Sing my tongue the glorious battle (Picardy)
Psalm 22
My God I love thee (St Francis Xavier) to replace Te Deum
Benedictus
When I survey (Rockingham)
Glory be to Jesus (Caswall)
Psalm 143 before the Passion Gospel
Plainsong Reproaches and Psalm 67 when the cross was displayed
Faithful Cross above all other (Rhuddlan) after the cross prayers
silence after the hymn
RC Liturgy in the afternoon
Psalm 31
Plainchant acclamation before the Passion
O come and mourn with me awhile (Old Hall Green) during the veneration of the cross
God of mercy and compassion
Praise to the holiest (Billing) after communion
The morning was decently attended and nicely sung but long 🥱
The afternoon service was packed showing the RC community is pretty strong there. Very poor singing though.
Hand washing..... like Pilate?
It's about context.
And as I said, the language I’ve heard used to frame the hand washing clearly and unambiguously establishes a context that’s quite different from Pilate, as does the way the hand washing is done. So no, not like Pilate.
As a mild observation, there are many well-loved hymns which are intensely personal and fervent in tone - When I survey the wondrous cross and And can it be that I should gain come immediately to mind.
Some people can sing them, sharing the emotions expressed, whilst others just enjoy a good tune!
YMMV.
I know, I know - 'Jesus lover of my soul, let me to thy bosom fly'... :-) Maybe it's just an aesthetic thing which I'm trying to wrap in something else to give it more clout. Well, it's done now.
Easter Vigil
A pile of stuff , including the Exsultet, five psalms, a Litany, the Mass setting, but only three actual hymns
Water of life (we have a baptism)
All heaven declares
Thine be the glory.
I'm about to go and chant the Exultet, in loco praesipoterae. Or something like that. The vicar is taking a confirmation candidate to the Cathedral. For context, please see the "aging parent" thread.
See What A Morning (Resurrection Hymn) Townend
Happy Day Tim Hughes
Living Hope Phil Wickham
Thine be the Glory Maccabaeus
Praise Brandon Lake, Chandler Moore, Chris Brown, Cody Carnes, Pat Barrett, Steven Furtick
As they like to say on Sesame Street, "One of these things is not like the others"
Jesus Christ is risen today
All heaven declares
At the Lamb’s high feast we sing
Alleluia, give thanks to the risen Lord
Thine be the glory
( which our visiting organist messed up right royally, confused by the repeats, thus missing half the verses.)
Easter Sunday 9 o'clock communion:
Led Like a Lamb (You're Alive) / Kendrick
Jesus Christ is Risen Today / EASTER HYMN
Thine be the Glory / JUDAS MACCABEUS
“Alleluia, alleluia! hearts to heaven and voices raise” - Hyfrydol.
“Jesus is risen, alleluia!” (Tanzanian/Wild Goose song).
“See what a morning, gloriously bright” (Stuart Townend).
“Low in the grave he lay” - Christ Arose.
“Early on Sunday” - Bunessan.
"Jesus Christ is risen today” - Easter Hymn.
I’ll be singing the Exsultet at the Easter Vigil this evening. I’ve been busy rehearsing it and I suspect Mrs Spike is fed up with hearing it already
It's a proper sing, isn't it. I'm up front for the Litany. I've been practising that too.
I preached at all three services of the Triduum and on Thursday morning receded a WhatsApp message from the vicar’s secretary saying “By the way, you're singing the Exsultet on Saturday as well”
I’ll be singing the Exsultet at the Easter Vigil this evening. I’ve been busy rehearsing it and I suspect Mrs Spike is fed up with hearing it already
It's a proper sing, isn't it. I'm up front for the Litany. I've been practising that too.
I preached at all three services of the Triduum and on Thursday morning receded a WhatsApp message from the vicar’s secretary saying “By the way, you're singing the Exsultet on Saturday as well”
Organ Introit: Chorale prelude on Schmücke dich, o liebe Seele BWV 654 by Johann S Bach
Processional Hymn: Jesus Christ is Risen Today (Easter Hymn)
Offertory Hymn: The Day of Resurrection (Ellacombe)
Communion Hymn: If Christ had not been raised from death (Kingsfold)
Final Hymn: Thine be the Glory (Maccabaeus)
Organ Voluntary: Ceremonial March by Herbert Sumsion
Communion Setting: Missa Sancti Nicolai - Haydn
Communion Anthem: Most glorious Lord of life (Harris)
We did Psalm: 118: 1-2, 14-24 a bit different to usual to mark the festival, with verses sung by parts rather than soloists. Similarly all the gospel acclamations were sung by all of us in the choir.
First time many of us have sung this Haydn setting, and it is fun and a bit silly. Lots for soloists to enjoy!
The sermon got big ticks from me for urging us (with Wendell Berry) to 'practice resurrection' (Manifesto: The Mad Farmer Liberation Front).
We had:
This is the day
Jesus Christ is risen today
I danced in the morning
Christ is alive; the universe must celebrate (a new one on me)
Thine be the glory
We had an extra song as we were all holding our candles and renewing our baptismal promises. A young child decided to belt out "This little light of mine" at the top of his voice.
A little bit of Easter hilarity.
It being a third Sunday it was Matins at our place, and we added a Communion service as well. There will be Evensong later on.
Matins
Psalmody
Venite and Easter Anthems to chant
Psalm 111 - Woodward in D
Te Deum laudamus and Benedictus - Stanford in B flat Anthem
The Strife is o'er - Ley Hymns
Jesus Christ is risen today Easter Hymn
Now is eternal life Christchurch
Alleluia, Alleluia, hearts to heaven Lux Eloi Organ
Prelude & Fugue in C BWV 545 - Bach
Communion with hymns
The day of resurrection Ellacombe
Jesus lives, thy terrors now St Albinus
Thine be the glory Maccabaeus
Jesus Christ is risen today Easter Hymn Organ
Christ ist erstanden BWV 627 - Bach
Evensong
Psalm 113 - South in C Canticles Stanford in C Anthem
Come, ye faithful Thatcher Hymns
Good Christian men rejoice and sing Vulpius
At the Lamb's high feast we sing Salzburg
The day of resurrection Ellacombe Organ
Final from Symphonie 6 - Widor
+ 3 others, but my Spy couldn't remember what they were...
Easter Day - attendance 44 (including 2 children!)
Introit - Jesus Christ is risen today (Easter Hymn)
then 2 from The Sheet, unknown to me:
Offertory - The Lord is risen alleluia
Communion - Easter glory fills the sky alleluia
Post-communion - Thine be the glory (Maccabaeus)
Visiting family and joining them at their local church this morning, it was a joy to belt out the Easter hymns with four-part choir and organ. (Our home parish can’t support the full Anglican choral tradition – though our musicians do what they do well.)
Jesus Christ is risen today, Alleluya!
Christ the Lord is risen again!
Jesus lives! Thy terrors now
The Day of Resurrection!
Thine be the glory, risen, conquering Son
My daughter and I were amused by the juxtaposition on the pew paper of the first two hymns – we had thought that it was sufficient for Christ to rise only the once.
@Piglet and @Baptist Trainfan I totally agree with you about Psalm 67 which I associate with weddings as you say. This moderately 'high church' place insisted that it was the traditional one for 'creeping to the Cross' as I irreverently call it so I had to play it. No Gloria though!
"Easter Vigil and First Mass"
An assortment of psalms and the Exodus canticle "I will sing to the Lord"
Applefore New English Mass
The strife is o'er (Victory)
Baptised in water (Bunessan) during the watersports bit when I was glad not to be near enough for a shower 😮
Lord enthroned (St Helen)
All heaven declares the glory of the risen Lord
Longing for light we wait in darkness (but to a version with Easter words, sorry no idea where it came from)
Joy to thee O Queen of heaven (Easter Hymn)
Easter morning Eucharist
Hail thee festival day
Burton in F and Shaw Folk Mass
Easter Anthems
Plainsong sequence "Christians to the Paschal victim"
With Christ we share a mystic grave (St Stephen) during which everyone was given a soaking (except me ... organs are often away from the action 🤣)
Alleluia Alleluia hearts to heaven (Lux Oei)
Ave verum (Elgar)
He is risen (All Saints) by Mrs Alwxander no less 😏
Ye choirs of new Jerusalem (St Fulbert)
Evensong
Tallis Festal Responses
Psalm 118
The Lamb's high banquet (Church Triumphant)
Hylton Stewart in C
Anthem: Come ye faithful (Thatcher)
Come ye faithfuk raise the strain (St John Damascene)
Good Joseph had a garden (Hambridge)
Jesus Christ is risen today (Easter Hymn)
Te Deum
Rather glad nobody wanted me for Mattins today! All went well and attendances were good.
We have a gospel to proclaim - Fulda I will enter his gates = He has Made Me Glad* Jesus Christ is risen today - Easter Hymn Alleluia, alleluia, give thanks to the risen Lord - Alleluia, alleluia* Thine be the glory - Maccabeus
Jesus Christ is risen today (Easter Hymn) See what a morning (Townend) The day of Resurrection (Ellacombe) Alleluia, alleluia, give thanks to the risen Lord (Alleluia, alleluia) Thine be the glory (Maccabeus)
At least, that was the intended order, but mishaps occurred, (not on my part,) as they so often seem to do when there's some variation of liturgy... but I did manage, with a bit of creative thought, to get them all in.
At the service in a nearby village where Mrs CD presided and preached (and I acted as her Deacon)
Jesus Christ is risen today
The Peruvian Gloria (with yours truly as cantor)
Lord of the dance (gradual)
Alleluia, alleluia! hearts to heaven and voices raise” (Offertory)
a metrical version of the Sanctus set to the tune of the Skye Boat Song
Thine be the Glory
Hymns
Glory to God in the highest, / music by M. Dudman
Christ the Lord is risen today, / Easter Hymn
Christ is risen, shout Hosanna, / Wren, tune: Nettleton
Because you live, / Murray, tune: Vreuchten
This is the truth we hold, / Little Cornard
Christians lift your hearts and voices, / Triumph
Christ is alive, Let Christians sing, / Dunedin
The organ recessional was the Widor Toccata. There was also some very beautiful cello playing before the service and during Communion.
Love's redeeming work is done (Savannah) Alleluia, alleluia, give thanks to the risen Lord (words & music by Donald Fishel) The day of resurrection (Ellacombe) I danced in the morning (words by Sydney Carter - traditional US folk melody)
I'm guessing that our organist will play the second and final hymns on the piano...
I'll be interested to learn, in due course, how many are at Mass tomorrow. The Sunday after Easter Day is sometimes referred to as *Low Sunday*, partly because of a low attendance after the three-line-whips of Holy Week!
In addition, we have our Annual Parochial Church Meeting (an Anglican thing) which AFAIK has to be held before the end of April. This meeting is not usually a crowd-puller, to say the least.
“Be Still My Soul”/FINLANDIA
“The First Nowell” (requested by the deceased)
“Amazing Grace”
“Morning Has Broken”/BUNESSAN
It must have felt odd, singing The First Nowell during Eastertide!
It was introduced with words to that effect, but I tend to take such things in stride and embrace the untimeliness. We sang “Joy to the World” (which is, after all, a paraphrase of part of Psalm 98) at my mother’s funeral during Lent.
“Be Still My Soul”/FINLANDIA
“The First Nowell” (requested by the deceased)
“Amazing Grace”
“Morning Has Broken”/BUNESSAN
It must have felt odd, singing The First Nowell during Eastertide!
It was introduced with words to that effect, but I tend to take such things in stride and embrace the untimeliness. We sang “Joy to the World” (which is, after all, a paraphrase of part of Psalm 98) at my mother’s funeral during Lent.
Indeed. The wishes of the deceased must be taken into account - if someone wants a hymn full of Alleluias, and their funeral occurs during Lent, so be it!
“Be Still My Soul”/FINLANDIA
“The First Nowell” (requested by the deceased)
“Amazing Grace”
“Morning Has Broken”/BUNESSAN
It must have felt odd, singing The First Nowell during Eastertide!
It was introduced with words to that effect, but I tend to take such things in stride and embrace the untimeliness. We sang “Joy to the World” (which is, after all, a paraphrase of part of Psalm 98) at my mother’s funeral during Lent.
Indeed. The wishes of the deceased must be taken into account - if someone wants a hymn full of Alleluias, and their funeral occurs during Lent, so be it!
Actually it was my sister, my brother and me who chose “Joy to the World” for our mother’s funeral. She loved Christmas, and we were confident she would have approved.
And as the rubrics of the Book of Common Prayer (1979) of the Episcopal Church states, “the liturgy of the dead is an Easter liturgy.” In my tradition, the Easter nature of the Service of Witness to the Resurrection always trumps whatever season it might be, even Lent.
I believe that end of May is the deadline for Annual Parochial Church Meetings. I hope so, as ours is not for a couple weeks!
" In every parish, the annual parochial church meeting (referred to in this Part of these Rules as ‘the annual meeting’) must be held in the period which begins with 1 January and ends with 31 May".
Choir
When Christ was risen from the dead, / Gibbons Song 9, words G. Wither
Most glorious Lord of life, / Harris, words Spenser.
Hymns
Lights reddening dawn gleams through the sky, / Lasst uns erfreuen
Now to him who loved us, / Triumph
These things did Thomas count as real… / Yellow bittern
Faith will not grow from words alone, / Dunedin
He is risen, / Neander
“Christ is risen! Alleluia!” - Morgenlied.
“Jesus, stand among us” - Caswall.
“The doors were locked when Jesus came” - We saw three ships.
“Now the green blade rises”.
“When fear and grief had barred the door” - Almsgiving.
“The strife is o'er” - Victory.
If I’d posted in advance it would have said
Easter 2, Holy Communion
This joyful Eastertide
Holy, holy holy
In Christ alone
Bread of heaven on thee we feed
All hail the power
But instead it was a service of Baptism for three children of one family, aged from about 13 -3.
One more step along the world I go
The Servant King
Lord of the dance
To God be the glory
Later today, The Story of Easter in words and music
Ride on, ride on in majesty
O Saviour of the world -Goss
Brother, sister let me serve you
God so loved the world -Stainer
Were you there-Bob Chilcott
O Lord hear my prayer ( Taizé)
Jesus Christ is risen today
This joyful Eastertide - arr Philip Ledger
Jubilate in Bflat - Stanford
Thine be the glory
The Lord bless you and keep you - Rutter
I played the organ this morning. Interestingly (though not deliberately) all three of the main hymns I chose were in the same key and featured a dramatic bit in unison!
Low in the gave He lay (Christ arose)
Jesus lives! Thy terrors now (St Albinus)
The day of resurrection Ellacombe
I was told afterwards that most people didn't know Low in the grave He lay, or hadn't sung it for 50 years! Maybe it's more popular in non-conformist circles here in the UK than Anglican ones. I've certainly sung it many a time in the Baptist church I went to in Swansea.
I still think the words for Jesus lives are a little clunky, but at least you don't have to cope with a first line that gets rendered as 'Jesus lives no longer now' and thrown out for heresy.
I believe that end of May is the deadline for Annual Parochial Church Meetings. I hope so, as ours is not for a couple weeks!
" In every parish, the annual parochial church meeting (referred to in this Part of these Rules as ‘the annual meeting’) must be held in the period which begins with 1 January and ends with 31 May".
Thank you! My vague recollection about the end of April was wrong...
Whenever I think of Low in the grave he lay I hear it in my head being sung by the Men of Orkney, a (predominantly) Baptist male voice choir in which my dad used to sing, and them giving it welly on Up from the gravy, a rose ...
Our offerings this morning:
Majesty, worship his majesty - Majesty Make way, make way - Make Way* This joyful Eastertide - This Joyful Eastertide Be still, for the presence of the Lord - Be Still From the very depths of darkness - Battle Hymn of the Republic
* Am I the only one who feels that tune should segue into Rule, Britannia at the end of the first line?
Comments
Mattins, Litany and Ante Communion
Sing my tongue the glorious battle (Picardy)
Psalm 22
My God I love thee (St Francis Xavier) to replace Te Deum
Benedictus
When I survey (Rockingham)
Glory be to Jesus (Caswall)
Psalm 143 before the Passion Gospel
Plainsong Reproaches and Psalm 67 when the cross was displayed
Faithful Cross above all other (Rhuddlan) after the cross prayers
silence after the hymn
RC Liturgy in the afternoon
Psalm 31
Plainchant acclamation before the Passion
O come and mourn with me awhile (Old Hall Green) during the veneration of the cross
God of mercy and compassion
Praise to the holiest (Billing) after communion
The morning was decently attended and nicely sung but long 🥱
The afternoon service was packed showing the RC community is pretty strong there. Very poor singing though.
Fair enough. Point taken.
I know, I know - 'Jesus lover of my soul, let me to thy bosom fly'... :-) Maybe it's just an aesthetic thing which I'm trying to wrap in something else to give it more clout. Well, it's done now.
A pile of stuff , including the Exsultet, five psalms, a Litany, the Mass setting, but only three actual hymns
Water of life (we have a baptism)
All heaven declares
Thine be the glory.
Majesty
Water of life
All heaven declares
Bread of life
Nesus Crist is ris'n today.
It's a proper sing, isn't it. I'm up front for the Litany. I've been practising that too.
Happy Day Tim Hughes
Living Hope Phil Wickham
Thine be the Glory Maccabaeus
Praise Brandon Lake, Chandler Moore, Chris Brown, Cody Carnes, Pat Barrett, Steven Furtick
As they like to say on Sesame Street, "One of these things is not like the others"
All heaven declares
At the Lamb’s high feast we sing
Alleluia, give thanks to the risen Lord
Thine be the glory
( which our visiting organist messed up right royally, confused by the repeats, thus missing half the verses.)
Led Like a Lamb (You're Alive) / Kendrick
Jesus Christ is Risen Today / EASTER HYMN
Thine be the Glory / JUDAS MACCABEUS
“Jesus is risen, alleluia!” (Tanzanian/Wild Goose song).
“See what a morning, gloriously bright” (Stuart Townend).
“Low in the grave he lay” - Christ Arose.
“Early on Sunday” - Bunessan.
"Jesus Christ is risen today” - Easter Hymn.
I preached at all three services of the Triduum and on Thursday morning receded a WhatsApp message from the vicar’s secretary saying “By the way, you're singing the Exsultet on Saturday as well”
Lord of the Dance
Thine be the Glory
Oof!
Organ Introit: Chorale prelude on Schmücke dich, o liebe Seele BWV 654 by Johann S Bach
Processional Hymn: Jesus Christ is Risen Today (Easter Hymn)
Offertory Hymn: The Day of Resurrection (Ellacombe)
Communion Hymn: If Christ had not been raised from death (Kingsfold)
Final Hymn: Thine be the Glory (Maccabaeus)
Organ Voluntary: Ceremonial March by Herbert Sumsion
Communion Setting: Missa Sancti Nicolai - Haydn
Communion Anthem: Most glorious Lord of life (Harris)
We did Psalm: 118: 1-2, 14-24 a bit different to usual to mark the festival, with verses sung by parts rather than soloists. Similarly all the gospel acclamations were sung by all of us in the choir.
First time many of us have sung this Haydn setting, and it is fun and a bit silly. Lots for soloists to enjoy!
The sermon got big ticks from me for urging us (with Wendell Berry) to 'practice resurrection' (Manifesto: The Mad Farmer Liberation Front).
Happy Easter all.
Heron
This is the day
Jesus Christ is risen today
I danced in the morning
Christ is alive; the universe must celebrate (a new one on me)
Thine be the glory
A little bit of Easter hilarity.
Matins
Psalmody
Venite and Easter Anthems to chant
Psalm 111 - Woodward in D
Te Deum laudamus and Benedictus - Stanford in B flat
Anthem
The Strife is o'er - Ley
Hymns
Jesus Christ is risen today Easter Hymn
Now is eternal life Christchurch
Alleluia, Alleluia, hearts to heaven Lux Eloi
Organ
Prelude & Fugue in C BWV 545 - Bach
Communion with hymns
The day of resurrection Ellacombe
Jesus lives, thy terrors now St Albinus
Thine be the glory Maccabaeus
Jesus Christ is risen today Easter Hymn
Organ
Christ ist erstanden BWV 627 - Bach
Evensong
Psalm 113 - South in C
Canticles
Stanford in C
Anthem
Come, ye faithful Thatcher
Hymns
Good Christian men rejoice and sing Vulpius
At the Lamb's high feast we sing Salzburg
The day of resurrection Ellacombe
Organ
Final from Symphonie 6 - Widor
Jesus Christ is risen today (Easter Hymn)
+ 3 others, but my Spy couldn't remember what they were...
Easter Day - attendance 44 (including 2 children!)
Introit - Jesus Christ is risen today (Easter Hymn)
then 2 from The Sheet, unknown to me:
Offertory - The Lord is risen alleluia
Communion - Easter glory fills the sky alleluia
Post-communion - Thine be the glory (Maccabaeus)
Jesus Christ is risen today, Alleluya!
Christ the Lord is risen again!
Jesus lives! Thy terrors now
The Day of Resurrection!
Thine be the glory, risen, conquering Son
My daughter and I were amused by the juxtaposition on the pew paper of the first two hymns – we had thought that it was sufficient for Christ to rise only the once.
"Easter Vigil and First Mass"
An assortment of psalms and the Exodus canticle "I will sing to the Lord"
Applefore New English Mass
The strife is o'er (Victory)
Baptised in water (Bunessan) during the watersports bit when I was glad not to be near enough for a shower 😮
Lord enthroned (St Helen)
All heaven declares the glory of the risen Lord
Longing for light we wait in darkness (but to a version with Easter words, sorry no idea where it came from)
Joy to thee O Queen of heaven (Easter Hymn)
Easter morning Eucharist
Hail thee festival day
Burton in F and Shaw Folk Mass
Easter Anthems
Plainsong sequence "Christians to the Paschal victim"
With Christ we share a mystic grave (St Stephen) during which everyone was given a soaking (except me ... organs are often away from the action 🤣)
Alleluia Alleluia hearts to heaven (Lux Oei)
Ave verum (Elgar)
He is risen (All Saints) by Mrs Alwxander no less 😏
Ye choirs of new Jerusalem (St Fulbert)
Evensong
Tallis Festal Responses
Psalm 118
The Lamb's high banquet (Church Triumphant)
Hylton Stewart in C
Anthem: Come ye faithful (Thatcher)
Come ye faithfuk raise the strain (St John Damascene)
Good Joseph had a garden (Hambridge)
Jesus Christ is risen today (Easter Hymn)
Te Deum
Rather glad nobody wanted me for Mattins today! All went well and attendances were good.
We have a gospel to proclaim - Fulda
I will enter his gates = He has Made Me Glad*
Jesus Christ is risen today - Easter Hymn
Alleluia, alleluia, give thanks to the risen Lord - Alleluia, alleluia*
Thine be the glory - Maccabeus
* with guitar accompaniment
See what a morning (Townend)
The day of Resurrection (Ellacombe)
Alleluia, alleluia, give thanks to the risen Lord (Alleluia, alleluia)
Thine be the glory (Maccabeus)
At least, that was the intended order, but mishaps occurred, (not on my part,) as they so often seem to do when there's some variation of liturgy... but I did manage, with a bit of creative thought, to get them all in.
Jesus Christ is risen today
Thine be the glory
At the 10.30 service we had those two plus
This joyful Eastertide
Now the green blade rises (Love has come again).
I haven't sung that final one for decades and it was an absolute joy to do so: I'd forgotten how much I love it.
Jesus Christ is risen today
The Peruvian Gloria (with yours truly as cantor)
Lord of the dance (gradual)
Alleluia, alleluia! hearts to heaven and voices raise” (Offertory)
a metrical version of the Sanctus set to the tune of the Skye Boat Song
Thine be the Glory
Hymns
Glory to God in the highest, / music by M. Dudman
Christ the Lord is risen today, / Easter Hymn
Christ is risen, shout Hosanna, / Wren, tune: Nettleton
Because you live, / Murray, tune: Vreuchten
This is the truth we hold, / Little Cornard
Christians lift your hearts and voices, / Triumph
Christ is alive, Let Christians sing, / Dunedin
The organ recessional was the Widor Toccata. There was also some very beautiful cello playing before the service and during Communion.
To me it seemed to be a bit of both, but Geoff the organist could have been singing off the cuff. Anyway it was well appreciated by the congregation.
Love's redeeming work is done (Savannah)
Alleluia, alleluia, give thanks to the risen Lord (words & music by Donald Fishel)
The day of resurrection (Ellacombe)
I danced in the morning (words by Sydney Carter - traditional US folk melody)
I'm guessing that our organist will play the second and final hymns on the piano...
I'll be interested to learn, in due course, how many are at Mass tomorrow. The Sunday after Easter Day is sometimes referred to as *Low Sunday*, partly because of a low attendance after the three-line-whips of Holy Week!
In addition, we have our Annual Parochial Church Meeting (an Anglican thing) which AFAIK has to be held before the end of April. This meeting is not usually a crowd-puller, to say the least.
“Be Still My Soul”/FINLANDIA
“The First Nowell” (requested by the deceased)
“Amazing Grace”
“Morning Has Broken”/BUNESSAN
Ah - you may well be right. Perhaps it used to be the end of April, and that's what I'm (sort of) recalling...
May would certainly be a better time for many people, I think.
It must have felt odd, singing The First Nowell during Eastertide!
Indeed. The wishes of the deceased must be taken into account - if someone wants a hymn full of Alleluias, and their funeral occurs during Lent, so be it!
And as the rubrics of the Book of Common Prayer (1979) of the Episcopal Church states, “the liturgy of the dead is an Easter liturgy.” In my tradition, the Easter nature of the Service of Witness to the Resurrection always trumps whatever season it might be, even Lent.
Choir
When Christ was risen from the dead, / Gibbons Song 9, words G. Wither
Most glorious Lord of life, / Harris, words Spenser.
Hymns
Lights reddening dawn gleams through the sky, / Lasst uns erfreuen
Now to him who loved us, / Triumph
These things did Thomas count as real… / Yellow bittern
Faith will not grow from words alone, / Dunedin
He is risen, / Neander
This is the Day of New Beginnings
Where red Skies Roll Down
Let All Creation Dance
Plus a non de-script video of no relevance to the service!
“Jesus, stand among us” - Caswall.
“The doors were locked when Jesus came” - We saw three ships.
“Now the green blade rises”.
“When fear and grief had barred the door” - Almsgiving.
“The strife is o'er” - Victory.
Thine Be the Glory - MACCABEUS
I Will Sing the Wondrous Story - HYFRYDOL
In Christ Alone - Getty / Townend
Easter 2, Holy Communion
This joyful Eastertide
Holy, holy holy
In Christ alone
Bread of heaven on thee we feed
All hail the power
But instead it was a service of Baptism for three children of one family, aged from about 13 -3.
One more step along the world I go
The Servant King
Lord of the dance
To God be the glory
Later today, The Story of Easter in words and music
Ride on, ride on in majesty
O Saviour of the world -Goss
Brother, sister let me serve you
God so loved the world -Stainer
Were you there-Bob Chilcott
O Lord hear my prayer ( Taizé)
Jesus Christ is risen today
This joyful Eastertide - arr Philip Ledger
Jubilate in Bflat - Stanford
Thine be the glory
The Lord bless you and keep you - Rutter
Sing To God New Songs Of Worship (Hymn to Joy)
Behold The Lamb Who Bears Our Sins Away (Townend)
Jesus Calls Us O'er The Tumult (St. Andrew)
Low in the gave He lay (Christ arose)
Jesus lives! Thy terrors now (St Albinus)
The day of resurrection Ellacombe
I was told afterwards that most people didn't know Low in the grave He lay, or hadn't sung it for 50 years! Maybe it's more popular in non-conformist circles here in the UK than Anglican ones. I've certainly sung it many a time in the Baptist church I went to in Swansea.
I still think the words for Jesus lives are a little clunky, but at least you don't have to cope with a first line that gets rendered as 'Jesus lives no longer now' and thrown out for heresy.
Thank you! My vague recollection about the end of April was wrong...
In the CinW it's a "Vestry Meeting" and has to be held by the end of June.
Our offerings this morning:
Majesty, worship his majesty - Majesty
Make way, make way - Make Way*
This joyful Eastertide - This Joyful Eastertide
Be still, for the presence of the Lord - Be Still
From the very depths of darkness - Battle Hymn of the Republic
* Am I the only one who feels that tune should segue into Rule, Britannia at the end of the first line?