What did you sing at church today?

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  • Of course, what one wants is a very early Easter so one can get to those last and rarely visited Sundays After Trinity!

    Incidentally I looked at the (UK) Methodist Lectionary, it goes as you'd expect through the Sundays of Easter to Pentecost and Trinity Sunday ... but the following Sunday isn't the 1st after Trinity but the 12th in Ordinary Time. This continues up to the 33rd in Ordinary Time, then the Sunday Before Advent followed by Advent itself. I don't get it!
  • Alan29Alan29 Shipmate
    I daresay Your Place, like Ours, will ameliorate the Green Sunday Sag with a few such Bible-based occasions as The Assumption of Our Lady...
    :lol:
    Is that the day when we Assume Jesus must have had a mother?
  • Nick TamenNick Tamen Shipmate
    Of course, what one wants is a very early Easter so one can get to those last and rarely visited Sundays After Trinity!
    Unless you’re following the Revised Common Lectionary, where the readings after Pentecost are tied to the calendar week, e.g., “Proper 8” is the Sunday closest to June 29. That means a late Easter results in missing the first readings after Pentecost.

    Incidentally I looked at the (UK) Methodist Lectionary, it goes as you'd expect through the Sundays of Easter to Pentecost and Trinity Sunday ... but the following Sunday isn't the 1st after Trinity but the 12th in Ordinary Time. This continues up to the 33rd in Ordinary Time, then the Sunday Before Advent followed by Advent itself. I don't get it!
    “Ordinary Time” is the term used by the Roman Catholic Church. It’s also used, along with “Sundays after Epiphany” or “after Pentecost,” in the PC(USA), and probably by others.

    The Sunday after Epiphany is technically the first Sunday in Ordinary Time, though it’s never called that; it’s called the Baptism of the Lord. The following Sunday is the Second Sunday in Ordinary Time. If the last Sunday before Ash Wednesday in a given year is, say, the Seventh Sunday in Ordinary Time, the first Sunday after Pentecost will be the the Eighth Sunday in Ordinary Time (but will called Trinity Sunday).

    Designating Sundays as being “after Trinity” is unique in my experience to Anglican churches. The Episcopal Church here in the U.S. used to do it, but doesn’t anymore.
    Today at the Presbyterian Association of Musicians’ Worship &Music Conference, the hymns were:

    “All with Joyful Exaltation” (Ps. 30)/YISRAEL V’ORAITA
    “Goodness is Stronger than Evil”/GOODNESS IS STRONGER
    “All Who Hunger, Gather Gladly”/HOLY MANNA
    “What Does the Lord Require of You?”/MOON
    “Jesu, Jesu, Fill Us with Your Love”/CHEREPONI


  • Alan29 wrote: »
    I daresay Your Place, like Ours, will ameliorate the Green Sunday Sag with a few such Bible-based occasions as The Assumption of Our Lady...
    :lol:
    Is that the day when we Assume Jesus must have had a mother?

    :naughty:
  • RecoveringCynicRecoveringCynic Shipmate
    edited June 25
    Nick Tamen wrote: »
    Designating Sundays as being “after Trinity” is unique in my experience to Anglican churches. The Episcopal Church here in the U.S. used to do it, but doesn’t anymore.
    Except for those few cranky 1928 prayer book holdouts... :lol:
    e.g. St. John's Detroit or St. John's Savannah

    or the Missal-based parishes like S. Clement's Philadelphia.
  • PigletPiglet All Saints Host, Circus Host
    Nick Tamen wrote: »
    Today at the Presbyterian Association of Musicians’ Worship &Music Conference, the hymns were:

    “All with Joyful Exaltation” (Ps. 30)/YISRAEL V’ORAITA
    “Goodness is Stronger than Evil”/GOODNESS IS STRONGER
    “All Who Hunger, Gather Gladly”/HOLY MANNA
    “What Does the Lord Require of You?”/MOON
    “Jesu, Jesu, Fill Us with Your Love”/CHEREPONI

    What, no metrical psalms??? Call yourself a Presbyterian?????!!! :naughty:
    ... Except for those few cranky 1928 prayer book holdouts...

    David and I got married according to the (English) 1928 Prayer Book, and very lovely it was too. :heart:
    Rev'd Rosie has been messing about with the service booklets :rage: and now we appear to be in "ordinary time" rather than "Sundays after Trinity".

    If it ain't broke, why does she have to try and fix it???



  • Nick TamenNick Tamen Shipmate
    edited June 25
    Nick Tamen wrote: »
    Designating Sundays as being “after Trinity” is unique in my experience to Anglican churches. The Episcopal Church here in the U.S. used to do it, but doesn’t anymore.
    Except for those few cranky 1928 prayer book holdouts... :lol:
    e.g. St. John's Detroit or St. John's Savannah

    or the Missal-based parishes like S. Clement's Philadelphia.
    Ah yes. There are always holdouts, aren’t there. :lol:
    Piglet wrote: »
    Nick Tamen wrote: »
    Today at the Presbyterian Association of Musicians’ Worship &Music Conference, the hymns were:

    “All with Joyful Exaltation” (Ps. 30)/YISRAEL V’ORAITA
    “Goodness is Stronger than Evil”/GOODNESS IS STRONGER
    “All Who Hunger, Gather Gladly”/HOLY MANNA
    “What Does the Lord Require of You?”/MOON
    “Jesu, Jesu, Fill Us with Your Love”/CHEREPONI

    What, no metrical psalms??? Call yourself a Presbyterian?????!!! :naughty:
    Well, I never claimed this was a group of good Presbyterians. You know how naughty musicians can be. :wink:


    Today, the hymns were:

    “Shall We Gather at the River”/HANSON PLACE
    “Just as I Am”/WOODWORTH
    “Sometimes a Light Surprises”/SALLEY GARDENS


    In connection with another thread, this morning’s service was a service of healing and wholeness. @Alan29, anointing was offered for those who wanted it.


  • Nick TamenNick Tamen Shipmate
    And today, the hymns were:

    “You, Lord, Are Both Lamb and Shepherd”/PICARDY
    “A Stable Lamp Is Lighted”/ANDUJAR
    “The Church’s One Foundation”/AURELIA


  • ArethosemyfeetArethosemyfeet Shipmate, Heaven Host
    PICARDY is an interesting choice there - we use REGENT SQUARE which is quite a contrast.
  • Bishops FingerBishops Finger Shipmate
    edited June 27
    Looking ahead to Sunday, when Our Place is observing the Feast of St Peter and St Paul:

    Captains of the saintly band
    (Harts* is the tune set in the Orange Book)
    Something from The Sheet
    Our Father (Caribbean - yet again - why? )
    Our God loves us (Plaisir d'amour)
    Thy hand O God has guided (Thornbury)

    *For those who, like me, are unfamiliar with Harts, here it is:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tPPMpxlb5Yw&list=RDtPPMpxlb5Yw&start_radio=1
  • Nick TamenNick Tamen Shipmate
    PICARDY is an interesting choice there - we use REGENT SQUARE which is quite a contrast.
    PICARDY is what our hymnal sets it to. I find it to be an exquisite pairing of text and tune.
    Today, at the last service of the conference (there will be a concert for all choirs and instrumental groups tonight), the hymns/songs were:

    “Hear, O Lord, My Plea for Justice” (Ps. 17)*/CHARLESTOWN
    “Ain’t Gonna Let Nobody Turn Me Around”**
    “Love Divine, All Loves Excelling***/HYFRYDOL


    * And there’s a metrical psalm, @Piglet. :wink:
    ** A Civil Rights era song, which fit well with the sermon on the parable of the persistent widow and the unrighteous judge. It was accompanied only by one drummer.
    *** Accompanied by organ, a brass ensemble and tympani, except for verse 3, which was a cappella. Quite something when sung by (I’d estimate) 800–900 voices, all quite comfortable singing in parts.


  • PigletPiglet All Saints Host, Circus Host
    Despite it being the day of our Patronal Festival*, we had:

    All creatures of our God and King - Lasst Uns Erfreuen
    Jesus, stand among us - K*ndr*ck :angry:
    I stand amazed in the presence - My Saviour's Love
    May the fragrance of Jesus fill this place - more K*ndr*ck :rage:
    From the very depths of darkness - Battle Hymn of the Republic**

    * at least the sermon was about St Peter.

    ** after the penultimate verse (of 6 or 7 - I lost count) the organist obviously lost the will to live, and stopped playing. I can't say I blame her ... :naughty:
  • Bishops FingerBishops Finger Shipmate
    edited June 29
    Piglet wrote: »
    Despite it being the day of our Patronal Festival*, we had:

    All creatures of our God and King - Lasst Uns Erfreuen
    Jesus, stand among us - K*ndr*ck :angry:
    I stand amazed in the presence - My Saviour's Love
    May the fragrance of Jesus fill this place - more K*ndr*ck :rage:
    From the very depths of darkness - Battle Hymn of the Republic**

    * at least the sermon was about St Peter.

    ** after the penultimate verse (of 6 or 7 - I lost count) the organist obviously lost the will to live, and stopped playing. I can't say I blame her ... :naughty:

    O dear. Not a good selection. I'm not sure what we had at Our Place (I'm waiting for my Spy to report), but one from the Orange Book which would have been appropriate at @Piglet's place is Praise to God for saints and martyrs (In Babilone or Ton-y-Botel).

    All creatures of our God and King is a good sing, and so is Michael Forster's From the very depths of darkness (there are 6 verses) - but maybe to the tune set first in the Orange Book (Cameron's, by Christopher Tambling, though I can't find a suitable link, perhaps because copyright). The Battle Hymn of the Republic always seems to me to require the accompaniment of the Horns and Drums of the Dark Tower of Mordor.

    I don't know I stand amazed in the presence, but I see that it's not exactly recent - it was written and composed by W H Gabriel, who died in 1932.
  • "Christian freedom" (Galatians 5 RCL).

    “To God be the glory” - its own tune.
    “The Spirit lives to set us free” - Walk i n the light.
    “Make me a captive, Lord” - Leominster.
    “Freedom and life are ours” - From strength to strength.
    “And can it be?” - Sagina.

  • Our Place sang the selection I mentioned earlier, though my Spy can't recall the words of the Hymn From The Sheet, except that it was to a well-known tune, and all about St Peter!

    Captains of the saintly band
    was sung to H J Gauntlett's tune University College, perhaps more often used in the C of E for Oft in danger, oft in woe:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ONmhsBe_MOQ&list=RDONmhsBe_MOQ&start_radio=1
  • PuzzlerPuzzler Shipmate
    Feast weekend in the village. Fete yesterday, parade service today, with remembrance ( as on 11th November) at the war memorial outside St Peter’ s church, followed by service inside.

    All people that on earth do dwell- Old 100th
    Psalm 150 - Stanford in C.
    For all the saints - Sine Nomine
    Will your anchor hold?
    Thy hand O God has guided - Thornbury
    Jerusalem
    National Anthem

  • Puzzler wrote: »
    Feast weekend in the village. Fete yesterday, parade service today, with remembrance ( as on 11th November) at the war memorial outside St Peter’ s church, followed by service inside.

    All people that on earth do dwell- Old 100th
    Psalm 150 - Stanford in C.
    For all the saints - Sine Nomine
    Will your anchor hold?
    Thy hand O God has guided - Thornbury
    Jerusalem
    National Anthem

    A nice selection, bar the last two.
    :naughty:
  • Indeed. Thinking of "Will your anchor hold", did you have any Boys' Brigade present?
  • NenyaNenya All Saints Host, Ecclesiantics & MW Host
    Rise, my soul, the Lord is risen
    Worthy of every song we could ever sing
    I want to know you, Jesus my Lord
    Here I am once again (pour out my heart)
    Wonderful grace (a new one to me)
  • HeronHeron Shipmate
    Patronal Festival at Our Place. Must have been over 30 in the choir, though several were Quite Small.

    Mass Setting: Missa Brevis in D K194 Mozart.
    Anthem: Give us the wings of faith Whitbourn

    Hymns were unusual:

    As the deer pants for the water
    Thou art the Christ, O Lord (love unknown)
    Amazing Grace
    All the earth must tell the story (Abbots Leigh)

    Loved singing the Mozart, which was new to me. Kinda sings itself, and we took the Gloria at a delightfully breakneck speed. Love the 'Dona nobis pacem' section in the Agnus.

    The Whitbourn was an easy sing, really effective, first bit of Whitbourn I've sung, and I'd like to do more.

    Cheers

    Heron


  • PuzzlerPuzzler Shipmate
    Puzzler wrote: »
    Feast weekend in the village. Fete yesterday, parade service today, with remembrance ( as on 11th November) at the war memorial outside St Peter’ s church, followed by service inside.

    All people that on earth do dwell- Old 100th
    Psalm 150 - Stanford in C.
    For all the saints - Sine Nomine
    Will your anchor hold?
    Thy hand O God has guided - Thornbury
    Jerusalem
    National Anthem

    A nice selection, bar the last two.
    :naughty:

    In the event, Thy hand O God was cut out. Words were provided on screens.
    No Boys’ Brigade, but the usual colour parties from Scouts, Beavers etc. The Scout nearly wrecked the big screen in the chancel and the Beaver nearly took the Brownie’s eye out. Apart from that, all went well.
  • I asked because "Will your anchor" is very much the BB's hymn.
  • It's popular at Our Place, and is generally the final hymn on Sea Sunday. I didn't know about the connection with the Boys' Brigade (which in our case also we have not got).
  • PuzzlerPuzzler Shipmate
    It could be be that someone wanted a sort-of -reference to Peter the fisherman?
  • DardaDarda Shipmate
    Taking a break on Exmoor, and visited the little church of St John in Countisbury on the north Devon coast path for their short, contemplative evening service on the theme of hospitality and welcome - particularly to the stranger.
    Thirteen of us sang just the one hymn to a recorded organ backing track - Martyn Haugen's Let Us Build A House Where Love Can Dwell (All Are Welcome)
  • Puzzler wrote: »
    It could be be that someone wanted a sort-of -reference to Peter the fisherman?

    Yes, that seems logical! Peter, storms, and boats are mentioned several times in the Gospels...
  • TruronTruron Shipmate
    No morning bookings so a nice early HC but country Evensong tonight for St Peter's Day.

    Thou art the Christ O Lord (Gopsal)
    Forsaken once and thrice denied (Saffron Walden)
    Jesus calls us (St Andrew)**
    O rock of ages one foundation (St Clement)

    **the congregation were told to sing "As of old St Peter heard it" instead
    of St Andrew hearing it 😳

    Singing was good tonight and they belted out "St Clement" to a rather obscure text about St Peter.
  • Alan29Alan29 Shipmate
    I went to the earlier said Mass yesterday. The only singing was the Alleluia before the gospel and after communion the priest led everyone in the traditional eucharistic one sentence song "O sacrament most holy," sung thrice by all. The RC rubrics say that the Alleluia and Sanctus etc have to be always sung but I don't know any parishes where that happens.
    I usually play at the 11.00, so it was lovely to sit with and communicate with my wife - it rarely happens, though during my recent illness I was brought communion both in hospital and at home and we both communicated and were both anointed, as she is waiting open heart surgery.
  • AmosAmos Shipmate
    I was at Norwich Cathedral for the ordination of deacons yesterday. Good selection of hymns, songs, and anthems from the breadth of the tradition in the Church of England. Best of all was to sing 'Blessed Assurance' as the final hymn. I've never encountered it in a cathedral before, and the unity and joy from the congregation lifted the heart. Great work from the Precentor.
  • Trinity 3 at Our Place tomorrow:

    Give me joy in my heart (Sing Hosanna)
    We have a gospel to proclaim (Fulda)
    All for Jesus (All For Jesus)
    Colours of day (Light Up The Fire)

    :neutral:
  • ArethosemyfeetArethosemyfeet Shipmate, Heaven Host
    Trinity 3 at Our Place tomorrow:

    Give me joy in my heart (Sing Hosanna)
    We have a gospel to proclaim (Fulda)
    All for Jesus (All For Jesus)
    Colours of day (Light Up The Fire)

    :neutral:

    Did the list get dropped by a primary school aged time traveller from c1990?
  • Trinity 3 at Our Place tomorrow:

    Give me joy in my heart (Sing Hosanna)
    We have a gospel to proclaim (Fulda)
    All for Jesus (All For Jesus)
    Colours of day (Light Up The Fire)

    :neutral:

    Did the list get dropped by a primary school aged time traveller from c1990?

    Hehe...I suspect you're not far off the mark...
  • ArethosemyfeetArethosemyfeet Shipmate, Heaven Host
    We're having:
    Be still for the presence of the Lord
    Lord Jesus think of me
    I need thee every hour
    When the storms of life are raging, stand by me
    O Lord my God, when I in awesome wonder
  • Alan29Alan29 Shipmate
    Trinity 3 at Our Place tomorrow:

    Give me joy in my heart (Sing Hosanna)
    We have a gospel to proclaim (Fulda)
    All for Jesus (All For Jesus)
    Colours of day (Light Up The Fire)

    :neutral:

    I am having Colours of Day at my cremation
    "So light up the fires,
    And let the flame burn,
    open the doors,
    Let Jesus return.
  • Anna_BaptistAnna_Baptist Shipmate
    Let All The World In Every Corner Sing (Dallas)
    We Have a Gospel to Proclaim (Fulda)
    Only by Grace Can We Enter (Ditto)
    O For a Thousand Tongues to Sing (Lyngham)
  • “What a friend we have in Jesus” - Converse.
    “Ancient words” (Lynn DeShazo).
    “Come, you sinners, poor and needy” - Bryn Calfaria.
    “Brother, sister, let me serve you” - The Servant Song.

  • HeronHeron Shipmate
    <love Lyngham>

    With 5 minutes over breakfast I'll post before I go to church.

    At our shack there's a focus on the environment today, linked to the mass lobby of Parliament in the coming week.

    Lovely to see a Thomas Troeger hymn - AIUI he doesn't have the profile on this side of the pond that he has in the US?

    I'm not in the choir today, so a question: I like following the score when listening to music. Is this OK when participating in worship?



    Organ Introit: Canzonetta by William Mathias
    Organ voluntary: Suite Gothique: Menuet by Lèon Boëllmann

    Mass Setting: Byrd Mass for 4 voices
    Anthem: The Call of Wisdom - Todd

    Hymns:
    O Lord of every shining constellation (Highwood)
    Above the moon earth rises (Salley Gardens)
    Put thou thy trust in God (St Thomas)
    O Jesus I have promised (Wolvercote)

    Cheers Heron
  • Sicut CervusSicut Cervus Shipmate
    July 6th, Fourth Sunday after Pentecost

    Choir

    New songs of celebration render, / Eric Routley
    Filled with the Spirit’s power, / Holst

    Hymns
    Come O God of all the earth, / Sing Out
    The law of Christ alone can make us free, / Love is the fulfilling, Connolly/McAuley
    Lord of creation, / Slane

    Communion setting
    Newcastle Mass, / Peter Guy
  • betjemaniacbetjemaniac Shipmate
    1662 Morning Prayer, 3rd Sunday after Trinity.

    Come Down O Love Divine
    When I Survey the Wondrous Cross
    The Church’s One Foundation
  • PigletPiglet All Saints Host, Circus Host
    Heron wrote: »
    Mass Setting: Byrd Mass for 4 voices
    <sigh> :heart:

    Our offerings today (not helped by The Organist Who Doesn't Practise™):

    Lord, for the years - Lord of the Years
    Meekness and majesty - This is your God
    O worship the Lord in the beauty of holiness - Was Lebet
    Wait for the Lord - Taize*
    Be thou my vision - Slane

    * which was totally unsuitable - the choir hadn't had a chance to rehearse (or even work out how it should be sung - it starts with a sort of refrain and the remaining verses are, I think, supposed to be sung as a kind of descant, but we really didn't know - it was embarrassing).

    Even the familiar tunes were practically unrecognisable in the playovers. :grimace:
  • BroJamesBroJames Purgatory Host
    The refrain of Wait for the Lord is intended to be sung as an ostinato with the verses sung over it by a cantor or cantors. It doesned a little preparation.
  • DardaDarda Shipmate
    Every few months, instead of three separate Sunday services we all worship together as one congregation (followed by a bring & share lunch). We sang:
    Creator God Nick & Becky Drake
    This is The Day Hanna, Goldthorp, Payne & Benson
    Holy Forever Chris Tomlinson
    There Is a Higher Throne Keith & Kristyn Getty
    Guide Me, O Thou Great Redeemer CWM RHONDDA
  • BroJames wrote: »
    The refrain of Wait for the Lord is intended to be sung as an ostinato with the verses sung over it by a cantor or cantors. It doesned a little preparation.

    The same is true of other Taize chants - they're not always as simple and/or easy as one might suppose!

    The Faithful (very) Few at Our Place coped with the odd selection I listed above, although the people who probably requested Sing Hosanna and Colours of Day were absent...
  • betjemaniacbetjemaniac Shipmate
    Trinity 3 at Our Place tomorrow:

    Give me joy in my heart (Sing Hosanna)
    We have a gospel to proclaim (Fulda)
    All for Jesus (All For Jesus)
    Colours of day (Light Up The Fire)

    :neutral:

    Nothing wrong with We Have a Gospel… the rest of it though…
  • Bishops FingerBishops Finger Shipmate
    edited 1:43PM
    Trinity 3 at Our Place tomorrow:

    Give me joy in my heart (Sing Hosanna)
    We have a gospel to proclaim (Fulda)
    All for Jesus (All For Jesus)
    Colours of day (Light Up The Fire)

    :neutral:

    Nothing wrong with We Have a Gospel… the rest of it though…

    Surely All for Jesus is OK? Music by Stainer, no less.

    Two out of four as far as I'm concerned, hence the neutral emoji.
  • BroJamesBroJames Purgatory Host
    Concert this afternoon in Cartmel Priory.

    Magnificat and Nunc Dimittis - Stanford in C
    Jauchzet dem Herrn alle Welt and Richte mich Gott - Mendelssohn
    Kyrie and Agnus Dei from Missa Brevis -Palestrina
    Ave Maria - Lukaszewski
    Abendfeier in Venedig - Schumann (Clara)
    Adoro te devote -Cecilia McDowall
    Magnificat - Pārt
    Benedictus from Missa Canonica - Brahms
    Abendlied - Rheinberger

    (Encore, maybe, Eighth tune from Nine Psalm Tunes for Archbishop Parker’s Psalter - Tallis)
  • NenyaNenya All Saints Host, Ecclesiantics & MW Host
    I went to both the services at Our Place this morning so there's quite a list.

    First service:

    Death was arrested (Alone in my sorrow and dead in my sin)
    You give life, you give love
    The Lord's my shepherd This version.
    God, I look to you

    Second service (with baptisms):

    A thousand generations falling down in worship
    God almighty, king of glory, you have called me friend
    Father let your kingdom come (right here in my heart)
    What gift of grace is Jesus my redeemer
    Thank you for saving me, what can I say?
    O happy day
  • BroJames wrote: »
    The refrain of Wait for the Lord is intended to be sung as an ostinato with the verses sung over it by a cantor or cantors. It doesned a little preparation.

    You can also sing the refrain, then have the organist keep playing quietly while someone leads in prayer over it, then the refrain again etc. This needs preparation, and the organist and pray-ers need to listen to each other.
  • Nick TamenNick Tamen Shipmate
    “Colours of Day” doesn’t seem to have crossed the Pond. I’m getting the feeling I should be okay with that.


    Today, we had:

    “To the Hills I Lift My Eyes” (Ps. 121:1-2)/NA-UI DO-UM
    “Our God, Our Help in Ages Past”/ST. ANNE
    “Lead Me, Guide Me”/LEAD ME, GUIDE ME
    “Now Thank We All Our God”/NUN DANKET ALLE GOTT


  • betjemaniacbetjemaniac Shipmate
    Trinity 3 at Our Place tomorrow:

    Give me joy in my heart (Sing Hosanna)
    We have a gospel to proclaim (Fulda)
    All for Jesus (All For Jesus)
    Colours of day (Light Up The Fire)

    :neutral:

    Nothing wrong with We Have a Gospel… the rest of it though…

    Surely All for Jesus is OK? Music by Stainer, no less.

    Two out of four as far as I'm concerned, hence the neutral emoji.

    Fair - I’d actually missed that
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