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Author: Mary E. Byrne, 1880-1931; Eleanor H. Hull, 1860-1935 Meter: 10.10.9.10 Appears in 159 hymnals Scripture: Matthew 6:19-21 First Line: Be thou my vision, O Lord of my heart Lyrics: 1 Be Thou my Vision, O Lord of my heart; Naught be all else to me, save that Thou art: Thou my best thought, by day and by night, Waking or sleeping, Thy presence my light. 2 Be Thou my wisdom, and Thou my true word; I ever with Thee and Thou with me, Lord; Thou my soul's shelter, Thou my high tower, Raise thou me heav'nward, O Pow'r of my pow'r. 3 Riches I heed not, nor vain, empty praise, Thou mine inheritance, now and always: Thou, and Thou only, first in my heart, great God of heaven, my treasure Thou art. 4 Light of my soul, after victory won, May I reach heaven's joys, O bright heaven's Sun! Heart of my own heart, whatever befall, Still be my Vision, O Ruler of all. Topics: Trust, Guidance Used With Tune: SLANE Text Sources: Irish, 8th-10th cent.

Blest Creator of the light

Author: Unknown Meter: 7.7.7.7 Appears in 16 hymnals Scripture: Matthew 6:20 Lyrics: 1 Blest Creator of the light, making day with radiance bright, thou didst o’er the forming earth give the golden light its birth. 2 Thou didst mark the night from day with the dawn's first piercing ray: darkness now is drying nigh; listen to our humble cry. 3 May we ne’er by guilt depressed lose the way to endless rest; nor with idle thoughts and vain bind our souls to earth again. 4 Rather may we heav'nward rise where eternal treasure lies; purified by grace within, hating ev'ry deed of sin. 5 Holy Father, hear our cry through thy Son our Lord most high, who our thankful hearts adore with the Spirit evermore. Topics: Evening; Temptation, Penitence and Forgiveness; Year A Second Sunday Before Lent; Year B Baptism of Christ; Years A, B, and C Ash Wednesday; Years A, B, and C Easter Vigil Used With Tune: VIENNA

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Be Thou My Vision

Author: Mary E. Byrne; Eleanor H. Hull Hymnal: Praise for the Lord (Expanded Edition) #70 (1997) Meter: 10.10.10.10 Scripture: Matthew 6:19-21 First Line: Be Thou my vision, O Lord of my heart Lyrics: 1 Be Thou my vision, O Lord of my heart; Naught be all else to me save that Thou art, Thou my best thought, by day or by night, Waking or sleeping, Thy presence my light. 2 Be Thou my wisdom, be Thou my true Word; I ever with Thee, and Thou with me, Lord; Thou my great Father, I Thy true son; Thou in me dwelling, and I with Thee one. 3 Be Thou my buckler, my sword for the fight; Be Thou my dignity, Thou my delight, Thou my soul's shelter, Thou my high tower; Raise Thou me heav'n-ward, O power of my power. 4 Riches I heed not, nor man's empty praise; Thou my inheritance, now and always: Thou and Thou only, first in my heart, High King of heaven, my treasure Thou art. 5 High King of heaven, when vict'ry is won May I reach heaven's joys, O bright heav'n's sun! Heart of my heart, whatever befall, Still be my vision, O ruler of all. Topics: Christians Dependence; Prayer Petitions Languages: English Tune Title: SLANE

Be Thou My Vision

Author: Mary E. Byrne, 1880-1931; Eleanor H. Hull, 1860-1935 Hymnal: With One Voice #776 (1995) Meter: 10.10.9.10 Scripture: Matthew 6:19-21 First Line: Be thou my vision, O Lord of my heart Lyrics: 1 Be Thou my Vision, O Lord of my heart; Naught be all else to me, save that Thou art: Thou my best thought, by day and by night, Waking or sleeping, Thy presence my light. 2 Be Thou my wisdom, and Thou my true word; I ever with Thee and Thou with me, Lord; Thou my soul's shelter, Thou my high tower, Raise thou me heav'nward, O Pow'r of my pow'r. 3 Riches I heed not, nor vain, empty praise, Thou mine inheritance, now and always: Thou, and Thou only, first in my heart, great God of heaven, my treasure Thou art. 4 Light of my soul, after victory won, May I reach heaven's joys, O bright heaven's Sun! Heart of my own heart, whatever befall, Still be my Vision, O Ruler of all. Topics: Trust, Guidance Languages: English Tune Title: SLANE

Blest Creator of the light

Author: Unknown Hymnal: Complete Anglican Hymns Old and New #79 (2000) Meter: 7.7.7.7 Scripture: Matthew 6:20 Lyrics: 1 Blest Creator of the light, making day with radiance bright, thou didst o’er the forming earth give the golden light its birth. 2 Thou didst mark the night from day with the dawn's first piercing ray: darkness now is drying nigh; listen to our humble cry. 3 May we ne’er by guilt depressed lose the way to endless rest; nor with idle thoughts and vain bind our souls to earth again. 4 Rather may we heav'nward rise where eternal treasure lies; purified by grace within, hating ev'ry deed of sin. 5 Holy Father, hear our cry through thy Son our Lord most high, who our thankful hearts adore with the Spirit evermore. Topics: Evening; Temptation, Penitence and Forgiveness; Year A Second Sunday Before Lent; Year B Baptism of Christ; Years A, B, and C Ash Wednesday; Years A, B, and C Easter Vigil Languages: English Tune Title: VIENNA

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Johann Sebastian Bach

1685 - 1750 Person Name: Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750) Scripture: Matthew 6:16-21 Adapter and Harmonizer of "ERHALT UNS, HERR" in Common Praise (1998) 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)

Jacques Berthier

1923 - 1994 Person Name: Jacques Berthier, 1923-1994 Scripture: Matthew 6, 7 Composer of "[Wait for the Lord whose day is near]" in Singing Our Faith Jacques Berthier (b. Auxerre, Burgundy, June 27, 1923; d. June 27, 1994) A son of musical parents, Berthier studied music at the Ecole Cesar Franck in Paris. From 1961 until his death he served as organist at St. Ignace Church, Paris. Although his published works include numerous compositions for organ, voice, and instruments, Berthier is best known as the composer of service music for the Taizé community near Cluny, Burgundy. Influenced by the French liturgist and church musician Joseph Gelineau, Berthier began writing songs for equal voices in 1955 for the services of the then nascent community of twenty brothers at Taizé. As the Taizé community grew, Berthier continued to compose most of the mini-hymns, canons, and various associated instrumental arrangements, which are now universally known as the Taizé repertoire. In the past two decades this repertoire has become widely used in North American church music in both Roman Catholic and Protestant traditions. Bert Polman

Mary E. Byrne

1880 - 1931 Person Name: Mary E. Byrne, 1880-1931 Scripture: Matthew 6:19-21 Translator of "Be Thou My Vision" in With One Voice Mary Elizabeth Byrne, M.A. (July 2, 1880 – January 19, 1931) was born in Ireland. She translated the Old Irish Hymn, "Bí Thusa 'mo Shúile," into English as "Be Thou My Vision" in Ériu (the journal of the School of Irish Learning), in 1905. See also in: Wikipedia