Each of these links will open an audio file from the programme first aired on 13th March 2022 –
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Pam Rhodes – Hearts & Hymns, Premier Christian Radio, 13/20 March 2022 – Ukraine, suffering, war and peace
Reflections for Ukraine based on some of my texts on Premier Christian Radio were broadcast (Freeview channel 725) on Sunday 13th March 2022 0800 hours (UK) A video prepared for SUNDAY NIGHT LIVE is available here with thanks to Pam Rhodes and Gareth Moore (to be broadcast Sunday 20th March 2022 at 1800 hours UK) Also see hymn @ https://hymnsandbooksblog.uk/2022/03/01/we-hear-the-news-in-anguish-hymn-at-time-of-russian-invasion-of-ukraine/
Hymns responding to Christopher Walsh’s Seminar for Bramhall Methodist Church Climate Change Series
Pre-meeting text Is it time to pause the picture, freeze the frame until we learn. Listen more to one another, as we focus to discern differences of our perspectives, how our neighbours live and grow, till in Christian understanding, Jesus’ love begins to show? Accidents of birth have placed us into poverty or wealth, having access to possessions, bringing peace? Destroying health? When will humans learn together how to meet our common need? How to live with one another, nurture love, that precious seed. God enable us to treasure those with whom we share this earth, those whose lives are marked by difference, yet who share our human birth; bring a clearer understanding of the planet that we share, till we grasp the trust that’s given, measured out for all to care. Andrew Pratt 15/5/2021 Words © 2021 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: 8.7.8.7 D Tune: BETHANY (Smart) Hymn responding to Christopher Walsh PhD Student, Tyndall Centre, University of Manchester How we trust and work together with our partners on this earth, will sustain, or damn our planet, place of nurture, home of birth. Yet removed and isolated we have not been stewards of faith, as we pray with understanding may we channel active grace. May our prayer inspire our actions, not just words or empty rhyme, all our lives are interactive, interwoven threads in time. With a common understanding sisters, brothers work as one, reap the value of creation as our time on earth is run. Metre: 8.7.8.7 Tune: ALL FOR JESUS Andrew Pratt 18/5/2021 Words © 2021 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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ASH WEDNESDAY – The world’s no stage where we are acting
The world's no stage where we are acting 1 The world's no stage where we are acting to show how good we think we are; this is no place to call attention, or seek acclaim from near or far. 2 Our prayers are worthless, void and empty when uttered for the crowd's applause, much more of worth are silent actions, compassion shown behind closed doors. 3 So find a place, that's quiet, secluded, a simple room where we can pray, and then in words that Jesus taught us let's seek the bread for each new day. 4 Let's join in humble prayer and fasting, while making little of the act, and then our witness, plainly worded, will add its essence to love's fact. Andrew Pratt Words © 2011 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: 9 8 9 8 Tune: ST CLEMENT
For a continuing time of COVID – HYMN/PRAYER – When the weeping of the nations
When the weeping of the nations fills our hearts with holy dread, when a virus rings with pity those who cannot reach their dead, God is in our consternation, weeping by each sufferer’s bed. Distanced, lacking human comfort, no more in a mother’s arms, fearful faces peer through visors watching, even breathing harms, knowing only humane kindness brings the peace that heals, disarms. God bring strength in human weakness, give us grace that we might see through the mists of mortal blindness how to live through agony, how through quiet compassion, silence, we might mark our empathy. Andrew Pratt 31/12/2020 Words © 2021 Stainer & Bell Ltd, London, England. http://www.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: PICARDY Metre: 87 87 87
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