Take with You Words
Hymn Texts with Biblical Reflections
Genevieve Glen, OSB
Contains 50 original hymn texts, each with scripture-based reflections and musical settings.
Take with You Words contains 50 original hymn texts, each set to music, by this highly regarded author and Editor for Daily Offices at Magnificat magazine. The title comes from the urging of the prophet Hosea to "take with you words and return to the Lord" (Hosea 14:3).
Writing from the Benedictine Abbey of St. Walburga in Virginia Dale, Colorado, Sister Genevieve offers reflections on each heading and text, with scripture references. The collection includes "Christ in the Rubble," her moving and poetic response to the tragedies of September 11, 2001. This prayerful text, set to the tune of "September Hope," by Tobias Colgan, OSB, has been added to OCP''s Music Issue. The exhaustive index includes scriptural, topical and metric listings.
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You Walked beside the Teeming Sea |
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Word of God, You Spoke Creation |
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We Sing the Lamb Who Once Was Slain |
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Today, O Heav’ns, Acclaim the Morning Star |
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The Word Went Fishing by the Sea |
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The Voice that Summoned Abraham |
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The Sun Arose in Clouds of Fire |
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The Lamb of God Stands on the Height |
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The Desert Sun Burns Sharp and Hot |
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The Dark Enclosing Tomb of Night |
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The Bearers of the Living Word |
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Tall Stands the Tree beside the Stream |
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Sing We Now the Glorious Martyrs |
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Shout Praise, Shout Praise, O Israel |
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Rock that Rises in the Desert |
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Rock Slashed by Spear, O Fountainhead |
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Oh, Who Can Know the Mind of God |
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O Word of God, in Flesh You Came |
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O Word of God, Before the Light |
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O Tree of Life, by Running Stream |
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O Spirit of the Living Lord |
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O Silence Sonorous with Word |
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O Love of God Incarnate |
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O Lord of Darkness and of Light |
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O Heavens, Open from Above |
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O God, You Flamed on Sinai’s Height |
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O God, the Midday Sun Burns Hot |
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O Dayspring of the Long Sought Day |
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O Christ, You Speak the Names of God |
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Let Us Raise High Our Songs of Joy |
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Let Us Give Thanks for This Good Man |
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In Splendor ’Round Jerusalem |
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In Robes Washed White, with Palms Held High |
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Healer of the House of Jacob |
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God’s Wisdom Spreads Her Table Well |
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Christ Jesus, Come to Us in Faith |
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Christ in the Rubble |
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Broken Cisterns Walled in Stone |
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Bright as the Sun, Fair as the Moon |
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Blessed Are You |
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Beneath the Cross the Mother Kept |
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Beneath the Clouds of Earth’s Dark Night |
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Behold, Before Our Wond'ring Eyes |
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Before Us Lies Jerusalem |
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Before the Rising of the Sun |
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At Dawn, the Empty Waters Mock |
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As Morning Breaks from Night |
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As Fall the Edges of the Night |
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All Heaven’s Fields Were Yours by Right |
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A Just Man Honored from Above |
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"Taking Sister Genevieve''s new collection of hymns, I settled into my armchair in the solitude of my library to read. When I arose some time later, I felt as though I had been nestled in the arms of God. Accompanying the hymns are theological reflections, with scripture references which inspired the hymn. Each of these carefully, and prayerfully, constructed devotionals adds a deeper dimension to the hymn text. Ingenious was the editor who designed the format of the book. Celebrating God''s promised future for us, Sister Genevieve joins us on our pilgrimage to the Promised Land, and makes the journey a more meaningful experience for us all."
-- Michael Morgan, The Hymn
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