DESCRIPTION:
Joanne Hogg & David Fitzgerald (with the Choir Of Liverpool Metropolitan Cathedral directed by Mervyn Cousins): A Touching Place (Christ Is The World In Which We Move) - BBC Songs Of Praise/Northumberland. Words/text by John Bell & Graham Maule & music (Dream Angus) traditional Scottish folk tune, Irish Whistle arrangement & improvisations by David Fitzgerald (not seen in this video/sound recording only). This video was filmed at Selby Abbey for a BBC Songs Of Praise special entitled 'Northumberland'. Sound recording was at ICC Studios, engineer & co-producer was Neil Costello. Also featured on the recording of this BBC Songs Of Praise special: IKOS/Band, who include: Dave Clifton (Vocals/Guitars), David Fitzgerald (Woodwinds & Reeds), Tim Oliver (Keyboards), Nick Beggs (Chapman Stick & Bass) & Terl Bryant (Drums/Percussion).

A Touching Place/full text:

Christ is the world in which we move,
Christ's are the folk we're summoned to love,
Christ's is the voice which calls us to care,
and Christ is the One who meets us here.

To the lost Christ show's His face;
to the unloved He gives His embrace;
to those who cry in pain or disgrace,
Christ, makes, with His friends, a touching place.

Feel for the people we most avoid,
Strange or bereaved or never employed;
Feel for the women, and feel for the men
fear that their living is all in vain.

Feel for the parents who lost their child,
feel for the woman whom men have defiled.
Feel for the baby for whom there's no breast,
and feel for the weary who find no rest.

Feel for the lives by life confused,
Riddled with doubt, in loving abused;
Feel for the lonely heart, conscious of sin,
which longs to be pure but fears to begin.

John Bell & Graham Maule (1989)