Sundays After PentecostProper 12 [17]
Unifying Theme: |
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| Scripture | Theme | Hymns |
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| 2
Samuel 11:1-15 -or- 2 Kings 4:42-44 |
Depth of Mercy | 355: Depth
of Mercy 371: I Stand Amazed in the Presence 410: I Want a Principle Within |
| Psalm
14 -or- Psalm 145 |
Refuge in God, who is exalted | Psalter p. 746 Psalter p. 857 629: You Satisfy the Hungry Heart |
| Ephesians 3:14-21 | Love of God | 267: O
Love, How Deep 292: What Wondrous Love is This 384: Love Divine, All Loves Excelling 479: Jesus, Lover of My Soul 480: O Love That Wilt Not Let Me Go 577: God of Grace and God of Glory |
| John 6:1-21 | Satisfaction of Hunger | 397: I
Need Thee Every Hour 581: Lord, Whose Love Through Humble Service 599: Break Thou the Bread of Life 616: Come, Sinners, to the Gospel Feast 633: The Bread of Life for All is Broken 629: You Satisfy the Hungry Heart |
Hymn #581
Words by Albert F. Bayly
Tune attr. to B.F. White
Harmony by Ronald A. Nelson
Tune name: BEECHER
This hymn has its roots in the 1960's social welfare consciousness. Written in 1961 and submitted to the Hymn Society of America, it was revised by the Society and then chosen as their Conference Hymn for the 1961 National Conference on the Churches and Social Welfare. Its first appearance in any hymnal was in the 1964 Methodist Book of Hymns. There it was accompanied by the familiar tune, "Beecher" composed first for "Love Divine, All Loves Excelling." This introduction of a new hymn with a familiar text was a particular feature in that hymnal (the first updating of a Methodist Hymnal in many years). It proved to make it easy to incorporate many new texts into the United Methodist repertoire. "Lord Whose Love..." was therefore well received and used repeatedly in many congregations.
However, in the 1989 UMC Hymnal the words are set with a different tune, "Beech Spring." This tune is a USA Shape note melody from the 1840's. The combination was intended as a complement to the meter of the lyrics. Instead, it has caused the hymn to fall largely into disuse. So there is really no harm in inviting the congregation to sing the text using the more familiar hymn tune of "Beecher." They will probably pay closer attention to the words as they sing the tune from memory, and once more this hymn will remind United Methodist worshippers of how Jesus' ministry to the destitute, downtrodden and disenfranchised is also needed today.
God bless you--
Lection at HymnSite.com
Contributed by Rev. Linda K. Morgan-Clark
God bless you!
| Passages suggested are from The Revised Common Lectionary: Consultation on Common Texts (Abingdon Press, 1992) copyright © by the Consultation on Common Texts (CCT), P.O. Box 340003, Room 381, Nashville TN 37203-0003. Reprinted with permission of CCT. |