Choose the Light 5: REVELATION

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THE WORDS OF CHOOSE THE LIGHT

Choose The Light´ is a phrase culled from the young people´s writing. It perfectly expresses the complex moral choices that face all of us, and the importance of seeking peace and reconciliation. Choose the Light begins with words of the medieval hymn, Dies Iræ, the Day of Wrath, and ends with a setting of lines based on the Coventry Litany of Reconciliation written after the Cathedral was bombed in 1940, which we use with the permission of the Cathedral. The shift from the aggressive and forceful music of the Dies Iræ to the tender and merciful Litany maps the move from anger to reconciliation and peace. Between them come the songs of the individual schools. The piece begins with the appeal to ´Choose the Light´ almost overwhelmed by the Dies Iræ, the thirteenth-century Latin hymn describing the Day of Judgement, when the last trumpet will summon souls before the throne of God, the saved will be delivered and the doomed cast into eternal flames.

THE SCHOOL SONGS: Frederick Bird Primary School – Revelation!

Your destination

Is beyond imagination:

You are my creation.

This is Revelation!

I travelled a long way to see for myself

This mysterious painting at Holy Trinity Church.

My glowing blue eyes were glued to the weird and wonderful piece of art.

In the centre of the painting, Lord Jesus

Sitting on the wooden carved throne.

Underneath this marvellous Lord,

Jesus laid His swollen, holed feet on the symbol that is earth

Your destination

Is beyond imagination:

You are my creation.

This is Revelation!

I am a painting,

Restored, revived.

I am the Last Judgement, come back alive.

I show what lies beyond death:

The choice between Heaven and Hell is your decision.

I may be old, I may not yell

The History of Coventry;

Still, I can gently tell.

I am warning you what to do:

It´s your choice.

I may not have a voice,

But still can tell

What happened back then,

When the earthquake struck the city.

People thought that they were being punished

For their crime;

Confused and filled with horror,

They pleaded for forgiveness in terror.

Your destination

Is beyond imagination:

You are my creation.

This is Revelation!