Our Patronal Festival today too, but apart from the "Thou art Peter" Gospel lesson and one hymn about saints, it wasn't really observed.
The Church's one foundation - Aurelia Let saints on earth in concert sing - Dundee My song is love unknown - Love Unknown I'm accepted, I'm forgiven All my hope on God is founded - Michael
Our reading was expressionless too, but it was her first time.
I have remembered the changed hymn.
I the Lord of sea and sky.
So lots of long hymns today.
Madam Sacristan said 'First Evensong of SS Peter & Paul' at Our Place yesterday (FatherInCharge being away), using 1662 BCP, and had the following hymns (sung a capella):
Captains of the saintly band (Harts) The day thou gavest, Lord, is ended (St Clement)
No Glorious Feast™ of anyone or anything at Our Place tomorrow, just plain ol' Trinity 5:
Praise, my soul, the King of Heaven (Praise My Soul) I cannot tell (Londonderry Air ) I heard the voice of Jesus say (Kingsfold ) Forth in thy name, O Lord, I go (Song 34 )
Our preaching series on the Bible: More than a Book continues with Words that Lead
You Shall Go Out With Joy (Steffi Geiser Rubin, Stuart Dauermann)
Seek Ye First (Karen Lafferty).
Trust and Obey! (Trust and Obey)
God Of Grace And God Of Glory (Rhuddlan)
First Sunday in the month "Hymns of Praise" service.
Morning Has Broken - BUNESSAN
Love Divine, All Loves Excelling - BLAENWERN
Faithful One, so unchanging - own tune
We Have an Anchor - WILL YOUR ANCHOR HOLD
Great Is Thy Faithfulness - FAITHFULNESS
All hail the power of Jesus' name - Miles Lane* All heaven declares I heard the voice of Jesus say - Kingsfold This is my body - In Love for Me Immortal, invisible - St Denio*
“O for a thousand tongues to sing” - Lyngham.
“Days are filled with sorrow and care” ("Golden Oldie" time!).
“What a friend we have in Jesus” - Converse.
“Freedom and life are ours” - From strength to strength.
One of our Mission Area clergy team retired on the first of the month, his 80th birthday, after nearly 50 years of ordained ministry. Special Evening Prayer this afternoon.
Readings were: Isaiah 55:6-13 and Colossians3:12-17.
We don't run to a choir, but gave it our best in his choice of hymns:
God is love: let heaven adore Him (Blaenwern)
I bob un sydd ffyddlon (Rachie)
Forth in Thy name, O Lord, I go (Angel's Song)
You shall go out with joy
'Sea Sunday' at Our Place tomorrow, with prayers (especially for those stuck on ships in the Strait of Hormuz) and a collection for the work of the Mission to Seafarers:
Come, ye faithful, raise the anthem (Neander) Will your anchor hold in the storms of life (Will Your Anchor Hold) Love divine, all loves excelling (Love Divine or Blaenwern) Eternal Father, strong to save (Melita)
Sea Sunday resonates with me every year, my parents having met while both serving in the wartime navy; and Eternal Father is one hymn which never fails to be poignant for that reason. Unfortunately, living far from the sea, communities here feel little affinity for the sea other than as something seen off a beach, and Sea Sunday won't be marked.
Yes. Our Place is a dockside parish, or was until They built a 'vibrant, exciting new community' on the site of what was once a fair-sized commercial harbour.
There is still some residual shipping traffic, but serving quays further upstream.
I can understand places nowhere near the sea, or a port, not observing Sea Sunday, but I was interested to note that FatherInCharge specifically referred (in his news-letter) to the seafarers currently marooned in the Strait of Hormuz, and suffering greatly. This is something most people are aware of, I should think, so may well be included in the intercessions at many churches tomorrow.
Old Mariners' Church in Detroit, "the maritime sailors' cathedral" in Gordon Lightfoot's song about the Edmund Fitzgerald sinking, always follows the first hymn immediately with the first stanza of Eternal Father, strong to save. Or at least did this every Sunday when I visited. Caused a bit of a catch in my throat, TBH.
Gracious Father, Son and Spirit (Lowry)
The King of Love my Shepherd is (Dominus Regit Me)
How Firm A Foundation (Lyons)
The God of Abraham Praise (Leoni)
No mention of Sea Sunday at our place, which slightly surprised me, but I guess Wiltshire is a landlocked county. It was a short family service today and we had:
Strength will rise Something to sing about - new to me and not available on YouTube. Turns out it was written by a previous member of the congregation. Lord I come to you
Our offerings at St Pete's (also without reference to Sea Sunday):
How sweet the name of Jesus sounds - St Peter Spirit of the living God - Living God O God of Bethel - Martyrdom As we are gathered Alleluia, alleluia - Lux Eoi
It was a bit difficult to encompass both Sea Sunday and the gospel reading (parable of the sower) but we managed it with “I the Lord of sea and sky” and “God is working his purpose out”. The other hymns were “Peace is flowing like a river”, “Lead us, Heavenly Father, lead us” and (at the vicar’s request) “Wide, wide as the ocean”.
Responses: Ben Parry
Canticles: Charles Villiers Stanford in G major
Anthem: Hymn for St Cecilia: Herbert Howells
Hymns
When, in our music, God is glorified - Engelberg
Love divine, all loves excelling - Love Divine (aka the wrong tune)
Jerusalem the golden - Ewing
Great is thy faithfulness, O God my Father - Faithfulness
The soprano/bass solos in the canticles were super. It felt very sad to wave goodbye to a set of wonderful choral scholars. It's been a lovely year of music. Drinks and nibbles afterwards.
I've been carrying Howells' wild melody with me since.
Trinity 7 at Our Place:
All my hope on God is founded (Michael) Great is thy faithfulness (Faithfulness) Blessed assurance (Blessed Assurance) You shall go out with joy ('The trees of the field')
King of glory, King of peace - Gwalchmai Jesus, name above all names When I survey the wondrous cross - Rockingham Amazing grace - Amazing Grace Now thank we all our God - Nun Danket
King of glory, King of peace - Gwalchmai Jesus, name above all names When I survey the wondrous cross - Rockingham Amazing grace - Amazing Grace Now thank we all our God - Nun Danket
For me, that last one would have made up for all previous faults.
Today, we had:
“Praise Ye the Lord, the Almighty”/LOBE DEN HERREN
“Spirit, Open My Heart”/WILD MOUNTAIN THYME
“May the God of Hope Go with Us” (Song of Hope/Canto de Esperanza)/ARGENTINA
I heard jokes that the last hymn must have been a nod to someone’s allegiance in the World Cup finals.
And the second one is such a lovely blend of text (by Ruth Duck) and tune.
Introit:
Lord, for thy tender mercies’ sake - Hilton
Responses- Smith
Canticles from the psalter
Anthem: Teach me, O Lord- Attwood
Hymns:
All my hope on God is founded- Michael
O God of Bethel- Martyrdom
There’s a wideness in God’s mercy- Cross of Jesus
I completely forgot about Sea Sunday (I was leading) so we had:
Approach, my soul, the mercy seat (STRACATHRO)
God is our refuge and our strength (STROUDWATER)
Come, Holy Ghost, our hearts inspire (ST COLUMBA)
Alleluia, alleluia, hearts to heaven and voices raise (LUX EOI)
God sent his son
For the beauty of the earth Amazing grace Dear Lord and Father of mankind Lord, for the years
Attending our new place is a return to the Church of England after many years of worshipping elsewhere and I'm loving singing these wonderful hymns again .
@Piglet It's a bit of a favourite in our place and is usually well sung. I often have to sing along to most hymns as well as play and forBlessed Assurance, I generally don't have to sing.
There are some hymns I tend to keep for my Sundays Off The Organ Bench...
Was I the only one who chose "Come, ye thankful people, come" last Sunday?
It felt odd not being harvest, but with the Gospel reading being the wheat and the tares, it was the obvious choice.
I can't sing that hymn without smelling fresh apples. The church of my childhood was always gloriously full of produce every harvest festival.
I thought about it but found the first verse too jarring (we're another month or so from getting silage baled for winter) and plumped for Alleluia, alleluia, hearts to heaven which touches on similar themes.
Thanks to the hot dry weather the fields round here already look (to my unpractised eye) ripe unto harvest and while we desperately need rain I fear it might spoil the crops if they are not all safely gathered in soon.
I was listening to "Farming Today" this morning. They were saying that, because all the different grain harvests are coming in together instead of spread over the usual 6 to 8 week period, there's a shortage of lorries to take it away. "But we'll cope, somehow" said a haulier.
I think it's a bit deeper than that. It's about a possible disconnect between worship and the real world being perpetuated because of, you know, it's what we've always done.
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The Church's one foundation - Aurelia
Let saints on earth in concert sing - Dundee
My song is love unknown - Love Unknown
I'm accepted, I'm forgiven
All my hope on God is founded - Michael
I have remembered the changed hymn.
I the Lord of sea and sky.
So lots of long hymns today.
Captains of the saintly band (Harts)
The day thou gavest, Lord, is ended (St Clement)
“All creatures of our God and King” (4 verses only) - Lasst Uns Erfreuen.
"Shine, Jesus, shine" (Kendrick) - sung, I have to say, with gusto.
The second part was about Abraham and Isaac ("a nasty little tale").
“Have faith in God, my heart” - Carlisle.
“When, O God, our faith is tested” - All Saints.
“The God of Abraham praise” - Leoni.
Praise, my soul, the King of Heaven (Praise My Soul)
I cannot tell (Londonderry Air
I heard the voice of Jesus say (Kingsfold
Forth in thy name, O Lord, I go (Song 34
You Shall Go Out With Joy (Steffi Geiser Rubin, Stuart Dauermann)
Seek Ye First (Karen Lafferty).
Trust and Obey! (Trust and Obey)
God Of Grace And God Of Glory (Rhuddlan)
Morning Has Broken - BUNESSAN
Love Divine, All Loves Excelling - BLAENWERN
Faithful One, so unchanging - own tune
We Have an Anchor - WILL YOUR ANCHOR HOLD
Great Is Thy Faithfulness - FAITHFULNESS
All hail the power of Jesus' name - Miles Lane*
All heaven declares
I heard the voice of Jesus say - Kingsfold
This is my body - In Love for Me
Immortal, invisible - St Denio*
* both sung with considerable gusto
“O for a thousand tongues to sing” - Lyngham.
“Days are filled with sorrow and care” ("Golden Oldie" time!).
“What a friend we have in Jesus” - Converse.
“Freedom and life are ours” - From strength to strength.
Ferial responses
Psalm 33: 1-8 - chant by Turle
Usual chants for the canticles
Hymns:
Colours of day
Praise to the holiest in the height - Gerontius
Abide with me - Eventide
Readings were: Isaiah 55:6-13 and Colossians3:12-17.
We don't run to a choir, but gave it our best in his choice of hymns:
God is love: let heaven adore Him (Blaenwern)I bob un sydd ffyddlon (Rachie)
Forth in Thy name, O Lord, I go (Angel's Song)
You shall go out with joy
Come, ye faithful, raise the anthem (Neander)
Will your anchor hold in the storms of life (Will Your Anchor Hold)
Love divine, all loves excelling (Love Divine or Blaenwern)
Eternal Father, strong to save (Melita)
There is still some residual shipping traffic, but serving quays further upstream.
I can understand places nowhere near the sea, or a port, not observing Sea Sunday, but I was interested to note that FatherInCharge specifically referred (in his news-letter) to the seafarers currently marooned in the Strait of Hormuz, and suffering greatly. This is something most people are aware of, I should think, so may well be included in the intercessions at many churches tomorrow.
The King of Love my Shepherd is (Dominus Regit Me)
How Firm A Foundation (Lyons)
The God of Abraham Praise (Leoni)
Strength will rise
Something to sing about - new to me and not available on YouTube. Turns out it was written by a previous member of the congregation.
Lord I come to you
How sweet the name of Jesus sounds - St Peter
Spirit of the living God - Living God
O God of Bethel - Martyrdom
As we are gathered
Alleluia, alleluia - Lux Eoi
They finished up with Eternal Father, strong to save, another favourite, and very much a reminder of Our Town's naval heritage.
Evensong:
Responses: Ben Parry
Canticles: Charles Villiers Stanford in G major
Anthem: Hymn for St Cecilia: Herbert Howells
Hymns
When, in our music, God is glorified - Engelberg
Love divine, all loves excelling - Love Divine (aka the wrong tune)
Jerusalem the golden - Ewing
Great is thy faithfulness, O God my Father - Faithfulness
The soprano/bass solos in the canticles were super. It felt very sad to wave goodbye to a set of wonderful choral scholars. It's been a lovely year of music. Drinks and nibbles afterwards.
I've been carrying Howells' wild melody with me since.
Heron.
All my hope on God is founded (Michael)
Great is thy faithfulness (Faithfulness)
Blessed assurance (Blessed Assurance)
You shall go out with joy ('The trees of the field')
Jesus is Lord of all the earth Alleluia
As the deer pants for the water own tune
In Christ Alone own tune
Jesus Shall Reign Where'er The Sun (Duke Street)
Broken for me, Broken for you (Colin Lunt, Janet Lunt)
Go forth and tell (Go forth)
The first was dull, the second had timing issues...but we made up for it by belting out the last hymn, even if we stayed put and told.
King of glory, King of peace - Gwalchmai
Jesus, name above all names
When I survey the wondrous cross - Rockingham
Amazing grace - Amazing Grace
Now thank we all our God - Nun Danket
My Spy was not pleased.
Today, we had:
“Praise Ye the Lord, the Almighty”/LOBE DEN HERREN
“Spirit, Open My Heart”/WILD MOUNTAIN THYME
“May the God of Hope Go with Us” (Song of Hope/Canto de Esperanza)/ARGENTINA
I heard jokes that the last hymn must have been a nod to someone’s allegiance in the World Cup finals.
And the second one is such a lovely blend of text (by Ruth Duck) and tune.
We had Blessed Assurance which was sung with much gusto!
Introit:
Lord, for thy tender mercies’ sake - Hilton
Responses- Smith
Canticles from the psalter
Anthem: Teach me, O Lord- Attwood
Hymns:
All my hope on God is founded- Michael
O God of Bethel- Martyrdom
There’s a wideness in God’s mercy- Cross of Jesus
Approach, my soul, the mercy seat (STRACATHRO)
God is our refuge and our strength (STROUDWATER)
Come, Holy Ghost, our hearts inspire (ST COLUMBA)
Alleluia, alleluia, hearts to heaven and voices raise (LUX EOI)
God sent his son
Ah, that's ok then - it was the music festival here last week.
Amazing grace
Dear Lord and Father of mankind
Lord, for the years
Attending our new place is a return to the Church of England after many years of worshipping elsewhere and I'm loving singing these wonderful hymns again
I'm quite happy not to sing Blessed assurance, so I put it down as the extroit on the Sunday I'm away.
There are some hymns I tend to keep for my Sundays Off The Organ Bench...
It felt odd not being harvest, but with the Gospel reading being the wheat and the tares, it was the obvious choice.
I can't sing that hymn without smelling fresh apples. The church of my childhood was always gloriously full of produce every harvest festival.
With climate change we now have leaves falling off the trees. It feels quite autumnal.
I thought about it but found the first verse too jarring (we're another month or so from getting silage baled for winter) and plumped for Alleluia, alleluia, hearts to heaven which touches on similar themes.
No. We had it here in Durham, and I could see why given the reading, but it’s still a bit soon to be raising the song of harvest home.
I know I've contributed to it but we'd better stop the tangent here, otherwise the hosts will be after us.
Oh wait...
Nenya - Ecclesiantics Host