Unless stated otherwise, my source for hymn texts and tunes is The Lutheran Service Book.

Friday, July 4, 2025

"O Christ, Our True and Only Light"

"O Christ, Our True and Only Light" was one of the hymns on Worship Anew a couple months ago (4 May, The Third Sunday of Easter), and I noticed a small feature in it.  The last two lines of the hymn are "And endless praise to You be giv'n / By all Your Church in earth and heav'n."  The second of these lines is sung to this musical phrase from the tune "O Jesu Christe, wahres Licht":


The phrase "all Your Church" is sung to notes of all different pitches (A B C), giving a slight sense of this entirety.