What shall our greeting be (StF 691)

Authors & translators:
Pratt Green, Fred
Metre:
66.4.666.4.
Tune:
Moscow
Composers & arrangers:
Giardini, Felice de
Source:
Singing the Faith: 691 (CD28 #20)
Verses:
3
STF Number:
691

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In one of his most assertive texts, Fred Pratt Green both neatly adapts words attributed to St Paul (e.g. Ephesians 4: 4-5) and also alludes to John Wesley’s sermon called A Catholic Spirit. Wesley headed this sermon (designed to be read rather heard) with a biblical quotation apt, among other occasions, for the Week of Prayer for Christian Unity: “Is your heart right, as my heart is with your heart?” And Jehonadab answered: “It is.” [Jehu said

], “If it is, give me your hand.” ( 2 Kings 10: 15 )

Fred Pratt Green was a Methodist poet and hymn writer who died in 2000.

Also see Life and Unity in the Church

The Church's one foundation (StF 690)
Your hand, O God, has guided (StF 692)