OPENING
VOLUNTARY Morning Has Broken (Bunessan)
setting,
Franklin D. Ashdown
There is a morning from my childhood on a farm in Wisconsin that I will always remember. I had gotten up early on a late spring morning and walked out behind our barn. I walked through the tall, wet grass and sat on the branch of a tree that had fallen many years before.
I listened to the birds and their cacophony of competing songs. I watched them
fly back and forth across the meadow and into the forest. I listened more carefully
and realized that I could hear even more birds, softer songs hidden under the
louder ones.
A morning in Wisconsin, not far from the field I sat in.
Eleanor
Farjeon (1881-1965), a London writer, wrote this hymn for a morning just like the
one I’ve described – and for every other morning, for this was a commissioned
text “. . . on the theme of Thanksgiving for each day as it comes. . .”
GATHERING HYMN All Hail the Power
of Jesus’ Name (Coronation) ELW 634
One of the interesting things about this hymn
is that it has two authors: Edward Perronet (1729-1792) and John Rippon
(1751-1836).
Perronet was a French Huguenot who escaped France
and settled in England where he eventually became a Methodist minister. After a
falling out with the famous Wesleys, he became the Pastor of a Congregational
Church near Canterbury.
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| For Caroline, near Jacksonville, was settled by French Huguenots in 1564. The settlement was destroyed by the Spanish army from St. Augustine. Most of the Huguenots died here or at the famous massacre at Matanzas Bay near St. Augustine. Fort Caroline's exact location is not known. |
Rippon was one of the most influential
Baptist preachers of his generation and was the Pastor of Carter Lane Baptist
Church (London) for 63 years.
PSALM 20
Not only is there an appointed psalm for each
Sunday, but there is also a suggested refrain, in this case The Lord gives
victory to the anointed one.
We could have sung a published refrain, but I decided to have a little fun. Focusing
on the word victory, I decided to fashion a refrain out of the Easter
hymntune Victory to which we normally sing The Strife is O’er, the
Battle Done.
The
refrain is built on the tail end of the hymn tune with the traditional Easter
antiphon added on the last time.
HYMN
OF THE DAY For the Fruit of All Creation (Ar hyd y nos)
ELW 679
MUSCIAL
OFFERING Seed That in Earth Is Dying
setting,
Bradley Ellingboe
See
the text at ELW 330
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| fruit from my own garden |
Norway’s leading hymnwriter. He wrote many of his hymns, in part, due to his government-sponsored position as a statstipendiat. (The Church of Norway is Lutheran and has been the state church since about 1020.)
Harald Herresthal (b. 1944) wrote the tune. Herresthal was born in Germany but grew up in Norway. He is Professor of Church Music at the Norwegian State Music Academy and is an organist, composer, and author.
COMMUNION
HYMN God Created Heaven and Earth ELW 738
The
creation theme, pulled from the second reading and the gospel reading,
continues with this Taiwanese hymn. Some of our singers and ringers recently presented
this hymn as part of a worship service for Lutherans Restoring Creation.
SENDING
HYMN Oh, That I Had a Thousand Voices (O dass ich tausend Zungen hätte)
ELW 833
CLOSING
VOLUNTARY Now Thank We All Our God (Nun danket alle Gott)
setting,
Robert A. Hobby
Sources: Hymnal Companion: Evangelical Lutheran Worship
Wikipedia
