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O Spirit of Life, O Spirit of God

Author: Johann Niedling; John C. Mattes Meter: 10.8.8.8.10 Appears in 12 hymnals

Meter: 10.8.8.8.10 Appears in 40 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: Johann Sebastian Bach, 1685-1750; Alastair Cassels-Brown, b. 1927 Tune Sources: Geistliche Kirchengesang, 1623 Tune Key: A Major Incipit: 11712 71765 32211 Used With Text: O Spirit of Life, O Spirit of God

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O Spirit of Life, O Spirit of God

Author: John Caspar Mattes; Johann Niedling Hymnal: Common Service Book of the Lutheran Church #145 (1917) Meter: 10.8.8.8.10 Lyrics: 1 O Spirit of Life, O Spirit of God, In every need Thou bringest aid, Thou camest forth from God’s great throne, From God, the Father and the Son; O Spirit of Life, O Spirit of God. 2 O Spirit of life, O Spirit of God, Make us to love Thy sacred Word; The holy flame of love impart, That charity may warm each heart; O Spirit of Life, O Spirit of God. 3 O Spirit of life, O Spirit of God, Increase our faith in our dear Lord; Unless Thy grace the power should give, None can believe in Christ and live; O Spirit of Life, O Spirit of God. 4 O Spirit of life, O Spirit of God, Enlighten us by Thy blest Word; Teach us to know the Father’s love, And His dear Son, Who reigns above: O Spirit of Life, O Spirit of God. 5 O Spirit of Life, O Spirit of God, By Whom our souls to heaven are led, Make us to fight so valiantly That we may reign eternally; O Spirit of Life, O Spirit of God. 6 O Spirit of Life, O Spirit of God, Forsake us not in death or need. We'll sing Thy praise and honor Thee With grateful hearts eternally; O Spirit of Life, O Spirit of God. Amen. Topics: The Church Year Whitsunday-The Holy Spirit Languages: English Tune Title: O HEILIGER GEIST, O HEILIGER GOTT

O Spirit of Life, O Spirit of God

Author: Johann Niedling, 1602-68; John C. Mattes, 1876-1948 Hymnal: Christian Worship (1993) #186 (1993) Meter: 10.8.8.8.10 Lyrics: 1 O Spirit of life, O Spirit of God, Revealer of God's holy Word, You come to us from God's great throne, From God the Father and the Son, O Spirit of life, O Spirit of God. 2 O Spirit of life, O Spirit of God, Enlighten us by that same Word; Unless your grace the pow'r should give, None can believe in Christ and live, O Spirit of life, O Spirit of God. 3 O Spirit of life, O Spirit of God, Increase our faith in our dear Lord; Teach us to know the Father's love And his dear Son, who reigns above, O Spirit of life, O Spirit of God. 4 O Spirit of life, O Spirit of God, Lead us to love your sacred Word; The holy flame of love impart, That kindness may inspire each heart, O Spirit of life, O Spirit of God. Topics: Pentecost; Pentecost Languages: English Tune Title: O JESULEIN SÜSS

O Spirit of life, O Spirit of God

Author: Johannes Niedling, 1602-68; John Caspar Mattes Hymnal: Together in Song #401 (1999) Meter: 10.8.8.8.10 Lyrics: 1 O Spirit of life, O Spirit of God, you comfort us in every need, sent down to us from heaven's high throne, from God the Father and the Son, O Spirit of life, O Spirit of God. 2 O Spirit of life, O Spirit of God, make us to love your holy word. Your flame of love to us impart, that love for all may fill each heart, O Spirit of life, O Spirit of God. 3 O Spirit of life, O Spirit of God, increase our faith in our dear Lord. Unless your grace the power should give none can believe in Christ and live, O Spirit of life, O Spirit of God. 4 O Spirit of life, O Spirit of God, enlighten us by your blest word. To us the heavenly Father show, and teach us his dear Son to know, O Spirit of life, O Spirit of God. 5 O Spirit of life, O Spirit of God, by you our souls to heaven are led. Make us to strive with valour here, and reign with you in glory there. O Spirit of life, O Spirit of God. Topics: Eternal Life; God's Love to Us; Holy Spirit; Invocation; Perseverance; Prayer for Illimination; Scripture; Worship The Word Scripture: 1 Corinthians 12:1-3 Languages: English Tune Title: O HEILIGER GEIST

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Johann Sebastian Bach

1685 - 1750 Person Name: J. S. Bach, 1685-1750 Arranger of "O HEILIGER GEIST" in With One Voice Johann Sebastian Bach was born at Eisenach into a musical family and in a town steeped in Reformation history, he received early musical training from his father and older brother, and elementary education in the classical school Luther had earlier attended. Throughout his life he made extraordinary efforts to learn from other musicians. At 15 he walked to Lüneburg to work as a chorister and study at the convent school of St. Michael. From there he walked 30 miles to Hamburg to hear Johann Reinken, and 60 miles to Celle to become familiar with French composition and performance traditions. Once he obtained a month's leave from his job to hear Buxtehude, but stayed nearly four months. He arranged compositions from Vivaldi and other Italian masters. His own compositions spanned almost every musical form then known (Opera was the notable exception). In his own time, Bach was highly regarded as organist and teacher, his compositions being circulated as models of contrapuntal technique. Four of his children achieved careers as composers; Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven, Mendelssohn, Schumann, Brahms, and Chopin are only a few of the best known of the musicians that confessed a major debt to Bach's work in their own musical development. Mendelssohn began re-introducing Bach's music into the concert repertoire, where it has come to attract admiration and even veneration for its own sake. After 20 years of successful work in several posts, Bach became cantor of the Thomas-schule in Leipzig, and remained there for the remaining 27 years of his life, concentrating on church music for the Lutheran service: over 200 cantatas, four passion settings, a Mass, and hundreds of chorale settings, harmonizations, preludes, and arrangements. He edited the tunes for Schemelli's Musicalisches Gesangbuch, contributing 16 original tunes. His choral harmonizations remain a staple for studies of composition and harmony. Additional melodies from his works have been adapted as hymn tunes. --John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology (1907)

John Caspar Mattes

1876 - 1948 Person Name: John C. Mattes, 1876-1948 Translator of "O Spirit of Life" in With One Voice Born: November 8, 1876, Easton, Pennsylvania. Died: January 27, 1948. Educated at the Theological Seminary at Mount Airy, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Mattes pastored in Trenton, New Jersey (1901-15), and Scranton, Pennsylvania (1915-38), and was a professor of theology at Wartburg Theological Seminary, Dubuque, Iowa (1939-48). Translations: Lo, How a Rose E’er Blooming O Spirit of Life http://www.hymntime.com/tch/bio/m/a/t/mattes_jc.htm