Funeral Nunc Dimittis
Created in 2013 for the funeral of a friend, Maureen, this piece derives from one I made in 1973 for a Nativity presentation at Lee Abbey ‘A Song for Simeon and Anna’. The words here set for ‘her’ can be Read More …
Category: Communion of Saints
Called to worship by Your Spirit
* In October 2011, as part of a national celebration of the seventy-fifth birthday of the Hymn Society of Great Britain and Ireland, a bi-lingual interdenominational festival Cenwch Clod Ddyffryn Tywi Valley Sing Praise was held at Capel Salem in Llandeilo Fawr. Giving expression to some of Read More …
Lord of life’s journey
*** At the request of the Church Council, and in the presence of the Bishop of Derby, St Thomas’ Church, Peartree was officially closed in October 2011. This hymn, composed to the music that set a hymn written for the centenary of the foundation Read More …
Our voices raised, with all who follow You
* This hymn for All Saints tide celebrates saints, living and departed, including those ‘who bear the cross, for truth and goodness bleed’, who may not have confessed the faith of Christ. Our voices raised, with all who follow You.midi COMMENTARY This hymn Read More …
Upon the cross you breathed your last
* A simple hymn about the apostle Thomas’ encounter with the risen Christ. Upon the cross you breathed your last.midi COMMENTARY This writer grew up thinking that ‘Doubting Thomas’ was a moral liability to Jesus and his elite corps of Read More …
Mary, weep not, weep no longer
* Around 1975 I wrote out the plainsong of this Easter hymn as a song for women’s voices and piano. The setting here, for women’s voices first, then SATB, is written to be sung as a hymn, but also to Read More …
Here we stand, we Christian people
*** While staying at the home of the late Jim Cotter, I wrote this at FIRTH PARK in Sheffield to offer as a processional hymn for the church of St Michael the Archangel in Southampton City Centre. Here we stand, we Christian people.midi Read More …
Most holy Jesu
*** This hymn was written when I was Vicar of St Thomas’ PEARTREE in Derby, to mark the centenary of the church’s consecration on 21st December 1881. Most holy Jesus.midi