9.15am HC Lent 1
Just as I am
God forgave my sin
Lead us heavenly father
Father hear the prayer we offer
Forty days and forty nights
6pm Evensong
Introit: Cantate Domino- Pitoni
Take my life - Nottingham
Abide with me - Eventide
Glory be to Jesus- Caswall
How great thou art
Rutter- Gaelic Blessing
Come Set Your Rule and Reign I Raise A Hallelujah in the Presence of My Enemies - this was a new one to me The Blessing which we sang to each other and it was quite moving You Are Here Moving In Our Midst (Waymaker)
O dear - I don't recognise any of them...
In my opinion at least you have not missed much. (Oops, did I say that out loud? ) Apart from The Blessing, which was very much a thing during lockdown and I personally still find it moving.
February 18th, The First Sunday in Lent with the Litany of Ashes
Hymns
Hail, our once despised Jesus, / Ebenezer
Shades of Purple, shades of blue, / Inward Light
What a friend we have in Jesus, / Blaenwern
Lord, take my hand and lead me, / So nimm denn
Choir
Lord, for Thy tender mercy’s sake, / Farrant
O Lord My God, / Samuel Wesley
Funeral yesterday at which I played
Amazing Grace
The Lords my Shepherd
Make me a channel of your peace.
And Schuberts Ave Maria as the coffin was carried out.
Well over 100 there.
Not that the hymns mattered because nobody sang them. So I ploughed through the verses on the organ.
Nobody said so much as an Amen at the end of a prayer. And I got glared at when I offered a nearby man the peace.
And the Order of Service had the gall to call the service a "celebration of the life."
Sheesh!!!
Another one today where the deceased was RC but her entire family are members of our local Evangelical Hebron Chapel. Goodness knows what they will make of sprinkling with holy water and incensing! But they might sing - I hope - Abide with me, The Lords my Shepherd and How Great Thou Art.
Attended a presbytery meeting this morning. The hymns were clearly chosen with it being February, which in the US is African American History Month.
We sang (tunes omitted, as these are songs firmly linked to their tunes):
“Lift Every Voice and Sing”*
“Every Time I Feel the Spirit”
“Guide My Feet, Lord”
“Lord, Make Us More Holy”
The postlude was an instrumental version of Siyahamba/“We Are Walking in the Light of God,” but everyone joined in singing.
* For those outside the US, “Lift Every Voice and Sing” was written by James Weldon Johnson and J. Rosamond Johnson and is sometimes referred to as “the Black National Anthem.” It can be heard here.
Funeral yesterday at which I played
Amazing Grace
The Lords my Shepherd
Make me a channel of your peace.
And Schuberts Ave Maria as the coffin was carried out.
Well over 100 there.
Not that the hymns mattered because nobody sang them. So I ploughed through the verses on the organ.
Nobody said so much as an Amen at the end of a prayer. And I got glared at when I offered a nearby man the peace.
And the Order of Service had the gall to call the service a "celebration of the life."
Sheesh!!!
Another one today where the deceased was RC but her entire family are members of our local Evangelical Hebron Chapel. Goodness knows what they will make of sprinkling with holy water and incensing! But they might sing - I hope - Abide with me, The Lords my Shepherd and How Great Thou Art.
The fact that many or most people don't sing hymns at a funeral is the reason why I have instructed that NONE are to be attempted at mine...even though a few of those attending might be from church (my Family is largely, but not entirely, unchurched).
We are walking in the light of God was sung (in English!) as the final hymn at a Parish Eucharist I attended many years ago in a London church. The ethnically very mixed congregation sang with with immense gusto, to the accompaniment of organ and tambourines!
Lent 2B. Transfiguration.
Be still for the presence of the Lord.
We come to you as ashes.
Unless a grain of wheat.
Christ be our light.
My picks so the usual Shine Jesus shine was avoided.
The OT reading is the hideous story about Abraham and Isaac. I will busy myself with something to distract myself from hearing it.
“The God of Abraham praise” - Leoni.
“Sing a happy alleluia” - Calon Lan.
“To Abraham and Sarah” - Mountain Christians.
“A Sovereign Protector I have” - Trewen.
“Standing on the promises” - Promises.
(Mind you, our service doesn't start for another 90 minutes!)
Guide me o thou great Redeemer (Cwm Rhondda)
I will sing the wondrous story (Hyfrydol)
Jesus is King, and I will extol him (Wendy Churchill)*
To God be the glory! (To God be the glory)
*This was on the Service Sheet, but it was skipped because the sermon lasted 36 minutes.
Be thou my guardian and my guide (Abridge)
Benedicite (Goldsmith chant)
Benedictus
Father whate'er of earthly bliss (Collingwood)
Not for our sins alone (Waltham)
O Jesus I have promised (Wolvercote)
First and last went very well, "Wolvercote" always seems to make people sing. Father whate'er is a nice little hymn and the tune is rather good but hardly known so an unenthuiastic prelude to that awful awful Litany. It went on until kingdome come and by the time they were purring through their sins alone my sinful thoughts were front of the queue! Like the curate's egg the service was good in parts, appeals to an elderly group but heaven knows what anyone under 50 would make of it 🤔
Lent 2 (what else?) at Our Place:
At the name of Jesus (Evelyns or Camberwell - not sure which one they had, as we know both) Take up thy cross, the Saviour said (Breslau) What a friend we have in Jesus (Converse) Lord of our life, and God of our salvation (probably Cloisters)
I sometimes think that What a friend we have in Jesus is often sung rather more solemnly than the words warrant, so I like this upbeat version (in Dutch, but it's a reasonable translation of the English):
We used to do the Litany in procession on the second Sundays of Lent and Advent in Canada, and I actually rather enjoyed it.
Our offerings this morning:
Be thou my vision - Slane I'm not ashamed to own my Lord - Jackson Seek ye first the kingdom of God - Seek Ye First Father, who in Jesus found us - Quem Pastores O Jesus, I have promised - Day of Rest (the Wrong Tune*)
* at least it wasn't that horrid jiggy little tune we used to get at primary school assembly - Hatherop Castle?
Guide me o thou great Redeemer (Cwm Rhondda)
I will sing the wondrous story (Hyfrydol)
Jesus is King, and I will extol him (Wendy Churchill)*
To God be the glory! (To God be the glory)
*This was on the Service Sheet, but it was skipped because the sermon lasted 36 minutes.
Crikey - if a clergy-critter had skipped a hymn to accommodate a half-hour sermon in most of the places I've worshipped, there would have been blood on the reredos Very Stern Words (many of them with only four letters ...)
We used to do the Litany in procession on the second Sundays of Lent and Advent in Canada, and I actually rather enjoyed it.
Our offerings this morning:
Be thou my vision - Slane I'm not ashamed to own my Lord - Jackson Seek ye first the kingdom of God - Seek Ye First Father, who in Jesus found us - Quem Pastores O Jesus, I have promised - Day of Rest (the Wrong Tune*)
* at least it wasn't that horrid jiggy little tune we used to get at primary school assembly - Hatherop Castle?
Guide me o thou great Redeemer (Cwm Rhondda)
I will sing the wondrous story (Hyfrydol)
Jesus is King, and I will extol him (Wendy Churchill)*
To God be the glory! (To God be the glory)
*This was on the Service Sheet, but it was skipped because the sermon lasted 36 minutes.
Crikey - if a clergy-critter had skipped a hymn to accommodate a half-hour sermon in most of the places I've worshipped, there would have been blood on the reredos Very Stern Words (many of them with only four letters ...)
Some good old favourites at our place this morning. Unfortunately our organist had an urgent hospital appointment and nobody knows yet that I'm the 'nearest available sucker' who can be pulled in for anything (the joys of a vicarage childhood). So instead we had recorded accompaniment.
Jesu, lover of my soul
Be Thou my vision
Bless the Lord, my soul / Jesus, remember me (during communion)
Guide me O Thou great redeemer
The communion hymns were accompanied by Taize versions, but since they were played very quietly there was soon a mis-match between the key the recording was in, and the key most of us were singing in. It was incredibly painful!
Some good old favourites at our place this morning. Unfortunately our organist had an urgent hospital appointment and nobody knows yet that I'm the 'nearest available sucker' who can be pulled in for anything (the joys of a vicarage childhood). So instead we had recorded accompaniment.
Jesu, lover of my soul
Be Thou my vision
Bless the Lord, my soul / Jesus, remember me (during communion)
Guide me O Thou great redeemer
The communion hymns were accompanied by Taize versions, but since they were played very quietly there was soon a mis-match between the key the recording was in, and the key most of us were singing in. It was incredibly painful!
That's a shame - it sounds like an excellent choice, and Taize during Communion is often a Good Thing.
We had:
To God be the glory (again; I'm wondering how to broach diplomatically with our minister the fact that we've had it 5 times in 5 months)
As the deer pants for the water
Be thou my vision
He came down that we may have love
Jesus loves me this I know (GAELIC LULLABY)
We used to do the Litany in procession on the second Sundays of Lent and Advent in Canada, and I actually rather enjoyed it.
Our offerings this morning:
Be thou my vision - Slane I'm not ashamed to own my Lord - Jackson Seek ye first the kingdom of God - Seek Ye First Father, who in Jesus found us - Quem Pastores O Jesus, I have promised - Day of Rest (the Wrong Tune*)
* at least it wasn't that horrid jiggy little tune we used to get at primary school assembly - Hatherop Castle?
Guide me o thou great Redeemer (Cwm Rhondda)
I will sing the wondrous story (Hyfrydol)
Jesus is King, and I will extol him (Wendy Churchill)*
To God be the glory! (To God be the glory)
*This was on the Service Sheet, but it was skipped because the sermon lasted 36 minutes.
Crikey - if a clergy-critter had skipped a hymn to accommodate a half-hour sermon in most of the places I've worshipped, there would have been blood on the reredos Very Stern Words (many of them with only four letters ...)
Seek ye first? In Lent? 😲
What did you do at the chorus?
I know! I mentioned it at choir practice yesterday to the lady who chooses the hymns (she's lovely, but not very liturgy-savvy) and she'd never heard of not singing Alleluia in Lent. She emailed the Rector (who isn't all that liturgy-savvy either TBH) to ask if she was OK with it, and she was.
... I think one can be a bit too precious about This Sort Of Thing.
In St John's, the custom was to have the Hallelujah Chorus as the Gospel acclamation on Easter Day, and David would give it a run-through at choir practice on the preceding Wednesday.
There was a girl in the choir who was so far up the candle her hair was beginning to singe, and she flatly refused to sing, or even stand up when we rehearsed it.
We used to do the Litany in procession on the second Sundays of Lent and Advent in Canada, and I actually rather enjoyed it.
Our offerings this morning:
Be thou my vision - Slane I'm not ashamed to own my Lord - Jackson Seek ye first the kingdom of God - Seek Ye First Father, who in Jesus found us - Quem Pastores O Jesus, I have promised - Day of Rest (the Wrong Tune*)
* at least it wasn't that horrid jiggy little tune we used to get at primary school assembly - Hatherop Castle?
Guide me o thou great Redeemer (Cwm Rhondda)
I will sing the wondrous story (Hyfrydol)
Jesus is King, and I will extol him (Wendy Churchill)*
To God be the glory! (To God be the glory)
*This was on the Service Sheet, but it was skipped because the sermon lasted 36 minutes.
Crikey - if a clergy-critter had skipped a hymn to accommodate a half-hour sermon in most of the places I've worshipped, there would have been blood on the reredos Very Stern Words (many of them with only four letters ...)
Seek ye first? In Lent? 😲
What did you do at the chorus?
I know! I mentioned it at choir practice yesterday to the lady who chooses the hymns (she's lovely, but not very liturgy-savvy) and she'd never heard of not singing Alleluia in Lent. She emailed the Rector (who isn't all that liturgy-savvy either TBH) to ask if she was OK with it, and she was.
Oh dear. 🙃
Ah well. At least Seek ye first has a suitably dreary and penitential tune...
“When We Are Living” (Pues si vivimos)/SOMOS DEL SEÑOR
“What Does the Lord Require of You”
“By the Waters of Babylon”*
“Lord Jesus, You Shall Be My Song” (Jésus, je voudrais te chanter)/LES PETITES SOEURS
*This one is over 200 years old at least. Don McLean included a slightly modified version of it on his “American Pie” album.
9.15 am Parish Communion
At the name of Jesus- Camberwell
I the Lord of sea and sky
Immortal invisible- St Denio
Will you come and follow me - Kelvingrove
And can it be - Sagina, but set far too low.
Evensong Come and Sing( rehearsed)
38 singers, 20 congregation.
Introit: View me Lord ( Lloyd)
I will sing the wondrous story ( Hyfrydol)
Mag and Nunc Set D from parish psalter
Kyries: Khudaya rahem kar - trad. Arr Weaver
Lord’s Prayer ( Weimar)
Stainer’s Sevenfold Amen after the third collect
The God of Abraham praise
Anthem: Fairest Lord Jesus arr Martin How
To God be the glory.
Rather incongruously for a Prayer Book Service the sermon was a meditation in a modern style and a Celtic blessing was given.
IMHO there are (at least) four "possible" tunes to OJIHP: in no particular order (as they say) they are "Hatherop Castle", "Wolvercote", "Day of Rest" and "Thornbury". Which is "correct" surely depends largely on personal preference and local usage.
IMHO there are (at least) four "possible" tunes to OJIHP: in no particular order (as they say) they are "Hatherop Castle", "Wolvercote", "Day of Rest" and "Thornbury". Which is "correct" surely depends largely on personal preference and local usage.
Our much loved parish sister chose it for her funeral. As none of the above tunes are known to us we sang it to Aurelia, The very large congregation lifted the roof and I could barely play the final verse because of the tears.
It is a wonderful set of words for a nun.
IMHO there are (at least) four "possible" tunes to OJIHP: in no particular order (as they say) they are "Hatherop Castle", "Wolvercote", "Day of Rest" and "Thornbury". Which is "correct" surely depends largely on personal preference and local usage.
ANGEL’S SONG is the only tune I’ve ever heard it sung to, though our most recent hymnal also has it to NYLAND.
IMHO there are (at least) four "possible" tunes to OJIHP: in no particular order (as they say) they are "Hatherop Castle", "Wolvercote", "Day of Rest" and "Thornbury". Which is "correct" surely depends largely on personal preference and local usage.
Our much loved parish sister chose it for her funeral. As none of the above tunes are known to us we sang it to Aurelia, The very large congregation lifted the roof and I could barely play the final verse because of the tears.
It is a wonderful set of words for a nun.
I usually revile Aurelia, but, given the circumstances, and the words of the hymn, that was an excellent choice indeed.
IMHO there are (at least) four "possible" tunes to OJIHP: in no particular order (as they say) they are "Hatherop Castle", "Wolvercote", "Day of Rest" and "Thornbury". Which is "correct" surely depends largely on personal preference and local usage.
Hmm. There's a couple of folk at Our Place who prefer Hatherop Castle, which they refer to as *the bouncy tune* - which, in the hands of our voluntary organist/pianist, it usually is!
Personally I find "Hatherop Castle" impossible to play rhythmically on the organ (piano works) but being of a 'certain age' remember the 60s when it first appeared and the bestial screeching that occurred at the end of the final verse. Thankfully I have not heard it for some years now as it does not tend to be popular in rural and conservative places ime. As @BapristTrainfan says it all depends on your personal taste and local usage but "Wolvercote" imho is by far the best traditional tune if you enjoy people having a lusty bellow! I do find it very amusing that we all rise to defend our favourite hymn tunes to the hilt 🤣
Personally I find "Hatherop Castle" impossible to play rhythmically on the organ (piano works) but being of a 'certain age' remember the 60s when it first appeared and the bestial screeching that occurred at the end of the final verse. Thankfully I have not heard it for some years now as it does not tend to be popular in rural and conservative places ime. As @BapristTrainfan says it all depends on your personal taste and local usage but "Wolvercote" imho is by far the best traditional tune if you enjoy people having a lusty bellow! I do find it very amusing that we all rise to defend our favourite hymn tunes to the hilt 🤣
Hymns
Praise to the living God, / Leoni
Lord, hear my praying, / Lara
Far beyond our mind’s grasp, / Caturog na nonoy
All hail the power of Jesus’ name, / Diadem
Choir
If ye love me, / Tallis
Purge me, O Lord, / Tallis
“Praise the Lord: ye heavens, adore him” - Austria.
“A new commandment”.
“Holy Spirit, Truth divine” - Buckland.
“Father of all, whose laws have stood” - St Catherine.
“We are marching in the light of God” - Siyahamba.
Being the first Sunday in the month, our 9 o'clock service was "Hymns of Praise" rather than communion
All Who Would Valiant Be / MONKS GATE
How Deep the Father's Love for Us (Stuart Townend)
Be Thou My Vision / SLANE
My Song Is Love Unknown / LOVE UNKNOWN
Let There Be Light / ITALIAN HYMN
Christ, whose glory fills the skies - Ratisbon Christ is made the sure foundation - Westminster Abbey He who would valiant be - Monks Gate Rock of ages, cleft for me - Petra Praise the Lord, ye heavens adore him - Austria
Lent 3 at Our Place:
When I survey the wondrous cross (Rockingham) My God I love thee (either St Francis Xavier, or Solomon - I personally don't know either, but they may have used the well-known Westminster) As the deer pants for the water (Martin Nystrom) Christian, dost thou see them? (St Andrew of Crete)
The Church's One Foundation (Aurelia)
Christ is made the sure Foundation (Westminster Abbey)
My Hope Is Built On Nothing Less (Solid Rock)
In Christ Alone (Townend)
Passage was the Wise and Foolish Builders - hence lots of Foundations
Comments
Just as I am
God forgave my sin
Lead us heavenly father
Father hear the prayer we offer
Forty days and forty nights
6pm Evensong
Introit: Cantate Domino- Pitoni
Take my life - Nottingham
Abide with me - Eventide
Glory be to Jesus- Caswall
How great thou art
Rutter- Gaelic Blessing
Hymns
Hail, our once despised Jesus, / Ebenezer
Shades of Purple, shades of blue, / Inward Light
What a friend we have in Jesus, / Blaenwern
Lord, take my hand and lead me, / So nimm denn
Choir
Lord, for Thy tender mercy’s sake, / Farrant
O Lord My God, / Samuel Wesley
Amazing Grace
The Lords my Shepherd
Make me a channel of your peace.
And Schuberts Ave Maria as the coffin was carried out.
Well over 100 there.
Not that the hymns mattered because nobody sang them. So I ploughed through the verses on the organ.
Nobody said so much as an Amen at the end of a prayer. And I got glared at when I offered a nearby man the peace.
And the Order of Service had the gall to call the service a "celebration of the life."
Sheesh!!!
Another one today where the deceased was RC but her entire family are members of our local Evangelical Hebron Chapel. Goodness knows what they will make of sprinkling with holy water and incensing! But they might sing - I hope - Abide with me, The Lords my Shepherd and How Great Thou Art.
We sang (tunes omitted, as these are songs firmly linked to their tunes):
“Lift Every Voice and Sing”*
“Every Time I Feel the Spirit”
“Guide My Feet, Lord”
“Lord, Make Us More Holy”
The postlude was an instrumental version of Siyahamba/“We Are Walking in the Light of God,” but everyone joined in singing.
* For those outside the US, “Lift Every Voice and Sing” was written by James Weldon Johnson and J. Rosamond Johnson and is sometimes referred to as “the Black National Anthem.” It can be heard here.
The fact that many or most people don't sing hymns at a funeral is the reason why I have instructed that NONE are to be attempted at mine...even though a few of those attending might be from church (my Family is largely, but not entirely, unchurched).
We are walking in the light of God was sung (in English!) as the final hymn at a Parish Eucharist I attended many years ago in a London church. The ethnically very mixed congregation sang with with immense gusto, to the accompaniment of organ and tambourines!
Be still for the presence of the Lord.
We come to you as ashes.
Unless a grain of wheat.
Christ be our light.
My picks so the usual Shine Jesus shine was avoided.
The OT reading is the hideous story about Abraham and Isaac. I will busy myself with something to distract myself from hearing it.
“Sing a happy alleluia” - Calon Lan.
“To Abraham and Sarah” - Mountain Christians.
“A Sovereign Protector I have” - Trewen.
“Standing on the promises” - Promises.
(Mind you, our service doesn't start for another 90 minutes!)
I will sing the wondrous story (Hyfrydol)
Jesus is King, and I will extol him (Wendy Churchill)*
To God be the glory! (To God be the glory)
*This was on the Service Sheet, but it was skipped because the sermon lasted 36 minutes.
Mattins (joy 😏) and Litany (😮)
Be thou my guardian and my guide (Abridge)
Benedicite (Goldsmith chant)
Benedictus
Father whate'er of earthly bliss (Collingwood)
Not for our sins alone (Waltham)
O Jesus I have promised (Wolvercote)
First and last went very well, "Wolvercote" always seems to make people sing. Father whate'er is a nice little hymn and the tune is rather good but hardly known so an unenthuiastic prelude to that awful awful Litany. It went on until kingdome come and by the time they were purring through their sins alone my sinful thoughts were front of the queue! Like the curate's egg the service was good in parts, appeals to an elderly group but heaven knows what anyone under 50 would make of it 🤔
At the name of Jesus (Evelyns or Camberwell - not sure which one they had, as we know both)
Take up thy cross, the Saviour said (Breslau)
What a friend we have in Jesus (Converse)
Lord of our life, and God of our salvation (probably Cloisters)
I sometimes think that What a friend we have in Jesus is often sung rather more solemnly than the words warrant, so I like this upbeat version (in Dutch, but it's a reasonable translation of the English):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cjTVz8CFWUg
Our offerings this morning:
Be thou my vision - Slane
I'm not ashamed to own my Lord - Jackson
Seek ye first the kingdom of God - Seek Ye First
Father, who in Jesus found us - Quem Pastores
O Jesus, I have promised - Day of Rest (the Wrong Tune*)
* at least it wasn't that horrid jiggy little tune we used to get at primary school assembly - Hatherop Castle?
Crikey - if a clergy-critter had skipped a hymn to accommodate a half-hour sermon in most of the places I've worshipped, there would have been blood on the reredos Very Stern Words (many of them with only four letters ...)
Big family of God
Speak, O Lord
The goodness of God
Go forth and tell - WOODLANDS
Seek ye first? In Lent? 😲
What did you do at the chorus?
Madam Sacristan would swoon away completely if there was so much as a hint of the A-word during Lent...
(Yes, I think one can be a bit too precious about This Sort Of Thing).
To be more precise, we're happy ecumenical mongrels with a hint of Baptist flavouring.
Jesu, lover of my soul
Be Thou my vision
Bless the Lord, my soul / Jesus, remember me (during communion)
Guide me O Thou great redeemer
The communion hymns were accompanied by Taize versions, but since they were played very quietly there was soon a mis-match between the key the recording was in, and the key most of us were singing in. It was incredibly painful!
That's a shame - it sounds like an excellent choice, and Taize during Communion is often a Good Thing.
To God be the glory (again; I'm wondering how to broach diplomatically with our minister the fact that we've had it 5 times in 5 months)
As the deer pants for the water
Be thou my vision
He came down that we may have love
Jesus loves me this I know (GAELIC LULLABY)
I know! I mentioned it at choir practice yesterday to the lady who chooses the hymns (she's lovely, but not very liturgy-savvy) and she'd never heard of not singing Alleluia in Lent. She emailed the Rector (who isn't all that liturgy-savvy either TBH) to ask if she was OK with it, and she was.
Oh dear. 🙃
There was a girl in the choir who was so far up the candle her hair was beginning to singe, and she flatly refused to sing, or even stand up when we rehearsed it.
Ah well. At least Seek ye first has a suitably dreary and penitential tune...
Great is Your Faithfulness O God (Your Grace is Enough)
What a Beautiful Name It Is
“When We Are Living” (Pues si vivimos)/SOMOS DEL SEÑOR
“What Does the Lord Require of You”
“By the Waters of Babylon”*
“Lord Jesus, You Shall Be My Song” (Jésus, je voudrais te chanter)/LES PETITES SOEURS
*This one is over 200 years old at least. Don McLean included a slightly modified version of it on his “American Pie” album.
At the name of Jesus- Camberwell
I the Lord of sea and sky
Immortal invisible- St Denio
Will you come and follow me - Kelvingrove
And can it be - Sagina, but set far too low.
Evensong Come and Sing( rehearsed)
38 singers, 20 congregation.
Introit: View me Lord ( Lloyd)
I will sing the wondrous story ( Hyfrydol)
Mag and Nunc Set D from parish psalter
Kyries: Khudaya rahem kar - trad. Arr Weaver
Lord’s Prayer ( Weimar)
Stainer’s Sevenfold Amen after the third collect
The God of Abraham praise
Anthem: Fairest Lord Jesus arr Martin How
To God be the glory.
Rather incongruously for a Prayer Book Service the sermon was a meditation in a modern style and a Celtic blessing was given.
It also goes to the Muppet Show theme tune, but probably best not.
Our much loved parish sister chose it for her funeral. As none of the above tunes are known to us we sang it to Aurelia, The very large congregation lifted the roof and I could barely play the final verse because of the tears.
It is a wonderful set of words for a nun.
I usually revile Aurelia, but, given the circumstances, and the words of the hymn, that was an excellent choice indeed.
I see what they mean...
I tend to like the ones other people don't.
Hymns
Praise to the living God, / Leoni
Lord, hear my praying, / Lara
Far beyond our mind’s grasp, / Caturog na nonoy
All hail the power of Jesus’ name, / Diadem
Choir
If ye love me, / Tallis
Purge me, O Lord, / Tallis
“A new commandment”.
“Holy Spirit, Truth divine” - Buckland.
“Father of all, whose laws have stood” - St Catherine.
“We are marching in the light of God” - Siyahamba.
All Who Would Valiant Be / MONKS GATE
How Deep the Father's Love for Us (Stuart Townend)
Be Thou My Vision / SLANE
My Song Is Love Unknown / LOVE UNKNOWN
Let There Be Light / ITALIAN HYMN
Christ, whose glory fills the skies - Ratisbon
Christ is made the sure foundation - Westminster Abbey
He who would valiant be - Monks Gate
Rock of ages, cleft for me - Petra
Praise the Lord, ye heavens adore him - Austria
When I survey the wondrous cross (Rockingham)
My God I love thee (either St Francis Xavier, or Solomon - I personally don't know either, but they may have used the well-known Westminster)
As the deer pants for the water (Martin Nystrom)
Christian, dost thou see them? (St Andrew of Crete)
Sadly not - as you might expect, they were expunged from the execrable Hymns Old & New.
At least we got "He", rather than the almost heretical "All"! 😳
Christ is made the sure Foundation (Westminster Abbey)
My Hope Is Built On Nothing Less (Solid Rock)
In Christ Alone (Townend)
Passage was the Wise and Foolish Builders - hence lots of Foundations