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PLATT'S LANE

Meter: 5.6.6.4 Appears in 2 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: Evelyn Sharpe, 1884-1969 Tune Key: D Major Incipit: 31345 56534 25176 Used With Text: As we break the bread

Author: Fred Kaan (b. 1929) Meter: 5.6.6.4 Appears in 9 hymnals Lyrics: 1 Awake from sleep, the night is spent! The morning star moves up the sky: the hosts of heaven, with sweet consent, proclaim salvation's time is high. Come, praise the long-implored, our Saviour, Christ the Lord! 2 While man, the rather sin to choose, prepares the purple, plants the thorn, the Word of God our flesh endues that we, by will of God reborn, the sons of God may be to all eternity. 3 Let regal power and humble beast and shepherd, serving both, attend; since all, from greatest unto least, are proffered bliss which shall not end, where spreads his banquet-board our Saviour, Christ the Lord. 4 In Bethlehem, the House of Bread, a richer harvest now is sown; for none at Jesus' table fed shall ever thirst or hunger own, but shall from foes be free to all eternity. 5 Greet the fulfilment of your dreams, sad earth, by Adam's plague oppressed! May he whose lowliness redeems both north and south, both east and west, now be by all adored, our Saviour, Christ the Lord. Topics: Communion Used With Tune: PLATTS LANE

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As we break the bread

Author: Fred Kaan (b. 1929) Hymnal: New Church Praise #5 (1975) Meter: 5.6.6.4 Lyrics: 1 Awake from sleep, the night is spent! The morning star moves up the sky: the hosts of heaven, with sweet consent, proclaim salvation's time is high. Come, praise the long-implored, our Saviour, Christ the Lord! 2 While man, the rather sin to choose, prepares the purple, plants the thorn, the Word of God our flesh endues that we, by will of God reborn, the sons of God may be to all eternity. 3 Let regal power and humble beast and shepherd, serving both, attend; since all, from greatest unto least, are proffered bliss which shall not end, where spreads his banquet-board our Saviour, Christ the Lord. 4 In Bethlehem, the House of Bread, a richer harvest now is sown; for none at Jesus' table fed shall ever thirst or hunger own, but shall from foes be free to all eternity. 5 Greet the fulfilment of your dreams, sad earth, by Adam's plague oppressed! May he whose lowliness redeems both north and south, both east and west, now be by all adored, our Saviour, Christ the Lord. Topics: Communion Languages: English Tune Title: PLATTS LANE

As we break the bread

Author: Fred Kaan, b. 1929 Hymnal: Complete Anglican Hymns Old and New #48 (2000) Meter: 5.6.6.4 Topics: Christian unity; Holy Communion; Years A, B, and C Day of Thanksgiving for Holy Communion Scripture: 1 Corinthians 11:23-26 Languages: English Tune Title: PLATT'S LANE

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Fred Kaan

1929 - 2009 Person Name: Fred Kaan (b. 1929) Author of "As we break the bread" in New Church Praise Fred Kaan Hymn writer. His hymns include both original work and translations. He sought to address issues of peace and justice. He was born in Haarlem in the Netherlands in July 1929. He was baptised in St Bavo Cathedral but his family did not attend church regularly. He lived through the Nazi occupation, saw three of his grandparents die of starvation, and witnessed his parents deep involvement in the resistance movement. They took in a number of refugees. He became a pacifist and began attending church in his teens. Having become interested in British Congregationalism (later to become the United Reformed Church) through a friendship, he was attended Western College in Bristol. He was ordained in 1955 at the Windsor Road Congregational Church in Barry, Glamorgan. In 1963 he was called to be minister of the Pilgrim Church in Plymouth. It was in this congregation that he began to write hymns. The first edition of Pilgrim Praise was published in 1968, going into second and third editions in 1972 and 1975. He continued writing many more hymns throughout his life. Dianne Shapiro, from obituary written by Keith Forecast in Independent (http://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/fred-kaan-minister-and-celebrated-hymn-writer-1809481.html)