Name that hymn

[MotherBluestocking]

A man that looks on glass
On it may stay his eye

Larry - the lord's my shepherd by stuart townend
Slightly less modern|:
Soon as the evening shades prevail, the moon takes up the wondrous tale.

oh puzzled that one's just set me off. I'm an atheist although my favourite songs are always religious and those words are lovely.

This thread has started me off listening to 'Evensong', I have many of them and love the versicles as much as the hymns.
Now here is a real challenge;
I am SURE that the Sanctus by Schubert's German Mass D8373 is from a film I've seen.
I heard it years ago on radio 4 and wrote to the producer (Paul Baturi?).. asking the same question....who wrote back a lovely letter (appox 2003) to say he didn't didn't know about a film use, but he knew it as his grandmother use to sing it to to him as as child.
Can anyone identify it to a film, or will it be consigned to my mind as a particularly beautiful piece of music I just love?
You MUST get the St Patricks's Breastplate, (Framlingham)

Ireally:

"Teacher your db sounds very talented - playing at 10 in church! Does he still play? Organ improv can be amazing, i don't know why it works so well, but it does."

He earns his living as a composer these days (primarily theatre / opera but some stand-alone music), and is director of a contemporary music ensemble. Doesn't do much organ playing any more - he played for our wedding, including a newly-composed piece that was his wedding gift to us.

You have brought up one of my least favourite new hymns , the words to the fantastic tune finlandia. The trouble is, even with good breath control its a b*ger to sing !

Take all that daily toil plants in our hearts' poor soil
Take all we start and spoil; each hopeful dream
The chances we have missed; the graces we resist
Lord, in your Eucharist
Take and redeem

In bread we offer you, ormally - one of the better Catholic hymns. So many of them are junk.

How about this one?

Immaculate Mary,
Our hearts are on fire.
That title so wondrous
Fills all our desire.
Ave, Ave, Ave Maria!
Ave, Ave, Ave Maria!

This must be the Catholic equivalent of Silent Night - there seems to be a translation for it in every language. I know there's a Spanish version and a Polish version. Speaking of which, the English words include the verse:

O Mary our mother,
Reign o'er us once more;
Be England thy dowry
As in days of yore.

Can anyone help with.

'Hath his angels charged at last
In the fire the tares to cast
But the fruitful ears to store
In Gods garner evermore.'

(Nice and non judgemental theme there ...)

I don't know what it is but I have an ear worm of it!

Come ye thankful people come, i think. Harvest hymn.

PigeonPie
first is Alleluia, Sing to Jesus, His the Sceptre, His the Throne

Love this

And 'sing we of the Blessed Mother'

Oh Mary we crown You with blossoms today
Queen of the Angels and Queen of the May"

Bertrand, you've just taken me back nearly 30 years to Primary school masses.

Did you sing BLOSSOMS really loudly?

no. Queen was a bit bellowed though. :D

Rather bringing down the tone here but we used to belt this one out with gusto

No charger have I, and no sword by my side,
Yet still to adventure and battle I ride

No. 399 in the skool hymn book (which I have not seen for at least 35 yrs) IIRC.

"When a Knight won his spurs
In the stories of old......."

Makes me cry every time, that one. And "One more step along the road I go....."

Grammar OH says the Schubert sanctus was used in a 1989 film with Gerard Depardieu "Trop Belle Pour Toi".

Bertrand - brilliant.

The bit that still gets me is -

And let me set free with the sword of my youth,
From the castle of darkness, the power of the truth.

I have something in my eye .

Did anyone else have those airforce blue cloth covered hymn books (in our case rather furry and dog eared around the edges)

Bogburglar - I think (and DH has confirmed) it's 'Come ye thankful people, come
Raise the song of harvest home.'

Thank you to you and teacher I can put the whole hymn together in my head again now. Ear worm resolved!

I didn't notice teacher's post. Although continuing the theme of inappropriate improvisations on the organ, DH and I were in the choir for a wedding where the bride turned up 45 minutes late. It was mid-December so our MD was improvising around Christmas Carols, including what appeared to be O Come all ye Faithful, but what we were certain was actually Why are we Waiting.

Oo I love the summons.
One if my favourite hymn lines is
'God is where love is,
For love is of God.

...And as far as the stresses on some of the lines goes, and the 'to be a pilchard' direction of puerile insubordination further upthread, is there anyone else here who still finds the singing of the line in the Te Deum as: 'It is He that hath made us, and not WEE ourselves' as secretly worthy of something approaching a smirk most times, even though one is plenty old enough to know better and behave with more decorum? Come on, now I've pointed it out, you'll not be able to unthink it.

ToniWol - the organist in the church where I sang as a child would often do improvisations and while waiting for brides, if she was more than 10 minutes late, would weave 'why are we waiting' into his music.

Sometimes the congregation would sit and not notice; at other times you could see the realisation filter round!