Hymn for Pope Leo XIV
  • Kathy
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    The Lord Works Marvels for Us All
    Hymn for the life and ministry of Pope Leo XIV

    The Lord works marvels for us all!
    His words and deeds our hearts recall
    And come to know His saving ways
    In thankfulness and quiet praise.

    The world, in need of Jesus Christ,
    Who for our sake was sacrificed,
    Awaits the word we have been taught:
    The news of what His blood has bought.

    Then let us pray in joy and hope
    For Leo, universal Pope,
    That God will give him grace to bear
    The cross of all the Churches’ care.

    O Beauty, ancient, ever new,
    Make him a light that leads to You.
    Let Peter’s message sound abroad:
    Christ Jesus is the Son of God.

    And Mary, too, our hearts implore,
    By the Incarnate God she bore,
    Who saved her as she came to be,
    To guide Pope Leo’s ministry.

    O God the Father, Spirit, Son,
    In Whom alone we live as one,
    Bring us, bring all, to share Your peace,
    And let Your grace and truth increase.

    Tune: EISENACH or any suitable LM hymn tune
    Text: Kathleen Pluth, Permission to use given through June 2025, all other rights reserved.
    Thanked by 6ServiamScores CHGiffen oldhymns RC_Liturgy_Music sdtalley3 DCM
  • CatholicZ09
    Posts: 329
    This is great! I don’t know why my mind sang this to PUER NOBIS.
    Thanked by 1Kathy
  • ServiamScores
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    I think we will do this to JERUSALEM (Parry)

    (I know that this is anathema to some, but we use this tune with other texts. We are outside the Isles, and we cannot sing it with its original text anyway. It's one of the few really useful LM D hymn tunes out there, and pairs particularly well with The Lamb's High Banquet We Await.)
    Thanked by 1Kathy
  • Cmanfro
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    Kathy: You truly have a gift for sacred prose. Our choir & congregation greatly appreciated your recent hymn in honor of Pope Francis. God bless you, and we thank you!
    Thanked by 1Kathy
  • CHGiffenCHGiffen
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    Here is Kathy's splendid hymn for Pope Leo XIV set to EISENACH, in my arrangement.

    The second MP3 file plays the full setting (with the repeats for stanzas 2 & 4).
    The Lord Works Marvels-Bach-Giffen.mp3
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    The Lord Works Marvels-Bach-Giffen-full.mp3
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    The Lord Works Marvels-Bach-Giffen.pdf
    76K
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  • Kathy
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    Thank you, Charles! Any restrictions on sharing?
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  • CHGiffenCHGiffen
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    No sharing restrictions, Kathy. Inadvertently, I failed to put a Creative Commons license on the score (I copied it from an earlier draft). But I've replaced the score above with one that has the correct CC-BY-NC-SA 4.0 license. Sorry for the confusion.
    Thanked by 1Kathy
  • Kathy
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    Thank you, Charles!

    A couple of quick requests:

    Can you add this permission to the text please, Permission to use given through June 2025, all other rights reserved

    And also export as a picture like a jpeg please?

    EDIT: Also, sorry, my subtitle please?
  • CHGiffenCHGiffen
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    The text permission has been added, Kathy. And here is a jpg of the score (2-up on tabloid paper).
    The Lord Works Marvels-Bach-Giffen-2up.jpg
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  • Kathy
    Posts: 5,524
    Thank you!
    Thanked by 1CHGiffen
  • CHGiffenCHGiffen
    Posts: 5,268
    My pleasure, Kathy. Thank you for the wonderful hymn text!
    Thanked by 1Kathy
  • ServiamScores
    Posts: 3,180
    We sang the text this evening and it was wonderful.

    We also did the old hymn/anthem “Long live the pope!” And people loved it. For never having heard it before, they sure belted it out with gusto. It was delightful.
    Thanked by 3CHGiffen Kathy oldhymns
  • davido
    Posts: 1,150
    Long live the pope was written by the pastor that built my church in 1893. He was a go-get-er by all accounts.
    Thanked by 2ServiamScores oldhymns
  • oldhymnsoldhymns
    Posts: 260
    Here is a link to "Long Live the Pope" from my website www.catholicdevotionalhymns.com
    The four verses are sung by the choir at St. Peter's Church, Columbia, SC.

    https://www.catholicdevotionalhymns.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/col09_Long_Live_The_Pope.mp3

    Thanked by 2CHGiffen davido
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