TEXTS TUNES AUTHORS HYMNALS


Text information
Title:Canticle of Christ's Obedience
Author:Catharine M. Noel
Scripture:Acts 1; Colossians 2; Philippians 2:11; Romans 6; Philippians 2:5-11; Philippians 2
Topic:Jesus Christ | Name of; Jesus Christ | Love of; Jesus Christ; The Grace of Jesus Christ | In Praise of Christ; Christian Year | Christ the King; Jesus Christ | Lordship; Canticles; Christian Year | Passion/Palm Sunday
Language:English
Refrain First Line:At the name of Jesus every knee shall bow
Notes:Responsive refrain to reading.
Tune information
Title:Canticle of Christ's Obedience
Composer:Ralph Vaughan Williams
Key:D Minor
Copyright:Music response 2 by permission of Oxford University Press.
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Response 2 (General):

   Christ Jesus, though he was in the form of God, 
      did not count equality with God a thing to be grasped, 
   but emptied Himself, taking the form of a servant, 
       being born in our likeness. 
 And being found in human form
  He humbled Himself and became obedient unto death, 
          even death on a cross. 
Therefore God has highly exalted Him, 
    and bestowed on Him the name which is above every name, 
     that at the name of Jesus every knee shall bow, 
         in heaven and on earth and under the earth, 
    and every tongue confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, 
        to the glory of God the Father.