Bible readings for the Sunday between Ascension Day and Pentecost exhort Christians to remain firm in faith and expectation of Christ’s final victory over sin. This text was conceived in terms of the declamatory first three chords of Luther’s EIN Read More …
* This hymn celebrates the Feast of the Ascension of Christ. It extemporizes on the verse … far above all rule and authority and power and dominion, and above every name that is named, not only in this age but Read More …
This hymn anticipates the celebration of Christ’s Ascension. It expounds a remarkable fact of history: that members of a small, first-century sect within the Roman Empire proclaimed that ‘their’ God had gone into heaven… with angels, authorities and powers Read More …
This hymn was written with a forthcoming Derby Diocesan Mission in mind. It invokes a picture of Zacchaeus making Sacramental Confession to Jesus, who brings ‘salvation to this house today’. Text and music were written during a stay at the Read More …
** I set this text for a dramatic presentation at Lee Abbey about the Holy Eucharist. Inspired by Jan (c1395-1441) and Hubert (d.1426) Van Eyck’s painting ‘The Adoration of the Holy Lamb’ (in the cathedral at Gent/Ganf), this lofty setting Read More …
*** This song was commissioned by Peter Coleman for a live transmission of Radio 4 Morning Worship from St Paul’s Cliifton Bristol on the Sunday before the Feast of the Ascension of Christ in 1971. The brief Peter set me Read More …