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Journeysongs (3rd ed.)
Publication Date: 2012 Publisher: OCP Publication Place: Portland, OR Editors: Eric Schumock; Randall DeBruyn
Journeysongs (3rd ed.)
The Advent of Our King
Author: Charles Coffin; Robert Campbell, 1814-1868 Meter: 6.6.8.6 Appears in 13 hymnals Lyrics: 1 The advent of our King
Our thoughts must now employ;
Then let us meet him on the road
With songs of holy joy.
2 The co-eternal Son
A maiden's offspring see;
A servant's form Christ putteth on,
To set his people free.
3 Daughter of Sion rise
To greet thine infant King;
Nor let thy stubborn heart despise
The pardon he doth bring.
4 In glory from his throne
Again will Christ descend,
And summon all who are his own
To joys that never end.
5 Let deeds of darkness fly
Before the approaching morn,
For unto sin 'tis ours to die
And serve the Virgin-born.
6 Our joyful praises sing
To Christ, who set us free;
Like tribute to the Father bring,
And Holy Ghost, to thee. Topics: The Liturgical Year Advent (Sundays and Weekdays) Scripture: Daniel 7:13 Used With Tune: ST. THOMAS (WILLIAMS) Text Sources: Paris Breviary, 1736
The Advent of Our King
Go, Tell It on the Mountain
Author: John W. Work, Jr., 1872-1925 Meter: 7.6.7.6 with refrain Appears in 108 hymnals First Line: While shepherds kept their watching Lyrics: Refrain:
Go, tell it on the mountain,
Over the hills and ev'rywhere;
Go, tell it on the mountain
That Jesus Christ is born.
1 While shepherds kept their watching
O'er silent flocks by night,
Behold, throughout the heavens
There shone a holy light. [Refrain]
2 The shepherds feared and trembled
When high above the earth
Rang out the angel chorus
That hailed our Savior's birth. [Refrain]
3 And lo, when they had heard it,
They all bowed down and prayed;
They traveled on together
To where the Babe was laid. [Refrain]
4 Down in a lowly manger
The humble Christ was born,
And God sent us salvation
That blessed Christmas morn. [Refrain]
Topics: Musical Style Gospel; Musical Style Spiritual; The Liturgical Year Christmas (Days of); The Liturgical Year The Epiphany of the Lord Scripture: Isaiah 18:3 Used With Tune: GO TELL IT Text Sources: American Negro Songs and Spirituals, 1940
Go, Tell It on the Mountain
On This Day, the First of Days
Author: Henry W. Baker, 1821-1877 Meter: 7.7.7.7 Appears in 86 hymnals Lyrics: 1 On this day, the first of days,
God the Father's name we praise;
Who, creation’s Font and Spring,
Did the world from darkness bring.
2 On this day th'eternal Son
Over death his triumph won;
On this day the Spirit came
With the gifts of living flame.
3 O that fervent love today
May in ev'ry heart have sway,
Teaching us to praise aright
God the source of life and light.
4 Father, who created me
Image of yourself to be,
May your grace be ever mine,
Fill me with your love divine.
5 Holy Word, all praises be!
You, from sin have set me free;
And, upon love's flame, arise
Unto you a sacrifice.
6 Holy Spirit, you impart
Gifts to shine in ev'ry heart;
Best of gifts, yourself bestow;
Dwell in me your love to know.
7 God, the blessed Three in One,
Father, Spirit with the Son;
One in you with all above,
We send forth our hearts of love. Topics: Creation; Praise; Sunday, the Lord's Day; The Liturgical Year The Most Holy Trinity Scripture: Genesis 1:2-3 Used With Tune: LÜBECK Text Sources: Le Mans Breviary, 1748; Hymns Ancient and Modern, 1861
On This Day, the First of Days
GO TELL IT
Meter: 7.6.7.6 with refrain Appears in 132 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: John W. Work, Jr. Tune Sources: Spiritual Tune Key: F Major or modal Incipit: 33216 51222 12323 Used With Text: Go, Tell It on the Mountain
GO TELL IT
MENDELSSOHN
Meter: 7.7.7.7 D with refrain Appears in 692 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: Felix Mendelssohn, 1809-1847; William H. Cummings, 1831-1915; William H. Cummings, 1831-1915 Tune Key: F Major or modal Incipit: 51171 33255 54323 Used With Text: Hark! the Herald Angels Sing
MENDELSSOHN
Opening Verse: Invitatory
Hymnal: JS2012 #1 (2012) First Line: Lord, open my lips Topics: Morning Prayer Verse and Response Languages: English Tune Title: [Lord, open my lips]
Opening Verse: Invitatory
Morning Hymn
Author: Aelred-Seton Shanly, d. 1999 Hymnal: JS2012 #2 (2012) Meter: 8.8.8.8 First Line: Dawn's radiance washes over earth Topics: Light; Morning; Morning Prayer Hymn; Musical Style Chant; Praise Languages: English Tune Title: [Dawn's radiance washes over the earth]
Morning Hymn
Psalmody
Hymnal: JS2012 #3 (2012) First Line: O God, you are my God, for you I long Refrain First Line: As morning breaks I look to you, O God Topics: Morning Prayer Morning Psalms, Canticles; Musical Style Chant Scripture: Psalm 63:2-9 Languages: English Tune Title: [O God, you are my God, for you I long]
Psalmody
St. Bernard of Clairvaux
1090 - 1153 Person Name: Bernard of Clairvaux, 1091-1153 Hymnal Number: 383 Author (attributed to) of "O Sacred Head, Surrounded" in Journeysongs (3rd ed.) Bernard of Clairvaux, saint, abbot, and doctor, fills one of the most conspicuous positions in the history of the middle ages. His father, Tecelin, or Tesselin, a knight of great bravery, was the friend and vassal of the Duke of Burgundy. Bernard was born at his father's castle on the eminence of Les Fontaines, near Dijon, in Burgundy, in 1091. He was educated at Chatillon, where he was distinguished for his studious and meditative habits. The world, it would be thought, would have had overpowering attractions for a youth who, like Bernard, had all the advantages that high birth, great personal beauty, graceful manners, and irresistible influence could give, but, strengthened in the resolve by night visions of his mother (who had died in 1105), he chose a life of asceticism, and became a monk. In company with an uncle and two of his brothers, who had been won over by his entreaties, he entered the monastery of Citeaux, the first Cistercian foundation, in 1113. Two years later he was sent forth, at the head of twelve monks, from the rapidly increasing and overcrowded abbey, to found a daughter institution, which in spite of difficulties and privations which would have daunted less determined men, they succeeded in doing, in the Valley of Wormwood, about four miles from the Abbey of La Ferté—itself an earlier swarm from the same parent hive—on the Aube. On the death of Pope Honorius II., in 1130, the Sacred College was rent by factions, one of which elected Gregory of St. Angelo, who took the title of Innocent II., while another elected Peter Leonis, under that of Anacletua II. Innocent fled to France, and the question as to whom the allegiance of the King, Louie VI., and the French bishops was due was left by them for Bernard to decide. At a council held at Etampes, Bernard gave judgment in favour of Innocent. Throwing himself into the question with all the ardour of a vehement partisan, he won over both Henry I., the English king, and Lothair, the German emperor, to support the same cause, and then, in 1133, accompanied Innocent II., who was supported by Lothair and his army, to Italy and to Rome. When Lothair withdrew, Innocent retired to Pisa, and Bernard for awhile to his abbey of Clairvaux. It was not until after the death of Anacletus, the antipope, in January, 1138, and the resignation of his successor, the cardinal-priest Gregory, Victor II., that Innocent II., who had returned to Rome with Bernard, was universally acknowledged Pope, a result to which no one had so greatly contributed as the Abbot of Clairvaux. The influence of the latter now became paramount in the Church, as was proved at the Lateran Council of 1139, the largest council ever collected together, where the decrees in every line displayed the work of his master-hand. After having devoted four years to the service of the Pope, Bernard, early in 1135, returned to Clairvaux. In 1137 he was again at Rome, impetuous and determined as ever, denouncing the election of a Cluniac instead of a Clairvaux monk to the see of Langres in France, and in high controversy in consequence with Peter, the gentle Abbot of Cluny, and the Archbishop of Lyons. The question was settled by the deposition by the Pope of the Cluniac and the elevation of a Clairvaux monk (Godfrey, a kinsman of St. Bernard) into his place. In 1143, Bernard raised an almost similar question as to the election of St. William to the see of York, which was settled much after the same fashion, the deposition, after a time, if only for a time, of William, and the intrusion of another Clairvaux monk, Henry Murdac, or Murduch, into the archiepiccopal see. Meantime between these two dates—in 1140—the condemnation of Peter Abilaid and his tenets, in which matter Bernard appeared personally as prosecutor, took place at a council held at Sens. Abelard, condemned at Sens, appealed to Rome, and, resting awhile on his way thither, at Cluny, where Peter still presided as Abbot, died there in 1142. St. Bernard was next called upon to exercise his unrivalled powers of persuasion in a very different cause. Controversy over, he preached a crusade. The summer of 1146 was spent by him in traversing France to rouse the people to engage in the second crusade; the autumn with a like object in Germany. In both countries the effect of his appearance and eloquence was marvellous, almost miraculous. The population seemed to rise en masse, and take up the cross. In 1147 the expedition started, a vast horde, of which probably not a tenth ever reached Palestine. It proved a complete failure, and a miserable remnant shared the flight of their leaders, the Emperor Conrad, and Louis, King of France, and returned home, defeated and disgraced. The blame was thrown upon Bernard, and his apology for his part in the matter is extant. He was not, however, for long to bear up against reproach; he died in the 63rd year of his age, in 1153, weary of the world and glad to be at rest.
With the works of St. Bernard, the best ed. of which was pub. by Mabillon at Paris in the early part of the 18th cent. (1719), we are not concerned here, except as regards his contributions, few and far between as they are, to the stores of Latin hymnology. There has been so much doubt thrown upon the authorship of the hymns which usually go by his name,—notably by his editor, Mabillon himself,—that it is impossible to claim any of them as having been certainly written by him; but Archbishop Trench, than whom we have no greater modern authority on such a point, is satisfied that the attribution of them all, except the "Cur mundus militat," to St. Bernard is correct. "If he did not write," the Archbishop says, "it is not easy to guess who could have written them; and indeed they bear profoundly the stamp of his mind, being only inferior in beauty to his prose."
The hymns by which St. Bernard is best known as a writer of sacred poetry are: (1.) "Jesu duicis memoria," a long poem on the " Name of Jesus"—known as the "Jubilus of St. Bernard," and among mediaeval writers as the " Rosy Hymn." It is, perhaps, the best specimen of what Neale describes as the "subjective loveliness " of its author's compositions. (2.) "Salve mundi Salutore," an address to the various limbs of Christ on the cross. It consists of 350 lines, 50 lines being addressed to each. (3.) "Laetabundus, exultet fidelis chorus: Alleluia." This sequence was in use all over Europe. (4.) "Cum sit omnis homo foenum." (5.) " Ut jucundas cervus undas." A poem of 68 lines, and well known, is claimed for St. Bernard by Hommey in his Supplementum Patrum, Paris, 1686, p. 165, but on what Archbishop Trench, who quotes it at length, (Sac. Lat. Poetry, p. 242,) deems " grounds entirely insufficient." (6.) " Eheu, Eheu, mundi vita," or " Heu, Heu, mala mundi vita." A poem of nearly 400 lines, is sometimes claimed for St. Bernard, but according to Trench, “on no authority whatever." (7.) “O miranda vanitas." This is included in Mabillon's ed. of St. Bernard's Works. It is also attributed to him by Rambach, vol. i. p. 279. Many other hymns and sequences are attributed to St. Bernard. Trench speaks of a " general ascription to him of any poems of merit belonging to that period whereof the authorship was uncertain." Hymns, translated from, or founded on, St. Bernard's, will be found in almost every hymnal of the day, details of which, together with many others not in common use, will be found under the foregoing Latin first lines.
-John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology (1907)
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Bianco da Siena
1350 - 1434 Person Name: Bianco da Siena, d. 1434 Hymnal Number: 438 Author of "Come Down, O Love Divine" in Journeysongs (3rd ed.) Bianco da Siena (b. Anciolina, circa 1350; d. Venice, Italy, circa 1434), an Italian poet and wool worker who was born at Anciolina, in the Val d'Arno. In 1367 he entered the Order of Jesuates, consisting of unordained men who followed the rule of St. Augustine. This order was instituted in that year by one John Colombinus of Siena, and suppressed by Pope Clement IX, possibly because of fear of not being able to control their mystical fervor. Little is known of Bianco beyond the fact that he is said to have lived in Venice for some years, and died there in 1434. His hymns were published at Lucca, in 1851, and edited by T. Bini, under the title, Laudi spirituali del Bianco da Siena.
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Bianco da Siena, born at Anciolina, in the Val d'Arno, date unknown. In 1367 he entered the Order of Jesuates, consisting of unordained men who followed the rule of St. Augustine. This order was instituted in that year by one John Colombinus of Siena, and suppressed by Pope Clement IX. in 1668. Little is known of Bianco beyond the fact that he is said to have lived in Venice for some years, and died there in 1434. His hymns were published at Lucca, in 1851, and edited by T. Bini, under the title, Laudi spirituali del Bianco da Siena. This work contains 92 pieces. Of these the following have been translated into English, and have come into common use:—
1. Discendi, Amor santo. The Holy Spirit desired. This is No. 35 in the above work and is in 8 stanzas. Of these, Dr. Littledale gave 4 in the People's Hymnal, 1867, No. 473, as, "Come down, 0 Love Divine."
2. Gesil Christo amoroso. Missions. This is No. 79 of the above wdrk. It has been rendered into English by Dr. Littledale, and was published in the People's Hymnal, 1867, No. 400, as, "0 Jesu Christ, the loving.”
3. Vergine santa, sposa dell’ Agnello. St. Lucy. V. M . This is also from the foregoing work, No. 74, in 15 stanzas of 3 lines. Dr. Littledale's translation in the People's Hymnal, 1867, No. 226, is in 7 stanzas of 4 lines, and begins, "0 Virgin Spouse of Christ the Lamb."
4. Ama Jesu el tuo sposo diletto. Love for Jesus . This is No. 45 in the above work, in 33 stanzas. In 1866 Dr. Littledale contributed a cento therefrom to R. Brett's Office of the Moat Holy Name. This was transferred to Brooke's Churchman's Manual of Private & Family Devotion, 1882. It begins, "Love Jesus, Who hath sought thee so."
Although the translations Nos. 1-3 have not gone any further than the People's Hymnal, Nos. 1 and 2 are worthy of more extended use. [Rev. John Julian, D.D.]
-- John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology (1907)
Bianco da Siena
Eleanor Farjeon
1881 - 1965 Person Name: Eleanor Farjeon, 1881-1965 Hymnal Number: 851 Author of "Morning Has Broken" in Journeysongs (3rd ed.) Eleanor Farjeon, (born Feb. 13, 1881, London--died June 5, 1965, Hampstead, London), English writer for children whose magical but unsentimental tales, which often mock the behaviour of adults, earned her a revered place in many British nurseries.
The daughter of a British novelist and granddaughter of a U.S. actor, Eleanor Farjeon grew up in the bohemian literary and dramatic circles of London. Attending opera and theatre at 4 and writing on her father’s typewriter at 7, Farjeon came to public attention at 16 as the librettist of an opera, with music by her brother Harry, which was produced by the Royal Academy of Music.
Her success with Nursery Rhymes of London Town (1916), simple tunes originally for adults but adapted and sung in junior schools throughout England, spurred her writing. In addition to such favourites as Martin Pippin in the Apple Orchard (1921) and The Little Bookroom (1955), which won the Carnegie Medal and the first Hans Christian Anderson Award, Farjeon’s prolific writings include children’s educational books, among them Kings and Queens (1932; with Herbert Farjeon); adult books; and memoirs, notably A Nursery in the Nineties (1935; rev. ed. 1960).
--www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/201881/Eleanor-Farjeon
Eleanor Farjeon
