[Magdalen] Brightest and Best - The Epiphany, January 6, 2016.

[Susan Hagen]

I don't like that tune and of course it's the only one my parish uses.
Susan

On Wed, Jan 6, 2016 at 9:26 PM, Christopher Hart <cervus51 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Brightest and Best (sung to the tune Morning Star) is my very favorite
> Epiphany hymn.
>
> On Wednesday, January 6, 2016, Cantor03--- via Magdalen <
> magdalen at herberthouse.org> wrote:
>
>>
>> The concept of the Epiphany was a complete unknown to me when I  entered
>> TEC in the Diocese of Milwaukee in 1958 (though I'd been attending an
>> Episcopal church sporadically for a couple years before that).   Therefore
>> this hymn was a total unknown, and though it is a bit schmaltzy, it  still
>> speaks to me of the Epiphany Feast.
>>
>> It's time also for my annual rant about why churches of the Western
>> Liturgy,
>> Anglican, Lutheran, and Roman Catholic do not chose the Three Kings  as
>> a dedication of churches more than they do.
>>
>> I think back on the wonderful Lutheran Vespers at the
>> Three Kings Church in the Saxenhausen section of Frankfurt/M which I  had
>> the privilege of attending for more than three years living in that  City.
>>
>> I think also of the Shrine of the Three Kings down the River Rhein  just
>> behind the high altar at the Kolnerdom.
>>
>> (David Strang)
>>
>>
>> Brightest and Best:
>>
>>
>>
>> Full  Text
>>
>>
>> 1  Brightest and best of the stars of the morning,
>> Dawn on our darkness, and  lend us thine aid;
>> Star of the East, the horizon adorning,
>> Guide where our  infant Redeemer is laid.
>> 2  Cold on His cradle the dew-drops are shining,
>> Low lies His head with the  beasts of the stall;
>> Angels adore Him in slumber reclining,
>> Maker and  Monarch and Saviour of all.
>> 3  Say, shall we yield Him, in costly devotion,
>> Odours of Edom, and offerings  divine?
>> Gems of the mountain, and pearls of the ocean,
>> Myrrh from the  forest, and gold from the mine?
>> 4  Vainly we offer each ample oblation,
>> Vainly with gifts would His favour  secure;
>> Richer by far is the heart's adoration,
>> Dearer to God are the  prayers of the poor.
>> 5  Brightest and best of the sons of the morning,
>> Dawn on our darkness and lend  us thine aid;
>> Star of the East, the horizon adorning,
>> Guide where our  infant Redeemer is laid.
>> Hymnal: according to the use of the Protestant Episcopal Church in the
>> United States of America, 1871
>>
>>
>>
>
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> Christopher Hart
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