The Lent Prose – number 507 in our New English Hymnal – is being sung after Communion during Lent at All Saints. This moving piece derives from a hymn, Attende Domine, composed in the 10th century by Mozarabs, Iberian Christians living under Arab Islamic rule in Al-Andalus. It can be tricky to sing at first…
Jesus Christ the Apple Tree
• Jesus Christ the Apple Tree, music by Elizabeth Poston, sung by the choir of King’s College, Cambridge, in 2009. At our open worship evening / house group on October 29, Jane Hely led a meditation based on Jesus Christ the Apple Tree, a poem written in the 18th century. It has been set to…