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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
Gift of Finest Wheat
Author: Omer Westendorf, 1916-1997 Hymnal: Glory and Praise (3rd. ed.) #487 (2015) Meter: 8.6.8.6 D Scripture: Proverbs 9:1-6 First Line: As when the shepherd calls his sheep Refrain First Line: You satisfy the hungry heart Topics: Eucharist; Good Shepherd; Hunger; Unity; Service Music for Mass Communion Song; The Liturgical Year The Most Holy Body and Blood of Christ (Corpus Christi); The Liturgical Year The Most Sacred Heart of Jesus Languages: English Tune Title: BICENTENNIAL
Gift of Finest Wheat
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
John L. Bell
b. 1949 Person Name: John L. Bell, 1949- Scripture: Proverbs 9:1-6 Author of "God has a table" in Together in Song John Bell (b. 1949) was born in the Scottish town of Kilmarnock in Ayrshire, intending to be a music teacher when he felt the call to the ministry. But in frustration with his classes, he did volunteer work in a deprived neighborhood in London for a time and also served for two years as an associate pastor at the English Reformed Church in Amsterdam. After graduating he worked for five years as a youth pastor for the Church of Scotland, serving a large region that included about 500 churches. He then took a similar position with the Iona Community, and with his colleague Graham Maule, began to broaden the youth ministry to focus on renewal of the church’s worship. His approach soon turned to composing songs within the identifiable traditions of hymnody that began to address concerns missing from the current Scottish hymnal:
"I discovered that seldom did our hymns represent the plight of poor people to God. There was nothing that dealt with unemployment, nothing that dealt with living in a multicultural society and feeling disenfranchised. There was nothing about child abuse…,that reflected concern for the developing world, nothing that helped see ourselves as brothers and sisters to those who are suffering from poverty or persecution." [from an interview in Reformed Worship (March 1993)]
That concern not only led to writing many songs, but increasingly to introducing them internationally in many conferences, while also gathering songs from around the world. He was convener for the fourth edition of the Church of Scotland’s Church Hymnary (2005), a very different collection from the previous 1973 edition. His books, The Singing Thing and The Singing Thing Too, as well as the many collections of songs and worship resources produced by John Bell—some together with other members of the Iona Community’s “Wild Goose Resource Group,” —are available in North America from GIA Publications.
Emily Brink
John L. Bell
