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There is a fountain filled with blood

Author: William Cowper, 1731 - 1800 Appears in 2,473 hymnals Topics: The Church Year Holy Week Lyrics: 1 There is a fountain filled with blood Drawn from Immanuel's veins; And sinners, plunged beneath that flood, Lose all their guilty stains. 2 The dying thief rejoiced to see That fountain in his day; And there have I, as vile as he, Washed all my sins away. 3 Dear dying Lamb, thy precious Blood Shall never lose its power Till all the ransomed Church of God Be saved, to sin no more. 4 E'er since, by faith, I saw the stream Thy flowing wounds supply, Redeeming love has been my theme, And shall be till I die. 5 Then in a nobler, sweeter song, I'll sing thy power to save, When this poor lisping, stammering tongue Lies silent in the grave. Used With Tune: EVAN

The Words On The Cross

Author: Thomas Benson Pollock, 1836 - 96 Meter: 7.7.7.6 Appears in 74 hymnals Topics: The Church Year Holy Week First Line: Jesus, in thy dying woes Lyrics: Part I: 'Father, forgive them; for thy know not what they do'-Luke xxiii:34 1 Jesus, in thy dying woes, Even while thy life-blood flows, Craving pardon for thy foes: Hear us, holy Jesus. Amen. 2 Saviour, for our pardon sue, When our sins thy pangs renew, For we know not what we do: Hear us, holy Jesus. 3 O may we, who mercy need, Be like thee in heart and deed, When with wrong our spirits bleed: Hear us, holy Jesus. Amen. Part II 'Today shalt thou be with me in paradise'-Luke xxiii:43 1 Jesus, pitying the sighs Of the thief, who near thee dies, Promising him paradise: Hear us, holy Jesus. 2 May we in our guilt and shame Still thy love and mercy claim, Calling humbly on thy Name: Hear us, holy Jesus. 3 May our hearts to thee incline, Looking from our cross to thine; Cheer our souls with hope divine: Hear us, holy Jesus. Part III 'Woman, behold thy son! Behold thy mother!'-John xix:26,27 1 Jesus, loving to the end Her whose heart thy sorrows rend, And thy dearest human friend: Hear us, holy Jesus. 2 May we in thy sorrows share, For thy sake all peril dare, And enjoy thy tender care: Hear us, holy Jesus. 3 May we all thy loved ones be, All one holy family, Loving for the love of thee: Hear us, holy Jesus. A-men. Part IV 'My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?'-Matt.xxvii:46 1 Jesus, whelmed in fears unknown, With our evil left alone, While no light from heaven is shown: Hear us, holy Jesus. 2 When we seem in vain to pray, And our hope seems far away, In the darkness be our stay: Hear us, holy Jesus. 3 Though no Father seem to hear, Though no light our spirits cheer, May we know that God is near: Hear us, holy Jesus. Part V 'I thirst'-John xix:28 1 Jesus in thy thirst and pain, While thy wounds thy life-blood drain, Thirsting more our love to gain: Hear us, holy Jesus. 2 Thirst for us in mercy still, All thy holy work fulfill, Satisfy thy loving will: Hear us, holy Jesus. 3 May we thirst thy love to know; Lead us in our sin and woe Where the healing waters flow: Hear us, holy Jesus. A-men. Part VI 'It is finished'-John xix:30 1 Jesus, all our ransom paid, All thy Father's will obeyed; By thy sufferings perfect made: Hear us, holy Jesus. 2 Save us in our soul's distress; Be our help to cheer and bless, While we grow in holiness: Hear us, holy Jesus. 3 Brighten all our heavenward way With an ever holier ray Till we pass to perfect day: Hear us, holy Jesus. A-men. Part VII 'Father, into thy hands I commit my spirit'-Luke xxiii:46 1 Jesus, all thy labor vast, All thy woe and conflict past; Yielding up thy soul at last: Hear us, holy Jesus. 2 When the death shades round us lower, Guard us from the tempter's power, Keep us in that trial hour: Hear us, holy Jesus. 3 May thy life and death supply Grace to live and grace to die, Grace to reach the home on high: Hear us, holy Jesus. Amen. Used With Tune: SWEDISH LITANY

Jesús, Jesús

Author: Tom Colvin; Felicia Fina Appears in 5 hymnals Topics: Christian Year Holy Week First Line: Te arrodillaste a los pies Refrain First Line: Jesús, Jesús, enséñame tú Scripture: John 13:1-17 Used With Tune: CHEREPONI

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ROCKINGHAM

Meter: 8.8.8.8 Appears in 501 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: Edward Miller, 1731-1807 Topics: Passiontide and Holy Week Tune Key: D Major Incipit: 13421 35655 17655 Used With Text: When I survey the wondrous cross

WONDROUS LOVE

Meter: 12.9.12.9 Appears in 126 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: Paul J. Christiansen Topics: Christian Year Holy Week Tune Sources: USA folk hymn Tune Key: d minor or modal Incipit: 11724 54211 72576 Used With Text: What Wondrous Love Is This

PASSION CHORALE

Appears in 512 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: Hans L. Hassler, 1564-1612 Topics: Lent and Holy Week Tune Key: C Major Incipit: 51765 45233 2121 Used With Text: O Sacred Head, Now Wounded

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Instances

Published text-tune combinations (hymns) from specific hymnals

O Thou, Who through This Holy Week

Author: John Mason Neale Hymnal: The Hymnal and Order of Service #99 (1926) Meter: 8.6.8.6 Topics: Church Year Holy Week; Holy Week First Line: O Thou, who thro' this holy week Lyrics: 1 O Thou, who thro' this holy week Didst suffer for us all; The sick to heal, the lost to seek, To raise up them that fall. 2 We cannot understand the woe Thy love was pleased to bear: O Lamb of God, we only know That all our hopes are there. 3 Thy feet the path of suffering trod; Thy hand the victory won; What shall we render to our God For all that He hath done? Amen. Languages: English Tune Title: WALSALL

O Lord, Who Through This Holy Week

Author: John Mason Neale Hymnal: Moravian Book of Worship #348 (1995) Meter: 8.6.8.6 Topics: Holy Week; Christian year--Holy Week Lyrics: 1 O Lord, who through this holy week did suffer for us all, the sick to heal, the lost to seek, to raise up them that fall, 2 we cannot understand the woe your love was pleased to bear: O Lamb of God, we only know that all our hopes are there. 3 Your feet the path of suff'ring trod; your hand the vict'ry won: what shall we render to our God for all that he has done? 4 To God, the blessed Three in One, all praise and glory due; crown, Lord, your servants who have won the victory through you. Scripture: Psalm 116:12 Languages: English Tune Title: WINCHESTER, OLD

O thou who through this holy week

Author: J. M. Neale, 1818-66 Hymnal: The New English Hymnal #96 (1986) Meter: 8.6.8.6 Topics: The Christian Year Holy Week Languages: English Tune Title: CHESHIRE

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Richard Smallwood

b. 1948 Person Name: Richard Smallwood, b. 1948 Topics: Year A, B, C, Holy Week, Maundy Thursday Harmonizer of "[I Love the Lord, He heard my cry]" in Psalms for All Seasons Richard Smallwood (b. Washington, D.C., 1948), a composer, arranger, pianist, and innovator in the African American gospel style. Many of his arrangements of gospel hymns appear in Lift Every Voice and Sing (1981). Organized by Smallwood in 1967, the Richard Smallwood Singers have sung and recorded many of his arrangements. He remains their current director. Smallwood has a BM degree from Howard University, Washington, DC. Bert Polman

Francis H. Rowley

1854 - 1952 Person Name: Francis Harold Rawley, 1854-1952 Topics: Seasons of the Christian Year Easter and Holy Week Author of "I will sing the wondrous story" in Complete Mission Praise Rv Francis Harold Rowley DD USA 1854-1952. Born at Hilton, NH, the son of a doctor, he graduated from Rochester University in 1875 and Rochester Theological Seminary of NY in 1878. He married Ida Amelia Babcock in 1878, and they had four children: John, Alice, Charles, and Esmond. He became a Baptist minister, animal welfare campaigner, and hymn writer. He pastored for over 30 years at Titusville, PA, North Adams, MA (1884-1892), Oak Park, IL, Fall River, MA, and the First Baptist Church at Boston, MA, until 1910. He preached at Appleton Chapel, Harvard University. He was also a trustee of the University of Chicago Divinity School (1894-1896). While at North Adams, MA, Peter Bilhorn, a fine musician and his assistant minister, asked him to write a hymn for Bilhorn to set to music. He wrote the hymn text overnight. The hymn was presented to Ira Sankey and he altered the text some before publishing it. Visiting in London, he once heard a Salvation Army band playing his hymn. They had no idea he was nearby. Rowley became aware of dismemberment of animals in slaughter houses across the country and lobbied for the animals to be rendered unconscious before being cut open. From 1892-1900 he was Secretary of the American Humane Association. In 1915, through his influence, a building was made to house the MA Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals. He was president of that organization and of the American Humane Education Society from 1908-1945, and the Angell Memorial Animal Hospital. He was also Chairman of the Animal Protection Committee for the MA Committee on Public Safety and VP of the American Society for the Humane Regulation of Vivisection. In 1947 the Rowley School of Human Understanding was established in his honor. In 1948 the MA Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals named the Rowley Memorial Hospital in Springfield, MA, for him. A humanitarian, he also worked with hospitals: Robert Brigham Hospital (for incurables) and N E Baptist Hospital of Boston. He was a member of the advisory council at Yenching University, China; a member of the alumni committee, University of Rochester, NY; member Alpha Delta Phi, Phi Beta Kappa. Rochester University gave him an honorary Doctor of Divinity degree. He died at Boston, MA. Oglethorpe University, Atlanta, GA, named the Rowley School of Humanities after him. John Perry

St. Bernard of Clairvaux

1090 - 1153 Person Name: Bernard of Clairvaux, 1091-1153 Topics: Holy Week; Holy Week Author (attributed to) of "O Sacred Head, Now Wounded" in Lutheran Book of Worship Bernard of Clairvaux, saint, abbot, and doctor, fills one of the most conspicuous positions in the history of the middle ages. His father, Tecelin, or Tesselin, a knight of great bravery, was the friend and vassal of the Duke of Burgundy. Bernard was born at his father's castle on the eminence of Les Fontaines, near Dijon, in Burgundy, in 1091. He was educated at Chatillon, where he was distinguished for his studious and meditative habits. The world, it would be thought, would have had overpowering attractions for a youth who, like Bernard, had all the advantages that high birth, great personal beauty, graceful manners, and irresistible influence could give, but, strengthened in the resolve by night visions of his mother (who had died in 1105), he chose a life of asceticism, and became a monk. In company with an uncle and two of his brothers, who had been won over by his entreaties, he entered the monastery of Citeaux, the first Cistercian foundation, in 1113. Two years later he was sent forth, at the head of twelve monks, from the rapidly increasing and overcrowded abbey, to found a daughter institution, which in spite of difficulties and privations which would have daunted less determined men, they succeeded in doing, in the Valley of Wormwood, about four miles from the Abbey of La Ferté—itself an earlier swarm from the same parent hive—on the Aube. On the death of Pope Honorius II., in 1130, the Sacred College was rent by factions, one of which elected Gregory of St. Angelo, who took the title of Innocent II., while another elected Peter Leonis, under that of Anacletua II. Innocent fled to France, and the question as to whom the allegiance of the King, Louie VI., and the French bishops was due was left by them for Bernard to decide. At a council held at Etampes, Bernard gave judgment in favour of Innocent. Throwing himself into the question with all the ardour of a vehement partisan, he won over both Henry I., the English king, and Lothair, the German emperor, to support the same cause, and then, in 1133, accompanied Innocent II., who was supported by Lothair and his army, to Italy and to Rome. When Lothair withdrew, Innocent retired to Pisa, and Bernard for awhile to his abbey of Clairvaux. It was not until after the death of Anacletus, the antipope, in January, 1138, and the resignation of his successor, the cardinal-priest Gregory, Victor II., that Innocent II., who had returned to Rome with Bernard, was universally acknowledged Pope, a result to which no one had so greatly contributed as the Abbot of Clairvaux. The influence of the latter now became paramount in the Church, as was proved at the Lateran Council of 1139, the largest council ever collected together, where the decrees in every line displayed the work of his master-hand. After having devoted four years to the service of the Pope, Bernard, early in 1135, returned to Clairvaux. In 1137 he was again at Rome, impetuous and determined as ever, denouncing the election of a Cluniac instead of a Clairvaux monk to the see of Langres in France, and in high controversy in consequence with Peter, the gentle Abbot of Cluny, and the Archbishop of Lyons. The question was settled by the deposition by the Pope of the Cluniac and the elevation of a Clairvaux monk (Godfrey, a kinsman of St. Bernard) into his place. In 1143, Bernard raised an almost similar question as to the election of St. William to the see of York, which was settled much after the same fashion, the deposition, after a time, if only for a time, of William, and the intrusion of another Clairvaux monk, Henry Murdac, or Murduch, into the archiepiccopal see. Meantime between these two dates—in 1140—the condemnation of Peter Abilaid and his tenets, in which matter Bernard appeared personally as prosecutor, took place at a council held at Sens. Abelard, condemned at Sens, appealed to Rome, and, resting awhile on his way thither, at Cluny, where Peter still presided as Abbot, died there in 1142. St. Bernard was next called upon to exercise his unrivalled powers of persuasion in a very different cause. Controversy over, he preached a crusade. The summer of 1146 was spent by him in traversing France to rouse the people to engage in the second crusade; the autumn with a like object in Germany. In both countries the effect of his appearance and eloquence was marvellous, almost miraculous. The population seemed to rise en masse, and take up the cross. In 1147 the expedition started, a vast horde, of which probably not a tenth ever reached Palestine. It proved a complete failure, and a miserable remnant shared the flight of their leaders, the Emperor Conrad, and Louis, King of France, and returned home, defeated and disgraced. The blame was thrown upon Bernard, and his apology for his part in the matter is extant. He was not, however, for long to bear up against reproach; he died in the 63rd year of his age, in 1153, weary of the world and glad to be at rest. With the works of St. Bernard, the best ed. of which was pub. by Mabillon at Paris in the early part of the 18th cent. (1719), we are not concerned here, except as regards his contributions, few and far between as they are, to the stores of Latin hymnology. There has been so much doubt thrown upon the authorship of the hymns which usually go by his name,—notably by his editor, Mabillon himself,—that it is impossible to claim any of them as having been certainly written by him; but Archbishop Trench, than whom we have no greater modern authority on such a point, is satisfied that the attribution of them all, except the "Cur mundus militat," to St. Bernard is correct. "If he did not write," the Archbishop says, "it is not easy to guess who could have written them; and indeed they bear profoundly the stamp of his mind, being only inferior in beauty to his prose." The hymns by which St. Bernard is best known as a writer of sacred poetry are: (1.) "Jesu duicis memoria," a long poem on the " Name of Jesus"—known as the "Jubilus of St. Bernard," and among mediaeval writers as the " Rosy Hymn." It is, perhaps, the best specimen of what Neale describes as the "subjective loveliness " of its author's compositions. (2.) "Salve mundi Salutore," an address to the various limbs of Christ on the cross. It consists of 350 lines, 50 lines being addressed to each. (3.) "Laetabundus, exultet fidelis chorus: Alleluia." This sequence was in use all over Europe. (4.) "Cum sit omnis homo foenum." (5.) " Ut jucundas cervus undas." A poem of 68 lines, and well known, is claimed for St. Bernard by Hommey in his Supplementum Patrum, Paris, 1686, p. 165, but on what Archbishop Trench, who quotes it at length, (Sac. Lat. Poetry, p. 242,) deems " grounds entirely insufficient." (6.) " Eheu, Eheu, mundi vita," or " Heu, Heu, mala mundi vita." A poem of nearly 400 lines, is sometimes claimed for St. Bernard, but according to Trench, “on no authority whatever." (7.) “O miranda vanitas." This is included in Mabillon's ed. of St. Bernard's Works. It is also attributed to him by Rambach, vol. i. p. 279. Many other hymns and sequences are attributed to St. Bernard. Trench speaks of a " general ascription to him of any poems of merit belonging to that period whereof the authorship was uncertain." Hymns, translated from, or founded on, St. Bernard's, will be found in almost every hymnal of the day, details of which, together with many others not in common use, will be found under the foregoing Latin first lines. -John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology (1907) See also in: Hymn Writers of the Church

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