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Come, Touch the Robe
Encounters with the Healer, the
Servant, the Lord of Easter
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SATB or SAB, Piano
with Optional Orchestra, Accompaniment CD, Performance CD |
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Unique in concept, soaring in spirit, and
with music, text, and narration by Pepper Choplin, “Come Touch the
Robe” allows us to encounter the Christ of
healing, glory, authority, humility, and victory. This work uses the simple
garment that Jesus wore as a thematic device to recount the interaction of
those who were with Him during His last days on Earth. To a suffering woman,
His robe conveyed divine healing. On the mountaintop, the robe shone and
filled the disciples’ eyes with His glory and authority. When Jesus
laid His garment aside in the upper room, it displayed His humility as a
servant. At the tomb, the grave clothes He left behind help us experience His
resurrection and the victory over death. It is through these personal,
touching moments that our hearts are fully prepared to meet Jesus in an
intimate way, allowing us to experience the healing, the glory, and the power
of Christ, and rejoice in the stirring celebration of the resurrection of the
Lamb of God.
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Some comments and ideas about COME
TOUCH THE ROBE:
Beatrice Volino,
St Andrew's United Church in Markham, Ontario
Kelley Garris,
First Baptist Church, Smithfield, NC
Paul Mabrey,
New Haven UMC, Tulsa, OK
Ellen Paige, First United Methodist
Church, Howell, MI
Shirley Woodson, Trinity Presbyterian
Church, Spring Valley, CA
This past Sunday (Palm
Sunday) our church choir performed your musical masterpiece "
Come Touch the Robe". My wife and I were moved to tears
as was most of the congregation. It is beautiful beyond words.
Luther D. Zimmerman,
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