Hymns about the End Times
  • Jeffrey Quick
    Posts: 2,092
    I'm looking for a hymn for the last Sunday after Pentecost, to match the Gospel. Extra points if it's in the Campion Missal or Gather Comprehensive. I can think of all kinds of shape note music about the Four Last Things, but we're apparently too nice for that. The Gather topical index has "judgement" but nothing there quite works. And no, I'm not doing the Dies Irae as a processional. Suggestions?
  • Liam
    Posts: 5,116
    The Day Is Surely Drawing Near

    http://www.hymnary.org/text/the_day_is_surely_drawing_near

    I don't have my copy of Hymns Psalms and Spiritual Canticles handy, but it was set to a lovely Genevan Psalter tune at #315 in it (not MIT FREUDEN ZART - it was a better tune).

    Rejoice Rejoice Believers

    Lo, He Comes With Clouds Descending

    Up, Awake From Highest Steeple (many paraphrases of Wachet Auf)
    Thanked by 1Gavin
  • melofluentmelofluent
    Posts: 4,160
    I still maintain, tho' having been shouted down a hundred times, that Ward-Howe's text "Mine eyes have seen the glory" is, in fact, about the Eschaton. And yeah, I know its literal history.
    JQ, you sure you're not prepping for Sept. 29th? ;-)
    Thanked by 1Gavin
  • Aristotle EsguerraAristotle Esguerra
    Posts: 1,186
    The only selection in Gather Comprehensive that might fit your criteria is # 320, "The King Shall Come When Morning Dawns".
    Thanked by 1M. Jackson Osborn
  • Randolph Nichols
    Posts: 398
    Liam,

    The Geneva HPSC tune is "Sei Lob und Ehr'." Regrettably it's the kind of stalwart hymn now out of favor in local Catholic circles.
  • Liam
    Posts: 5,116
    Randolph

    Thank you! (I was hoping you'd have the hymnal handy).

    The lovely tune (adding trumpet flourishes is optional but it works for this, especially if you do this at a reasonable clip, as it's 3/2 time):

    http://www.notendownload.com/8/dpshopgrafiken/png/vorschaudruck/NSF70LBM_thumb.png


  • Jeffrey Quick
    Posts: 2,092
    Michaelmas, Melo? Alas we're not doing it.
    Thanks for the suggestions. I belatedly discovered "O Jesus Christ, remember" (Aurelia) in the Campion, which could work. I'll look into the others.
    Thanked by 1melofluent
  • Chris Garton-Zavesky
    Posts: 6,902
    Come, Labor on
    God is working his purpose out

    (These are both ecumenically minded!)

    Faith of our Fathers

    It might be the end times before "Mary's prayers shall win all England back to Thee";
    "chained in prisons dark" seems appropriate....




  • eft94530eft94530
    Posts: 1,577
    PURPLE_BOLD=ON

    melofluent: prepping for Sept. 29th? ;-)

    About prepping (important bit starts at timestamp 7:00 ff) ...
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZyRMuQ_8oj0

    About 29th (I think it is sooner) ...
    https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=blood+moon
  • NihilNominisNihilNominis
    Posts: 1,025
    "Come, Ye Thankful People, Come."

    In GC2; I get bonus points.

    3. For the Lord our God shall come,
    and shall take the harvest home;
    from the field shall in that day
    all offenses purge away,
    giving angels charge at last
    in the fire the tares to cast;
    but the fruitful ears to store
    in the garner evermore.

    4. Even so, Lord, quickly come,
    bring thy final harvest home;
    gather thou thy people in,
    free from sorrow, free from sin,
    there, forever purified,
    in thy presence to abide;
    come, with all thine angels, come,
    raise the glorious harvest home.
    Thanked by 4M. Jackson Osborn eft94530 CHGiffen Jeffrey Quick
  • Kathy
    Posts: 5,513
    Ditto LHCWCD and CYTP,C.

    Also, Rejoice, the Lord Is King.
    Thanked by 1CHGiffen
  • Maureen
    Posts: 679
    Dies Irae.

    Jerusalem the Golden.
    Thanked by 1M. Jackson Osborn
  • Jeffrey Quick
    Posts: 2,092
    Oh my, Nihil, triple points for "Sunday before US Thanksgiving."
    Thanked by 2eft94530 NihilNominis
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