Come, Touch the Robe

Come, Touch the Robe. (Encounters with the Healer, the Servant, the Lord of Easter). By Pepper Choplin. For SAB choir and piano (with optional orchestration). Cantatas. Eastertide, Lent, Sacred. Published by Lorenz Publishing Company (LO.55-1124L).

Unique in concept, soaring in spirit, and with music, text, and narration by Pepper Choplin, "Come Touch the Robe" allows us to encounter the Christ of healing, glory, authority, humility, and victory. This work uses the simple garment that Jesus wore as a thematic device to recount the interaction of those who were with Him during His last days on Earth. To a suffering woman, His robe conveyed divine healing. On the mountaintop, the robe shone and filled the disciples' eyes with His glory and authority. When Jesus laid His garment aside in the upper room, it displayed His humility as a servant. At the tomb, the grave clothes He left behind help us experience His resurrection and the victory over death. It is through these personal, touching moments that our hearts are fully prepared to meet Jesus in an intimate way, allowing us to experience the healing, the glory, and the power of Christ, and rejoice in the stirring celebration of the resurrection of the Lamb of God.