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Lord of all hopefulness, Lord of all joy
Author: Jan Struther (Joyce Placzek), 1901-1953 Meter: 10.11.11.11 Appears in 78 hymnals Topics: Mothering Sunday Scripture: 2 Thessalonians 3:8 Used With Tune: SLANE
Lord of all hopefulness, Lord of all joy
Lord of all, to thee we raise
Author: Folliott Sandford Pierpoint (1835-1917) Meter: 7.7.7.7 with refrain Appears in 631 hymnals Topics: Mothering Sunday First Line: For the beauty of the earth Lyrics: 1 For the beauty of the earth,
for the beauty of the skies,
for the love which from our birth
over and around us lies,
Refrain:
Lord of all, to thee we raise
this our sacrifice of praise.
2 For the beauty of each hour
of the day and of the night,
hill and vale and tree and flower,
sun and moon and stars of light: [Refrain]
3 For the joy of human love,
brother, sister, parent, child,
friends on earth, and friends above,
pleasures pure and undefiled: [Refrain]
4 For each perfect gift of thine,
to our race so freely given,
graces human and divine,
flowers of earth and buds of heaven: [Refrain]
5 For thy church which evermore
lifteth holy hands above,
offering up on every shore
her pure sacrifice of love, [Refrain] Scripture: Psalm 148 Used With Tune: ENGLANDS LANE
Lord of all, to thee we raise
Forth in the peace of Christ we go
Author: James Quinn, b. 1919 Meter: 8.8.8.8 Appears in 26 hymnals Topics: Years A, B, and C Mothering Sunday Scripture: Colossians 3:15-16 Used With Tune: DEO GRACIAS
Forth in the peace of Christ we go
NUN DANKET
Meter: 6.7.6.7.6.6.6.6 Appears in 541 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: Johann Crüger; Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy Topics: Mothering Sunday Tune Sources: Praxis Pietatis Melica, 1647; Lobgesang, 1840 Tune Key: E Flat Major Incipit: 55566 53432 32155 Used With Text: Now thank we all our God
NUN DANKET
ENGLAND'S LANE
Meter: 7.7.7.7 with refrain Appears in 30 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: Geoffrey Shaw, 1879-1943 Topics: Mothering Sunday Tune Sources: Folk song Tune Key: B Flat Major Incipit: 13215 31515 23276 Used With Text: Lord of all, to thee we raise
ENGLAND'S LANE
At the cross her station keeping
Author: Jacopone da Todi, d. 1306; Edward Caswall, 1814-1878 Hymnal: Complete Anglican Hymns Old and New #51 (2000) Meter: 8.8.7 Topics: Years A, B, and C Mothering Sunday First Line: At her cross her station keeping Lyrics: 1 At the cross her station keeping,
stood the mournful mother weeping,
close to Jesus to the last.
2 Through her heart, his sorrow sharing,
all his bitter anguish bearing,
now at length the sword has passed.
3 O, how sad and sore distressed
was that mother highly blest,
of the sole-begotten One.
4 Christ above in torment hangs;
she beneath beholds the pangs
of her dying glorious Son.
5 Is there one who would not weep,
whelmed in miseries so deep,
Christ's dear mother to behold?
6 Can the human heart refrain
from partaking in her pain,
in that mother's pain untold?
7 Bruised, derided, cursed, defiled,
she behold her tender child,
all with bloody scourges rent.
8 For the sins of his own nation,
saw him hang in desolation,
till his spirit forth he sent.
9 O thou mother! Fount of love!
Touch my spirit from above,
make my heart with thine accord.
10 Make me feel as thou hast felt;
make my soul to glow and melt
with the love of Christ my Lord.
11 Holy Mother, pierce me through,
in my heart each wound renew
of my Saviour crucified.
12 Let me share with thee his pain
who for all my sins was slain,
who for me in torments died.
13 Let me mingle tears with thee,
mourning him who mourned for me,
all the days that I may live.
14 By the cross with thee to stay,
there with thee to weep and pray,
this I ask of thee to give. Scripture: Isaiah 53:8 Languages: English Tune Title: STABAT MATER
At the cross her station keeping
Mary, blessed grieving mother
Author: Michael Forster, b. 1946 Hymnal: Complete Anglican Hymns Old and New #441 (2000) Meter: 8.7.8.7.7.7 Topics: Years A, B, and C Mothering Sunday Scripture: John 19:25 Languages: English Tune Title: BLACK MADONNA
Mary, blessed grieving mother
Fathers and mothers
Author: Timothy Dudley-Smith (b. 1926) Hymnal: Ancient and Modern #136 (2013) Meter: 5.5.5.4 D Topics: Mothering Sunday Scripture: Psalm 128:1 Languages: English Tune Title: BUNESSAN
Fathers and mothers
Venantius Honorius Clementianus Fortunatus
540 - 600 Person Name: Venantius Honorius Fortunatus, ca. 530-609 Topics: Devotions Rosary; Mary; The Liturgical Year Advent (Sundays and Weekdays); The Liturgical Year Mary, the Holy Mother of God; The Liturgical Year The Annunciation of the Lord (March 25); The Liturgical Year The Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary (December 8) Author of "The God Whom Earth and Sea and Sky" in Journeysongs (3rd ed.) Venantius Honorius Clematianus Fortunatus (b. Cenada, near Treviso, Italy, c. 530; d. Poitiers, France, 609) was educated at Ravenna and Milan and was converted to the Christian faith at an early age. Legend has it that while a student at Ravenna he contracted a disease of the eye and became nearly blind. But he was miraculously healed after anointing his eyes with oil from a lamp burning before the altar of St. Martin of Tours. In gratitude Fortunatus made a pilgrimage to that saint's shrine in Tours and spent the rest of his life in Gaul (France), at first traveling and composing love songs. He developed a platonic affection for Queen Rhadegonda, joined her Abbey of St. Croix in Poitiers, and became its bishop in 599. His Hymns far all the Festivals of the Christian Year is lost, but some of his best hymns on his favorite topic, the cross of Jesus, are still respected today, in part because of their erotic mysticism.
Bert Polman
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Fortunatus, Venantius Honorius Clementianus, was born at Ceneda, near Treviso, about 530. At an early age he was converted to Christianity at Aquileia. Whilst a student at Ravenna he became almost blind, and recovered his sight, as he believed miraculously, by anointing his eyes with some oil taken from a lamp that burned before the altar of St. Martin of Tours, in a church in that town. His recovery induced him to make a pilgrimage to the shrine of St. Martin, at Tours, in 565, and that pilgrimage resulted in his spending the rest of his life in Gaul. At Poitiers he formed a romantic, though purely platonic, attachment for Queen Rhadegunda, the daughter of Bertharius, king of the Thuringians, and the wife, though separated from him, of Lothair I., or Clotaire, king of Neustria. The reader is referred for further particulars of this part of the life of Fortunatus to Smith and Wace's Dictionary of Christian Biography, vol. ii. p. 552. It is sufficient to say here that under the influence of Rhadegunda, who at that time lived at Poitiers, where she had founded the convent of St. Croix, Fortunatus was ordained, and ultimately, after the death of Rhadegunda in 597, became bishop of Poitiers shortly before his own death in 609.
The writings, chiefly poetical, of Fortunatus, which are still extant, are very numerous and various in kind; including the liveliest Vers de Societé and the grandest hymns; while much that he is known to have written, including a volume of Hymns for all the Festivals of the Christian Year, is lost. Of what remains may be mentioned, The Life of St. Martin of Tours, his Patron Saint, in four books, containing 2245 hexameter lines. A complete list of his works will be found in the article mentioned above.
His contributions to hymnology must have been very considerable, as the name of his lost volume implies, but what remains to us of that character, as being certainly his work, does not comprise at most more than nine or ten compositions, and of some of these even his authorship is more than doubtful. His best known hymn is the famous "Vexilla Regis prodeunt," so familiar to us in our Church Hymnals in some English form or other, especially, perhaps, in Dr. Neale's translation, "The Royal Banners forward go." The next most important composition claimed for him is "Pange, lingua, gloriosi praelium certaminis," but there would seem to be little doubt according to Sirmond (Notis ad Epist. Sidon. Apollin. Lib. iii., Ep. 4), that it was more probably written by Claudianus Mamertus. Besides these, which are on the Passion, there are four hymns by Fortunatus for Christmas, one of which is given by Daniel, "Agnoscat omne saeculum," one for Lent, and one for Easter. Of "Lustra sex qui jam peregit," of which an imitation in English by Bishop. Mant, "See the destined day arise," is well-known, the authorship is by some attributed to Fortunatus, and by some to St. Ambrose.
The general character of the poetry of Venantius Fortunatus is by no means high, being distinguished neither for its classical, nor, with very rare exceptions, for its moral correctness. He represents the "last expiring effort of the Latin muse in Gaul," to retain something of the "old classical culture amid the advancing tide of barbarism." Whether we look at his style, or even his grammar and quantities, we find but too much that is open to criticism, whilst he often offends against good taste in the sentiments he enunciates. Occasionally, as we see in the "Vexilla Regis," he rises to a rugged grandeur in which he has few rivals, and some of his poems are by no means devoid of simplicity and pathos. But these are the exceptions and not the rule in his writings, and we know not how far he may have owed even these to the womanly instincts and gentler, purer influence of Rhadegunda. Thierry, in his Récits des Temps Mérovingiens, Récit 5, gives a lively sketch of Fortunatus, as in Archbishop Trench's words (Sacred Latin Poetry, 1874,p. 132), "A clever, frivolous, self-indulgent and vain character," an exaggerated character, probably, because one can hardly identify the author of "Vexilla Regis," in such a mere man of the world, or look at the writer of "Crux benedicta nitet, Dominus qua carne pependit" q.v., as being wholly devoid of the highest aspirations after things divine. A quarto edition of his Works was published in Rome in 1786. [Rev. Digby S. Wrangham, M.A.]
- John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology (1907)
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Fortunatus, V. H. C., p. 384, i. The best edition of his poems is F. Leo's edition of his Opera Poetica, Berlin, 1881 (Monumenta Germaniae, vol. iv.).
--John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology, Appendix, Part II (1907)
Venantius Honorius Clementianus Fortunatus
Johann Sebastian Bach
1685 - 1750 Person Name: Johann Sebastian Bach, 1685-1750 Topics: Devotions Rosary; Mary; The Liturgical Year Advent (Sundays and Weekdays); The Liturgical Year Mary, the Holy Mother of God; The Liturgical Year The Annunciation of the Lord (March 25); The Liturgical Year The Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary (December 8) Harmonizer of "EISENACH" in Journeysongs (3rd ed.) Johann Sebastian Bach was born at Eisenach into a musical family and in a town steeped in Reformation history, he received early musical training from his father and older brother, and elementary education in the classical school Luther had earlier attended.
Throughout his life he made extraordinary efforts to learn from other musicians. At 15 he walked to Lüneburg to work as a chorister and study at the convent school of St. Michael. From there he walked 30 miles to Hamburg to hear Johann Reinken, and 60 miles to Celle to become familiar with French composition and performance traditions. Once he obtained a month's leave from his job to hear Buxtehude, but stayed nearly four months. He arranged compositions from Vivaldi and other Italian masters. His own compositions spanned almost every musical form then known (Opera was the notable exception).
In his own time, Bach was highly regarded as organist and teacher, his compositions being circulated as models of contrapuntal technique. Four of his children achieved careers as composers; Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven, Mendelssohn, Schumann, Brahms, and Chopin are only a few of the best known of the musicians that confessed a major debt to Bach's work in their own musical development. Mendelssohn began re-introducing Bach's music into the concert repertoire, where it has come to attract admiration and even veneration for its own sake.
After 20 years of successful work in several posts, Bach became cantor of the Thomas-schule in Leipzig, and remained there for the remaining 27 years of his life, concentrating on church music for the Lutheran service: over 200 cantatas, four passion settings, a Mass, and hundreds of chorale settings, harmonizations, preludes, and arrangements. He edited the tunes for Schemelli's Musicalisches Gesangbuch, contributing 16 original tunes. His choral harmonizations remain a staple for studies of composition and harmony. Additional melodies from his works have been adapted as hymn tunes.
--John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology (1907)
Johann Sebastian Bach
David Evans
1874 - 1948 Person Name: David Evans (1874-1948) Topics: Mothering Sunday Composer of "LUCERNA LAUDONIAE" in Ancient and Modern David Evans (b. Resolven, Glamorganshire, Wales, 1874; d. Rosllannerchrugog, Denbighshire, Wales, 1948) was an important leader in Welsh church music. Educated at Arnold College, Swansea, and at University College, Cardiff, he received a doctorate in music from Oxford University. His longest professional post was as professor of music at University College in Cardiff (1903-1939), where he organized a large music department. He was also a well-known and respected judge at Welsh hymn-singing festivals and a composer of many orchestral and choral works, anthems, service music, and hymn tunes.
Bert Polman
David Evans
