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One More Redeemer (adapt. from Rob Eller-Isaacs and Bill Neely)
SATB a cappella - SEA-072-00 - $1.75/copy2 minutes - ME
Composer's Note: For many years, Rev. Rob Eller-Isaacs has spoken of each new birth as the arrival of "one more redeemer". This phrase has now become an essential part of dedication and baptism ceremonies in many churches. My adaptation of Eller-Isaacs' words also includes excepts from a sermon given by his friend and colleague Rev. Bill Neely.
One More Redeemer - Score
One More Redeemer - Recording
(Unity Singers, Unity Unitarian Church of St. Paul ~ Ruth Palmer, conductor)
(Unity Singers, Unity Unitarian Church of St. Paul ~ Ruth Palmer, conductor)
One More Redeemer is also a movement from Go Out! - A Musical Celebration of Liberal Religion and Freedom of Thought
One More Redeemer
Every child is born one more redeemer
In each new heart is a spark divine,
One more voice for compassion, one more holy sign,
One more chance to restore and reveal and receive.
This is our faith, this we believe:
That every child is born bring one more redeemer to this world.
Original texts © 1997 by Rob Eller-Isaacs and © 2005 by Bill Neely
Adapted text © 2006 by Elizabeth Alexander, for use in musical setting only
Every child is born one more redeemer
In each new heart is a spark divine,
One more voice for compassion, one more holy sign,
One more chance to restore and reveal and receive.
This is our faith, this we believe:
That every child is born bring one more redeemer to this world.
Original texts © 1997 by Rob Eller-Isaacs and © 2005 by Bill Neely
Adapted text © 2006 by Elizabeth Alexander, for use in musical setting only
"It is our faith that each child is born one more redeemer. We commit ourselves to the nurture of our children. We acknowledge the divine spark within each child. May we be worthy guardians of these young lives. May we build a community in which they will grow old surrounded by beauty, embraced by love, and cradled in the arms of peace."
© 1997 by Rob Eller-Isaacs. Reprinted by permission of the author.
"...Every child is, in words very familiar to us, born one more redeemer. One more chance for humankind to get it right. One more voice for compassion and justice, one more soul aimed for unity with life, one more unique manifestation of a Creative Love seen in the eternal eyes of the newly alive."
© 2005 by Bill Neely. Reprinted by permission of the author.
One More Redeemer - score
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