Trinity Sunday, so the Patronal Festival at Our Place (although we are not high enough up the candle for anyone to actually use that phrase!). However, it did have an influence on some of the choices.
King of Kings (Praise the Father, praise the Son, praise the Spirit three in one) - Brooke & Scott Ligertwood
The Trinity Song - one for the children sung along to this video
Refiner's Fire - Brian Doerkson
Yet Not I But Through Christ In Me - Michael Farren / Rich Thompson / Jonny Robinson
Holy, Holy, Holy! Lord God Almighty! - NICAEA
How Great is Our God (The splendour of the King) The Goodness of God (I love you, Lord, for your mercy never fails me) Be Still and Know that I am God Faithful One, so Unchanging
We used to do the Athanasian Creed to Anglican Chant in St John's. It only happened once a year (if that) so I really didn't mind. As I recall, David had it set to several different chants, so we didn't get bored ...
I think I'd rather sing it than be preached at about it.😈
Parish Communion
Holy, holy, holy- Nicea
Love divine - Blaenwern
Lead us heavenly father lead us - Mannheim
Thou whose almighty word - Moscow
Schubert’s Sanctus
During Communion: Be still for the presence of the Lord - David J Evans
Songs of Praise for Spring- in a village church in the Benefice
Congregation of 10 + 2 children, 5 choir.
Praise my soul the king of heaven
The king of love my shepherd is
Guide me O thou great redeemer
Dear Lord and father
For the beauty of the earth
Lord of all hopefulness
The day thou gavest
Interspersed with poems and readings.
The choir repeated Be still….
Parish Communion
Holy, holy, holy- Nicea
Love divine - Blaenwern
Lead us heavenly father lead us - Mannheim
Thou whose almighty word - Moscow
Schubert’s Sanctus
During Communion: Be still for the presence of the Lord - David J Evans
Songs of Praise for Spring- in a village church in the Benefice
Congregation of 10 + 2 children, 5 choir.
Praise my soul the king of heaven
The king of love my shepherd is
Guide me O thou great redeemer
Dear Lord and father
For the beauty of the earth
Lord of all hopefulness
The day thou gavest
Interspersed with poems and readings.
The choir repeated Be still….
An excellent selection at both services, including some of my favourites!
Holy God, We Praise Thy Name (GROßER GOTT)
O Love, How Deep, How Broad, How High (DEO GRACIAS, a.k.a. AGINCOURT HYMN)*
Come, Thou Almighty Word (MOSCOW, a.k.a. ITALIAN HYMN)
Holy, Holy, Holy (NICAEA)
The Sanctus was Powell's from the Hymnal 1982. And, very excitingly, we've had enough good voices recently to have the occasional choir return, who sang Joseph Clokey's arrangement of St. Patrick's Breastplate with very good results for the small number of rehearsals. I suspect because of the holiday weekend, we had good turn out and quite a few guests (it is a tourist-y town), and so the mood was excellent, as was the singing.
I also dusted off one of the Bach c-minor fugues (BWV 549) from my lesson days for the postlude, and I'm pleased to say I made my way through it alright. I've always thought that fugues feel appropriate for the Trinity, somehow.
*I was only recently made aware of DEUS TUORUM MILITUM as a tune for this hymn, and perhaps even the common Episcopal one, but I've always liked DEO GRACIAS and feel like it suits the text, so that's the one I picked.
O Lord my God, when I in awesome wonder - How Great Thou Art*
* I could very easily live without that one, but the congregation seemed to be giving it welly.
I've had a bit of a change in heart about this one. I used to hate it, since I found it a bit saccharine and it was sometimes treacherous to play, as congregations always seem to put the fermatas in different places and do the rhythms slightly differently in the refrain. But, since congregations usually give it a good effort, and it is a hymn that many people have a personal connection with, especially as it's a common one for memorial services and funerals, so I now enjoy it as a good piece of congregational song that is meaningful for lots of people. Plus, I recently heard a recording of the original Swedish that I found to be very lovely.
Although I do still get a little bit scared every time I see it picked on the once-in-a-blue-moon occasion that I'm subbing somewhere, since I'll have no idea how the congregation will sing it.
“O Lord, My God”/“How Great Thou Art” seems to have become a funeral standard in these parts. I can almost count on either it or “Great Is Thy Faithfulness” when attending a funeral (which I’ve done too often lately).
I have given clear instructions that neither is to be sung at my funeral. But yes, when they do pop up, I can appreciate that others in the congregation find great meaning in singing them even if I don’t, so it’s a good reminder that it’s not all about me. (Except at my funeral, when it is about me.)
How great Thou art can be a bit saccharine - there's a YouTube video of it being sung in Swedish by Sissel Kyrkjebø (who is Norwegian!) - but my favourite rendering is this (in English), by the talented Dutch amateur Marjolein van Hoef:
I bind unto myself today (St Patrick's Breastplate / Deirdre)
Come, thou almighty King (Moscow)
All hail, adored Trinity (Long Melford)
Holy, holy, holy! Lord God Almighty! (Nicaea)
Choral:
Rheinberger: Mass in E for double choir "Cantus Missae" (1878)
Jacobus Gallus: Preis, Dank, Lob, Ehr' und Herrlichkeit, for double choir
James MacMillan: Data est mihi omnis potestas, from The Strathclyde Motets (2007)
Stanford: Te Deum in B-flat (1879)
We had St Patrick's Breastplate at Our Place on the Trinity Sunday before Covid, so that would be in 2019, I guess. IIRC, it was sung partly by cantors, and partly by all, but I don't remember who sang what IYSWIM.
Perhaps it was so awful that my mind has blotted out the memory!
I find the version of StP'sB in CH4 to be sorely lacking - give me the full on invocation of protection against wizards, waves and poisoned arrows or get out.
The two shorter verses in the middle ("Christ be with me ...") sung by the cantors?
We sang that earlier this year at Coventry Cathedral. It was the recessional hymn and took us slightly by surprise as the words weren’t the ones we were used to as we were doing some bastardised version by Mrs C F Alexander. The procession started just as we started the two “Christ be with me” verses, unaccompanied and sung by choir only. As you can imagine, the whole thing fell apart spectacularly.
The two shorter verses in the middle ("Christ be with me ...") sung by the cantors?
We sang that earlier this year at Coventry Cathedral. It was the recessional hymn and took us slightly by surprise as the words weren’t the ones we were used to as we were doing some bastardised version by Mrs C F Alexander. The procession started just as we started the two “Christ be with me” verses, unaccompanied and sung by choir only. As you can imagine, the whole thing fell apart spectacularly.
Which version are you familiar with that isn't by CFA?
Are you referring to differences in the tune? The old English Hymnal (1906) has a rather odd (and awkward) tune for those two verses at 212. All other books I've come across have the 'normal' one.
Are you referring to differences in the tune? The old English Hymnal (1906) has a rather odd (and awkward) tune for those two verses at 212. All other books I've come across have the 'normal' one.
No, the words, but I suppose whatever it was, singing unaccompanied in procession isn’t easy
That’s ST. PATRICK, and it’s the tune I’m familiar with for the first verses and the last verse. I’m familiar with DEIRDRE for the “Christ be with me” verses, so that the whole thing is this.
That’s ST. PATRICK, and it’s the tune I’m familiar with for the first verses and the last verse. I’m familiar with DEIRDRE for the “Christ be with me” verses, so that the whole thing is this.
Sorry, I was trying to link to the words as @Spike seemed to have encountered an unfamiliar version. I would expect GARTAN rather than DEIRDRE.
I can’t remember what the words were in the version we sang, I just remember they were rather twee. The line “His bursting from the spiced tomb” was something like “His rising from the lonely tomb”. There was a lot more like that.
The harmony was familiar, but the verse started at the exact moment we were trying to manoeuvre our way out of the narrow choir stalls. Doing that while unaccompanied and without the congregation was challenging.
I wonder if it was the Jubilate Hymns version of the hymn.
What is this travesty?! It's like the author read the CFA translation, missed the point entirely, then decided to cackhandedly wreck the poetry as well.
I wonder if it was the Jubilate Hymns version of the hymn.
What is this travesty?! It's like the author read the CFA translation, missed the point entirely, then decided to cackhandedly wreck the poetry as well.
Yes. They don’t always get it wrong, but one of my particular unfavourites is their version of this.
*Corpus Christi Sunday* at Our Place tomorrow, and here is the Plan:
Lord Jesus Christ (Living Lord) Lord, enthroned in heavenly splendour (St Helen) Broken for me (Janet Lunt - to be sung during Communion by cantors) O thou, who at thy Eucharist didst pray (Song 1 - by Orlando Gibbons!) Now, my tongue, the mystery telling (probably Grafton - part 1 for the procession with the Blessed Sacrament, and part 2 at Benediction)
An excellent selection IMNSHO, even if attendance is sparse (it's the last half-term weekend...).
Gibbons Song 1 is a superb melody.
We are singing for Corpus Xti
All are welcome
In bread we bring you Lord
Bread of life
I am the bread of life (which will put me in a thoroughly bad mood.)
Today we celebrated "Creation Sunday" which influenced the choice of hymns. We sang:
For the Beauty of the Earth - DIX
The Lord's my Shepherd (And I will trust in Him alone) - Stuart Townend version
All Creatures of our God and King - LASST UNS ERFREUEN
What a Friend We Have in Jesus - CONVERSE
Let There Be Light - ITALIAN HYMN
Our offerings at St Pete's for "Pentecost 2" (really?) were a bit of a mixed bag; I was serving, so wasn't involved in all of them:
Christ, whose glory fills the skies - Ratisbon Be still, and know that I am God - Be Still and Know (boring words) Thee we adore, O hidden Saviour, thee - Ellers (boring tune) Alleluia, sing to Jesus - Hyfrydol* Lord, the light of your love is shining - Shine, Jesus, Shine** 😫
* which I didn't get to sing, because Communion 😟
** which I'd hoped I wouldn't have to sing, because processing out, but unfortunately Rev'd Rosie was giving it welly, and didn't indicate that she wanted to process out until the bloody thing was finished.
Are we the only folk who follow the Lectionary? We looked at the call of Samuel.
“Come, let us praise the Lord” (Darwall's 148th).
“I, the Lord of sea and sky”.
“Lord, speak to me that I may speak” (Llef).
“Hushed was the evening hymn” (Samuel).
“O happy day that fixed my choice” ("O happy day" with refrain).
In the event I was spared I am the bread of Life.
But it was replaced by a hymn to St Stephen - a nasty bit of doggerel that went to Hyfrydol. This was because the parish has decided to revive the servers guild of St Stephen. So prayers were said and medals were given to our servers.
I look foreward to the cleaners/flower arrangers/readers/greeters/coffee makers/catechists being similarly honoured in the middle of Mass! As a musician I never expect to be honoured.
Pah!
Our Place jettisoned the lectionary readings in favour of the RC readings for Corpus Christi.
At least they had a nice sunny morning for the Procession (all 100 yards of it!) with the Blessed Sacrament. Whether any children turned up, in order to strew flower petals on the street, I don't yet know...
We’re where we spend our summers. (Yay!). Today we had:
“Know That God Is Good” (Mungu ni mwema)
“I Sing the Mighty Power of God”/ELLACOMBE
“O for a Thousand Toungues to Sing”/AZMON Dona Nobis Pacem (“Give Us Peace”)—sung in Latin, Hebrew and Arabic
“Give Thanks”/GIVE THANKS
“I’m Gonna Live So God Can Use Me” (African American Spiritual)
Pentecost Eye Eye (we don't celebrate Corpus Christi, which I think is pretty common in all but the most Anglo-Catholic parishes in TEC)
Jesus, Thou Divine Companion (PLEADING SAVIOR)
Healer of our Every Ill (HEALER)*
Leaning on the Everlasting Arms (SHOWALTER)
Sequence was Celtic Alleluia, and Sanctus was Grayson Warren Brown's from his Mass for a Soulful People, and is my favorite of the Sancti from Lift Every Voice and Sing, the Episcopal African-American Hymnal. It does go up to an F, so I'm thinking of transposing it down into Eb to make the tessitura more manageable.
*This was a new one for our parish, but they seem to like it...it's not my favorite Haugen, but the words were appropriate, and I got many comments that they enjoyed it.
City of God how broad and far (Richmond)
Merbecke
We find thee Lord in others' need (Dominis regit me)
The heavenly word priceeding forth (Melcombe)
Lord Christ who on thy heart didst bear (Gonfalon Royal)
Hymns were out of the new standard A&M which was printed in the early 80s I think, this place had them as a gift to replace their very tatty old AMR copies. I rarely come across this book anywhere so no idea how many places use it.
Evensong
Blest Creator of the light (Vienna)
The Lord is King lift up thy voice (Church Triumphant)
When all thy mercies O my God (Contemplation)
For ever with the Lord (Montgomery)
The final hymn took me back years, was popular at funerals at one time!
@Nick Tamen - First Sunday after Trinity would have done nicely!
As it was also the first Sunday of the month, we had sung Evensong, at which we had:
Psalm 4 (sorry - can't remember who wrote the chant, but it was a decent one and quite familiar).
Father, Lord of all creation - Abbots Leigh Bread of Heaven, on thee we feed - Bread of Heaven (why, when the service wasn't Communion?) O God, beyond all praising - Thaxted Hail, gladdening Light - Sebaste
As I've said before, I think four hymns is at least one too many when you haven't got a sermon*; there aren't enough "bits" to be broken up by hymns. This was particularly borne out this evening, as we didn't have a priest present; after the third hymn the presider announced we'd say the Grace, but the organist (the lady who runs the choir and picks the hymns) forgot there was going to be another hymn, so there was a long and embarrassing silence until the presider said, "we'll sing the final hymn ..."
Oh dear.
* don't get me wrong - I don't think Evensong needs a sermon!
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Hymns were out of the new standard A&M which was printed in the early 80s I think, this place had them as a gift to replace their very tatty old AMR copies. I rarely come across this book anywhere so no idea how many places use it. <snip>
Three of the six places I serve use it. It has, according to Wikipedia, 333 of the 636 hymns included in A and M Revised (AMR) and the entire 200-hymn contents of 100 Hymns for Today and More Hymns for Today.
Wasn't at the service today, so can't be absolutely certain that this was what was sung... but it was The Plan.
The God of Abraham Praise (Leoni)
O Worship The Lord In The Beauty Of Holiness (??)
O God, Our Help In Ages Past (St Anne)
I Will Sing Of My Redeemer (Hyfrydol)
I went to a Corpus Christi procession today in the Royal Mile,Edinburgh.
Many hymns were sung ,some in English and some in Latin
Sweet Sacrament divine
Pange lingua
Hail Redeemer,King divine
Lauda Jerusalem Dominum
Crown him with many crowns
O bread of Heaven !
Tantum ergo Sacramentum
It was strange in a way passing in front of John Knox house but the procession returned to the church via Blackfriars Street, nothing particularly new there but right beside it is Infirmary Street which I learned referred to the pre Reformation Dominican Infirmary.
It was strange in a way passing in front of John Knox house but the procession returned to the church via Blackfriars Street, nothing particularly new there but right beside it is Infirmary Street which I learned referred to the pre Reformation Dominican Infirmary.
Oh, I was hoping you’d say you passed by Knox’s grave, and heard a spinning sound.
Solemnity of Corpus Christi / Solemn Mass, Procession, and Benediction
Deck thyself, my soul, with gladness (Schmücke dich)
Zion, praise thy Savior, singing (Lauda Sion Salvatorem)
O Food to pilgrims given (O Welt, ich muss dich lassen)
Sweet Sacrament divine (Divine Mystery)
Hail, thou once despised Jesus! (In Babilone)
Humbly I adore thee, Verity unseen (Adoro devote)
O saving Victim, opening wide (Herr Jesu Christ)
Therefore we, before him bending (Tantum ergo Sacramentum)
Choral:
Gabriel Jackson: Edinburgh Mass (2001)
Vytautas Miškinis: O sacrum convivium (2000)
Mozart: Ave verum corpus
Comments
King of Kings (Praise the Father, praise the Son, praise the Spirit three in one) - Brooke & Scott Ligertwood
The Trinity Song - one for the children sung along to this video
Refiner's Fire - Brian Doerkson
Yet Not I But Through Christ In Me - Michael Farren / Rich Thompson / Jonny Robinson
Holy, Holy, Holy! Lord God Almighty! - NICAEA
The Goodness of God (I love you, Lord, for your mercy never fails me)
Be Still and Know that I am God
Faithful One, so Unchanging
“Bring Many Names”/WESTCHASE
“Love Divine, All Loves Excelling”/HYFRYDOL
“Thine Is the Glory”/JUDAS MACCABEUS
The last was played by the substitute organist to an alternate harmony, and a bit too slowly. It was not an improvement.
I think I'd rather sing it than be preached at about it.😈
Holy, holy, holy- Nicea
Love divine - Blaenwern
Lead us heavenly father lead us - Mannheim
Thou whose almighty word - Moscow
Schubert’s Sanctus
During Communion: Be still for the presence of the Lord - David J Evans
Songs of Praise for Spring- in a village church in the Benefice
Congregation of 10 + 2 children, 5 choir.
Praise my soul the king of heaven
The king of love my shepherd is
Guide me O thou great redeemer
Dear Lord and father
For the beauty of the earth
Lord of all hopefulness
The day thou gavest
Interspersed with poems and readings.
The choir repeated Be still….
An excellent selection at both services, including some of my favourites!
Holy God, We Praise Thy Name (GROßER GOTT)
O Love, How Deep, How Broad, How High (DEO GRACIAS, a.k.a. AGINCOURT HYMN)*
Come, Thou Almighty Word (MOSCOW, a.k.a. ITALIAN HYMN)
Holy, Holy, Holy (NICAEA)
The Sanctus was Powell's from the Hymnal 1982. And, very excitingly, we've had enough good voices recently to have the occasional choir return, who sang Joseph Clokey's arrangement of St. Patrick's Breastplate with very good results for the small number of rehearsals. I suspect because of the holiday weekend, we had good turn out and quite a few guests (it is a tourist-y town), and so the mood was excellent, as was the singing.
I also dusted off one of the Bach c-minor fugues (BWV 549) from my lesson days for the postlude, and I'm pleased to say I made my way through it alright. I've always thought that fugues feel appropriate for the Trinity, somehow.
*I was only recently made aware of DEUS TUORUM MILITUM as a tune for this hymn, and perhaps even the common Episcopal one, but I've always liked DEO GRACIAS and feel like it suits the text, so that's the one I picked.
I've had a bit of a change in heart about this one. I used to hate it, since I found it a bit saccharine and it was sometimes treacherous to play, as congregations always seem to put the fermatas in different places and do the rhythms slightly differently in the refrain. But, since congregations usually give it a good effort, and it is a hymn that many people have a personal connection with, especially as it's a common one for memorial services and funerals, so I now enjoy it as a good piece of congregational song that is meaningful for lots of people. Plus, I recently heard a recording of the original Swedish that I found to be very lovely.
Although I do still get a little bit scared every time I see it picked on the once-in-a-blue-moon occasion that I'm subbing somewhere, since I'll have no idea how the congregation will sing it.
I have given clear instructions that neither is to be sung at my funeral. But yes, when they do pop up, I can appreciate that others in the congregation find great meaning in singing them even if I don’t, so it’s a good reminder that it’s not all about me. (Except at my funeral, when it is about me.)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EN4NiWF66iw
The hymn was sung at my Auntie S's Funeral Mass last August...it was one of her favourites.
I bind unto myself today (St Patrick's Breastplate / Deirdre)
Come, thou almighty King (Moscow)
All hail, adored Trinity (Long Melford)
Holy, holy, holy! Lord God Almighty! (Nicaea)
Choral:
Rheinberger: Mass in E for double choir "Cantus Missae" (1878)
Jacobus Gallus: Preis, Dank, Lob, Ehr' und Herrlichkeit, for double choir
James MacMillan: Data est mihi omnis potestas, from The Strathclyde Motets (2007)
Stanford: Te Deum in B-flat (1879)
Perhaps it was so awful that my mind has blotted out the memory!
Possibly, although those might have been the bits sung by the congregation...
I prefer the versions with them in.
We sang that earlier this year at Coventry Cathedral. It was the recessional hymn and took us slightly by surprise as the words weren’t the ones we were used to as we were doing some bastardised version by Mrs C F Alexander. The procession started just as we started the two “Christ be with me” verses, unaccompanied and sung by choir only. As you can imagine, the whole thing fell apart spectacularly.
Which version are you familiar with that isn't by CFA?
No, the words, but I suppose whatever it was, singing unaccompanied in procession isn’t easy
https://hymnary.org/hymn/CYBER/6371
Sorry, I was trying to link to the words as @Spike seemed to have encountered an unfamiliar version. I would expect GARTAN rather than DEIRDRE.
I think GARTEN–DEIRDRE may generally be a Pond Difference.
The harmony was familiar, but the verse started at the exact moment we were trying to manoeuvre our way out of the narrow choir stalls. Doing that while unaccompanied and without the congregation was challenging.
What is this travesty?! It's like the author read the CFA translation, missed the point entirely, then decided to cackhandedly wreck the poetry as well.
I don’t think that was it, but it was along those lines
Lord Jesus Christ (Living Lord)
Lord, enthroned in heavenly splendour (St Helen)
Broken for me (Janet Lunt - to be sung during Communion by cantors)
O thou, who at thy Eucharist didst pray (Song 1 - by Orlando Gibbons!)
Now, my tongue, the mystery telling (probably Grafton - part 1 for the procession with the Blessed Sacrament, and part 2 at Benediction)
An excellent selection IMNSHO, even if attendance is sparse (it's the last half-term weekend...).
We are singing for Corpus Xti
All are welcome
In bread we bring you Lord
Bread of life
I am the bread of life (which will put me in a thoroughly bad mood.)
For the Beauty of the Earth - DIX
The Lord's my Shepherd (And I will trust in Him alone) - Stuart Townend version
All Creatures of our God and King - LASST UNS ERFREUEN
What a Friend We Have in Jesus - CONVERSE
Let There Be Light - ITALIAN HYMN
Christ whose glory fills the skies
Father Lord of all creation
Immortal invisible
Lovely, actually
Our offerings at St Pete's for "Pentecost 2" (really?) were a bit of a mixed bag; I was serving, so wasn't involved in all of them:
Christ, whose glory fills the skies - Ratisbon
Be still, and know that I am God - Be Still and Know (boring words)
Thee we adore, O hidden Saviour, thee - Ellers (boring tune)
Alleluia, sing to Jesus - Hyfrydol*
Lord, the light of your love is shining - Shine, Jesus, Shine** 😫
* which I didn't get to sing, because Communion 😟
** which I'd hoped I wouldn't have to sing, because processing out, but unfortunately Rev'd Rosie was giving it welly, and didn't indicate that she wanted to process out until the bloody thing was finished.
“Come, let us praise the Lord” (Darwall's 148th).
“I, the Lord of sea and sky”.
“Lord, speak to me that I may speak” (Llef).
“Hushed was the evening hymn” (Samuel).
“O happy day that fixed my choice” ("O happy day" with refrain).
But it was replaced by a hymn to St Stephen - a nasty bit of doggerel that went to Hyfrydol. This was because the parish has decided to revive the servers guild of St Stephen. So prayers were said and medals were given to our servers.
I look foreward to the cleaners/flower arrangers/readers/greeters/coffee makers/catechists being similarly honoured in the middle of Mass! As a musician I never expect to be honoured.
Pah!
At least they had a nice sunny morning for the Procession (all 100 yards of it!) with the Blessed Sacrament. Whether any children turned up, in order to strew flower petals on the street, I don't yet know...
“Know That God Is Good” (Mungu ni mwema)
“I Sing the Mighty Power of God”/ELLACOMBE
“O for a Thousand Toungues to Sing”/AZMON
Dona Nobis Pacem (“Give Us Peace”)—sung in Latin, Hebrew and Arabic
“Give Thanks”/GIVE THANKS
“I’m Gonna Live So God Can Use Me” (African American Spiritual)
What would you have expected? Ninth Sunday in Ordinary Time? First Sunday after Trinity?
Or do you mean “Pentecost 2” as opposed to “Second Sunday after Pentecost”?
Jesus, Thou Divine Companion (PLEADING SAVIOR)
Healer of our Every Ill (HEALER)*
Leaning on the Everlasting Arms (SHOWALTER)
Sequence was Celtic Alleluia, and Sanctus was Grayson Warren Brown's from his Mass for a Soulful People, and is my favorite of the Sancti from Lift Every Voice and Sing, the Episcopal African-American Hymnal. It does go up to an F, so I'm thinking of transposing it down into Eb to make the tessitura more manageable.
*This was a new one for our parish, but they seem to like it...it's not my favorite Haugen, but the words were appropriate, and I got many comments that they enjoyed it.
Parish Communion (1662 Rite)
City of God how broad and far (Richmond)
Merbecke
We find thee Lord in others' need (Dominis regit me)
The heavenly word priceeding forth (Melcombe)
Lord Christ who on thy heart didst bear (Gonfalon Royal)
Hymns were out of the new standard A&M which was printed in the early 80s I think, this place had them as a gift to replace their very tatty old AMR copies. I rarely come across this book anywhere so no idea how many places use it.
Evensong
Blest Creator of the light (Vienna)
The Lord is King lift up thy voice (Church Triumphant)
When all thy mercies O my God (Contemplation)
For ever with the Lord (Montgomery)
The final hymn took me back years, was popular at funerals at one time!
As it was also the first Sunday of the month, we had sung Evensong, at which we had:
Psalm 4 (sorry - can't remember who wrote the chant, but it was a decent one and quite familiar).
Father, Lord of all creation - Abbots Leigh
Bread of Heaven, on thee we feed - Bread of Heaven (why, when the service wasn't Communion?)
O God, beyond all praising - Thaxted
Hail, gladdening Light - Sebaste
As I've said before, I think four hymns is at least one too many when you haven't got a sermon*; there aren't enough "bits" to be broken up by hymns. This was particularly borne out this evening, as we didn't have a priest present; after the third hymn the presider announced we'd say the Grace, but the organist (the lady who runs the choir and picks the hymns) forgot there was going to be another hymn, so there was a long and embarrassing silence until the presider said, "we'll sing the final hymn ..."
Oh dear.
* don't get me wrong - I don't think Evensong needs a sermon!
Three of the six places I serve use it. It has, according to Wikipedia, 333 of the 636 hymns included in A and M Revised (AMR) and the entire 200-hymn contents of 100 Hymns for Today and More Hymns for Today.
The God of Abraham Praise (Leoni)
O Worship The Lord In The Beauty Of Holiness (??)
O God, Our Help In Ages Past (St Anne)
I Will Sing Of My Redeemer (Hyfrydol)
Many hymns were sung ,some in English and some in Latin
Sweet Sacrament divine
Pange lingua
Hail Redeemer,King divine
Lauda Jerusalem Dominum
Crown him with many crowns
O bread of Heaven !
Tantum ergo Sacramentum
It was strange in a way passing in front of John Knox house but the procession returned to the church via Blackfriars Street, nothing particularly new there but right beside it is Infirmary Street which I learned referred to the pre Reformation Dominican Infirmary.
Deck thyself, my soul, with gladness (Schmücke dich)
Zion, praise thy Savior, singing (Lauda Sion Salvatorem)
O Food to pilgrims given (O Welt, ich muss dich lassen)
Sweet Sacrament divine (Divine Mystery)
Hail, thou once despised Jesus! (In Babilone)
Humbly I adore thee, Verity unseen (Adoro devote)
O saving Victim, opening wide (Herr Jesu Christ)
Therefore we, before him bending (Tantum ergo Sacramentum)
Choral:
Gabriel Jackson: Edinburgh Mass (2001)
Vytautas Miškinis: O sacrum convivium (2000)
Mozart: Ave verum corpus