Hymn - "Forty Days and Forty Nights"

Communion Hymn - "Forty Days and Forty Nights" camcorded live 01 March 2009, 1st Sunday in Lent, at Church of the Redeemer, Episcopal, Morristown, NJ, USA

1) Forty days and forty nights you were fasting in the wild;
Forty days and forty nights tempted, and yet undefiled.

2) Shall we not your sorrow share and from worldly joys abstain,
Fasting with unceasing prayer, strong with you to suffer pain?

3) Then if satan on us press, flesh or spirit to assail,
Victor in the wilderness, grant that we not faint or fail!

4) So shall we have peace divine: holier gladness ours shall be;
'Round us, too, shall angels shine, such as served you faithfully.

5) Keep, O keep us, savior dear, ever constant by your side;
That with you we may appear at the eternal Eastertide.

Tune: "Heinlein", Martin Herbst 1676

The Redeemer Congregation and Choir
The parish choir of the Church of the Redeemer
Wayne Burcham-Gulotta,
Music Director/Organist

J. W. Steere & Son Organ Co., Opus 701, 1918, 3/49

Ernest M. Skinner bought out Steere in 1920 and Skinner ran Steere as a separate company for about a year. Then they brought it into the fold as a separate Skinner factory. For a time organs being built there had the Skinner name but were essentially Steere organs. Much of the great Skinner at Woolsey Hall, Yale University, New Haven, CT, USA is Steere (1915 major enlargement of 1902 Hutchings). Final expansion to the Skinner instrument at Yale we know today was the 1928-1929 rebuild.

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[Rosiemoore]

Thanks for posting this (on my birthhday 5 March!!) but I would've preferred the Traditional words... :P

and I'm 31, not 80......... LOL

[joenwayne]

Thanks for viewing and your comments.

Greetings to you in the UK from NJ, USA.

[HymnTimeGospelSongs]

Truly a great hymn and blessing.

[joenwayne]

Thanks for viewing and your comments.

[VikramadityaKeskar]

When played on the Tune Innocents, this hymn sounds great!!

[laura53859]

This song is played sometimes I'm roman catholic and they play this song in opening hymns

[electronictrip]

this is the Hymn for today on my Calender of Great Christian Hymns! first time i've ever heard it. I'm Baptist and we normally sing more joyous sounding hymns but sometimes we sing somber hymns as well. This is lovely our Savior is Wonderful!

[organEd]

JR, I know those same types of self-proclaimed music experts. Got one in my congregation that loves to critique. Typically I just nod pleasantly, but there are times I have to bite my tongue. LOL

[JRCOOTS]

I use this traditionally at our first Lenten Mass and interspersed throughout the Lenten season ....and in typical fashion, I always get the parishioner or three who deem in necessary to tell me how depressing the hymn is....

(!?!?)

...so much for setting the reflective tone during the time in which we recall Christ's struggles for us!.

Gotta love those devout religious folk :)

Nice Job as always, Wanye.

[joenwayne]

Hi Ed,

You're right, I think it is used a lot on Lent I. 

Kind regards,

Wayne