Join our new Director of Music, Mr. Tyrone Whiting (www.tyronewhiting.com), for the third episode of our new Lenten Hymn Sings series! Please, do share this video with friends and family to help spread the joy of hymn singing!

These are the audio versions of the weekly videos found on YouTube.

This week, Tyrone discusses the hymns "Lord, who throughout these forty days" and "Eternal Lord of love behold your church" and plays them with which to sing along. These can be found in the Hymnal 1982 at 149 and 142 respectively.

A new episode will be released each Friday through Lent until Holy Week giving us all a chance to sing at home during this difficult time.

The hymn texts are found within the transcript below.

Transcript:

Hello and welcome to the third episode in our Lenten Hymn Sing series here at the Church of St. Martin-in-the-Fields, Philadelphia.We hope you continue to join us each Friday through Lent as we explore our Lenten hymnody.

We wish to encourage you to share these videos with friends and family and to engage with us through the comments section and social media.

If you missed the first two episodes, please do check our YouTube page where you can access all episodes in the series.

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Let us again now take a moment at the end of our busy weeks to pause, learn, and reflect on hymns, their scripture, and their histories.

Author to over 150 hymns, of which many are for children, Claudia Frances Hernaman also translated many hymns to English from their original Latin. Passionate about children's religious education, Cluadia Hernaman's publications include A Child's Book of Praise from 1837 and Christmas Carols for Children of 1885. The original form of this hymns melody was published in The Whole Booke of Psalmes in John Day's psalter of 1562 in London in the UK. Though the original composition remains unknown, the harmony we sing today from the Hymnal 1982 is by 19th century musician, Richard Redhead.Redhead was a chorister at Magdalen College, Oxford and would later become organist at Margaret Chapel London, now known as All Saints Margaret Street, where he was an excellent trainer of boys' choirs. Committed to the Oxford movement, which favored Roman elements being introduced to Anglican worship, Redhead is co-author with the then Rector of All Saints Margaret Street, of the Anglican Plainsong Psalter published in 1843. In 1864 he began working as organist at St. Mary Magdalene in London, where he served for 30 years.1. Eternal Lord of love, behold your Church

walking once more the pilgrim way of Lent,

led by your cloud by day, by night your fire,

moved by your love and toward your presence bent:

far off yet here - the goal of all desire.2. So daily dying to the way of self,

so daily living to your way of love,

we walk the road, Lord Jesus, that you trod,

knowing ourselves baptized into your death:

so we are dead and live with you in God.3. If dead in you, so in you we arise,

you the firstborn of all the faithful dead;

and as through stony ground the green shoots break,

glorious in springtime dress of leaf and flower,

so in the Father's glory shall we wake.Written by Thomas Henry Cain, a professor of English Literature at McMaster University in Canada for 31 years, he wrote the words of Eternal Lord of Love specifically for the Hymn 1982. The words to this hymn have appeared in numerous hymnals since including within other denominations of the Christian church.Cain was a regular church organists from childhood until 1967, when he became immersed in choral music. He sang at St. James' Anglican Church in Ontario under the direction of Richard Birney-Smith, in whose Te Deum Singers he sang from until ill-health forced him to quit singing. In 1976, Cain joined St. John's Anglican Church in Ancaster, where he sang for over two decades and was central to the redesign of the organ in 1988.The melody for this hymn, composed by 16th century musician Louis Bourgeois, and named the old one hundred and twenty-forth, was first published in the 1551 edition of the Geneva Psalter. Bourgeois served as a cantor and Master of the Choristers at St. Pierre and St. Gervais in Geneva.A well-known melody which also appears in many North American hymnals, the harmonization which appears in the Hymnal 1982 is by Canon Charles Winfred Douglas, an American priest, musician, linguist, and poet, who among other achievements, was instrumental in bringing plainsong back into general use in the 19th century.1. The glory of these forty days

we celebrate with songs of praise;

for Christ, by whom all things were made,

himself has fasted and has prayed.

2. Alone and fasting Moses saw

the loving God who gave the law;

and to Elijah, fasting, came

the steeds and chariots of flame.

3. So Daniel trained his mystic sight,

delivered from the lions' might;

and John, the Bridegroom's friend, became

the herald of Messiah's name.

4. Then grant us, Lord, like them to be

full oft in fast and prayer with thee;

our spirits strengthen with thy grace,

and give us joy to see thy face.

5. O Father, Son, and Spirit blest,

to thee be every prayer addressed,

who art in three-fold Name adored,

from age to age, the only Lord.

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Production, music, and photography by Tyrone Whiting, Director of Music at Episcopal Church of St. Martin-in-the-Fields, 8000 St. Martin's Lane, Philadelphia, PA 19118. 215.247.7466. https://www.StMartinEC.org