Eternal Lord of Love
The Fifth Sunday in Lent
April 7, 2019
When creating The Hymnal 1982, the Standing Commission on Church Music called for the creation of new Lenten hymns. Hymns were needed that reflected the Church's reclaiming of "the historic function of Lent as a time of preparation of catechumens for the sacrament of baptism." (The Hymnal 1982 Companion, p. 298)
One of those new hymns closes our liturgy today: "Eternal Lord of love, behold your church," number 149 in The Hymnal 1982. The sturdy tune dates to the sixteenth century and was particularly popular in Scotland. The hymn poet, Thomas H. Cain (1931-2003), focuses on the upcoming renewal of our baptismal covenant at the Easter Vigil - the point of our Lenten pilgrimage:
So daily dying to the way of self,
so daily living to your way of love,
we walk the road, Lord Jesus, that you trod,
knowing ourselves baptized into your death:
so we are dead and live with you in God.
Notice the direct connection between this hymn and the Episcopal Church's "Way of Love" program, championed by our presiding bishop, the Most Reverend Michael Curry. (Learn more here: Way of Love)
As we turn our faces toward Jerusalem and Christ's Passion, this hymn provides a vivid foretaste of Easter joy and resurrection:
If dead in you, so in you we arise,
you the firstborn of all the faithful dead;
and as through stony ground the green shoots break,
glorious in springtime dress of leaf and flower,
so in the Father's glory shall we wake.
Granted, we're not quite to the point of flowers in Nebraska. But the first green shoots are appearing in my flowerbeds, harbingers of spring.
Music for the Fifth Sunday in Lent
April 7, 2019
Hymns
495 Hail, thou once despised Jesus (In Babilone)
691 My faith looks up to thee (Olivet)
143 The glory of these forty days (stanza 5) (Erhalt uns, Herr)
313 Let thy Blood in mercy poured (Jesu, meine Zuversicht)
474 When I survey the wondrous cross (Rockingham)
149 Eternal Lord of love, behold your Church (Old 124th)
Service Music
April 7, 2019
When creating The Hymnal 1982, the Standing Commission on Church Music called for the creation of new Lenten hymns. Hymns were needed that reflected the Church's reclaiming of "the historic function of Lent as a time of preparation of catechumens for the sacrament of baptism." (The Hymnal 1982 Companion, p. 298)
One of those new hymns closes our liturgy today: "Eternal Lord of love, behold your church," number 149 in The Hymnal 1982. The sturdy tune dates to the sixteenth century and was particularly popular in Scotland. The hymn poet, Thomas H. Cain (1931-2003), focuses on the upcoming renewal of our baptismal covenant at the Easter Vigil - the point of our Lenten pilgrimage:
so daily living to your way of love,
we walk the road, Lord Jesus, that you trod,
knowing ourselves baptized into your death:
so we are dead and live with you in God.
Notice the direct connection between this hymn and the Episcopal Church's "Way of Love" program, championed by our presiding bishop, the Most Reverend Michael Curry. (Learn more here: Way of Love)
As we turn our faces toward Jerusalem and Christ's Passion, this hymn provides a vivid foretaste of Easter joy and resurrection:
If dead in you, so in you we arise,
you the firstborn of all the faithful dead;
and as through stony ground the green shoots break,
glorious in springtime dress of leaf and flower,
so in the Father's glory shall we wake.
Granted, we're not quite to the point of flowers in Nebraska. But the first green shoots are appearing in my flowerbeds, harbingers of spring.
Music for the Fifth Sunday in Lent
April 7, 2019
Hymns
495 Hail, thou once despised Jesus (In Babilone)
691 My faith looks up to thee (Olivet)
143 The glory of these forty days (stanza 5) (Erhalt uns, Herr)
313 Let thy Blood in mercy poured (Jesu, meine Zuversicht)
474 When I survey the wondrous cross (Rockingham)
149 Eternal Lord of love, behold your Church (Old 124th)
Service Music
Kyrie eleison, S-96 Franz Peter Schubert, arr. Richard Proulx
Psalm 126 Plainsong,Tone I
Prayers of the People, Form I, S-106
Sanctus, S-130 Schubert/Proulx
Agnus Dei, S-164 Schubert/Proulx
Anthem
Sicut cervus -Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina
Organ Music
Aria -Michael Burkhardt
Voluntary in A Minor -Orlando Gibbons
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