How Sacred Is This Place

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How sacred is this place!

Author: Fred Pratt Green (1982)
Tune: NUNC DIMITTIS (Bourgeois)
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1 How sacred is this place!
Its open door of grace
be bold, my soul, to enter!
May all who worship here,
believing God is near,
find God is at the centre.

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Author: Fred Pratt Green

The name of the Rev. F. Pratt Green is one of the best-known of the contemporary school of hymnwriters in the British Isles. His name and writings appear in practically every new hymnal and "hymn supplement" wherever English is spoken and sung. And now they are appearing in American hymnals, poetry magazines, and anthologies. Mr. Green was born in Liverpool, England, in 1903. Ordained in the British Methodist ministry, he has been pastor and district superintendent in Brighton and York, and now served in Norwich. There he continued to write new hymns "that fill the gap between the hymns of the first part of this century and the 'far-out' compositions that have crowded into some churches in the last decade or more." --Seven New Hymns o… Go to person page >

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First Line:	How sacred is this place!
Title:	How Sacred Is This Place
Author:	Fred Pratt Green (1982)
Meter:	6.6.7.6.6.7
Publication Date:	1996
Copyright:	© 1989 Hope Publishing Company

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NUNC DIMITTIS (Bourgeois)

Louis Bourgeois (PHH 3) composed NUNC DIMITTIS for the Song of Simeon; the tune was first published in the 1547 edition of the Genevan Psalter. Claude Goudimel (PHH 6) wrote the harmonization in 1564 with the melody originally in the tenor voice. Some Christian denominations associate this tune with…

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