Love to the loveless shown... (Vatican Radio ) In 1918 the English composer John Ireland was asked to write a tune for the following year's edition of the Public School  Hymn Book . The words had already been chosen: ' 'My song is love unknown, my Saviour's love to me, love to the loveless shown that they might lovely be.'... Listen to Monsignor Philip Whitmore's musical meditation in a programme produced by Veronica Scarisbrick:

 

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