Once We Sang and Danced with Gladness

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Once we sang and danced with gladness

Author: Susan R. Briehl
Tune: KAS DZIEDAJA
ONE LICENSE: 12769
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Author: Susan R. Briehl

The Rev. Susan R. Briehl is a pastor of the ELCA. She served as Executive Director of Holden Village, a Lutheran center for renewal in the North Cascade Mountains in Washington State. She began that ministry in August of 1994 along with her husband, Martin Wells. Previously they served for 8 years as campus pastors at Pacific Lutheran University and for 5 years as pastors of Our Saviour's Lutheran Church in Bellingham, WA. She has also been a program associate at Valparaiso University in Valparaiso, IL. Susan holds both a B.A. and an M.A. in English from Washington State University and a Master of Divinity from Pacific Lutheran Theological Seminary in Berkeley, CA. She was ordained in 1981. She has written numerous books, hymns, and w… Go to person page >

Text Information

First Line: Once we sang and danced with gladness
Title: Once We Sang and Danced with Gladness
Author: Susan R. Briehl
Meter: 8.7.8.7
Language: English
Copyright: © 2003 GIA Publications, Inc.

Tune

KAS DZIEDAJA

CAPTIVITY is a traditional Latvian folk tune; it is also known as KAS DZIEDAJA from the Latvian poem associated with the tune. The title CAPTIVITY is derived from its more recent use (especially in post-Vatican II Roman Catholicism) with Ewald Bash's paraphrase of Psalm 137, which begins "By the Bab…

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Evangelical Lutheran Worship #701

RitualSong (2nd ed.) #773

Worship (4th ed.) #477

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