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You Satisfy the Hungry Heart (Gift of Finest Wheat)
Author: Omer Westendorf, b. 1916 Meter: 8.6.8.6 with refrain Appears in 45 hymnals Scripture: Proverbs 9:1-6 First Line: As when the shepherd calls his sheep Refrain First Line: You satisfy the hungry heart Topics: Holy Communion Used With Tune: BICENTENNIAL
You Satisfy the Hungry Heart (Gift of Finest Wheat)
Happy are they who find the grace
Author: Charles Wesley, 1707-788 Meter: 8.8.8.8 Appears in 127 hymnals Scripture: Proverbs 9:1-11 Topics: Growth in Grace and Holiness Used With Tune: ANTWERP
Happy are they who find the grace
Come, my way, my truth, my life
Author: George Herbert, 1593-1633 Meter: 7.7.7.7 Appears in 66 hymnals Scripture: Proverbs 9:1-6 Lyrics: 1 Come, my way, my truth, my life,
such a way as gives us breath,
such a truth as ends all strife,
such a life as killeth death.
2 Come, my light, my feast, my strength,
such a light as shows a feast,
such a feast as mends in length,
such a strength as makes his guest.
3 Come, my joy, my love, my heart,
such a joy as none can move,
such a love as none can part,
such a heart as joys in love. Topics: Eternal Life; Eucharist; Intimate Love; Invocation; Jesus Christ Redeemer; Joy; Mystery of God's Love; Saints Days and Holy Days St Philip and St James; The way; Truth Used With Tune: THE CALL
Come, my way, my truth, my life
BICENTENNIAL
Meter: 8.6.8.6 with refrain Appears in 44 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: Robert E. Kreutz, b. 1922 Scripture: Proverbs 9:1-6 Tune Key: D Major Incipit: 31235 65316 65355 Used With Text: You Satisfy the Hungry Heart (Gift of Finest Wheat)
BICENTENNIAL
THE CALL
Meter: 7.7.7.7 Appears in 45 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: E. Harold Geer, 1886-1954; Ralph Vaughan Williams, 1872-1958 Scripture: Proverbs 9:1-6 Tune Sources: 'Five Mystical Songs' (no. 4) Tune Key: E Flat Major Incipit: 13556 45135 56457 Used With Text: Come, my way, my truth, my life
THE CALL
Happy are they who find the grace
Author: Charles Wesley, 1707-788 Hymnal: Singing the Faith #500 (2011) Meter: 8.8.8.8 Scripture: Proverbs 9:1-11 Topics: Growth in Grace and Holiness Languages: English Tune Title: ANTWERP
Happy are they who find the grace
Come, my way, my truth, my life
Author: George Herbert, 1593-1633 Hymnal: Together in Song #552 (1999) Meter: 7.7.7.7 Scripture: Proverbs 9:1-6 Lyrics: 1 Come, my way, my truth, my life,
such a way as gives us breath,
such a truth as ends all strife,
such a life as killeth death.
2 Come, my light, my feast, my strength,
such a light as shows a feast,
such a feast as mends in length,
such a strength as makes his guest.
3 Come, my joy, my love, my heart,
such a joy as none can move,
such a love as none can part,
such a heart as joys in love. Topics: Eternal Life; Eucharist; Intimate Love; Invocation; Jesus Christ Redeemer; Joy; Mystery of God's Love; Saints Days and Holy Days St Philip and St James; The way; Truth Languages: English Tune Title: THE CALL
Come, my way, my truth, my life
Author of life divine
Author: Charles Wesley, 1707-1788 Hymnal: Complete Anglican Hymns Old and New #56 (2000) Meter: 6.6.6.6.8.8 Scripture: Proverbs 9:2 Lyrics: 1 Author of life divine,
who hast a table spread,
furnished with mystic wine
and everlasting bread,
preserve the life thyself hast giv'n,
and feed and train us up for heav'n.
2 Our needy souls sustain
with fresh supplies of love,
till all thy life we gain,
and all thy fullness prove,
and, strengthened by thy perfect grace,
behold without a veil thy face. Topics: Communion; Holy Communion; Joy, Praise and Thanksgiving; Year B Easter 3; Year B Proper 15 Languages: English Tune Title: GWEEDORE
Author of life divine
Omer Westendorf
1916 - 1997 Person Name: Omer Westendorf, b. 1916 Scripture: Proverbs 9:1-6 Author of "You Satisfy the Hungry Heart (Gift of Finest Wheat)" in With One Voice Omer Westendorf, one of the earliest lyricists for Roman Catholic liturgical music in English, died on October 22, 1997, at the age of eighty-one.
Born on February 24, 1916, Omer got his start in music publishing after World War II, when he brought home for his parish choir in Cincinnati some of the Mass settings he had discovered in Holland. Interest in the new music being published in Europe led to his creation of the World Library of Sacred Music, initially a music-importing firm that brought much of this new European repertoire to U.S. parishes. Operating out of a garage in those early years, Omer often joked about the surprised expressions of visitors who stopped by and found a wide range of sheet music in various states of “storage” (read disarray). Later, as World Library Publications, the company began publishing some of its own music, including new works with English texts by some of those same Dutch composers, for example, Jan Vermulst. In 1955 World Library published the first edition of The Peoples Hymnal, which would become the People's Mass Book in 1964, one of the first hymnals to reflect the liturgical reforms proposed by Vatican II. Omer also introduced the music of Lucien Deiss to Catholic parishes through the two volumes of Biblical Hymns and Psalms.
Using his own name and several pen names, Omer composed numerous compositions for liturgical use, though his best-known works may be the texts for the hymns “Where Charity and Love Prevail,” “Sent Forth by God’s Blessing,” and especially “Gift of Finest Wheat.” As he lay dying, his family and friends gathered around his bed to sing his text “Shepherd of Souls, in Love, Come, Feed Us.” NPM honored Omer as its Pastoral Musician of the Year in 1985.
--liturgicalleaders.blogspot.com/2008
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Pseudonyms:
Paul Francis
Mark Evans
J. Clifford Evers
--Letter from Tom Smith, Executive Director of The Hymn Society, to Leonard Ellinwood, 6 February 1980. DNAH Archives.
Omer Westendorf
Robert Kreutz
1922 - 1996 Person Name: Robert E. Kreutz, b. 1922 Scripture: Proverbs 9:1-6 Composer of "BICENTENNIAL" in With One Voice
Robert Kreutz
Charles Wesley
1707 - 1788 Person Name: Charles Wesley, 1707-788 Scripture: Proverbs 9:1-11 Author of "Happy are they who find the grace" in Singing the Faith Charles Wesley, M.A. was the great hymn-writer of the Wesley family, perhaps, taking quantity and quality into consideration, the great hymn-writer of all ages. Charles Wesley was the youngest son and 18th child of Samuel and Susanna Wesley, and was born at Epworth Rectory, Dec. 18, 1707. In 1716 he went to Westminster School, being provided with a home and board by his elder brother Samuel, then usher at the school, until 1721, when he was elected King's Scholar, and as such received his board and education free. In 1726 Charles Wesley was elected to a Westminster studentship at Christ Church, Oxford, where he took his degree in 1729, and became a college tutor. In the early part of the same year his religious impressions were much deepened, and he became one of the first band of "Oxford Methodists."
In 1735 he went with his brother John to Georgia, as secretary to General Oglethorpe, having before he set out received Deacon's and Priest's Orders on two successive Sundays. His stay in Georgia was very short; he returned to England in 1736, and in 1737 came under the influence of Count Zinzendorf and the Moravians, especially of that remarkable man who had so large a share in moulding John Wesley's career, Peter Bonier, and also of a Mr. Bray, a brazier in Little Britain. On Whitsunday, 1737, [sic. 1738] he "found rest to his soul," and in 1738 he became curate to his friend, Mr. Stonehouse, Vicar of Islington, but the opposition of the churchwardens was so great that the Vicar consented that he "should preach in his church no more." Henceforth his work was identified with that of his brother John, and he became an indefatigable itinerant and field preacher. On April 8, 1749, he married Miss Sarah Gwynne. His marriage, unlike that of his brother John, was a most happy one; his wife was accustomed to accompany him on his evangelistic journeys, which were as frequent as ever until the year 1756," when he ceased to itinerate, and mainly devoted himself to the care of the Societies in London and Bristol. Bristol was his headquarters until 1771, when he removed with his family to London, and, besides attending to the Societies, devoted himself much, as he had done in his youth, to the spiritual care of prisoners in Newgate. He had long been troubled about the relations of Methodism to the Church of England, and strongly disapproved of his brother John's "ordinations." Wesley-like, he expressed his disapproval in the most outspoken fashion, but, as in the case of Samuel at an earlier period, the differences between the brothers never led to a breach of friendship. He died in London, March 29, 1788, and was buried in Marylebone churchyard. His brother John was deeply grieved because he would not consent to be interred in the burial-ground of the City Road Chapel, where he had prepared a grave for himself, but Charles said, "I have lived, and I die, in the Communion of the Church of England, and I will be buried in the yard of my parish church." Eight clergymen of the Church of England bore his pall. He had a large family, four of whom survived him; three sons, who all became distinguished in the musical world, and one daughter, who inherited some of her father's poetical genius. The widow and orphans were treated with the greatest kindness and generosity by John Wesley.
As a hymn-writer Charles Wesley was unique. He is said to have written no less than 6500 hymns, and though, of course, in so vast a number some are of unequal merit, it is perfectly marvellous how many there are which rise to the highest degree of excellence. His feelings on every occasion of importance, whether private or public, found their best expression in a hymn. His own conversion, his own marriage, the earthquake panic, the rumours of an invasion from France, the defeat of Prince Charles Edward at Culloden, the Gordon riots, every Festival of the Christian Church, every doctrine of the Christian Faith, striking scenes in Scripture history, striking scenes which came within his own view, the deaths of friends as they passed away, one by one, before him, all furnished occasions for the exercise of his divine gift. Nor must we forget his hymns for little children, a branch of sacred poetry in which the mantle of Dr. Watts seems to have fallen upon him. It would be simply impossible within our space to enumerate even those of the hymns which have become really classical. The saying that a really good hymn is as rare an appearance as that of a comet is falsified by the work of Charles Wesley; for hymns, which are really good in every respect, flowed from his pen in quick succession, and death alone stopped the course of the perennial stream.
It has been the common practice, however for a hundred years or more to ascribe all translations from the German to John Wesley, as he only of the two brothers knew that language; and to assign to Charles Wesley all the original hymns except such as are traceable to John Wesley through his Journals and other works.
The list of 482 original hymns by John and Charles Wesley listed in this Dictionary of Hymnology have formed an important part of Methodist hymnody and show the enormous influence of the Wesleys on the English hymnody of the nineteenth century.
-- Excerpts from John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology (1907)
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Charles Wesley, the son of Samuel Wesley, was born at Epworth, Dec. 18, 1707. He was educated at Westminster School and afterwards at Christ Church, Oxford, where he graduated M.A. In 1735, he took Orders and immediately proceeded with his brother John to Georgia, both being employed as missionaries of the S.P.G. He returned to England in 1736. For many years he engaged with his brother in preaching the Gospel. He died March 29, 1788. To Charles Wesley has been justly assigned the appellation of the "Bard of Methodism." His prominence in hymn writing may be judged from the fact that in the "Wesleyan Hymn Book," 623 of the 770 hymns were written by him; and he published more than thirty poetical works, written either by himself alone, or in conjunction with his brother. The number of his separate hymns is at least five thousand.
--Annotations of the Hymnal, Charles Hutchins, M.A., 1872.
Charles Wesley
