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For Holocaust Memorial in a broken world – a hymn – The day will come….

The day will come, must come, and soon – Holocaust Remembrance in a broken world

1	The day will come, must come, and soon,
	when we will sing a song of joy
	with sisters, brothers, not like us,
	who share the image of one God.

2	Whatever name, whichever faith,
	at heart we share a common bond,
	a shared humanity in God,
	whose name and character is love.

3	That love will drive us to the day
	when every wall is broken down,
	when love and joy and song are one:
	that day will come, must come, and soon.

Andrew E Pratt (born 1948)
Words © 2001 © Stainer & Bell Ltd, London, England copyright@stainer.co.uk . Please include any reproduction for local church use on your CCL Licence returns. All wider and any commercial use requires prior application to Stainer & Bell Ltd.
Metre: LM
Tune: TALLIS’ CANON

How long O Lord?

1 How long, O Lord, how long
must carnage blight our age?
How long before all humankind
let love disarm their rage?


2 The streets still run with blood
as dust distils the light;
while buildings clouded by the pall
of smoke are hid from sight.


3 Our children huddle, dead,
the world seems blind to wrong;
when will your people heed your word?
How long, O Lord, how long?

Andrew E. Pratt (born 1948)

© 2006 Stainer and Bell Ltd. London, England copyright@stainer.co.uk . Please include any reproduction for local church use on your CCL Licence returns. All wider and any commercial use requires prior application to Stainer & Bell Ltd
Metre: SM

Tune: TRENTHAM

Always looking for a sign – hymn inspired by John 6: 24 – 35

Always looking for a sign - John 6: 24-35

1	Always looking for a sign, 
	never seeing what is there, 
	people searching for some proof 
	fixing Jesus with a stare.
	
2	Standing lost and so bemused, 
	hoping for some broken bread, 
	Jesus meets their ignorance, 
	people needing to be fed.
	
3	Not some massive miracle, 
	simply trusting given grace, 
	this the message that they heard, 
	and they saw within his face.
	
4	And today that look survives, 
	all our needs are felt and met, 
	hope is spoken to each life, 
	love will live and not forget.  

Andrew E Pratt (born 1948)
© 2012 Stainer and Bell Ltd. London, England copyright@stainer.co.uk . Please include any reproduction for local church use on your CCL Licence returns. All wider and any commercial use requires prior application to Stainer & Bell Ltd
Metre: 7 7 7 7
Tune: BATTISHILL; EMMA