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Before I Take the Body of My Lord

Author: John L. Bell Appears in 12 hymnals Hymnal Title: Calvin Hymnary Project Topics: liturgical Communion Songs

Meter: 10.10.10.4 Appears in 11 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: John L. Bell Hymnal Title: Glory to God Tune Key: b minor Incipit: 53217 53451 73456 Used With Text: Before I Take the Body of My Lord

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Before I take the body of my Lord

Author: John L. Bell (b. 1949); Graham Maule (b. 1958) Hymnal: Ancient and Modern #426 (2013) Meter: 10.10.10.4 Hymnal Title: Ancient and Modern Topics: Holy Communion; Penitence; Sin; The First Sunday of Lent Year C Scripture: Matthew 6:12-15 Languages: English Tune Title: LAYING DOWN

These I Lay Down

Author: John Bell Hymnal: Chalice Hymnal #391 (1995) Meter: 8.8.8.4 Hymnal Title: Chalice Hymnal First Line: Before I take the body of my Lord Topics: The Church at Worship The Lord's Supper; God's Church The Church at Worship: The Lord's Supper; Forgiveness; Lord's Supper; Penitence Languages: English Tune Title: LAYING DOWN

Before I take the Body of my Lord

Hymnal: Church Hymnal, Fifth Edition #402 (2000) Hymnal Title: Church Hymnal, Fifth Edition

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John L. Bell

b. 1949 Person Name: John Bell Hymnal Title: Chalice Hymnal Author of "These I Lay Down" in Chalice Hymnal 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

Graham Maule

1958 - 2019 Person Name: Graham Maule (b. 1956) Hymnal Title: Church Hymnary (4th ed.) Author of "Before I take the body of my Lord" in Church Hymnary (4th ed.)