Contemporary Hymn: Beatitudes

Here’s a new hymn based on the Beatitudes (Matthew 5: 3-12; Luke 6: 20-26).  It was written by Carolyn Winfrey Gillette.

Blessed Are the Poor in Spirit
(Tune:  NETTLETON, Come, Thou Fount of Every Blessing)

Blessed are the poor in spirit; all God's realm is surely theirs.
Those in mourning will find comfort as an answer to their prayers.
Meek ones whom this world despises will inherit everything.
God, your kingdom still surprises; may we seek the reign you bring.

Blessed, too, are those who hunger and who thirst for what is right.
They will not be prone to wander, for your will is their delight.
Those who show God's care and mercy will receive that mercy too.
God, in Christ you show us clearly of the joy we have in you.

Those who share the peace God gives them will find blessings

    as God's own.
Those oppressed for faithful living will call heaven's kingdom Home.
When the world's ways seem distressing and we feel life's painful sting,
God, remind us of the blessings of the wondrous life you bring.

Text: Copyright © 2009 by Carolyn Winfrey Gillette. All rights reserved.
Email: bcgillette@comcast.net

This hymn is part of "The Sermon on the Mount: A Worship Service of Lessons and Songs" by Carolyn Winfrey Gillette that is patterned after the "Service of Lessons and Carols for Christmas." The new service is based on Jesus' teachings in Matthew 5-7 interspersed with stanzas of four new hymns based on these teachings.

For more resources on the Beatitudes, click on Beatitudes in the list of “Labels” at the lower right side of the page. 

For more resources for All Saints Day (November 1), click on All Saints. 

For more contemporary hymn suggestions, click on Contemporary hymns.