St Peter's Parish News
Thursday 1 January 1970
Hail Thee, Festival Day!
At the 9:30 Eucharist on Easter Day, we will commence our worship with the hymn, Hail Thee, Festival Day, a wonderful hymn dating from the Early Church (written by Venantius Fortunatus) and set to music by none other than Ralph Vaughan Williams. It’s perhaps not so well known at St Peter’s Berkhamsted, so this is your advance notice to practise the hymn for Sunday! Here’s a link to the hymn on YouTube:
It has a rousing refrain:
Hail thee, festival day!
Blest day that art hallowed for ever,
day wherein Christ arose,
breaking the kingdom of death.
Note that there is a slightly different tune for odd and even verses, but the choir will lead with confidence. For the hymn words (NEH 109, vv1-7), go to:
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