Sunday’s hymn of the day is Built on the
Rock (LSB #645). It is based on the
Gospel reading, the confession of St Peter which is the Rock on which Christ’s
Church is founded. The last stanza confesses the same truth which is confessed
in the Augsburg Confession: The Church is the congregation of saints in which the
Gospel is purely taught and the Sacraments are correctly administered.
This hymn has long been a
favorite among Scandinavians and Lutherans and included seven stanzas in the
1941 Lutheran Hymnal (Concordia), reduced to five in the 1978 Lutheran Book of
Worship. The Scandinavian hymn's original seven stanzas were first published in
1837 in Sang-Värk til den Danske Kirke. The adaptation in Worship & Song is
of the 1958 Service Book and Hymnal translation by Carl Doving done in 1909.
Author Nikolai Grundtvig
was ordained in 1811. He wrote many works, including some on Norse mythology
and more than 1,000 hymns. He became a bishop in 1861. Composer Ludwig Lindeman
was the son of a concert pianist, an organist in Oslo, and one of Norway's
leading musicians of the nineteenth century. He collected and published almost
2,000 Norwegian folk tunes.[1]
[2] Lutheran Service Book © 2006 Concordia Publishing House, St. Louis
The illustration above carries the title of our Lord: the Anointed One, or, in Greek, ὁΧριστός, the Christ. Copyright © Ed Riojas, Higher Things
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