We are running a week or so behind the Lectionary and were looking at the first verses of 1 Corinthians 15. We had:
“Crown him with many crowns” (Diademata).
“See what a morning” (Getty/Townend).
“These are the facts” (Epiphany Hymn).
“Now the green blade rises”.
“I know that my Redeemer lives” (Wilton).
HMQ didn't get a look in, nor her Special Tune. OTOH I think Jesus might have been mentioned once or twice ...
Ah, but that not a national anthem (although "our citizenship is in heaven").
Aye, although it would be more worthy to defend my opposition to monarchist anthems in church by saying "No King but Jesus!" I'm too jaded these days and I'm more likely to quote the Nac Mac Feegle - "Nae King! Nae Quin! We willne be fooled again!"
Ah, but that not a national anthem (although "our citizenship is in heaven").
Aye, although it would be more worthy to defend my opposition to monarchist anthems in church by saying "No King but Jesus!" I'm too jaded these days and I'm more likely to quote the Nac Mac Feegle - "Nae King! Nae Quin! We willne be fooled again!"
Well, yes.
ISTM that that second line in CHWMC does have a slight touch of the *No King but Jesus!* about it...
Each week I inflict the little faith community that I am overseeing at the moment with some thoughts about the scriptural passages they hear and the hymns they sing, kind of serendiptous musing about the author, the era, the tune, the lyrics or perhaps even my subjective experience of the hymn. I won't inflict these on you every time, but ...
Processional (314) “Immortal, Invisible”
The hymn was originally considerably more dour than it is today—it was composed, after all, by a “Wee Free” Presbyterian (though then set to a Welsh folk tune). Based on 1 Timothy 1:17, it takes us into the mysteries of the God we cannot see, cannot (despite the efforts of some) prove, but to whom we are asked to simply, slowly, sometimes painfully surrender ourselves. The original version pleaded that the Invisible Immortal God would “take the vile from our heart” - possibly not the sort of prayer we offer too often today, though if we’re honest God has a bit of that kind of work to do on us!
Gradual: 35 “A New Commandment”
… probably doesn’t need much explanation. Amongst other teachings, Jesus, at John 13:34, summarizes the Law, Torah. Matthew would emphasize he does not replace the Law. The “new” commandment actually isn’t very new (Lev. 19:18). Jesus. though, radically alters its weight. It is a commandment (not to be messed with, not a suggestion), but it is to be embodied in the whole of our lives and fuelled, as it were, by our immersion in God. Actually Leviticus 19:18 says that, too. But Jesus adds the Jesus dimension: he embodies this total immersion in divine love, and asks us to ask him to be transformed so that we do (little by little, never enough) too. It’s no longer I who live.
Offertory 144 “Dear Lord and Father of Mankind”
For those of us aware of the resonances of exclusive language this hymn is a little marred, but its truths are deeper than the scars … neither “humankind” nor “humanity” fit that first line and I haven't worked a suitable rewrite). A hugely popular traditional hymn, the words are an excerpt from a longer poem by Quaker poet John Greenleaf Whittier. Funnily enough the original poem picks up hints of human efforts to find meaning in intoxication—and suggests firmly that immersion in prayer is a better option. The poet originally included rites and rituals as a form of intoxication—Whittier was not fussed about the trimmings of liturgy! But let’s sit with that wonderful sense of the still small voice that can whisper to us (inaudibly, for most of us) yet speak through the earthquake, wind and fire. It was no accident that this hymn appeared in the Dunkirk scenes of the film Atonement.
Communion: (501) “O Holy Spirit”
These ancient verses pick up the “how” of “Christ who Lives in me.” Language of science is helpful, though as a metaphor, not an explanation. “Infusion,” “saturation,” “immersion” … all those terms might be helpful. These lines pick up the idea of “enflaming” … another biblical term is “inspire” (breathe into). Whatever word we use it speaks of God taking us, taking our lives and filling them with God’s Spirit, Christ’s Spirit, “Christness.” And then inspiring us to be a praising people of God. The Pentecostals will sometimes enact, or perhaps experience, this in forms of “slaying in the Spirit.” I am cautious about these, as they can too easy be manipulated by the ego of the on stage leadership. Nevertheless, when Charles Coffin wrote these simple words around the early 18th century he was certainly wanting us to be, one way or another, immersed in God.
Recessional 332 “I, the Lord of Sea and Sky”
When we sang this in November I emphasized Dan Schutte’s immersion (that word again) in the rites and rhythms of liturgy. These are a powerful tool of surrender to Christ, of becoming the “no longer I that lives.” So we have come full circle, back to the stylized wrestling with God that was the hallmark of the prophets’ call: “Me? Not me! Oh … oh, well I guess. But please, Lord, help me!”
ISTM that that second line in CHWMC does have a slight touch of the *No King but Jesus!* about it...
I have been in conversation with some of my Baptist peers and have been surprised at their support for the Monarchy. Historically (i.e, c.1600 etc) they would have been firmly republican.
ISTM that that second line in CHWMC does have a slight touch of the *No King but Jesus!* about it...
I have been in conversation with some of my Baptist peers and have been surprised at their support for the Monarchy. Historically (i.e, c.1600 etc) they would have been firmly republican.
That's one of the reasons that explain why Baptists need to rediscover their radical origins. We've become safe and need to be dangerous
ISTM that that second line in CHWMC does have a slight touch of the *No King but Jesus!* about it...
I have been in conversation with some of my Baptist peers and have been surprised at their support for the Monarchy. Historically (i.e, c.1600 etc) they would have been firmly republican.
That's one of the reasons that explain why Baptists need to rediscover their radical origins. We've become safe and need to be dangerous
Yes, I'm surprised, too. I can understand the C of E's sometimes slavish praise of monarchy, but you radicals...
We followed the example set by @Arethosemyfeet with Holy, Holy, Holy and Lord, You Have Come to the Lakeshore. In addition we had:
Jesus Calls Us/GALILEE You Walk Along Our Lakeshore/WIE LIEBLICH IST DER MAIEN
@Zappa, I live your thoughts on hymns! One of the things I like most about my tribe’s current hymnal is that there is a short blurb on each hymn at the bottom of the page. For example, at the bottom of the page for Holy, Holy, Holy, one finds: “Much of the imagery of this hymn comes from Revelation 4:2–11, which its author, an Anglican bishop, knew as a reading appointed for Trinity Sunday. The tune, written specifically for this text, reinforces the Trinitarian theme by strong reliance on the D-major triad.”
And D is one of the Three Chords permitted to church guitarists, the others being G and A7. Which [CW - music joke] reminds one of the old joke "How does a folk guitarist play in F? He puts the Capo on the 10th fret and plays in G"
Adaptable to Metal also - "how do AC/DC play in any key other than A?"...
Did anyone sing the National Anthem at church today? It's the 70th anniversary of Her Majesty's accession (so FatherInCharge keeps reminding us), so it was (AIUI) duly sung at Our Place this morning.
No, we didn't sing the National Anthem or the Royal one either, but the event was noted in the rector's opening remarks.
Indian, Filipino/Filipina, Nigerian, Dutch, Irish, Hungarian, Ukrainian...and in the very recent past (pre-Covid/Brexit ) we have had Ghanains, Polish, Latvians, and (for a few weeks) a young sailor from the Cape Verde Islands (Portuguese).
Two fairly recent baptisms were of the children of an Italian/Chinese couple - the Italian husband identifies as Christian, and occasionally comes to church, but his Chinese wife is a Buddhist.
We also have British citizens who came originally from Barbados and Trinidad.
This is ethnically a very mixed inner-city area...so the congregation does reflect the local demographics.
ISTM that that second line in CHWMC does have a slight touch of the *No King but Jesus!* about it...
I have been in conversation with some of my Baptist peers and have been surprised at their support for the Monarchy. Historically (i.e, c.1600 etc) they would have been firmly republican.
That's one of the reasons that explain why Baptists need to rediscover their radical origins. We've become safe and need to be dangerous
The sermon I preached on Diamond Jubilee Sunday in 2012 did invite the congregation to reflect on the anachronism of considering one family to be "royal" (and the early Nonconformist rejection thereof) and on the fact that God had not wanted Israel to have a king "like all the other nations".
However this is probably tangential, or even worth a leap into Purgatory all by itself ...
Yesterday we sang
Christ is the King, o friends rejoice- (Gelob’t Sei Gott)
Thou whose almighty word ( Moscow)
Brother, sister, let me serve you ( Servant Song)
And can it be ( Sagina)
Communion motet- The True and Living Bread by David Blackwell.
To my surprise, some choir members did not know And can it be.
It's certainly in A & M (not sure which edition), according to Hymnary, but it's not in the New English Hymnal. I have a copy of the latter, and have just checked.
It's also in Our Place's default hymnbook (the dreaded Mayhew Complete Anglican Hymns Old And New), which is used in several other local C of E churches.
And can it be is not to be found in A&M (revised; 1950), nor in A&M New Standard (which I understand covers 100 Hymns for Today and its sequel More Hymns for Today). Funny, it's in my head as a thoroughly MOTR hymn, but then I suspect that like Amazing Grace and Blessed Assurance it has drifted thence from its birthplace in the evangelical tradition.
The very small print at the bottom of each page displayed indicates that it is the most recent edition: Ancient and Modern: hymns and somgs for refreshing worship
The very small print at the bottom of each page displayed indicates that it is the most recent edition: Ancient and Modern: hymns and somgs for refreshing worship
Just too awful to relate. Suffice it to say that the horribly repetitive Holy, Holy, Holy is the Lord (four verses, Jesus, Jesus, Jesus is; Worthy, worthy, worthy is, Glory, Glory, Glory to...) and This is the Day were involved.
We had a baptism during Mass which was nice.
Seek ye first the kingdom of God
Psalm and alleluia
Take our bread
Celtic Mass.
O Lord you search me and you know me (a particular favourite)
The Kingdom ( a setting of the Beatitudes to a tune that is a very close relative of La Bamba.)
Just too awful to relate. Suffice it to say that the horribly repetitive Holy, Holy, Holy is the Lord (four verses, Jesus, Jesus, Jesus is; Worthy, worthy, worthy is, Glory, Glory, Glory to...) and This is the Day were involved.
I went back to Our Place for the first time in months and we sang:
This is Amazing Grace (Who breaks the power Of sin and darkness...)
For All You Have Done (My Saviour, Redeemer) - a new one on me (My Saviour, Redeemer, Lifted me from the miry clay, Almighty, Forever, I will never be the same)
Your Grace is Enough (And I will fall at your feet...)
What a Beautiful Name It Is
Lord I Need You - another new one on me (Lord I come, I confess, Bowing here I find my rest, Without You I fall apart, You're the one that guides my heart...)
I don't remember all this detail, of course; Mr Nen was on the projection and had printed the list out, plus the words of the new ones.
We had:
To God be the glory
Fill your hearts with joy and gladness
I need thee every hour
Jesus' hands were kind hands (AU CLAIR DE LA LUNE)
Glorious things of thee are spoken
I mostly can't remember tunes because, for the first time in a while, these were all hymns we've had in the 18 months or so I've been preparing recordings so I didn't have to spend hours at the laptop wrangling music.
Blessed Jesus, at Your Word/LIEBSTER JESU Restore in Us, O God/BAYLOR I Want Jesus to Walk with Me (African-American spiritual) Christ Is Made the Sure Foundation/WESTMINSTER ABBEY
O day of radiant gladness (ES FLOG EIN KLEINS WALDVÖGELEIN)
All my hope on God is founded (MICHAEL)
Blest are the pure in heart (FRANCONIA)
Jesus shall reign where're the sun (DUKE STREET)
A new commandment
Psalm and Alleluia
Take this moment
This is my body
Turning the world upside down (which really should be sung in a proper Cock-er-ny music hall style.)
We had the mayor and his wife with us .... or as they say hereabouts, the Murr and murress.
We had:
Be still for the presence of the Lord
You are before me, God, you are behind (ELLERS, 'cause I didn't recognise the tune in CH4)
Spirit of God, come dwell within me (LEAVING LISMORE)
Jesus Christ is waiting (NOEL NOUVELET)
Blessed assurance
God Is Calling through the Whisper (W ŹLOBIE LEŹY) Confitemini Domino/Come and Fill Our Hearts (Berthier, Taizé) Breathe on Me, Breath of God (TRENTHAM) Together We Serve (SAN ANSELMO)
A new commandment
Psalm and Alleluia
Take this moment
This is my body
Turning the world upside down (which really should be sung in a proper Cock-er-ny music hall style.)
We had the mayor and his wife with us .... or as they say hereabouts, the Murr and murress.
And did anyone take the moment to lobby the mayor about the state of the footpaths in Lower Bridge St? Perhaps Be still for the presence of the Lord as sung by Arethosemyfeet's congregation, or Together we serve from Nick Tamen's would have been appropriate with the mayoral presence.
Holy Communion, CW
Eternal Father strong to save
Lead us heavenly Father, lead us
Calm me, Lord- which nobody knew, including the choir, as it was a last minute change
Will your anchor hold?
During Communion the choir sang
Bread of heaven on thee we feed, to the lovely Bach chorale Nicht so traurig
Evensong
Eternal Father strong to save
Be thou my vision
Glory to thee my God this night
Anthem: In this Place by Will Todd
It was. A bit frustrating that the evening service had the same readings, intercessions and much the same sermon as the morning. I appreciate that our lovely vicar has five churches but both these services were in the same church, and including the choir at least ten people attended both services.
Nothing wrong with the content, but ….
Calm me Lord as you calmed the storm - I played during Communion. but as I don't think it's been sung in the current vicar's time, and no-one commented, (they do so freely when they want to) I was probably the only one mentally singing along.
We also had All Creatures of our God and King which I was accused of choosing for the verse about rushing winds that art so strong, but as I do a termly hymn choosing to minimise my term-time workload I could truthfully say it had been on the list for weeks. I did consider changing it on grounds of likely to be low attendance, but I like it and know it all off by heart so sang as well as played. As it turned out, most of the singers of our congregation turned up so I'm glad I kept it in.
Will your anchor hold? is a favourite at Our Place, and usually rounds off the Sea Sunday Mass (in July). Our organist prefers the grand piano for this one, although I'm not sure the piano appreciates it...
A new commandment
Psalm and Alleluia
Take this moment
This is my body
Turning the world upside down (which really should be sung in a proper Cock-er-ny music hall style.)
We had the mayor and his wife with us .... or as they say hereabouts, the Murr and murress.
And did anyone take the moment to lobby the mayor about the state of the footpaths in Lower Bridge St? Perhaps Be still for the presence of the Lord as sung by Arethosemyfeet's congregation, or Together we serve from Nick Tamen's would have been appropriate with the mayoral presence.
Praise to the Lord, the Almighty (Lobe den Herren)
Earth and all stars (Earth and All Stars)
Love divine, all loves excelling (Blaenwern)
My song is love unknown (Love Unknown)
Joyful, joyful we adore thee (Ode to Joy)
Choral Mass: Ireland in C
Elgar: Intende voci orationis meae
Comments
“Crown him with many crowns” (Diademata).
“See what a morning” (Getty/Townend).
“These are the facts” (Epiphany Hymn).
“Now the green blade rises”.
“I know that my Redeemer lives” (Wilton).
HMQ didn't get a look in, nor her Special Tune. OTOH I think Jesus might have been mentioned once or twice ...
What about that line in Crown Him With Many Crowns which goes *Hark how the heavenly anthem drowns all music but its own...*?
Aye, although it would be more worthy to defend my opposition to monarchist anthems in church by saying "No King but Jesus!" I'm too jaded these days and I'm more likely to quote the Nac Mac Feegle - "Nae King! Nae Quin! We willne be fooled again!"
Well, yes.
ISTM that that second line in CHWMC does have a slight touch of the *No King but Jesus!* about it...
Processional (314) “Immortal, Invisible”
The hymn was originally considerably more dour than it is today—it was composed, after all, by a “Wee Free” Presbyterian (though then set to a Welsh folk tune). Based on 1 Timothy 1:17, it takes us into the mysteries of the God we cannot see, cannot (despite the efforts of some) prove, but to whom we are asked to simply, slowly, sometimes painfully surrender ourselves. The original version pleaded that the Invisible Immortal God would “take the vile from our heart” - possibly not the sort of prayer we offer too often today, though if we’re honest God has a bit of that kind of work to do on us!
Gradual: 35 “A New Commandment”
… probably doesn’t need much explanation. Amongst other teachings, Jesus, at John 13:34, summarizes the Law, Torah. Matthew would emphasize he does not replace the Law. The “new” commandment actually isn’t very new (Lev. 19:18). Jesus. though, radically alters its weight. It is a commandment (not to be messed with, not a suggestion), but it is to be embodied in the whole of our lives and fuelled, as it were, by our immersion in God. Actually Leviticus 19:18 says that, too. But Jesus adds the Jesus dimension: he embodies this total immersion in divine love, and asks us to ask him to be transformed so that we do (little by little, never enough) too. It’s no longer I who live.
Offertory 144 “Dear Lord and Father of Mankind”
For those of us aware of the resonances of exclusive language this hymn is a little marred, but its truths are deeper than the scars … neither “humankind” nor “humanity” fit that first line and I haven't worked a suitable rewrite). A hugely popular traditional hymn, the words are an excerpt from a longer poem by Quaker poet John Greenleaf Whittier. Funnily enough the original poem picks up hints of human efforts to find meaning in intoxication—and suggests firmly that immersion in prayer is a better option. The poet originally included rites and rituals as a form of intoxication—Whittier was not fussed about the trimmings of liturgy! But let’s sit with that wonderful sense of the still small voice that can whisper to us (inaudibly, for most of us) yet speak through the earthquake, wind and fire. It was no accident that this hymn appeared in the Dunkirk scenes of the film Atonement.
Communion: (501) “O Holy Spirit”
These ancient verses pick up the “how” of “Christ who Lives in me.” Language of science is helpful, though as a metaphor, not an explanation. “Infusion,” “saturation,” “immersion” … all those terms might be helpful. These lines pick up the idea of “enflaming” … another biblical term is “inspire” (breathe into). Whatever word we use it speaks of God taking us, taking our lives and filling them with God’s Spirit, Christ’s Spirit, “Christness.” And then inspiring us to be a praising people of God. The Pentecostals will sometimes enact, or perhaps experience, this in forms of “slaying in the Spirit.” I am cautious about these, as they can too easy be manipulated by the ego of the on stage leadership. Nevertheless, when Charles Coffin wrote these simple words around the early 18th century he was certainly wanting us to be, one way or another, immersed in God.
Recessional 332 “I, the Lord of Sea and Sky”
When we sang this in November I emphasized Dan Schutte’s immersion (that word again) in the rites and rhythms of liturgy. These are a powerful tool of surrender to Christ, of becoming the “no longer I that lives.” So we have come full circle, back to the stylized wrestling with God that was the hallmark of the prophets’ call: “Me? Not me! Oh … oh, well I guess. But please, Lord, help me!”
etc
That's one of the reasons that explain why Baptists need to rediscover their radical origins. We've become safe and need to be dangerous
Yes, I'm surprised, too. I can understand the C of E's sometimes slavish praise of monarchy, but you radicals...
Jesus Calls Us/GALILEE
You Walk Along Our Lakeshore/WIE LIEBLICH IST DER MAIEN
@Zappa, I live your thoughts on hymns! One of the things I like most about my tribe’s current hymnal is that there is a short blurb on each hymn at the bottom of the page. For example, at the bottom of the page for Holy, Holy, Holy, one finds: “Much of the imagery of this hymn comes from Revelation 4:2–11, which its author, an Anglican bishop, knew as a reading appointed for Trinity Sunday. The tune, written specifically for this text, reinforces the Trinitarian theme by strong reliance on the D-major triad.”
Adaptable to Metal also - "how do AC/DC play in any key other than A?"...
No, we didn't sing the National Anthem or the Royal one either, but the event was noted in the rector's opening remarks.
As a matter of interest, what nationalities are they?
Two fairly recent baptisms were of the children of an Italian/Chinese couple - the Italian husband identifies as Christian, and occasionally comes to church, but his Chinese wife is a Buddhist.
We also have British citizens who came originally from Barbados and Trinidad.
This is ethnically a very mixed inner-city area...so the congregation does reflect the local demographics.
The sermon I preached on Diamond Jubilee Sunday in 2012 did invite the congregation to reflect on the anachronism of considering one family to be "royal" (and the early Nonconformist rejection thereof) and on the fact that God had not wanted Israel to have a king "like all the other nations".
However this is probably tangential, or even worth a leap into Purgatory all by itself ...
Christ is the King, o friends rejoice- (Gelob’t Sei Gott)
Thou whose almighty word ( Moscow)
Brother, sister, let me serve you ( Servant Song)
And can it be ( Sagina)
Communion motet- The True and Living Bread by David Blackwell.
To my surprise, some choir members did not know And can it be.
It's also in Our Place's default hymnbook (the dreaded Mayhew Complete Anglican Hymns Old And New), which is used in several other local C of E churches.
https://hymnary.org/hymn/AM2013/588
Like @Arethosemyfeet, I remember it as an evangelical and MOTR hymn...
The very small print at the bottom of each page displayed indicates that it is the most recent edition: Ancient and Modern: hymns and somgs for refreshing worship
Dated 2012/13, looks like.
Having checked, via a magnifying glass, ISWYM.
Are you sure? At 800+ items it looks like a full set.
The vicar must think we're all twelve years old.
Seek ye first the kingdom of God
Psalm and alleluia
Take our bread
Celtic Mass.
O Lord you search me and you know me (a particular favourite)
The Kingdom ( a setting of the Beatitudes to a tune that is a very close relative of La Bamba.)
🤢
I guess s/he really, really, really does.
The ancient hymn version of Holy, holy, holy is grim too.
Give me a Sanctus anyday, preferably from Bach’s B Minor Mass.
This is Amazing Grace (Who breaks the power Of sin and darkness...)
For All You Have Done (My Saviour, Redeemer) - a new one on me (My Saviour, Redeemer, Lifted me from the miry clay, Almighty, Forever, I will never be the same)
Your Grace is Enough (And I will fall at your feet...)
What a Beautiful Name It Is
Lord I Need You - another new one on me (Lord I come, I confess, Bowing here I find my rest, Without You I fall apart, You're the one that guides my heart...)
I don't remember all this detail, of course; Mr Nen was on the projection and had printed the list out, plus the words of the new ones.
To God be the glory
Fill your hearts with joy and gladness
I need thee every hour
Jesus' hands were kind hands (AU CLAIR DE LA LUNE)
Glorious things of thee are spoken
I mostly can't remember tunes because, for the first time in a while, these were all hymns we've had in the 18 months or so I've been preparing recordings so I didn't have to spend hours at the laptop wrangling music.
Blessed Jesus, at Your Word/LIEBSTER JESU
Restore in Us, O God/BAYLOR
I Want Jesus to Walk with Me (African-American spiritual)
Christ Is Made the Sure Foundation/WESTMINSTER ABBEY
All my hope on God is founded (MICHAEL)
Blest are the pure in heart (FRANCONIA)
Jesus shall reign where're the sun (DUKE STREET)
Lead us Heavenly Father MANNHEIM
O Jesus calm me as you calmed the storm - ANIMA CHRISTI
How we trust and work together- ALL FOR JESUS
Psalm and Alleluia
Take this moment
This is my body
Turning the world upside down (which really should be sung in a proper Cock-er-ny music hall style.)
We had the mayor and his wife with us .... or as they say hereabouts, the Murr and murress.
Be still for the presence of the Lord
You are before me, God, you are behind (ELLERS, 'cause I didn't recognise the tune in CH4)
Spirit of God, come dwell within me (LEAVING LISMORE)
Jesus Christ is waiting (NOEL NOUVELET)
Blessed assurance
God Is Calling through the Whisper (W ŹLOBIE LEŹY)
Confitemini Domino/Come and Fill Our Hearts (Berthier, Taizé)
Breathe on Me, Breath of God (TRENTHAM)
Together We Serve (SAN ANSELMO)
And did anyone take the moment to lobby the mayor about the state of the footpaths in Lower Bridge St? Perhaps Be still for the presence of the Lord as sung by Arethosemyfeet's congregation, or Together we serve from Nick Tamen's would have been appropriate with the mayoral presence.
Eternal Father strong to save
Lead us heavenly Father, lead us
Calm me, Lord- which nobody knew, including the choir, as it was a last minute change
Will your anchor hold?
During Communion the choir sang
Bread of heaven on thee we feed, to the lovely Bach chorale Nicht so traurig
Evensong
Eternal Father strong to save
Be thou my vision
Glory to thee my God this night
Anthem: In this Place by Will Todd
Nothing wrong with the content, but ….
We also had All Creatures of our God and King which I was accused of choosing for the verse about rushing winds that art so strong, but as I do a termly hymn choosing to minimise my term-time workload I could truthfully say it had been on the list for weeks. I did consider changing it on grounds of likely to be low attendance, but I like it and know it all off by heart so sang as well as played. As it turned out, most of the singers of our congregation turned up so I'm glad I kept it in.
King of kings, majesty
Here is love vast as the ocean
Yes and Amen
Knowing you Jesus
May be a different hymn. This one starts:
O Jesus calm me as you calmed the storm;
Enfold me in your love, save me from harm
Would be a waste of breath .... wrong mayor.
This is the one I'm thinking of:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=NExzcAfw-1w
Different hymn.
Earth and all stars (Earth and All Stars)
Love divine, all loves excelling (Blaenwern)
My song is love unknown (Love Unknown)
Joyful, joyful we adore thee (Ode to Joy)
Choral Mass: Ireland in C
Elgar: Intende voci orationis meae