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UPPER ROOM

Appears in 2 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: Richard VanOss Tune Key: d minor

As in That Upper Room You Left Your Seat

Author: Timothy Dudley-Smith, b. 1926 Meter: 10.10.10.10 Appears in 3 hymnals Lyrics: 1 As in that upper room you left your seat and took a towel and chose a servant’s part, so for today, Lord, wash again my feet, who in your mercy died to cleanse my heart. 2 I bow before you, all my sin confessed, to hear again the words of love you said; and at your table, as your honored guest, I take and eat the true and living bread. 3 So in remembrance of your life laid down, I come to praise you for your grace divine; saved by your cross and subject to your crown, strengthened for service by this bread and wine. Topics: Church Year Maundy Thursday; Discipleship; Elements of Worship Lord's Supper Scripture: John 13:1-30 Used With Tune: UPPER ROOM

The Risen Christ

Author: Nigel Weaver Meter: 10.10.10.10 Appears in 6 hymnals First Line: The risen Christ, who walks on wounded feet Topics: Communion; Following Christ; Justice; Mission; Peace Inner Scripture: Luke 24:13-49 Used With Tune: UPPER ROOM

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As in That Upper Room You Left Your Seat

Author: Timothy Dudley-Smith, b. 1926 Hymnal: Lift Up Your Hearts #156 (2013) Meter: 10.10.10.10 Lyrics: 1 As in that upper room you left your seat and took a towel and chose a servant’s part, so for today, Lord, wash again my feet, who in your mercy died to cleanse my heart. 2 I bow before you, all my sin confessed, to hear again the words of love you said; and at your table, as your honored guest, I take and eat the true and living bread. 3 So in remembrance of your life laid down, I come to praise you for your grace divine; saved by your cross and subject to your crown, strengthened for service by this bread and wine. Topics: Church Year Maundy Thursday; Discipleship; Elements of Worship Lord's Supper Scripture: John 13:1-30 Languages: English Tune Title: UPPER ROOM

The Risen Christ

Author: Nigel Weaver Hymnal: Voices Together #345 (2020) Meter: 10.10.10.10 First Line: The risen Christ, who walks on wounded feet Topics: Communion; Following Christ; Justice; Mission; Peace Inner Scripture: Luke 24:13-49 Tune Title: UPPER ROOM

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Timothy Dudley-Smith

1926 - 2024 Person Name: Timothy Dudley-Smith, b. 1926 Author of "As in That Upper Room You Left Your Seat" in Lift Up Your Hearts Timothy Dudley-Smith (b. 1926) Educated at Pembroke College and Ridley Hall, Cambridge, Dudley-Smith has served the Church of England since his ordination in 1950. He has occupied a number of church positions, including parish priest in the diocese of Southwark (1953-1962), archdeacon of Norwich (1973-1981), and bishop of Thetford, Norfolk, from 1981 until his retirement in 1992. He also edited a Christian magazine, Crusade, which was founded after Billy Graham's 1955 London crusade. Dudley-Smith began writing comic verse while a student at Cambridge; he did not begin to write hymns until the 1960s. Many of his several hundred hymn texts have been collected in Lift Every Heart: Collected Hymns 1961-1983 (1984), Songs of Deliverance: Thirty-six New Hymns (1988), and A Voice of Singing (1993). The writer of Christian Literature and the Church (1963), Someone Who Beckons (1978), and Praying with the English Hymn Writers (1989), Dudley-Smith has also served on various editorial committees, including the committee that published Psalm Praise (1973). Bert Polman

Nigel Weaver

b. 1952 Author of "The Risen Christ" in Voices Together This text was written by United Church minister Nigel Weaver during the meeting of the Hymn Society in Toronto in 1993.