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2024 10 27 To God the Holy Spirit Let Us Pray

At the Reformation Hymn Fest, October 27, 2024, we sang "To God the Holy Spirit Let Us Pray," hymn #768 in the Lutheran Service Book. The first stanza of this hymn is not by Martin Luther. It is a German "leise" (Ly-seh), a sacred fold song sung in the common language, ending in Kyrie Eleison, which was known since early in the Middle Ages. The famous 13th-century preacher Berthold of Regensburg commends it in one of his sermons and enourages the people to sing it often. It became extremely popular and the people were permitted to sing it at Pentecost after the choir had sung the "Veni Sancte Spiritus." Luther regarded it highly. In his Order of Mass and Communion he named it as one of the few available hymns that could "profitably be sung by the congregation." Within a year after this reference he decided to add three stanzas to it and so converted this medieval Leise into a Lutheran chorale. By 1524 it appeared in Walther's collection of hymns and eventually into every subsequent Lutheran hymnal. Although the hymn is an invocation to the Holy Spirit and is especially appropriate for Pentecost, it has long been considered a classic entrance hymn. The organ setting is by Samuel Scheidt (1587-1654). The organist is Dr. Donald Zimmermann.