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Santo, santo, santo (Holy, Holy, Holy)

Author: Joëlle Gouël, 1943-; Alan D. Tyree, 1929-; Wolfgang Leyk; Elena Snigireva, 1979- Appears in 26 hymnals Topics: Centering First Line: Santo, santo, santo Scripture: Psalm 30:4 Used With Tune: SANTO Text Sources: Argentine folk song
Santo, santo, santo (Holy, Holy, Holy)
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Called to Gather as God's People

Author: Carl P. Daw, Jr., 1944- Meter: 8.7.8.7 D Appears in 3 hymnals Topics: Centering Lyrics: 1 Called to gather as God's people, we assemble in this place to unite our hearts and voices in thanksgiving for God's grace: for the birthing of creation, for Christ's rising from death's hold, for the coming of the Spirit, week by week claimed and retold. 2 Taught and formed by proclamation, we await God's promised word: song and story, psalm and precept, all the range of scripture heard. By this ancient, living witness We are summoned to confess how we fall short, yet can trust that God will hear, forgive, and bless. 3 Fed at Christ's abundant table, we partake of holy food, wake the gifts of hope and mem'ry, taste and see that God is good. So our mingled lives are taken, blessed, and broken for Christ's sake, given out to feed and comfort bodies, minds, and hearts that ache. 4 Sent to share the Spirit's blessing, we go forth renewed, restored, humbled by the task before us, strengthened by the Love outpoured. Finding faith confirmed in action, led by hope through each new day, we are called to be God's people, living what we sing and pray. Scripture: Romans 10:17 Used With Tune: O DU LIEBE MEINER LIEBE
Called to Gather as God's People
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Come and Find the Quiet Center

Author: Shirley Erena Murray, 1931- Meter: 8.7.8.7 D Appears in 12 hymnals Topics: Centering Lyrics: 1 Come and find the quiet center in the crowded life we lead, find the room for hope to enter, find the frame where we are freed: clear the chaos and the clutter, clear our eyes that we can see all the things that really matter, be at peace, and simply be. 2 Silence is a friend who claims us, cools the heat and slows the pace, God it is who speaks and names us, knows our being, touches base, making space within our thinking, lifting shades to show the sun, raising courage when we're shrinking, finding scope for faith begun. 3 In the Spirit let us travel, open to each other's pain, let our loves and fears unravel, celebrate the space we gain: there's a place for deepest dreaming, there's a time for heart to care, in the Spirit's lively scheming there is always room to spare! Scripture: Ephesians 1:17-19 Used With Tune: DAMAI
Come and Find the Quiet Center

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BEACH SPRING

Meter: 8.7.8.7 D Appears in 226 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: Jack Schrader, 1942- Topics: Centering Tune Sources: The Sacred Harp, 1844 Tune Key: F Major or modal Incipit: 11213 32161 16561 Used With Text: Come Away from Rush and Hurry
BEACH SPRING

[Listen in the silence]

Appears in 2 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: Linnea Good, 1962- Topics: Centering Tune Key: F Major or modal Incipit: 55112 75511 75511 Used With Text: Listen in the Silence
[Listen in the silence]

[Come, Holy Spirit, come]

Appears in 1 hymnal Composer and/or Arranger: Vicky Vaughan Adkins, 1952- Topics: Centering Tune Key: C Major Incipit: 33456 42234 53345 Used With Text: Come, Holy Spirit, Come
[Come, Holy Spirit, come]

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Come and Find the Quiet Center

Author: Shirley Erena Murray, 1931- Hymnal: Community of Christ Sings #151 (2013) Meter: 8.7.8.7 D Topics: Centering Lyrics: 1 Come and find the quiet center in the crowded life we lead, find the room for hope to enter, find the frame where we are freed: clear the chaos and the clutter, clear our eyes that we can see all the things that really matter, be at peace, and simply be. 2 Silence is a friend who claims us, cools the heat and slows the pace, God it is who speaks and names us, knows our being, touches base, making space within our thinking, lifting shades to show the sun, raising courage when we're shrinking, finding scope for faith begun. 3 In the Spirit let us travel, open to each other's pain, let our loves and fears unravel, celebrate the space we gain: there's a place for deepest dreaming, there's a time for heart to care, in the Spirit's lively scheming there is always room to spare! Scripture: Ephesians 1:17-19 Languages: English Tune Title: DAMAI
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God Within God Around

Author: Randall Pratt, 1963- Hymnal: Community of Christ Sings #20 (2013) Topics: Centering Lyrics: God within God around in all creation God is found. Scripture: Psalm 11:4 Languages: English Tune Title: [God within God around]
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God of Still Waiting

Author: Carl P. Daw, Jr., 1944- Hymnal: Community of Christ Sings #58 (2013) Meter: 5.5.6.7.7 Topics: Centering Lyrics: 1 God of still waiting, God of deep longing, God of the heart's true rest: hold us in fathomless peace, guard us with unwaning love. 2 Spirit of promise, Spirit of purpose, Spirit of ceaseless prayer: bathe us in life full and free, kindle our wonder and hope. 3 Word who comes to us, Word who lives with us, Word who disturbs and heals: silence our chattering fears, waken our unconscious faith. 4 Word true and faithful, hope-bringing Spirit, God of enfolding love: come in your fullness and grace; work through our lives for your praise. Scripture: Galatians 4:4-6 Languages: English Tune Title: HESYCHIA
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Ruth C. Duck

1947 - 2024 Person Name: Ruth Duck, 1947- Topics: Centering Author of "Grace Moves in Rhythms" in Community of Christ Sings
Ruth C. Duck

Rowland Hugh Prichard

1811 - 1887 Person Name: Roland Hugh Prichard, 1811-1887 Topics: Earth-Centered Traditions Composer of "HYFRYDOL" in Singing the Journey Rowland H. Prichard (sometimes spelled Pritchard) (b. Graienyn, near Bala, Merionetshire, Wales, 1811; d. Holywell, Flintshire, Wales, 1887) was a textile worker and an amateur musician. He had a good singing voice and was appointed precentor in Graienyn. Many of his tunes were published in Welsh periodicals. In 1880 Prichard became a loom tender's assistant at the Welsh Flannel Manufacturing Company in Holywell. Bert Polman
Rowland Hugh Prichard

Carl P. Daw Jr.

b. 1944 Person Name: Carl P. Daw, Jr., 1944- Topics: Centering Author of "Called to Gather as God's People" in Community of Christ Sings Carl P. Daw, Jr. (b. Louisville, KY, 1944) is the son of a Baptist minister. He holds a PhD degree in English (University of Virginia) and taught English from 1970-1979 at the College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, Virginia. As an Episcopal priest (MDiv, 1981, University of the South, Sewanee, Tennesee) he served several congregations in Virginia, Connecticut and Pennsylvania. From 1996-2009 he served as the Executive Director of The Hymn Society in the United States and Canada. Carl Daw began to write hymns as a consultant member of the Text committee for The Hymnal 1982, and his many texts often appeared first in several small collections, including A Year of Grace: Hymns for the Church Year (1990); To Sing God’s Praise (1992), New Psalms and Hymns and Spiritual Songs (1996), Gathered for Worship (2006). Other publications include A Hymntune Psalter (2 volumes, 1988-1989) and Breaking the Word: Essays on the Liturgical Dimensions of Preaching (1994, for which he served as editor and contributed two essays. In 2002 a collection of 25 of his hymns in Japanese was published by the United Church of Christ in Japan. He wrote Glory to God: A Companion (2016) for the 2013 hymnal of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.). Emily Brink
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