Thank you for featuring this beautiful hymn. It has contributed much to my participation in Holy Week. In a little while I’m off to Tenebrae. At every mass I love to look up each piece in the hymnal to see who wrote it and when and in what place. I am awed at the many that were from single-digit centuries, or credited to St. Thomas Aquinas and the like. I am so grateful to this Church of ours.
I’m tracking this a day late but still in time to add the hymn to my prayer leading into the Triduum. And it turns out it was sung at our parish’s Palm Sunday Vespers in Latin, so I dug out my copy with notation.
After today’s splendid commentary and recording I’m fired up to learn Vexilla Regis.
Thank you dear Tony once again! For picking one of the glories of Holy Week! Fortunatus is
always unsurpassed . Such wonderful Easter hymns! We owe so much to John Mason Neale, that long-suffering, persecuted, poet/hymnographer/translator, Anglo-catholic, holy man.
May our risen Lord bless you both, and your family this Easter and always!
Thank you, Kathleen. Davey is practicing away now for Sunday. If you could, we'd appreciate a bit of prayer. He's working on some new music, and Easter is a big event for him. A blessed Holy Week and Easter to you!
Mark and Gretchen, thank you for that vote of support! The fate of the Magdalen College campus was up in the air after the college closed down, but the sale of the property to the diocese went through, and the Bishop asked the school's last Chaplain to continue saying the Sunday Mass there. Davey has been the organist there since Advent, and is thriving in this ministry of sacred music.
This beautiful hymn, with its poignant words, simply sung, is a reminder of the wondrous, sacrificial love of our Creator and Savior, Who longs to bring each man and woman, who answers His call, to the fullest expression of human nature on earth and to an eternal life of His own perfection and holiness. Thank you for posting this hymn for Holy Week.
Thank you for featuring this beautiful hymn. It has contributed much to my participation in Holy Week. In a little while I’m off to Tenebrae. At every mass I love to look up each piece in the hymnal to see who wrote it and when and in what place. I am awed at the many that were from single-digit centuries, or credited to St. Thomas Aquinas and the like. I am so grateful to this Church of ours.
I’m tracking this a day late but still in time to add the hymn to my prayer leading into the Triduum. And it turns out it was sung at our parish’s Palm Sunday Vespers in Latin, so I dug out my copy with notation.
After today’s splendid commentary and recording I’m fired up to learn Vexilla Regis.
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Thank you dear Tony once again! For picking one of the glories of Holy Week! Fortunatus is
always unsurpassed . Such wonderful Easter hymns! We owe so much to John Mason Neale, that long-suffering, persecuted, poet/hymnographer/translator, Anglo-catholic, holy man.
May our risen Lord bless you both, and your family this Easter and always!
Thank you, Kathleen. Davey is practicing away now for Sunday. If you could, we'd appreciate a bit of prayer. He's working on some new music, and Easter is a big event for him. A blessed Holy Week and Easter to you!
I will be praying for you and your son.
“… we sang it [“All Glory, Laud, and Honor”] at our chapel, with my son David on the organ.” Now *this* we would love to see and hear if possible!
Mark and Gretchen, thank you for that vote of support! The fate of the Magdalen College campus was up in the air after the college closed down, but the sale of the property to the diocese went through, and the Bishop asked the school's last Chaplain to continue saying the Sunday Mass there. Davey has been the organist there since Advent, and is thriving in this ministry of sacred music.
This beautiful hymn, with its poignant words, simply sung, is a reminder of the wondrous, sacrificial love of our Creator and Savior, Who longs to bring each man and woman, who answers His call, to the fullest expression of human nature on earth and to an eternal life of His own perfection and holiness. Thank you for posting this hymn for Holy Week.
We are glad you enjoyed the hymn, John. What a wealth of great Church hymnody we have to chose from!