Christ comes in the breaking of the bread, | |
God’s Word, love’s Word, | |
Christ is risen! Christ is risen! | |
Christ is risen! | |
Heav'nly Father, send your Spirit | |
Christ in glory, (or Christ is risen) | |
We sing the faith of Holy Church, | |
We give the Father glory and we pray for peace on earth | |
God in heav’n we give you glory, | |
Glory to God! Our hearts we raise | |
Now blest these sixty years | |
Jesus, we obey you: | |
O Spirit come and spread your fire, | |
Now blest through passing years | |
Jesus, we worship you; | |
The soul cries out to God, whose music sings – | 10 10 10 + Alleluya |
The word of God calls each and every soul | 10 10 10 10 |
Redeem us Lord from all those former years | 10 10 10 10 |
Thy Kingdom Come – Lord teach us how to pray | 10 10 10 10 |
Wise men from the East look up to the sky: | 10 10 11 11 |
A baby is born – God laid in the hay: | 10 9 8 8 10 |
Darkness and light contain our mortal living: | 11 10 11 10 |
Called by the Word, creation’s life has order | 11 10 11 10 |
A cry in the night from the barn of an inn | 11 11 11 11 + Refrain (10 10) |
(for Mary Jeffreys who commissioned this setting) | 11 12 11 12 + Refrain |
(for the Parish of Rochester & Mary Jeffreys who commissioned this hymn) | 11 12 11 12 + Refrain |
At the heart of our lives there’s a hunger that’s deep | 12 11 12 11 and refrain |
A HYMN FOR CHRISTIAN UNITY | 13 10 13 10 |
We believe in God the Lord, | 13 13 13 14 |
Starlight and hay – | 44 6 D and refrain |
Jesus is born in stable dark and bare: | 446 446 + Refrain |
Tread softly on this Earth | 66 66 |
There’s a truth beyond all | 66 66 + refrain |
Deep in our night God touches earth; | 66 77 55 |
To God we sing on high | 66 86 (Short Metre) |
Crown him, the servant King | 66 86 66 86 |
God’s love was born so simple | 76 76 676 |
The earth receives its maker – | 76 76 676 |
A simple truth lies near us | 76 76 676 |
We gather as God’s people | 76 76 D Refrain 6686 |
God is love, he tends and cares; | 77 74 Refrain 449 |
Spark in darkness kindles light – | 77 77 D |
Sun in winter, Dayspring bright – | 77 77 and refrain |
Death is dead and love set free – | 78 78 4 |
Simon Peter on the sea shore | 85 85 & refrain |
Christ has called us in our living, | 85 85 and refrain |
Lord, bless our bread, the world, each life – | 86 86 |
Glory to God and highest praise | 86 86 (Common Metre) |
Tune: The seven joys of Mary | 86 86 + 88 86 |
No song can sing or thought embrace | 86 86 + refrain |
Written to commemorate the centenary of World War 1 Armistice — Remembrancetide 2018 | 86 86 86 86 (Double Common Metre) |
Broken worlds have glory given | 87 87 |
In my neighbour Christ is present – | 87 87 |
Joseph called to be Christ’s father, | 87 87 |
Sing the silence; shine the darkness! | 87 87 |
Midst our noise of daily living, | 87 87 + refrain |
Hid within our daily living | 87 87 47 |
Saint much loved for simple living, | 87 87 47 |
Saints of God in heaven dwelling | 87 87 47 |
In a world which we have ordered | 87 87 77 |
Sing of truth and triumph blazing: | 87 87 77 |
Lord, you meet us from the future: | 87 87 87 87 |
Lord, you meet us from the future: | 87 87 87 87 |
Lord, you meet us from the future: | 87 87 87 87 |
Through the ages God is present | 87 87 D |
Easter breaks our broken living: | 87 87 D |
Unseen foes fragment our living | 87 87 D |
Saltire cross is Andrew’s glory, | 87 88 7 |
Deep in our hearts God’s truth is born, | 87 98 87 |
God is the rock whose love so sure | 88 88 |
God’s saints are those who live in hearts | 88 88 88 |
We give God thanks for harvest seasons; | 9 8 9 8 9 8 10 7 |
Birth gives us life, sentenced to perish; | 98 96 and refrain |
Lord hear your world both blest and bleeding, | 98 98 98 |
God is love and God is mystery: | 99 99 |
Sing to the Lord your heart’s new song | Common Metre extended |
We sing with joy the Christmas truth | DCM |
Crown him, the servant King | DSM (66 86 66 86) |
Beneath the joys of Christmastide | Double Common Metre |
When the Lord from his throne leapt from heaven to earth | Irregular |
Living Word, in gospel story | Irregular |
This day is blessed by God’s sweet joy which comes from heaven above | Irregular 13 13 13 13 13 13 |
O Lord your name is ever blessed | LM 88 88 |
The days that lead to Christmastide | Long Metre |
Before the pulse and tick of time, | Long Metre |