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Author: Marty Haugen Meter: Irregular Appears in 39 hymnals Topics: God's Church The Church at Worship: Gathering; Gathering First Line: Here in this place, the new light is streaming Used With Tune: GATHER US IN

Christians, We Have Met to Worship

Author: George Atkins Meter: 8.7.8.7 D Appears in 254 hymnals Topics: God's Church The Church at Worship: Gathering; Gathering Lyrics: 1 Christians, we have met to worship and adore the living God; will you pray with all your power, while we try to preach the word? All is vain unless the Spirit of the Holy One comes down; Christians, pray, and holy manna will be showered all around. 2 Is there here a trembling jailer, seeking grace and filled with fears? Is there here a weeping Mary pouring forth a flood of tears? Tell them all about the Savior, how in Christ the lost are found. Pray, oh pray, and holy manna will be scattered all around. 3 Let us love our God supremely, let us love each other, too; let us pray for all earth's people till our God makes all things new. Christ will call us home to heaven, at the table we'll sit down; Christ will welcome us and serve us living manna all around. Used With Tune: HOLY MANNA

Praise to the Lord, the Almighty

Author: Joachim Neander; Catherine Winkworth; Rupert E. Davies Meter: 14.14.4.7.8 Appears in 396 hymnals Topics: Gathering First Line: Praise to the Lord, the Almighty, who rules all creation Lyrics: 1 Praise to the Lord, the Almighty, who rules all creation. O my soul, worship the wellspring of health and salvation. All ye who hear, now to God's temple draw near. Join me in in glad adoration. 2 Praise to the Lord, who o'er all things so wondrously reigneth, who, as on wings of an eagle uplifted, sustaineth. Hast thou not seen? All that is needful hath been granted in what God ordaineth? 3 Praise to the Lord, who doth prosper thy work, and defend thee. Surely God's goodness and mercy here daily attend thee. Ponder anew what the Almighty can do, who with great love doth befriend thee. 4 Praise to the Lord, who doth nourish thy life and restore thee, fitting thee well for the tasks that are ever before thee. Then to thy need God as a mother doth speed, spreading the wings of grace o'er thee. 5 Praise to the Lord! O let all of God's peoples and races, all that hath life and breath, give thanks for manifold graces. Let the Amen sound from God's people again. Gladly for ever sing praises. Used With Tune: LOBE DEN HERREN

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LAND OF REST

Meter: 8.6.8.6 Appears in 192 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: Richard Proulx, 1937-2010 Topics: Gathering Tune Sources: American Tune Key: F Major or modal Incipit: 51123 51165 51123 Used With Text: I Come with Joy

ADESTE FIDELES

Meter: Irregular Appears in 1,426 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: John Francis Wade Topics: Gathering Tune Key: G Major Incipit: 11512 55323 43211 Used With Text: O Come, All Ye Faithful

HERE I AM TO WORSHIP

Meter: Irregular with refrain Appears in 24 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: Tim Hughes Topics: The Church as Community Gathering; Worship-Gathering Tune Key: F Major Incipit: 33422 34432 11334 Used With Text: Here I Am to Worship

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Thy Children are Gathering Home

Author: C. W. N. Hymnal: Truth in Song #230 (1907) Topics: Gathering First Line: Long scattered thy children, O Zion, have been Languages: English Tune Title: [Long scattered thy children, O Zion, have been]

Out of Need and Out of Custom

Author: Ken Medema Hymnal: Chalice Hymnal #293 (1995) Meter: 8.7.8.7 D Topics: God's Church The Church at Worship: Gathering; Gathering Languages: English Tune Title: GATHERING

The Gathering of the Ransomed

Author: J. H. K. Hymnal: Fair as the Morning. Hymns and Tunes for Praise in the Sunday-School #40 (1891) Topics: Gathering Home First Line: What a great and wondrous gath'ring when the Son of Man shall come Refrain First Line: What a gath'ring that will be Lyrics: 1 What a great and wondrous gath’ring when the Son of Man shall come, In the brightness of His glory, with His people gath’ring home! When all nations, tribes and kingdoms of the earth shall be His own, They shall hail Him Lord and Saviour, Him that sitteth on the throne. Refrain: What a gath’ring of the ransomed—what a gath’ring that will be, There to meet and be with Jesus through the vast eternity! 2 We shall see the holy city of the new Jerusalem; We shall enter through the gates beset with many a wondrous gem; And the Lord Himself shall meet us with the holy angel band; Friends and loved ones then shall greet us to the heav’nly glory land. [Refrain] 3 At the wondrous living fountain, flowing pure and full and free, How we’ll drink, and never thirst again, beside the crystal sea! There we’ll join in songs of heaven, strike the harps of purest gold, For the victory is given and the Saviour we behold. [Refrain] Languages: English Tune Title: [What a great and wondrous gath'ring when the Son of Man shall come]

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Federico J. Pagura

1923 - 2016 Topics: Gathering and Celebration Translator (Spanish) of "Oh, for a Thousand Tongues to Sing" in Global Songs for Worship Federico José Pagura was an Argentine Methodist bishop and author and translator of hymns. Leland Bryant Ross

Jacques Berthier

1923 - 1994 Person Name: Jacques Berthier, 1923-1994 Topics: Elements of Worship Gathering Composer of "[Alleluia, alleluia, alleluia]" in Psalms for All Seasons Jacques Berthier (b. Auxerre, Burgundy, June 27, 1923; d. June 27, 1994) A son of musical parents, Berthier studied music at the Ecole Cesar Franck in Paris. From 1961 until his death he served as organist at St. Ignace Church, Paris. Although his published works include numerous compositions for organ, voice, and instruments, Berthier is best known as the composer of service music for the Taizé community near Cluny, Burgundy. Influenced by the French liturgist and church musician Joseph Gelineau, Berthier began writing songs for equal voices in 1955 for the services of the then nascent community of twenty brothers at Taizé. As the Taizé community grew, Berthier continued to compose most of the mini-hymns, canons, and various associated instrumental arrangements, which are now universally known as the Taizé repertoire. In the past two decades this repertoire has become widely used in North American church music in both Roman Catholic and Protestant traditions. Bert Polman

Johann Sebastian Bach

1685 - 1750 Person Name: Johann Sebastian Bach, 1685-1750 Topics: Gathering; Service Music for Mass Entrance Song (Gathering of Processional) Adapter of "LIEBSTER JESU" in Journeysongs (3rd ed.) Johann Sebastian Bach was born at Eisenach into a musical family and in a town steeped in Reformation history, he received early musical training from his father and older brother, and elementary education in the classical school Luther had earlier attended. Throughout his life he made extraordinary efforts to learn from other musicians. At 15 he walked to Lüneburg to work as a chorister and study at the convent school of St. Michael. From there he walked 30 miles to Hamburg to hear Johann Reinken, and 60 miles to Celle to become familiar with French composition and performance traditions. Once he obtained a month's leave from his job to hear Buxtehude, but stayed nearly four months. He arranged compositions from Vivaldi and other Italian masters. His own compositions spanned almost every musical form then known (Opera was the notable exception). In his own time, Bach was highly regarded as organist and teacher, his compositions being circulated as models of contrapuntal technique. Four of his children achieved careers as composers; Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven, Mendelssohn, Schumann, Brahms, and Chopin are only a few of the best known of the musicians that confessed a major debt to Bach's work in their own musical development. Mendelssohn began re-introducing Bach's music into the concert repertoire, where it has come to attract admiration and even veneration for its own sake. After 20 years of successful work in several posts, Bach became cantor of the Thomas-schule in Leipzig, and remained there for the remaining 27 years of his life, concentrating on church music for the Lutheran service: over 200 cantatas, four passion settings, a Mass, and hundreds of chorale settings, harmonizations, preludes, and arrangements. He edited the tunes for Schemelli's Musicalisches Gesangbuch, contributing 16 original tunes. His choral harmonizations remain a staple for studies of composition and harmony. Additional melodies from his works have been adapted as hymn tunes. --John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology (1907)

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