O Young and Fearless Prophet

Verse 1

O young and fearless Prophet of ancient Galilee, your life is still a summons to serve humanity, to make our thoughts and actions less prone to please the crowd, to stand with humble courage for truth with strength endowed.

Verse 2

We marvel at the purpose that held you to your course while ever on the hilltop before you loomed the cross, your steadfast face set forward where love and duty shone, While we betray so quickly and leave you there alone.

Verse 3

Create in us the splendor that dawns when hearts are kind, that knows not race nor station as bound'ries of the mind, that learns to value beauty in heart or brain or soul, and longs to bind God’s children into one perfect whole.

Verse 4

O young and fearless Prophet, we need your presence here, amid our pride and glory to see your face appear, once more to hear your challenge above our noisy day, again to lead us forward along God’s holy way.