{"id":6280,"date":"2017-11-13T11:02:22","date_gmt":"2017-11-13T17:02:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.podles.org\/dialogue\/?p=6280"},"modified":"2017-11-13T12:45:15","modified_gmt":"2017-11-13T18:45:15","slug":"mount-calvary-music-november-19-2017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.podles.org\/dialogue\/mount-calvary-music-november-19-2017-6280.htm","title":{"rendered":"Mount Calvary Music November 19 2017"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Parable of the Talents<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

Mount Calvary\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Baltimore, Maryland<\/span><\/p>\n

A Roman Catholic Parish of<\/span><\/p>\n

The Personal Ordinariate\u00a0of the Chair of St. Peter<\/span><\/p>\n

Anglican Use<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

Trinity XXIII<\/span><\/p>\n

Prelude<\/strong><\/p>\n

Hymns<\/strong><\/p>\n

Awake, my soul, and with the sun<\/i><\/p>\n

Father, we thank Thee who hast\u00a0planted<\/em><\/p>\n

God, my King, Thy might confessing<\/em><\/p>\n

Anthems<\/strong><\/p>\n

Serve bone et fidelis<\/em>, Tommaso Bai<\/p>\n

Almighty and everlasting God<\/em>, Orlando Gibbons<\/p>\n

Common<\/strong><\/p>\n

Missa de S. Maria Magdalena<\/em>, Healey Willan<\/p>\n

Postlude<\/strong><\/p>\n

Toccata-Sortie<\/em>, Auguste Larriu (1840 – 1925)<\/p>\n

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Prelude<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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Hymns<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

#151 Awake my soul and with the sun<\/em><\/strong>. Thomas Ken wrote this hymn specifically as a morning prayer, as well as another for an evening prayer, and one more for a midnight prayer, which was used only during special occasions. Written sometime prior to 1674, Ken gave this text to his students at Winchester College, which is one of the oldest public preparatory schools in England. The language is simple and precise, and the opening images of light and rising up, appropriate to morning, pervade the hymn and convey a powerful sense of renewal and aspiration.<\/p>\n

1 Awake, my soul, and with the sun
\nThy daily stage of duty run;
\nShake off dull sloth, and joyful rise
\nTo pay thy morning sacrifice.<\/p>\n

2 Redeem thy misspent moments past;
\nAnd live this day as if thy last:
\nImprove thy talent with due care;
\nFor the great Day thyself prepare.<\/p>\n

3 Let all thy converse be sincere,
\nThy conscience as the noonday clear;
\nThink how all-seeing God thy ways
\nAnd all thy secret thoughts surveys.<\/p>\n

4 Wake, and lift up thyself, my heart,
\nAnd with the angels bear thy part,
\nWho all night long unwearied sing
\nHigh praise to the eternal King.<\/p>\n

5 All praise to Thee, Who safe hast kept
\nAnd hast refreshed me while I slept;
\nGrant, Lord, when I from death shall wake,
\nI may of endless light partake.<\/p>\n

6 Lord, I my vows to Thee renew;
\nScatter my sins as morning dew;
\nGuard my first springs of thought and will,
\nAnd with Thyself my spirit fill.<\/p>\n

7 Direct, control, suggest, this day,
\nAll I design, or do, or say;
\nThat all my powers, with all their might,
\nIn Thy sole glory may unite.<\/p>\n

8 Praise God, from Whom all blessings flow;
\nPraise Him, all creatures here below;
\nPraise Him above, angelic host;
\nPraise Father, Son, and Holy Ghost.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Here is the Norwich Cathedral Choir<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Bishop Thomas Ken<\/em><\/p>\n

Thomas Ken (1637\u20141711) was a very successful man, having been schooled well, and having faced death at such a young age. Born in Berkhampstead, England, Ken lost both his mother and father at the age of nine. After the death of his parents, he was forced to move in and be raised by his older sister, Ann, and by Ann’s husband, Izaak Walton. Ken was educated at Winchester College, Hart Hall, and New College, Oxford, but throughout the heavy Presbyterian presence throughout Oxford, Ken maintained his strong connections to the Church of England. Ken was ordained in 1662, and quickly became a parish priest and chaplain. In 1669, Ken became the prebendary of Winchester Cathedral and College chaplain to the bishop, a position he would hold for ten years. It was during this ten year stay at Winchester that Ken wrote this morning hymn. Finally, Ken left Winchester so that he may serve as a chaplain to Princess Mary at The Hague in 1679, and in 1685, he was named bishop of Bath and Wells. Ken spent only a short time away from Winchester. He returned from his work with Princess Mary at The Hague after Ken’s remonstrance against a case of immorality in the church.<\/p>\n

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Thomas Ken window in Wells Cathedral<\/em><\/p>\n

Ken was a well-respected man of integrity who was known for his strong stances, but was also known for his \u201cconciliatory spirit….gentleness, modesty, and love.\u201d.He was also known as one of the first Anglican writers of hymns as opposed to metrical psalms, though he is only known best for these three hymns. Ken is known for having been made Bishop of Bath and Wells by King Charles II. King Charles still favored Ken, even though Ken had refused the kings mistress, Nell Gwynne, the use of his house while she was visiting. King James II called Ken the most eloquent protestant preacher of his time, and Charles was noted of saying \u201cI must go and hear Ken tell me my faults.\u201d<\/p>\n

In 1688, when James reissued his Declaration of Indulgence, which tolerated non-Anglicans, Ken was one of the Seven Bishops who refused to publish it. He was probably influenced by two considerations: first, by his profound aversion to Roman Catholicism, to which he felt he would be giving some episcopal recognition by compliance; but, second and more especially, by the feeling that James was compromising the spiritual freedom of the church. Along with his six brethren, Ken was committed to the Tower on 8 June 1688, on a charge of high misdemeanour. Ken was put on trial with the others on 29 and 30 June, which resulted in a verdict of acquittal.<\/p>\n

With the Glorious Revolution which speedily followed this impolitic trial, new troubles encountered Ken; for, having sworn allegiance to James, he thought himself thereby precluded from taking the oath to William of Orange. Accordingly, he took his place among the non-jurors, and, as he stood firm to his refusal, he was, in August 1691, superseded in his bishopric by Dr Richard Kidder, dean of Peterborough.<\/p>\n

From this time he lived mostly in retirement, finding a congenial home with Lord Weymouth, his friend from college days, at Longleat in Wiltshire; and though pressed by Queen Anne to resume his diocese in 1703, upon the death of Bishop Kidder, he declined, partly on the ground of growing weakness, but partly no doubt from his love for the quiet life of devotion which he was able to lead at Longleat. He did however persuade George Hooper to accept and made a cession to him. At Hooper’s instigation, Queen Anne granted Ken a pension of \u00a3200. His death took place there on 19 March 1711. and at dawn the following day, whilst his faithful friends sang “Awake, my soul, and with the sun” Bishop Ken’s remains were laid to rest beneath the East Window of the Church of St. John in Frome \u2013 the nearest parish in his old Diocese of Bath and Wells. “I am dying,” Ken had written, “In the Holy, Catholic and Apostolic Faith professed by the whole Church before the disunion of East and West; and, more particularly, in the Communion of the Church of England, as it stands distinguished from both Papal and Protestant innovation, and adheres to the Doctrine of the Cross.”<\/p>\n

Although Ken wrote much poetry, besides his hymns, he cannot be called a great poet; but he had that fine combination of spiritual insight and feeling with poetic taste which marks all great hymnwriters. As a hymnwriter he has had few equals in England; he wrote Praise God from whom all blessings flow<\/em>.<\/strong> It can scarcely be said that even John Keble, though possessed of much rarer poetic gifts, surpassed him in his own sphere. In his own day he took high rank as a pulpit orator, and even royalty had to beg for a seat amongst his audiences; but his sermons are now forgotten. He lives in history, apart from his three hymns, mainly as a man of unstained purity and invincible fidelity to conscience, weak only in a certain narrowness of view. As an ecclesiastic he was a High Churchman of the old school.<\/p>\n

The tune MORNING HYMN was commissioned by a Swedenborgian from Philadelphia by the name of Jacob Duche (1737\u20141798). Duche was the chaplain of the Female Orphan Asylum in London, a place where a young woman by the name of Mary Young Barth\u00e9lemon had close associations with. While Duche was putting together a collection of hymns and psalms to be used at the asylum, he requested a hymn tune from her husband, Fran\u00e7ois Hippolyte Barth\u00e9lemon \u00a0(1741\u20141808), to accompany the text to Ken’s text. The tune first appeared in a supplement to William Gawler’s Hymns and Psalms Used at the Asylum for Female Orphans<\/em>, which was published in London around 1785.<\/p>\n

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Fran\u00e7ois-Hippolyte Barth\u00e9lemon<\/strong> was born at Bordeaux, France, as the oldest child of sixteen. His father was a French army officer; his mother a well-to-do Irish woman. Barth\u00e9lemon was a well-educated man, having a knowledge of several modern languages. He studied music, fencing and Hebrew, and gave up his career as an Irish Regiment officer to become a violinist and conductor. He played in the orchestra of the Paris\u00a0<\/strong>Com\u00e9die-Italienne, as well as served as the director of the Opera Orchestra in London. Barth\u00e9lemon ‘s wife, Mary Young, was a vocalist who was related to the composer Thomas Arne, and the bassoonist, Johann Lampe, who is known to have composed music for several of Charles Wesley’s hymns. Barth\u00e9lemon and his wife became members of the Swedenborg Church, possibly under the influences of Jacob Duche, who became a close friend of the two. Mary Young and Francois H. Barth\u00e9lemon gave many concerts across Europe, including several at Versailles for Marie Antoinette, and Franz Joseph Haydn was also one of his close friends.<\/p>\n

Thomas Hardy write this tribute:<\/p>\n

He said: “Awake my soul, and with the sun,” . . .
\nAnd paused upon the bridge, his eyes due east,
\nWhere was emerging like a full-robed priest
\nThe irradiate globe that vouched the dark as done.<\/p>\n

It lit his face the weary face of one
\nWho in the adjacent gardens charged his string,
\nNightly, with many a tuneful tender thing,
\nTill stars were weak, and dancing hours outrun.<\/p>\n

And then were threads of matin music spun
\nIn trial tones as he pursued his way:
\n“This is a morn,” he murmured, “well begun:
\nThis strain to Ken will count when I am clay!”<\/p>\n

And count it did; till, caught by echoing lyres,
\nIt spread to galleried naves and mighty quires.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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#195 Father, we thank Thee who hast planted <\/em><\/strong>\u00a0is\u00a0<\/em><\/strong>a paraphrase by the Episcopal clergyman Francis Bland Tucker (1895\u20141984) of the Didache<\/em>, The Teaching of the Twelve Apostles<\/em>, one of the earliest documents of the church.<\/p>\n

Stanza 1 corresponds to 10: 2 of the Didache, a post-communion prayer: \u2018We give Thee thanks, Holy Father, for Thy holy name, which Thou hast made to tabernacle in our hearts, and for the knowledge and faith and immortality, which Thou hast made known unto us through Thy Son Jesus\u2019 (translation by Joseph Barber Lightfoot, The Apostolic Fathers, 1891). Stanza 2 is from 10: 3: \u2018Thou, Almighty Master, didst create all things for Thy name\u2019s sake, and didst give food and drink unto men for enjoyment, that they might render thanks to Thee; but didst bestow upon us spiritual food and drink and eternal life through Thy Son.\u2019 Stanza 3 is from 10: 5: \u2018Remember, Lord, Thy Church to deliver it from all evil and to perfect it in Thy love…\u2019. Stanza 4 is from 9: 4: \u2018As this broken bread was scattered upon the mountains and being gathered together became one, so may Thy Church be gathered together from the ends of the earth into Thy kingdom.\u2019<\/p>\n

Here\u00a0at\u00a0St. John\u2019s, Detroit<\/a>, before a Tigers game.<\/p>\n

Father, we thank Thee who hast planted
\nThy holy name within our hearts.
\nKnowledge and faith and life immortal
\nJesus, Thy Son, to us imparts.
\nThou, Lord, didst make all for Thy pleasure,
\nDidst give us food for all our days,
\nGiving in Christ the Bread eternal;
\nThine is the pow\u2019r, be Thine the praise.<\/p>\n

Watch o\u2019er Thy Church, O Lord, in mercy,
\nSave it from evil, guard it still,
\nPerfect it in Thy love, unite it,
\nCleansed and conformed unto Thy will.
\nAs grain, once scattered on the hillsides,
\nWas in this broken bread made one,
\nSo from all lands Thy Church be gather\u2019d
\nInto Thy kingdom by Thy Son.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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Francis Bland Tucker<\/strong>\u00a0(1885-1984)\u00a0\u00a0was an important figure in hymnody. He was educated at the University of Virginia and the Virginia Theological Seminary. Beginning in 1945, he was Rector of Christ Church in Savannah, Georgia. Tucker served on the two commissions, forty-two years apart, that revised hymnals of the Episcopal Church. He worked on the 1940 Hymnal and the 1982 Hymnal which includes 17 of Tucker\u2019s contributions. Among these are the texts,\u00a0Oh, Gracious Light<\/em>\u00a0(Hymns 25-26),\u00a0Father, We Thank Thee Who Hast Planted<\/em>\u00a0(Hymns 302-303), and his original text,\u00a0Our Father, by Whose Name<\/em>\u00a0(Hymn 587). Only John Mason Neale is credited with more items in the 1982 Hymnal. \u00a0Tucker was also a theological adviser to the commission that produced the 1979 Book of Common Prayer.<\/p>\n

A collateral descendant of George Washington, Tucker\u2019s parents were Beverley Dandridge Tucker, Episcopal Bishop of Southern Virginia, and Anna Maria Washington who was one of the last children to be born at Mount Vernon. Francis Bland is the brother of Henry St. George Tucker (1874\u20131959), 19th Presiding Bishop of the Episcopal Church and descendant of St. George Tucker (1752\u20131827), lawyer, legal scholar, state and federal judge for whom the St. George Tucker House in Colonial Williamsburg is named.<\/p>\n

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#280 God, my King, Thy might confessing<\/em><\/strong> is a metrical version of Psalm 145, \u2018I will extol thee, my God, O king\u2019. It was first published in Richard Mant\u2019s The Book of Psalms, in an English Metrical Version<\/em> (1824). Mant (1776\u20141848), a bishop on the Church of Ireland, was also one of the architects of the revival of Latin hymnody in the Church of England, especially in his Ancient Hymns from the Roman Breviary<\/em> (1837).<\/p>\n

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1 God, my King, Thy might confessing,
\nEver will I bless Thy Name;
\nDay by day Thy throne addressing,
\nStill will I Thy praise proclaim.<\/p>\n

2 Honor great our God befitteth;
\nWho His Majesty can reach?
\nAge to age His works transmitteth,
\nAge to age His power shall teach.<\/p>\n

3 They shall talk of all Thy glory,
\nOn Thy might and greatness dwell,
\nSpeak of Thy dread acts the story,
\nAnd Thy deeds of wonder tell.<\/p>\n

4 Nor shall fail from memory’s treasure,
\nWorks by love and mercy wrought,
\nWorks of love surpassing measure,
\nWorks of mercy passing thought.<\/p>\n

5 Full of kindness and compassion,
\nSlow to anger, vast in love,
\nGod is good to all creation;
\nAll His works His goodness prove.<\/p>\n

6 All Thy works, O Lord, shall bless Thee;
\nThee shall all Thy saints adore;
\nKing supreme shall they confess Thee,
\nAnd proclaim Thy sovereign power.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Here is St. John’s Detroit<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Bishop Richard Mant<\/em><\/p>\n

Richard Mant (1776-1848) was educated at Winchester College and Trinity College, Oxford; he was then a fellow of Oriel. He was ordained in 1802. In 1820 he became Bishop of Killaloe and Kilfenora, in Ireland. In 1823 he was translated to Down and Connor, and from 1842 was the Bishop of Down, Connor and Dromore.<\/p>\n

Dr. Mant owed his rise in the church to his professional authorship of works such as<\/p>\n