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SDAH 352
This is My will, My one command,
That love should dwell among you all.
This is My will that you should love
As I have shown that I love you.
Text
1
This is My will, My one command,
That love should dwell among you all.
This is My will that you should love
As I have shown that I love you.
2
No greater love a man can have
Than that he die to save his friends.
You are My friends if you obey
What I command that you should do.
3
You chose not Me, but I chose you
That you should go and bear much fruit.
I chose you out that you in Me
Should bear much fruit that will abide.
4
All that I ask My Father, dear,
For My name’s sake you shall receive.
This is My will, My one command,
That love should dwell in each, in all.
Hymn Info
Biblical Reference
John 15:12-17
Author
James Quinn (1919-2010)
Year Published
1969
Copyright
Words copyright 1969 by James Quinn, SJ, printed by permission of Geoffrey Chapman, a division of Cassell Ltd.
Hymn Tune
SUANTRAI
Metrical Number
L.M.
Arranged
T.H. Weaving (1881-1966)
Tune Source
Irish melody
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Notes
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First, God loves us so much that He saved us from all our sins. Then He bids us love each other as He loved us because it is His will that we should be like Him. (Lesson 6, 2nd Quarter 2021 – Monday, Land Deal, 5/03/2021)
If we love Him, it is not grievous but a joy to keep His commandments. We do not fix our eyes on our circumstances or our desires and what would be for our benefit; our only consideration is what pleases the One Who loved us and gave His own life to us. (Lesson 4, 2nd Quarter 2023 -Monday, Fearing and Obeying God, 4/17/2023)
The words paraphrase John 15:12-17. James Quinn (1919- ; see SDAH 349) included the hymn in his New Hymns for all Seasons, 1969.
The beautiful melody SUANTRAI is in Charles V. Stanford’s edition of The Complete Petrie Collection of Ancient Irish Music, 1902, where it has the title “Lullaby or Nursery Song.” Weaving arranged it for the Gaelic hymnal of the Church in Ireland, Leabhar Iomann.
Thomas Henry Weaving was born in 1881 in Birmingham, England, and educated at Wesley College, Dublin, Ireland. At the Royal Irish Academy of Music he studied piano, organ, harmony and counterpoint, double bass, and voice production. Later he taught at the academy. After serving as organist in various churches, he became organist-choirmaster at the Dublin Christ Church Cathedral, where he stayed for 30 years. He found his greatest personal enjoyment in The Strollers, a Dublin singing club more than 100 years old, the directorship of which he held from 1928 until his death in 1966. He wrote many anthems, hymn arrangements, and service music. Most of his material is unpublished but still in use at Christ Church Cathedral.
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