Today’s song from Sing Praise is ‘Come now, O Prince of Peace’ by Geonyong Lee (a Korean classical composer) and Marion Pope. I read somewhere that Korean music uses the same Pentatonic scale as Scottish folk music, which is why it sounds more familiar than other Asian styles.
The song is from the Advent section of the book. The appeal to ‘come now’ (very much part of Advent) is addressed to the Lord variously as ‘Prince of Peace’, ‘Lord Jesus’, ‘God of love’, ‘God our Saviour’ and ‘Hope of unity’. What we ask him to do when he comes is to ‘Make us one body’, ‘reconcile your people’ and ‘reconcile all nations’. Only the last of these is strictly an Advent hope. Looking at the words as a whole with their reference to ‘one body’ and ‘your people’, it seems to be more suited to Christian Unity week or any other ecumenical gathering, or indeed with its gentle melody would be suitable for a music group to sing during Communion.