Below is the Sylvia Dunstan text to which Mark Thompson refers. It is no. 679 in W4, under the "faith" section, but also selected as one of two possible "hymns of the day" - the other being Alford's "We Walk by Faith" - for the Second Sunday of Easter A, B, C.
Show me your hands, your feet, your side;
I will not be deceived.
Unless I see, how can I trust
The news that I’ve received?
“Fear not! Let peace be in your soul.
Reach out and touch and know
I died and yet I am alive
With wounds that ever show.”
Not even Easter takes away
The marks that Jesus bears.
The risen Christ still wears the wounds
Of scourge and nail and spear.
So blessed are those who have not seen
Yet cry, "My Lord and God!"
Who touch earth's pain in Jesus' name
And tell good news abroad.
Text: Sylvia G. Dunstan, 1955-1993, © 1991, GIA Publications, Inc.
All rights reserved. Reprinted with permission of GIA Publications.
Tune: LAND OF REST
all that allusionary poetic text needs to amplify the profundity of the gospel already is to be found in the various translations of O FILII....and ADORO TE.
How was Adam's comment above ad rem to this text?
I fail to see it as a mere retelling of that story. "Thomas" is not mentioned, I think, intentionally.
Stanzas 1-3 boringly recap the story of Doubting Thomas...
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