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Sunday Worship: 'Get up and flee!' - The Flight to Egypt

'Get up and flee!' - The Flight to Egypt

BBC Radio 4 - Sunday Worship, 'Get up and flee!' - The Flight to Egypt

Sarah Teather, director of Jesuit Refugee Service UK, reflects on Jesus' flight into Egypt

Soul Sanctuary Gospel Choir and the Jesuit Refugee Service Choir sing Gospel carols to reflect on the Biblical Flight to Egypt and the plight of refugees today.

It’s the dead of night and Joseph is lying asleep, his wife Mary and the infant Jesus are close by. He is disturbed by the arrival of an urgent message - “Get up, take your child and his mother, and flee”.  They hastily pack what they can carry and run from the slaughter, heading to Egypt to escape the wrath of King Herod. 

Sarah Teather and Fr. Dominic Robinson SJ explore this gruesome and terrifying epilogue to the Nativity story which sees the Holy Family flee from violence to a foreign land as refugees. They consider how  this two thousand year old story is reflected in the lives of many refugees in the world today. They are joined at Farm Street Jesuit Church in Mayfair by Soul Sanctuary Gospel Choir and the Jesuit Refugee Service Choir, singing Gospel songs and carols.

MUSIC
Go tell it on the mountain
Silent Night
Born to Die
Amazing Grace/I’m a believer
I need you to survive 
Kwaze kwaze

Band Leader: Peter Yarde Martin
Directors of Music: Magda Supel and Miko Giedroyc

Producer: Katharine Longworth

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