Rejoice in God's Saints

Rejoice in God's saints, today and all days

Author: Fred Pratt Green (1977)
Published in 12 hymnals

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Rejoice! (Inspiring Organ Music of Prais…

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HANOVER

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Oh, Worship the King - (Choral Score)

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1 Rejoice in God's saints, today and all days!
A world without saints forgets how to praise.
Their faith in acquiring the habit of prayer,
their depth of adoring, Lord, help us to share.

2 Some march with events to turn them God's way;
some need to withdraw, the better to pray;
some carry the gospel through fire and through flood:
our world is their parish: their purpose is God.

3 Rejoice in those saints, unpraised and unknown,
who bear someone's cross, or shoulder their own:
they share our complaining, our comforts, our cares:
what patience in caring, what courage, is theirs!

4 Rejoice in God's saints, today and all days!
A world without saints forgets how to praise.
In loving, in living, they prove it is true:
the way of self-giving, Lord, leads us to you.

Source: Church Hymnary, Fourth Edition #742

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Author: Fred Pratt Green

The Reverend Fred Pratt Green (2 September 1903 – 22 October 2000) CBE was a British Methodist minister and hymnwriter. Born in Roby, Lancashire, England, he began his ministry in the Filey circuit. He was ordained as a Methodist minister in 1928 and served circuits in the north and south of England until 1969. During his career as a minister he wrote numerous plays and hymns. It was not until he retired, however, that he began writing prolifically. His hymns reflect his rejection of fundamentalism and show his concern with social issues. They include many that were written to supply obvious liturgical needs of the modern church, speaking to topics or appropriate for events for which there were few traditional hymns available. His… Go to person page >

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First Line: Rejoice in God's saints, today and all days
Title: Rejoice in God's Saints
Author: Fred Pratt Green (1977)
Meter: 10.10.11.11
Language: English
Copyright: Words © 1978, 1980 Hope Publishing Co.
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Tune

HANOVER (Croft)

William Croft (b. Nether Ettington, Warwickshire, England, 1678; d. Bath, Somerset, England, 1727) was a boy chorister in the Chapel Royal in London and then an organist at St. Anne's, Soho. Later he became organist, composer, and master of the children of the Chapel Royal, and eventually organist a…

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LAUDATE DOMINUM (Parry)

LAUDATE DOMINUM (Latin words for the opening phrase of Psalm 150) comes from the end of the anthem "Hear My Words, O Ye People" by C. Hubert H. Parry (PHH 145), an anthem he composed in 1894 for a festival of the Salisbury Diocesan Choral Association. Parry's tune was set to Baker's text in the 1916…

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OLD 104TH


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Media

The United Methodist Hymnal #708
Worship and Rejoice #531
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Instances

Instances (12)TextImageAudioScore
Chalice Hymnal #476Text
Church Hymnal, Fifth Edition #471
Church Hymnary, Fourth Edition #742Text
Evangelical Lutheran Worship #418Image
Hymns Ancient & Modern, New Standard Edition #508
Rejoice in the Lord #398Text
Sing Glory: Hymns, Psalms and Songs for a New Century #675
The United Methodist Hymnal #708TextImageAudioScore
The Worshiping Church #749TextImage
Together in Song: Australian Hymn Book II #470
With One Voice #689Text
Worship and Rejoice #531TextImageAudioScore
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