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Teach Us, O Loving Heart of Christ

Author: Shirley Erena Murray Meter: 8.6.8.6 Appears in 3 hymnals Hymnal Title: Calvin Hymnary Project

Meter: 8.6.8.6 Appears in 3 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: Jillian Bray Hymnal Title: Church Hymnary (4th ed.) Tune Key: d minor Incipit: 11123 53557 76456 Used With Text: Teach us, O loving heart of Christ

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Teach us, O loving heart of Christ

Author: Shirley Murray Hymnal: Alleluia Aotearoa #130 (1999) Hymnal Title: Alleluia Aotearoa Topics: Ash Wednesday; Forgiveness; Funeral; Justice; Lent; Peace (Shalom); Race/Culture Languages: English Tune Title: KHANDALLAH

Teach us, O loving heart of Christ

Author: Shirley Erena Murray (b. 1931) Hymnal: Church Hymnary (4th ed.) #488 (2005) Meter: 8.6.8.6 Hymnal Title: Church Hymnary (4th ed.) Lyrics: 1 Teach us, O loving heart of Christ, what only love can say: 'Father, forgive' and still forgive the blindness of our way. 2 Torn is the world you came to save, it bleeds from hands and side: slow is your Church to bear the scars of suffering love that died. 3 We have not found your way of peace, though lack of peace is death: we have not fed with word or bread the hungry of the earth. 4 Christ in whose hands were thrust the nails, who yet for us could pray: forgive the things we have not done, the words we do not say. Topics: Our Response to Christ In Penitence; Food and Hunger; Forgiveness; Justice and Peace; Suffering Scripture: 1 John 1:9 Languages: English Tune Title: KHANDALLAH

Teach us, O loving heart of Christ

Author: Shirley Erena Murray (b. 1931) Hymnal: Hymns of Glory, Songs of Praise #488 (2008) Meter: 8.6.8.6 Hymnal Title: Hymns of Glory, Songs of Praise Lyrics: 1 Teach us, O loving heart of Christ what only love can say: 'Father, forgive' and still forgive the blindness of our way. 2 Torn is the world you came to save, it bleeds from hands and side: slow is your Church to bear the scars of suffering love that died. 3 We have not found your way of peace, though lack of peace is death: we have not fed with word or bread the hungry of the earth. 4 Christ in whose hands were thrust the nails, who yet for us could pray: forgive the things we have not done, the words we do not say. Topics: Our Response to Christ In Penitence; Food and Hunger; Forgiveness; Justice and Peace; Suffering Scripture: 1 John 1:9 Languages: English Tune Title: KHANDALLAH

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Shirley Erena Murray

1931 - 2020 Person Name: Shirley Erena Murray (b. 1931) Hymnal Title: Church Hymnary (4th ed.) Author of "Teach us, O loving heart of Christ" in Church Hymnary (4th ed.) Shirley Erena Murray (b. Invercargill, New Zealand, 1931) studied music as an undergraduate but received a master’s degree (with honors) in classics and French from Otago University. Her upbringing was Methodist, but she became a Presbyterian when she married the Reverend John Stewart Murray, who was a moderator of the Presbyterian Church of New Zealand. Shirley began her career as a teacher of languages, but she became more active in Amnesty International, and for eight years she served the Labor Party Research Unit of Parliament. Her involvement in these organizations has enriched her writing of hymns, which address human rights, women’s concerns, justice, peace, the integrity of creation, and the unity of the church. Many of her hymns have been performed in CCA and WCC assemblies. In recognition for her service as a writer of hymns, the New Zealand government honored her as a Member of the New Zealand Order of Merit on the Queen’s birthday on 3 June 2001. Through Hope Publishing House, Murray has published three collections of her hymns: In Every Corner Sing (eighty-four hymns, 1992), Everyday in Your Spirit (forty-one hymns, 1996), and Faith Makes the Song (fifty hymns, 2002). The New Zealand Hymnbook Trust, for which she worked for a long time, has also published many of her texts (cf. back cover, Faith Makes the Song). In 2009, Otaga University conferred on her an honorary doctorate in literature for her contribution to the art of hymn writing. I-to Loh, Hymnal Companion to “Sound the Bamboo”: Asian Hymns in Their Cultural and Liturgical Context, p. 468, ©2011 GIA Publications, Inc., Chicago