I think that everyone should sing 'Morning has broken' as they drive from Pennhghael to Fionnphort - 'Child in a manger' would also be seasonally acceptable.
The Church of Scotland Hymnary also has part of St Patrick's Breastplate (Christ be beside me, Christ be before me) set to the tune, . . . .
As does the PC(USA) hymnal. “Child in a Manger,” on the other hand, isn’t a familiar one for us.
It's a Christmas hymn translated (or inspired by, it's far from exact) from the Gaelic. It appears that it may predate the use of BUNESSAN for MHB or any other hymn.
... Do others enjoy visiting hymn places and singing as they drive through/otherwise visit?
Absolutely - we only needed to see the names on road signs!
When we lived in Northern Ireland, coming over on the ferry and driving to Edinburgh, we'd have (probably among others) Kilmarnock, Glasgow and St George's (Edinburgh). If we happened to be going north-eastwards, we'd have Dundee (obviously), with the long notes, possibly Stracathro, and once we were getting closer to Civilisation™, Caithness. Once we actually reached Civilisation™, St Magnus.
I quite often see Kilmarnock on road signs when I'm visiting my sister, and always hum the tune under my breath.
I think that everyone should sing 'Morning has broken' as they drive from Pennhghael to Fionnphort - 'Child in a manger' would also be seasonally acceptable.
The Church of Scotland Hymnary also has part of St Patrick's Breastplate (Christ be beside me, Christ be before me) set to the tune, . . . .
As does the PC(USA) hymnal. “Child in a Manger,” on the other hand, isn’t a familiar one for us.
It's a Christmas hymn translated (or inspired by, it's far from exact) from the Gaelic.
The Christ Child Lullaby/Tàladh Chrìosda? Or another Gaelic song?
... Do others enjoy visiting hymn places and singing as they drive through/otherwise visit?
Absolutely - we only needed to see the names on road signs!
When we lived in Northern Ireland, coming over on the ferry and driving to Edinburgh, we'd have (probably among others) Kilmarnock, Glasgow and St George's (Edinburgh). If we happened to be going north-eastwards, we'd have Dundee (obviously), with the long notes, possibly Stracathro, and once we were getting closer to Civilisation™, Caithness. Once we actually reached Civilisation™, St Magnus.
I quite often see Kilmarnock on road signs when I'm visiting my sister, and always hum the tune under my breath.
I have put together a satnav file with all the places in Wales that have hymn tunes named after them. My intention is to visit them all on my scooter. I reckon it's a three day gentle trip.
Mr Cats has been known to make us turn aside from our journey if a detour could take us through a hymn tune, as it were. I remember that Monikie was further out of our way than he had thought! (It’s a very small place in Angus.)
I think that everyone should sing 'Morning has broken' as they drive from Pennhghael to Fionnphort - 'Child in a manger' would also be seasonally acceptable.
The Church of Scotland Hymnary also has part of St Patrick's Breastplate (Christ be beside me, Christ be before me) set to the tune, . . . .
As does the PC(USA) hymnal. “Child in a Manger,” on the other hand, isn’t a familiar one for us.
It's a Christmas hymn translated (or inspired by, it's far from exact) from the Gaelic.
The Christ Child Lullaby/Tàladh Chrìosda? Or another Gaelic song?
I think that everyone should sing 'Morning has broken' as they drive from Pennhghael to Fionnphort - 'Child in a manger' would also be seasonally acceptable.
The Church of Scotland Hymnary also has part of St Patrick's Breastplate (Christ be beside me, Christ be before me) set to the tune, . . . .
As does the PC(USA) hymnal. “Child in a Manger,” on the other hand, isn’t a familiar one for us.
It's a Christmas hymn translated (or inspired by, it's far from exact) from the Gaelic.
The Christ Child Lullaby/Tàladh Chrìosda? Or another Gaelic song?
"Fill your hearts with joy and gladness” - Regent Square.
“The Lord's my Shepherd, I'll not want” (Stuart Townend).
“Loving Shepherd of your sheep” - Buckland,
“Go labour on” - Quebec/Hesperus.
“Lord of the living harvest” - Lymington.
The King of love my shepherd is - Dominus Regit Me All over the world Take my life and let it be - Nottingham Jesus stand among us Praise, my soul, the King of heaven - Praise, My Soul
Organ Introit: Pieces de Fantasie: Andantino Op 51 no 2 - Louis Verne
Mass setting: Mass of the Holy Family - Yusef Khill - sung in arabic (as best we could)
Anthems: Peacemaker Jesus (Erena), Blessed be God (Martinez//Trad)
Hymns:
Munezero! Munezero! (Sing Out Gladly)
When sorrow shrouds and numbs my waking hours (Eventide)
Jesus Christ is waiting (Noel Nouvelet)
Who would true valour see (Monks Lane)
Voluntary: Prelude and Fugue on a theme by Vittoria - Britten
The sermon drew together the gospel (Matt 2:13-26) with refugee stories from the congregation.
It was really hard to sing in arabic - it felt like we were singing sounds, not words, and probably doing that badly....good fun though.
Evensong this evening
Introit: In Joyful Song - Guy Turner*
Responses- L’ Estrange
Psalms - Wesley with Fauxbourdon
Canticles: Stanford in A
Anthem- Give unto the Lord - Elgar
Hymns:
Saviour again to thy dear name - Ellers
The day Thou gavest- St Clement
* a local composer, retired Lay Clerk at Southwell Minster, now sings in the choir of this church. Joint choirs of the church and a choral society.
Master, Speak! Thy Servant Heareth (Morgen)
Be Still, For The Presence Of The Lord (David J. Evans )
Light Of The World (Tim Hughes)
Lo, He Comes With Clouds Descending (Helmsley)
Forty-ish of us n the room all singing lustily - a good morning of worship to God
First communions at ours just two.
Here I am Lord
Take our bread we ask you
This is my body
The kingdom of heaven.
The last one has the same rhythm and chords as La Bamba. I resisted the temptation.
People sang their heads off joyfully.
The Sanctus was a responsorial setting. Im a huge fan of them as they put me in mind of Ezekiel (I think) where the angels in heaven sing "Holy, holy" one to another.
We have come into this place and gathered in his name
How great thou art
Guide me O thou great Jehovah
And a couple of others that were unfamiliar to me being of the Rédemption Songs type that are still popular in some places in these parts. (The next burgh along the coast is holding its Traditional Boat Festival this weekend, and the local church is joining in with a Redemption Songs sing song this evening.)
More memorable was that the South African Deacon leading worship decided to turn up in a knock-off version of a Scotland strip….
“O, For a Thousand Tongues to Sing”/AZMON
“Send Me, Jesus” (Thuma mina)/THUMA MINA
“We Are One in the Spirit” (“And They’ll Know We Are Christians by Our Love”)
“Lord, Prepare Me” (“Sanctuary”)/SANCTUARY
“Christ Be Beside Me”/BUNESSAN
The anthem this morning was Like a River with words by Orrin Hatch. Not great poetry, but pleasant to listen to. I asked the music director afterwards how she came up with a piece by the late notably conservative Republican, Mormon, American Senator. She had no idea of its provenance, but the choir liked it and so did we. You couldn't get much less Presbyterian than that.
It's a Solemn Feast of St Hallmark at Our Place on Sunday, with earnest requests to pray for all fathers, grandfathers, godfathers etc. (whatever is meant by that etc. ). In the C of E calendar, it's Trinity 3 (already).
They are to have:
Praise, my soul, the King of heaven (Praise My Soul) Great is thy faithfulness (Faithfulness/Runyan) Now let us from this table rise (Solothurn)
Something from The Sheet*
*From past experience, this will no doubt be the egregious Onward, Christian families (St Gertrude).
“Praise, my soul, the King of heaven” - Lauda Anima.
“Abba, Father" (Dave Bilbrough).
“How deep the Father’s love for us” (Stuart Townend).
“'Take up your cross,' the Saviour said" - Breslau.
“Lead us, heavenly Father” - Mannheim.
At 9 o'clock communion
Jesus is King and I will extol him - own tune
Just as I am, without one plea - Saffron Walden
Rejoice, the Lord is King! - Gopsal
All people that on earth do dwell - Old Hundredth Jubilate, everybody -Jubilate Deo Lord, for the years Will you come and follow me - Kelvingrove O for a thousand tongues to sing - Lyngham
I can't help wondering if John Bell and Timothy Dudley-Smith were being paid by the line - do these hymns really need to have so many verses? 🤔
All people that on earth do dwell - Old Hundredth Jubilate, everybody -Jubilate Deo Lord, for the years Will you come and follow me - Kelvingrove O for a thousand tongues to sing - Lyngham
I can't help wondering if John Bell and Timothy Dudley-Smith were being paid by the line - do these hymns really need to have so many verses? 🤔
You could have asked Charles Wesley the same question: "O for a thousand" originally had 18 verses (at least). Try singing that to a fuguing tune such as "Lyngham"!
I went to my old church today where it was a communion service and we sang:
I want to see Jesus lifted high He is the Lord and he reigns on high Light of the world, you stepped down into darkness You are beautiful beyond description I'm coming back to the heart of worship
I went to my old church today where it was a communion service and we sang:
I want to see Jesus lifted high He is the Lord and he reigns on high Light of the world, you stepped down into darkness You are beautiful beyond description I'm coming back to the heart of worship
Unless I'm mistaken those are all from quite a short period around 20-30 years ago (I think I learned them all at university in the 00s and they were fairly new). Curious.
We had:
Make way
Praise the one who breaks the darkness
The King of love my shepherd is
How deep the Father's love for us
O love that wilt not let me go
Evensong.
Introit: If ye love me - Tallis
anthem: God so loved the world - Stainer
Canticles from the Psalter.
Hymns:
Take up thy cross- Breslau
Lead kindly light- Alberta
Praise my soul the King of heaven- Lobe den Herren
Not our usual conductor but he was excellent and began by curing a cypher on the organ.
Choir outnumbered the congregation 2 : 1.
At the last minute, just before robing, we realised that the person down to read the second lesson was not there so your truly volunteered, with no time to check it out.
All people that on earth do dwell - Old Hundredth Jubilate, everybody -Jubilate Deo Lord, for the years Will you come and follow me - Kelvingrove O for a thousand tongues to sing - Lyngham
I can't help wondering if John Bell and Timothy Dudley-Smith were being paid by the line - do these hymns really need to have so many verses? 🤔
You could have asked Charles Wesley the same question: "O for a thousand" originally had 18 verses (at least). Try singing that to a fuguing tune such as "Lyngham"!
Interesting spelling but I don't think Lyngham deserves that sort of language!
All people that on earth do dwell - Old Hundredth Jubilate, everybody -Jubilate Deo Lord, for the years Will you come and follow me - Kelvingrove O for a thousand tongues to sing - Lyngham
I can't help wondering if John Bell and Timothy Dudley-Smith were being paid by the line - do these hymns really need to have so many verses? 🤔
You could have asked Charles Wesley the same question: "O for a thousand" originally had 18 verses (at least). Try singing that to a fuguing tune such as "Lyngham"!
Interesting spelling but I don't think Lyngham deserves that sort of language!
Sunday morning hymns were:
All people that on earth do dwell
God of grace and God of glory
Put peace into each other’s hands
May the mind of Christ my saviour
From the sun’s rising
We don’t very often include anything from the last 10-20 years, but I try to make sure there’s at least one from less than 50 years and one from more than 100 years ago.
Mass in Holy Name Manchester. It's the chaplaincy Church, run by the Jesuits. A Hansom building, but not very nice, with plaster statues of the worst Victorian variety. Anyway
Holy God we praise thy name
Take our bread.
Let all mortal flesh keep silence
He who would valiant be.
'The Glorious Feast of St Peter and St Paul' (as FatherInCharge calls it) at Our Place tomorrow:
Take my life, and let it be (Innocents or Nottingham)
Something from The Sheet Let us break bread together (Anon) One more step along the world I go (Southcote)
They're also having a metrical Lord's Prayer, but it's not clear from FInC's pewsheet which one - possibly the one set to Kum Ba Yah.
I chose the hymns this morning! Our sermon series is on building confidence in the Bible. Hence numbers 2 and 3. Although that does conflate the speech acts of God with the written scripture
Praise God From Whom All Blessings Flow (Dave Clifton and Andy Piercy)
Thou, Whose Almighty Word (Moscow)
Speak, O Lord, As We Come To You (Keith Getty and Stuart Townend)
Love Divine, All Loves Excelling (Blaenwern)
Mass setting K220 Spatzen-Messe Mozart
Anthem: E'vry time I feel the spirit - Chilcott
Hymns:
As the deer (Nystrom)
Lord you give the great commission (Abbots Leigh)
Thou art the Christ (Love Unknown)
Thy hand O God has guided (Thornbury)
Big choir, good sing. A bit of a crunch of gears as we moved from the Chilcott to the Ireland...
St Peter and Paul
Here I am Lord
O the word of my Lord (song of a young prophet)
Be still for the presence
I will be with you, wherever you go.
Musicians were thin on the ground and the congregation was smaller than we are used to, so it was all a bit like pushing a boulder up hill. Hot weather kept the more frail safely indoors.
Our Place was also a bit thin on the ground today, but mostly due to people being at Away...
The Something from The Sheet was an appropriate hymn about St Peter and St Paul, sung to the tune Gonfalon Royal (The royal banners forward go), and they eschewed the metrical Lord's Prayer, thereby avoiding the ghastly Kum Ba Yah...
A thing that irked me today. The first reading was the bit in Acts where Peter is released from prison by an angel. It's a passage that is so vividly written that it is as though Luke heard it from Peter's lips.
But it was read with all the expression of someone dictating a list of e-mail addresses.
A shame.
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It's a Christmas hymn translated (or inspired by, it's far from exact) from the Gaelic. It appears that it may predate the use of BUNESSAN for MHB or any other hymn.
When we lived in Northern Ireland, coming over on the ferry and driving to Edinburgh, we'd have (probably among others) Kilmarnock, Glasgow and St George's (Edinburgh). If we happened to be going north-eastwards, we'd have Dundee (obviously), with the long notes, possibly Stracathro, and once we were getting closer to Civilisation™, Caithness. Once we actually reached Civilisation™, St Magnus.
I quite often see Kilmarnock on road signs when I'm visiting my sister, and always hum the tune under my breath.
I have put together a satnav file with all the places in Wales that have hymn tunes named after them. My intention is to visit them all on my scooter. I reckon it's a three day gentle trip.
Leanabh an àigh.
"Fill your hearts with joy and gladness” - Regent Square.
“The Lord's my Shepherd, I'll not want” (Stuart Townend).
“Loving Shepherd of your sheep” - Buckland,
“Go labour on” - Quebec/Hesperus.
“Lord of the living harvest” - Lymington.
The King of love my shepherd is - Dominus Regit Me
All over the world
Take my life and let it be - Nottingham
Jesus stand among us
Praise, my soul, the King of heaven - Praise, My Soul
Organ Introit: Pieces de Fantasie: Andantino Op 51 no 2 - Louis Verne
Mass setting: Mass of the Holy Family - Yusef Khill - sung in arabic (as best we could)
Anthems: Peacemaker Jesus (Erena), Blessed be God (Martinez//Trad)
Hymns:
Munezero! Munezero! (Sing Out Gladly)
When sorrow shrouds and numbs my waking hours (Eventide)
Jesus Christ is waiting (Noel Nouvelet)
Who would true valour see (Monks Lane)
Voluntary: Prelude and Fugue on a theme by Vittoria - Britten
The sermon drew together the gospel (Matt 2:13-26) with refugee stories from the congregation.
It was really hard to sing in arabic - it felt like we were singing sounds, not words, and probably doing that badly....good fun though.
Heron
...but I've no doubt that the hymns were all suitably sheepish.
Introit: In Joyful Song - Guy Turner*
Responses- L’ Estrange
Psalms - Wesley with Fauxbourdon
Canticles: Stanford in A
Anthem- Give unto the Lord - Elgar
Hymns:
Saviour again to thy dear name - Ellers
The day Thou gavest- St Clement
* a local composer, retired Lay Clerk at Southwell Minster, now sings in the choir of this church. Joint choirs of the church and a choral society.
Be Still, For The Presence Of The Lord (David J. Evans )
Light Of The World (Tim Hughes)
Lo, He Comes With Clouds Descending (Helmsley)
Forty-ish of us n the room all singing lustily - a good morning of worship to God
Here I am Lord
Take our bread we ask you
This is my body
The kingdom of heaven.
The last one has the same rhythm and chords as La Bamba. I resisted the temptation.
People sang their heads off joyfully.
The Sanctus was a responsorial setting. Im a huge fan of them as they put me in mind of Ezekiel (I think) where the angels in heaven sing "Holy, holy" one to another.
We have come into this place and gathered in his name
How great thou art
Guide me O thou great Jehovah
And a couple of others that were unfamiliar to me being of the Rédemption Songs type that are still popular in some places in these parts. (The next burgh along the coast is holding its Traditional Boat Festival this weekend, and the local church is joining in with a Redemption Songs sing song this evening.)
More memorable was that the South African Deacon leading worship decided to turn up in a knock-off version of a Scotland strip….
“O, For a Thousand Tongues to Sing”/AZMON
“Send Me, Jesus” (Thuma mina)/THUMA MINA
“We Are One in the Spirit” (“And They’ll Know We Are Christians by Our Love”)
“Lord, Prepare Me” (“Sanctuary”)/SANCTUARY
“Christ Be Beside Me”/BUNESSAN
Strength will rise as we wait upon the Lord
The Butterfly Song (complete with actions)
Be Thou my Vision
To be honest, I don't know. The church wasn't quite full, but I'm not sure if it was footie-related!
Like many Piskie churches, quite a few of our congregation are English, so maybe wouldn't be following the fortunes of Scotland?
Yes, I did have that thought too.
They are to have:
Praise, my soul, the King of heaven (Praise My Soul)
Great is thy faithfulness (Faithfulness/Runyan)
Now let us from this table rise (Solothurn)
Something from The Sheet*
*From past experience, this will no doubt be the egregious Onward, Christian families (St Gertrude).
“Abba, Father" (Dave Bilbrough).
“How deep the Father’s love for us” (Stuart Townend).
“'Take up your cross,' the Saviour said" - Breslau.
“Lead us, heavenly Father” - Mannheim.
Jesus is King and I will extol him - own tune
Just as I am, without one plea - Saffron Walden
Rejoice, the Lord is King! - Gopsal
All people that on earth do dwell - Old Hundredth
Jubilate, everybody -Jubilate Deo
Lord, for the years
Will you come and follow me - Kelvingrove
O for a thousand tongues to sing - Lyngham
I can't help wondering if John Bell and Timothy Dudley-Smith were being paid by the line - do these hymns really need to have so many verses? 🤔
O Worship The Lord In The Beauty Of Holiness (Was Lebet)
Break Thou the bread of life (Sherwin)
How Sweet the Name of Jesus Sounds (St Peter)
You could have asked Charles Wesley the same question: "O for a thousand" originally had 18 verses (at least). Try singing that to a fuguing tune such as "Lyngham"!
I want to see Jesus lifted high
He is the Lord and he reigns on high
Light of the world, you stepped down into darkness
You are beautiful beyond description
I'm coming back to the heart of worship
Unless I'm mistaken those are all from quite a short period around 20-30 years ago (I think I learned them all at university in the 00s and they were fairly new). Curious.
We had:
Make way
Praise the one who breaks the darkness
The King of love my shepherd is
How deep the Father's love for us
O love that wilt not let me go
Introit: If ye love me - Tallis
anthem: God so loved the world - Stainer
Canticles from the Psalter.
Hymns:
Take up thy cross- Breslau
Lead kindly light- Alberta
Praise my soul the King of heaven- Lobe den Herren
Not our usual conductor but he was excellent and began by curing a cypher on the organ.
Choir outnumbered the congregation 2 : 1.
At the last minute, just before robing, we realised that the person down to read the second lesson was not there so your truly volunteered, with no time to check it out.
Praise to the Lord, the Almighty, the King of creation- Lobe den Herren
Today, we had:
“Sing Praise to God Who Reigns Above”/MIT FREUDEN ZART
“Give Thanks”/GIVE THANKS
“There in God’s Garden”/SHADES MOUNTAIN
Interesting spelling but I don't think Lyngham deserves that sort of language!
Sorry- coat?
I saw what you did there.
All people that on earth do dwell
God of grace and God of glory
Put peace into each other’s hands
May the mind of Christ my saviour
From the sun’s rising
We don’t very often include anything from the last 10-20 years, but I try to make sure there’s at least one from less than 50 years and one from more than 100 years ago.
Holy God we praise thy name
Take our bread.
Let all mortal flesh keep silence
He who would valiant be.
A very Anglican selection, if I may be so bold.
Take my life, and let it be (Innocents or Nottingham)
Something from The Sheet
Let us break bread together (Anon)
One more step along the world I go (Southcote)
They're also having a metrical Lord's Prayer, but it's not clear from FInC's pewsheet which one - possibly the one set to Kum Ba Yah.
An odd selection IMHO...
Praise God From Whom All Blessings Flow (Dave Clifton and Andy Piercy)
Thou, Whose Almighty Word (Moscow)
Speak, O Lord, As We Come To You (Keith Getty and Stuart Townend)
Love Divine, All Loves Excelling (Blaenwern)
Mass setting K220 Spatzen-Messe Mozart
Anthem: E'vry time I feel the spirit - Chilcott
Hymns:
As the deer (Nystrom)
Lord you give the great commission (Abbots Leigh)
Thou art the Christ (Love Unknown)
Thy hand O God has guided (Thornbury)
Big choir, good sing. A bit of a crunch of gears as we moved from the Chilcott to the Ireland...
Cheers
Heron
Mass of St Thomas
For all the saints- Sine Nomine
Fight the good fight- Duke Street
In our day of thanksgiving*
Let us break bread together
And can it be - Sagina
*this was changed but I cannot recall what was sung instead.
Here I am Lord
O the word of my Lord (song of a young prophet)
Be still for the presence
I will be with you, wherever you go.
Musicians were thin on the ground and the congregation was smaller than we are used to, so it was all a bit like pushing a boulder up hill. Hot weather kept the more frail safely indoors.
The Something from The Sheet was an appropriate hymn about St Peter and St Paul, sung to the tune Gonfalon Royal (The royal banners forward go), and they eschewed the metrical Lord's Prayer, thereby avoiding the ghastly Kum Ba Yah...
But it was read with all the expression of someone dictating a list of e-mail addresses.
A shame.