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O Christ, You Wept When Grief Was Raw
Author: Graham Maule; John L. Bell; Iona Community Appears in 5 hymnals
O Christ, You Wept When Grief Was Raw
ROCKINGHAM (COMMUNION)
Meter: 8.8.8.8 Appears in 501 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: Edward Miller (1731-1807); David Evans (1874-1948) Tune Sources: Melody Tunbridge from A Second Supplement to Psalmody in Miniature, c. 1780 Tune Key: E Flat Major Incipit: 13421 35655 17655 Used With Text: O Christ, you wept when grief was raw
ROCKINGHAM (COMMUNION)
O Christ, You Wept When Grief Was Raw
Author: The Iona Community (Scotland) Hymnal: Common Praise (1998) #296 (1998) Meter: 8.8.8.8 Topics: Funeral; Funeral; Lazarus Scripture: Psalm 25 Languages: English Tune Title: ANGELUS
O Christ, You Wept When Grief Was Raw
O Christ, You Wept When Grief Was Raw
Author: John L. Bell, b. 1949; Graham Maule, b. 1958 Hymnal: Lift Up Your Hearts #467 (2013) Meter: 8.8.8.8 Topics: Death and Dying Scripture: John 11:35-37 Languages: English Tune Title: ROCKINGHAM
O Christ, You Wept When Grief Was Raw
O Christ, you wept when grief was raw
Author: Iona Community (Scotland) Hymnal: The Book of Praise #604 (1997) Topics: Doubt; Jesus Christ Presence of; Loneliness; Longing for God and Christ; Resurrection; Sacraments and Ordinances Funeral Scripture: John 11:17-37 Languages: English Tune Title: PALMER
O Christ, you wept when grief was raw
Iona Community
Person Name: The Iona Community (Scotland) Author of "O Christ, You Wept When Grief Was Raw" in Common Praise (1998) Iona Community, an ecumenical Christian group of men and women based on the small island of Iona off the coast of Scotland. The community began in 1938 when the Rev. George MacLeod of the Church of Scotland began a ministry among the unemployed poor who had been neglected by the church. He took a handful of men to the island to rebuild the ruins of a thousand-year-old abbey church. That rebuilding became a metaphor for the rebuilding of the common life, a return to the belief that daily activity is the stuff of godly service – work, and worship. The Community has since grown to include a group of members, associates, and friends all over the United Kingdom and many other countries. In addition to many conferences that attract people to Iona from around the world, the Community is known for its publishing of new songs and prayers for worship, both developed in community and gathered from around the world. For more information on the Iona Community, check their website: www.iona.org.uk. John Bell is probably the community’s most well-known member, having composed and arranged much of the community’s music.
Sing! A New Creation
Iona Community
David Evans
1874 - 1948 Person Name: David Evans (1874-1948) Harmonizer of "ROCKINGHAM (COMMUNION)" in Church Hymnary (4th ed.) David Evans (b. Resolven, Glamorganshire, Wales, 1874; d. Rosllannerchrugog, Denbighshire, Wales, 1948) was an important leader in Welsh church music. Educated at Arnold College, Swansea, and at University College, Cardiff, he received a doctorate in music from Oxford University. His longest professional post was as professor of music at University College in Cardiff (1903-1939), where he organized a large music department. He was also a well-known and respected judge at Welsh hymn-singing festivals and a composer of many orchestral and choral works, anthems, service music, and hymn tunes.
Bert Polman
David Evans
John L. Bell
b. 1949 Person Name: John L. Bell (b. 1949) Author of "O Christ, you wept when grief was raw" in Church Hymnary (4th ed.) John Bell (b. 1949) was born in the Scottish town of Kilmarnock in Ayrshire, intending to be a music teacher when he felt the call to the ministry. But in frustration with his classes, he did volunteer work in a deprived neighborhood in London for a time and also served for two years as an associate pastor at the English Reformed Church in Amsterdam. After graduating he worked for five years as a youth pastor for the Church of Scotland, serving a large region that included about 500 churches. He then took a similar position with the Iona Community, and with his colleague Graham Maule, began to broaden the youth ministry to focus on renewal of the church’s worship. His approach soon turned to composing songs within the identifiable traditions of hymnody that began to address concerns missing from the current Scottish hymnal:
"I discovered that seldom did our hymns represent the plight of poor people to God. There was nothing that dealt with unemployment, nothing that dealt with living in a multicultural society and feeling disenfranchised. There was nothing about child abuse…,that reflected concern for the developing world, nothing that helped see ourselves as brothers and sisters to those who are suffering from poverty or persecution." [from an interview in Reformed Worship (March 1993)]
That concern not only led to writing many songs, but increasingly to introducing them internationally in many conferences, while also gathering songs from around the world. He was convener for the fourth edition of the Church of Scotland’s Church Hymnary (2005), a very different collection from the previous 1973 edition. His books, The Singing Thing and The Singing Thing Too, as well as the many collections of songs and worship resources produced by John Bell—some together with other members of the Iona Community’s “Wild Goose Resource Group,” —are available in North America from GIA Publications.
Emily Brink
John L. Bell
