Point of personal privilege: When Daniel Iverson wrote “Spirit of the Living God,” he was pastor of the church where my family has deep roots and where I’d later grow up. He baptized my father there a few years before he wrote “Spirit of the Living God.”
Eventually, he accepted a call to another church 800+ miles away. That happened to be the church where my mother-in-law grew up, and he eventually officiated at the wedding of my mother-in-law and my father-in-law.
Both my family and my wife’s family remained close to the Iversons over the years; Dr. Iverson and his wife are buried near my wife’s grandparents. Not surprisingly, “Spirit of the Living God” has long had a special place in both my family and my wife’s family.
Thanks for sharing this, Nick. I enjoyed hearing about your connections with this chorus.
“Come, let us join our cheerful songs” - Nativity.
“As we are gathered Jesus is here” (John Daniels).
“Tapestry” (Sam Hargreaves - we didn't sing this but watched it on video).
“The Church's one foundation” - Aurelia, sung surprisingly lustily.
“Spirit of love, you move within creation” - O Perfect Love.
“The Spirit came, as promised” - Ellacombe.
Trinity Sunday (aka the Preacher's Nightmare) tomorrow:
An army of ordinary people (Dave Bilborough)*
Something from The Sheet** Our Father (Caribbean) Be thou my guardian and my guide (Abridge) Holy, holy, holy (Nicaea)
*Not sure if this is correct - it doesn't seem to have much to do with the Trinity as such.
**Probably a hymn written some years ago by a clerical friend of Our Place, and set to the tune Lord of the Dance.
(I have no doubt that Madam Sacristan will insist on the Athanasian Creed being said at Mattins...perhaps fortunately, she and FatherInCharge are usually the only people at that service... )
Our rector has care (a loose term) of three churches. Every fifth Sunday they worship together, so only one sermon on the most holy and undivided Trinity will be prought. A handy coincidence, I feel.
I sang in church ( cathedral actually) not in a service but in a stunning concert entitled Oceans of Light.
Hail gladdening light - Charles Wood
Crossing the bar - Parry
Hymne au soleil - Lili Boulanger
Four Choral Hymns from the Rig Veda-Holst
Vast Ocean of Light - Dove
Sea Pictures - Elgar ( choral version).
Organ pieces by Dubois, Debussy completed the programme, played by our regular accompanist who is also the cathedral’s Assistant Director of Music. Our choir’s Music Director played Debussy’s Clair de Lune and Elgar’s Chanson de Nuit on his violin, accompanied on piano.
Indeed, and very refreshing, a complete contrast to the BPC Evening Prayer service I attended between our rehearsal and the concert, where there was no music of any sort.
As Baptists we don't even know that Trinity Sunday is happening...
Gracious Father, Son and Spirit (Unity Hymn) -Ben Slee
Eternal Father Strong to Save - Melita
Sing to God New Songs of Worship - Ode to Joy
Rock Of Ages - Toplady
As Baptists we don't even know that Trinity Sunday is happening...
Some of us do! And we're following one of the Lectionary readings (which isn't always the case).
“Holy, holy, holy! Lord God Almighty!” - Nicaea.
"Gloria, gloria” (Mike Anderson).
“Holy, holy, holy, God almighty, Lord!” - Sanctus (Schubert).
“Thanks to God whose word was spoken” - Regent Square.
“Lo, I am with you to the end of the world” - Presence (Wild Goose).
“Go to the world!” - Sine Nomine.
Our stand-in priest is celebrating the silver jubilee of his ordination today, so the songs are a mixture of Trinitarian and those to do with service and mission. None of them traditional.
We had a Requiem this week. Over 100 people attended. During the final commendation and incensing of the coffin we sang this lovely and moving version of the In Paradisum. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QOZ0nDK7p00&list=RDQOZ0nDK7p00&start_radio=1
There are few services more uplifting than a funeral when it is well attended by fellow Christians.
I get the impression our minister is quietly skirting around Trinity Sunday:
Come now, O Prince of peace
Praise to the Lord, the almighty, the king of creation
It's me, it's me, O Lord...
Make me a channel of your peace
Lord, you have come to the Seashore
Nothing particularly disagreeable, but nothing obviously Trinitarian either. Having grown up with Trinity Sunday being our patronal festival it's all a bit weird. The (singular) reading is the very start of Genesis.
Trinity Sunday (Patronal Festival at Our Place) and, being the fifth Sunday of the month, 9 o'clock communion was BCP.
My God, How Wonderful You Are - Westminster
We Have a Gospel to Proclaim - Germany
Father, We Love You - Glorify Your Name
I Will Sing the Wondrous Story - Hyfrydol
Trinity Sunday at St Pete's was mostly pretty decent:
Praise to the Lord, the Almighty, the King of creation - Lobe den Herren I bind unto myself today - St Patrick's Breastplate* Holy, holy, holy - Nicaea Purify my heart - Refiner's Fire Guide me, O thou great Redeemer - Cwm Rhondda
* sadly, we missed out the quiet verse, as it is a bit huge if you sing the whole thing.
Re: the Athanasian Creed, we sang it to an assortment of Anglican chants when we were in Canada; I rather liked it.
There is a hint of Trinity in 1:26 when God says, “Let us make mankind in our image" - but perhaps you won't be reading down that far.
We only had v1-4 (which made me suspect a misread of the lectionary) but I will hold my hands up and admit that the Trinity was a prominent theme in the service. Definitely an opportunity missed to have She sits like a bird, moving on the water, however. And I never feel like it's Trinity Sunday if we don't sing I bind unto myself today.
Not a hint of Trinity this morning. It was announced as the Sunday after Pentecost but nothing else at all. This was a Baptismal service which seemed to be treated a bit like a wedding, ie an excuse for a family get together and the retired priest went along with that, changing hymns, omitting essential items.
Hymns:
All things Bright and Beautiful
Give me oil in my lamp
Shine Jesus shine ( after the giving of the candle).
Little singing from the family.
The first reading was a specially written poem addressed to the baby.
The service included Holy Communion but neither parents nor godparents partook. A few older generation did, plus regular church goers.
It was a pleasant enough atmosphere but chaotic. The priest kept missing bits out and backtracking. His theology of baptism left a lot to be desired.
Hmm. I suppose that, as the service included Baptism, the usual Trinitarian formula was used?
One of Our Place's former churchwardens once remarked (rather waspishly) that such large and often irreverent baptismal gatherings were a substitute for the wedding that hadn't happened...
The Old-Catholics in Utrecht held their usual dignified and reverent liturgy, celebrating Trinity Sunday, and began with Holy, holy, holy (Nicaea) in Dutch. They don't seem to have many hymns in common with the C of E, unlike some Lutheran churches abroad, where the tune may well be familiar even if the words aren't!
My thoughts exactly: a substitute for the wedding that hadn’t happened.
Significant that there was no confession and absolution? No Q and A Do you….I believe/ turn to Christ etc
Definitely Trinity Sunday, and who would not embrace the opportunity to preach on this year's lectionary readings - Isaiah 40 (Who has measured the waters..?), 2 Cor 13 11-13 (The grace...) and Matthew 28 (the Great Commission).
Thou whose almighty Word
Father, Lord of all creation
Love divine
- all sung con brio in one of our Pilgrim Churches, set next to a farmyard high among the hills of Mid Wales.
One of Our Place's former churchwardens once remarked (rather waspishly) that such large and often irreverent baptismal gatherings were a substitute for the wedding that hadn't happened...
A friend was the head of a RC primary school in a deprived area. One year she suggested to the Mums of the first communion kids that they need not spend money on a special white lace dress etc for the event. Several Mums told her that they would spend the money on the dress because they would never get to see their daughters in a wedding dress.
My thoughts exactly: a substitute for the wedding that hadn’t happened.
Significant that there was no confession and absolution? No Q and A Do you….I believe/ turn to Christ etc
For good or ill, the Common Worship Baptism service doesn’t include confession and absolution. It should include
Therefore I ask:
Do you turn away from sin? I do.
Do you reject evil? I do.
Do you turn to Christ as Saviour? I do.
Do you trust in him as Lord? I do.
That retired priest should not, in my humble opinion, have PTO. He messed up so many times in that service, I lost count. He gave a talk about baptism which included various props. The first was an inflatable ball which he tried to inflate ( = Holy Spirit) and the mechanism failed, the Bible he intended to give was at the back of the church and had to be requested, the candle was a disaster. He missed words out, he explained things that needed no explanation yet omitted others eg announcing the collection, he went backwards and forwards in the liturgy……
With so many churches in vacancy there would be no services without our retired priests, but are there no checks as to their competence?
My thoughts exactly: a substitute for the wedding that hadn’t happened.
Significant that there was no confession and absolution? No Q and A Do you….I believe/ turn to Christ etc
For good or ill, the Common Worship Baptism service doesn’t include confession and absolution. It should include
Therefore I ask:
Do you turn away from sin? I do.
Do you reject evil? I do.
Do you turn to Christ as Saviour? I do.
Do you trust in him as Lord? I do.
and some version of the creed said by everyone.
Yes, that's what I thought - but IIRC the questions are asked of the parents/sponsors only, rather than the rest of the congregation.
Again IIRC, when a baptism is included in the Sunday Mass at Our Place, the usual congregational confession and absolution are said - the baptismal bits coming after the homily, instead of the Nicene Creed.
As @Puzzler says, though, it does sound as if the priest taking the service she attended could do with checking out. I wonder if he has the beginnings of dementia?
Corpus Christi - transferred from last Thursday - at Our Place tomorrow:
Love is his word (Cresswell)
Something from The Sheet Let all mortal flesh keep silence (Picardy) Lord enthroned in heavenly splendour (St Helen)
Something from The Sheet to accompany the Procession along the street (complete with rose petals, strewn by children) into the Hall for Benediction
First Sunday in the month "Hymns of Praise" service.
From Heaven You Came - The Servant King
It Is A Thing Most Wonderful - Herongate
*Onward, Christian Soldiers - St Gertrude
I Worship You - I give you all the honour
Jesus calls us: o'er the tumult - St Andrew
*Chosen by a congregant. Words supplied on a printed sheet as Anglican Hymns Old & New only has the "Onward, Christian Pilgrims" version.
We sort of marked St Columba's Day (Patronal Festival of our sister-church), although not in the hymns. If I'd known about it, I'd probably have suggested one of the hymns set to the tune St Columba - memo to self for next year.
What we did sing, with varying degrees of competence and gusto:
All my hope on God is founded - Michael All that I am, all that I do At the name of Jesus - Camberwell As the deer pants for the water Forth in thy name, O Lord, I go - Song 34
“Great is thy faithfulness”- Faithfulness.
“Faithful One, so unchanging” (Doerksen).
“A debtor to mercy alone” - Trewen.
“O love that wilt not let me go” - St. Margaret.
“I will sing the wondrous story” -Hyfrydol.
Our Place's modest Corpus Christi Procession went well - no rain, not too much wind, and six children to scatter the rose petals in front of the Blessed Sacrament...with a total of 43 people in church, matching the Easter Sunday attendance!
The Something from the Sheet which was sung at Benediction in the Hall was Therefore we before him bending (Grafton), but my Spy can't recall what the Offertory Hymn was, except that it was suitably sacramental, and was sung to 'the French tune we all know'. I wondered if it might have been Noel Nouvelet (Now the green blade riseth), but she thought not. Suggestions on a postcard, please.
The Something from the Sheet which was sung at Benediction in the Hall was Therefore we before him bending (Grafton), but my Spy can't recall what the Offertory Hymn was, except that it was suitably sacramental, and was sung to 'the French tune we all know'. I wondered if it might have been Noel Nouvelet (Now the green blade riseth), but she thought not. Suggestions on a postcard, please.
Let all mortal flesh, (If she thinks of Picardy as a French tune we all know...)
Jesus Christ is waiting goes to Noel Nouvelet.
Like @Piglet 's church we had At the Name of Jesus to Camberwell. I had a rare moment of democracy and asked several of the early arrivals if they had a tune preference, and as no one did we stuck with Camberwell. The several older members of the congregation who prefer Evelyns were not there present.
Thanks @Japes - it wasn't Let all mortal flesh, as that was the Communion Hymn, and it wouldn't have been Jesus Christ is waiting, as that's in our hymnal (Ye Dredde, Accursed, and Eldritch Orange Boke)...
Amos 9 being preached on today. Although I'm not sure how that fed into the song selection, as the first three seem pretty generic. Five hymns- so we overan our time-slot by 10 minutes
Lead Us, Heavenly Father, Lead us (Mannheim)
Be Still and Know (Be Still)
O for a Thousand Tongues to Sing (Lyngham)
O God, Our Help In Ages Past (St. Anne)
Great is Thy Faithfulness (Faithfulness)
@Heron - everybody likes Darke in F - it's a wonderful setting. We made a recording of it when we were in Belfast.
Re: Camberwell - the bloke who does our pew sheets had our down Evelyns, but the lady who was today's organist had said it was to be Camberwell. I thought it was because she wanted to have fun with the tiddly bits between the verses, but at the service it was accompanied on the guitar. 🤔
“I to the Hills Will Lift My Eyes” (DUNDEE) is always a good choice, @Piglet. It’s on the list of hymns for my funeral (along with instructions on exactly which arrangement of the tune is to be used).
Today, we sang:
“God Welcomes All”/THEMBA AMEN
“Guide Me, O Thou Great Jehovah”/CWM RHONDDA
“God Has Chosen Me”*
“Lord, We Thank You for This Food”/MOTOMASE
“Heaven Is Singing for Joy” (El cielo canta alegría)/ALEGRÍA
“I’m Gonna Live So God Can Use Me”
*A “short song” by John Bell, not to be confused with the hymn written by Bernadette Farrell “in gratitude for John Bell and friends of the Iona Community.”
I visited a church for Evensong which was prefaced by an announcement about some unfortunate events, so I think the hymns were chosen to bring comfort and consolation of some sort.
I didn’t know the first one and there were no hymn numbers so I can’t look it up, but it would more normally be a Communion hymn.
In heavenly love abiding.
I knew the third but have forgotten what it was.
Psalter settings for canticles.
No introit or anthem from the choir of five, though they alone sang the psalm.
A thoughtfully led sermon and intercessions by a wise priest, sensitive to the situation.
Thou whose almighty word - Moscow Spirit of mercy, truth and love - Warrington Three in one and one in three - Capetown
Those three hymn places are a long way apart!
Do others enjoy visiting hymn places and singing as they drive through/otherwise visit?
<confession>
I insisted that we visit Coe Fen not too long ago on a trip to Cambridge. I sometimes take photos with the town/location signage as 'proof'. I think that everyone should sing 'Morning has broken' as they drive from Pennhghael to Fionnphort - 'Child in a manger' would also be seasonally acceptable.
I think that everyone should sing 'Morning has broken' as they drive from Pennhghael to Fionnphort - 'Child in a manger' would also be seasonally acceptable.
The Church of Scotland Hymnary also has part of St Patrick's Breastplate (Christ be beside me, Christ be before me) set to the tune, and even more apt for our Dál Riadan heritage. We would usually sing Leanabh an àigh in the appropriate season, though I dare say my accent is atrocious.
I think that everyone should sing 'Morning has broken' as they drive from Pennhghael to Fionnphort - 'Child in a manger' would also be seasonally acceptable.
The Church of Scotland Hymnary also has part of St Patrick's Breastplate (Christ be beside me, Christ be before me) set to the tune, . . . .
As does the PC(USA) hymnal. “Child in a Manger,” on the other hand, isn’t a familiar one for us.
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Come Down, O Love Divine - DOWN AMPNEY
As the Deer Pants for the Water - own tune
God has spoken by the prophets - ARFON
Thanks for sharing this, Nick. I enjoyed hearing about your connections with this chorus.
“As we are gathered Jesus is here” (John Daniels).
“Tapestry” (Sam Hargreaves - we didn't sing this but watched it on video).
“The Church's one foundation” - Aurelia, sung surprisingly lustily.
“Spirit of love, you move within creation” - O Perfect Love.
“The Spirit came, as promised” - Ellacombe.
I would hope that the creators would take precedence over the arranger.
An army of ordinary people (Dave Bilborough)*
Something from The Sheet**
Our Father (Caribbean)
Be thou my guardian and my guide (Abridge)
Holy, holy, holy (Nicaea)
*Not sure if this is correct - it doesn't seem to have much to do with the Trinity as such.
**Probably a hymn written some years ago by a clerical friend of Our Place, and set to the tune Lord of the Dance.
(I have no doubt that Madam Sacristan will insist on the Athanasian Creed being said at Mattins...perhaps fortunately, she and FatherInCharge are usually the only people at that service...
ETA: I was right about Our Place's first hymn tomorrow - it is to be Immortal, invisible, God only wise (St Denio).
Hail gladdening light - Charles Wood
Crossing the bar - Parry
Hymne au soleil - Lili Boulanger
Four Choral Hymns from the Rig Veda-Holst
Vast Ocean of Light - Dove
Sea Pictures - Elgar ( choral version).
Organ pieces by Dubois, Debussy completed the programme, played by our regular accompanist who is also the cathedral’s Assistant Director of Music. Our choir’s Music Director played Debussy’s Clair de Lune and Elgar’s Chanson de Nuit on his violin, accompanied on piano.
Gracious Father, Son and Spirit (Unity Hymn) -Ben Slee
Eternal Father Strong to Save - Melita
Sing to God New Songs of Worship - Ode to Joy
Rock Of Ages - Toplady
Some of us do! And we're following one of the Lectionary readings (which isn't always the case).
“Holy, holy, holy! Lord God Almighty!” - Nicaea.
"Gloria, gloria” (Mike Anderson).
“Holy, holy, holy, God almighty, Lord!” - Sanctus (Schubert).
“Thanks to God whose word was spoken” - Regent Square.
“Lo, I am with you to the end of the world” - Presence (Wild Goose).
“Go to the world!” - Sine Nomine.
We had a Requiem this week. Over 100 people attended. During the final commendation and incensing of the coffin we sang this lovely and moving version of the In Paradisum.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QOZ0nDK7p00&list=RDQOZ0nDK7p00&start_radio=1
There are few services more uplifting than a funeral when it is well attended by fellow Christians.
Come now, O Prince of peace
Praise to the Lord, the almighty, the king of creation
It's me, it's me, O Lord...
Make me a channel of your peace
Lord, you have come to the Seashore
Nothing particularly disagreeable, but nothing obviously Trinitarian either. Having grown up with Trinity Sunday being our patronal festival it's all a bit weird. The (singular) reading is the very start of Genesis.
My God, How Wonderful You Are - Westminster
We Have a Gospel to Proclaim - Germany
Father, We Love You - Glorify Your Name
I Will Sing the Wondrous Story - Hyfrydol
I think you have missed the irony in my post: the first two hymns are definitely trinitarian
Praise to the Lord, the Almighty, the King of creation - Lobe den Herren
I bind unto myself today - St Patrick's Breastplate*
Holy, holy, holy - Nicaea
Purify my heart - Refiner's Fire
Guide me, O thou great Redeemer - Cwm Rhondda
* sadly, we missed out the quiet verse, as it is a bit huge if you sing the whole thing.
Re: the Athanasian Creed, we sang it to an assortment of Anglican chants when we were in Canada; I rather liked it.
We only had v1-4 (which made me suspect a misread of the lectionary) but I will hold my hands up and admit that the Trinity was a prominent theme in the service. Definitely an opportunity missed to have She sits like a bird, moving on the water, however. And I never feel like it's Trinity Sunday if we don't sing I bind unto myself today.
Hymns:
All things Bright and Beautiful
Give me oil in my lamp
Shine Jesus shine ( after the giving of the candle).
Little singing from the family.
The first reading was a specially written poem addressed to the baby.
The service included Holy Communion but neither parents nor godparents partook. A few older generation did, plus regular church goers.
It was a pleasant enough atmosphere but chaotic. The priest kept missing bits out and backtracking. His theology of baptism left a lot to be desired.
One of Our Place's former churchwardens once remarked (rather waspishly) that such large and often irreverent baptismal gatherings were a substitute for the wedding that hadn't happened...
The Old-Catholics in Utrecht held their usual dignified and reverent liturgy, celebrating Trinity Sunday, and began with Holy, holy, holy (Nicaea) in Dutch. They don't seem to have many hymns in common with the C of E, unlike some Lutheran churches abroad, where the tune may well be familiar even if the words aren't!
Significant that there was no confession and absolution? No Q and A Do you….I believe/ turn to Christ etc
Thou whose almighty Word
Father, Lord of all creation
Love divine
- all sung con brio in one of our Pilgrim Churches, set next to a farmyard high among the hills of Mid Wales.
@Puzzler's baptismal service sounds ghastly.
A friend was the head of a RC primary school in a deprived area. One year she suggested to the Mums of the first communion kids that they need not spend money on a special white lace dress etc for the event. Several Mums told her that they would spend the money on the dress because they would never get to see their daughters in a wedding dress.
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For good or ill, the Common Worship Baptism service doesn’t include confession and absolution. It should include and some version of the creed said by everyone.
With so many churches in vacancy there would be no services without our retired priests, but are there no checks as to their competence?
Yes, that's what I thought - but IIRC the questions are asked of the parents/sponsors only, rather than the rest of the congregation.
Again IIRC, when a baptism is included in the Sunday Mass at Our Place, the usual congregational confession and absolution are said - the baptismal bits coming after the homily, instead of the Nicene Creed.
As @Puzzler says, though, it does sound as if the priest taking the service she attended could do with checking out. I wonder if he has the beginnings of dementia?
Love is his word (Cresswell)
Something from The Sheet
Let all mortal flesh keep silence (Picardy)
Lord enthroned in heavenly splendour (St Helen)
Something from The Sheet to accompany the Procession along the street (complete with rose petals, strewn by children) into the Hall for Benediction
Yesterday I was privileged to be part of the choir for the memorial service for the late Jim Wallace in Dunblane Cathedral, where we sang:
Introit
Locus iste - Bruckner
During the lighting of the Candle of Hope:
Bless the Lord, my soul - Taizé
Anthem:
For this he was known - John Bell, arranged by Steven McIntyre (the organist at Dunblane)
Hymns:
I to the hills will lift mine eyes - Dundee*
We sing a love which sets all people free - Woodlands
Mine eyes have seen the glory - Battle Hymn of the Republic
* which almost caused porcine eye leakage, as it was sung at David's funeral
From Heaven You Came - The Servant King
It Is A Thing Most Wonderful - Herongate
*Onward, Christian Soldiers - St Gertrude
I Worship You - I give you all the honour
Jesus calls us: o'er the tumult - St Andrew
*Chosen by a congregant. Words supplied on a printed sheet as Anglican Hymns Old & New only has the "Onward, Christian Pilgrims" version.
What we did sing, with varying degrees of competence and gusto:
All my hope on God is founded - Michael
All that I am, all that I do
At the name of Jesus - Camberwell
As the deer pants for the water
Forth in thy name, O Lord, I go - Song 34
“Faithful One, so unchanging” (Doerksen).
“A debtor to mercy alone” - Trewen.
“O love that wilt not let me go” - St. Margaret.
“I will sing the wondrous story” -Hyfrydol.
Organ introit: Le mystere de la Sainte Trinite -Messiaen
Organ Voluntary: BWV 564 Toccata in C
Mass setting: Darke in F
Anthem: Just as I am - Chilcott
Hymns:
Be thou my guardian (Abridge)
From heaven you came (Servant King)
Be still (Be still)
The Kingdom of God (Paderborn)
Evensong:
Brewer in E flat
Litany to the Holy Spirit (Hurford)
Responses - Parry
Hymns:
Who would true valour (Monk's Gate)
Father hear the prayer (Sussex)
The God of Abraham praise (Leoni)
Immortal Love forever full (Bishopthorpe)
I like Darke in F, and the gospel improvisation was particularly strriking today.
I'm looking forward to the Parry responses, each response has a distinct character.
Heron
The Something from the Sheet which was sung at Benediction in the Hall was Therefore we before him bending (Grafton), but my Spy can't recall what the Offertory Hymn was, except that it was suitably sacramental, and was sung to 'the French tune we all know'. I wondered if it might have been Noel Nouvelet (Now the green blade riseth), but she thought not. Suggestions on a postcard, please.
Let all mortal flesh, (If she thinks of Picardy as a French tune we all know...)
Jesus Christ is waiting goes to Noel Nouvelet.
Like @Piglet 's church we had At the Name of Jesus to Camberwell. I had a rare moment of democracy and asked several of the early arrivals if they had a tune preference, and as no one did we stuck with Camberwell. The several older members of the congregation who prefer Evelyns were not there present.
Lead Us, Heavenly Father, Lead us (Mannheim)
Be Still and Know (Be Still)
O for a Thousand Tongues to Sing (Lyngham)
O God, Our Help In Ages Past (St. Anne)
Great is Thy Faithfulness (Faithfulness)
Re: Camberwell - the bloke who does our pew sheets had our down Evelyns, but the lady who was today's organist had said it was to be Camberwell. I thought it was because she wanted to have fun with the tiddly bits between the verses, but at the service it was accompanied on the guitar. 🤔
No, I don't know why either ...
Ferial responses
Psalm 4 - Elvey
Mag & Nunc - usual chants
Hymns:
Thou whose almighty word - Moscow
Spirit of mercy, truth and love - Warrington
Three in one and one in three - Capetown
Today, we sang:
“God Welcomes All”/THEMBA AMEN
“Guide Me, O Thou Great Jehovah”/CWM RHONDDA
“God Has Chosen Me”*
“Lord, We Thank You for This Food”/MOTOMASE
“Heaven Is Singing for Joy” (El cielo canta alegría)/ALEGRÍA
“I’m Gonna Live So God Can Use Me”
*A “short song” by John Bell, not to be confused with the hymn written by Bernadette Farrell “in gratitude for John Bell and friends of the Iona Community.”
I didn’t know the first one and there were no hymn numbers so I can’t look it up, but it would more normally be a Communion hymn.
In heavenly love abiding.
I knew the third but have forgotten what it was.
Psalter settings for canticles.
No introit or anthem from the choir of five, though they alone sang the psalm.
A thoughtfully led sermon and intercessions by a wise priest, sensitive to the situation.
Those three hymn places are a long way apart!
Do others enjoy visiting hymn places and singing as they drive through/otherwise visit?
<confession>
I insisted that we visit Coe Fen not too long ago on a trip to Cambridge. I sometimes take photos with the town/location signage as 'proof'. I think that everyone should sing 'Morning has broken' as they drive from Pennhghael to Fionnphort - 'Child in a manger' would also be seasonally acceptable.
Sorry
Heron
The Church of Scotland Hymnary also has part of St Patrick's Breastplate (Christ be beside me, Christ be before me) set to the tune, and even more apt for our Dál Riadan heritage. We would usually sing Leanabh an àigh in the appropriate season, though I dare say my accent is atrocious.