Prayer of the Day
for the Sunday of the Passion
Everlasting
God, in your endless love for the human race you sent our Lord Jesus Christ to
take on our nature and to suffer death on the cross. In your mercy enable us to
share in his obedience to your will and in the glorious victory of his
resurrection, who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, now and
forever. Amen.
Evangelical
Lutheran Worship, page 29.
Gathering Hymn in
Procession: All Glory, Laud, and Honor (Valet will ich
dir geben) ELW 344
Theodulph
of Orleans was born in Spain between 750 and 760 AD. Born in Spain and educated
in France, he was an important bishop while Charlemagne and Louis the Pious
(Charlemagne’s son) ruled in turn as King of the Franks. Theodulph’s original
poem, that later became the basis for this hymn, held 38 stanzas with two lines
each.
John
Mason Neale (1818-1866) translated the hymn nearly as we know it today. One of
the verses Neale translated didn’t make it into most hymnals:
Be thou, O Lord, the Rider, And we
the little ass;
That to God’s Holy city Together we
may pass.
It’s
hard enough keep the Palm Sunday procession dignified. Can you imagine trying
to look reverent while singing this text?
Hymn of the Day: Ah, Holy Jesus (Herzliebster Jesu)
ELW 349
Musical Offering: Thy Will Be Done Craig Courtney
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| Christ at the Cross Carl Bloch ca. 1870 |
Craig
Courtney lives in Columbus, Ohio. He has
published more than 70 sacred choral octavos, five vocal solo collections, and
four extended works for choir and orchestra. His voice is a strong one in the
church’s music today.
Communion Hymns:
O Sacred Head, Now Wounded (Herzlich tut mich
verlangen) ELW 351
Christ, the Life of All the Living (Jesu, meines
lebens leben) ELW 339
Sending Hymn: There in God’s Garden (Shades Mountain) ELW
342
Postlude: Prelude on Prepare the Royal Highway and
Chorale (Bereden väg för Herran) David Cherwien / Swedish folk tune
(ELW 264)
You’ll
find this hymn in the Advent section of Evangelical
Lutheran Worship, but I’ve often thought it equally fitting for Palm Sunday
because of the line “Palm branches strew before him! Spread garments! Shout and
sing!” along with the “Hosanna” shout in the refrain.
I’ve
chosen a short “chorale prelude” by David Cherwien to be followed immediately
by the harmonization from the hymnal. Chorale preludes are musical settings of a
hymntune that go beyond the 4-part hymn setting through the use of imitation,
counterpoint, ritornello, reharmonizations and a host of other compositional
techniques. David Cherwien’s setting is in the style of a fanfare – so expect
to hear some trumpets. After the hymn, there’ll be a tag ending that repeats a
bit of the Cherwien version.
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| Jesus Enters Jerusalem and the Crowds Welcome Him Pietro Lorenzetti, 1320 |
Sources:
Wikipedia
Evangelical Lutheran Worship (Augsburg Fortress)
Hymnal Companion to Evangelical Lutheran Worship, Paul Westermeyer (Augsburg Fortress)
By Carl Bloch - www.the-athenaeum.org, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=25990900
By Pietro lorenzetti - http://www.aiwaz.net/panopticon/lorenzetti-pietro/gc58p0, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=3944840
www.lorezn.com (info on Craig Courtney)
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