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O holy city seen of John

Author: Walter Russell Bowie Meter: 8.6.8.6.8.6 Appears in 89 hymnals Topics: Brotherhood; Christian Citizenship; Easter III The Holy Communion General; Social Religion Services to our brother man; Social Responsibility; St. Michael & All Angels Evening Prayer General Used With Tune: MORNING SONG

Great God, your love has called us here

Author: Brian Wren (b. 1936) Meter: 8.8.8.8.8.8 Appears in 33 hymnals Topics: Our Response to Christ In Penitence; Our Response to God in the worship of God's house; Christ Incarnate Passion and Death; Lent; Christian Year Maundy Thursday; Church Worship; God Love of; Renewal Lyrics: 1 Great God, your love has called us here, as we, by love, for love were made. Your living likeness still we bear, though marred, dishonoured, disobeyed. We come, with all our heart and mind your call to hear, your love to find. 2 We come with self-inflicted pains of broken trust and chosen wrong, half-free, half-bound by inner chains, by social forces swept along, by powers and systems close confined yet seeking hope for humankind. 3 Great God, in Christ you call our name and then receive us as your own, not through some merit, right or claim, but by your gracious love alone. We strain to glimpse your mercy seat and find you kneeling at our feet. 4 Then take the towel, and break the bread, and humble us, and call us friends. Suffer and serve till all are fed, and show how grandly love intends to work till all creation sings, to fill all worlds, to crown all things. 5 Great God, in Christ you set us free your life to live, your joy to share. Give us your Spirit's liberty to turn from guilt and dull despair and offer all that faith can do while love is making all things new. Scripture: 2 Corinthians 3:17 Used With Tune: MELITA

Jesu, Jesu, fill us with your love

Author: Thomas Stevenson Colvin, b. 1925 Meter: Irregular Appears in 64 hymnals Topics: Christian Responsibility First Line: Kneels at the feet of his friends Lyrics: Refrain: Jesu, Jesu, fill us with your love, show us how to serve the neighbors we have from you. 1 Kneels at the feet of his friends, silently washes their feet, Master who acts as a slave to them. [Refrain] 2 Neighbors are rich and poor, neighbors are black and white, neighbors are nearby and far away. [Refrain] 3 These are the ones we should serve, these are the ones we should love. All are neighbors to us and you. [Refrain] 4 Loving puts us on our knees, serving as though we are slaves; this is the way we should live with you. [Refrain] Used With Tune: CHEREPONI [JESU, JESU] Text Sources: Ghanaian

Father eternal, Ruler of creation

Author: Laurence Housman, 1865-1959 Meter: 11.10.11.10.10 Appears in 48 hymnals Topics: Christian Responsibility Used With Tune: LANGHAM

All who love and serve your city

Author: Erik Routley, 1917-1982 Meter: 8.7.8.7 Appears in 34 hymnals Topics: Christian Responsibility Lyrics: 1 All who love and serve your city, all who bear its daily stress, all who cry for peace and justice, all who curse and all who bless, 2 in your day of loss and sorrow, in your day of helpless strife, honor, peace, and love retreating, seek the Lord, who is your life. 3 In your day of wealth and plenty, wasted work and wasted play, call to mind the word of Jesus, "I must work while it is day." 4 For all days are days of judgment, and the Lord is waiting still, drawing near a world that spurns him, offering peace from Calvary's hill. 5 Risen Lord! shall yet the city be the city of despair? Come today, our Judge, our Glory; be its name, "The Lord is there!" Used With Tune: CHARLESTOWN

Our Father, by whose Name

Author: F. Bland Tucker, 1895-1984 Meter: 6.6.6.6.8.8.8 Appears in 40 hymnals Topics: Christian Responsibility Used With Tune: RHOSYMEDRE

Angels We Have Heard on High

Meter: 7.7.7.7 with refain Appears in 251 hymnals Topics: Christ's Gracious Life Birth and Baptism; Christian Year Christmas; Christian Year Epiphany; Christ's Gracious Life Birth and Baptism; Christian Year Christmas; Christian Year Epiphany; Glory; Jesus Christ; Responses, Antiphonal Refrain First Line: Gloria Lyrics: 1 Angels we have heard on high sweetly singing o’er the plains, and the mountains in reply echoing their joyous strains. Refrain: Gloria, in excelsis Deo! Gloria, in excelsis Deo! 2 Shepherds, why this jubilee? Why your joyous strains prolong? What the gladsome tidings be which inspire your heavenly song? (Refrain) 3 Come to Bethlehem and see Christ whose birth the angels sing; come, adore on bended knee, Christ the Lord, the newborn King. (Refrain) 4 See him in a manger laid, whom the choirs of angels praise; Mary, Joseph, lend your aid, while our hearts in love we raise. (Refrain) Scripture: Luke 2:6-20 Used With Tune: GLORIA Text Sources: Traditional French carol; trans. Crown of Jesus,1852, alt.

Nearer, my God to Thee

Author: Mrs. Sarah Flower Adams, 1805-1848 Appears in 2,557 hymnals Topics: Aspiration After God; Bethel; The Christian Life Aspiration and Prayer; Nearness of God To God ; Longing For God; Grief; Responsibility First Line: Nearer, my God, to Thee Lyrics: 1 Nearer, my God, to Thee, Nearer to Thee; E'en though it be a cross That raiseth me; Still all my song shall be, Nearer, my God, to Thee, Nearer to Thee. 2 Though, like the wanderer, The sun gone down, Darkness be over me, My rest a stone; Yet, in my dreams, I'd be Nearer, my God, to Thee, Nearer to Thee. 3 There let the way appear Steps unto heaven; All that Thou sendest me In mercy given; Angels to beckon me Nearer, my God, to Thee, Nearer to Thee. 4 Then, with my waking thoughts Bright with Thy praise, Out of my stony griefs Bethel I'll raise; So by my woes to be Nearer, my God, to Thee, Nearer to Thee. 5 Or if on joyful wing Cleaving the sky, Sun, moon, and stars forgot, Upwards I fly; Still all my song shall be, Nearer, my God, to Thee, Nearer to Thee. Used With Tune: HORBURY

Spirit divine, attend our prayers

Author: Andrew Reed (1787-1862) Meter: 8.6.8.6 Appears in 396 hymnals Topics: The Holy Spirit The Coming of the Spirit; Our Response to God in the worship of God's house; Christian Year Pentecost; Church Worship; Holy Spirit name and images for Lyrics: 1 Spirit divine, attend our prayers, and make this house your home; descend with all your gracious powers; come now, great Spirit, come! 2 Come as the fire: and purge our hearts like sacrificial flame; let our whole life an offering be to our Redeemer's name. 3 Come as the dove: and spread your wings, the wings of peaceful love; and let your Church on earth become blest as the Church above. 4 Come as the wind, with rushing sound and Pentecostal grace, that all of woman born may see the glory of your face. 5 Spirit divine, attend our prayers; and make this world your home; descend with all your gracious powers; come now, great Spirit, come! Scripture: 1 Chronicles 21:26 Used With Tune: MARTYRS

Where high the heavenly temple stands

Meter: 8.8.8.8 Appears in 206 hymnals Topics: Christ Risen Reign and Priesthood; Our Response to God in intercession and petition; Christian Year Ascension; Grief; Jesus compassion; Prayer Lyrics: 1 Where high the heavenly temple stands, the house of God not made with hands, a great High Priest our nature wears, Jesus, the Son of God, appears. 2 He who for us our surety stood, and poured on earth his precious blood, pursues in heaven his mighty plan, eternal God and Son of Man. 3 Though now ascended up on high, he bends on earth a brother's eye; partaker of the human name, he knows the frailty of our frame. 4 Our fellow-sufferer yet retains a fellow-feeling of our pains; and still remembers in the skies his tears, his agonies, and cries. 5 In every pang that rends the heart the Man of Sorrows has a part; he sympathizes with our grief, and to the sufferer sends relief. 6 With boldness, therefore, at the throne, let us make all our sorrows known; and ask the aid of heavenly power to help us in the evil hour. Scripture: Hebrews 4:14-16 Used With Tune: PUER NOBIS NASCITUR Text Sources: Scottish Paraphrases, 1781, Paraphrase 58, alt.