{"id":5866,"date":"2017-07-28T05:50:49","date_gmt":"2017-07-28T11:50:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.podles.org\/dialogue\/?p=5866"},"modified":"2017-07-28T06:03:45","modified_gmt":"2017-07-28T12:03:45","slug":"mount-calvary-church-music-for-july-30-2017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.podles.org\/dialogue\/mount-calvary-church-music-for-july-30-2017-5866.htm","title":{"rendered":"Mount Calvary Church: Music for July 30, 2017"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

<\/b><\/b>“Again, the kingdom of heaven is like unto a net”<\/em><\/p>\n

Mount Calvary Church<\/span><\/p>\n

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

A Roman Catholic Congregation<\/p>\n

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

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

Rev. Albert Scharbach, Celebrant<\/p>\n

____________________<\/p>\n

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

Sing praise to God, who reigns above<\/em><\/p>\n

Shepherd of souls, refresh and bless<\/em><\/p>\n

Alleluia! sing to Jesus<\/em><\/p>\n

_______________________<\/p>\n

Sing praise to God, who reigns above<\/em><\/strong> is a translation by Frances Elizabeth Cox (1812\u20141897) of Sei Lob und Ehr\u2019 dem h\u00f6chsten Gut<\/em> by Johann Jacob Sch\u00fctz (1640-1690). He became a Pietist, and the hymn has the warm, affectionate tone of German Pietism.\u00a0 The line \u201ccasts each false idol from its throne\u201d recalls the first hymn\u2019s prayer for \u201ca heart\u201d that is \u201cmy dear Redeemer\u2019s throne.\u201d The tune, Mit Freuden zart, is beloved of the American Moravians. The tune name itself \u2013 \u201cwith tender joy\u201d \u2013 expresses something of the character of the life and music of the Moravians.<\/p>\n

1 Sing praise to God who reigns above,
\nThe God of all creation,
\nThe God of power, the God of love,
\nThe God of our salvation;
\nWith healing balm my soul He fills,
\nAnd every faithless murmur stills:
\nTo God all praise and glory!<\/p>\n

2 What God\u2019s almighty power hath made
\nHis gracious mercy keepeth;
\nBy morning glow or evening shade
\nHis watchful eye ne\u2019er sleepeth:
\nWithin the kingdom of His might
\nLo, all is just, and all is right:
\nTo God all praise and glory!<\/p>\n

3 The angel host, O King of kings,
\nThy praise forever telling,
\nIn earth and sky all living things
\nBeneath Thy shadow dwelling,
\nAdore the wisdom that could span,
\nAnd power which formed creation\u2019s plan;
\nTo God all praise and glory!<\/p>\n

4 Thus all my gladsome way along
\nI sing aloud Thy praises,
\nThat men may hear the grateful song
\nMy voice unwearied raises:
\nBe joyful in the Lord, my heart:
\nBoth soul and body bear your part:
\nTo God all praise and glory!
\n5 O ye who name Christ\u2019s holy name,<\/p>\n

Give God all praise and glory:<\/p>\n

Give God all praise and glory:<\/p>\n

All ye who own His power, proclaim<\/p>\n

Aloud the wondrous story!<\/p>\n

Cast each false idol from its throne,<\/p>\n

The Lord is God, and He alone:<\/p>\n

To God all praise\u00a0and glory!<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Here it is sung by First Presbyterian in Houston<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\"Frances<\/a><\/p>\n

\u201cFrances Elizabeth Cox, daughter of Mr. George V. Cox, born at Oxford, is well known as a successful translator of hymns from the German. Her translations were published as Sacred Hymns from the German, London, Pickering. The 1st edition, pub. 1841, contained 49 translations printed with the original text, together with biographical notes on the German authors. In the 2nd edition, 1864, Hymns from the German, London, Rivingtons, the translations were increased to 56, those of 1841 being revised, and with additional notes. The 56 translations were composed of 27 from the 1st ed. (22 being omitted) and 29 which were new. The best known of her translations are \u201cJesus lives! no longer [thy terrors] now\u201d ; and \u201dWho are these like stars appearing ?\u201d A few other translations and original hymns have been contributed by Miss Cox to the magazines; but they have not been gathered together into a volume.\u201d (Hymnary)<\/p>\n

\u201cJohann Jacob Sch\u00fctz was born Sept. 7, 1640, at Frankfurt am Main. After studying at T\u00fcbingen (where he became a licentiate in civil and canon law), he began to practice as an advocate in Frankfurt, and in later years with the title of Rath. He seems to have been a man of considerable legal learning as well as of deep piety. He was an intimate friend of P. J. Spener; and it was, in great measure, at his suggestion, that Spener began his famous Collegia Pietatis. After Spener left Frankfurt, in 1686, Sch\u00fctz came under the influence of J. W. Petersen; and carrying out Petersen\u2019s principles to their logical conclusion, he became a Separatist, and ceased to attend the Lutheran services or to communicate. He died at Frankfurt, May 22, 1690 (Koch, iv. 220; Bl\u00e4tter fur Hymnologie, Feb. 1883).\u201d (Hymnary)<\/p>\n

The tune MIT FREUDEN ZART has some similarities to the French chanson \u201cUne pastourelle gentille\u201d (published by Pierre Attaingnant in 1529) and to GENEVAN 138. The tune was published in the Bohemian Brethren hymnal Kirchenges\u00e4nge (1566) with Vetter\u2019s text \u201cMit Freuden zart su dieser Fahrt.\u201d<\/p>\n

Here<\/a>\u00a0is the choir at St. David\u2019s Cathedral singing the hymn.<\/p>\n

_______________________<\/p>\n

Shepherd of souls, refresh and bless <\/em><\/strong>was written by the Moravian James Montgomery (1771\u20141854). As at the supper at Emmaus, Jesus feeds us. As the Good Shepherd, He lays down his life for His sheep, giving them His body and blood as their sustenance so that they may live forever. We know Jesus especially in the breaking of the bread, the action that symbolizes His death by which He sacrifices Himself for us and gives Himself to us.<\/p>\n

The hymn is a tissue of Biblical references: we are God\u2019s \u201dchosen,\u201d\u00a0 the elect, his flock. The Eucharist is \u201cmanna in the wilderness\u201d and \u201cwater from the rock,\u201d the one that Moses struck and was a type of Christ (I Cor 10:4). The second stanza continues he metaphor of pilgrimage; on earth we are but strangers and travelers (Heb 11:13); the Eucharistic body of the Lord, like the manna in the desert, gives us strength to reach our true home, the Promised Land, where we will abide forever. Like the disciples at Emmaus, we recognize the Lord in the \u201cbreaking bread,\u201d (Lk 24:35); we pray that he will not vanish, but spread his table in our hearts and sup with us (Rev 3:20).<\/p>\n

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Shepherd of souls, refresh and bless
\nThy chosen pilgrim flock,
\nWith manna in the wilderness,
\nWith water from the rock.<\/p>\n

We would not live by bread alone,
\nBut by that word of grace,
\nIn strength of which we travel on
\nTo our abiding-place.<\/p>\n

Be known to us in breaking bread,
\nBut do not then depart,
\nSaviour, abide with us, and spread
\nThy table in our heart.<\/p>\n

There sup with us in love divine;
\nThy body and Thy blood,
\nThat living bread, that heavenly wine,
\nBe our immortal food.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Here is Trinity Church singing<\/a> it.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

James Montgomery<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

James Montgomery<\/strong>\u00a0(1771-1854) was born at Irvine in Ayrshire, on the western coast of Scotland. He was the son of John Montgomery, the only Moravian pastor in Scotland. The British Moravian church traces its roots back to the Moravian Missionary center in Hernnhut, Germany (Moravians were also known as Hernnhuters or the Bohemian Brethren).<\/p>\n

John and his wife felt God\u2019s call to be missionaries to the island of Barbados, in the West Indies. Tearfully, they placed six-year old James in a Moravian settlement at Gracehill in Central Ireland. That was to be the last time James would see them. They died within a year of each other after reaching Barbados.<\/p>\n

Left with nothing, James was sent to be trained for the ministry at the Moravian School at Fulneck, near Leeds, England. It was here that he first started writing verse, at the age of 10. At Fulneck, secular studies were banned, but James nevertheless found means of borrowing and reading a good deal of poetry, including Burns\u2019 \u201cLines To A Mountain Daisy.\u201d He made ambitious plans to write epics of his own.<\/p>\n

He suffered periods of deep depression as a result of losing his parents at such an early age. The Moravians who were trying to care for the orphan found him to be a dreamer, who \u201cnever had a sense of the hour.\u201d Failing school at the age of 14, they \u201cput him out to business\u201d to a baker in Mirfield, just seven miles to the south. James left on his own and hired himself out to a storekeeper at Wath-upon-Dearne, another thirty miles to the south. Not finding much to his liking, James ran away again, wondering from place to place, trying to sell his freshly written verses. After further adventures, including an unsuccessful attempt to launch himself into a literary career in London, he moved to Sheffield in 1792 to become assistant to Joseph Gales, auctioneer, bookseller and printer of the Sheffield Register. In 1794, Gales left England to avoid political prosecution and Montgomery took the paper in hand, changing its name to the Sheffield Iris. Now owning the paper, he was able to publish his writings as he pleased.<\/p>\n

These were times of political repression and he was twice imprisoned on charges of sedition. The first time was in 1795 for printing a poem celebrating the fall of the Bastille; the second in 1796 was for criticizing a magistrate for forcibly dispersing a political protest in Sheffield. His later account of this episode was published in 1840.\u00a0Turning the experience to some profit, in 1797 he published a pamphlet of poems written during his captivity, as\u00a0Prison Amusements<\/em>. For some time, the\u00a0Iris<\/em>\u00a0was the only newspaper in Sheffield; but beyond the ability to produce fairly creditable articles from week to week, Montgomery was devoid of the journalistic faculties which would have enabled him to take advantage of his position.\u00a0Other newspapers arose to fill the place which his might have occupied and in 1825 he sold it on to a local bookseller, John Blackwell.<\/p>\n

In his youth, he had strayed from the church, but at his own request he was readmitted into the Moravian congregation at Fulneck when forty-three years of age. He expressed his feelings at the time in the following lines<\/p>\n

People of the living God,
\nI have sought the world around,
\nPaths of sin and sorrow trod,
\nPeace and comfort nowhere found.
\nNow to you my spirit turns\u2013
\nTurns a fugitive unblest;
\nBrethren, where your altar burns,
\nO receive me into rest.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Thereafter he became an avid worker for missions and an active member of the Bible Society. He was interested in social issues and the missions. He attacked attacking the lottery (then, as now, a way of extracting money from the desperate poor) in\u00a0Thoughts on Wheels<\/em>\u00a0(1817) and taking up the cause of the chimney sweeps\u2019 apprentices in\u00a0The Climbing Boys\u2019 Soliloquies<\/em>. His next major poem was\u00a0Greenland<\/em>\u00a0(1819), a poem in five cantos of heroic couplets. This was prefaced by a description of the ancient Moravian church, its eighteenth-century revival and mission to Greenland in 1733.<\/p>\n

In addition to\u00a0Shepherd of souls<\/em>\u00a0(1940 Hymnal<\/em>, #213), his hymns\u00a0Angels from the realms of glory<\/em>\u00a0(1940 Hymnal<\/em>, #28) and\u00a0Hail to the Lord\u2019s Anointed<\/em>\u00a0(1940\u00a0<\/em>Hymnal, #545) are still sung.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

In 1861, a monument designed by John Bell (1811\u20131895) was erected over his grave in the Sheffield cemetery at a cost of \u00a31000, raised by public subscription on the initiative of the Sheffield Sunday School Union, of which he was among the founding members. On its granite pedestal is inscribed: \u201cHere lies interred, beloved by all who knew him, the Christian poet, patriot, and philanthropist. Wherever poetry is read, or Christian hymns sung, in the English language, \u2018he being dead, yet speaketh\u2019 by the genius, piety and taste embodied in his writings.\u201d There are also extracts from his poems \u201cPrayer\u201d and \u201cThe Grave\u201d. After it fell into disrepair the statue was moved to the precinct of Sheffield Cathedral in 1971, where there is also a memorial window.<\/p>\n

Elsewhere in Sheffield there are various streets named after Montgomery and a Grade II-listed drinking fountain on Broad Lane. The meeting hall of the Sunday Schools Union (now known as The Montgomery), in Surrey Street, was named in his honour in 1886; it houses a 420-seat theater which also bears his name. Elsewhere, Wath-upon-Dearne, flattered by being called \u201cthe queen of villages\u201d in his work, has repaid the compliment by naming after him a community hall, a street and a square. His birthplace in Irvine was renamed \u2018Montgomery House\u2019 after he paid the town a return visit in 1841 but has since been demolished. Sic transit.<\/p>\n

_____________________<\/p>\n

Alleluia! sing to Jesus was<\/em><\/strong> written by William Chatterton Dix (1837\u20141898). Revelation 5:9 describes this eschatological scene of joy and glory: \u201cAnd they sang a new song, saying: \u2018You are worthy to take the scroll and to open its seals, because You were slain, and with Your blood You purchased for God members of every tribe and language and nation.\u2019\u201d\u00a0 Dix invites us to sing that new song of praise to our ascended Savior. This hymn is a declaration of Jesus\u2019 victory over death and His continued presence among His people. By complex and interlocking allusions to Scripture, it presents a very high view of the Eucharist presence: Jesus is both \u201cPriest and Victim\u201d in this feast. Jesus, having triumphed over sin and death, \u201crobed in flesh\u201d has ascended above all the heavens, entering \u201cwithin the veil\u201d to the very throne of God. Dix sees in the Eucharist the fulfillment of Jesus\u2019 promise to be with us evermore.<\/p>\n

We sometimes forget that Jesus ever intercedes for us. The Mount Calvary Magazine<\/em> in 1910 reminded us:<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Incarnation is a permanent thing, it still exists. Our Lord still has His work to do in His glorified humanity; and that work is the perpetual intercession which He ever liveth to make for us. In order that he might carry on that work, it was necessary that His humanity should ascend into Heaven; and the way in which he now carries it on, is the unceasing presentation of His living and glorified humanity to the Father.\u201d<\/p>\n

As we walk down the aisle to approach the Eucharist, Jesus, who has been lifted up on the Cross and to Heaven, is drawing us to Himself, fulfilling His promise in the verse painted on the sanctuary arch.<\/p>\n

1 Alleluia! sing to Jesus!
\nHis the sceptre, His the throne;
\nAlleluia! His the triumph,
\nHis the victory alone:
\nHark! the songs of peaceful Sion
\nThunder like a mighty flood;
\nJesus, out of every nation
\nHath redeemed us by His blood.<\/p>\n

2 Alleluia! not as orphans
\nAre we left in sorrow now;
\nAlleluia! He is near us,
\nFaith believes, nor questions how:
\nThough the cloud from sight received Him,
\nWhen the forty days were o’er:
\nShall our hearts forget His promise,
\n“I am with you evermore”?<\/p>\n

3 Alleluia! Bread of Heaven,
\nThou on earth our Food, our Stay!
\nAlleluia! here the sinful
\nFlee to thee from day to day:
\nIntercessor, Friend of sinners,
\nEarth’s Redeemer, plead for me,
\nWhere the songs of all the sinless
\nSweep across the crystal sea.<\/p>\n

4 Alleluia! King eternal,
\nThee the Lord of lords we own;
\nAlleluia! born or Mary,
\nEarth Thy footstool, heaven Thy throne:
\nThou within the veil hast entered,
\nRobed in flesh, our great High-Priest;
\nThou on earth both Priest and Victim
\nIn the Eucharistic feast.<\/p>\n

5 Alleluia! sing to Jesus!
\nHis the sceptre, His the throne;
\nAlleluia! His the triumph,
\nHis the victory alone;
\nHark! the songs of holy Sion
\nThunder like a mighty flood;
\nJesus, out of every nation
\nHath redeemed us by His blood.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Here is the hymn at St. Bartholomew’s<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\"william-chatterton-dix\"<\/a><\/p>\n

W<\/strong>illiam Chatterton Dix<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

William Chatterton Dix (14 June 1837 \u2013 9 September 1898) was an English writer of hymns and carols. He was born in Bristol, the son of John Dix, a local surgeon, who wrote The Life of Chatterton the poet, a book of Pen Pictures of Popular English Preachers and other works. His father gave him his middle name in honour of Thomas Chatterton, a poet about whom he had written a biography. He was educated at the Grammar School, Bristol, for a mercantile career, and became manager of a maritime insurance company in Glasgow where he spent most of his life.<\/p>\n

At the age of 29 he was struck with a near fatal illness and consequently suffered months confined to his bed. During this time he became severely depressed. Yet it is from this period that many of his hymns date.[4][5] He died at Cheddar, Somerset, England, and was buried at his parish church. (Wikipedia)<\/p>\n

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