Songs for the Cycle

Fresh Hymn Texts for Church Years A, B, & C

Michael Hudson

Jan/2000, 182 Pages, Paperback, 6 x 9

ISBN-13: 9780898694192

$26.95

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"What I particularly appreciated as I read through these texts is that each one is an engaging meditation that combines sound theology with poetic skill. I think they would be an enrichment to any worshiping community and certainly food for personal reflection and prayer."

The Most Rev. Frank T. Griswold, Presiding Bishop of the Episcopal Church

Before Michael Hudson was ordained, he was a successful songwriter in the Contemporary Christian field with 75 hymns to his credit. As his journey led him to become a liberal Anglican, he turned his considerable skill at matching text and tune to writing hymn texts. He began a spiritual discipline of writing a text for each of the gospels of the three-year cycle of Scripture readings. The result is a collection of 153 beautiful, evocative, and very singable poetic hymn texts.

Each text can be sung to at least one familiar hymn tune, making the material easily accessible to congregations. A hymn tune index and a thematic index provide additional planning possibilities. Based on the Episcopal lectionary in the Book of Common Prayer, hymn tunes are suggested for each text and are indexed metrically so that substitutions may be made when necessary.

Songs may be reproduced for congregational use.

Michael Hudson is an Episcopal priest and rector of St. David's church in Cullowhee, North Carolina, a parish that has joyously and rigorously field-tested Fr. Hudson's labor of love.

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