Praise Him, Praise Him! Jesus, Our Blessèd Redeemer (Joyful Song)
Just As I Am, Without One Plea (Woodworth)
O For A Heart To Praise My God (Abridge)
And Can It Be (Sagina)
“Jesus! the name high over all” - Lydia.
“Come into his presence, singing Alleluia” - anon.
“King of kings, majesty” - Jarod Cooper.
“Blest are the pure in heart” - Franconia.
“Have you been to Jesus?” - Washed in the blood.
Trinity 20 (*God and the Emperor* Sunday):
Glorious things of thee are spoken (Austria) Christ triumphant (Guiting Power) O thou who at thy Eucharist didst pray (Song 1) Guide me O thou great Redeemer (Cwm Rhondda)
Give to our God immortal praise (Warrington) O thou who camest from above (Hereford) Rock of ages (Petra) I watch the sunrise The kingdom of God is justice and joy (Paderborn)
I made the interesting discovery that the Toplady tune for Rock of Ages was known well enough for several people to hum along whilst I was using it to improvise to during the Offertory. I may well try it next time we sing it. Last time I did that, it went down like the proverbial lead balloon. Our congregation's demographic has altered quite a bit recently, though.
I watch the sunrise - it was a special request to have it at least once before our annual memorial service so when we got to it those in our regular congregation who attend that service would know it better. (We've no choir but have pretty reasonable congregational singing.) I have a sneaky suspicion more people actually know it far better than they are letting on but don't necessarily like it so won't sing. However, the several who I know do like it were all there and singing well, so hopefully, I won't have to do this again anytime soon.
Praise to the Lord the almighty
All my hope on God is founded
Jesus shall reign ( Truro)
Jesus stand among us
We have a gospel to proclaim
Visiting organist so we sang our usual Mass of St Thomas, though he mangled some of our cues. Hymns included some “unfamiliar” chords too, but we are just grateful for an organist.
"Judge eternal throned in splendor" / KOMM, O KOMM, DU GEIST DES LEBENS
Psalm 99, chanted
"In your mercy, Lord, you called me" / HALTON HOLGATE
"O for a closer walk with God" / CAITHNESS
"I sought the Lord, and afterward I knew" / FAITH
"All my hope on God is founded" / MICHAEL
I hadn't been long in Wales when we had a local Baptist ministers' meeting in Salem Chapel, Tonteg (near Pontypridd). John Hughes, who wrote Cwm Rhondda, was a Deacon there and we were taken to see his grave in the churchyard - very moving. BTW he wasn't a professional musician but a clerk in the Great Western Railway. https://tinyurl.com/5ftd4927
The stand out hymn this morning was Bernadette Farrell's gorgeous O Lord you Search Me and You Know Me. It always moves me deeply.
Folks will be pleased to hear that she is making a steady and real recovery from her recent serious illness.
Thanks for the update! I had been wondering, and I’m glad to hear good news.
Praise to the living God! (Leoni)
All my hope on God is founded (Michael)
In your mercy, Lord, you called me (Halton Holgate)
Before the Lord's eternal throne (Winchester New)
Choral:
Ruth Watson Henderson: Missa brevis (1976)
Johann Caspar Aiblinger: Meditabor
Thomas Hoekstra: Psalm 8 (1996)
October 22nd, Pentecost 21
Hymns
Bring many names, / Westchase
Responsorial setting of Psalm 99, Methodist chant
O spirit of the living God, / Gonfalon Royal
Lord for the years, / Timothy Dudley-Smith, Michael Baughen
Choir
O Lord, increase my faith, / Gibbons
Ascribe unto the Lord, / SS Wesley
I don’t usually list the organist’s prelude etc. but this week’s were a little different and were also identified in the service sheet.
Preludes:
Sie Liebten sich Beide from Sechs Lieder (op. 13, No. 2) by Clara Schumann, words by Heinrich Heine, for voice and piano.
Praeludium in D minor by Clara Schumann, (Op. 16, No. 3)
During the Offering: O wie selig seid ihr doch, ihr frommen, / Brahms
Recessional: Nun danket, / Karg-Elert
Being the 5th Sunday in the month our morning communion followed the Book of Common Prayer, although I'm not sure what Cranmer would have made of a Tesco sandwich bag containing the bread on the altar.
Guide me, O my great Redeemer
O Jesus, I have promised
Before the Throne of God Above
Bible Sunday at Our Place, with:
At the name of Jesus (either Evelyns or Camberwell)* Will you come and follow me (Kelvingrove) What a friend we have in Jesus (What a friend/Converse) We have a gospel to proclaim (Fulda)
*I don't go to services now, and my Spy is away this w/e, so I'm not sure which of these tunes was used - we know both of them)
I must suggest to our new rector that a spot of Cranmer's Matchless Prose™ whenever we have a fifth Sunday would be a Very Good Thing.
Our offerings (anticipating All Saints) were:
All hail the power of Jesus' name - Miles Lane Blest are the pure in heart - Franconia Glory to thee, O God - Love Unknown Praise to God for saints and martyrs - Ebenezer For all the saints - Sine Nomine
I must suggest to our new rector that a spot of Cranmer's Matchless Prose™ whenever we have a fifth Sunday would be a Very Good Thing.
Our offerings (anticipating All Saints) were:
All hail the power of Jesus' name - Miles Lane Blest are the pure in heart - Franconia Glory to thee, O God - Love Unknown Praise to God for saints and martyrs - Ebenezer For all the saints - Sine Nomine
Would the Scottish 1970 Liturgy suit you? IIRC, it's rather more like 1549 than 1552/1662...
I like Praise to God for saints and martyrs, but prefer the traditional Dutch melody - In Babilone - to Ebenezer. Our organist disagrees with me, but we long ago (when I was choosing the hymns!) agreed to differ!
The Old-Catholics in Utrecht began Mass this morning with POM! For all the saints (to RVW's Sine Nomine), and ended with what I think was Ye holy angels bright (to Darwall's 148th).
They included the Commemoration of All Souls within the celebration of All Saints, for which Ye holy angels bright is extremely appropriate.
"Praise to the living God!" / LEONI
Psalm 90:1-6, 13-17, chanted.
"Rise up, ye saints of God!" / FESTAL SONG
"What does the Lord require?" / SHARPTHORNE
"Come with us O blessed Jesus" / WERDE MUNTER
"All hail the power of Jesus' name" / CORONATION
Our postlude was a 16th century Venetian Motet entitled Abeuntes Pharisei, for which the lyrics are the Gospel passage (albeit in Latin) our minister picked today, Matthew 22:15-21. I thought that was a pretty good find!
Would the Scottish 1970 Liturgy suit you? IIRC, it's rather more like 1549 than 1552/1662...
To be honest, I don't know; I'm a relative newcomer to the Scottish Piskies, so not very well-versed in which book is which.
Apart from Evensong, the Sunday services at St Pete's are all what I would call "modern words", have the Gloria in the wrong place and don't include the Prayer for the Church Militant.
I'm not that well up on Piskie liturgy, either, but I guess the one you use at St Pete's is the 1982 contemporary-language service, analogous to Common Worship Order One in the C of E. The same basic layout is found, of course, in the Roman Catholic Mass and many Lutheran liturgies.
The SEC's 1970 liturgy is AIUI closer to Cranmer's 1549 version of Holy Communion/Masse, but how much of it is identical to 1662, I couldn't say. Scottish Shipmates may be able to tell us if 1662 is ever used in SEC churches for Holy Communion - it is used for Evensong, I believe.
I'm not that well up on Piskie liturgy, either, but I guess the one you use at St Pete's is the 1982 contemporary-language service, analogous to Common Worship Order One in the C of E. The same basic layout is found, of course, in the Roman Catholic Mass and many Lutheran liturgies.
The SEC's 1970 liturgy is AIUI closer to Cranmer's 1549 version of Holy Communion/Masse, but how much of it is identical to 1662, I couldn't say. Scottish Shipmates may be able to tell us if 1662 is ever used in SEC churches for Holy Communion - it is used for Evensong, I believe.
If one were inclined to use the BCP it would likely be the currently authorised 1929 Scottish BCP, but I suspect that the 1970 liturgy is more likely. Holy Communion is the major point of divergence between English and Scottish BsCP, with the Scottish version having an explicit epiclesis not found in the 1662 rite.
I'm not that well up on Piskie liturgy, either, but I guess the one you use at St Pete's is the 1982 contemporary-language service, analogous to Common Worship Order One in the C of E. The same basic layout is found, of course, in the Roman Catholic Mass and many Lutheran liturgies.
The SEC's 1970 liturgy is AIUI closer to Cranmer's 1549 version of Holy Communion/Masse, but how much of it is identical to 1662, I couldn't say. Scottish Shipmates may be able to tell us if 1662 is ever used in SEC churches for Holy Communion - it is used for Evensong, I believe.
If one were inclined to use the BCP it would likely be the currently authorised 1929 Scottish BCP, but I suspect that the 1970 liturgy is more likely. Holy Communion is the major point of divergence between English and Scottish BsCP, with the Scottish version having an explicit epiclesis not found in the 1662 rite.
Thanks! I had a feeling that there was another BCP (the Scottish 1929 book), but hadn't got around to looking it up.
I'm not that well up on Piskie liturgy, either, but I guess the one you use at St Pete's is the 1982 contemporary-language service, analogous to Common Worship Order One in the C of E. The same basic layout is found, of course, in the Roman Catholic Mass and many Lutheran liturgies.
The SEC's 1970 liturgy is AIUI closer to Cranmer's 1549 version of Holy Communion/Masse, but how much of it is identical to 1662, I couldn't say. Scottish Shipmates may be able to tell us if 1662 is ever used in SEC churches for Holy Communion - it is used for Evensong, I believe.
If one were inclined to use the BCP it would likely be the currently authorised 1929 Scottish BCP, but I suspect that the 1970 liturgy is more likely. Holy Communion is the major point of divergence between English and Scottish BsCP, with the Scottish version having an explicit epiclesis not found in the 1662 rite.
Thanks! I had a feeling that there was another BCP (the Scottish 1929 book), but hadn't got around to looking it up.
Available here: http://justus.anglican.org/resources/bcp/Scotland/Scotland.htm
Intriguingly there appears to have been no Gaelic translation of the 1929 BCP, presumably by that time few Highland congregations were still Gaelic speaking and there were few congregations full stop in the Isles.
I'm not that well up on Piskie liturgy, either, but I guess the one you use at St Pete's is the 1982 contemporary-language service, analogous to Common Worship Order One in the C of E. The same basic layout is found, of course, in the Roman Catholic Mass and many Lutheran liturgies.
The SEC's 1970 liturgy is AIUI closer to Cranmer's 1549 version of Holy Communion/Masse, but how much of it is identical to 1662, I couldn't say. Scottish Shipmates may be able to tell us if 1662 is ever used in SEC churches for Holy Communion - it is used for Evensong, I believe.
If one were inclined to use the BCP it would likely be the currently authorised 1929 Scottish BCP, but I suspect that the 1970 liturgy is more likely. Holy Communion is the major point of divergence between English and Scottish BsCP, with the Scottish version having an explicit epiclesis not found in the 1662 rite.
Thanks! I had a feeling that there was another BCP (the Scottish 1929 book), but hadn't got around to looking it up.
Available here: http://justus.anglican.org/resources/bcp/Scotland/Scotland.htm
Intriguingly there appears to have been no Gaelic translation of the 1929 BCP, presumably by that time few Highland congregations were still Gaelic speaking and there were few congregations full stop in the Isles.
Apparently the Gaelic translation of the Roman Missal was undertaken in Nova Scotia. There are Hebredian RC communities that were never touched by the reformation on the mainland. Garlic is still spoken among them.
Yes ,there are certain areas of the Hebrides which the Reformation never reached, both on the mainland and out in the islands. A number of these communities moved to Canada in the wake of the Battle of Culloden and kept their Catholic faith there.
I do like the idea of them speaking Garlic,although I think that it is just a typo.
Interestingly, well to me at any rate, it wasn't so much that they kept the Catholic faith but rather that they were never evangelised by the new Presbyterians.
Later on some of the areas were re-evangelised by priests from Ireland while others were evangelised by 'extreme' evangelicals which led to the strict sabbatarianism in the 'protestant' islands.
I'm not that well up on Piskie liturgy, either, but I guess the one you use at St Pete's is the 1982 contemporary-language service, analogous to Common Worship Order One in the C of E. The same basic layout is found, of course, in the Roman Catholic Mass and many Lutheran liturgies.
The SEC's 1970 liturgy is AIUI closer to Cranmer's 1549 version of Holy Communion/Masse, but how much of it is identical to 1662, I couldn't say. Scottish Shipmates may be able to tell us if 1662 is ever used in SEC churches for Holy Communion - it is used for Evensong, I believe.
If one were inclined to use the BCP it would likely be the currently authorised 1929 Scottish BCP, but I suspect that the 1970 liturgy is more likely. Holy Communion is the major point of divergence between English and Scottish BsCP, with the Scottish version having an explicit epiclesis not found in the 1662 rite.
Thanks! I had a feeling that there was another BCP (the Scottish 1929 book), but hadn't got around to looking it up.
Available here: http://justus.anglican.org/resources/bcp/Scotland/Scotland.htm
Intriguingly there appears to have been no Gaelic translation of the 1929 BCP, presumably by that time few Highland congregations were still Gaelic speaking and there were few congregations full stop in the Isles.
Apparently the Gaelic translation of the Roman Missal was undertaken in Nova Scotia. There are Hebredian RC communities that were never touched by the reformation on the mainland. Garlic is still spoken among them.
Aye, mostly in Barra and South Uist (the Old Faith survived here longer than elsewhere but eventually the Church of the Yellow Stick got its way). There was a hymn book produced for them in the 80s which I'd dearly like to get my hands on (not least to see if there are Gaelic Mass settings available) but it is long out of print and I suspect not that many copies were printed in the first place.
Praise, My Soul, The King Of Heaven (Lauda Anima)
Glorious Things Of Thee Are Spoken (Austria)
The Earth Is The Lord’s (Kendrick)
Every Promise Of Your Word (Getty/Townend)
Sung lustily. Apart from the Kendrick which had undertones of embarrassment.
Being the first Sunday of the month, our main morning service was "worship for everyone", i.e. children & youth remained in church throughout rather than leaving for their own groups after the first few minutes.
We sang:
Behold our God (Jonathan Baird, Meghan Baird, Ryan Baird, Stephen Altrogge)
My Lighthouse (Rend Collective)
The Lord's my Shepherd (Adapted Stuart Townend)
Build your Kingdom here (Rend Collective)
Verses 1-4 of For all the Saints (Sine Nomine)
An offertory hymn, whose identity my Spy can't remember! I bind unto myself today (St Patrick's Breastplate - verse 1 and doxology sung by all, the rest by a small group of cantors*)
Verses 5-8 of For all the Saints (Sine Nomine)
The guest organist played part of Handel's Music for the Royal Fireworks as a postlude... 🎆🧨🎇
*A new and welcome development - a lady who has been a member of the congregation for many years, and whose children are now out in the world following University, is getting together a small group, or choir, of 3 or 4 people, including one of our Indian students.
Lord, I lift your name on high with actions in the chorus Good, good Father The Lord's my Shepherd with the "And I will trust in you alone" bits in between My Jesus, My Saviour We bow down and confess (you are lord in this place) King of Kings, Majesty
We had:
Sing to God new songs of worship (ODE TO JOY)
Be still for the presence of the Lord
Just as I am
Great is thy faithfulness
Be thou my vision (SLANE)
We had:
Sing to God new songs of worship (ODE TO JOY)
Be still for the presence of the Lord
Just as I am
Great is thy faithfulness
Be thou my vision (SLANE)
A lovely selection - I know them all! What tune did you sing to Just as I am ?
We had:
Sing to God new songs of worship (ODE TO JOY)
Be still for the presence of the Lord
Just as I am
Great is thy faithfulness
Be thou my vision (SLANE)
A lovely selection - I know them all! What tune did you sing to Just as I am ?
I was hoping no-one would ask as I recorded it a while ago and couldn't remember the name! But it was SAFFRON WALDEN, which is the first of two tunes in CH4, the other being MISERICORDIA.
Yes, those two are in Our Place's hymnbook. My own preference is for Saffron Walden, but Misericordia is good, too.
This is one of a couple of hymns which remind me very vividly of My Old Mum (died 2004), although AFAIK it wasn't one of her particular favourites. She was an unassuming person, and the hymn seems somehow to encapsulate her simple and unassuming faith.
Our offerings today, in a very full church*, sung lustily and with good courage:
Lift up your hearts - Woodlands Let us praise God together - Praise God King of glory, King of peace - Gwalchmai Lord Jesus, think on me - Southwell Thine be the glory - Maccabeus
As it was the first Sunday of the month, we had Evensong too:
Come down, O Love divine - Down Ampney As pants the hart for cooling streams - Martyrdom God be in my head - God be in my head Love divine, all loves excelling - Love Divine (oh dear - really should have been either Blaenwern or Hyfrydol).
* we had our AGM after the service, and the church was so full that when the members of the Youth Group came and joined us for Communion after their meeting, they had to bring out spare folding chairs for them!
You were lucky. Our Place's AGM (or Annual Parochial Church Meeting, as it is yclept in the C of E) usually sees only a dozen or so hardy souls staying on after Mass, and that service has an equally sparse congregation, too.
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Just As I Am, Without One Plea (Woodworth)
O For A Heart To Praise My God (Abridge)
And Can It Be (Sagina)
Double Wesley
“Jesus! the name high over all” - Lydia.
“Come into his presence, singing Alleluia” - anon.
“King of kings, majesty” - Jarod Cooper.
“Blest are the pure in heart” - Franconia.
“Have you been to Jesus?” - Washed in the blood.
Glorious things of thee are spoken (Austria)
Christ triumphant (Guiting Power)
O thou who at thy Eucharist didst pray (Song 1)
Guide me O thou great Redeemer (Cwm Rhondda)
O thou who camest from above (Hereford)
Rock of ages (Petra)
I watch the sunrise
The kingdom of God is justice and joy (Paderborn)
I made the interesting discovery that the Toplady tune for Rock of Ages was known well enough for several people to hum along whilst I was using it to improvise to during the Offertory. I may well try it next time we sing it. Last time I did that, it went down like the proverbial lead balloon. Our congregation's demographic has altered quite a bit recently, though.
I watch the sunrise - it was a special request to have it at least once before our annual memorial service so when we got to it those in our regular congregation who attend that service would know it better. (We've no choir but have pretty reasonable congregational singing.) I have a sneaky suspicion more people actually know it far better than they are letting on but don't necessarily like it so won't sing. However, the several who I know do like it were all there and singing well, so hopefully, I won't have to do this again anytime soon.
All my hope on God is founded
Jesus shall reign ( Truro)
Jesus stand among us
We have a gospel to proclaim
Visiting organist so we sang our usual Mass of St Thomas, though he mangled some of our cues. Hymns included some “unfamiliar” chords too, but we are just grateful for an organist.
"Judge eternal throned in splendor" / KOMM, O KOMM, DU GEIST DES LEBENS
Psalm 99, chanted
"In your mercy, Lord, you called me" / HALTON HOLGATE
"O for a closer walk with God" / CAITHNESS
"I sought the Lord, and afterward I knew" / FAITH
"All my hope on God is founded" / MICHAEL
Choral: "Father eternal, ruler of creation"
Gibbons and Cwm Rhondda - lucky you!
Hope that’s a good thing and that it goes well.
Praise to the living God! (Leoni)
All my hope on God is founded (Michael)
In your mercy, Lord, you called me (Halton Holgate)
Before the Lord's eternal throne (Winchester New)
Choral:
Ruth Watson Henderson: Missa brevis (1976)
Johann Caspar Aiblinger: Meditabor
Thomas Hoekstra: Psalm 8 (1996)
Hymns
Bring many names, / Westchase
Responsorial setting of Psalm 99, Methodist chant
O spirit of the living God, / Gonfalon Royal
Lord for the years, / Timothy Dudley-Smith, Michael Baughen
Choir
O Lord, increase my faith, / Gibbons
Ascribe unto the Lord, / SS Wesley
I don’t usually list the organist’s prelude etc. but this week’s were a little different and were also identified in the service sheet.
Preludes:
Sie Liebten sich Beide from Sechs Lieder (op. 13, No. 2) by Clara Schumann, words by Heinrich Heine, for voice and piano.
Praeludium in D minor by Clara Schumann, (Op. 16, No. 3)
During the Offering: O wie selig seid ihr doch, ihr frommen, / Brahms
Recessional: Nun danket, / Karg-Elert
O Breath of Life (Spiritus Vitae)
O Jesus I have Promised (Thornbury)
Be Thou My Vision (Slane)
All sung con gusto
Guide me, O my great Redeemer
O Jesus, I have promised
Before the Throne of God Above
Bible Sunday at Our Place, with:
At the name of Jesus (either Evelyns or Camberwell)*
Will you come and follow me (Kelvingrove)
What a friend we have in Jesus (What a friend/Converse)
We have a gospel to proclaim (Fulda)
*I don't go to services now, and my Spy is away this w/e, so I'm not sure which of these tunes was used - we know both of them)
Our offerings (anticipating All Saints) were:
All hail the power of Jesus' name - Miles Lane
Blest are the pure in heart - Franconia
Glory to thee, O God - Love Unknown
Praise to God for saints and martyrs - Ebenezer
For all the saints - Sine Nomine
Would the Scottish 1970 Liturgy suit you? IIRC, it's rather more like 1549 than 1552/1662...
I like Praise to God for saints and martyrs, but prefer the traditional Dutch melody - In Babilone - to Ebenezer. Our organist disagrees with me, but we long ago (when I was choosing the hymns!) agreed to differ!
“O Lord, all the world belongs to you”.
“We're citizens of heaven” - Morning Light.
“Take my life and let it be” - St Bees.
“Rejoice, the Lord is king” - Darwall's 148th.
They included the Commemoration of All Souls within the celebration of All Saints, for which Ye holy angels bright is extremely appropriate.
This is the day
All creatures of our God and King
Will you come and follow me
Make me a channel of your peace
Mine eyes have seen the glory
Preparations afoot for our minister's first in-person service and his first ever celebration of Holy Communion.
"Praise to the living God!" / LEONI
Psalm 90:1-6, 13-17, chanted.
"Rise up, ye saints of God!" / FESTAL SONG
"What does the Lord require?" / SHARPTHORNE
"Come with us O blessed Jesus" / WERDE MUNTER
"All hail the power of Jesus' name" / CORONATION
The postlude was J.S. Bach's Halloween Tocatta
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No no no - it's BONK! For all the saints!
An Organist's Widow Has Spoken.
Apart from Evensong, the Sunday services at St Pete's are all what I would call "modern words", have the Gloria in the wrong place and don't include the Prayer for the Church Militant.
The SEC's 1970 liturgy is AIUI closer to Cranmer's 1549 version of Holy Communion/Masse, but how much of it is identical to 1662, I couldn't say. Scottish Shipmates may be able to tell us if 1662 is ever used in SEC churches for Holy Communion - it is used for Evensong, I believe.
If one were inclined to use the BCP it would likely be the currently authorised 1929 Scottish BCP, but I suspect that the 1970 liturgy is more likely. Holy Communion is the major point of divergence between English and Scottish BsCP, with the Scottish version having an explicit epiclesis not found in the 1662 rite.
Thanks! I had a feeling that there was another BCP (the Scottish 1929 book), but hadn't got around to looking it up.
Available here:
http://justus.anglican.org/resources/bcp/Scotland/Scotland.htm
Intriguingly there appears to have been no Gaelic translation of the 1929 BCP, presumably by that time few Highland congregations were still Gaelic speaking and there were few congregations full stop in the Isles.
Apparently the Gaelic translation of the Roman Missal was undertaken in Nova Scotia. There are Hebredian RC communities that were never touched by the reformation on the mainland. Garlic is still spoken among them.
I do like the idea of them speaking Garlic,although I think that it is just a typo.
Interestingly, well to me at any rate, it wasn't so much that they kept the Catholic faith but rather that they were never evangelised by the new Presbyterians.
Later on some of the areas were re-evangelised by priests from Ireland while others were evangelised by 'extreme' evangelicals which led to the strict sabbatarianism in the 'protestant' islands.
Aye, mostly in Barra and South Uist (the Old Faith survived here longer than elsewhere but eventually the Church of the Yellow Stick got its way). There was a hymn book produced for them in the 80s which I'd dearly like to get my hands on (not least to see if there are Gaelic Mass settings available) but it is long out of print and I suspect not that many copies were printed in the first place.
Praise, My Soul, The King Of Heaven (Lauda Anima)
Glorious Things Of Thee Are Spoken (Austria)
The Earth Is The Lord’s (Kendrick)
Every Promise Of Your Word (Getty/Townend)
Sung lustily. Apart from the Kendrick which had undertones of embarrassment.
We sang:
Behold our God (Jonathan Baird, Meghan Baird, Ryan Baird, Stephen Altrogge)
My Lighthouse (Rend Collective)
The Lord's my Shepherd (Adapted Stuart Townend)
Build your Kingdom here (Rend Collective)
Verses 1-4 of For all the Saints (Sine Nomine)
An offertory hymn, whose identity my Spy can't remember!
I bind unto myself today (St Patrick's Breastplate - verse 1 and doxology sung by all, the rest by a small group of cantors*)
Verses 5-8 of For all the Saints (Sine Nomine)
The guest organist played part of Handel's Music for the Royal Fireworks as a postlude... 🎆🧨🎇
*A new and welcome development - a lady who has been a member of the congregation for many years, and whose children are now out in the world following University, is getting together a small group, or choir, of 3 or 4 people, including one of our Indian students.
Good, good Father
The Lord's my Shepherd with the "And I will trust in you alone" bits in between
My Jesus, My Saviour
We bow down and confess (you are lord in this place)
King of Kings, Majesty
“Teach me to dance” - Kendrick.
“Teach me thy way, O Lord” - Path Divine.
“O Master, let me walk with thee” - Maryton.
“The Servant King” - Kendrick.
Here I am Lord
Take our bread
This is my body
Sing it in the valleys.
Sing to God new songs of worship (ODE TO JOY)
Be still for the presence of the Lord
Just as I am
Great is thy faithfulness
Be thou my vision (SLANE)
A lovely selection - I know them all! What tune did you sing to Just as I am ?
I was hoping no-one would ask as I recorded it a while ago and couldn't remember the name! But it was SAFFRON WALDEN, which is the first of two tunes in CH4, the other being MISERICORDIA.
This is one of a couple of hymns which remind me very vividly of My Old Mum (died 2004), although AFAIK it wasn't one of her particular favourites. She was an unassuming person, and the hymn seems somehow to encapsulate her simple and unassuming faith.
Lift up your hearts - Woodlands
Let us praise God together - Praise God
King of glory, King of peace - Gwalchmai
Lord Jesus, think on me - Southwell
Thine be the glory - Maccabeus
As it was the first Sunday of the month, we had Evensong too:
Come down, O Love divine - Down Ampney
As pants the hart for cooling streams - Martyrdom
God be in my head - God be in my head
Love divine, all loves excelling - Love Divine (oh dear - really should have been either Blaenwern or Hyfrydol).
* we had our AGM after the service, and the church was so full that when the members of the Youth Group came and joined us for Communion after their meeting, they had to bring out spare folding chairs for them!
General
Annual General Meeting.