Three Days (our world was broken)

This hymn about the resurrection was written by American Roman Catholic composer, pastoral musician, journalist, editor and author MD Ridge (1938-2017).

It was first published in 1999, and later included in Ridge's 2003 collection "A Light in Darkness".

Sheet music for the hymn is available from OCP, or for the entire Light In Darkness collection from SheetMusicPlus (link below).

With meter 13 13 13 11 13 13 it was written for a very slightly adapted setting of THAXTED by Gustav Holst(1874–1934), and later arranged by Jeffrey Honoré.

Image adapted from Resurrection / licence.

Downloads

Included in the A Light in Darkness octavo packet.

Examples

Choir with brass accompaniment:

Choir with organ and band - live recording:

Choir with brass - official recording:

Choir with piano (no brass, so easier to hear the melody in this recording):

Instrumental - guitar:

Lyrics

The lyrics are copyright so cannot be reproduced here. But they are currently available on this website. A rough outline is:

1.Three days our world was broken; the Lord of life lay dead.
... Three days we clung together where he had washed our feet.

2.Three days-and on the third day, the women came at dawn ...

3.Three days our world was broken and in an instant healed,
... Yet death has no dominion: the risen Christ is Lord!