Last year, while watching
the Worship for Shut-Ins program for the 10th Sunday after Pentecost, I noticed a small feature in "Be Still, My Soul." The hymn is sung to the tune "Finlandia" (an adaptation of part of Jean Sibelius' Finlandia, Op. 26*), and the first two musical phrases (which are nearly identical) have
cross inscriptions. Here's the second musical phrase:
In the first verse, the text here is "Bear patiently the cross of grief or pain," with "the cross of grief" perfectly aligning to the cross inscription in the music.
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*I lookt up
the score to see exactly where this is taken from. It's measures 132 to 155, labelled sections I and K (apparently there is no section J).
