At Canas Wedding Long Ago
Tune: Sussex Carol (the same tune as for As Man And Woman We Were made)
At Cana's wedding, long ago,
they knew his presence by this sign,
a virtue none but Christ could show,
to turn their water into wine:
and still on us his blessing be
as in the days of Galilee.
What if the way be far to go
and life at times a weary load?
Yet may our hearts within us glow
as theirs on that Emmaus road:
the risen Christ become our guest,
with him to walk, in him to rest.
O Lord of all our life below,
O risen Lord of realms above,
eternal joy be theirs to know,
united in the bond of love:
one in the faith, with one accord,
one with each other and the Lord.
Words: Timothy Dudley-Smith (b.1926)
© Timothy Dudley-Smith in Europe and Africa.
© Hope Publishing Company in the United States of America and the rest of the world.
Reproduced by permission of Oxford University Press, Great Clarendon Street, Oxford, OX2 6DP, United Kingdom. Tel: 01865 353289,
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