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Our Father, Clothed with Majesty

Author: Marie J. Post; Dewey Westra Meter: 8.8.8.8 Appears in 3 hymnals Hymnal Title: Calvin Hymnary Project Text Sources: Heidelberg Catechism's section on the Lord's Prayer, and based on Dewey Westra's 1931 versification

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VATER UNSER

Meter: 8.8.8.8.8.8 Appears in 172 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: Johann S. Bach Hymnal Title: Psalter Hymnal (Gray) Tune Sources: V. Schumann's Geistliche Lieder, 1539; St. John Passion, harm. in Tune Key: c minor Incipit: 55345 32155 47534 Used With Text: Our Father, Clothed with Majesty

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Our Father, Clothed with Majesty

Author: Dewey Westra Hymnal: Psalter Hymnal (Blue) #431 (1976) Meter: 8.8.8.8.8.8 Hymnal Title: Psalter Hymnal (Blue) First Line: Our Father, clothed with majsety Topics: Bread, Daily; Image Of God; Law of God; Love For Enemies; Preservation Of Believers; Temptation And Trial; Forgiveness of Sins; Fatherhood Of God; Name Of God; Will of God; Grace Of God, Of Christ; Glorifying God Scripture: Matthew 6:9-13 Languages: English Tune Title: THE LORD'S PRAYER (VATER UNSER)

Our Father, Clothed with Majesty

Author: Marie J. Post Hymnal: Psalter Hymnal (Gray) #562 (1987) Meter: 8.8.8.8.8.8 Hymnal Title: Psalter Hymnal (Gray) Topics: Doxologies; Biblical Names & Places Satan; Temptation & Trial; Will of God; Walk with God; Biblical Names & Places Satan; Confession of Sin; Doxologies; Forgiveness; Kingdom; Temptation & Trial; Walk with God; Will of God Scripture: Matthew 6:9-13 Languages: English Tune Title: VATER UNSER

Our Father, Clothed with Majesty

Author: Dewey Westra Hymnal: Psalter Hymnal (Red) #420 (1934) Meter: 8.8.8.8.8.8 Hymnal Title: Psalter Hymnal (Red) Topics: Assurance; Daily bread; Conscience; Cross of Christ; Fatherhood Of God; Forgiveness of Sin; Image Of God; Kingdom of God; Law of God; Love for Men; Obedience; Prayer; Preservation Of Believers; Satan; Temptation; Will of God; Word of God Languages: English Tune Title: THE LORD'S PRAYER (VATER UNSER)

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Marie J. Post

1919 - 1990 Hymnal Title: Psalter Hymnal (Gray) Author of "Our Father, Clothed with Majesty" in Psalter Hymnal (Gray) Marie (Tuinstra) Post (b. Jenison, MI, 1919; d. Grand Rapids, MI, 1990) While attending Dutch church services as a child, Post was first introduced to the Genevan psalms, which influenced her later writings. She attended Calvin College, Grand Rapids, Michigan, where she studied with Henry Zylstra. From 1940 to 1942 she taught at the Muskegon Christian Junior High School. For over thirty years Post wrote poetry for the Grand Rapids Press and various church periodicals. She gave many readings of her poetry in churches and schools and has been published in a number of journals and poetry anthologies. Two important collections of her poems are I Never Visited an Artist Before (1977) and the posthumous Sandals, Sails, and Saints (1993). A member of the 1987 Psalter Hymnal Revision Committee, Post was a significant contributor to its array of original texts and paraphrases. Bert Polman

Johann Sebastian Bach

1685 - 1750 Person Name: Johann S. Bach Hymnal Title: Psalter Hymnal (Gray) Harmonizer of "VATER UNSER" in Psalter Hymnal (Gray) 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)

Dewey Westra

1899 - 1979 Hymnal Title: Psalter Hymnal (Red) Translator of "Our Father, Clothed with Majesty" in Psalter Hymnal (Red) Dewey D. Westra (b. Holland, MI, 1899; d. Wyoming, MI, 1979) was a dedicated educator, writer, and musician who faithfully served the Christian Reformed Church. He attended Calvin College, Grand Rapids, Michigan, and Wayne State University in Detroit. In the 1920s and 30s he was a Christian school Principal in Byron Center and Detroit, Michigan. During the 1940s he was involved in various ventures, including becoming a diesel instructor for the Ford Motor Company. After 1947 he became a principal again, serving at Christian schools in Sioux Center, Iowa; Randolph, Wisconsin; and Walker, Michigan. Westra wrote poetry in English, Dutch, and Frisian, and translated poetry into English from Dutch and Frisian. He arranged many songs and composed songs for children's choirs. He also versified all one hundred and fifty psalms and the Lord's Prayer, as well as the songs of Mary, Zechariah, and Simeon, in meters that fit the corresponding Genevan psalm tunes. His manuscripts are housed in the library of Calvin College. Seventeen of his psalm versifications and his paraphrases of the Lucan canticles were included in the 1934 and in the 1959 editions of the Psalter Hymnal. Much of the credit for keeping the Genevan psalms alive in the Christian Reformed Church goes to Westra. Bert Polman