Voices Found: Seeking Light and Truth, Proper 26A VF 148, November 1




 

Send out your light, Psalm 43

VF 148


Antiphon: Send out your light and truth so they may lead me


Give judgement for me, O God, and defend my cause against an ungodly people

Deliver me from the deceitful and the wicked


For you are the God of my strength

Why have you put me from you?

Why do I go so heavily while the enemy oppresses me?


Antiphon: Send out your light and your truth so they may lead me!


That I may go to the alter of God, to the God of my joy and gladness

And on the harp I will give thanks to you, O God my God


Antiphon: Send out your light and truth that they may lead me


Why are you so full of heaviness, O my soul?

And why are you do disquieted within me?


Put your trust in God; for I will yet give thanks to the Most High

Who is the help of my countenance and my God.


Antiphon: Send out your light and your truth so they may lead me. 


Words: Psalm 43 trans. John L Hooker adapted Lisa Neufeld Thomas 

Music: Melody from Hildegard of Bingen (1098-1179), Antiphon 16 Caritas Abundat,  adapted by Lisa Neufeld Thomas




Psalm 43 is appointed for Proper 26A, and  also for the Easter Vigil. My  plainsong arrangement is an adaptation of Antiphon 16 by Hildegard of Bingen,  a chant for cantor and congregation.  Traditionally plainsong  is sung a cappella.  However, we offer an accompaniment to encourage congregational singing.  At my request Dr. Barry Rose, a renown choral director in UK, wrote a traditional  organ part that is published in the pew edition of Voices Found.  Also at my request Dr. Carl Heywood,  a renown choral director and composer in the US, provided a medieval style accompaniment which  echoes the ancient voices of Hildegard's Abbey.  It is published is in The Leader's Guide to Voices Found. 

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