ADD: Canticle of St Francis + Make Me a Channel

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Canticle of St Francis/Make Me a Channel
From: GUEST
Date: 12 Feb 23 - 01:14 PM

in 1987 one of the first hymns were make me a channel of your peace which was first written in 1967. when i went to the school assemblies this was one of the hymns i remember singing when i was 7 and 8 years old. now being 42 i revue songs and still play the piano and sing i think that it dust me good if i talk to my friends from these days wood that know that the words we new from that day was only written in 1967 only 20 years later the roil scool for the blind love this song so much. on the mudcat i could not believe how many folk know this song from joe.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Canticle of St Francis/Make Me a Channel
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 12 Feb 23 - 02:10 PM

Make Me A Channel Of Your Peace was a kids' favourite at our (Catholic) school assemblies in the early-mid '70s in London's East End, and I "sang" it as lustily as anyone in those days in order to get my class to join in. As Joe will attest, my sentiments have altered ever so slightly since those times... ;-)

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Canticle of St Francis/Make Me a Channel
From: Nigel Parsons
Date: 12 Feb 23 - 06:54 PM

Jack Campin's comment:
Joe's answer is on the money.
Thatcher quoted the Prayer of St Francis as her programme at her inauguration in 1979. It was pretty obvious to everybody what she really meant by it, and the gesture was remembered by British connoisseurs of sick and twisted political rhetoric for long after she'd quit.
tells us more about his politics than it does about Margaret Thatcher.

I would assume that she meant what she said, and it was a heartfelt request for reconciliation.

Unfortunately 'the left' in Britain have to have their say on any quotes by Tory ministers.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Canticle of St Francis/Make Me a Channel
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 12 Feb 23 - 08:23 PM

Take it downstairs, Nigel, and I'll give you a fight...

Subject: RE: ADD: Canticle of St Francis + Make Me a Channel
From: GeoffLawes
Date: 19 Feb 23 - 06:15 PM

Various recorings of CANTICLE OF THE SUN on YouTube     https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=CANTICLE+OF+THE+SUN

Subject: RE: ADD: Canticle of St Francis + Make Me a Channel
From: GeoffLawes
Date: 19 Feb 23 - 06:27 PM

BUT Here, Wikipedia: Prayer of Saint Francis,casts doubt on the authorship of the poem by St Francis.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prayer_of_Saint_Francis