For some reason the RCC in the UK has decided that the Feast of Christ the King of the Universe should also be Youth Sunday.
For once in my life I complained about the utter dross that was chosen. I won't bore people with ahet they were.
For some reason the RCC in the UK has decided that the Feast of Christ the King of the Universe should also be Youth Sunday.
For once in my life I complained about the utter dross that was chosen. I won't bore people with ahet they were.
Hymns
Crown him with many crowns (Diademata)
O Christ the same (Londonderry Air)
In the cross of Christ I glory (Cross of Jesus)
Rejoice the Lord is King (Gopsal)
Mass setting: Darke in F
Anthem: Adoramus te Christe - Lassus
We were staying with friends this weekend and went to their church's morning service where we had:
My hope is built on nothing less (Christ alone, cornerstone) Be thou my vision God immortal, invisible (A new one to me) What gift of grace is Jesus my redeemer Who has held the ocean in his hands?
Christ the King (or, as the hymn board puts it, Last Pentecost, which I always joke is my favorite Wham! song)
Jesus Shall Reign (DUKE STREET)
A Mighty Fortress Is Our God (EIN FESTE BURG, metered version)
At the Name of Jesus (KINGS WESTON)
Crown Him with Many Crowns (DIADEMATA)
I'm guessing that @Piglet 's Place, being Piskie, might well have something different.
Our current Wee Booklet (which has been Messed About With* by our rector, who seems to think she knows better) has two or three post-Communion prayers, used in rotation and said by everyone, but none specific to the day or season.
The Collect of the Day didn't stir anything up either. 😢
* so much so that the Creed can no longer be sung to Merbecke, because the words don't fit.
I'm guessing that @Piglet 's Place, being Piskie, might well have something different.
Our current Wee Booklet (which has been Messed About With* by our rector, who seems to think she knows better) has two or three post-Communion prayers, used in rotation and said by everyone, but none specific to the day or season.
(I note that this not-as-Wee Booklet does have prayers after Communion specific to the day, and does have the collect “Stir up, O Lord, the wills of your faithful people . . . ,” but on Proper 23, the Sunday between September 4 and 10 (p. 105), not on the last Sunday after Pentecost.)
I'm guessing that @Piglet 's Place, being Piskie, might well have something different.
Our current Wee Booklet (which has been Messed About With* by our rector, who seems to think she knows better) has two or three post-Communion prayers, used in rotation and said by everyone, but none specific to the day or season.
I'm guessing that @Piglet 's Place, being Piskie, might well have something different.
Our current Wee Booklet (which has been Messed About With* by our rector, who seems to think she knows better) has two or three post-Communion prayers, used in rotation and said by everyone, but none specific to the day or season.
Advent Sunday approaches, and Our Place will probably be singing:
Hark! a herald voice is calling (Merton) Hills of the north, rejoice (Little Cornard) Let all mortal flesh keep silence (Picardy) Lo, he comes with clouds descending (Helmsley)
Advent Sunday Communion, which being the fifth Sunday in the month followed the BCP.
All my Hope on God is Founded - MICHAEL
The Lord's My Shepherd - Stuart Townend adaptation
O Jesus, I have promised - THORNBURY
Bit of a mixed bag at St Pete's, although we did have a couple of decent Advent hymns:
Come, thou long-expected Jesus - Cross of Jesus (the WRONG TUNE!!!)* Restore, O Lord, the honour of your name - Kendrick** Hills of the north, rejoice - Little Cornard In the Lord, I'll be ever thankful - Taize Forth in the peace of Christ we go - Song 34
* It's not that "Cross of Jesus" isn't a good tune - it is - but imho Come, thou long-expected Jesus should be sung to "Stuttgart".
** sadly our guitarist was away, and we had The Organist Who Doesn't Practise™, so it was even more dire than it might have been.
Each to their own, but I prefer Come, thou long-expected Jesus to Halton Holgate - a melody by William Boyce, adapted by S S Wesley.
It's actually the alternative tune to Cross Of Jesus in the Orange Book. As some of you will know, Stuttgart is often sung to the Epiphany hymn Earth has many a noble city, and a very fine tune it is, too.
The Kendrick song is IMNSHO completely superfluous. Your Rector should do away with a Gradual Hymn - four hymns are quite enough.
We had a joint service with the local baptists today and had CTLEJ to... HYFRYDOL?!
An odd choice, maybe - but it works!
Possibly not: although I'd go for "Stuttgart", I see "Hyfrydol" cited as a tune on a hymnal website I often use.
We had a bit of a problem in that we hosted a joint service with another congregation who don't know any Advent hymns (but like carols), also it was an All-age service. So:
"Make way, make way” (Kendrick).
"The holly and the ivy are dancing in a ring" (for Advent candle lighting).
“Love came down at Christmas” (Gartan).
“When the angel came to Mary” (Sans Day Carol).
“O little town of Bethlehem” (Forest Green).
“Tell out, my soul!” (Woodlands).
After a quiet morning last week (8am only) I had two Advent Sunday engagements this morning.
Sung Eucharist
Hark a herald voice (Merton)
plainsing Mass from new English Hymnal
Plainsong Alleluia
Lo he comes (Helmsley)
Creator of the stars of night (Plainsong)
Jesus calls us (St Andrew)
Quite a good service in a gentle high church tradition and singing was very good by a decent sized congregation. An extra pleasure as most of my musical travels take me to very small ones. As was ...
Mattins today
Come thou long (Cross of Jesus)
usual canticles etc
Jesus shall reign (Truro)
Hark the glad sound (Cornish tune by Thomas Merritt)
Group Communion for Advent in one of the other villages.
Unfortunately the organist has just broken a finger, so the best we could manage was three unaccompanied hymns. We were given the starting line from a phone, then we six choir ladies sang lustily. Not much other than a few grunts from the congregation of about 18.
Come thou long expected Jesus ( Cross of Jesus)
Hills of the north, rejoice. ( Little Cornard)
Lo he comes with clouds descending
( Helmsley)
O Come O Come (Veni Emmanuel)
On Jordan's banks (WInchester New)
Come thou redeemer of the earth (Puer nobis nascitur)
Hark what a sound (Highwood)
Lo he comes (Helmsley)
Choir bits:
Matin Responsory (Palestrina)
Adam lay ybounden (Ord)
How lovely are the messengers (Mendelssohn)
People look east (Besancon carol arr Ferguson)
Veiled in Darkness (Rudolph)
Lift up your heads (Mathias)
Lovely candlelit service. Shed a tear to sing and pray for Jesus' return.
Highwood is an unusual tune....somehow feels 'nationalist'...not quite even sure what I mean by that!
We had a joint service with the local baptists today and had CTLEJ to... HYFRYDOL?!
HYFRYDOL has long been the default tune among my tribe (as it is for “Love Divine, All Loves Excelling”), though STUTTGART is also an option. I’m afraid I’ve always found STUTTGART a bit plodding and boring.
Today, we had:
“We Return” *
“Light Dawns on a Weary World”/TEMPLE OF PEACE
“Come to the Table of Grace”/TABLE OF GRACE
“Come, Thou Long-Expected Jesus”/HYFRYDOL
“People, Look East”/BESANÇON
* During Advent, the gathering section of the liturgy at our place includes lighting the Advent wreath, and we typically have a simple song or chorus that gets sung each week as part of that. This year, we’re using the first part of Elena Arian and Noah Aronson’s “We Return.” (We’re not using the portion of the song that’s from the Hashkiveinu.) The noun that “we return to” each week goes with the word for that week: Hope, Peace, Joy, Love.
We had a joint service with the local baptists today and had CTLEJ to... HYFRYDOL?!
HYFRYDOL has long been the default tune among my tribe (as it is for “Love Divine, All Loves Excelling”), though STUTTGART is also an option. I’m afraid I’ve always found STUTTGART a bit plodding and boring.
I grew up with it to both, but I actually prefer the secret third/fourth/fifth option: JEFFERSON.
Our theme was hospitality, but we also had the advent wreath and a sub-theme of hope.
O Come, O Come, Immanuel (Veni Emmanuel)
Now Thank We All Our God (Nun Danket)
Let There Be Love Shared Among Us (Dave Bilbrough)
The Church’s One Foundation (Aurora)
We had a joint service with the local baptists today and had CTLEJ to... HYFRYDOL?!
HYFRYDOL has long been the default tune among my tribe (as it is for “Love Divine, All Loves Excelling”).
Heresy - that's Blaenwern!
As I’ve noted before, BLAENWERN seems to be pretty much unknown in North America, or at least in the States. I’m not aware of any American hymnal that has it. LDALE seems pretty uniformly to be sung to HYFRYDOL or BEECHER here.
I’d actually never even heard of BLAENWERN until reading mention of it on the Ship and then tracking it down on YouTube. Personally, I find it a rather meh tune, but I’m more than willing to say the fault is mine and to chalk it up to not feeling any connection to the tune.
We had
O Come, O Come, Immanuel (Veni Emmanuel)
Christ be our light (Christ be our light )
People look east (Besançon)
Hills of the north, rejoice. (Little Cornard)
We had a joint service with the local baptists today and had CTLEJ to... HYFRYDOL?!
HYFRYDOL has long been the default tune among my tribe (as it is for “Love Divine, All Loves Excelling”).
Heresy - that's Blaenwern!
As I’ve noted before, BLAENWERN seems to be pretty much unknown in North America, or at least in the States. I’m not aware of any American hymnal that has it. LDALE seems pretty uniformly to be sung to HYFRYDOL or BEECHER here.
I’d actually never even heard of BLAENWERN until reading mention of it on the Ship and then tracking it down on YouTube. Personally, I find it a rather meh tune, but I’m more than willing to say the fault is mine and to chalk it up to not feeling any connection to the tune.
“God is Love Let Heaven Adore Him” is also sung to Blaenwern. Mrs Spike & I had it at our wedding. I love Blaenwern. It’s one of the rare hymn tunes that has a decent bass line.
O come, O come Emmanuel
Hark the Glad Sound
Lo he comes with clouds descending
The Day of the Lord shall come*
Joy to the world
*A Bell/Maule composition that could do with having the tune taught first; I'm a good sight-singer and had the dots but it was still challenging as it's quite fast and the lines are long.
We had a joint service with the local baptists today and had CTLEJ to... HYFRYDOL?!
HYFRYDOL has long been the default tune among my tribe (as it is for “Love Divine, All Loves Excelling”).
Heresy - that's Blaenwern!
As I’ve noted before, BLAENWERN seems to be pretty much unknown in North America, or at least in the States. I’m not aware of any American hymnal that has it. LDALE seems pretty uniformly to be sung to HYFRYDOL or BEECHER here.
I’d actually never even heard of BLAENWERN until reading mention of it on the Ship and then tracking it down on YouTube. Personally, I find it a rather meh tune, but I’m more than willing to say the fault is mine and to chalk it up to not feeling any connection to the tune.
“God is Love Let Heaven Adore Him” is also sung to Blaenwern. Mrs Spike & I had it at our wedding. I love Blaenwern. It’s one of the rare hymn tunes that has a decent bass line.
I love Blaenwern. It’s one of the rare hymn tunes that has a decent bass line.
Of course a lot of Welsh tunes have a good tenor line. You should watch the S4C hymn-singing programme "Dechrau Canu Dechrau Canmol" which often features some really good singing (available on BBC iPlayer).
As I’ve noted before, BLAENWERN seems to be pretty much unknown in North America, or at least in the States. I’m not aware of any American hymnal that has it. LDALE seems pretty uniformly to be sung to HYFRYDOL or BEECHER here.
I think Blaenwern caught on with some Americans when it was sung during the wedding of the current Prince and Princess of Wales. The tune has been known since then to be done more frequently in parishes whose clergy caught its drama while watching that wedding.
As I’ve noted before, BLAENWERN seems to be pretty much unknown in North America, or at least in the States. I’m not aware of any American hymnal that has it. LDALE seems pretty uniformly to be sung to HYFRYDOL or BEECHER here.
I think Blaenwern caught on with some Americans when it was sung during the wedding of the current Prince and Princess of Wales. The tune has been known since then to be done more frequently in parishes whose clergy caught its drama while watching that wedding.
Yes, I can imagine that. I was referring mainly to its appearances, or lack thereof, in American hymnals.
Yes and Amen (a new one to me and I can't find a link, sorry) Light of the world Holy For Ever Spirit of the living God (fall afresh on me) Consuming fire God I look to you (I won't be overwhelmed)
I like Blaenwern for Love divine but in trad country areas the Stainer tune lives on for ever. Compared with the former it sounds like an anaesthetic ... rather like Trentham which imho makes the breath of God sound like one 😏🤣
Our book has the Stainer for Love Divine. It's the tune RCs have most often found in their hymn books. I, of course use Blaenwern. It's the way that the last two lines of the hymn that describe the life in heaven come at the highest point of the tune. Sublime, and enough to make this old man's eyes prickle.
Last night at choir practice we were working on carols. Our DM has chosen What child is this? ( Thomas Hewitt Jones ). I’m finding it incredibly difficult to sing the opening phrase to an acceptable standard, and my fellow sopranos are not getting it at all. Only two more rehearsals.
Does he have a habit of asking the choir to sing stuff that is slightly too difficult for them? I ask because, in my admittedly limited experience, this seems to be quite a common trait.
That’s a tricky one. We have some good singers, all members of other choral societies, but no voices capable of solos, for example. And few rehearsals.
The piece I referred to has been sung by the auditioned choral society I sing with, but the solo line only by one of our very best singers.
Last night at choir practice we were working on carols. Our DM has chosen What child is this? ( Thomas Hewitt Jones ). I’m finding it incredibly difficult to sing the opening phrase to an acceptable standard, and my fellow sopranos are not getting it at all. Only two more rehearsals.
Mr Hewitt-Jones was a boy chorister at my church. He still turns up from time to time.
Comments
Well we finished with Sing it in the valleys.
Ah.
Organ Introit: Allegretto Stanford
Hymns
Crown him with many crowns (Diademata)
O Christ the same (Londonderry Air)
In the cross of Christ I glory (Cross of Jesus)
Rejoice the Lord is King (Gopsal)
Mass setting: Darke in F
Anthem: Adoramus te Christe - Lassus
Voluntary: Acclamations 'Christus Vincit' - Langlais
The safeguarding stuff was well done tbh.
Enjoyed singing the Lassus, which was new to me.
Rousing bassline to finish - love Gopsal.
Cheers
Heron
My hope is built on nothing less (Christ alone, cornerstone)
Be thou my vision
God immortal, invisible (A new one to me)
What gift of grace is Jesus my redeemer
Who has held the ocean in his hands?
Jesus Shall Reign (DUKE STREET)
A Mighty Fortress Is Our God (EIN FESTE BURG, metered version)
At the Name of Jesus (KINGS WESTON)
Crown Him with Many Crowns (DIADEMATA)
The Collect of the Day didn't stir anything up either. 😢
* so much so that the Creed can no longer be sung to Merbecke, because the words don't fit.
(I note that this not-as-Wee Booklet does have prayers after Communion specific to the day, and does have the collect “Stir up, O Lord, the wills of your faithful people . . . ,” but on Proper 23, the Sunday between September 4 and 10 (p. 105), not on the last Sunday after Pentecost.)
I always make ours. Commercial ones invariably have the bits of hard skin cut from Satan's feet, aka candied peel, in them.
I had to download an app, then pay by card, AND there was a surcharge!
Hark! a herald voice is calling (Merton)
Hills of the north, rejoice (Little Cornard)
Let all mortal flesh keep silence (Picardy)
Lo, he comes with clouds descending (Helmsley)
A fine selection IMHO.
All my Hope on God is Founded - MICHAEL
The Lord's My Shepherd - Stuart Townend adaptation
O Jesus, I have promised - THORNBURY
Come, thou long-expected Jesus - Cross of Jesus (the WRONG TUNE!!!)*
Restore, O Lord, the honour of your name - Kendrick**
Hills of the north, rejoice - Little Cornard
In the Lord, I'll be ever thankful - Taize
Forth in the peace of Christ we go - Song 34
* It's not that "Cross of Jesus" isn't a good tune - it is - but imho Come, thou long-expected Jesus should be sung to "Stuttgart".
** sadly our guitarist was away, and we had The Organist Who Doesn't Practise™, so it was even more dire than it might have been.
It's actually the alternative tune to Cross Of Jesus in the Orange Book. As some of you will know, Stuttgart is often sung to the Epiphany hymn Earth has many a noble city, and a very fine tune it is, too.
The Kendrick song is IMNSHO completely superfluous. Your Rector should do away with a Gradual Hymn - four hymns are quite enough.
An odd choice, maybe - but it works!
Possibly not: although I'd go for "Stuttgart", I see "Hyfrydol" cited as a tune on a hymnal website I often use.
We had a bit of a problem in that we hosted a joint service with another congregation who don't know any Advent hymns (but like carols), also it was an All-age service. So:
"Make way, make way” (Kendrick).
"The holly and the ivy are dancing in a ring" (for Advent candle lighting).
“Love came down at Christmas” (Gartan).
“When the angel came to Mary” (Sans Day Carol).
“O little town of Bethlehem” (Forest Green).
“Tell out, my soul!” (Woodlands).
Sung Eucharist
Hark a herald voice (Merton)
plainsing Mass from new English Hymnal
Plainsong Alleluia
Lo he comes (Helmsley)
Creator of the stars of night (Plainsong)
Jesus calls us (St Andrew)
Quite a good service in a gentle high church tradition and singing was very good by a decent sized congregation. An extra pleasure as most of my musical travels take me to very small ones. As was ...
Mattins today
Come thou long (Cross of Jesus)
usual canticles etc
Jesus shall reign (Truro)
Hark the glad sound (Cornish tune by Thomas Merritt)
They sang well enough despite being less than 10.
Nothing tonight so off to an Advent Procession.
Unfortunately the organist has just broken a finger, so the best we could manage was three unaccompanied hymns. We were given the starting line from a phone, then we six choir ladies sang lustily. Not much other than a few grunts from the congregation of about 18.
Come thou long expected Jesus ( Cross of Jesus)
Hills of the north, rejoice. ( Little Cornard)
Lo he comes with clouds descending
( Helmsley)
Hymns:
O Come O Come (Veni Emmanuel)
On Jordan's banks (WInchester New)
Come thou redeemer of the earth (Puer nobis nascitur)
Hark what a sound (Highwood)
Lo he comes (Helmsley)
Choir bits:
Matin Responsory (Palestrina)
Adam lay ybounden (Ord)
How lovely are the messengers (Mendelssohn)
People look east (Besancon carol arr Ferguson)
Veiled in Darkness (Rudolph)
Lift up your heads (Mathias)
Lovely candlelit service. Shed a tear to sing and pray for Jesus' return.
Highwood is an unusual tune....somehow feels 'nationalist'...not quite even sure what I mean by that!
Cheers
Heron
Today, we had:
“We Return” *
“Light Dawns on a Weary World”/TEMPLE OF PEACE
“Come to the Table of Grace”/TABLE OF GRACE
“Come, Thou Long-Expected Jesus”/HYFRYDOL
“People, Look East”/BESANÇON
* During Advent, the gathering section of the liturgy at our place includes lighting the Advent wreath, and we typically have a simple song or chorus that gets sung each week as part of that. This year, we’re using the first part of Elena Arian and Noah Aronson’s “We Return.” (We’re not using the portion of the song that’s from the Hashkiveinu.) The noun that “we return to” each week goes with the word for that week: Hope, Peace, Joy, Love.
Envious, moi? You bet I am!
I grew up with it to both, but I actually prefer the secret third/fourth/fifth option: JEFFERSON.
O Come, O Come, Immanuel (Veni Emmanuel)
Now Thank We All Our God (Nun Danket)
Let There Be Love Shared Among Us (Dave Bilbrough)
The Church’s One Foundation (Aurora)
I’d actually never even heard of BLAENWERN until reading mention of it on the Ship and then tracking it down on YouTube. Personally, I find it a rather meh tune, but I’m more than willing to say the fault is mine and to chalk it up to not feeling any connection to the tune.
And yes, @RecoveringCynic, I’m always up for JEFFERSON!
O Come, O Come, Immanuel (Veni Emmanuel)
Christ be our light (Christ be our light )
People look east (Besançon)
Hills of the north, rejoice. (Little Cornard)
During the administration of communion we heard Enya’s O come, O come Immanuel
Hark the Glad Sound
Lo he comes with clouds descending
The Day of the Lord shall come*
Joy to the world
*A Bell/Maule composition that could do with having the tune taught first; I'm a good sight-singer and had the dots but it was still challenging as it's quite fast and the lines are long.
Others to the expected tunes.
I've only ever sung it to ABBOT'S LEIGH!
I think Blaenwern caught on with some Americans when it was sung during the wedding of the current Prince and Princess of Wales. The tune has been known since then to be done more frequently in parishes whose clergy caught its drama while watching that wedding.
Light of the world
Holy For Ever
Spirit of the living God (fall afresh on me)
Consuming fire
God I look to you (I won't be overwhelmed)
The piece I referred to has been sung by the auditioned choral society I sing with, but the solo line only by one of our very best singers.
Mr Hewitt-Jones was a boy chorister at my church. He still turns up from time to time.