Page 8 - Sunday by Sunday Issue 103

MUSIC FOR PASSIONTIDE
Passiontide is generally reckoned to be the period between the Fifth Sunday of Lent (‘Passion Sunday’) and Good Friday. ‘Passion’ is derived from the Latin for ‘suffering’ and accordingly the emphasis of the climax of Lent is on the suffering of Christ, approaching and on the cross. Common Worship: Times and Seasons separates Passiontide and Holy Week (pages 257–320) from Lent (pages 209–256), placing some Passiontide material (‘The Way of the Cross’) in the Lent section (see pages 236 ff.). This creates a progression beginning with the Stations of the Cross, through Holy Week, via the three final days of the Triduum (Maundy Thursday–Easter Eve), arriving on Easter Morning. Different traditions recognize and relish different aspects of this journey, and while the Triduum can hardly be marked early, trends to walk in the way of the cross, physically or metaphorically, have gained currency and popularity in recent years.
However one defines or marks the period, it is rich in liturgy, hymnody, scripture and music. Alongside the Common Worship: Times and Seasons material, the RSCM has updated the much-loved ‘The Cross of Christ’ service material (1956) with ‘The Way of the Cross’ (2007), which, like its predecessor, provides a useful vehicle for marking Passiontide either late in Lent or in Holy Week.
Gordon Giles
HYMNS AND SONGS
TS Above all powers, above all kings 611
Ah, holy Jesu(s), how hast thou offended
All glory, laud, and honour
At the cross her station/vigil keeping
Attende Domine/Hear us, almighty Lord
Come and see, come and see 70 Drop, drop, slow tears
Faithful cross, above all other
Glory be to Jesus
Here is love, vast as the ocean 164 In Christ alone 1311 In the cross of Christ I glory
It is a thing most wonderful 801 It’s your blood that cleanses me 250 Jesus Christ, I think upon your sacrifice 274 Lift high the cross
Lord, you give the great commission
My song is love unknown 897 No scenes of stately majesty 375 O cross of Christ, immortal tree
O dearest Lord, thy sacred head
O my people
O sacred head 928 Of the glorious body/Now, my tongue
O(h) the deep, deep love of Jesus 414 Out of darkness God has called us
Pange, lingua, gloriosi
Praise to the holiest in the height
Ride on, ride on in majesty
Sing, my tongue
Take up thy cross, the Saviour said Tantum ergo
The royal banners forward go There in God’s garden
There is a green hill far away 990 Therefore we, before him bending
To mock your reign
We sing the praise of him who died
When I survey the wondrous cross 572 Who is there like you 1626
You chose the cross 1659
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AMNS
CFE
CH4
CP
HON
HTC
L
MP
NEH
R&S
SOF
STF
1022
1151
139
13
381
100
5
123
232
62
215
159
60
17
364
128
14
229
9
509
208
1157
262
177
69
57
387
104
51
223
97
251
196
178
109
85
67
270
118
106
151
82
59
602
517
142
66
197
108
206
126
750
83
143
987
168
678
1072
1346
351
682
397
480
327
338
379
224
145
70
109
333
131
346
84
503
252
351
257
146
995
865
274
707
72
363
499
394
508
389
417
641
422
1418
276
499
394
870
580
147
63
503
399
112
463
136
752
478
86
207
400
277
1463
180
115
148
71
116
482
134
89
222
379
251
392
181
68
552
382
119-20
535
139
237
520
90
220
446
280
457
252
563
667
316
473
247
268
457
538
465
522
968
591
835
593
247
763
117
606
378
557
572
140
788
563
439
103
469
334
161
61
623
365
129
583
119
230
580
511
209
485
265
151
59
650
398
121
602
142
250
78/ 517
268
135
237
402
582
626
114
935
76
681
656
58
712
122
663
252
79
152
514
596
153
137
721
380
123
657
148
809
674
92
223
542
284
252
563ii
316
473
247ii
268ii
154
517
124
221
156
138
405
125
723
146
738
94
229
157
67
801
392
127
738
147
756
755/ 1126
95
217
596
287
1017
1117
1139
1661
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