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Sent Forth by God's Blessing

Author: Omer Westendorf Meter: 6.6.11.6.6.11 D Appears in 43 hymnals

Meter: 6.6.11.6.6.11 D Appears in 152 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: Leland Sateren Tune Sources: Welsh folk tune Tune Key: G Major Incipit: 51354 31124 32175 Used With Text: Sent Forth by God's Blessing

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Sent Forth by God's Blessing

Author: Omer Westendorf Hymnal: Renew! Songs and Hymns for Blended Worship #307 (1995) Meter: 6.6.11.6.6.11 D Topics: Going Forth Recessional Hymns; The Going Forth Recessional Hymns Languages: English Tune Title: THE ASH GROVE

Sent Forth by God's Blessing

Author: Omer Westendorf, 1916-1997 Hymnal: Journeysongs (2nd ed.) #768 (2003) Meter: 12.11.12.11 D First Line: Sent forth by God's blessing, our true faith confessing Topics: Commissioning; Discipleship; Ministry/Mission; Praise; Sending Forth; Thanksgiving; Commissioning; Discipleship; Ministry/Mission; Praise; Sending Forth; Thanksgiving; Commissioning; Discipleship; Ministry/Mission; Praise; Sending Forth; Thanksgiving Scripture: Joshua 1:6 Languages: English Tune Title: ASH GROVE

Sent Forth by God's Blessing

Author: Omer Westendorf Hymnal: The New Century Hymnal #76 (1995) Meter: 6.6.6.11.6.6.11 D Topics: Church Mission in the World; Close of Worship; Discipleship; Year B Proper 9 Languages: English Tune Title: THE ASH GROVE

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Omer Westendorf

1916 - 1997 Author of "Sent Forth by God's Blessing" in Renew! Songs and Hymns for Blended Worship Omer Westendorf, one of the earliest lyricists for Roman Catholic liturgical music in English, died on October 22, 1997, at the age of eighty-one. Born on February 24, 1916, Omer got his start in music publishing after World War II, when he brought home for his parish choir in Cincinnati some of the Mass settings he had discovered in Holland. Interest in the new music being published in Europe led to his creation of the World Library of Sacred Music, initially a music-importing firm that brought much of this new European repertoire to U.S. parishes. Operating out of a garage in those early years, Omer often joked about the surprised expressions of visitors who stopped by and found a wide range of sheet music in various states of “storage” (read disarray). Later, as World Library Publications, the company began publishing some of its own music, including new works with English texts by some of those same Dutch composers, for example, Jan Vermulst. In 1955 World Library published the first edition of The Peoples Hymnal, which would become the People's Mass Book in 1964, one of the first hymnals to reflect the liturgical reforms proposed by Vatican II. Omer also introduced the music of Lucien Deiss to Catholic parishes through the two volumes of Biblical Hymns and Psalms. Using his own name and several pen names, Omer composed numerous compositions for liturgical use, though his best-known works may be the texts for the hymns “Where Charity and Love Prevail,” “Sent Forth by God’s Blessing,” and especially “Gift of Finest Wheat.” As he lay dying, his family and friends gathered around his bed to sing his text “Shepherd of Souls, in Love, Come, Feed Us.” NPM honored Omer as its Pastoral Musician of the Year in 1985. --liturgicalleaders.blogspot.com/2008 =========================== Pseudonyms: Paul Francis Mark Evans J. Clifford Evers --Letter from Tom Smith, Executive Director of The Hymn Society, to Leonard Ellinwood, 6 February 1980. DNAH Archives.

Katherine Davis

1892 - 1980 Person Name: Katherine K. Davis Composer (descant) of "THE ASH GROVE" in The United Methodist Hymnal Music Supplement Katherine Kennicott Davis (b. St. Joseph, MO, 1892; d. Concord, MA, 1980) studied at Wellesley College, Wellesley, Massachusetts, where she was also a teaching assistant in music. From 1921 to 1929 she taught singing and piano in private schools in Concord, Massachusetts, and Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. After 1929 she devoted herself largely to music composition. She wrote some eight hundred pieces, most of which were choral (often writing under several pseudonyms). One of her most popular songs is "The Little Drummer Boy," originally called "Carol of the Drum" (1941). Her other publications include the folk operetta Cinderella (1933) and Songs of Freedom (1948). Bert Polman