This Is My Commandment CWB II 312

311 Song of the Lord’s Supper

This Holy Thursday song by Erik Routley has a metrical antiphon for the assembly and is more chant style in the verses for a cantor.

He has based the text very closely on John 15:12-17. I’ll rephrase that – the text is the RSV version pretty much word for word, viz :

Antiphon = v12 This is my commandment, that you love one another as I have loved you.

Verse 1 =13 Greater love has no [one] man than this, [than to] that a man lay down [one’s] his life for his friends. 14 You are my friends if you do what I command you.

Verse 2=15 No longer do I call you servants, [but I have called you friends] for [a] the servant does not know what his master is doing; but I have called you friends, for all that I have heard from my Father I have made known to you.

Verse 3=16 You did not choose me, but I [have chosen] chose you and appointed you that you should go and bear fruit and that your fruit should abide;

Verse 5= so that whatever you ask the Father in my name, [the Father] he [will] may give it to you. 17 This I command you, to love one another.

I’ll grant his tune OF LOVE DIVINE can be copyright at least. My backing is approximate and I have chosen note lengths for the chant that make things too metrical, but BIAB can’t do Chant.

This is more like it.

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