, sisters and brothers' words by Timothy Dudley Smith. We sang it at our place. It's in the most recent A&M (no 136).
Ah - possibly more in line with FatherInCharge's thinking! He will be celebrating St Patrick at tomorrow evening's Mass. though.
You can also do a lot starting with a midi file (hymnary.org has a lot) and doing a bit of tweaking in MuseScore. If anyone wants help with that I can talk through what I do.
Lead us, Heavenly Father, lead us
Father, hear the prayer we offer
Behold the Lamb who bears our sins away - a new one to me
Tell out, my soul, the greatness of the Lord
Every member of the congregation received Mothering Sunday flowers.
I’m confused. Why can’t it be used in a liturgical setting?
Glory be to Jesus vv1-5 (Caswall)
I cannot tell (Londonderry Air)
When I survey the wondrous cross (probably Rockingham)
Glory be to Jesus vv6-8
The range is a bit of a challenge but manageable if suitably transposed
It's one of those where 'manageable for you' almost certainly means 'not manageable for me' (where 'you' and 'me' are any individual members of the congregation).
The problem is that the key in which it's manageable is different for each person.
Just so. I daresay our organist (who is also a fine singer), and the other lady who acts as cantor, will make a good job of it, but I hope (for the sake of everyone else) that FatherInCharge doesn't attempt to sing...
Mind you, it's the Offertory Hymn, so FInC will be busy preparing the Lord's Table, and waving clouds of incense around the chancel...
Fair points, both.
Just needs to be higher still so the lower notes come into your range.
Having said that, even as a tenor I can't recall ever having it in a key that went too low. I don't like singing bottom A flats but I can manage them.
CH4 has words by Colin Ferguson (Hear me, dear Lord, in this my time of sorrow) and harmonies by Bell. Is that the one you're thinking of?
Praise to the Holiest in the height - GERONTIUS
Christ is our cornerstone - HAREWOOD
Take up thy cross, the Saviour said - BRESLAU
A week when no organist or pianist was available. The "techies" were using a different program to provide the organ accompaniment and there was quite a hiatus before the first hymn started. The congregation was also caught out by how long the introduction would be - just the first line or more. A live organist always seems to make it obvious when the introduction ends and the congregation should start singing. It is not always so clear with a recording.
Hymns
How deep the Father’s love for us
Take my life - Nottingham
Seek ye first
Lord Jesus Christ - Living Lord
Discussion afterwards , firstly amongst choir members, then with a key PCC member, about the role of the choir, given the financial cost to the church. Very useful and honest exchange of views. I might start a separate thread.
When Morning Gilds The Skies (Laudes Domini)
Jesus Calls Us O'er The Tumult (St Andrew)
There is a Redeemer (Kendrick)
Praise to the holiest - Gerontius
I am the bread of life -Toolan
Breathe on me, breath of God - Carlisle
Jesus, remember me* - Taizé
Amazing grace - Amazing Grace
* A nice wee piece, but "wee" is the operative word. We had a fairly full church this morning, and I lost count of how many times we sang it! However, in true Taizé style, I improvised a couple of harmonies, and it actually worked quite well.
A fine selection IMHO, though you're right about some Taize chants being sometimes a bit too short and sweet.
FWIW, I'd have omitted the Gradual Hymn, and had I am the bread of life at Communion, instead of Jesus, remember me.
31 at Our Place today - about the average - but they struggled with I cannot tell, despite the efforts of the organist and cantor.
No. It's Go Silent Friend
https://hymnary.org/text/go_silent_friend_your_life_has_found_its
Oh, interesting! CH4 lists that one without a tune, which they only otherwise do for liturgical texts, with the instruction to be read by one voice. Given John Bell convened the compiling committee I wonder what the motivation was for that decision.
Today, we had:
“Come All You People”/UYAI MOSE
“Peace of God Be with You”/AS-SALAAMU LAKUM
“O for a World”/AZMON
“When God Restored Our Common Life” (Ps. 126)/RESIGNATION
“The Lord Now Sends Us Forth” (Enviado soy de Dios)/ENVIADO
Come, now is the time to worship
God said to us the golden rule is love - with actions (love a good action song!)
I have decided to follow Jesus
O kneel me down again here at your feet
I'm giving you my heart (I surrender all to you)
Receive our adoration, Jesus lamb of God
Higher than the mountains that I face (Your love never fails, never gives up)
They sure like to sing! Several of these were new to me.
And I say this as one who loves them—I’ve rarely encountered them working particularly well in a Eucharist, at least not a Eucharist like would be found most places on a Sunday morning. They require some sense of, for lack of a better word, intimacy, some sense of quiet.
Where they shine is in a meditative morning prayer or evening prayer.
We had the Toolan too. Blooming awful thing. The range is too wide and the words don't fit. It was at the end so we cut it short once the procession got to the back of church.