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The New Century Hymnal
Publication Date: 1995 Publisher: Pilgrim Press Publication Place: Cleveland Editors: James W. Crawford
The New Century Hymnal
We Have Come at Christ's Own Bidding
Author: Carl P. Daw, Jr. Meter: 8.7.8.7 D Appears in 12 hymnals Lyrics: 1 We have come at Christ’s own bidding
to this high and holy place,
where we wait with hope and longing
for some token of God’s grace.
Here we pray for new assurance
that our faith is not in vain,
searching like those first disciples
for a sign both clear and plain.
2 Light breaks through our clouds and shadows,
splendor bathes the flesh-joined Word,
Moses and Elijah marvel
as the heavenly voice is heard.
Eyes and hearts behold with wonder
how the Law and Prophets meet:
Christ with garments drenched in brightness,
stands transfigured and complete.
3 Strengthened by this glimpse of glory,
fearful lest our faith decline,
We, like Peter, find it tempting
to remain and build a shrine.
But true worship gives us courage
to proclaim what we profess,
That our daily lives may prove us
people of the God we bless.
Topics: Biblical Names; Church Worship and Prayer; Jesus Christ Transfiguration; Transfiguration; Year A Epiphany Last / Transfiguration; Year B Epiphany Last / Transfiguration; Year B Lent 2; Year C Lent 2 Scripture: Luke 9:28-36 Used With Tune: HYFRYDOL
We Have Come at Christ's Own Bidding
Come, O Spirit, with Your Sound
Author: John A. Dalles Meter: 7.6.7.6 D Appears in 5 hymnals Topics: Church Mission in the World; Holy Spirit Illuminator; Holy Spirit Power of; Pentecost Day of Scripture: Joel 2:28 Used With Tune: BOUNDLESS MERCY
Come, O Spirit, with Your Sound
What Wondrous Love Is This
Meter: 12.9.12.12.9 Appears in 252 hymnals First Line: What wondrous love is this, O my soul! O my soul! Lyrics: 1 What wondrous love is this, O my soul, O my soul!
What wondrous love is this, O my soul!
What wondrous love is this!
that Christ should come in bliss
to bear the heavy cross for my soul, for my soul,
to bear the heavy cross for my soul!
2 To God and to the Lamb I will sing, I will sing,
to God and to the Lamb, I will sing;
To God and to the Lamb who is the great I Am,
while millions join the theme, I will sing, I will sing;
while millions join the theme, I will sing.
3 And when from death I’m free, I’ll sing on, I’ll sing on,
and when from death I’m free, I’ll sing on!
And when from death I’m free, I’ll sing and joyful be,
and through eternity, I’ll sing on, I’ll sing on,
and through eternity I’ll sing on!
Topics: Burial and Memorial; Eternal Life; Holy Week; Jesus Christ Passion and Cross; Jesus Christ Savior; Year A Good Friday; Year A Holy Saturday; Year A Proper 21; Year B Lent 4; Year B Good Friday; Year B Holy Saturday; Year C Easter 3; Year C Epiphany 8; Year C Good Friday; Year C Holy Saturday Scripture: Revelation 5:13 Used With Tune: WONDROUS LOVE (CHRISTOPHER) Text Sources: 19th century, United States; alt.; First published in Mercer's Cluster, 1836
What Wondrous Love Is This
LAUDES DOMINI
Meter: 6.6.6.6.6.6 Appears in 446 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: Joseph Barnby Tune Key: C Major Incipit: 34561 76567 13217 Used With Text: When Morning Gilds the Skies
LAUDES DOMINI
SALVE FESTA DIES
Meter: Irregular with refrain Appears in 73 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: Ralph Vaughan Williams Tune Sources: The English Hymnal, 1906 Tune Key: F Major Incipit: 15432 13217 12765 Used With Text: Hail, O Festal Day!
SALVE FESTA DIES
Immortal, Invisible, God Only Wise
Author: Walter C. Smith Hymnal: NCH1995 #1 (1995) Meter: 11.11.11.11 Lyrics: 1 Immortal, invisible, God only wise,
in light inaccessible hid from our eyes.
Most blessed, most glorious, the Ancient of Days,
almighty, victorious, your great name we praise.
2 Unresting, unhasting, and silent as light,
not wanting, not wasting, but ruling in might;
Your justice like mountains high soaring above,
your clouds which are fountains of goodness and love.
3 Your life is life-giving - to both great and small;
in all life you're living, the true life of all;
We blossom and flourish as leaves and as flowers,
then wither and perish - but naught dims your powers.
4 So perfect your glory, so brilliant your light,
your angels adore you, all veiling their sight;
All praise we now render as your angels do:
in awe at the splendor of light hiding you. Topics: Adoration and Praise God; God Power and Majesty of; God Providence and Goodness of; Processional Hymns; Year A Monday in Holy Week; Year B Monday in Holy Week; Year C Epiphany 2; Year C Monday in Holy Week; Year C Proper 19 Scripture: 1 Timothy 1:17 Languages: English Tune Title: ST. DENIO
Immortal, Invisible, God Only Wise
Glory, Glory Hallelujah
Hymnal: NCH1995 #2 (1995) Meter: 8.7.8.7 Lyrics: 1 Glory, glory hallelujah,
since I laid my burdens down.
Glory, glory hallelujah!
since I laid my burdens down.
2 I feel better, so much better,
since I laid my burdens down.
I feel better, so much better,
since I laid my burdens down.
3 Feel like shouting, “Hallelujah!”
since I laid my burdens down.
Feel like shouting, “Hallelujah!”
since I laid my burdens down.
4 I am dancing Miriam's dance now,
since I laid my burdens down.
I am dancing Miriam's dance now,
since I laid my burdens down.
5 I am climbing Jacob’s ladder,
since I laid my burdens down.
I am climbing Jacob’s ladder,
since I laid my burdens down.
6 Every round goes higher and higher,
since I laid my burdens down.
Every round goes higher and higher,
since I laid my burdens down. Topics: Adoration and Praise God; Freedom and Liberation Spiritual; Year A Proper 11; Year B Epiphany 9; Year B Proper 4 Scripture: Psalm 81:6 Languages: English Tune Title: GLORY, GLORY
Glory, Glory Hallelujah
Wakantanka Taku Nitawa (Many and Great, O God, Are Your works)
Author: Joseph R. Renville; R. Philip Frazier Hymnal: NCH1995 #3 (1995) Meter: 9.6.9.9.9.6 Lyrics: 1 Many and great, O God, are your works,
Maker of earth and sky;
Your hands have set the heavens with stars,
your fingers spread the mountains and plains.
Lo, at your word the waters were formed;
deep seas obey your voice.
2 Grant unto us communion with you,
O star abiding One.
Come unto us and dwell with us;
with you are found the gifts of life.
Bless us with life that has no end,
eternal life with you.
Dakota -
1 Watanka taku nitawa
tankaya qa ota;
Mahpiya kin eyahnake ca,
maka kin he duowanca,
Mniowanca śhbya wanke cin,
hena oyakihi.
2 Woehdaku nitawakin he
minagikin qu wo;
Mahpiya kin iwankam yati,
wicowaśte yuha nanka,
Wiconi kin he majaqu nun,
owihanke wanin.
Topics: Adoration and Praise God; Eternal Life; God Works in Creation; Year A Passion Sunday; Year A Pentecost; Year B Baptism of Jesus Scripture: 2 Esdras 16:56-60 Languages: Dakota, English Tune Title: LACQUIPARLE
Wakantanka Taku Nitawa (Many and Great, O God, Are Your works)
Venantius Honorius Clementianus Fortunatus
540 - 600 Person Name: Venantius Honorius Fortunatus, 530-609 Hymnal Number: 221 Author of "The Royal Banners Forward Fly" in The New Century Hymnal Venantius Honorius Clematianus Fortunatus (b. Cenada, near Treviso, Italy, c. 530; d. Poitiers, France, 609) was educated at Ravenna and Milan and was converted to the Christian faith at an early age. Legend has it that while a student at Ravenna he contracted a disease of the eye and became nearly blind. But he was miraculously healed after anointing his eyes with oil from a lamp burning before the altar of St. Martin of Tours. In gratitude Fortunatus made a pilgrimage to that saint's shrine in Tours and spent the rest of his life in Gaul (France), at first traveling and composing love songs. He developed a platonic affection for Queen Rhadegonda, joined her Abbey of St. Croix in Poitiers, and became its bishop in 599. His Hymns far all the Festivals of the Christian Year is lost, but some of his best hymns on his favorite topic, the cross of Jesus, are still respected today, in part because of their erotic mysticism.
Bert Polman
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Fortunatus, Venantius Honorius Clementianus, was born at Ceneda, near Treviso, about 530. At an early age he was converted to Christianity at Aquileia. Whilst a student at Ravenna he became almost blind, and recovered his sight, as he believed miraculously, by anointing his eyes with some oil taken from a lamp that burned before the altar of St. Martin of Tours, in a church in that town. His recovery induced him to make a pilgrimage to the shrine of St. Martin, at Tours, in 565, and that pilgrimage resulted in his spending the rest of his life in Gaul. At Poitiers he formed a romantic, though purely platonic, attachment for Queen Rhadegunda, the daughter of Bertharius, king of the Thuringians, and the wife, though separated from him, of Lothair I., or Clotaire, king of Neustria. The reader is referred for further particulars of this part of the life of Fortunatus to Smith and Wace's Dictionary of Christian Biography, vol. ii. p. 552. It is sufficient to say here that under the influence of Rhadegunda, who at that time lived at Poitiers, where she had founded the convent of St. Croix, Fortunatus was ordained, and ultimately, after the death of Rhadegunda in 597, became bishop of Poitiers shortly before his own death in 609.
The writings, chiefly poetical, of Fortunatus, which are still extant, are very numerous and various in kind; including the liveliest Vers de Societé and the grandest hymns; while much that he is known to have written, including a volume of Hymns for all the Festivals of the Christian Year, is lost. Of what remains may be mentioned, The Life of St. Martin of Tours, his Patron Saint, in four books, containing 2245 hexameter lines. A complete list of his works will be found in the article mentioned above.
His contributions to hymnology must have been very considerable, as the name of his lost volume implies, but what remains to us of that character, as being certainly his work, does not comprise at most more than nine or ten compositions, and of some of these even his authorship is more than doubtful. His best known hymn is the famous "Vexilla Regis prodeunt," so familiar to us in our Church Hymnals in some English form or other, especially, perhaps, in Dr. Neale's translation, "The Royal Banners forward go." The next most important composition claimed for him is "Pange, lingua, gloriosi praelium certaminis," but there would seem to be little doubt according to Sirmond (Notis ad Epist. Sidon. Apollin. Lib. iii., Ep. 4), that it was more probably written by Claudianus Mamertus. Besides these, which are on the Passion, there are four hymns by Fortunatus for Christmas, one of which is given by Daniel, "Agnoscat omne saeculum," one for Lent, and one for Easter. Of "Lustra sex qui jam peregit," of which an imitation in English by Bishop. Mant, "See the destined day arise," is well-known, the authorship is by some attributed to Fortunatus, and by some to St. Ambrose.
The general character of the poetry of Venantius Fortunatus is by no means high, being distinguished neither for its classical, nor, with very rare exceptions, for its moral correctness. He represents the "last expiring effort of the Latin muse in Gaul," to retain something of the "old classical culture amid the advancing tide of barbarism." Whether we look at his style, or even his grammar and quantities, we find but too much that is open to criticism, whilst he often offends against good taste in the sentiments he enunciates. Occasionally, as we see in the "Vexilla Regis," he rises to a rugged grandeur in which he has few rivals, and some of his poems are by no means devoid of simplicity and pathos. But these are the exceptions and not the rule in his writings, and we know not how far he may have owed even these to the womanly instincts and gentler, purer influence of Rhadegunda. Thierry, in his Récits des Temps Mérovingiens, Récit 5, gives a lively sketch of Fortunatus, as in Archbishop Trench's words (Sacred Latin Poetry, 1874,p. 132), "A clever, frivolous, self-indulgent and vain character," an exaggerated character, probably, because one can hardly identify the author of "Vexilla Regis," in such a mere man of the world, or look at the writer of "Crux benedicta nitet, Dominus qua carne pependit" q.v., as being wholly devoid of the highest aspirations after things divine. A quarto edition of his Works was published in Rome in 1786. [Rev. Digby S. Wrangham, M.A.]
- John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology (1907)
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Fortunatus, V. H. C., p. 384, i. The best edition of his poems is F. Leo's edition of his Opera Poetica, Berlin, 1881 (Monumenta Germaniae, vol. iv.).
--John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology, Appendix, Part II (1907)
Venantius Honorius Clementianus Fortunatus
David Hurd
b. 1950 Hymnal Number: 330 Harmonizer of "LET US BREAK BREAD" in The New Century Hymnal David Hurd (b. Brooklyn, New York, 1950) was a boy soprano at St. Gabriel's Church in Hollis, Long Island, New York. Educated at Oberlin College and the University of North Carolina, he has been professor of church music and organist at General Theological Seminary in New York since 1976. In 1985 he also became director of music for All Saints Episcopal Church, New York. Hurd is an outstanding recitalist and improvisor and a composer of organ, choral, and instrumental music. In 1987 David Hurd was awarded the degree of Doctor of Music, honoris causa, by the Berkeley Divinity School at Yale. The following year he received honorary doctorates from the Church Divinity School of the Pacific, Berkeley, California, and from Seabury-Western Theological Seminary, Evanston, Illinois. His I Sing As I Arise Today, the collected hymn tunes of David Hurd, was published in 2010.
Bert Polman and Emily Brink
David Hurd
Henry Van Dyke
1852 - 1933 Person Name: Henry van Dyke Hymnal Number: 4 Author of "Joyful, Joyful, We Adore You" in The New Century Hymnal
See biography and works at CCEL
Henry Van Dyke
