Düsseldorfer mahnen singend für den Frieden
1. September 2014
Gänsehautgefühl in der evangelischen Johanneskirche in der Düsseldorfer Stadtmitte. Mit einem grandiosen Chorkonzert haben dort mehr als 400 Sängerinnen und Sänger zahlreicher Kantoreien den Frieden auf der Welt beschwört. Anlass war der Beginn des Ersten Weltkriegs vor 100 Jahren.
Das Programm unter dem Motto „Verleih uns Frieden gnädiglich“ beinhaltete neben lateinischen Gesängen Stücke von Brahms, Mendelssohn, Bach und zwei englischsprachige Chorsätze; eines davon:
Maurice Bevan – There’s a wideness
There’s a wideness in God’s mercy,
Like the wideness of the sea.
There’s a kindness in God’s justice,
Which is more than liberty.
There is no place where earth’s sorrows
Are more felt than up in heaven.
There is no place where earth’s failings
Have such kindly judgement given.
There’s a welcome for the sinner
And more graces for the good.
There is mercy with the Saviour
There is healing in his blood.
There is plentiful redemption
In the blood that has been shed.
There is joy for all the members
In the sorrows of the Head.
For the love of God is broader
Than the measures of the mind.
And the heart of the Eternal
Is most wonderfully kind.
If our love were but more faithful,
We would gladly trust God’s Word,
And our lives reflect thanksgiving
For the goodness of our Lord.
There is grace enough for thousands
Of new worlds as great as this;
There is room for fresh creations
In that upper home of bliss.
Pining souls! come nearer Jesus,
And oh! come not doubting thus.
But with faith that trusts more bravely
His huge tenderness for us.
‘Tis not all we owe to Jesus;
It is something more than all;
Greater good because of evil,
Larger mercy through the fall.
If our love were but more simple,
We should take Him at His word;
And our lives would all be sunshine
In the sweetness of our Lord.
Mehr zum Hintergrund des Konzerts gibt es auch beim Evangelischen Kirchenradio „Himmel und Erde aus Düsseldorf„
