With Mary let my soul rejoice

Authors:
Themes:
Scriptures:
  • Luke 2:29-32
Book Number:
  • 1226

With mary let my soul rejoice,
and praise God’s holy name—
his saving love from first to last,
from age to age, the same!

2. How strong his arm, how great his power!
The proud he will disown;
the meek and humble he exalts
to share his glorious throne.

3. The rich our God will send away
and feed the hungry poor;
the arms of love remain outstretched
at mercy’s open door.

4. So shall God’s promise be fulfilled,
to Israel firmly made:
a child is born, a Son is given
whose crown will never fade.

5. All glory to the Father, Son
and Spirit now proclaim;
with Mary let the world rejoice
and praise God’s holy name!

(AFTER THE MAGNIFICAT, LUKE 2)

© DAVID MOWBRAY/THE JUBILATE GROUP www.jubilate.co.uk
David Mowbray

Approaching God - Adoration and Thanksgiving

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Tune

  • North Bailey
    North Bailey
    Metre:
    • CM (Common Metre: 86 86)
    Composer:
    • Moger, Peter

A look at the author

Mowbray, David

b Wallington, Surrey 1938. Dulwich Coll; Fitzwilliam House, Cambridge (MA); Clifton Theological Coll, Bristol (BD). Ordained (CofE) 1963, he served parishes in Northampton (as curate), Watford (lecturer), Broxbourne (Herts, as incumbent), Hertford and (from 1991) Darley Abbey, Derby, until retirement to Lincoln in 2004. His hymnwriting began in 1978 while on a month’s residential clergy conference at Windsor Castle, where 2 of his texts were immediately sung in St George’s Chapel. This was followed by ‘a great burst of writing’ for some 18 months. His own first words-only collections for parish and school were Kingdom Come, Kingdom Everlasting and Kingdom Within (1978–84), mainly recommending standard hymn tunes, and some 50 of these texts are now formally published, from Partners in Praise (1979) onwards. Several are in Jubilate books (6 in Come Rejoice!, 1989, 15 in Sing Glory, 1999, 5 in Carol Praise, 2006), and publications from Stainer and Bell; Come to us, creative Spirit (1979) remains his most popular, while First of the week and finest day is a rare 20thc text on a once much-loved theme (see also J Ellerton, note). Come Celebrate: contemporary hymns (2009) includes his share of 15 texts. ‘The usual flashpoint for writing is the combination of an idea plus a tune’—DM. He was a member of the words group for Sing Glory, and is probably the most outstanding contemporary hymnwriter not yet (by 2011) to have a collected volume of his texts. Nos.119B, 469, 584, 921, 1050, 1226