{"id":6267,"date":"2014-03-17T19:45:14","date_gmt":"2014-03-18T02:45:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/grace-filled.net\/?p=6267"},"modified":"2014-03-18T19:49:47","modified_gmt":"2014-03-19T02:49:47","slug":"lenten-music-mondays-blessed-jesus-at-thy-word","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/grace-filled.net\/?p=6267","title":{"rendered":"Lenten Music Mondays: Blessed Jesus at Thy Word"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m more familiar from this hymn as a Lutheran.  It would work well as a processional hymn.<\/p>\n<p>The words are:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Blessed Jesus, at thy word<br \/>\nwe are gathered all to hear thee;<br \/>\nlet our hearts and souls be stirred<br \/>\nnow to seek and love and fear thee,<br \/>\nby thy teachings, true and holy,<br \/>\ndrawn from earth to love thee solely.<\/p>\n<p>All our knowledge, sense, and sight<br \/>\nlie in deepest darkness shrouded<br \/>\ntill thy Spirit breaks our night<br \/>\nwith the beams of truth unclouded.<br \/>\nthou alone to God canst win us;<br \/>\nthou must work all good within us.<\/p>\n<p>Glorious Lord, thyself impart,<br \/>\nLight of Light, from God proceeding;<br \/>\nopen thou our ears and heart,<br \/>\nhelp us by thy Spirit&#8217;s pleading;<br \/>\nhear the cry thy church raises,<br \/>\nhear and bless our prayers and praises.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I was able to find a recording of it being sung in worship.<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align:center;margin-top:15px;margin-bottom:15px;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Blessed Jesus At Thy Word\" width=\"584\" height=\"329\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/37hq71dlcR8?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m more familiar from this hymn as a Lutheran. It would work well as a processional hymn. The words are: Blessed Jesus, at thy word we are gathered all to hear thee; let our hearts and souls be stirred now &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/grace-filled.net\/?p=6267\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1,2,55,26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6267","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-life","category-faith","category-lenten-music-monday-2014","category-music"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p38xoO-1D5","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/grace-filled.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6267","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/grace-filled.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/grace-filled.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/grace-filled.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/grace-filled.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6267"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/grace-filled.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6267\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6268,"href":"http:\/\/grace-filled.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6267\/revisions\/6268"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/grace-filled.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6267"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/grace-filled.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6267"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/grace-filled.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6267"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}