Jerusalem awaits me
1 'Jerusalem awaits me',
said Jesus to the crowd,
yet they would jeer and taunt him
and curse his name out loud.
'Today I cast out demons,
tomorrow I will heal
The third day I will finish
the things I came to seal’.
2 In childhood he was harassed
and Herod sought his blood;
and now that fox still needed
to fell him where he stood;
but Jesus was as cunning
as those who wished to kill
and later in the garden,
would seek to do God's will.
3 Here comes the man of blessing,
the Christ that they would kill,
and those who seek to worship,
must also seek his will.
God give us strength to follow,
and give us grace to serve,
to follow Jesus' footsteps,
to never lose our nerve.
Andrew Pratt (born 1948) based on Lent 2 - Luke 13.31-35
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Metre: 7 6 7 6 D
Tune: THORNBURY
Category: Uncategorized
In quasars, quarks and pulsars
What news is good? A hymn inspired by: Luke 5: 1-11
What news is good? A hymn inspired by: Luke 5: 1-11
1 What news is good? What words give hope?
What sense of value do we feel
when meeting with our God in Christ,
what gives the sense, provides the seal?
2 This seal of perfect love and faith,
this hope of holiness and grace,
the knowledge that our path is right,
is given in our saviour's face.
3 A face seen in a neighbour there,
in one who calls across the street,
a foreign tongue may frame Christ's call
to honour him in all we meet.
4 And as the first disciples heard
a challenge they could not resist,
may we respond and give our lives,
the call of love must not be missed.
Andrew E Pratt (born 1948)
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Metre: 8 8 8 8
Tune: FULDA
Candlemass Hymn
Candlemass – the Presentation of Jesus in the Temple (Singing the Faith 229)
1 Mary and Joseph
Came to the temple
Brought the boy Jesus,
Offered him there.
People were waiting
Wanting to greet him,
Long had they sought him,
Solace for care.
2 Anna had prayed there,
Widowed, long waiting;
Worshipping God by
Day and by night.
Now she is praising,
Filled with elation;
Here is God’s promise,
Christ is her light.
3 Simeon sings now
God proffers blessing,
Brilliantly gilding
Dawn of his day;
Light in the darkness,
Never extinguished,
Light of all nations,
Light up our way.
Andrew E Pratt (born 1948)
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Metre: 5 5 5 4 D
Tune: BUNESSAN
Holocaust Memorial Day – Poem
1 As we remember holocaust,
in horror disbelieving
the history of the human race,
we share each other’s grieving;
God purge us of hypocrisy,
of all our self–deceiving.
2 Our language is inadequate,
unfit for the expression
of hatred that we visualise,
humanity’s confession;
we hurry headlong into hell,
we witness love’s regression.
3 The deepest, distant agony
that throbs through all creation,
the silent tears that quietly fall
in every generation,
are signs of our humanity,
our need for re–creation.
4 God give us strength to make a pledge
to move beyond contention,
to see, in each, humanity.
Through greater good intention,
God, move us toward a purer love,
a gracious intervention.
Andrew E Pratt (born 1948) Words © 2003 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
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