New Hymnal by Dean of Grace Church Cathedral, Charleston, Michael Wright

Grace Church Cathedral
Posted Nov 19, 2020

Dean Michael Wright’s new book of hymns, “Sung Stories: Hymns for the Life of the Church,” is well worth reading and singing, praying and inwardly digesting.  In the Foreword Will Willimon writes that it was in South Carolina that Anglican priest and Englishman John Wesley published his first book of hymns in 1737, a compilation of hymns for his “poor sheep in the wilderness.”  Now, nearly three hundred years later, Willimon notes that another Anglican priest, a Canadian by birth and a South Carolinian by the grace of God, has published another hymnal in South Carolina, in the city of Charleston, to be specific.

Copies are available in the Grace Church Cathedral bookstore (Gifts of Grace) or at Amazon. If you make a purchase through Gifts of Grace, a portion of the sale will go directly to the Cathedral. You may purchase through the bookstore’s website here. To contact the bookstore with any questions, email bookshoppe@gracesc.org. The link to purchase it through Amazon can be found here.

The Dean has also written the following hymn for the 230th Diocesan Convention of the Diocese of South Carolina to take place this weekend:

Hymn: Micah 6:8

What is good, what is required?
Where is God found to inspire?
Loving justice, mercy’s friend,
God’s companions to the end.

Walking humbly with our God,

Pilgrim’s life and prophet’s cause.

Doing justice, God’s great plea,
Walking sacramentally.
Seeing each in heaven’s light,
Claiming all as Christ’s delight.

Walking humbly with our God,

Pilgrim’s life and prophet’s cause.

Loving kindness lived each day,
Marked by acts that show the way.
Spirit’s joy, defeating hate,
Living, loving, liberate.

Walking humbly with our God,

Pilgrim’s life and prophet’s cause.

Walking humbly with our God,
Loving neighbor, our new law.
Changing lives and changing minds,
Changed ourselves, by love’s design.

Walking humbly with our God,

Pilgrim’s life and prophet’s cause.

Text: J. M. A. Wright
Tune: Dix


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