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High Days and Holy Days: 30 Contemporary Hymns for Annual Occasions in the Life of the Local Church
The leading hymn writer Timothy Dudley-Smith offers 30 new hymns for all the main festivals of the Christian year, when churches are often looking for new worship resources. All these hymns are set to well known tunes for choirs and congregations to use immediately.New words are included for the following An anniversary or commemoration; Bible Sunday; Christian Aid or Development Sunday; Christingle; Flower Festival; Gift Day or Stewardship Sunday; Harvest Festival or Rogationtide; Justice, Human Rights and civic services; Mothering Sunday; New Year; Patronal festival; Remembrance; Sea Sunday; Week of Prayer for Christian Unity; and World Mission.
64 pages, Paperback
First published September 3, 2007
About the author
Timothy Dudley-Smith
40 books2 followersBorn 26 December 1926 in Manchester, England.
Ordained deacon 1950, priest 1951
Archdeacon of Norwich, 1973-81
Bishop of Thetford, 1981-91
Since 1992 in retirement at 9 Ashlands, Ford, Salisbury, Wiltshire, SP4 6DY, England.
As a hymn writer, has published c. 400 hymn texts (no music, but many to well-known tunes) originally in four single-author collections, now out of print, but subsumed into a larger collected edition, A House of Praise, 2003 and the three supplementary collections from the Oxford University Press. Many such hymns appear in published hymnals throughout the English-speaking world and in translation. He is an honorary vice-president of the Hymn Society of Great Britain and Ireland, a Fellow of the Hymn Society in the United States and Canada, and a Fellow of the Royal School of Church Music. In 2003 he was awarded an OBE 'for services to hymnody', and in 2009 an honorary Doctor of Divinity (DD) from the University of Durham.
Ordained deacon 1950, priest 1951
Archdeacon of Norwich, 1973-81
Bishop of Thetford, 1981-91
Since 1992 in retirement at 9 Ashlands, Ford, Salisbury, Wiltshire, SP4 6DY, England.
As a hymn writer, has published c. 400 hymn texts (no music, but many to well-known tunes) originally in four single-author collections, now out of print, but subsumed into a larger collected edition, A House of Praise, 2003 and the three supplementary collections from the Oxford University Press. Many such hymns appear in published hymnals throughout the English-speaking world and in translation. He is an honorary vice-president of the Hymn Society of Great Britain and Ireland, a Fellow of the Hymn Society in the United States and Canada, and a Fellow of the Royal School of Church Music. In 2003 he was awarded an OBE 'for services to hymnody', and in 2009 an honorary Doctor of Divinity (DD) from the University of Durham.
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