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In Our Darkness Light Has Shone

Author: Timothy Dudley-Smith Appears in 1 hymnal

Earthen Vessels

Author: John B. Foley, SJ Appears in 5 hymnals First Line: Light has shone in our darkness Refrain First Line: We hold a treasure, not made of gold

Meter: 7.4.7.4 D Appears in 1 hymnal Composer and/or Arranger: John Barnard (b. 1948) Tune Key: E Flat Major Incipit: 32116 45345 23321 Used With Text: In our darkness light has shone

[Light has shone in our darkness]

Appears in 5 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: John B. Foley, S.J. Tune Key: A Major Incipit: 11121 55651 11211 Used With Text: Earthen Vessels

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In our darkness light has shone

Author: Timothy Dudley-Smith (b. 1926) Hymnal: Ancient and Modern #101 (2013) Meter: 7.4.7.4 D Lyrics: 1 In our darkness light has shone, Alleluia, still today the light shines on, Alleluia; Word made flesh in human birth, Alleluia, Light and Life of all the earth, Alleluia! 2 Christ the Son incarnate see, Alleluia, by whom all things came to be, Alleluia; through the world his splendours shine, Alleluia, full of grace and truth divine, Alleluia! 3 All who now in him believe, Alleluia, everlasting life receive, Alleluia; born of God and in his care, Alleluia, we his name and nature share, Alleluia! 4 Christ a child on earth appears, Alleluia, crown of all creation's years, Alleluia; God's eternal Word has come, Alleluia, he shall lead his people home, Alleluia! Topics: Christmas; Church Year Advent; Church Year Christmas; Church Year Epiphany; Epiphany; Eternal Life; Future hope; Light; The Second Sunday before Lent Year B; The Presentation of Christ in the Temple Scripture: John 1:1-14 Languages: English Tune Title: UPTON CHEYNEY

Earthen Vessels

Author: John B. Foley, SJ Hymnal: Catholic Book of Worship III #445 (1994) First Line: Light has shone in our darkness Refrain First Line: We hold a treasure, not made of gold Topics: Epiphany; Jesus; Light Scripture: 2 Corinthians 4:6-7 Languages: English Tune Title: [Light has shone in our darkness]

Earthen Vessels

Author: John Foley, S.J., b. 1939 Hymnal: Glory and Praise (3rd. ed.) #559 (2015) First Line: Light has shone in our darkness Refrain First Line: We hold a treasure, not made of gold Topics: Christian Life; Christian Life; Christian Life; Hope; Light Scripture: 1 Corinthians 1:27-29 Languages: English Tune Title: [Light has shone in our darkness]

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Timothy Dudley-Smith

b. 1926 Author of "In Our Darkness Light Has Shone" Timothy Dudley-Smith (b. 1926) Educated at Pembroke College and Ridley Hall, Cambridge, Dudley-Smith has served the Church of England since his ordination in 1950. He has occupied a number of church positions, including parish priest in the diocese of Southwark (1953-1962), archdeacon of Norwich (1973-1981), and bishop of Thetford, Norfolk, from 1981 until his retirement in 1992. He also edited a Christian magazine, Crusade, which was founded after Billy Graham's 1955 London crusade. Dudley-Smith began writing comic verse while a student at Cambridge; he did not begin to write hymns until the 1960s. Many of his several hundred hymn texts have been collected in Lift Every Heart: Collected Hymns 1961-1983 (1984), Songs of Deliverance: Thirty-six New Hymns (1988), and A Voice of Singing (1993). The writer of Christian Literature and the Church (1963), Someone Who Beckons (1978), and Praying with the English Hymn Writers (1989), Dudley-Smith has also served on various editorial committees, including the committee that published Psalm Praise (1973). Bert Polman