Μεγαλύνει ἡ ψυχή μου τὸν Κύριον [Luke 1. 46b]

Monday, February 25, 2013

New Hymn for REMINISCERE - -

   I didn't want to post this until AFTER Sunday...I thought, too many pastors were getting ready for yesterday's MASS (yesterday) that to post this hymn in the early a.m. might cause angina, coronaries, and coffee-nose-squirts (great name for a law-firm).
   But here now is my hymn for the 1-year pericope: Saint Matthew 15. 21-28


THAT BLESSED DAY WHEN JESUS CAME

Words: Jay W. Watson 2013
Meter: 8, 8, 8, 6,
Tune: Isleworth, Samuel Howard, 1782  (TLH # 439)
Text: Reminiscere Gospel, Saint Matthew 15. 21-28
 

That blessed day when Jesus came    
To Sidon’s northern coast’s so clear   
She having heard of This Man’s fame   
Her heart brought all its fear 

This Canaan voice crying O Rex       
Give mercy Thou Son of David       
My daughter with a demon vexed   
Thou heal with a bid  

No reply with His tongue He made   
The dozen wished her sent away 
In silence harsh the more she prayed 
Thus anchored vowed to stay 

Christ answered her with sayings dark 
Bread given dogs is never meet  
Yet little dogs for crumbs do bark    
Scraps craving at Thy feet

To steadfast mother Jesus said 
In trusting so receive My pow’r 
Thy daughter shalt be fed with bread 
Be loosed this same hour 

The saving act came not from her  
‘Twas Mercy came to Tyre’s coast 
God’s banquet in His Son most pure
Father and Holy Ghost

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