Charlotte Elliott (1836) | here is our Hymn of the Week, sung by the Kings’ College Choir to a melody specially composed for the poem, the sweet, gentle, yet quietly powerful Saffron Walden.
What a beautiful hymn whose text suggests the Confiteor in the Latin Mass just before reception of Holy Communion. When I was stationed in a very remote base in Japan where certain Protestants had no ministers for communion and who asked to attend Mass AND receive, we applied to the Ordinary for permission to exercise Canon 844 paragraph 3 & 4 which was granted. The Chaplain was required to assess the belief in the Eucharist to be the same as Catholics, which it was. Given all of that, and to make them comfortable in coming to communion we used this hymn from time to time at the Catholic 'altar call'. In that remote time and place in providing what Cannon Law calls a 'genuine spiritual advantage' for those not yet in full communion...an exception was carefully managed for the good of others. Thank you for this beauty!
" Mol an Óige agus tiocfaidh sí (praise the young and they will flourish). This is an old Irish, or Gaelic, piece of wisdom." Remains relevant.
What a beautiful hymn whose text suggests the Confiteor in the Latin Mass just before reception of Holy Communion. When I was stationed in a very remote base in Japan where certain Protestants had no ministers for communion and who asked to attend Mass AND receive, we applied to the Ordinary for permission to exercise Canon 844 paragraph 3 & 4 which was granted. The Chaplain was required to assess the belief in the Eucharist to be the same as Catholics, which it was. Given all of that, and to make them comfortable in coming to communion we used this hymn from time to time at the Catholic 'altar call'. In that remote time and place in providing what Cannon Law calls a 'genuine spiritual advantage' for those not yet in full communion...an exception was carefully managed for the good of others. Thank you for this beauty!