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Safely through another week

Author: John Newton Meter: 7.7.7.7.7.7 Appears in 1,010 hymnals Scripture: Leviticus 19:30 Topics: The Church Worship - Saturday Evening Used With Tune: TORONTO

Author: Fred Pratt Green (1903-) Meter: 8.4.8.4.8.8.8.4 Appears in 70 hymnals Scripture: Leviticus 19:1-2 Lyrics: 1 For the fruit of all creation, thanks be to God; gifts bestowed on every nation, thanks be to God. For the ploughing, sowing, reaping, silent growth while we are sleeping, future needs in earth's safe-keeping, thanks be to God. 2 In the just reward of labour, God's will is done. In the help we give our neighbour, God's will is done. In our worldwide task of caring for the hungry and despairing, in the harvests we are sharing, God's will is done. 3 For the harvests of the Spirit, thanks be to God. For the good we all inherit, thanks be to God. For the wonders that astound us, for the truths that still confound us, most of all that love has found us, thanks be to God. Topics: Creation; Mission; Offertory; Stewardship; Rogation Days; Harvest Thanksgiving Used With Tune: AR HYD Y NOS

Love God with All Your Soul and Strength

Author: Isaac Watts Meter: 8.6.8.6 Appears in 29 hymnals Scripture: Leviticus 19 Lyrics: Love God with all your soul and strength, with all your heart and mind. And love your neighbor as yourself; be faithful, just, and kind. Topics: Law of God; Love Our Love to God; Songs for Children Bible Songs; Covenant; Law of God; Love Our Love to God; Obedience Used With Tune: FARRANT

Joyful, Joyful, We Adore Thee

Author: Henry van Dyke, 1852-1933 Meter: 8.7.8.7 D Appears in 266 hymnals Scripture: Leviticus 19:18 Lyrics: 1 Joyful, joyful, we adore thee, God of glory, Lord of love; Hearts unfold like flow'rs before thee, Op'ning to the sun above. Melt the clouds of sin and sadness; Drive the dark of doubt away; Giver of immortal gladness, Fill us with the light of day. 2 All thy works with joy surround thee, Earth and heav'n reflect thy rays, Stars and angels sing around thee, Center of unbroken praise; Field and forest, vale and mountain, Flow'ry meadow, flashing sea, Chanting bird and flowing fountain, Call us to rejoice in thee. 3 Thou art giving and forgiving, Ever blessing, ever blest, Well-spring of the joy of living, Ocean depth of happy rest! Thou our Father, Christ our brother, All who live in love are thine; Teach us how to love each other, Lift us to the joy divine. 4 Mortals, join the mighty chorus Which the morning stars began; Love divine is reigning o’er us, Binding all within its span. Ever singing, march we onward, Victors in the midst of strife; Joyful music leads us sunward, In the triumph song of life. Topics: Creation; Creation; Creation; Joy; Music Ministry; Power of God; Praise; Service Music for Mass Entrance Song (Gathering of Processional); Morning Prayer Hymn Used With Tune: HYMN TO JOY

Holy as thou, O Lord, is none!

Author: C. Wesley Meter: 8.8.8.8 Appears in 75 hymnals Scripture: Leviticus 19:2 Lyrics: 1 Holy as thou, O Lord, is none! Thy holiness is all thy own; A drop of that unbounded sea Is ours, a drop derived from thee. 2 And when thy purity we share, Thy only glory we declare; And humbled into nothing, own, Holy and pure is God alone. 3 Sole, self-existing God and Lord, By all thy heavenly hosts adored; Let all on earth bow down to thee, And own thy peerless majesty;-- 4 Thy power unparalleled confess, Established on the Rock of peace; That Rock that never shall remove, The Rock of pure, almighty love. Topics: Attributes of God Holiness; God Perfect in Holiness

And the creed and the colour and the name won't matter

Author: Sydney Bertram Carter (1915-2004) Meter: Irregular Appears in 20 hymnals Scripture: Leviticus 19:18 First Line: When I needed a neighbour, were you there, were you there? Lyrics: 1 When I needed a neighbour, were you there, were you there? When I needed a neighbour, were you there? [Refrain:] And the creed and the colour and the name won't matter, were you there? 2 I was hungry and thirsty, were you there, were you there? I was hungry and thirsty, were you there? [Refrain] 3 I was cold, I was naked, were you there, were you there? I was cold, I was naked, were you there? [Refrain] 4 When I needed a shelter, were you there, were you there? When I needed a shelter, were you there? [Refrain] 5 When I needed a healer, were you there, were you there? When I needed a healer, were you there? [Refrain] 6 Wherever you travel I'll be there, I'll be there, Wherever you travel I'll be there. And the creed and the colour and the name won't matter, I'll be there. Topics: Life in Christ Our Response to Christ - In Discipleship; Neighbour; Social Concern Used With Tune: NEIGHBOUR

The Harvest of Justice

Author: David Haas, b. 1957 Appears in 3 hymnals Scripture: Leviticus 19:9 First Line: Gather with patience Refrain First Line: May we find richness Topics: Sharing Used With Tune: [Gather with patience]

Holy, Holy, Holy

Author: Reginald Heber, 1783-1826 Meter: 11.12.12.10 Appears in 1,638 hymnals Scripture: Leviticus 19:2 First Line: Holy, holy, holy, Lord God Almighty! Topics: Book One: Hymns, Songs, Chorales; General Worship Used With Tune: NICAEA

Judge Eternal, throned in splendor

Author: Henry Scott Holland (1847-1918) Meter: 8.7.8.7.8.7 Appears in 108 hymnals Scripture: Leviticus 19:9-18 Lyrics: 1 Judge Eternal, throned in splendour, Lord of lords and King of kings, with your living fire of judgement purge this land of bitter things; solace all its wide dominion with the healing of your wings. 2 Still the weary folk are pining for the hour that brings release; and the city's crowded clangour cries aloud for sin to cease; and the homesteads and the woodlands plead in silence for their peace. 3 Crown, O God, your own endeavour; cleave our darkness with your sword; feed the faithless and the hungry with the richness of your word; cleanse the body of this nation through the glory of the Lord. Topics: Our Response to God in intercession and petition; The Church Celebrates National Life; God in judgement and justice; Nation and Society; Word of God Used With Tune: RHUDDLAN

Jesu, Jesu, Fill Us with Your Love

Author: Tom Colvin Meter: 7.7.9 with refrain Appears in 63 hymnals Scripture: Leviticus 19:18 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 wealthy and poor, varied in color and race; neighbors are near us and far away. [Refrain] 3 These are the ones we should serve; these are the ones we should love; all these are neighbors to us and you. [Refrain] 4 Loving puts us on our knees, willing to wash others’ feet; this is the way we should live like you. [Refrain] Topics: Christian Year Palm Sunday; Christian Year Maundy Thursday; Christian Year Good Friday; Ecumenical; Humility; Jesus Christ Passion and Death; Service Used With Tune: CHEREPONI