Hymn # 1 - Arise, O Church

 

Sundays after Pentecost – Green Season

 

 Tune: Materna

Meter: CMD

 

         1. Let justice roll like living streams through hills and vales of time.

         And so bring in the Gospel dream that we may be a sign,

         - a signature of God’s own hand now forming us anew:

         bring peace to all in every land: compassion that is true.

 

         2. The alien, the foreigner can now reveal God’s truth

         to powers resistant and so blind inspiring us like Ruth

         as she stood by Naomi’s side grant us the grace to be

         the arms of Christ embracing all in solidarity.

 

         3.  Now is the day the Kingdom comes will we participate

         in God’s new rule led by God’s Son empires to abate?

         The powers are naught as we arise to speak God’s truth in love

         and God will shower at this hour God’s Spirit from above.

 

         4. Arise, O Church, and be the hope that Christ chose you to be.

         Arise, O Church, and boldly go to set the hungry free

         with bread of life that never fails, a table set for all.

         Arise, O Church follow once more your gracious divine call.

          

Tune for this text – ELW 888 - “O Beautiful for Spacious Skies”

 

Text: Copyright @2020 by Kenn Storck b.1948

May be used with permission

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