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.
It's not well known but a significant fraction of Scotland's renewable energy is now generated by harvesting the angular momentum of deceased reformers and the hot air generated by those who would claim to be their successors. Why, the Wee Flea alone generates enough to power a small highland town from his confected outrage, particularly at this time of year.
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.
It's not well known but a significant fraction of Scotland's renewable energy is now generated by harvesting the angular momentum of deceased reformers and the hot air generated by those who would claim to be their successors. Why, the Wee Flea alone generates enough to power a small highland town from his confected outrage, particularly at this time of year.
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.
It's not well known but a significant fraction of Scotland's renewable energy is now generated by harvesting the angular momentum of deceased reformers and the hot air generated by those who would claim to be their successors. Why, the Wee Flea alone generates enough to power a small highland town from his confected outrage, particularly at this time of year.
Plain ol'Trinity 2 at Our Place, with a fairly conservative choice of hymns:
Praise, my soul, the King of Heaven (Praise, my soul) Immortal love, for ever full (Bishopthorpe) Just as I am, without one plea (Saffron Walden) There's a wideness in God's mercy (Daily, daily)
Not a Shiny Song in sight!
Those of you who use liturgical colours will probably know that *Green Sunday Sag* has begun, with green as the colour of the day for months to come, although weekday saints will be celebrated in the appropriate red or white, and there'll be a splash of blue at Our Place for The Assumption of Our Lady (mid-August).
The rather more *general* hymns come to the fore once more.
At our main mid-morning service we sang:
The Golden Rule - Nick & Becky Drake
Holy Forever - Chris Tomlin
How Deep the Father's Love for Us - Stuart Townend
The Servant King - Graham Kendrick
Hope of the Nations - Brian Doerksen
I didn't go to church today; I've been off work most of last week with Covid, and today's the first day I've tested negative, so I'm taking it easy in readiness for going back to work tomorrow.
If I had been there, I would have sung:
Thanks to God for saints and martyrs - In Babilone There there be love - Let There Be Love (never heard of that one) Do not be afraid - Do Not Be Afraid Brother, sister, let me serve you - Servant Song Disposer supreme - Paderborn
I didn't go to church today; I've been off work most of last week with Covid, and today's the first day I've tested negative, so I'm taking it easy in readiness for going back to work tomorrow.
If I had been there, I would have sung:
Thanks to God for saints and martyrs - In Babilone There there be love - Let There Be Love (never heard of that one) Do not be afraid - Do Not Be Afraid Brother, sister, let me serve you - Servant Song Disposer supreme - Paderborn
Think I dodged a few bullets there ...
O I dunno. The first and last hymns are good ones, and the Servant Song is fairly well-known (albeit not one I particularly like, but hey...).
I didn't go to church today; I've been off work most of last week with Covid, and today's the first day I've tested negative, so I'm taking it easy in readiness for going back to work tomorrow.
If I had been there, I would have sung:
Thanks to God for saints and martyrs - In Babilone There there be love - Let There Be Love (never heard of that one) Do not be afraid - Do Not Be Afraid Brother, sister, let me serve you - Servant Song Disposer supreme - Paderborn
Think I dodged a few bullets there ...
O I dunno. The first and last hymns are good ones, and the Servant Song is fairly well-known (albeit not one I particularly like, but hey...).
I'm afraid I don't know Do Not Be Afraid.
You can Experience DNBA via our morning worship recording on Facebook if you've a mind, as we had it too.
DNBA is often picked for funerals at ours. Which is a bit odd as one the verses goes
When the fire is burning all around you,
You will never be consumed by the flames.
I didn't go to church today; I've been off work most of last week with Covid, and today's the first day I've tested negative, so I'm taking it easy in readiness for going back to work tomorrow.
If I had been there, I would have sung:
Thanks to God for saints and martyrs - In Babilone There there be love - Let There Be Love (never heard of that one) Do not be afraid - Do Not Be Afraid Brother, sister, let me serve you - Servant Song Disposer supreme - Paderborn
Think I dodged a few bullets there ...
O I dunno. The first and last hymns are good ones, and the Servant Song is fairly well-known (albeit not one I particularly like, but hey...).
I'm afraid I don't know Do Not Be Afraid.
The Servant Song is the only one in that list I do know. But I must confess that the name “Disposer Supreme” does seem like it would prompt some suppressed laughter.
The Son of Consolation (Morning Light)
Appleford Mass setting
Celtic Alleluia
O Son of God our captain of salvation (O perfect love)
One bread one body one Lord of all
Thy hand O God has guided (Thornbury)
A good bright service with a hymn at the administration unknown to me until today, lifted from an RC source I think? They seemed to know it well anyway and made up for my rather diffident accompaniment. They asked for "Morning Light" instead of "Aurelia" which would have pleased the many haters of the latter tune on here 🤣
Evensong for Trinity 2
O strength and stay (Strength and stay)
When all thy mercies O my God (Contemplation)
Be thou my vision (Slane)
Jerusalem on high (Christchurch)
I love one Bread, one Body.
The words are from the Didache and St Paul, so go back to the beginnings of the church. The melody of the verses alludes to Nights in White satin by the Moody Blues (if you are old enough to remember it.) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kyobizQniKg&ab_channel=ChrisBrunelle
Holy, holy, holy (Helig, helig, helig) was the processional hymn at Uppsala Cathedral yesterday, and Now thank we all our God (Nu tacka Gud, allt folk) was the final hymn - both to The Proper Tunes™.
The 11am High Mass included the ordination of priests and deacons - about 26 in total, I think.
Evensong in a village church, not my usual. Led by the Neville Consort,
Preces and responses- Rose
Ps130 Walford Davies
Canticles Wood in E
Anthem: Oculi omnium - Wood
Hymns
( I can’t recall the first)
O worship the Lord in the beauty of holiness( Was lebet)
In Christ there is no east or west (Kilmarnock)
The church’s one foundation ( Aurelia)
Two funerals today.
The first was of a a 90 year old lady.
The second of a young mother who died leaving two young children.
The first had a meagre congregation, the second was packed to standing room only.
Neither congregation sang. For the first I did my Liberace impression and sang from the organ. A soloist was hired for the second; she sang the hymns as solos. This was the family's choice.
The first had
Crimond
Be still for the presence of the Lord
May the choirs of angels (Ernie Sands)
Amazing grace.
The second had
Ave Maria - Schubert (well, we ARE RCs!)
Amazing grace
Crimond
May the choirs of angels (Sands)
How great thou art.
I love one Bread, one Body.
The words are from the Didache and St Paul, so go back to the beginnings of the church. The melody of the verses alludes to Nights in White satin by the Moody Blues (if you are old enough to remember it.)
How have I never noticed this before?! And how will I ever not notice it now?
I love one Bread, one Body.
The words are from the Didache and St Paul, so go back to the beginnings of the church. The melody of the verses alludes to Nights in White satin by the Moody Blues (if you are old enough to remember it.) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kyobizQniKg&ab_channel=ChrisBrunelle
I was embarrassingly years old when I discovered that song (NiWS, not OBOB) was not about mediaeval mounted elite warriors clad in pale tunics.
9.15 Parish Communion
To God be the glory
Thy kingdom come, O God - St Cecilia
I vow to thee my country- Thaxted
Blest are the pure in heart -Franconia
Hail to the Lord’s anointed - Cruger
Mass of St Thomas
6pm Evensong, with 12 guests in choir
Introit- If ye love me ( Tallis)
The Church’s one foundation- Aurelia
Responses Southwell Ferial
Sevenfold Amen
Lord’s Prayer ( Stone )
Lead us heavenly Father - Mannheim
Anthem- Lord for thy tender mercy’s sake
Sing to the Lord a new song of creation - King’s Orchard
Praise to the holiest - Gerontius
A simple blessing (anon)
Today we have a superb organist, so already we have had real treats in his voluntaries and in particular his improvisations, timed to perfection.
We plough the fields and scatter (Wir Pflugen)
The King of Love my Shepherd Is. (St Columba)
What does the Lord require (Sharpthorne)
Immortal Invisible (St Denio)
When in our Music (Engleburg) - choir during communion.
You weren't the only one to have When in their music today; I'd never come across those words before. Our offerings were:
Be thou my vision - Slane For thy mercy and thy grace - Culbach Father, who in Jesus found us - Quem Pastores Great is thy faithfulness - Faithfulness When in our music God is glorified - but we sang it to Sine Nomine
Not a bad selection really. Pity we had The Organist Who Doesn't Practise ...
Tell out, my soul, the greatness of the Lord Holy Forever All Heaven Declares How Deep the Father's Love for us - not going to link it as we hatesss it, preciousss, we hatesss it with the fire of a thousand sunses.
You weren't the only one to have When in their music today; I'd never come across those words before. Our offerings were: . . . When in our music God is glorified - but we sang it to Sine Nomine
“When in Our Music” has become pretty much become a standard in my tribe.
With regard to the two tunes noted, Charles Villiers Stanford composed ENGELBERG in 1904 for “For All the Saints.” Unfortunately for Stanford, his former student, Ralph Vaughan Williams, composed SINE NOMINE for the same text in 1906. And as Vaughan Williams was editor (with Percy Dearmer) of The English Hymnal (1906), his tune won out.
Meanwhile, today we had:
“Sing Glory to the Name of God” (Ps. 29 paraphrase)/LASST UNS ERFREUEN
“Take, O Take Me As I Am”/TAKE ME AS I AM
“O Come unto the Lord”/KOREA (This Korean hymn is often translated into English as “O Come Home”)
“Sent Out in Jesus’ Name” (Enviado soy de Dios)/ENVIADO
O worship the King (Hanover)
God of mercy God of grace (Heathlands)
Lord ethroned in heavenly splemdoir (St Helen)
O my Saviour lifted (North Coates)
Stand up stand up for Jesus (Morning Light)
(Shame about Aurelia, but hey...they did give it some welly, and Thorne's Gloria is one of my favourites).
Trinity 3 at Our Place was kept as *Fathers Day* or *Fathering Sunday* (aka a Feast of St Hallmark), but I seem to have mislaid my notes as to what was sung, apart from the first hymn:
Morning has broken (Bunessan)
Attendance was low, with students otherwise engaged, young families entirely absent, no churchwardens present, and quite a few others at Away.
Trinity 3 at Our Place was kept as *Fathers Day* or *Fathering Sunday* (aka a Feast of St Hallmark), . . . .
Father’s Day, at least in the US, predates Hallmark by a year. I wouldn’t classify it as a Hallmark Holiday.
OK, but FatherInCharge took the opportunity of trumpeting how wonderful it is to be a father/grandfather/stepfather/godfather, without perhaps considering how the last two on that list may be not be entirely appropriate substitutes...
Father Fuckwit (piss be upon him) once went even further, by telling me how anyone who failed to be the husband of a Lovely Wife, and (by implication) the father - like him - of Lovely Children, was somehow failing to obey God's Laws™.
No apology needed. The rant is completely understandable.
The sole mention of Father’s Day where I was happened in the Prayers of the People, where prayers were offered for fathers, stepfathers, grandfathers “and all who act as a father to others,” for those who long to be fathers but are not, for those whose relationship with their fathers is broken or problematic, and for those who grieve the death of their fathers.
No apology needed. The rant is completely understandable.
The sole mention of Father’s Day where I was happened in the Prayers of the People, where prayers were offered for fathers, stepfathers, grandfathers “and all who act as a father to others,” for those who long to be fathers but are not, for those whose relationship with their fathers is broken or problematic, and for those who grieve the death of their fathers.
/tangent
That is the sort of petition I asked FatherInCharge to include in the Prayers yesterday, but I don't know if he did so. I doubt it, as he mostly ignores my entreaties for more inclusive stuff...
Another of the reasons I don't go to church any more (along with the lack of disabled parking and disabled-accessible WCs! - subject for a separate thread in Hell, maybe).
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It's not well known but a significant fraction of Scotland's renewable energy is now generated by harvesting the angular momentum of deceased reformers and the hot air generated by those who would claim to be their successors. Why, the Wee Flea alone generates enough to power a small highland town from his confected outrage, particularly at this time of year.
🤣🤣
Praise, my soul, the King of Heaven (Praise, my soul)
Immortal love, for ever full (Bishopthorpe)
Just as I am, without one plea (Saffron Walden)
There's a wideness in God's mercy (Daily, daily)
Not a Shiny Song in sight!
Those of you who use liturgical colours will probably know that *Green Sunday Sag* has begun, with green as the colour of the day for months to come, although weekday saints will be celebrated in the appropriate red or white, and there'll be a splash of blue at Our Place for The Assumption of Our Lady (mid-August).
The rather more *general* hymns come to the fore once more.
The Golden Rule - Nick & Becky Drake
Holy Forever - Chris Tomlin
How Deep the Father's Love for Us - Stuart Townend
The Servant King - Graham Kendrick
Hope of the Nations - Brian Doerksen
If I had been there, I would have sung:
Thanks to God for saints and martyrs - In Babilone
There there be love - Let There Be Love (never heard of that one)
Do not be afraid - Do Not Be Afraid
Brother, sister, let me serve you - Servant Song
Disposer supreme - Paderborn
Think I dodged a few bullets there ...
So we sang kiddie stuff.
O I dunno. The first and last hymns are good ones, and the Servant Song is fairly well-known (albeit not one I particularly like, but hey...).
I'm afraid I don't know Do Not Be Afraid.
“Our Father God, thy name we praise” - Mid Freuden Zart.
“King of kings, majesty”.
“Lord, I have made your word my choice” - Dundee (without long notes).
“The kingdom of God is justice and joy” - Laudate Dominum (Parry).
“Rejoice, the Lord is King!” - Darwall's 148th.
You can Experience DNBA via our morning worship recording on Facebook if you've a mind, as we had it too.
When the fire is burning all around you,
You will never be consumed by the flames.
Be still and know that I am God (Anonymous)
Rock of Ages (Toplady)
Blessed Assurance (Assurance)
We have a Gospel to Proclaim (Fulda)
The last one is actually comparatively modern, for all that it's in a traditional style.
“Praise Ye the Lord, the Almighty”/LOBE DEN HERREN
“Now Thank We All Our God”/NUN DANKET ALLE GOTT
The Servant Song is the only one in that list I do know. But I must confess that the name “Disposer Supreme” does seem like it would prompt some suppressed laughter.
Jesus, Lover of My Soul (the excellent ABERYSTWYTH)
Jesus, Savior, Pilot Me (PILOT)
How Firm a Foundation (FOUNDATION)
The gospel Alleluia was the Taizé Alleluia #7.
Does seem that I've known it all my life!
The Son of Consolation (Morning Light)
Appleford Mass setting
Celtic Alleluia
O Son of God our captain of salvation (O perfect love)
One bread one body one Lord of all
Thy hand O God has guided (Thornbury)
A good bright service with a hymn at the administration unknown to me until today, lifted from an RC source I think? They seemed to know it well anyway and made up for my rather diffident accompaniment. They asked for "Morning Light" instead of "Aurelia" which would have pleased the many haters of the latter tune on here 🤣
Evensong for Trinity 2
O strength and stay (Strength and stay)
When all thy mercies O my God (Contemplation)
Be thou my vision (Slane)
Jerusalem on high (Christchurch)
The words are from the Didache and St Paul, so go back to the beginnings of the church. The melody of the verses alludes to Nights in White satin by the Moody Blues (if you are old enough to remember it.)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kyobizQniKg&ab_channel=ChrisBrunelle
Build My Life (Worthy of every song we could ever sing)
Christ is my firm foundation (He won't)
I speak Jesus (Your name is power)
The 11am High Mass included the ordination of priests and deacons - about 26 in total, I think.
Preces and responses- Rose
Ps130 Walford Davies
Canticles Wood in E
Anthem: Oculi omnium - Wood
Hymns
( I can’t recall the first)
O worship the Lord in the beauty of holiness( Was lebet)
In Christ there is no east or west (Kilmarnock)
The church’s one foundation ( Aurelia)
The first was of a a 90 year old lady.
The second of a young mother who died leaving two young children.
The first had a meagre congregation, the second was packed to standing room only.
Neither congregation sang. For the first I did my Liberace impression and sang from the organ. A soloist was hired for the second; she sang the hymns as solos. This was the family's choice.
The first had
Crimond
Be still for the presence of the Lord
May the choirs of angels (Ernie Sands)
Amazing grace.
The second had
Ave Maria - Schubert (well, we ARE RCs!)
Amazing grace
Crimond
May the choirs of angels (Sands)
How great thou art.
The Sands is lovely.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QOZ0nDK7p00&ab_channel=OCPSessionChoir-Topic
I agree that it’s a lovely hymn.
I was embarrassingly years old when I discovered that song (NiWS, not OBOB) was not about mediaeval mounted elite warriors clad in pale tunics.
Beauty For Brokenness - GOD OF THE POOR
Tell Out, My Soul - WOODLANDS
To God be the glory
Thy kingdom come, O God - St Cecilia
I vow to thee my country- Thaxted
Blest are the pure in heart -Franconia
Hail to the Lord’s anointed - Cruger
Mass of St Thomas
6pm Evensong, with 12 guests in choir
Introit- If ye love me ( Tallis)
The Church’s one foundation- Aurelia
Responses Southwell Ferial
Sevenfold Amen
Lord’s Prayer ( Stone )
Lead us heavenly Father - Mannheim
Anthem- Lord for thy tender mercy’s sake
Sing to the Lord a new song of creation - King’s Orchard
Praise to the holiest - Gerontius
A simple blessing (anon)
Today we have a superb organist, so already we have had real treats in his voluntaries and in particular his improvisations, timed to perfection.
The King of Love my Shepherd Is. (St Columba)
What does the Lord require (Sharpthorne)
Immortal Invisible (St Denio)
When in our Music (Engleburg) - choir during communion.
Be thou my vision - Slane
For thy mercy and thy grace - Culbach
Father, who in Jesus found us - Quem Pastores
Great is thy faithfulness - Faithfulness
When in our music God is glorified - but we sang it to Sine Nomine
Not a bad selection really. Pity we had The Organist Who Doesn't Practise ...
Holy Forever
All Heaven Declares
How Deep the Father's Love for us - not going to link it as we hatesss it, preciousss, we hatesss it with the fire of a thousand sunses.
With regard to the two tunes noted, Charles Villiers Stanford composed ENGELBERG in 1904 for “For All the Saints.” Unfortunately for Stanford, his former student, Ralph Vaughan Williams, composed SINE NOMINE for the same text in 1906. And as Vaughan Williams was editor (with Percy Dearmer) of The English Hymnal (1906), his tune won out.
Meanwhile, today we had:
“Sing Glory to the Name of God” (Ps. 29 paraphrase)/LASST UNS ERFREUEN
“Take, O Take Me As I Am”/TAKE ME AS I AM
“O Come unto the Lord”/KOREA (This Korean hymn is often translated into English as “O Come Home”)
“Sent Out in Jesus’ Name” (Enviado soy de Dios)/ENVIADO
Anywho, Pentecost IV/Proper 6:
Now the Green Blade Riseth (NOËL NOUVELET)
If Thou But Trust In God To Guide Thee (WER NUR DEN LIEBEN)
My Life Flows On In Endless Song (ENDLESS SONG)
Three of my favourite hymns
Parish Communion
O worship the King (Hanover)
God of mercy God of grace (Heathlands)
Lord ethroned in heavenly splemdoir (St Helen)
O my Saviour lifted (North Coates)
Stand up stand up for Jesus (Morning Light)
Responses: Harris in F.
Gloria: Mass of St Thomas (David Thorne).
Anthem: "Now the green blade riseth" (David Lindley).
Hymns:
"The Church's one foundation" (Aurelia).
"Let all mortal flesh keep silence" (Picardy).
"You shall go out with joy".
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DbNt57IbOD4
(Shame about Aurelia, but hey...they did give it some welly, and Thorne's Gloria is one of my favourites).
Trinity 3 at Our Place was kept as *Fathers Day* or *Fathering Sunday* (aka a Feast of St Hallmark), but I seem to have mislaid my notes as to what was sung, apart from the first hymn:
Morning has broken (Bunessan)
Attendance was low, with students otherwise engaged, young families entirely absent, no churchwardens present, and quite a few others at Away.
Indeed. I'd forgotten about the football
(3) Sunshine!!!
OK, but FatherInCharge took the opportunity of trumpeting how wonderful it is to be a father/grandfather/stepfather/godfather, without perhaps considering how the last two on that list may be not be entirely appropriate substitutes...
Father Fuckwit (piss be upon him) once went even further, by telling me how anyone who failed to be the husband of a Lovely Wife, and (by implication) the father - like him - of Lovely Children, was somehow failing to obey God's Laws™.
I don't go to church anymore.
Apologies for the tangential rant.
The sole mention of Father’s Day where I was happened in the Prayers of the People, where prayers were offered for fathers, stepfathers, grandfathers “and all who act as a father to others,” for those who long to be fathers but are not, for those whose relationship with their fathers is broken or problematic, and for those who grieve the death of their fathers.
/tangent
That is the sort of petition I asked FatherInCharge to include in the Prayers yesterday, but I don't know if he did so. I doubt it, as he mostly ignores my entreaties for more inclusive stuff...
Another of the reasons I don't go to church any more (along with the lack of disabled parking and disabled-accessible WCs! - subject for a separate thread in Hell, maybe).
Neither do some other churches, I'm happy to say.
In Wales?!?!?
We had a reasonably full house; I think I gave out between 30 and 40 hymnbooks, which amounts to a goodly crowd in our little church.
Mothering Sunday predates Hallmark by several hundred years, but that doesn’t prevent it from being a Hallmark Holiday
Mothers' Day is a Hallmarkian feast. I wouldn't say Mothering Sunday is.