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                            Lady with the lamp, Patient Voices, British Columbia, Canada Voices Found : 66 Rejoice for Florence, nurse A daughter of your love a woman who tended your children bringing comfort from above. Refrain: Lift up your heart, lift up your voice, rejoice again I say rejoice  Rejoice again , I say rejoice! Rejoice for charity,  rejoice for servanthood. Rejoice for those who show us  how to love and work for good. Refrain: Lift up your heart, lift up your voice, rejoice again I say rejoice  Rejoice again , I say rejoice! Words: Lisa Neufeld Thomas Music: Mayfair, Frances   McCollin (1892-1960) Now you can sing for nurses! When I looked for a hymn to celebrate Florence Nightingale  I found nothing.  Both a women's group and  the a men's group at St. Mark's Locust St, Philadelphia, wanted a song to remember Nurse Florence.  To honor Florence and and a Ph...

                                                                                                 The Song of Judith, stained glass, The Cathedral of St. John, Norwich Voices Found #158 A Song of Judith, verse 1 I will sing a new song to my God, for you are great and glorious, wonderful in strength, invincible. Let the whole creation serve you, for you spoke and all things came into being. Words: a Song of Judith,  Enriching Our Worship 1 Music: William Bradley Roberts   "The Song of Judith" is a canticle found in the Apocrypha text, Judith 16:13-16.  Based on  a folk story about a faithful widow who risks her life to protect Israel by beheading the enemy leader of  Nabuchadrezzer's Assyrian army, it is a song of than...

  PRAYER (contemporary language):        O God, whose Spirit guides us into all truth and makes us free: Strengthen and sustain us as you did your servants Elizabeth, Amelia, and Sojourner. Give us vision and courage to stand against oppression and injustice and all that works against the glorious liberty to which you call all your children; through Jesus Christ our Savior, who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, for ever and ever. Amen.  (Collect from the daily Lectionary)   Voices Found #90, Verse 1 God of freedom God of freedom, God of justice, you whose love is strong as death, you who saw the dark of prison, you who knew the price of faith-- touch our world of sad oppression with your spirit's healing breath. Words: Shirley Erena Murray, (1931-2020) Music: Libertad ,  Robert A.M. Ross Murray wrote "God of Freedom"  for the Amnesty International Campaign against Torture in 1980.  Today, it is  espec...

                                                                                                           https://churchpublishing.org/products/9781596272590-the-story-of-the-philadelphia-eleven O   God of Persistent Grace, you called the Philadelphia Eleven to the priesthood and granted them courage and boldness to respond, thereby opening the eyes of your church to the giftedness and equality of all: grant us so to hear, trust, and follow your Holy Spirit wherever she may lead, that the gifts of all your people may flourish throughout the earth, through Christ our Savior.   Amen . (Lectionary Collect) In boldness,  look to God for help Voices Found # 94, ...