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Tune: St Columba 8787 Iambic BPW394(ii)

        Michael Docker

Our human faces mark the way

Earth’s hate and fear is taking,

The human face of God in Christ

Reveals the love God’s making.

Our world is shackled to the way

Of beauty shown in faces,

The human face of God in Christ

Shows beauty in God’s graces.

The faces of the poor are hid –

The hurt, the marred, the silenced.
The human face of God in Christ

Unmasks our shameful violence.

Till we have faces formed like Christ

Of peace and cross-borne beauty;

We’ll look to see God’s human face

In every servant duty.

Till we have faces, like the cross

That’s signed in every feature

The human face of God in Christ

Reveals, we’ll heed the Teacher.

So hail the human face of God;
The world is still concealing;
The poor, the weak, the world’s unloved -
Christ’s face they are revealing.

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