All Glory, laud and honour

by CCW | 2 April 2009 05:00

All Glory, laud and honour

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All glory, laud and honour
To Thee, Redeemer, King,
To Whom the lips of children
Made sweet hosannas ring.

Thou art the King of Israel,
Thou David’s royal Son,
Who in the Lord’s Name comest,
The King and Blessèd One.

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The company of angels
Are praising Thee on High,
And mortal men and all things
Created make reply.

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The people of the Hebrews
With palms before Thee went;
Our prayer and praise and anthems
Before Thee we present.

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To Thee, before Thy passion,
They sang their hymns of praise;
To Thee, now high exalted,
Our melody we raise.

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Thou didst accept their praises;
Accept the prayers we bring,
Who in all good delightest,
Thou good and gracious King.

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This 9th century hymn by St. Theodulph of Orleans has, from its beginnings, been associated with Palm Sunday and thus with Holy Week. An apocryphal legend claims that Theodulph sang it from a prison window as King Louis the Pious was processing on Palm Sunday, and was freed as a result of the King’s pleasure! In any event, the hymn, along with its 17th century tune by Melchior Teschner, first published in Leipzig in 1615, has become a memorable feature of the Palm Sunday liturgy. As J.M. Neale, the 19th century translator of many Latin hymns, noted “another verse was usually sung until the 17th Century, at the quaintness of which we can scarcely avoid a smile“:

Be Thou, O Lord, the Rider,
And we the little ass,
That to God’s holy city
Together we may pass.

We sing this hymn in procession, out of the ‘prison’ of the Hall, as it were, on our way to the Church (minus the verse above, though without disrespect to all and any little asses!) Gloria, laus et honor.

Almighty God, whose most dear Son went not up to joy but first he suffered pain, and entered not into glory before he was crucified: Mercifully grant that we, walking the way of the cross, may find it none other than the way of life and peace; through the same thy Son Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.

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