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Meter: 11.11.10.11 Appears in 108 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: Geoffrey Laycock, b. 1926 Tune Sources: French carol Tune Key: e minor Incipit: 15645 34453 21156 Used With Text: Now the green blade rises from the buried grain

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Welcome, Happy Morning!

Author: Venantius H. C. Fortunatus, ca. 530-609; John Ellerton Meter: 6.5.6.5 D Appears in 282 hymnals Lyrics: 1 "Welcome, happy morning!" age to age shall say: hell today is vanquished; heav'n is won today. Lo! the Dead is living, God forevermore! Him, their true Creator, all his works adore. 2 Maker and Redeemer, life and health of all, thou, from heav'n beholding human nature's fall, of the Father's God-head true and only Son, manhood to deliver, manhood didst put on. 3 Thou, of life the author, death didst undergo, tread the path of darkness, saving strength to show; come then, True and Faithful, now fulfil thy word, 'tis thine own third morning; rise, O buried Lord. 4 Loose the souls long prisoned, bound with Satan's chain; thine that now are fallen raise to life again; show thy face in brightness, bid the nations see; bring again our daylight; day returns with thee. Topics: Christ Creator; Christ Deity of; Christ Humanity of; Hell; Resurrection of Believers Scripture: 1 Corinthians 15:20-22 Used With Tune: NOEL NOUVELET

Now the Green Blade Rises

Author: John M. C. Crum, 1872-1948 Meter: 11.10.11.10 Appears in 63 hymnals First Line: Now the green blade rises from the buried grain Topics: Easter Vigil ; Easter; Easter Season; Funeral; Death; Jesus Christ; Life; Love of God for Us; Paschal Mystery; Suffering; Trust; Victory over Sin and Death Scripture: John 12:20-33 Used With Tune: NOËL NOUVELET

Jesus' Hands Were Kind Hands

Author: Margaret B. Cropper, 1886-1980 Appears in 28 hymnals Topics: Christ-like Life; Christ's Life; Christ's Love; Christ the Way; Commitment; Ministry; Service Scripture: Matthew 10:39-40 Used With Tune: NOËL NOUVELET

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Noël Nouvelet

Hymnal: Les Chants du Pèlerin #156 (2001) First Line: Noël nouvelet! Noël chantons icy Refrain First Line: Noël nouvelet! Noël chantons icy Languages: French Tune Title: NOËL NOUVELET

Noel nouvelet

Hymnal: The Oxford Book of Carols #149b (1928) First Line: Noel nouvelet, Noël chantons ici Tune Title: [Noel nouvelet, Noël chantons ici]

Sing We Now of Christmas

Author: Richard Zgodava Hymnal: The Covenant Hymnal #177 (1996) Meter: 11.10.10.11 First Line: Sing we now of Christmas, sing we here Noel! Refrain First Line: Sing we Noel! For Christ is born, Noel! Topics: Children's Hymns; Christmas Birth Scripture: Luke 2:8-20 Tune Title: NOEL NOUVELET

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Venantius Honorius Clementianus Fortunatus

540 - 600 Person Name: Venantius H. C. Fortunatus, ca. 530-609 Author of "Welcome, Happy Morning!" in Trinity Hymnal (Rev. ed.) 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 ================== 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) ==================== 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)

John Macleod Campbell Crum

1872 - 1958 Person Name: John M. C. Crum Author of "Now the Green Blade Rises" in The New Century Hymnal Crum, John Macleod Campbell Born: October 12, 1872, Mere Old Hall, Cheshire, England. Died: December 19, 1958, Farnham, Surrey, England. A graduate of New College, Oxford (BA 1895, MA 1901), Crum was ordained as a deacon in 1897, and priest in 1900. He was assistant curate at St. John the Evangelist, Darlington (1897-1901); domestic chaplain to Francis Paget, Bishop of Oxford (1901-10); assistant curate, Windsor (1907-10); Vicar of Mentmore with Ledburn (1910-12); Rector of Farnham (1913-28); and Canon of Canterbury (1928-43). His works include: Road Mending on the Sacred Way, 1924 What Mean Ye by These Stones? 1926 The Original Jerusalem Gospel, 1927 Notes on the Old Glass of the Cathedral of Christ Church, Canterbury, 1930 St. Mark’s Gospel, Two Stages of Its Making, 1936 Life of Francis Paget, 1912 (with Stephen Paget) --www.cyberhymnal.org/bio

Tom Fettke

b. 1941 Author (sts. 2, 3, 4) of "Sing We Now of Christmas" in The Celebration Hymnal Thomas E. Fettke (b. Bronx, New York City, 1941) Educated at Oakland City College and California State University, in Hayward, CA, Fettke has taught in several public and Christian high schools and served as minister of music in various churches, all in California. He has published over eight hundred compositions and arrangements (some under the pseudonyms Robert F. Douglas and David J. Allen) and produced a number of recordings. Fettke was the senior editor of The Hymnal for Worship and Celebration (1986). Bert Polman

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Small Church Music

Editors: Iona Community Description: History The SmallChurchMusic site was launched in 2006, growing out of the requests from those struggling to provide suitable music for their services and meetings. Rev. Clyde McLennan was ordained in mid 1960’s and was a pastor in many small Australian country areas, and therefore was acutely aware of this music problem. Having also been trained as a Pipe Organist, recordings on site (which are a subset of the smallchurchmusic.com site) are all actually played by Clyde, and also include piano and piano with organ versions. About the Recordings All recordings are in MP3 format. Churches all around the world use the recordings, with downloads averaging over 60,000 per month. The recordings normally have an introduction, several verses and a slowdown on the last verse. Users are encouraged to use software: Audacity (http://www.audacityteam.org) or Song Surgeon (http://songsurgeon.com) to adjust the MP3 number of verses, tempo and pitch to suit their local needs. Mobile App We have partnered with the developer of the popular NetTracks mobile app to offer the Small Church Music collection as a convenient mobile app. Experience the beloved Small Church Music collection through this iOS app featuring nearly 10,000 high-quality hymn recordings that can be organized into custom setlists and downloaded for offline use—ideal for worship services without musicians, congregational practice, and personal devotion. The app requires a small fee to cover maintenance costs. Please note: While Hymnary.org hosts this music collection, technical support for the app is provided exclusively by the app developer, not by Hymnary.org staff. LicensingCopyright notice: Rev. Clyde McLennan, performer in this collection, has assigned his performer rights in this collection to Hymnary.org. Non-commercial use of these recordings is permitted. For permission to use them for any other purposes, please contact manager@hymnary.org. Home/Music(smallchurchmusic.com) List SongsAlphabetically List Songsby Meter List Songs byTune Name About

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