Me too. Rather more lively than EVELYNS which is favoured in the place where I sing.
Messing around on the piano I discovered that it goes rather well to Land of Hope and Glory. I am probably the last person in the Universe to realise that!
Awake, awake, fling off the night! / DEUS TUORUM MILITUM (which neatly dovetailed with our reading from Ephesians 5: Sleeper, awake! Rise from the dead, and Christ will shine on you)
Jesus is King and I will extol him / Wendy Churchill
Stand Up, Stand Up for Jesus / WEBB (Using the words of Jean Holloway so we were not George Duffield’s Ye soldiers of the cross)
Our Place kept Candlemas (The Presentation Of Christ In The Temple) today, with the following ditties:
Lord, the light of your love (Shine, Jesus, shine) Immortal love, for ever full (Bishopsthorpe) King of glory, King of peace (Gwalchmai) When candles are lighted on Candlemas Day (IIRC the same tune as sung in RC Places to Immaculate Mary )
I'm glad I was absent - they could at least have had Faithful vigil ended...
The final hymn was to be sung in procession (with lit candles - ironically, it was a bright and sunny morning here!), ending up at the image of Our Lady, where the candles could be left burning in the votive stand.
Me too. Rather more lively than EVELYNS which is favoured in the place where I sing.
Messing around on the piano I discovered that it goes rather well to Land of Hope and Glory. I am probably the last person in the Universe to realise that!
+Mervyn Stockwood used to like singing it to that tune and he had it as the closing hymn at his farewell service
We had: Christ is the world's light (CHRISTE SANCTORUM)
Faithful vigil ended. (PASTOR PASTORUM)
King of glory, King of peace. (GWALCHMAI)
Love divine (BLAENWERN).
During communion: Bread of heaven (BREAD OF HEAVEN)
My God and is thy table spread (ROCKINGHAM)
Guest organist and (for us) a decent singers' turnout... if only our congregation could feel the urge to make a joyful (or just some) noise to the Lord.
The tune you want for At the name of Jesus is King's Weston.
Offerings at St Pete's this morning:
Arise to greet the Lord of light - Repton Father of heaven, whose love profound - Rievaulx Earth has many a noble city - Stuttgart Jerusalem the golden - Ewing And can it be? - Sagina (during the last verse of which one of the ladies in the choir decided it would be fun to deploy a tambourine ) Luckily, not very loudly ...
Don't get me wrong - I have nothing against tambourines, but if you want them in church, go and join the Sally Army. In fairness to the lady concerned, she mentioned it very definitely tongue-in-cheek at choir practice yesterday, and the organist, who's lovely but a wee bit clueless in matters liturgical, thought it was a good idea.
For reasons best known to herself, the organist played Mull of Kintyre after the last hymn.
The tune you want for At the name of Jesus is King's Weston.
Offerings at St Pete's this morning:
Arise to greet the Lord of light - Repton Father of heaven, whose love profound - Rievaulx Earth has many a noble city - Stuttgart Jerusalem the golden - Ewing And can it be? - Sagina (during the last verse of which one of the ladies in the choir decided it would be fun to deploy a tambourine ) Luckily, not very loudly ...
Don't get me wrong - I have nothing against tambourines, but if you want them in church, go and join the Sally Army. In fairness to the lady concerned, she mentioned it very definitely tongue-in-cheek at choir practice yesterday, and the organist, who's lovely but a wee bit clueless in matters liturgical, thought it was a good idea.
For reasons best known to herself, the organist played Mull of Kintyre after the last hymn.
Kintyre is quite a long way from Linlithgow, I suppose, so maybe that's where the organist would like to have sent the Tambourine Lady?
I use a tambourine to keep everyone singing together during the Palm Sunday procession. It works well as a device and kind of reminds us that the original entry into Jerusalem was a long way from the typical po-faced organised affair we do on that day.
I use a tambourine to keep everyone singing together ddeauring the Palm Sunday procession. It works well as a device and kind of reminds us that the original entry into Jerusalem was a long way from the typical po-faced organised affair we do on that day.
A good idea.
Our Place's Palm Sunday is quite a modest affair, but even with a small congregation it's not easy to keep everyone together. We sing All glory, laud, and honour for the fairly short procession out of the Hall, into the street, round the corner, and into the Church, and in the past I've managed it by bellowing VERY LOUDLY (and possibly tunelessly, but at least in time IYSWIM).
Madam Sacristan helps sometimes with a Salvation Army uniformed youth group, so is familiar with a tambourine. However, even she might find it difficult to handle thurible and tambourine at the same time...
I use a tambourine to keep everyone singing together ddeauring the Palm Sunday procession. It works well as a device and kind of reminds us that the original entry into Jerusalem was a long way from the typical po-faced organised affair we do on that day.
A good idea.
Our Place's Palm Sunday is quite a modest affair, but even with a small congregation it's not easy to keep everyone together. We sing All glory, laud, and honour for the fairly short procession out of the Hall, into the street, round the corner, and into the Church, and in the past I've managed it by bellowing VERY LOUDLY (and possibly tunelessly, but at least in time IYSWIM).
Madam Sacristan helps sometimes with a Salvation Army uniformed youth group, so is familiar with a tambourine. However, even she might find it difficult to handle thurible and tambourine at the same time...
Time for someone to invent the thurmblourine, methinks.
O Love That Will Not Let Me Go (St. Margaret)
Immortal, Invisible, God Only Wise (St. Denio)
I Heard the Voice of Jesus Say (Kingsfold)
All Creatures of Our God And King (Lasst Uns Erfreuen)
Some complaints received that the hymns were all "ancient". Whereas I thought 3 of them were vintage.
I use a tambourine to keep everyone singing together ddeauring the Palm Sunday procession. It works well as a device and kind of reminds us that the original entry into Jerusalem was a long way from the typical po-faced organised affair we do on that day.
A good idea.
Our Place's Palm Sunday is quite a modest affair, but even with a small congregation it's not easy to keep everyone together. We sing All glory, laud, and honour for the fairly short procession out of the Hall, into the street, round the corner, and into the Church, and in the past I've managed it by bellowing VERY LOUDLY (and possibly tunelessly, but at least in time IYSWIM).
Madam Sacristan helps sometimes with a Salvation Army uniformed youth group, so is familiar with a tambourine. However, even she might find it difficult to handle thurible and tambourine at the same time...
Time for someone to invent the thurmblourine, methinks.
Maybe the Orthodoxen have beaten me to it - they have thuribles with bells on, don't they? A practised thurifer could keep time with one of those, I reckon...
O Love That Will Not Let Me Go (St. Margaret)
Immortal, Invisible, God Only Wise (St. Denio)
I Heard the Voice of Jesus Say (Kingsfold)
All Creatures of Our God And King (Lasst Uns Erfreuen)
Some complaints received that the hymns were all "ancient". Whereas I thought 3 of them were vintage.
Which 3, out of interest? Without looking up my hymnbook, I'd say all 4 were *traditional*, but not especially *ancient*. Mind you, All creatures etc. is supposedly based on words by St Francis, who died in 1226.
"O for a thousand tongues to sing" / AZMON
Psalm 111, chanted
"Tell out my soul the greatness of the Lord" / WOODLANDS
"Here O my Lord I see thee face to face" / NYACK
"Lord make me an instrument of your peace" / Music by our Organist/Choirmaster
"God the omnipotent" / RUSSIA
Soloist: "The spotless mirror" / Music by our Organist/Choirmaster
Whatever the merits and demerits of a tambourine (which, for instance, would have been very welcome in our post-blessing song "You shall go out with joy" today), it does not fit with "Sagina"!
I doubt if many people experienced that?! All rather staid and dour this morning ...
Creator of the world to thee (St Geegory)
Venite
Benedicite (Goldsmith chant)
Benedictus
Shepherd divine our wants relieve (St Etheldreda)
Father hear the prayer we offer (Sussex)
The spacious firmament on high (London/Addisons)
What was asked for was duly played but unsurprisingly nobody seemed to know most of them, even "Sussex" which is quite cheerful. The whole swrvice was a grind especially ploughing through that Benedicite!!
I doubt if many people experienced that?! All rather staid and dour this morning ...
Creator of the world to thee (St Geegory)
Venite
Benedicite (Goldsmith chant)
Benedictus
Shepherd divine our wants relieve (St Etheldreda)
Father hear the prayer we offer (Sussex)
The spacious firmament on high (London/Addisons)
What was asked for was duly played but unsurprisingly nobody seemed to know most of them, even "Sussex" which is quite cheerful. The whole swrvice was a grind especially ploughing through that Benedicite!!
I consider myself pretty clued up when it comes to church music, but I only know the last two - even then, I only know the last one because we had it at school 50+ years ago!
With apologies to those who love BCP Mattins, I find it the most dire and boring service ever, especially if the Litany is used...even when decent hymns (such as those @Truron mentions) are included!
@Anna_Baptist :
O love that wilt not let me go is 19thC (words and tune) Immortal, invisible is 19th C (words) with a traditional Welsh hymn tune I heard the voice of Jesus say is 19thC (words) to either a traditional English melody (Kingsfold*) or a 19thC tune by J B Dykes
The tune to All creatures of our God and King (Lasst uns erfreuen) is from a German book of 1623.
(*brings to mind Maddy Prior singing Dives and Lazarus to this tune)
I doubt if many people experienced that?! All rather staid and dour this morning ...
Creator of the world to thee (St Geegory)
Venite
Benedicite (Goldsmith chant)
Benedictus
Shepherd divine our wants relieve (St Etheldreda)
Father hear the prayer we offer (Sussex)
The spacious firmament on high (London/Addisons)
What was asked for was duly played but unsurprisingly nobody seemed to know most of them, even "Sussex" which is quite cheerful. The whole swrvice was a grind especially ploughing through that Benedicite!!
I consider myself pretty clued up when it comes to church music, but I only know the last two - even then, I only know the last one because we had it at school 50+ years ago!
Sussex is a lovely old melody, harmonised by the great RVW! The fact that no-one knew it Is Total Outrage!!
Yesterday we celebrated the feast of Candlemass, with a more informal service of Holy Communion. Several of the congregation took part in a variety of ways: lighting candles, prayers, a dramatised reading…
Light of the world- Woodlands
Colours of day
Longing for light
Come thou long expected Jesus - Cross of Jesus
Shine Jesus shine
We also chanted the Nunc Dimittis, with the choir standing with lighted candles ( safely in small jars) round the font.
Yesterday we celebrated the feast of Candlemass, with a more informal service of Holy Communion. Several of the congregation took part in a variety of ways: lighting candles, prayers, a dramatised reading…
Light of the world- Woodlands
Colours of day
Longing for light
Come thou long expected Jesus - Cross of Jesus
Shine Jesus shine
We also chanted the Nunc Dimittis, with the choir standing with lighted candles ( safely in small jars) round the font.
O gods - that bl***y Shiny Song again! How I loathe and detest that pile of ridiculous and over-exposed doggerel...
The others seem suitable, though I prefer Come, thou long expected Jesus to Halton Holgate by William Boyce and S S Wesley.
Our Place did, in fact, have Faithful vigil ended, as a motet sung by the cantors during Communion.
I think that I will do it to Now the Gree Blade Riseth if we do it again.
But I have to say I'm not bonkers about the words either and the way they reduce magnificent scripture to doggerel.
Second Sunday before Lent at Our Place (Candlemas was observed last Sunday):
All things bright and beautiful (probably to the tune of the same name, though I prefer Royal Oak) Peace, perfect peace in this dark world of sin (Pax Tecum, or possibly Gibbons' Song 46) Thou didst leave thy throne (Margaret) God is our strength and refuge (Dambusters' March)
If anyone thinks this seems like a rather odd selection, I wouldn't disagree. It's been a while since any of us, I suspect, gathered rushes by the water every day...
The gospel was the healing of Peter's mother-in-law.
In the land there is a hunger
Lay your hands gently upon me
I have loved you with an everlasting love (a beautiful setting of scripture by Michael Joncas)
Majesty.
The psalm singer didnt appear so the psalm was read. That means the balance between spoken word and singing was disrupted and we got three wodges of spoken text rather than reading, singing, reading, singing, gospel. A shame.
Immortal, invisible, God only wise - St Denio Faithful vigil ended - Pastor Pastorum Angel voices ever singing* - Angel Voices Hail to the Lord's anointed - Crüger Glorious things of thee are spoken - Austria
* for some reason, omitting verse 3, which is my favourite (the one about craftsman's art and music's measure)
Minister is back from the States, plus it was a Family Service, so 3 of the 4 hymns were (relatively) modern, including Refiner's Fire which I've not heard in years, but is still worth an outing!
It's always cringeworthy when a church tries to move with the times by inflicting choruses from the '70s which were never that good in the first place (one of our neighbouring parishes is a sad case in point!). We may not be bang up to date, but we generally go for some goodies!
Interesting to see that Coe Fen is used for a hymn other than How shall we sing that majesty? - it's a grand tune, and worthy of wider circulation...
I see that Candlemas was observed at two of my online destinations today - A Certain Church in Edinburgh, and another in Uppsala (not the Cathedral - they don't seem to record all their Sunday services ).
Did any of you observe it as Sexagesima Sunday? Cue surreptitious sniggers from choirboys...
One of these days, I will be able to see a reference to How shall I sing... without inwardly screaming that it was written for and should only be sung to Tallis's Three Tone Melody. It has a suppleness and austerity which Coe Fen can't match. Fine tune but the wrong hymn.
Interesting to see that Coe Fen is used for a hymn other than How shall we sing that majesty? - it's a grand tune, and worthy of wider circulation....
The hymn is actually set to "Star of the County Down" which I don't have backing music for, so I chose "Coe Fen" instead!
And to me it definitely "is" the tune for HSISTM ... I'll leave the Tallis to RVW's fantasy!
I don't know the Tallis Three-Tone Melody - I'll have a look on YouTube!
The default tune for HSISTM in our hymnbook, which was published before Coe Fen was written, is Soll's Sein, a 17thC German tune from around the same period as that of John Mason, the author of the words.
Indescribable (Story-Reeves)
All my Hope on You is Founded (Michael)
Jesus is Lord! Creation's voice declares it (Jesus is Lord)
Be Thou my Vision (Slane)
As it was the first Sunday of the month, we had Evensong, at which we sang, with feeling:
Take my life and let it be Innocents Be still, for the presence of the Lord - Be Still Blest are the pure in heart - Franconia Hail, gladdening Light - Sebaste.
There were 11 of us, which for a tiny little church like ours, was Not Bad, and it really was a rather nice service.
Father of heaven whose love profound (Riveaulx)
Not for our sins alone (Waltham)
Praise to the holiest (Gerontius)
Saviour again to thy dear name we raise (Ellers)
The first two were as dreary as dreary as the day is long 😩
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Me too. Rather more lively than EVELYNS which is favoured in the place where I sing.
“All creatures of our God and King”.
“I love the sun”.
“Who put the colours in the rainbow?”
“Spirit of God, unseen as the wind”.
“How great thou art!”
“You shall go out with joy”.
Messing around on the piano I discovered that it goes rather well to Land of Hope and Glory. I am probably the last person in the Universe to realise that!
Jesus is King and I will extol him / Wendy Churchill
Stand Up, Stand Up for Jesus / WEBB (Using the words of Jean Holloway so we were not George Duffield’s Ye soldiers of the cross)
Lord, the light of your love (Shine, Jesus, shine)
Immortal love, for ever full (Bishopsthorpe)
King of glory, King of peace (Gwalchmai)
When candles are lighted on Candlemas Day (IIRC the same tune as sung in RC Places to Immaculate Mary )
I'm glad I was absent - they could at least have had Faithful vigil ended...
The final hymn was to be sung in procession (with lit candles - ironically, it was a bright and sunny morning here!), ending up at the image of Our Lady, where the candles could be left burning in the votive stand.
+Mervyn Stockwood used to like singing it to that tune and he had it as the closing hymn at his farewell service
Faithful vigil ended. (PASTOR PASTORUM)
King of glory, King of peace. (GWALCHMAI)
Love divine (BLAENWERN).
During communion: Bread of heaven (BREAD OF HEAVEN)
My God and is thy table spread (ROCKINGHAM)
Guest organist and (for us) a decent singers' turnout... if only our congregation could feel the urge to make a joyful (or just some) noise to the Lord.
Offerings at St Pete's this morning:
Arise to greet the Lord of light - Repton
Father of heaven, whose love profound - Rievaulx
Earth has many a noble city - Stuttgart
Jerusalem the golden - Ewing
And can it be? - Sagina (during the last verse of which one of the ladies in the choir decided it would be fun to deploy a tambourine
Don't get me wrong - I have nothing against tambourines, but if you want them in church, go and join the Sally Army. In fairness to the lady concerned, she mentioned it very definitely tongue-in-cheek at choir practice yesterday, and the organist, who's lovely but a wee bit clueless in matters liturgical, thought it was a good idea.
For reasons best known to herself, the organist played Mull of Kintyre after the last hymn.
Kintyre is quite a long way from Linlithgow, I suppose, so maybe that's where the organist would like to have sent the Tambourine Lady?
Holy, Holy, Holy, Lord God Almighty
I've Tried In Vain A Thousand Ways
Waiting Here For You
The Splendour of the King (How Great is our God)
A good idea.
Our Place's Palm Sunday is quite a modest affair, but even with a small congregation it's not easy to keep everyone together. We sing All glory, laud, and honour for the fairly short procession out of the Hall, into the street, round the corner, and into the Church, and in the past I've managed it by bellowing VERY LOUDLY (and possibly tunelessly, but at least in time IYSWIM).
Madam Sacristan helps sometimes with a Salvation Army uniformed youth group, so is familiar with a tambourine. However, even she might find it difficult to handle thurible and tambourine at the same time...
Time for someone to invent the thurmblourine, methinks.
Immortal, Invisible, God Only Wise (St. Denio)
I Heard the Voice of Jesus Say (Kingsfold)
All Creatures of Our God And King (Lasst Uns Erfreuen)
Some complaints received that the hymns were all "ancient". Whereas I thought 3 of them were vintage.
Maybe the Orthodoxen have beaten me to it - they have thuribles with bells on, don't they? A practised thurifer could keep time with one of those, I reckon...
Which 3, out of interest? Without looking up my hymnbook, I'd say all 4 were *traditional*, but not especially *ancient*. Mind you, All creatures etc. is supposedly based on words by St Francis, who died in 1226.
O! Is Outrage!
*swoons*
"O for a thousand tongues to sing" / AZMON
Psalm 111, chanted
"Tell out my soul the greatness of the Lord" / WOODLANDS
"Here O my Lord I see thee face to face" / NYACK
"Lord make me an instrument of your peace" / Music by our Organist/Choirmaster
"God the omnipotent" / RUSSIA
Soloist: "The spotless mirror" / Music by our Organist/Choirmaster
I doubt if many people experienced that?! All rather staid and dour this morning ...
Creator of the world to thee (St Geegory)
Venite
Benedicite (Goldsmith chant)
Benedictus
Shepherd divine our wants relieve (St Etheldreda)
Father hear the prayer we offer (Sussex)
The spacious firmament on high (London/Addisons)
What was asked for was duly played but unsurprisingly nobody seemed to know most of them, even "Sussex" which is quite cheerful. The whole swrvice was a grind especially ploughing through that Benedicite!!
I consider myself pretty clued up when it comes to church music, but I only know the last two - even then, I only know the last one because we had it at school 50+ years ago!
@Anna_Baptist :
O love that wilt not let me go is 19thC (words and tune)
Immortal, invisible is 19th C (words) with a traditional Welsh hymn tune
I heard the voice of Jesus say is 19thC (words) to either a traditional English melody (Kingsfold*) or a 19thC tune by J B Dykes
The tune to All creatures of our God and King (Lasst uns erfreuen) is from a German book of 1623.
(*brings to mind Maddy Prior singing Dives and Lazarus to this tune)
Sussex is a lovely old melody, harmonised by the great RVW! The fact that no-one knew it Is Total Outrage!!
Light of the world- Woodlands
Colours of day
Longing for light
Come thou long expected Jesus - Cross of Jesus
Shine Jesus shine
We also chanted the Nunc Dimittis, with the choir standing with lighted candles ( safely in small jars) round the font.
O gods - that bl***y Shiny Song again! How I loathe and detest that pile of ridiculous and over-exposed doggerel...
The others seem suitable, though I prefer Come, thou long expected Jesus to Halton Holgate by William Boyce and S S Wesley.
Our Place did, in fact, have Faithful vigil ended, as a motet sung by the cantors during Communion.
So it should, you Miserable Sinners!!
They (FatherInCharge and Madam Sacristan) say it at Sunday BCP Mattins in Lent, but they are usually the only people present at that service...
Indeed.
But I have to say I'm not bonkers about the words either and the way they reduce magnificent scripture to doggerel.
All things bright and beautiful (probably to the tune of the same name, though I prefer Royal Oak)
Peace, perfect peace in this dark world of sin (Pax Tecum, or possibly Gibbons' Song 46)
Thou didst leave thy throne (Margaret)
God is our strength and refuge (Dambusters' March)
If anyone thinks this seems like a rather odd selection, I wouldn't disagree. It's been a while since any of us, I suspect, gathered rushes by the water every day...
In the land there is a hunger
Lay your hands gently upon me
I have loved you with an everlasting love (a beautiful setting of scripture by Michael Joncas)
Majesty.
The psalm singer didnt appear so the psalm was read. That means the balance between spoken word and singing was disrupted and we got three wodges of spoken text rather than reading, singing, reading, singing, gospel. A shame.
Immortal, invisible, God only wise - St Denio
Faithful vigil ended - Pastor Pastorum
Angel voices ever singing* - Angel Voices
Hail to the Lord's anointed - Crüger
Glorious things of thee are spoken - Austria
* for some reason, omitting verse 3, which is my favourite (the one about craftsman's art and music's measure)
It's always cringeworthy when a church tries to move with the times by inflicting choruses from the '70s which were never that good in the first place (one of our neighbouring parishes is a sad case in point!). We may not be bang up to date, but we generally go for some goodies!
“Join all the glorious names” - Croft's 136th.
“Open our eyes, Lord, we want to see Jesus" (yes! - 1970s).
“God has spoken by his prophets” - Deerhurst.
“In ages past the mighty Lord” - Coe Fen.
“Sent forth by God's blessing” - The Ash Grove.
I see that Candlemas was observed at two of my online destinations today - A Certain Church in Edinburgh, and another in Uppsala (not the Cathedral - they don't seem to record all their Sunday services
Did any of you observe it as Sexagesima Sunday? Cue surreptitious sniggers from choirboys...
And to me it definitely "is" the tune for HSISTM ... I'll leave the Tallis to RVW's fantasy!
Let Our Praise Be Your Welcome (We are here for you)
Praise is Rising (Hosanna)
Living Hope
Who Am I That The Highest King Would Welcome Me
I don't know the Tallis Three-Tone Melody - I'll have a look on YouTube!
The default tune for HSISTM in our hymnbook, which was published before Coe Fen was written, is Soll's Sein, a 17thC German tune from around the same period as that of John Mason, the author of the words.
All my Hope on You is Founded (Michael)
Jesus is Lord! Creation's voice declares it (Jesus is Lord)
Be Thou my Vision (Slane)
David made a beautiful organ transcription of the Fantasia - it was his favourite piece of music.
O worship the king
Let all mortal flesh keep silence
Be still for the presence of the Lord
Christ triumphant.
Take my life and let it be Innocents
Be still, for the presence of the Lord - Be Still
Blest are the pure in heart - Franconia
Hail, gladdening Light - Sebaste.
There were 11 of us, which for a tiny little church like ours, was Not Bad, and it really was a rather nice service.
Yes - @Baptist Trainfan gave me the clue, but I missed it!
Evensong
Father of heaven whose love profound (Riveaulx)
Not for our sins alone (Waltham)
Praise to the holiest (Gerontius)
Saviour again to thy dear name we raise (Ellers)
The first two were as dreary as dreary as the day is long 😩