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God, Who Stretched the Spangled Heavens
Author: Catherine Cameron, b. 1927 Meter: 8.7.8.7 D Appears in 46 hymnals Topics: Challenge of Gospel Lyrics: 1 God, who stretched the spangled heavens
Infinite in time and place,
Flung the suns in burning radiance
Through the silent fields of space;
We, your children, in your likeness,
Share inventive pow'rs with you;
Great Creator, still creating,
Show us what we yet may do.
2 Proudly rise our modern cities,
Stately buildings, row on row;
Yet their windows, blank, unfeeling,
Stare on canyoned streets below,
Where the lonely drift unnoticed
In the city's ebb and flow,
Lost to purpose and to meaning,
Scarcely caring where they go.
3 We have ventured worlds undreamed of
Since the childhood of our race;
Known the ecstasy of winging
Through untraveled realms of space;
Probed the secrets of the atom,
Yielding unimagined pow'r,
Facing us with life's destruction
Or our most triumphant hour.
4 As each far horizon beckons,
May it challenge us anew,
Children of creative purpose,
Serving others, honoring you.
May our dreams prove rich with promise,
Each endeavor, well begun:
Great Creator, give us guidance
Till our goals and yours are one. Scripture: Genesis 1 Used With Tune: HOLY MANNA
God, Who Stretched the Spangled Heavens
God Is Here! As We His People
Author: Fred Pratt Green, 1903-2000 Meter: 8.7.8.7 D Appears in 47 hymnals Topics: Challenge of Gospel Lyrics: 1 God is here! As we his people
Meet to offer praise and prayer,
May we find in fuller measure
What it is in Christ we share:
Here, as in the world around us,
All our varied skills and arts
Wait the coming of his Spirit
Into open minds and hearts.
2 Here are symbols to remind us
Of our lifelong need of grace;
Here are table, font and pulpit,
Here the cross has central place:
Here in honesty of preaching,
Here in silence as in speech,
Here in newness and renewal
God the Spirit comes to each.
3 Here our children find a welcome
In the Shepherd's flock and fold;
Here, as bread and wine are taken,
Christ sustains us as of old:
Here the servants of the Servant
Seek in worship to explore
What it means in daily living
To believe and to adore.
4 Lord of all, of church and kingdom,
In an age of change and doubt,
Keep us faithful to the gospel,
Help us work your purpose out:
Here, in this day's dedication,
All we have to give, receive;
We who cannot live without you,
We adore you! We believe! Scripture: 1 Corinthians 12:27-31 Used With Tune: ABBOT'S LEIGH
God Is Here! As We His People
God, Whose Purpose Is to Kindle
Author: David E. Trueblood, b. 1900 Meter: 8.7.8.7 D Appears in 18 hymnals Topics: Challenge of Gospel Scripture: Luke 12:49-50 Used With Tune: HOLY MANNA
God, Whose Purpose Is to Kindle
REGENT SQUARE
Meter: 8.7.8.7.8.7 Appears in 878 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: Henry T. Smart, 1813-1879 Topics: Challenge of Gospel Tune Key: B Flat Major Incipit: 53153 21566 51432 Used With Text: God, Omnipotent, Eternal
REGENT SQUARE
KELVINGROVE
Meter: 7.6.7.6.7.7.7.6 Appears in 43 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: John L. Bell, b. 1949 Topics: Challenge of Gospel Tune Sources: Scottish traditional Tune Key: F Major Incipit: 12352 31765 62212 Used With Text: The Summons (El Llamado)
KELVINGROVE
God, Who Stretched the Spangled Heavens
Author: Catherine Cameron, b. 1927 Hymnal: Worship (3rd ed.) #648 (1986) Meter: 8.7.8.7 D Topics: Challenge of Gospel Scripture: Genesis 1 Languages: English Tune Title: HOLY MANNA
God, Who Stretched the Spangled Heavens
God, Who Stretched the Spangled Heavens
Author: Catherine Cameron, b. 1927 Hymnal: RitualSong #819 (1996) Meter: 8.7.8.7 D Topics: Challenge of Gospel Lyrics: 1 God, who stretched the spangled heavens
Infinite in time and place,
Flung the suns in burning radiance
Through the silent fields of space;
We, your children, in your likeness,
Share inventive pow'rs with you;
Great Creator, still creating,
Show us what we yet may do.
2 Proudly rise our modern cities,
Stately buildings, row on row;
Yet their windows, blank, unfeeling,
Stare on canyoned streets below,
Where the lonely drift unnoticed
In the city's ebb and flow,
Lost to purpose and to meaning,
Scarcely caring where they go.
3 We have ventured worlds undreamed of
Since the childhood of our race;
Known the ecstasy of winging
Through untraveled realms of space;
Probed the secrets of the atom,
Yielding unimagined pow'r,
Facing us with life's destruction
Or our most triumphant hour.
4 As each far horizon beckons,
May it challenge us anew,
Children of creative purpose,
Serving others, honoring you.
May our dreams prove rich with promise,
Each endeavor, well begun:
Great Creator, give us guidance
Till our goals and yours are one. Scripture: Genesis 1 Languages: English Tune Title: HOLY MANNA
God, Who Stretched the Spangled Heavens
We Come to Your Feast
Author: Michael Joncas, 1951- Hymnal: Hymns for a Pilgrim People #523 (2007) Meter: 13.13.13.14.6 with refrain Topics: Challenge of Gospel First Line: We place upon Your table a gleaming cloth of white Scripture: Luke 22:19 Languages: English Tune Title: WE COME TO YOUR FEAST
We Come to Your Feast
Thomas John Williams
1869 - 1944 Person Name: Thomas J. Williams, 1869-1944 Topics: Challenge of Gospel Composer of "EBENEZER" in Gather (3rd ed.) Although his primary vocation was in the insurance business, Thomas John Williams (b. Ynysmeudwy, Glamorganshire, Wales, 1869; d. Llanelly, Carmarthenshire, Wales, 1944) studied with David Evans at Cardiff and later was organist and choirmaster at Zion Chapel (1903-1913) and Calfaria Chapel (1913-1931), both in Llanelly. He composed a number of hymn tunes and a few anthems.
Bert Polman
Thomas John Williams
Willard F. Jabusch
1930 - 2018 Person Name: Willard Francis Jabusch, b. 1930 Topics: Challenge of Gospel Translator of "Lord, When You Came (Pescador de Hombres)" in RitualSong Willard F. Jabusch (b. 1930) received degrees from St. Mary of the Lake Seminary, Mundelein, Illinois, and Loyola University, Chicago. He also earned a doctorate at Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois (1986), and studied music at the Chicago Conservatory and the University of London. A parish priest at St. James Roman Catholic Church in Chicago from 1956 to 1961, he taught at Niles College of Loyola University from 1963 to 1966 and at the Mundelein Seminary from 1968 to 1990. Since 1990 Jabusch has been director of Calvert House, the Roman Catholic student center at the University of Chicago. His theological publications include The Person in the Pulpit (1980), Walk Where Jesus Walked (1986), and The Spoken Christ (1990). He has written some forty tunes and one hundred hymn texts, often pairing them with eastern European and Israeli folk tunes.
Bert Polman
Willard F. Jabusch
Hans Leo Hassler
1564 - 1612 Person Name: Hans Leo Hassler, 1564-1612 Topics: Challenge of Gospel Composer of "PASSION CHORALE" in Lead Me, Guide Me (2nd ed.) Hans Leo Hassler Germany 1564-1612. Born at Nuremberg, Germany, he came from a family of famous musicians and received early education from his father. He then studied in Venice, Italy, with Andrea Gabrieli, uncle of Giovanni Gabrieli, his friend, with whom he composed a wedding motet. The uncle taught him to play the organ. He learned the polychoral style and took it back to Germany after Andrea Gabrieli's death. He served as organist and composer for Octavian Fugger, the princely art patron of Augsburg (1585-1601). He was a prolific composer but found his influence limited, as he was Protestant in a still heavily Catholic region. In 1602 he became director of town music and organist in the Frauenkirche in Nuremberg until 1608. He married Cordula Claus in 1604. He was finally court musician for the Elector of Saxony in Dresden, Germany, evenually becoming Kapellmeister (1608-1612). A Lutheran, he composed both for Roman Catholic liturgy and for Lutheran churches. He produced two volumns of motets, a famous collection of court songs, and a volume of simpler hymn settings. He published both secular and religious music, managing to compose much for the Catholic church that was also usable in Lutheran settings. He was also a consultant to organ builders. In 1596 he, with 53 other organists, had the opportunity to examine a new instrument with 59 stops at the Schlosskirche, Groningen. He was recognized for his expertise in organ design and often was called on to examine new instruments. He entered the world of mechanical instrument construction, developing a clockwork organ that was later sold to Emperor Rudolf II. He died of tuberculosis in Frankfurt, Germany.
John Perry
Hans Leo Hassler
