My choices of hymn/song from Sing Praise for both the 2nd and 3rd of March (and adjacent in the book) are settings of the Greek text ‘Kyrie Eleison, Christe Eleison, Kyrie Eleison’ (Lord have mercy, Christ have mercy, Lord have mercy). John Hartley’s comment on my post of 28 February is worth reading and there’s not much more I can add, other than to say that No.184 (an anonymous setting of ‘a Ukrainian traditional chant’) was familiar to me from somewhere, while 183 (a setting by Dinah Reindorf and Geoff Weaver) was not. It’s more of an acclamation in style, whereas the Ukrainian melody is more meditative. Unlike John I don’t move in compositional circles, and Geoff Weaver is one of the few composers/writers in this book whom I have met personally.
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Father, hear our prayer
Today’s ‘hymn’ from Sing Praise is a short devotional song by Andy Piercy, “Father, hear our prayer”. You can hear it sung here. As John has already noted in a comment on an earlier post, this is one of the songs in the book headed “Penitence” but which isn’t particularly penitential in its words. Rather, it’s a song of dedication to God, asking that our lives may be consecrated to him and that we may be filled with his power. The second part is the traditional ‘Kyrie’ prayer – Lord have mercy on us. I would have expected this to come first, as the typical pattern in prayer is to ask for God’s mercy on our weaknesses and failings before asking for him to change us and empower us.