Welcome to Anthem 25 in my attempt to write a new choir anthem every week for a year. I’m Kevin Mulryne and I hope you will enjoy listening to my progress throughout 2024. Please do visit the website Anthem52.com, follow along on x.com - @realanthem52 or Instagram - @realanthem52 and send me a message to [email protected].

This week marks the beginning of the busiest - and the calmest - time for me so far this year. It's my wife and my 30th Wedding Anniversary and we are going on the 'trip of a lifetime' to The Maldives. This means that I am in the process of writing and organising anthems to ensure there isn't a gap in my progress towards Anthem 52. Clearly, time has been squeezed and so I haven't been able to create a Logic Pro version of this week's anthem, nor will I be able to for the next two weeks either because I will be out of the country and have to set everything to publish while I am away automatically.

So there will be new anthems in these 3 weeks but the content published will be more minimal than usual. I also intend to 'cheat' by using the anthem I wrote earlier in the year for the composition competition as Anthem 27. I hope you don't mind.

Anyway, this week I completed Anthem 25 using Psalm V (5), set for this week in the Church of England Lectionary.

Here are the words:

Words for Anthem 25:

Ponder my words, O Lord : consider my meditation.

O hearken thou unto the voice of my calling, my King and my God : for unto thee will I make my prayer.

My voice shalt thou hear betimes, O Lord : early in the morning will I direct my prayer unto thee, and will look up.

For thou art the God that hast no pleasure in wickedness : neither shall any evil dwell with thee.