Rev Mendez Sermons & Notes

,Rev. Arturo Mendez March 24 2021 Lent Sermon Hymn #430 Mid. Week 6 “My song is Love Unknown”     Written by Samuel Crossman in the year of 1625- 84)  Tune by John Ireland 1879 – 1962  The 17th century in England was a Golden age of a Christian poetry. From the intensely personal metaphysical verse of John Donne to the epic biblical  retellings of john Milton these poems were intense as hymns. Though some were set to music. in the  19 and 20 centuries.  My song is love unknown. With its haunting melody by the 20th century composer. John Ireland has as its text a poem by the Anglican clergyman Samuel Crossman(1625-84) who in turn drew on the work of arguably the greatest devotional  poet in English literature, George Herbert (1593-1632)  The Poem Beginning  “my Song is love Unknown”  was first published in 1664 in a collection of Crossman’s Poems titled  the Young mans Meditation An epigraph on...

Rev. Arturo Mendez St. Matthew Lutheran Church of Westfield  Lent 03-10-2021 Mid Week 4 Hymn Preaching #823     Hymn was written by Dr. Martin Luther (1483-1546) Was translated by Richard Massie, in the (1800- 87 ) and sung  in two different Tunes, one which is Hymn #823   Deus Misereatur,Magdegburg 1524, and Hymn tune Version #824 was written by Dr Martin Luther and Tune by David Lee. 1956.   Martin Luther express the wish in his Latin mass ( Formula Missae,1523 ) that “We had as many songs as possible in the vernacular which the people could sing during mass.” The same year He wrote several paraphrases of biblical psalms, including psalm 12, and 14, which are no longer sung; psalm 130(‘From depths of woe I cry to Thee.”  LSB 607 );and this Hymn,  Paraphrase of psalm 67, Luther’s Paraphrase served as both example and catalyst toward the goal of providing German Songs for the Congregation. He likely wrote the paraphrase psalm. ...