setting,
Don Hustad
GATHERING
HYMN O Day of Rest and Gladness (Haf trones lämpa fardig)
This hymn appears in ELW with the tune Ellacombe,
but we will sing it with a Swedish folk tune usually associated with Advent and
the text Rejoice, Rejoice, Believers.
The Episcopalians sing it with a different
tune – a tune we’ll hear at the postlude.
PSALM Psalm 51:1-12, 18-19 (Gethsemane)
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| The Prophet Nathan Rebukes King David Eugene Siberdt, 1866-1931 |
The Psalter 1912 was used by Presbyterian churches in the U.S. and Canada who desired metrical settings of the psalms for pairing with hymntunes. Good poetry and versification were to be the hallmarks of this collection.
With the Revised Common Lectionary, the
Psalm for the day is chosen to complement the first reading.
In today’s reading from the Hebrew scriptures, we learn of Nathan’s rebuke to
King David after David takes Bathsheba and has her husband murdered. Tradition
says that King David composed Psalm 51 after these events.
This week we pair it with one of the most recognizable American hymntunes, a tune attributed to William Moore who published it in Columbian Harmony (Cincinatti) in 1825.
COMMUNION HYMN Where Charity and
Love Are Shown (ACS 931)
Joaquín Madurga, the composer of
this song, was a Spanish priest and a prolific poet-musician. In “Where charity
and love are shown,” he creates a Maundy Thursday processional with all the
dignified pomp of a Holy Thursday procession in the streets of Spain. The
rising phrases and the doleful nature of the melody cry out like a “Kyrie
eleison.” The English translation is by Martin Seltz, who skillfully captured
the tone of the original Spanish.
(From Sundays and Seasons)
SENding Hymn The Church's One Foundation (Aurelia)
ELW 654
CLOSING VOLUNTARY Partita on O
Day of Rest and Gladness (Es flog ein kleins Waldvögelein)
setting, David Sims
hymn setting, George Ratcliffe
Woodward
David Sims has written an introduction and alternate accompaniment for this hymn. Between the two, we’ll hear the arrangement from the Hymnal 1982 of the Episcopal Church.
Hymnal Companion to Evangelical Lutheran Worship
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