[Cantor] A light to lighten the Gentiles;
[All] and the glory of thy people Israel.
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First Line: | A light to lighten the Gentiles |
Language: | English |
Publication Date: | 1986 |
Topic: | The Candlemas Ceremony; The Presentation of Christ in the Temple |
Copyright: | Extracts from "The Book of Common Prayer of 1662," Crown Copyright in the United Kingdom, reproduced by permission of Eyre & Spottiswoode (Publishers) Limited, Her Majesty's Printer, London |
Notes: | It may be followed by the canticle Nunc Dimittis, the antiphon being repeated by all after each verse, or if preferred, repeated once only at the end of the canticle |
Tune Information | |
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Name: | [A light to lighten the Gentiles] |
Key: | a minor |
Source: | Mode viii |
Copyright: | Arr. by permission of Oxford University Press (from "English Hymnal," 1933) |