Stars and planets sing your glory

Preferred tune Lux Eoi (See score below)

Stars and planets sing your glory
God of might and God of Love;
time and space proclaim your story
written in the realms above.
All the beauty of the cosmos,
summoned by your great command
gathered shape; while out of nothing
matter formed, as you had planned

Power beyond our wildest dreaming:

forces weak and forces strong

melded in the cosmic streaming

when the universe was young .

Out of chaos, spheres and orbits

found their form through ages long:

and creation’s still unfolding

in a great ongoing song.

Here on earth a mighty wonder

brought about life’s earliest trace,

basis for both plants and creatures,

and in time, the human race.

Though we’ve grown in understanding

sin has torn this earth apart,

pitched against it we were helpless,

captive to our wayward hearts.

So the God who shaped the cosmos

set aside all power and might;

came, a humble human baby

in the darkness, God’s own light:

taught us through his life of loving

how he would redeem our race,

by the death and resurrection

of the God of time and space.

This hymn is also published in the UK by The Jubilate Group - Access it HERE and in the USA, Jubilate works withHope Publishing whose website can be accessed HERE. The words have been looked over by Bro Guy Consolmagno SSJ (who is Director of the Vatican Observatory and holder of the American Astronomical Society’s Carl Sagan medal for communication in the Planetary Sciences 2014). So, I feel comfortable the science is up-to-date and accurate with our present understandings.

Further songs, poems and other items on The Wonders of Science can be found HERE 

The editorial co-ordinator of Jubilate hymns reports 'Stars and planets was well-received at the new songs section of the 50 year Jubilate Celebration a couple of weeks ago' (October 2016)