This Week's Zoom Hymns

 

Christ the Lord is risen today

CH4 411   St George's Windsor

Music: George Job Elvey
Words: Charles Wesley

 

Christ the Lord is Risen Today.mp3

1 ‘Christ the Lord is risen today’,
all on earth and angels say;
raise your joys and triumphs high;
sing, ye heavens, and earth reply.
Love’s redeeming work is done,
fought the fight, the battle won;
lo! our Sun’s eclipse is o’er;
lo! he sets in blood no more.

2 Vain the stone, the watch, the seal;
Christ has burst the gates of hell:
death in vain forbids his rise;
Christ has opened Paradise.
Lives again our glorious King;
where, O Death, is now thy sting?
Once he died, our souls to save;
where thy victory, O grave?

3 Soar we now where Christ has led,
following our exalted Head;
made like him, like him we rise;
ours the cross, the grave, the skies.
Hail, the Lord of earth and heaven!
Praise to thee by both be given;
thee we greet triumphant now;
hail, the Resurrection thou!

 

Christ is alive

CH4 422   Heartbeat

Music: Jillian Bray
Words: Shirley Erena Murray

 

422 Christ is alive.mp3

1 Christ is alive, and the universe must celebrate
and the stars and the suns shout on this joyful Day!
Christ is alive, and his family must celebrate
            in a great alleluia,
            a great alleluia
to praise the power that made the stone roll away.

2 Here is our hope: in the mystery of suffering
is the heartbeat of Love, Love that will not let go;
here is our hope, that in God we are not separate,
            and we sing alleluia,
            we sing alleluia
to praise the power that made the stone roll away.

3 Christ Spirit, dance through the dullness of humanity
to the music of God, God who has set us free!
You are the pulse of the new creation’s energy;
            with a great alleluia,
            a great alleluia
we praise the power that made the stone roll away.

 

Thine be the glory

CH4 419   Maccabeus

Music: George Frederick Handel, from Judas Maccabeus            
Words: Edmond Budry, transl. Richard Birch Hoyle

 

Thine be the glory.mp3

1 Thine be the glory, risen, conquering Son,
endless is the victory thou o'er death hast won;
angels in bright raiment rolled the stone away,
kept the folded grave-clothes, where thy body lay.
        Thine be the glory, risen, conquering Son,
        endless is the victory, thou o'er death hast won.

2 Lo! Jesus meets us, risen from the tomb;
lovingly he greets us, scatters fear and gloom;
let the Church with gladness hymns of triumph sing,
for her Lord now liveth; death hast lost its sting.

3 No more we doubt thee, glorious Prince of Life;
life is naught without thee: aid us in our strife;
make us more than conquerors, through thy deathless love:
bring us safe through Jordan to thy home above.