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Friday 11 July 2008

Hymns for the Pauline Year

(H/T to Hymnography Unbound (the New Ephrem) )
Canticanova -- have I mentioned HOW great Gary Penkala's site is? in addition to being the publishers of always worthy music, he provides marvelous liturgical planning aids, articles, etc. http://canticanova.com/index.html
It's great. It's GREAT
-- has a terrific article listing music appropriate for celebrating the Pauline Year.
And this list of hymns related to Paul's Epistles:
http://canticanova.com/articles/misc/art7bb1.htm
from Romans
4:20-21 — The God of Abraham Praise
5:1-5 — Blessed Feast of Blessed Martyrs [also 8:17]
6:3-11 — I Know That My Redeemer Lives
6:4-5 — Christians, Lift up Your Hearts
6:4, 9 — We Know That Christ Is Raised
6:5-11 — Christ Is Alive!
8:14-17 — In Christ There Is No East or West
8:15-16 — At the Name of Jesus
8:15-16 — Our Father by Whose Name
8:18-39 — There's A Wideness in God's Mercy [also 11:33-35]
10:15 — How Shall They Hear the Word of God
14:17 — The Kingdom of God from I Corinthians
1:15-20 — We Know That Christ Is Raised
1:18 — Sing, My Tongue, the Song of Triumph
1:18 — Lift High the Cross
3:11 — Christ Is Made the Sure Foundation
3:11 — O Christ, the Great Foundation
3:13-15 — Come, Ye Thankful People, Come
5:18-20 — God Is Working His Purpose Out
9:1-18 — Forth in the Peace of Christ
10:16-17 — Gift of Finest Wheat
10:17 — Lord Christ, the Father's Mighty Son
11:23-26 — God with Hidden Majesty
11:23-26 — I Come with Joy to Meet My Lord
11:23-29 — Draw Us in the Spirit's Tether
12:4-11 — Come, Holy Ghost
12:4-11 — Veni Creator Spiritus
12:27-31 — God Is Here! As We His People
13 — Not for Tongues of Heaven's Angels
13:2-8 — Ubi caritas
13:12 — Love Divine, All Loves Excelling
15:14-19 — This Joyful Eastertide
15:20 — Sing with All the Saints in Glory
15:20-28 — Come, Ye Thankful People, Come
15:25 — Christ Is the World's Light
15:51-54 — Alleluia! the Strife Is O'er
15:55 — Christ the Lord Is Risen Today

from II Corinthians
3:18 — Love Divine, All Loves Excelling [also 5:17]
4 — Thy Strong Word Didst Cleave the Darkness
4:5 — God Is Here! As We His People
5:17 — O Christ, the Great Foundation
6:2 — O Sun of Justice
9:10-14 — Come, Ye Thankful People, Come
9:10-14 — Now Join We to Praise the Creator
13:11 — The God of Abraham Praise
13:13 — May the Grace of Christ Our Savior from Galatians
2:19 — Alleluia, Alleluia, Give Thanks
2:20 — I Heard the Voice of Jesus Say
3:28 — In Christ There Is No East or West
4:4 — Hark! the Herald Angels Sing
5:22 — For the Fruits of This Creation
5:22 — When God the Spirit Came
6:14 — When I Survey the Wondrous Cross

from Ephesians
1:9-11 — God Is Working His Purpose Out
1:18-19 — The Church of Christ in Every Age
1:9-23 — Holy God, We Praise Thy Name
2:11-18 — Christ Is the World's Light
2:19-23 — O Christ, the Great Foundation [also 4:5-7; 5:25-27]
2:20-22 — Christ Is Made the Sure Foundation
3:5 — Awake, O Sleeper, Rise from Death [also 5:14]
3:15 — Our Father by Whose Name
4:1-6 — In Christ There Is No East or West
4:8 — The God of Abraham Praise
5:8-10 — I Want to Walk As A Child of the Light
5:14 — Wake, O Wake and Sleep No Longer
5:27 — Love Divine, All Loves Excelling
6:9 — For the Fruits of This Creation
6:10-12 — Christ's Church Shall Glory in His Power

from Philippians
2:1-18 — Lord of All Nations, Grant Me Grace
2:8 — Hark! the Herald Angels Sing
2:9-10 — All Hail the Power of Jesus' Name
2:9-10 — The God of Abraham Praise
2:10-11 — Creator of the Stars of Night
2:10-11 — Look, O Look, the Sight Is Glorious
2:10-12 — At the Name of Jesus
3:7-11 — When I Survey the Wondrous Cross
4:4-5 — Rejoice the Lord Is King from Colossians
1:16 — Ye Watchers and Ye Holy Ones
1:18 — Christ the Lord Is Risen Today
3:11 — In Christ There Is No East or West
3:12-21 — Our Father by Whose Name
3:13-14 — Forgive Our Sins
3:16 — Come, Rejoice before Your Maker
3:16 — When in Our Music God Is Glorified

from I Timothy
1:5 — O for a Heart to [Praise] My God
1:17 — Immortal, Invisible, God Only Wise [also 6:15-16]
6:12 — Faith of Our Fathers

from II Timothy
2:12 — The Head That Once Was Crowned with Thorns
2:19 — How Firm a Foundation
2:22 — O for a Heart to [Praise] My God
4:3-7 — Faith of Our Fathers from Philemon
1:20 — O for a Heart to [Praise] My God


makes me think ... how SWELL it would be, since Hymns Are Not Going Anywhere, if someone with Penkala's skill and sensibilities were commissioned by the USCCB to provide a really good scriptural index of hymn texts.
The ones in GIA's seem pretty feeble to me, (though I can't actually give you examples of the reason for my disappointment just now; and one for the Episcopal 1940 would be a treasure; and cyberhymnal just isn't very complete, I think because most hymn texts have only a single scripture allusion listed?)

Anyway, a really great one would be... great. (the poverty of my vocabulary is astounding een to me....)
Sort of apropos of this, I'm trying to make my own psalm index for where, (between the 3 year lectionary cycle, 1 year most everything else cycle, the multitudinous possibilities for EVERYTHING between Gradual, Simplex, English spoken antiphons, etc., etc., etc.,) various hymns, anthems and psalm setting in our choir's rep might be a better liturgical fit that, oh, say... the official diocesan anniversary ditty, Sing a New Church Into Being.

And while, instead of pipe dreams, I'm smoking crack and having pipe fantasies and hallucinations, how about if the USCCB commissioned the New Ephrem to either research and choose/assign, or WRITE suitable hymn texts to correspond to every proper?
Directory? We don' need no stinkin' directory...

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