Tag: faith

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

A perfect storm – hymn Mark 4: 35 – 41

A perfect storm, as Galilee June 23rd Lectionary Mark 4 35 – 41 
Hymn: A perfect storm, as Galilee 

A perfect storm, as Galilee 
became a foaming maelstrom,
the boats were spun and tossed like corks, 
no more a sluggish doldrum.	

And through it all their friend had dozed, 
the chaos found him sleeping
while panic reigned, fear took control, 
as crashing waves were sweeping. 

A desperate cry, 'we perish, Lord', 
they shook him to his senses. 
Then at a word the storm was stilled
disarming their defences.

'What little faith you have, my friends, 
why let such fear possess you? 
See how the wind and waves obey, 
how peace has come to bless you'.

What they had seen disturbed those men, 
it rocked things sure and tested;
to meet with God upon that lake, 
left doubt and fear arrested
Andrew Pratt 
Words © 2012 © 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.
Tune: 8.7.8.7
Metre: ST COLUMBA (Irish); DOMINUS REGIT ME

As an election approaches a hymn (poem,song) – If love is foremost in our faith

If love is foremost in our faith 
we have a choice to make 
on this and every other day, 
for all else is at stake; 
we see a world that’s broken down, 
where poverty and fear 
are trampelling the weakest ones, 
with hatred lurking near.

‘Today’, God said, I give a choice 
where life and death compete. 
The chance is now for us to take, 
to finish, to complete, 
the turning of the tables here 
as Christ, one time, had turned
the temple tables, scattering greed, 
to free those power had spurned.

Where selfishness can cripple lives, 
or love can set them free, 
what happens from this moment on 
rests now with you and me: 
if our audacious words of grace 
can frame what we would pray, 
then from this moment, in our time, 
let love infuse each day.

Andrew Pratt 22/5/2024 on the announcement of a General Election
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Metre: CMD
Tunes: ELLACOMBE; COE FEN; KINGSFOLD

Resurrection Hymn – Here on the crest of the wave of creation

Here on the crest of the wave of creation

Here on the crest of the wave of creation,
roaring and rolling beyond time and place;
God is transforming through quiet resurrection,
challenging hopelessness, offering grace.
	
Now we will follow the steps that will lead us
on through the horrors and hatred of life,
on through the angst ridden pain of bereavement,
on through the cross to the ending of strife.
	
Here at faith's edge where our peace is beginning,
God soaring free through our chaos and pain,
here is the meaning of loving and living,
here is the place of our rising again.

Andrew Pratt (born 1948)
Words © 2008 Stainer & Bell Ltd, London, England copyright@stainer.co.uk .
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Metre: 11 10 11 10
Tune: EPIPHANY HYMN

Watercolour and Luminar © Andrew Pratt