Christ is our light! The bright and morning star
Christ is our light! The bright and morning star. Leith Fisher* (1941-2009).
This hymn was written for the first Sunday after the Epiphany, which also marks the Baptism of Christ. It was written while Fisher was minister of the Old Parish Church of Falkirk (1979-90). On being invited back to Falkirk from his new parish of Wellington in Glasgow (1990-2006) to conduct a wedding, the author added a third stanza, based on the wedding at Cana (John 2: 1-11). The first stanza refers to ‘the bright and morning star’ (Revelation 22:16, KJV; cf. the Venerable Bede*, ‘Christ is the morning star who when the night of this world is past brings to his saints the promise of the light of life...’); the...
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