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Meter: 8.8.8.8 Appears in 150 hymnals Tune Sources: Vesperale Romanum cum cantu emendato (Mechlin [Malines], Belgium: 1848) Tune Key: A Major Incipit: 56545 65122 11561 Used With Text: Come, Holy Ghost, Our Souls Inspire

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Veni Creator Spiritus

Author: Rabunus Maurus, 776-856 Meter: 8.8.8.8 Appears in 79 hymnals First Line: Veni Creátor Spíritus Lyrics: 1 Veni Creátor Spíritus, Mentes tuórum vísita: Implesupérna grátia Quae tu creásti péctora. 2 Qui díceris Paráclitus, Altísimi dónum Dei, Fons vivus, ignis, cáritas, Et spiritális únctio. 3 Tu septifórmis múnere, Digitus paténae déxterae, Tu rite promíssum patris, Sermóne ditans gútera. 4 Accénde lumen sénsibus, Infundeamórem córdibus, Infírma nostri córporis Virtúte fírmans pérpeti. 5 Hóstem repéllas lóngius, Pacémque dones prótinus: Ductóre sic te práevio, Vitémus omne nóxium. 6 Per te sciámus da Patrem, Noscámus atque Fílium Teque utriúsque Spíritum Credámus omni témpore. 7 Deo Patri sit glória, Et Fílio, que a mórtuis Surréxit, ac Paráclito, In saeculórum sáecula. Amen. Used With Tune: VENI CREATOR SPIRITUS

Come, Holy Ghost, Creator Blest

Author: Rabanus Maurus, 776-856; Edward Caswall, 1814-78 Meter: 8.8.8.8 Appears in 284 hymnals Lyrics: 1 Come, Holy Ghost, Creator blest, And make our hearts your place of rest; Come with your grace and heav'nly aid, And fill the hearts which you have made. 2 To you, the Counselor, we cry, To you, the gift of God most high; The fount of life, the fire of love, The soul's anointing from above. 3 Your light to ev'ry thought impart, And shed your love in ev'ry heart; The weakness of our mortal state With deathless might invigorate. 4 Drive far away our wily foe, And your abiding peace bestow; If you are our protecting guide, No evil can with us abide. 5 Teach us to know the Father, Son, And you, from both, as Three in One That we your name may ever bless And in our lives the truth confess. 6 Praise we the Father and the Son And Holy Spirit, with them One, And may the Son on us bestow The gifts that from the Spirit flow! Topics: Pentecost; Pentecost Used With Tune: VENI CREATOR SPIRITUS

Come, Holy Spirit, Our Souls Inspire

Author: Rabanus Maurus; John Cosin Meter: 8.8.8.8 Appears in 239 hymnals Lyrics: 1 Come, Holy Spirit, our souls inspire, And lighten with celestial fire; Thou the anointing Spirit art, Who dost Thy sevenfold gifts impart. 2 Thy blessèd unction from above Is comfort, life, and fire of love; Enable with perpetual light The dullness of our mortal sight. 3 Teach us to know the Father, Son, And Thee, of both, to be but one; That through the ages all along This may be our endless song: 4 Praise to Thine eternal merit, Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. Amen Scripture: Acts 2:3 Used With Tune: VENI CREATOR SPIRITUS

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Veni, creator Spiritus

Hymnal: The University Hymn Book #126b (1912) Languages: Latin Tune Title: VENI CREATOR

Veni, Creator Spiritus (Creator, Spirit, Lord of Grace)

Author: Rabanus Maurus, 776-856; James Quinn, SJ; Glenn CJ Byer Hymnal: Breaking Bread (Vol. 39) #191 (2019) Meter: 8.8.8.8 First Line: Veni, Creator spiritus (Creator Spirit, Lord of grace) Topics: Seasonal Music Pentecost Languages: English; Latin Tune Title: VENI CREATOR SPIRITUS

Veni Creátor Spíritus

Author: Rabanus Maurus, 776-856 Hymnal: Lead Me, Guide Me (2nd ed.) #328 (2012) Meter: 8.8.8.8 Lyrics: 1 Veni Creátor Spíritus, Mentes tuórum vísita: Implesupérna grátia Quae tu creásti péctora. 2 Qui díceris Paráclitus, Altísimi dónum Dei, Fons vivus, ignis, cáritas, Et spiritális únctio. 3 Tu septifórmis múnere, Digitus paténae déxterae, Tu rite promíssum patris, Sermóne ditans gútura. 4 Accénde lumen sénsibus, Infundeamórem córdibus, Infírma nostri córporis Virtúte fírmans pérpeti. 5 Hóstem repéllas lóngius, Pacémque dones prótinus: Ductóre sic te práevio, Vitémus omne nóxium. 6 Per te sciámus da Patrem, Noscámus atque Fílium Teque utriúsque Spíritum Credámus omni témpore. 7 Deo Patri sit glória, Et Fílio, que a mórtuis Surréxit, ac Paráclito, In saeculórum sáecula. Amen. Topics: Pentecost Sunday; Confirmation Sacraments; Confirmation Sacraments; Holy Orders Sacraments; Faith; Healing; Holy Spirit; Light; Peace; Petition, Prayer; Promise of God; Sickness; Trinity Scripture: John 14:24-26 Languages: English; Latin Tune Title: VENI CREATOR SPIRITUS

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Edward Caswall

1814 - 1878 Person Name: Edward Caswall, 1814-78 Translator of "Come, Holy Ghost, Creator Blest" in Lutheran Service Book Edward Caswall was born in 1814, at Yately, in Hampshire, where his father was a clergyman. In 1832, he went to Brasenose College, Oxford, and in 1836, took a second-class in classics. His humorous work, "The Art of Pluck," was published in 1835; it is still selling at Oxford, having passed through many editions. In 1838, he was ordained Deacon, and in 1839, Priest. He became perpetural Curate of Stratford-sub-Castle in 1840. In 1841, he resigned his incumbency and visited Ireland. In 1847, he joined the Church of Rome. In 1850, he was admitted into the Congregation of the Oratory at Birmingham, where he has since remained. He has published several works in prose and poetry. --Annotations of the Hymnal, Charles Hutchins, M.A. 1872 ===================== Caswall, Edward, M.A., son of the Rev. R. C. Caswall, sometime Vicar of Yately, Hampshire, born at Yately, July 15, 1814, and educated at Brasenose College, Oxford, graduating in honours in 1836. Taking Holy Orders in 1838, he became in 1840 Incumbent of Stratford-sub-Castle, near Salisbury, and resigned the same in 1847. In 1850 (Mrs. Caswall having died in 1849) he was received into the Roman Catholic communion, and joined Dr. Newman at the Oratory, Edgbaston. His life thenceforth, although void of stirring incidents, was marked by earnest devotion to his clerical duties and a loving interest in the poor, the sick, and in little children. His original poems and hymns were mostly written at the Oratory. He died at Edgbaston, Jan. 2, 1878, and was buried on Jan. 7 at Redwall, near Bromsgrove, by his leader and friend Cardinal Newman. Caswall's translations of Latin hymns from the Roman Breviary and other sources have a wider circulation in modern hymnals than those of any other translator, Dr. Neale alone excepted. This is owing to his general faithfulness to the originals, and the purity of his rhythm, the latter feature specially adapting his hymns to music, and for congregational purposes. His original compositions, although marked by considerable poetical ability, are not extensive in their use, their doctrinal teaching being against their general adoption outside the Roman communion. His hymns appeared in:— (1) Lyra Catholica, which contained 197 translations from the Roman Breviary, Missal, and other sources. First ed. London, James Burns, 1849. This was reprinted in New York in 1851, with several hymns from other sources added thereto. This edition is quoted in the indices to some American hymn-books as Lyra Cath., as in Beecher's Plymouth Collection, 1855, and others. (2) Masque of Mary, and Other Poems, having in addition to the opening poem and a few miscellaneous pieces, 53 translations, and 51 hymns. 1st ed. Lon., Burns and Lambert, 1858. (3) A May Pageant and Other Poems, including 10 original hymns. Lon., Burns and Lambert, 1865. (4) Hymns and Poems, being the three preceding volumes embodied in one, with many of the hymns rewritten or revised, together with elaborate indices. 1st ed. Lon., Burns, Oates & Co., 1873. Of his original hymns about 20 are given in the Roman Catholic Crown of Jesus Hymn Book, N.D; there are also several in the Hymns for the Year, N.D., and other Roman Catholic collections. --John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology (1907) ====================== Caswall, E. , p. 214, ii. Additional original hymns by Caswall are in the Arundel Hymns, 1902, and other collections. The following are from the Masque of Mary, &c, 1858:— 1. Christian soul, dost thou desire. After Holy Communion. 2. Come, let me for a moment cast. Holy Communion. 3. O Jesu Christ [Lord], remember. Holy Communion. 4. Oft, my soul, thyself remind. Man's Chief End. 5. Sleep, Holy Babe. Christmas. Appeared in the Rambler, June 1850, p. 528. Sometimes given as "Sleep, Jesus, sleep." 6. The glory of summer. Autumn. 7. This is the image of the queen. B. V. M. His "See! amid the winter's snow,” p. 1037, i., was published in Easy Hymn Tunes, 1851, p. 36. In addition the following, mainly altered texts or centos of his translations are also in common use:— 1. A regal throne, for Christ's dear sake. From "Riches and regal throne," p. 870, ii. 2. Come, Holy Ghost, Thy grace inspire. From "Spirit of grace and union," p. 945, i. 3. Hail! ocean star, p. 99, ii,, as 1873. In the Birmingham Oratory Hymn Book, 1850, p. 158. 4. Lovely flow'rs of martyrs, hail. This is the 1849 text. His 1873 text is "Flowers of martyrdom," p. 947, i. 5. None of all the noble cities. From "Bethlehem! of noblest cities," p. 946, ii. 6. O Jesu, Saviour of the World. From “Jesu, Redeemer of the world," p. 228, ii. 7. 0 Lady, high in glory raised. From "O Lady, high in glory, Whose," p. 945, i. The Parochial Hymn Book, 1880, has also the following original hymns by Caswall. As their use is confined to this collection, we give the numbers only:— IS os. 1, 2, 3, 159 (Poems, 1873, p. 453), 209 (1873, p. 288), 299, 324 (1873, p. 323), 357, 402, 554, 555, 558, 569 (1873, p. 334). These are from his Masque of Mary 1858. Nos. 156, 207 (1873, p. 296), 208 (1873, p. 297), 518. These are from his May Pageant, 1865. As several of these hymns do not begin with the original first lines, the original texts are indicated as found in his Poems, 1873. [Rev. James Mearns, M.A.] --John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology, New Supplement (1907)

Pope Gregory I

540 - 604 Person Name: Gregory the Great (?) 504-604 Author of "Come Holy Ghost, our souls inspire" in Hymnal and Liturgies of the Moravian Church Gregory I., St., Pope. Surnamed The Great. Was born at Rome about A.D. 540. His family was distinguished not only for its rank and social consideration, but for its piety and good works. His father, Gordianus, said to have been the grandson of Pope Felix II. or III., was a man of senatorial rank and great wealth; whilst his mother, Silvia, and her sisters-in-law, Tarsilla and Aemiliana, attained the distinction of canonization. Gregory made the best use of his advantages in circumstances and surroundings, so far as his education went. "A saint among saints," he was considered second to none in Rome in grammar, rhetoric, and logic. In early life, before his father's death, he became a member of the Senate; and soon after he was thirty and accordingly, when his father died, he devoted the whole of the large fortune that he inherited to religious uses. He founded no less than six monasteries in Sicily, as well as one on the site of his own house at Rome, to which latter he retired himself in the capacity of a Benedictine monk, in 575. In 577 the then Pope, Benedict I, made him one of the seven Cardinal Deacons who presided over the seven principal divisions of Rome. The following year Benedict's successor, Pelagius II, sent him on an embassy of congratulation to the new emperor Tiberius, at Constantinople. After six years' residence at Constantinople he returned to Rome. It was during this residence at Rome, before he was called upon to succeed Pelagius in the Papal chair, that his interest was excited in the evangelization of Britain by seeing some beautiful children, natives of that country, exposed for sale in the slave-market there ("non Angli, sed Angeli"). He volunteered to head a mission to convert the British, and, having obtained the Pope's sanction for the enterprise, had got three days' journey on his way to Britain when he was peremptorily recalled by Pelagius, at the earnest demand of the Roman people. In 590 he became Pope himself, and, as is well known, carried out his benevolent purpose towards Britain by the mission of St. Augustine, 596. His Papacy, upon which he entered with genuine reluctance, and only after he had taken every step in his power to be relieved from the office, lasted until 604, when he died at the early age of fifty-five. His Pontificate was distinguished by his zeal, ability, and address in the administration of his temporal and spiritual kingdom alike, and his missionaries found their way into all parts of the known world. In Lombardy he destroyed Arianism; in Africa he greatly weakened the Donatists; in Spain he converted the monarch, Reccared: while he made his influence felt even in the remote region of Ireland, where, till his day, the native Church had not acknowledged any allegiance to the See of Rome. He advised rather than dictated to other bishops, and strongly opposed the assumption of the title of "Universal Patriarch" by John the Faster of Constantinople, on the ground that the title had been declined by the Pope himself at the Council of Chalcedon, and declared his pride in being called the “Servant of God's Servants." He exhibited entire toleration for Jews and heretics, and his disapproval of slavery by manumitting all his own slaves. The one grave blot upon his otherwise upright and virtuous character was his gross flattery in congratulating Phocas on his accession to the throne as emperor in 601, a position the latter had secured with the assistance of the imperial army in which he was a centurion, by the murder of his predecessor Mauricius (whose six sons had been slaughtered before their father's eyes), and that of the empress Constantina and her three daughters. Gregory's great learning won for him the distinction of being ranked as one of the four Latin doctors, and exhibited itself in many works of value, the most important of which are his Moralium Libri xxxv., and his two books of homilies on Ezekiel and the Gospels. His influence was also great as a preacher and many of his sermons are still extant, and form indeed no inconsiderable portion of his works that have come down to us. But he is most famous, perhaps, for the services he rendered to the liturgy and music of the Church, whereby he gained for himself the title of Magister Caeremoniarum. His Sacramentary, in which he gave its definite form to the Sacrifice of the Mass, and his Antiphonary, a collection which he made of chants old and new, as well as a school called Orplianotrophium, which he established at Rome for the cultivation of church singing, prove his interest in such subjects, and his success in his efforts to render the public worship of his day worthy of Him to Whom it was addressed. The Gregorian Tones, or chants, with which we are still familiar after a lapse of twelve centuries, we owe to his anxiety to supersede the more melodious and flowing style of church music which is popularly attributed to St. Ambrose, by the severer and more solemn monotone which is their characteristic. The contributions of St. Gregory to our stores of Latin hymns are not numerous, nor are the few generally attributed to him quite certainly proved to be his. But few as they are, and by whomsoever written, they are most of them still used in the services of the Church. In character they are well wedded to the grave and solemn music which St. Gregory himself is supposed to have written for them. The Benedictine editors credit St. Gregory with 8 hymns, viz. (1) “Primo dierum omnium;" (2) "Nocte surgentes vigilemus;" (3) "Ecce jam noctis tenuatur tunbra;" (4) “Clarum decus jejunii;" (5) "Audi benigne conditor;" (6) "Magno salutis gaudio;" (7) “Rex Christe factor omnium;" (8) "Lucis Creator Optime." Daniel in his vol. i. assigns him three others. (9) “Ecce tempus idoneum;" (10) "Summi largitor praemii;" (11) "Noctis tempus jam praeterit." For translations of these hymns see under their respective first lines. (For an elaborate account of St. Gregory, see Smith and Wace's Dictionary of Christian Biography.) [Rev. Digby S. Wrangham, M.A.] -- John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology (1907) =================== Gregory I., St., Pope, p. 469, i. We have been unable to discover any grounds which justified the Benedictine editors and Daniel in printing certain hymns (see p. 470, i.) as by St. Gregory. Modern scholars agree in denying him a place among hymnwriters; e.g., Mr. F. H. Dudden, in his Gregory the Great (London, 1905, vol. i.,p. 276), says "The Gregorian authorship of these compositions [the hymns printed by the Benedictine editors] however cannot be maintained... Gregory contributed ... nothing at all to the sacred music and poetry of the Roman Church." [Rev. James Mearns, M.A.] --John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology, New Supplement (1907)

Michael Forster

b. 1946 Person Name: Michael Forster, b. 1946 Author (v. 4) of "Come, Holy Ghost, our souls inspire" in Complete Anglican Hymns Old and New

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Christian Classics Ethereal Hymnary

Publication Date: 2007 Publisher: Grand Rapids, MI: Christian Classics Ethereal Library

Small Church Music

Editors: Rabanus Maurus Description: The SmallChurchMusic site was launched in 2006, growing out of the requests from those struggling to provide suitable music for their services and meetings. Rev. Clyde McLennan was ordained in mid 1960’s and was a pastor in many small Australian country areas, and therefore was acutely aware of this music problem. Having also been trained as a Pipe Organist, recordings on site (which are a subset of the smallchurchmusic.com site) are all actually played by Clyde, and also include piano and piano with organ versions. All recordings are in MP3 format. Churches all around the world use the recordings, with downloads averaging over 60,000 per month. The recordings normally have an introduction, several verses and a slowdown on the last verse. Users are encouraged to use software: Audacity (http://www.audacityteam.org) or Song Surgeon (http://songsurgeon.com) (see http://scm-audacity.weebly.com for more information) to adjust the MP3 number of verses, tempo and pitch to suit their local needs. Copyright notice: Rev. Clyde McLennan, performer in this collection, has assigned his performer rights in this collection to Hymnary.org. Non-commercial use of these recordings is permitted. For permission to use them for any other purposes, please contact manager@hymnary.org. Home/Music(smallchurchmusic.com) List SongsAlphabetically List Songsby Meter List Songs byTune Name About

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