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Not So Much to Be Loved as to Love is an album by Jonathan Richman, released in 2004. [5] The title is excerpted from Make Me an Instrument of Your Peace , "O Divine Master, grant that I may not so much seek ... to be loved, as to love."
O Lord, grant that I may not so much seek to be consoled as to console, to be understood as to understand, to be loved as to love, for it is in giving that one receives, it is in self-forgetting that one finds, it is in forgiving that one is forgiven, it is in dying that one awakens to eternal life.
But You, O Lord, are unchanging in Your mercy and Your nature is love; grant us, therefore, God of mercy, God of grace, so to eat at this Your table that we may receive in spirit and in truth the body of Your dear Son, Jesus Christ, and the merits of His shed blood, so that we may live and grow in His likeness and, being washed and cleansed ...
The Saint Patrick's Regional Secondary Men's Chamber Choir did a cover of the song during a cultural exchange event in 2006 in Vancouver, BC. [10] The American quintet Bounding Main released a cover of the song on their 2006 album Lost at Sea. [11] UK's sea shanty band Kimber's Men released a cover of the song on their 2010 album. [12]
The text of "Come down, O Love divine" originated as an Italian poem, "Discendi amor santo" by the medieval mystic poet Bianco da Siena (1350-1399). The poem appeared in the 1851 collection Laudi Spirituali del Bianco da Siena of Telesforo Bini, and in 1861, the Anglo-Irish clergyman and writer Richard Frederick Littledale translated it into English.
In 1874 Baker was commissioned by Dr. Palmer to compose a song related to the biblical verses about "Jesus Stilling the Tempest". [ 2 ] Having recently lost her brother to tuberculosis , [ 3 ] Mary used her experience of frustration and reconciliation as inspiration to compose the words of the hymn.
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The editor of the new (1926) edition of Songs of Praise was Holst's close friend Ralph Vaughan Williams, which may have provided the stimulus for Holst's cooperation in producing the hymn. Vaughan Williams himself composed an alternative tune to the words, Abinger , which was included in the enlarged edition of Songs of Praise but is very ...