Damian Lundy

{{Short description|British religious brother (1944–1997)}}

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Damian Lundy (1944–1997) was a religious brother of the de La Salle Order. He was born as Michael Lundy in Sowerby Bridge in Yorkshire on 21 March 1944.Brother Damian Lundy FSC https://www.godsongs.net/2015/04/damian-lundy-fsc.html Some sources state that he died in 1996, but others that it was in 1997 at the age of 53. He entered the De la Salle Brothers order in 1960.{{cite web | url=https://www.godsongs.net/2015/04/damian-lundy-fsc.html | title=Brother Damian Lundy FSC }} He is widely respected as a leading innovator in many forms of Catholic ministry and education in the UK. He is credited with devising the current standard form of Catholic Residential Youth Work and for writing many popular hymns and prayers and leading seminars and conferences.

In 1975, Damian founded St Cassian's Centre, Kintbury, in Berkshire, a widely visited and respected Catholic Youth Retreat Centre,The Kintbury Experience https://www.thekintburyexperience.com/about-us.html which {{as of|2023|October|lc=y}} is still operating.The Province of Great Britain of the Institute of the Brothers of the Christian Schools Charitable Trust, [https://register-of-charities.charitycommission.gov.uk/charity-search?p_p_id=uk_gov_ccew_onereg_charitydetails_web_portlet_CharityDetailsPortlet&p_p_lifecycle=2&p_p_state=maximized&p_p_mode=view&p_p_resource_id=%2Faccounts-resource&p_p_cacheability=cacheLevelPage&_uk_gov_ccew_onereg_charitydetails_web_portlet_CharityDetailsPortlet_objectiveId=A14071789&_uk_gov_ccew_onereg_charitydetails_web_portlet_CharityDetailsPortlet_priv_r_p_mvcRenderCommandName=%2Faccounts-and-annual-returns&_uk_gov_ccew_onereg_charitydetails_web_portlet_CharityDetailsPortlet_priv_r_p_organisationNumber=232632 Annual Report and Accounts, 31 December 2022], p. 4, accessed 5 May 2024

He is remembered for his popular hymn, Walk in the light,{{cite web |url=http://www2.hymnswithoutwords.com/hymns/The_spirit_live_to_set_us_free |title=The spirit live to set us free – HymnsWithoutWords |accessdate=2008-08-03 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20080806022550/http://www2.hymnswithoutwords.com/hymns/The_spirit_live_to_set_us_free |archivedate=6 August 2008 }}The Spirit Lives To Set Us Free (Walk in the Light) https://play.hymnswithoutwords.com/the-spirit-lives-to-set-us-free/. and for verses 3-5 added to Jimmy Owens' hymn This is my body, broken for you.Celebration Hymnal for Everyone with Supplement (2005), No. 730, McCrimmon Publishing Co. Ltd.