See the Destined Day Arise!

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See the destined day arise!

Author: Venantius Honorius Clementianus Fortunatus; Paraphraser: Richard Mant (1837)
Tune: ST. DUNSTAN (Redhead)
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1 See the destined day arise!
See a willing sacrifice!
Jesus, to redeem our loss,
Hangs upon the shameful Cross.

2 Jesus, who but Thou had borne,
Lifted on that Tree of scorn,
Every pang and bitter throe,
Finishing Thy life of woe?

3 Who but Thou had dared to drain
Steeped in gall the cup of pain,
And with tender body bear
Thorns, and nails, piercing spear?

4 Thence the cleansing water flowed,
Mingled from Thy Side with blood;
Sign to all attesting eyes
Of the finished Sacrifice.

5 Holy Jesus, grant us peace
In that Sacrifice to place
All our trust for life renewed,
Pardoned sin, and promised good.

Source: The Church Hymnal: containing hymns approved and set forth by the general conventions of 1892 and 1916; together with hymns for the use of guilds and brotherhoods, and for special occasions (Rev. ed) #100

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Author: Venantius Honorius Clementianus Fortunatus

Venantius Honorius Clematianus Fortunatus (b. Cenada, near Treviso, Italy, c. 530; d. Poitiers, France, 609) was educated at Ravenna and Milan and was converted to the Christian faith at an early age. Legend has it that while a student at Ravenna he contracted a disease of the eye and became nearly blind. But he was miraculously healed after anointing his eyes with oil from a lamp burning before the altar of St. Martin of Tours. In gratitude Fortunatus made a pilgrimage to that saint's shrine in Tours and spent the rest of his life in Gaul (France), at first traveling and composing love songs. He developed a platonic affection for Queen Rhadegonda, joined her Abbey of St. Croix in Poitiers, and became its bishop in 599. His Hymns far all th… Go to person page >

Paraphraser: Richard Mant

Mant, Richard D.D., son of the Rev. Richard Mant, Master of the Grammar School, Southampton, was born at Southampton, Feb. 12, 1776. He was educated at Winchester and Trinity, Oxford (B.A. 1797, M.A., 1799). At Oxford he won the Chancellor's prize for an English essay: was a Fellow of Oriel, and for some time College Tutor. On taking Holy Orders he was successively curate to his father, then of one or two other places, Vicar of Coggeshall, Essex, 1810; Domestic Chaplain to the Archbishop of Canterbury, 1813, Rector of St. Botolph, Bishopsgate, London. 1816, and East Horsley, 1818, Bishop of Killaloe, 1820, of Down and Connor, 1823, and of Dromore, 1842. He was also Bampton Lecturer in 1811. He died Nov. 2, 1848. His prose works were numerou… Go to person page >

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First Line:	See the destined day arise!
Title:	See the Destined Day Arise!
Latin Title:	Lustra sex qui jam peracta
Author:	Venantius Honorius Clementianus Fortunatus
Paraphraser:	Richard Mant (1837)
Meter:	7.7.7.7
Source:	Latin
Language:	English
Copyright:	Public Domain

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Tune

ST. DUNSTAN (Redhead)

NUN KOMM, DER HEIDEN HEILAND

NUN KOMM DER HEIDEN HEILAND is a chorale derived from a chant. Among the simplest of the Lutheran repertoire, it is framed by identical lines–l and 4. Sing the entire hymn with antiphonal groups (the practice its original Latin author, Ambrose, strongly promoted). Sing some stanzas in unison and o…

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HALLE (The Psalmist)

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