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Come Holy Ghost, eternal God

Appears in 14 hymnals Used With Tune: [Come Holy Ghost eternal God]

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MEAR

Meter: 8.6.8.6 Appears in 292 hymnals Tune Key: G Major Incipit: 15533 13223 15455 Used With Text: Come, Holy Ghost, eternal God
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[Come Holy Ghost eternal God]

Appears in 1 hymnal Tune Key: d minor Incipit: 11712 31251 7123 Used With Text: Come Holy Ghost, eternal God
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TALLIS' ORDINAL

Meter: 8.6.8.6 Appears in 221 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: Thomas Tallis Tune Key: D Major Incipit: 13455 66551 76651 Used With Text: Come Holy Ghost, Eternal God

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Come Holy Ghost, Eternal God

Author: Rhabanus Maurus Hymnal: The Cyber Hymnal #800 Meter: 8.6.8.6 First Line: Come, Holy Ghost, eternal God Lyrics: 1. Come, Holy Ghost, eternal God, Proceeding from above, Both from the Father and the Son, The God of peace and love; 2. Visit our minds, into our hearts Thy heav’nly grace inspire; That truth and godliness we may Pursue with full desire. 3. Thou in Thy gifts art manifold; By them Christ’s Church doth stand; In faithful hearts Thou writ’st Thy law, The finger of God’s hand. 4. According to Thy promise, Lord, Thou givest speech with grace, That through Thy help God’s praises may Resound in every place. 5. O Holy Ghost, into our minds Send down Thy heav’nly light; Kindle our hearts with fervent zeal To serve God day and night. 6. Our weakness strengthen and confirm, For, Lord, Thou know’st us frail; That neither devil, world, nor flesh, Against us may prevail. 7. Put back our enemy from us, And help us to obtain Peace in our hearts with God and man— The best, the truest gain; 8. Of strife and of dissension Dissolve, O Lord, the bands, And knit the knots of peace and love Throughout all Christian lands. 9. Grant us the grace that we may know The Father of all might, That we of His belovèd Son May gain the blissful sight; 10. And that we may with perfect faith Ever acknowledge Thee, The Spirit of Father, and of Son, One God in Persons Three. 11. To God the Father laud and praise, And to His blessèd Son, And to the Holy Spirit of grace, Co-equal Three in One. Languages: English Tune Title: TALLIS' ORDINAL
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Veni Creator

Hymnal: The Whole Booke of Psalmes #F1 (1640) First Line: Come Holy Ghost eternall God Lyrics: Come, Holy Ghost, eternall God, proceeding from above; Both from the Father and the Sonne, the God of peace and love. Visit our minds, into us thy heav’nly grace inspire That truth and godliness, we may have true desire. Thou ar the very Comforter in all wo and distresse: The heavenly gift of God most high, which no tongue can expresse. the fountaine and the living spring of joy celestiall, The fire so bright, the love so cleare, and unction spirituall. Thou in Thy gifts art manifold, whereby Christ’s Church doth stand; In faithful hearts writing thy law, the finger of God’s hand. According to thy promise made thou givest speech with grace: That through thy help the praise of God may stand in every place. O Holy Ghost, into our wits send down thy heavenly light; Kindle our hearts with fervent love, to serve God day and night. Strenght and stablish all our weakness, so feelbe and so fraile, That neither flesh, the world, nor divell against us do prevaile. Put back our enemies far from us, and grant us to obtaine Peace in our hearts with God and man, without grudge or disdaine. And grant (O Lord) that thou being our leader and our guide, We may eschew the snares of sin, and from thee never slide. To us such plenty of the grace good Lord grant we thee pray: That thou maist be our Comforter, at the last dreadful day. Of all strife and dissension O Lord, dissolve the bands, And make the knots of peace and love throughout all Christian lands. Grant us, O Lord, through thee to know the Father of all might: That of his deare beloved Sonne we may attaine the sight. And that with perfect faith also we may acknowledge thee The Spirit of them both alway, One God in persons three. Laud and praise be to the Father, and to the Son equall: And to the Holy Spirit also, one God coeternall. And may we that the only Son vouchsafe his Spirit to send To all that do professe his Name, unto the world's last end. Languages: English Tune Title: [Come Holy Ghost eternal God]

Come Holy Ghost, eternal God

Hymnal: Fair Haven #d3 (1949) Languages: English

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Rabanus Maurus

776 - 856 Person Name: Rhabanus Maurus Author (attributed to) of "Come Holy Ghost, Eternal God" in The Cyber Hymnal Rabanus Maurus (c. 776-856) or Hrabanus Magnentius Maurus, was born of noble parents at Mainz, and educated at Fulda and Tours under Alcuin, who is reputed to have given him the surname, Maurus, after the saint of that name. In 803, he became director of the school at the Benedictine Abbey at Fulda. He was ordained priest in 814, spending the following years in a pilgrimage to Palestine. In 822, he became Abbott at Fulda, retiring in 842. In 847, he became archbishop of Mainz. He died at Winkel on the Rhine, February 4, 856. This distinguished Carolingian poet-theologian wrote extensive biblical commentaries, the Encyclopaedic De Universo, De Institutione Clericorum, and other works which circulated widely during the Middle Ages. Some of his poems, with English translations, are in Helen Waddell's Mediaeval Latin Lyrics. He is the author of: O Come, Creator Spirit, come Christ, the fair glory of the holy angels Come, Holy Ghost, our souls inspire Come, Holy Ghost, Creator blest Creator Spirit, by whose aid --The Hymnal 1940 Companion, New York: The Church Pension Fund (1949) =========================== Hrabanus (Rabanus) Maurus, son of one Ruthard, was born probably at Mainz, about 776. At an early age he was sent to the Monastery of Fulda to receive a religious education. In 801 he was ordained Deacon, and the following year he went to the monastic school of St. Martin at Tours to study under Alcuin, a celebrated teacher of that time, who gave to Hrabanus the name of Maurus to which Hrabanus added Magnentius. On his return to Fulda in 804 he became the head of the school connected with the Monastery. Towards him Ratgar the abbot showed great unkindness, which arose mainly from the fact that Ratgar demanded the students to build additions to the monastery, whilst Hrabanus required them at the same time for study. Hrabanus had to retire for a season, but Ratgar's deposition by Ludwig the Pious, in 817, opened up the way for his return, and the reopening of the school In the meantime, in 814, he had been raised to the Priesthood. Egil, who succeeded Ratgar as abbot, died in 822, and Hrabanus was appointed in his stead. This post he held for some time, until driven forth by some of the community. In 847, on the death of Archbishop Otgar, Ludwig the younger, with whom Hrabanus had sided in his demand for German independence as against the imperialism of his elder brother Lothar, rewarded him with the Archbishopric of Mainz, then the metropolitan see of Germany. He held this appointment to his death on Feb. 4, 856. He was buried first in St. Alban's, Mainz, and then, during the early days of the Reformation, in St. Maurice, Halle, possibly because of the opposition he is known to have made to the doctrine of Transubstantiation. With German historians Hrabanus is regarded as the father of the modern system of education in that country. His prose works were somewhat numerous, but the hymns with which his name is associated are few. We have the "Christe sanctorum decus Angelorum”; “Tibi Christe, splendor Patris”; and the "Veni Creator Spiritus”; but recent research convinces us that the ascription in each case is very doubtful; and none are received as by Hrabanus in Professor Dümmler's edition of the Carmina of Hrabanus in the Poetae Latini aevi Carolini, vol. ii. 1884. Dümmler omits them even from the "hymns of uncertain origin." --John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology, Appendix I (1907) ======================= http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rabanus_Maurus

Thomas Tallis

1505 - 1585 Composer of "TALLIS' ORDINAL" in The Cyber Hymnal Thomas Tallis (b. Leicestershire [?], England, c. 1505; d. Greenwich, Kent, England 1585) was one of the few Tudor musicians who served during the reigns of Henry VIII: Edward VI, Mary, and Elizabeth I and managed to remain in the good favor of both Catholic and Protestant monarchs. He was court organist and composer from 1543 until his death, composing music for Roman Catholic masses and Anglican liturgies (depending on the monarch). With William Byrd, Tallis also enjoyed a long-term monopoly on music printing. Prior to his court connections Tallis had served at Waltham Abbey and Canterbury Cathedral. He composed mostly church music, including Latin motets, English anthems, settings of the liturgy, magnificats, and two sets of lamentations. His most extensive contrapuntal work was the choral composition, "Spem in alium," a work in forty parts for eight five-voice choirs. He also provided nine modal psalm tunes for Matthew Parker's Psalter (c. 1561). Bert Polman

Walter Bond Gilbert

1829 - 1910 Composer of "" in Hymnal Walter Bond Gilbert DMus United Kingdom 1829-1910. Born at Exeter, Devon, England, he studied music under Alfred Angel, Samuel Wesley and Henry Bishop. He attended New College, Oxford and the University of Toronto, Canada. He was organist in Devon at Topsham in 1847, Bideford in 1849, Kent at Tonbridge in 1854, Old Colliegiate Church, Maidstone in 1859, Lee in 1866, Boston, Lincolnshirein 1868, and Trinity Chapel in New York City in 1869-1897. He taught music at Tonbridge School, helped found the College of Organists, edited the America Episcopal Hymnal, and wrote a number of monographs, including “Antiquities of Maidstone”. He continued to write church music, producing services, oratorios (including “The Restoration of Israel and St. John, 1857), organ works, and anthems. He died at Headington, Oxford, England. John Perry