Meine Seele, dank und singe

"Meine Seele, dank und singe" ("My soul, thank and sing") is a German Catholic hymn. A first version appeared in Dillingen in 1807, to a 1741 melody from Cologne. Some hymnals have the beginning "Meine Seele, auf und singe". It is part of regional sections of the German Catholic hymnal Gotteslob of 2013. The diocese of Trier has three stanzas as GL 802.^[1] The Diocese of Limburg has the first and the third stanza as GL 743 as an Advent song.^[2]

Text and theme

The song was originally in three stanzas of eight lines each, rhyming ABABCBCB.^[1] The beginning, addressing the singers soul to sing praises and be thankful, is reminiscent of psalms and the Magnificat. In the first stanza, thanks are given for the creation of the world and for the time full of mercy which was promised from the beginning. The second stanza reflects Jesus, born from Mary, as a redeemer of mankind by becoming part of it.^[1] In the third stanza, the singer addresses a group to sing with Mary, to be faithful to his word as she was, and to offer sorrow and joy, and all life that he gave, to the Lord of Glory ("Herr der Herrlichkeit").^[2]

References

External links

• Free scores by Advents- und Weihnachtslied (Bernardin Engl) in the Choral Public Domain Library (ChoralWiki)

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Liturgy

• Advent Sunday
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• Gaudete Sunday
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• Magnificat
• Saint Nicholas Day

Narratives

• Fall of man
• Christian messianic prophecies
  • Isaiah 9:6
  • Isaiah 53
• Davidic dynasty in Bible prophecy
• Genealogy of Jesus
• John 1:1
• John the Baptist
• Saint Joseph's dreams
• Tree of Jesse

Traditions

• Advent calendar
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• Stir-up Sunday
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Songs and hymns

• "Adam lay ybounden"
• "Advent är mörker och kyla"
• Advent song
• Adventstid
• Angelus ad virginem
• "Bereden väg för Herran"
• "Come, thou Redeemer of the earth"
• "Conditor alme siderum"
• "The Cherry-Tree Carol"
• "Come, Thou Long Expected Jesus"
• "Det är advent"
• "Es ist ein Ros entsprungen"
• Gabriel's Message
• "The Holly and the Ivy"
• "Hosianna, Davids son"
• "In das Warten dieser Welt"
• "Jesus Christ the Apple Tree"
• "Kündet allen in der Not"
• "Lo! He comes with clouds descending"
• "Long Ago, Prophets Knew"
• "Macht hoch die Tür"
• "Macht weit die Pforten in der Welt"
• "Maria durch ein Dornwald ging"
• "Meine Seele, dank und singe"
• "Mit Ernst, o Menschenkinder"
• "Der Morgenstern ist aufgedrungen"
• "Nun komm, der Heiden Heiland"
• O Antiphons
• "O Come, O Come, Emmanuel"
• "O Heiland, reiß die Himmel auf"
• "O How Shall I Receive Thee"
• "Of the Father's Heart Begotten"
• Rorate Caeli
• "Sei uns willkommen, Herre Christ"
• "Singet fröhlich im Advent"
• "There is no rose of such virtue"
• "Tochter Zion, freue dich"
• "Savior of the Nations, Come"
• "Vi tänder ett ljus i advent"
• "Hark, a Thrilling Voice Is Sounding"
• "Wachet auf, ruft uns die Stimme"

Cantatas and other music

• Ärgre dich, o Seele, nicht, BWV 186a
• Bereitet die Wege, bereitet die Bahn, BWV 132
• Herz und Mund und Tat und Leben, BWV 147a
• Handel's Messiah (Part I)
• Nun komm, der Heiden Heiland (Böhm)
• Nun komm, der Heiden Heiland, BWV 61
• Nun komm, der Heiden Heiland, BWV 62
• This Is the Record of John
• Unser lieben Frauen Traum
• Virga Jesse (Bruckner)
• Wachet auf, ruft uns die Stimme, BWV 140
• Wachet! betet! betet! wachet! BWV 70a
• Wir sagen euch an den lieben Advent
• List of Advent cantatas

Music publications

• Carols for Choirs
• The New English Hymnal
• The Oxford Book of Carols
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• Piae Cantiones
• The English Hymnal
• Hymns Ancient and Modern
• The Hymnal 1982

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• Anglican church music
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