I’m a big fan of
Catherine Winkworth, the extraordinarily accomplished 19th Century
English feminist who gave the Anglophone world some of the best translations of
German Lutheran hymns. Last year I gave you her Isaiah-based “Comfort,
Comfort Ye My People”, which my work colleagues and fellow Metro commuters
have heard from me for the past few days.
Today let’s have
another of her translations, “Lift Up Your Heads, Ye Mighty Gates”, set to the
tune “Truro”. This hymn urges us to open wide the portals of our hearts to
receive the waiting King of Glory. That’s what the season of Advent is,
although we’re often told that it’s a period when we’re doing the waiting, not the
other way round.
I rather like it.
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