{"id":15308,"date":"2012-07-01T08:59:46","date_gmt":"2012-07-01T14:59:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/praytellblog.com\/?p=15308"},"modified":"2012-07-01T17:29:15","modified_gmt":"2012-07-01T23:29:15","slug":"the-presbyterian-hymnal-sampler","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/praytellblog.com\/index.php\/2012\/07\/01\/the-presbyterian-hymnal-sampler\/","title":{"rendered":"The Presbyterian Hymnal Sampler"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Glory to God<\/em>, the Presbyterian Hymnal sampler with the same name as the forthcoming hymnal, is being given out to everyone at the <a href=\"http:\/\/oga.pcusa.org\/section\/ga\/ga\/\" target=\"_blank\">General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church<\/a> (USA) which begins today in Pittsburgh. A copy will be mailed to each PCUSA congregation after the assembly. I got a copy this week at Yale, where I was on the faculty for the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.yale.edu\/ism\/congregations\/2012seminar.html\" target=\"_blank\">Congregations Project<\/a>\u00a0at the Insttitute of Sacred Music.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.presbyterianhymnal.org\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">Presbyterian Hymnal Project<\/a> has been ably led by David Eicher, and <em>Glory to God<\/em> will appear next year.<\/p>\n<p>60% of the 1990 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hymnary.org\/hymnal\/PH\" target=\"_blank\">Presbyterian hymnal<\/a> will brought into the 2013 hymnal. This will comprise 40% of the new hymnal \u2013 sturdier and thinner paper makes possible a larger book which still isn\u2019t unwieldy. (Although Catholics are physiologically weaker than Protestants, and physically less able to hold a hardbound hymnal, but that\u2019s a topic for another day.)<\/p>\n<p>The Service for the Lord\u2019s Day is at the front of the book, then Baptism and Reaffirmation of Baptism, then Daily Prayer. Then the Hymns, Psalms, and Spiritual Songs. It\u2019s always interesting to see how the hymns are laid out \u2013 <em>Glory to God<\/em> begins with \u201cThe Triune God\u201d under the heading \u201cGod\u2019s Mighty Acts.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Many will remember, for it was not so long ago, that Presbyterians celebrated Communion four times a year, and more recently perhaps once a month. Mainline Protestants have come a long way as a result of the ecumenical liturgical movement of the 20th century. <em>Glory to God<\/em>, following the Presbyterian 1993 <em>Book of Common Worship,<\/em> will say \u201cThe Service for the Lord\u2019s Day\u201d is a service of Word and Sacrament. Together they form a unified liturgy; one is incomplete without the other.\u201d Within the Service for the Lord\u2019s Day there is this rubric: <em>The norm of Christian worship is to celebrate the Lord\u2019s Supper on each Lord\u2019s Day. If the Lord\u2019s Supper is omitted, the service may include a prayer of thanksgiving\u2026 concluding with the Lord\u2019s Prayer.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The elements of the Service for the Lord\u2019s Day are: Gathering, Word, Eucharist, Sending. Catholics conscious of how the Mass of Paul VI has inspired Protestant liturgical reform will be struck by several things. (It should be noted that the instructions in the Presbyterian hymnal explicitly allow for local freedom and do not make the \u2018official\u2019 service mandatory.)<\/p>\n<p>No Sign of the Cross, but at the Confession and Pardon, water is poured into the baptismal font. No sprinkling option as in the new ELCA\/ELCC hymnal <em>Evangelical Lutheran Worship<\/em>. <em>Kyrie<\/em>, <em>Trisagion,<\/em> or <em>Agnus Dei<\/em> may be sung, then <em>Gloria in Excelsis<\/em> or <em>Gloria Patri.<\/em> (Latin titles are used, btw, followed by translations in parentheses.)<\/p>\n<p>The Scripture readings are concluded with The Word of the Lord.\/Thanks be to God, or Holy wisdom, holy word.\/Thanks be to God.<\/p>\n<p>The order states <em>The Nicene Creed is particularly appropriate for the celebration of the Lord\u2019s Supper. When the Sacrament of Baptism is to be celebrated, however, the Apostles\u2019 Creed is used within the baptismal liturgy.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>After the Prayers of the People, the Peace of Christ is shared if this has not happened earlier.<\/p>\n<p>The Offering has a Berakah-like prayer, \u201cBlessed are you, O God, maker of all things. Through your goodness you have blessed us with these gifts\u2026\u201d The Great Thanksgiving begins with the dialogue used by English-speaking Catholics until last Advent, with the exception of the change \u201cIt is right to give <em>our<\/em> thanks and change.\u201d Then follows what we call a preface, then the Sanctus. There is a full eucharistic prayer with supper narrative, Memorial Acclamation (the first is Christ has died, Christ is resen, Christ will come again\u201d), epiclesis, \u201cThrough Christ, with Christ, in Christ,\u201d and three-fold Amen. Lord\u2019s Prayer, Breaking of Bread, Communion of the People.<\/p>\n<p>Pretty much the Mass of Paul VI, broadly speaking.<\/p>\n<p>The hymns have information on text and tune, of course, below each hymn. But first there are a few lines of explanation and background about each hymn. I think this is a good idea. There is a danger of didacticism, for we gather to worship God, not to learn about the history and musicology of our worship. But I think these brief comments will help worshipers enter into worship with understanding, and prevent misunderstandings that sometimes cause irritation.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPraise Ye the Lord, the Almighty\u201d \/ LOBE DEN HERREN has this: \u201cThis very strong 17th-century German hymn employs many phrases from the psalms, especially Psalms 150 and 103:1-6. It did not receive an effect English translation until the mid-19th century, but has remained popular ever since, thanks in part to its stirring tune.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI Will Come to You\u201d by David Haas has this: \u201cPresuming to speak in the voice of God, as this song does, can only be done with integrity if the singers understand their words as an expression of what they believe about God\u2019s nature and God\u2019s intentions. It is an occasion for affirming faith, not for wishful thinking.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;They\u2019ll Know We Are Christians by Our Love\u201d has this: \u201cA parish priest of St. Brendan\u2019s on the South Side of Chicago in the 1960s was very involved in the local Civil Rights movement and needed something for his youth choir to sing at ecumenical, interracial events. Finding nothing, he wrote this song in a single day.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBe Thou My Vision\u201d \/ SLANE has this: \u201cThese stanzas are selected from a 20thcentury English poetic version of an Irish monastic prayer dating to the 10th century or before. They are set to an Irish folk melody that has proved popular and easily sung despite its lack of repetition and its wide range.<\/p>\n<p>There is a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.presbyterianhymnal.org\/sampler.html\/031-holy%20lamb%20of%20god%20accomp.mus.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Lamb of God<\/a> by Yusuf Khil with text in English and Arabic and this explanation: \u201cThis 1956 setting of the <em>Agnus Dei<\/em> by an Arab composer was created for the Roman Catholic Basilica of the Annunciation in Nazareth. Whether sung in Arabic or in English, it helps us to join our sung prayers with Arab Christians and all others seeking God\u2019s mercy and peace.\u201d &#8211; We\u2019ll be using this setting at the abbey, I guarantee.<\/p>\n<p>Well. There is so much here and I could keep quoting at length, but I\u2019ll stop. 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