People, serve with joyful instinct

People served with joyful instincts played on an organ with the melody from Verspoell's hymn book from 1810.

Song sheet with melody ( Steinfurt ); published on the occasion of an anniversary in 1996.

Insert for the parish prayer books. Version "processional song" from 1996.

Song plan for the Corpus Christi procession of St. Nicomedes Steinfurt before 2002. Listed is people, serves ... as chant in the church at the end of the procession.

Insert for the parish prayer books. Version of "Corpus Christi song" from 1984.

People, serve with joyful instincts is an originally seven-stanza Catholic hymn from the beginning of the 19th century from the collection "Chants at Roman Catholic Church Services, with attached prayer book" by Christoph Bernhard Verspoell . This song did not have its own melody in Verspoell's hymn book, it was sung to that of a song for the Assumption of Mary ( " [No.] 92 as [No.] 76" ). It was part of the new editions of this hymn book in 1829, 1840 and 1850 until the publication of the first real diocesan hymn book in 1865. It is not included in the 2013 joint prayer and hymn book for God's praise , nor in its 1975 edition .

People, serve out of joyful instincts is a song to sing in eucharistic processions , listed in the 1829 edition under the heading “Songs in the processions with the most revered goods” . Textually it expresses the Catholic belief in the real presence of God in the Eucharist ( “is truly present here” or “Jesus himself in our midst, walks around with us” ). Another passage interprets the Eucharist as the conclusion of the old covenant and the foundation of a new covenant between God and man ( “... here is not the ark of the covenant ... here [is] not shadow, image, figure ... [but] .. . here is truth, source of grace, light, God ruler of nature ” ). The same metaphor (light that drives away night and shadow) can be found in the sequence Lauda Sion by the medieval theologian Thomas Aquinas ( "Your Savior, Your Teacher" ): Vestustatem novitas, umbram fugat veritas, noctem lux eliminat , in the translation of Francis Xaver Riedel: "And the truth must give way to the signs, the old before the new: Night drives out the ray of light" . This substitution theology has been corrected since the Second Vatican Council by the statement that the people of the New Covenant are “spiritually connected” to the “tribe of Abraham”, Judaism. Pope John Paul II repeatedly said that the old covenant was never revoked by God. The Catechism of the Catholic Church (1997) took up this formulation, which has been represented similarly in Protestant theology for several decades.

In contrast to many of the other Verspoell songs, it was not included in the first edition of the "Gesang- und Gebetbuch [es] for the Diocese of Münster" (published in 1865 by the then diocesan bishop Johann Georg Müller ). It can be found in a handwritten undated hymn book of a youth modality from Riesenbeck (Steinfurt district, North Rhine-Westphalia). It also contains a hymn book of a Münster youth modality from 1822. In some cases it has been preserved to this day and has remained locally relevant. The St. Nicomedes parish in Steinfurt- Borghorst has kept three stanzas of this song as a "parish-own" Corpus Christi or processional song, and there it was still used on appropriate occasions until after the turn of the 3rd millennium ( forty-hour prayer on the 1st Sunday of Lent , Corpus Christi , Eternal Prayer on the Patronage Festival ) sung. The publication was carried out using small insert sheets made by a local printer. The melody used in Steinfurt-Borghorst is the one that Verspoell's hymnbook intended for it and therefore differs from the extra-diocesan variant mentioned below.

The choir book "Cäcilia" by Joseph Schiffels (Münster, Verlag Heinrich Schöningh, end of the 19th century) contains in Volume III the song "People serve from happy instincts" as (Eucharistic) "Festgesang" under No. 46 / S. 42. The melody there is the u. g Version from the Diocese of Trier and not from Verspoell's hymn book. In "Cäcilia" the origin is given as "Gesangbuch von Fulda 1781"; The hymn book " The Christian Singing According to the Meaning of the Catholic Church ", published in Fulda at the time , does not contain it.

In addition to the diocese of Münster , it can be proven in the diocese of Trier ; in the diocesan song book of 1955 it was there under the number 130 with the reference "T 1810 W 1766" ; however, only the first two stanzas are almost comparable with the version published by Verspoell, the other two are arrangements. It is part of the traditional processional repertoire for musical bands. The song is also known in the Archdiocese of Luxembourg , but is sung to the melody of the First Communion song “Let the hour of our hearts” .

A repositioning is called a song in honor of St. Barbara sung, which also begins with the line “People, serve from happy instincts” .

People, serve with joyous instincts (1996)

Melody and text version from the diocese of Münster (like 1810):

2. Yes, there is no ark here here not shadow, image, figure, here is truth, well of grace, Light, God, ruler of nature. Sky, earth, air and sea, shout with us in his honor. shout with us in his honor.

3. Jesus himself in our midst walk around here with us graciously he sees all the steps that we do to his glory. Sky, earth, air and sea, shout with us in his honor. shout with us in his honor.

Web links

• youtube.com : “People serve out of happy instincts” (melody of the Archdiocese of Trier) during a Corpus Christi procession (2016); Brass band and singing (min. 10:15 sec. To min. 11:00 sec.)
• youtube.com : “Let the hour for our hearts” , to the same tune as “People, serve from happy instincts” in the Archdiocese of Luxembourg and the Diocese of Trier.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Hymn book 1829 of the University of Münster.
2. ^ Organ book of the University of Münster.
3. ↑ Hymn book 1829 of the University of Münster.
4. ^ Hymn book 1840 of the University of Münster.
5. ↑ Hymn book 1850 of the University of Münster.
6. ↑ See laudation. Prayer book for the Diocese of Münster (1962), no. 173; Gotteslob (1975) , Edition Cologne No. 932, Edition Paderborn No. 862, Edition Berlin No. 849, each verse 4.
7. ↑ Vatican II: Nostra aetate - Declaration on the Relationship of the Church to Non-Christian Religions, No. 4.
8. ↑ Prof. Dr. Hans Hermann Henrix, University of Bonn: The never-denounced covenant: Basis of the Christian-Jewish relationship. [1] , p. 7ff.
9. ^ Catechism of the Catholic Church , No. 121.
10. ^ Hymnal of the Sodality Riesenbeck of the LWL.
11. ^ Hymn book of the Sodality Münster, 1822 of the LWL.
12. ^ Organ book of the University of Münster. compare: song notes of the community 1996
13. ↑ http://fuldig.hs-fulda.de/viewer/image/PPN235002488/453/#topDocAnchor
14. ↑ Hymn and prayer book for the Diocese of Trier, Paulinus-Verlag Trier 1955.
15. ^ Hans Hartwig : Processional songs collection. Bauer Verlag, Karlsruhe 1950. DNB 1003068898 , therein a. a. Great God, we praise you , your Savior, your teacher and people, serve with joyful instinct .
16. ↑ Fédération nationale des chorales d'église de l'Archevêché de Luxembourg ( Memento of the original of February 22, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
17. ↑ Homepage ( Memento of the original from February 22, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. from Ahrweiler. 
18. ^ Danube Swabians in the USA