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Author: Carl P. Daw Meter: 10.10.10.10 with refrain Appears in 2 hymnals Hymnal Title: Calvin Hymnary Project First Line: When we seek language to praise you, O God Refrain First Line: Infinite intimate, unbounded friend

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PERICHORESIS

Meter: 10.10.10.10 with refrain Appears in 2 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: Carl F. Schalk Hymnal Title: More Voices Tune Key: C Major Incipit: 33251 12343 23325 Used With Text: When We Seek Language

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When We Seek Language

Author: Carl P. Daw, Jr., 1944- Hymnal: Community of Christ Sings #61 (2013) Meter: 10.10.10.10 with refrain Hymnal Title: Community of Christ Sings First Line: When we seek language to praise you, O God Refrain First Line: Infinite Intimate, unbounded Friend Topics: God Mystery of; God Names of; God's Love; Holy Spirit; Jesus Christ's Life; New Life in Christ; Praise; Trinity Scripture: 2 Corinthians 5:16-17 Languages: English Tune Title: PERICHORESIS

When We Seek Language

Author: Carl P. Daw, Jr. Hymnal: More Voices #49 (2007) Meter: 10.10.10.10 with refrain Hymnal Title: More Voices First Line: When we seek language to praise you, O God Refrain First Line: Infinite intimate unbounded friend Lyrics: 1 When we seek language to praise you, O God, all we can utter seems stale, tame, or odd. Tongue-tied and word-lost, we struggle to find phrases that slight neither heart, soul, nor mind: Refrain: Infinite intimate unbounded friend, cosmic companion who loves without end, nearer than heartbeat, more subtle than breath, keener than insight, and stronger than death. 2 Steadfastly loving, you gave us your Word, living among us on earth, seen and heard, teacher and healer whose promise came true, dying and rising to make all things new: [Refrain] 3 To be our guardian, supporter, and guide, you sent your Spirit to stay by our side, source of community, wellspring of prayer, power to strengthen, and courage to dare: [Refrain] Topics: Praise; Christian Year Christmas; Christian Year Easter; Christian Year Pentecost; Christian Year Trinity Sunday; God Images; Inspiration; Love of God/Christ; Praise; Redemption; Remembrance Day; Service Music Sanctus; Thanksgiving; Trinity Scripture: John 1:14 Languages: English Tune Title: PERICHORESIS

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Carl P. Daw Jr.

b. 1944 Person Name: Carl P. Daw, Jr., 1944- Hymnal Title: Community of Christ Sings Author of "When We Seek Language" in Community of Christ Sings Carl P. Daw, Jr. (b. Louisville, KY, 1944) is the son of a Baptist minister. He holds a PhD degree in English (University of Virginia) and taught English from 1970-1979 at the College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, Virginia. As an Episcopal priest (MDiv, 1981, University of the South, Sewanee, Tennesee) he served several congregations in Virginia, Connecticut and Pennsylvania. From 1996-2009 he served as the Executive Director of The Hymn Society in the United States and Canada. Carl Daw began to write hymns as a consultant member of the Text committee for The Hymnal 1982, and his many texts often appeared first in several small collections, including A Year of Grace: Hymns for the Church Year (1990); To Sing God’s Praise (1992), New Psalms and Hymns and Spiritual Songs (1996), Gathered for Worship (2006). Other publications include A Hymntune Psalter (2 volumes, 1988-1989) and Breaking the Word: Essays on the Liturgical Dimensions of Preaching (1994, for which he served as editor and contributed two essays. In 2002 a collection of 25 of his hymns in Japanese was published by the United Church of Christ in Japan. He wrote Glory to God: A Companion (2016) for the 2013 hymnal of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.). Emily Brink

Carl Schalk

1929 - 2021 Person Name: Carl F. Schalk Hymnal Title: More Voices Composer of "PERICHORESIS" in More Voices Carl F. Schalk (b. Des Plaines, IL, 1929; d. 2021) is professor of music emeritus at Concordia University, River Forest, Illinois, where he taught church music since 1965. He completed graduate work at the Eastman School of Music in Rochester, New York, and at Concordia Seminary, St. Louis, Missouri. From 1952 to 1956 he taught and directed music at Zion Lutheran Church in Wausau, Wisconsin, and from 1958 to 1965 served as director of music for the International Lutheran Hour. Honored as a Fellow of the Hymn Society in the United States and Canada in 1992, Schalk was editor of the Church Music journal (1966-1980), a member of the committee that prepared the Lutheran Book of Worship (1978), and a widely published composer of church music. Included in his publications are The Roots of Hymnody in The Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod (1965), Key Words in Church Music (1978), and Luther on Music: Paradigms of Praise (1988). His numerous hymn tunes and carols are collected in the Carl Schalk Hymnary (1989) and its 1991 Supplement. Bert Polman