By Your Priestly Power, O Risen Lord TIS 529

Chris’s parish uses this song for Corpus Christi. It’s another from the collaboration of composer, Richard Connolly and poet, James McAuley. It shares a refrain with their Easter hymn “By Your Kingly Power” which is nothing if not efficient, but the verses are markedly different. It has the sort of inventive tune you come to expect from Connolly. The text makes it especially suitable for the Feast of the Body and Blood but it is general Eucharist song as well.

The text is here (scroll down to the communion hymn). My copy is in “Together in Song”, but it is also available at AOV in the “Year of Grace Music Book” and the old Australian Hymn Book.

I didn’t use dodgy organ sounds this time.

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