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FELICITY (Gibson)

Meter: 8.7.8.7 Appears in 2 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: Colin Gibson Tune Key: D Major Incipit: 12333 33111 23531

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Loving Spirit

Author: Shirley Murray Appears in 24 hymnals First Line: Loving Spirit, loving Spirit Topics: Commitment; Confirmation; Nature of God; Holy Spirit Used With Tune: FELICITY

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Loving Spirit

Author: Shirley Murray Hymnal: Alleluia Aotearoa #94b (1999) First Line: Loving Spirit, loving Spirit Topics: Commitment; Confirmation; Nature of God; Holy Spirit Languages: English Tune Title: FELICITY
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Loving Spirit, loving Spirit

Author: Shirley Erena Murray, 1931- Hymnal: Together in Song #417 (1999) Meter: 8.7.8.7 Lyrics: 1 Loving Spirit, loving Spirit, you have chosen me to be - You have drawn me to your wonder, you have set your sign on me. 2 Like a mother you enfold me, hold my life within your own, feed me with your very body, form me of your flesh and bone. 3 Like a father you protect me, teach me the discerning eye, hoist me up upon your shoulder, let me see the world from high. 4 Friend and lover, in your closeness I am known and held and blessed: in your promise is my comfort, in your presence I may rest. 5 Loving Spirit, loving Spirit, you have chosen me to be - you have drawn me to your wonder, you have set your sign on me. Topics: Baptism; Comfort; Eucharist; God's Love to Us; Holy Spirit; Intimate Love; Meditation; Name/s of God; Protection; Real Presence; Vision Scripture: Ephesians 1:3-6 Languages: English Tune Title: FELICITY

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Colin Gibson

b. 1933 Person Name: Colin Alexander Gibson, 1933 Composer of "FELICITY" in Together in Song Colin Gibson (b. 1933) was born in Dunedin, the south island of New Zealand. He has been writing hymn texts and hymn settings for over 20 years. His works have been published and performed in Africa, the United States, Asia and Australasia, Great Britain and Europe. He is organist and director of the Mornington Methodist Choir, Dunedin, New Zealand, a lay preacher, and retired in 1999 as Head of the Department and Donald Collie Professor of English at the University of Otago where he currently heads the Department of Theatre Studies and continues to lecture on English Literature as Emeritus Professor. He has conducted numerous hymn workshops in New Zealand, Australia and Great Britain, and has been co-editor of a number of hymn collections. His frequent collaboration with Shirley Erena Murray is represented in several Hope publications, and he has his own published collections of hymns: Singing Love (Collins) and more recently Reading the Signature (Hope, 1994 - Code #1753) and Songs for a Rainbow People (Hope, 1998 - Code #8005). Three of his hymns are included in the Hope hymnal Worship & Rejoice (2001). --www.hopepublishing.com

Shirley Erena Murray

1931 - 2020 Person Name: Shirley Erena Murray, 1931- Author of "Loving Spirit, loving Spirit" in Together in Song Shirley Erena Murray (b. Invercargill, New Zealand, 1931) studied music as an undergraduate but received a master’s degree (with honors) in classics and French from Otago University. Her upbringing was Methodist, but she became a Presbyterian when she married the Reverend John Stewart Murray, who was a moderator of the Presbyterian Church of New Zealand. Shirley began her career as a teacher of languages, but she became more active in Amnesty International, and for eight years she served the Labor Party Research Unit of Parliament. Her involvement in these organizations has enriched her writing of hymns, which address human rights, women’s concerns, justice, peace, the integrity of creation, and the unity of the church. Many of her hymns have been performed in CCA and WCC assemblies. In recognition for her service as a writer of hymns, the New Zealand government honored her as a Member of the New Zealand Order of Merit on the Queen’s birthday on 3 June 2001. Through Hope Publishing House, Murray has published three collections of her hymns: In Every Corner Sing (eighty-four hymns, 1992), Everyday in Your Spirit (forty-one hymns, 1996), and Faith Makes the Song (fifty hymns, 2002). The New Zealand Hymnbook Trust, for which she worked for a long time, has also published many of her texts (cf. back cover, Faith Makes the Song). In 2009, Otaga University conferred on her an honorary doctorate in literature for her contribution to the art of hymn writing. I-to Loh, Hymnal Companion to “Sound the Bamboo”: Asian Hymns in Their Cultural and Liturgical Context, p. 468, ©2011 GIA Publications, Inc., Chicago
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