Monday, October 25, 2004 AD
Singing at the Lamb's High Feast
We sang a wonderful pre-communion hymn at church yesterday morning, "At the Lamb's High Feast We Sing" (#126 in Lutheran Worship). I'm posting vv1-4, which are the verses we sang yesterday (vv5-8 are more specific to Easter, though of course Easter hymns are really suitable for any Sunday).
At the end of the second verse, my wife and I glanced at each other in amazement and delight at what we'd just had the privilege to sing:
Cracking tune too: Sonne Der Gerechtigkeit.
At the end of the second verse, my wife and I glanced at each other in amazement and delight at what we'd just had the privilege to sing:
At the Lamb’s high feast we singWe really must be turning into proper Lutherans, to be enjoying something quite as "full on" as this :-)
Praise to our victorious king,
Who has washed us in the tide
Flowing from his pierced side.
Alleluia!
Praise we him, whose love divine
Gives his sacred blood for wine,
Gives his body for the feast,
Christ the victim, Christ the priest.
Alleluia!
Where the paschal blood is poured,
Death’s dread angel sheathes the sword;
Israel’s hosts triumphant go
Through the wave that drowns the foe.
Alleluia!
Praise we Christ, whose blood was shed,
Paschal victim, paschal bread;
With sincerity and love
Eat we manna from above.
Alleluia!
Cracking tune too: Sonne Der Gerechtigkeit.
