25 April 2010
| Entrance | Easter Alleluia (Marty Haugen) |
| Penitential Rite | St Gabriel (mtgf) |
| Gloria | Glory to God (Berthier) |
| Psalm 99 | We are your people (mtgf) |
| Gospel Acclamation | Celtic (O'Carroll/Walker) |
| Preparation of Gifts | Shepherd me, O God (Marty Haugen) |
| Eucharistic Acclamations | Gathering (Paul Inwood) |
| Lamb of God | O Lamb of God (Berthier) |
| Communion | We have been told (David Haas) |
| Final | Hail Redeemer, King Divine |
Marty Haugen's Easter Alleluia, like Bernadette Farrell's Lenten Praise to you, O Christ our Saviour written to be a Gospel Acclamation but actually also works as piece in it's own right. The verses of the Haugen are perhaps a little disjointed but they offer a series of Easter images. I particularly wished to use verse 4 - Call us, Good Shepherd this morning.
Hail Redeemer intrigues me. As the author, Patrick Brennan C.Ss.R, died in 1952, I presume it was written mid 20th century and as he was a Redemptorist, I presume its origins, and popularity, are due to parish missions. I would love to know if these assumptions are correct. Also I cannot think of any other Catholic hymn from this period, say post- Terry and pre-1962, that has continued in ordinary parish repertoire — again suggestions welcome.
Sticking my neck out, I always thought it was written for the laying of the foundation stone of Liverpool Metropolitan Cathedral of Christ the King in 1933.
ReplyDeleteThere is an edition of the hymn printed on card dating to around this time – I've seen them in many a dusty organ loft! (Have emailed One Who Knows for confirmation!)
The hymn is included in the 1964 edition of The Westminster Hymnal, but not with the tune most associated with it today – interesting, given that the composer, Charles Rigby, had died two years earlier.
Rigby's tune is given in The Parish Hymn Book of 1966 but there's also a tune by John Rush called (coincidentally?) Merseyside.
Apparently, it's also in the 1958 edition of WH.
ReplyDeleteYep, I've also heard it was written for Liverpool. At the episcopal ordination of Bishop Tom Williams, they sang it to accompany a long procession, and it included half a dozen extra verses by one John McHugh, which weren't as good as Patrick Brennan's originals.
ReplyDeleteMy mum knows it to a different tune, namely Rex by W.H.G. Flood (1859-1928) (it says somewhere).
Have just had it confirmed that, yes, it was written for laying of the foundation stone – original version (in Ab) is in the cathedral archive.
ReplyDeleteAnd you can hear it being sung in this clip from 1933 of the foundation stone being laid: http://www.britishpathe.com/record.php?id=3867
ReplyDeleteSuch wisdom! Thank you
ReplyDeleteThe Feast of Christ the King was instituted in 1925 - so I had presumed that it was after that.
New English Praise - the recent supplement to the New English Hymnal includes a 5th, Eucharistic verse.
So are any other there any other hymns of similar date that survive in the repertoire?
To answer my own question. A trawl through the Parish Hymn Book suggests only: Knox's Battle is o'er (tune by A G Murray) and New praises be given, and Chesterton's O God of earth and altar.
ReplyDelete"O God of earth and altar" isn't quite post-Terry. I think GKC wrote it as a response to the First World War but am happy to be corrected on this one. It was, I believe, his only hymn.
ReplyDeleteI stand corrected. It actually first appeared in The English Hymnal of 1906. This was also before he became a Catholic.
ReplyDeleteSo legacy is pretty small then.
In which case, 'tis I who stand corrected if he wrote it before the First World War!
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