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When Stephen, full of power and grace

Author: Jan Struther, 1901-1953 Meter: 8.6.8.6 D Appears in 12 hymnals Topics: Holy Days and Various Occasions Saint Stephen (December 26) Used With Tune: SALVATION

God of saints, to whom the number

Author: John Ellerton, 1826-1893 Meter: 8.7.8.7 Appears in 23 hymnals Topics: Holy Days and Various Occasions Saint Bartholomew (August 24) Lyrics: 1. God of saints, to whom the number of the starry host is known: many saints by earth forgotten live for ever round your throne. 2. In the roll of your apostles stands the name Bartholomew, for this faithful saint we offer, year by year, our thanks to you. 3. All his faith, and prayer, and patience, all his toiling, and his strife, all are veiled from us, but written in the Lamb's great book of life. 4. There are named the blessed faithful of the new Jerusalem. When Christ comes again in glory, number us, we pray, with them, Used With Tune: HALTON HOLGATE

In Bethlehem a newborn boy

Author: Rosamond E. Herklots, b. 1905 Meter: 8.8.8.8 Appears in 9 hymnals Topics: Holy Days and Various Occasions Holy Innocents (December 28) Used With Tune: IN BETHLEHEM

so, behold, all the gates of heaven unfold

Author: John Mason Neale, 1818-1866 Meter: 7.7.7 with refrain Appears in 7 hymnals Topics: Holy Days and Various Occasions The Annunciation (March 25) First Line: Gabriel's message does away Lyrics: 1. Gabriel's message does away Satan's curse and Satan's sway, out of darkness brings our Day: Refrain: so, behold, all the gates of heaven unfold. 2. He that comes despised shall reign; he that cannot die, be slain; death by death its death shall gain: [Refrain] 3. Weakness shall the strong confound; by the hands, in grave clothes wound, Adam's chains shall be unbound. [Refrain] 4. Art by art shall be assailed; to the cross shall Life be nailed; from the grave shall hope be hailed: [Refrain] Used With Tune: ANGELUS EMITTITUR Text Sources: Piae Cantiones, 1582

You are the Christ, O Lord

Author: William Walsham How, 1823-1897 Meter: 6.6.6.6.8.8 Appears in 22 hymnals Topics: Holy Days and Various Occasions Confession of Saint Peter (January 18) Lyrics: 1. You are the Christ, O Lord, the Son of God most high! For ever be adored that Name in earth and sky, in which, though mortal strength may fail, the saints of God at last prevail! 2. Oh! Peter was most blest with blessedness unpriced, who, taught of God, confessed the Godhead in the Christ! For of your Church, Lord, you made known this saint a true foundation-stone. Used With Tune: WYNGATE CANON

Hail to the Lord who comes

Author: John Ellerton, 1826-1893 Meter: 6.6.6.6.6.6 Appears in 34 hymnals Topics: Holy Days and Various Occasions The Presentation (February 2) Lyrics: 1. Hail to the Lord who comes, comes to his temple gate; not with his angel host, not in his kingly state; no shouts proclaim him nigh, no crowds his coming wait; 2. but, borne upon the throne of Mary's gentle breast, watched by her duteous love, in her fond arms at rest, thus to his Father's house he comes, the heavenly guest. 3. There Joseph at her side in reverent wonder stands; and, filled with holy joy, old Simeon in his hands takes up the promised child, the glory of all lands. 4 O Light of all the earth, thy children wait for thee! Come to thy temples here, that we, from sin set free, before thy Father's face may all presented be! Used With Tune: OLD 120TH

Come now, and praise the humble saint

Author: George W. Williams, b. 1922 Meter: 8.6.8.6 Appears in 8 hymnals Topics: Holy Days and Various Occasions Saint Joseph (March 19) Lyrics: 1. Come now, and praise the humble saint of David's house and line, the carpenter whose life fulfilled our gracious God's design. 2. The Architect's high miracles he saw, and what was done, the Virgin's spouse, the guardian of great David's greater Son. 3. For him there was no glory here, no crown or martyr's fame; for him there was the patient life of faith and humble name. 4. But now within the Father's grace where saints and angels throng, beside his spouse, before the Son, he joins the heavenly song. Used With Tune: TALLIS' ORDINAL

Our Father, by whose servants

Author: George Wallace Briggs, 1875-1959 Meter: 7.6.7.6 D Appears in 19 hymnals Topics: Holy Days and Various Occasions On the Anniversary of the Dedication of a Church Used With Tune: WOLVERCOTE

I sing a song of the saints of God

Author: Lesbia Scott, b. 1898 Meter: Irregular Appears in 27 hymnals Topics: Holy Days and Various Occasions Saints' Days Lyrics: 1. I sing a song of the saints of God, patient and brave and true, who toiled and fought and lived and died for the Lord they loved and knew. And one was a doctor, and one was a queen, and one was a shepherdess on the green: they were all of them saints of God—and I mean, God helping, to be one too. 2. They loved their Lord so dear, so dear, and his love made them strong; and they followed the right, for Jesus' sake, the whole of their good lives long. And one was a soldier, and one was a priest, and one was slain by a fierce wild beast: and there's not any reason, no, not the least, why I shouldn't be one too. 3. They lived not only in ages past, there are hundreds of thousands still, the world is bright with the joyous saints who love to do Jesus' will. You can meet them in school, or in lanes, or at sea, in church, or in trains, or in shops, or at tea, for the saints of God are just folk like me, and I mean to be one too. Used With Tune: GRAND ISLE

Lord, who at Cana's wedding feast

Author: Adelaide Thrupp Appears in 40 hymnals Topics: Various Occasions Marriage and the Home Lyrics: 1 Lord, who at Cana’s wedding feast Didst as a guest appear, Thou dearer far than earthly guest, Vouchsafe Thy presence here; For holy Thou indeed dost prove The marriage vow to be, Proclaiming it a type of love Between the Church and Thee. 2 The holiest vow that man can make, The golden thread in life, The bond that none may dare to break, That bindeth man and wife; Which, blessed by Thee, whate’er betides, No evil shall destroy, Through care-worn days each care divides, And doubles every joy. 3 On those, who now before Thee kneel, O Lord, Thy blessing pour, That each may wake the other’s zeal To love Thee more and more: O grant them here in peace to live, In purity and love, And, this world leaving, to receive A crown of life above. Used With Tune: [Lord, who at Cana's wedding feast]