Lyrics:    attr. Pope St. Gregory the Great, 540-604.
Comments:    An office hymn traditionally prescribed for Lent until
Passion Sunday; the first part for Matins, the second
(Precemur omnes cernui) for Lauds.
Meter:    88.88

The Fast as Taught by Holy Lore

Lyrics:    John Mason Neale, 1818-1866,
in the Hymnal Noted, 1854.
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Keep We the Fast That Men of Old ©

Lyrics:    Ronald Arbuthnott Knox, 1888-1957,
in The Westminster Hymnal, © 1939.
Hymnals:    NLP:127 (SONG 5) • CHE:341 (SAXONY)
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Now Let Us All with One Accord ©

Lyrics:    John Robin Ainslie, b. 1942,
Stephen Dean, b. 1948,
Paul Inwood, b. 1947,
in Praise the Lord, revised and enlarged, © 1972.
Hymnals:    DO74:19 (RERUM DEUS TENAX VIGOR)
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Again We Keep This Solemn Fast ©

Lyrics:    Peter J. Scagnelli, 1949-2018, © 1975.
Published by World Library Publications.
Hymnals:    CWB2:285
H22:250 • J2:394 • J3:353 • W3:420 • W4:474
(ERHALT UNS, HERR)
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ERHALT UNS, HERR

Composer:    Joseph Klug’s Geistliche Lieder, Wittenberg, 1543;
adapted by Johann Sebastian Bach, 1685-1750.
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OLD 100TH

Composer:    attr. to Louis Bourgeois, ca. 1510-1561,
in Pseavmes octantetrois de Dauid
mis en rime Francoise, Geneva, 1551.
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RERUM DEUS TENAX VIGOR

SAXONY

Composer:    ancient German chorale;
in Spangenberg’s Christliches Gesangbuch, 1588.

SONG 5

Composer:    Orlando Gibbons, 1583-1625.