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Psalm 45 v 13-17 - Gairloch

 1     Lord, haste me to deliver;
         with speed, Lord, succor me.
   2  Let them that for my soul do seek
         shamed and confounded be:

         Turned back be they, and shamed,
         that in my hurt delight.
   3  Turned back be they, Ha, ha! that say,
         their shaming to requite.

   4     In thee let all be glad,
         and joy that seek for thee:
      Let them who thy salvation love
         say still, God praisèd be.

   5     I poor and needy am;
         come, Lord, and make no stay:
      My help thou and deliv'rer art;
         O Lord, make no delay.

Psalm 70  (Tune: Garelochside)

Psalm 21 v 1-6 - Torwood

Psalm 42 from the Scottish Psalter of 1650. Recorded at 'Arbroath' youth weekend.

5  O why art thou cast down, my soul?
         why in me so dismayed?
      Trust God, for I shall praise him yet,
         his count'nance is mine aid.

      7  At the noise of thy water-spouts
         deep unto deep doth call;
      Thy breaking waves pass over me,
         yea, and thy billows all.

   8  His loving-kindness yet the Lord
         command will in the day,
      is song's with me by night; to God,
         by whom I live, I'll pray:

   9  And I will say to God my rock,
         Why me forgett'st thou so?
      Why, for my foes' oppression,
         thus mourning do I go?

Psalm 42 (Tune: Seek Ye First)

December 2, 2024. Gospel Passages: Luke 1:46-56; Luke 11:27-28; Matthew 17:20; John 20:24-28. Quoting St. Augustine in "Confessions" Chapter XI Point 26 in John Paul I's General Audience on September 13, 1978 in www.vatican.va/content/john-paul-i/en/audiences/documents/hf_jp-i_aud_13091978.html. Quoting from "Footprints in the Sand" Lyrics in www.smule.com/song/guy-ralna-footprints-in-the-sand-poetry-karaoke-lyrics/5228336_5228336/arrangement. Reference: "In Conversation with God" Volume 1 by Francis Fernandez Carvajal. Meditation with Fr. Francis Ongkingco, Woodrose School Chaplain. Image: "The Visitation" by Raphael in the Museo del Prado, Madrid (Wikimedia Commons).

Mary's Faith and the Magnificat (Rebroadcast, Novena to the Immaculate Conception, Day 3)

December 2, 2024. Gospel Passage: Matthew 8:5-13  (was Luke 7:1-10). Reference: Footprints in the Snow in opusdei.org/en-ph/article/footprints-in-the-snow. Meditation with Fr. Francis Ongkingco, Woodrose School Chaplain. Image: "Christ with the Centurion" (detail) by Nicolaes Cornelisz Moyaert in the Minneapolis Institute of Art, Minnesota (Wikimedia Commons).

Faith—Seeing and Committing (Rebroadcast)

Psalm 137

Psalm 126

Psalm 124

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Recorded at Rosskeen Free Church in 2014, [St Clement can be sung LM or 98.98] )

	1	My God, my God, O why have you
		Forsaken and abandoned me?
		Why are you far from giving help,
		From listening to my anguished plea?

	2	My God, I cry to you by day;
		You do not hear when I complain.
		I call to you throughout the night;
		In silence I cannot remain.

	3	Yet you are holy: on the praise
		Of Israèl you are enthroned.
	4	In you our fathers put their trust;
		They trusted, and were not disowned.

Psalm 22 v1-4 (Tune: St Clement)

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Psalm 4 sung acapella from The Scottish Metrical Psalter of 1650. (Meter: CM) 

1  Give ear unto me when I call,
         God of my righteousness:
      Have mercy, hear my pray'r; thou hast
         enlarged me in distress.
     
6  O who will show us any good?
         is that which many say:
      But of thy countenance the light,
         Lord, lift on us alway.
   
7  Upon my heart, bestowed by thee,
         more gladness I have found
      Than they, ev'n then, when corn and wine
         did most with them abound.
   
8  I will both lay me down in peace,
         and quiet sleep will take;
      Because thou only me to dwell
         in safety, Lord, dost make.

Psalm 4 (Tune: Crimond)

13 Such pity as a father hath
unto his children dear;
Like pity shews the Lord to such
as worship him in fear.

14 For he remembers we are dust,
and he our frame well knows.
15 Frail man, his days are like the grass,
as flow’r in field he grows:

16 For over it the wind doth pass,
and it away is gone;
And of the place where once it was
it shall no more be known.

17 But unto them that do him fear
God’s mercy never ends;
And to their children’s children still
his righteousness extends:

18 To such as keep his covenant,
and mindful are alway
Of his most just commandements,
that they may them obey.

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Psalm 103 v13-18 (Tune: Dundee)

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Text from the Scottish Metrical Psalter of 1650. Recorded during a wedding at St Jude's Free Presbyterian Church of Scotland (Glasgow). circa 2011

   7  I bless the Lord, because he doth
         by counsel me conduct;
      And in the seasons of the night
         my reins do me instruct.

 8  Before me still the Lord I set:
         since it is so that he
      Doth ever stand at my right hand,
         I shall not movèd be.

   9  Because of this my heart is glad,
         and joy shall be expressed
      Ev'n by my glory; and my flesh
         in confidence shall rest.

Psalm 16 (Tune: Moravia) @ St Jude's Free Presbyterian Wedding

Psalm 60 (CM) from the Scottish Psalter of 1650.

 1  O Lord, thou hast rejected us,
         and scattered us abroad;
      Thou justly hast displeasèd been;
         return to us, O God.

   2  The earth to tremble thou hast made;
         therein didst breaches make:
      Do thou thereof the breaches heal,
         because the land doth shake.

   3  Unto thy people thou hard things
         hast showed, and on them sent;
      And thou hast caused us to drink
         wine of astonishment.

   4  And yet a banner thou hast giv'n
         to them who thee do fear;
      That it by them, because of truth,
         displayèd may appear.

Psalm 60 (Tune: Culross)

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Psalm 23 sung acapella from The Scottish Metrical Psalter of 1650. (Meter: CM)

 1  The Lord's my shepherd, I'll not want.
   2     He makes me down to lie
      In pastures green: he leadeth me
         the quiet waters by
.
   3  My soul he doth restore again;
         and me to walk doth make
      Within the paths of righteousness,
         ev'n for his own name's sake.

   4  Yea, though I walk in death's dark vale,
         yet will I fear none ill:
      For thou art with me; and thy rod
         and staff me comfort still.

   5  My table thou hast furnished
         in presence of my foes;
      My head thou dost with oil anoint,
         and my cup overflows.

   6  Goodness and mercy all my life
         shall surely follow me:
      And in God's house for evermore
         my dwelling-place shall be.

Psalm 23 (Tune: Bays of Harris)

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Psalm 21 v 1-6 - Torwood

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