Father, hear the prayer we offer (StF 518)
- Elements of Worship:
- Intercessory response
- Theme:
- Intercession and Petition
- Authors & translators:
- Willis, Love Maria
- Metre:
- 87.87. (Trochaic)
- Tune:
- Sussex
- Composers & arrangers:
- Vaughan Williams, Ralph
- Country or culture:
- English traditional
- Source:
- Singing the Faith: 518 (CD21 #19)
- Verses:
- 4
- STF Number:
- 518
Ideas for use
Note from Philip Baldwin: Does anyone else ever use 2 tunes for one hymn ? It solves the problem of ‘why didn’t you play the other tune'! I use Gotts will machen for the first and last verses of Father hear the prayer we offer and Sussex for the middle verses. The two tunes for In the bleak midwinter by Holst and Darke go together very well …although you really have to concentrate on the third line as it is very easy to slip from one into the other!