"Glory be to Jesus" - Appropriate for Lent?
  • hartleymartin
    Posts: 1,447
    The Hymn "Glory be to Jesus who in bitter pains poured for me the life blood from his sacred veins"

    Is this appropriate for use in the Lenten Season or is this something which really should be reserved for Holy Week and Eastertide?
  • Chrism
    Posts: 873
    So your question is, in general, are Passion hymns liturgically appropriate for Lent?

    They are definitely not inappropriate for Lent, even in the OF:

    During Lent, we place special emphasis on prayer and contemplation on the Passion and Death of our Lord through expressions of popular piety such as the Via Crucis (Stations of the Cross) and veneration of the Crucified Christ. --USCCB

    Popular piety concentrates on the mysteries of Christ's humanity, and during Lent the faithful pay close attention to the Passion and Death of Our Lord. --Congregation of Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments, Directory on Popular Piety and the Liturgy (2002)
    Thanked by 2marajoy francis
  • francis
    Posts: 10,848
    I love that hymn. Last year we did it for Good Friday.
  • hartleymartin
    Posts: 1,447
    I like this hymn too. It's VERY easy to play on the organ. That's why I was hoping to get positive feedback for using it during Lent (adding it to the Hymn list for the weekend retreat).
  • musicman923
    Posts: 239
    If someone has a PDF of this piece, I'd love to see it. I've never heard of it before!
  • matthewjmatthewj
    Posts: 2,700
    There are a million versions of it here:
    http://www.hymnary.org/text/glory_be_to_jesus_who_in_bitter_pain

    A MILLION
    Thanked by 2Chrism oldhymns
  • Patricia Cecilia
    Posts: 400
    Here are:
    1) a simple choir-motet version I made for a choir of middle- and high-school singers (just met on the day of the Mass) for an evangelism conference that took place during Lent last year;
    2) just the hymn in pdf (full page for those of us whose eyesight is going).
    Warren Glory be to Jesus anthem version.pdf
    79K
    Caswall Glory be to Jesus full page.pdf
    57K
    Thanked by 1oldhymns
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