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O Christ, What Can it Mean for Us

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Author: Delores Dufner

Delores Dufner is a member of St. Benedict’s Monastery in St. Joseph, Minnesota, with Master's Degrees in Liturgical Music and Liturgical Studies. She is currently a member and a Fellow of The Hymn Society in the United States and Canada, the National Pastoral Musicians (NPM), the American Society of Composers, Authors, and Publishers (ASCAP), and the Monastic Worship Forum. Delores is a writer of liturgical, scripturally based hymn and song texts which have a broad ecumenical appeal and are contracted or licensed by 34 publishers in the United States, Canada, Great Britain, Australia, and China. She has received more than 50 commissions to write texts for special occasions or needs and has published over 200 hymns, many of which h… Go to person page >

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Text Information

First Line: O Christ, what can it mean for us
Title: O Christ, What Can it Mean for Us
Author: Delores Dufner
Meter: 8.6.8.6 D
Language: English
Copyright: © 2001, 2003 GIA Publications, Inc.
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Tune

IN NOMINE DEI


KINGSFOLD

Thought by some scholars to date back to the Middle Ages, KINGSFOLD is a folk tune set to a variety of texts in England and Ireland. The tune was published in English Country Songs [sic: English County Songs] (1893), an anthology compiled by Lucy E. Broadwood and J. A. Fuller Maitland. After having…

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ALL SAINTS NEW (Cutler)

Henry Stephen Cutler (b. Boston, MA, 1824; d. Boston, 1902) composed ALL SAINTS NEW in 1872 for Reginald Heber's (PHH 249) text "The Son of God Goes Forth to War," and the two were published together in Hymnal with Tunes, Old and New (1872). That text refers to "the glorious band" of God's people, h…

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Instances

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Evangelical Lutheran Worship #431

Evangelical Lutheran Worship #431

Lead Me, Guide Me (2nd ed.) #348

Lead Me, Guide Me (2nd ed.) #348

One Lord, One Faith, One Baptism #364

One Lord, One Faith, One Baptism #364

RitualSong (2nd ed.) #674

RitualSong (2nd ed.) #674

Scripture Song Database #2489

Scripture Song Database #2489

Worship (4th ed.) #567

Worship (4th ed.) #567
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