Healing the Deaf Man

[Nick Baty]

There are plenty of items about healing recommended by the SSG, The Liturgy Planner and other resources for Sunday's Gospel about Christ healing the deaf man. But I realised at last night's rehearsal they mention:
Gather us in: the blind and the lame...
Psalm 145: The Lord gives sight to the blind...
Now in this banquet: God who makes the blind to see, God makes the lame to walk...

I realise I'm being ridiculously and overly specific, that the Gospel message is much broader than one example of healing and that the items listed above tie-in well with the Isaiah 35 reading, but are there any songs or hymns which mention the healing of a deaf person?

[Gabriel]

I have not heard of any...

[monty]

You really should have resisted!

[TimSharrock]

How about asking the assembly to sign the Eucharistic Acclamations emphatically, but in silence?

[Lakelark]

Nick,

How about that good old Charles Wesley favourite, O for a thousand tongues to sing? One verse runs:

Hear him, ye deaf, his praise, ye dumb,
Your loosened tongues employ;
Ye blind, behold your Saviour come,
And leap, ye lame, for joy.

Its tune is Lyndhurst (I think), and is guaranteed to arouse any sleeping members of the assembly.

[SOP]

Marty Haugen's "Eye Has Not Seen" which continues "ear has not heard". We have sung it a few times but obviously not more than twice in the last 12 months!

[gwyn]

How about that good old Charles Wesley favourite, O for a thousand tongues to sing? One verse runs:

Hear him, ye deaf, his praise, ye dumb,
Your loosened tongues employ;
Ye blind, behold your Saviour come,
And leap, ye lame, for joy.

Its tune is Lyndhurst (I think), and is guaranteed to arouse any sleeping members of the assembly.

Lakelark, you're bang on when you say it's an assembly rouser.

The tune is Lyngham. I have it in Sibelius format if you want to give it a whirl Nick.

Gwyn.