Well, we are told to “worship the Lord in the beauty of holiness”, a phrase in which, I suspect, there are depths of meaning I have not even begun to fathom [per Psalm 29:2]. Maybe in those depths there is joy as well in abundance?
Although found in the Book of Carols, I have used it as an Easter carol or just before the choir breaks for the Summer. We usually think of eating fruit in the Spring and resting under the shade of a tree in Summer. “I missed of all, but now I see….’tis found in Christ, The Apple Tree.”
Merry Christmas, Everyone!
We sang it at our parish’s Lessons and Carols service. First time I’d heard or sung it and I must confess, I still find its imagery a stretch and quite alien. Good tune though. I’m familiar with it from another hymn. It works great as a tune for the Doxology too.
It focuses on a theme almost entirely absent from the contemporary Western Church–the beauty of the Lord.
AMEN, and thank you for posting it!
Well, we are told to “worship the Lord in the beauty of holiness”, a phrase in which, I suspect, there are depths of meaning I have not even begun to fathom [per Psalm 29:2]. Maybe in those depths there is joy as well in abundance?
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Although found in the Book of Carols, I have used it as an Easter carol or just before the choir breaks for the Summer. We usually think of eating fruit in the Spring and resting under the shade of a tree in Summer. “I missed of all, but now I see….’tis found in Christ, The Apple Tree.”
Merry Christmas, Everyone!
We sang it at our parish’s Lessons and Carols service. First time I’d heard or sung it and I must confess, I still find its imagery a stretch and quite alien. Good tune though. I’m familiar with it from another hymn. It works great as a tune for the Doxology too.