Shine, Jesus, Shine

{{Short description|Christian praise song by Graham Kendrick}}

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"Shine, Jesus, Shine" (also known by its first line, "Lord, the Light of Your Love") is a Christian praise song written in 1987 by Graham Kendrick.{{Cite news|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/11950965/Christopher-Tambling-musical-director-obituary.html|title=Christopher Tambling, musical director - obituary|date=25 October 2015|access-date=14 September 2017|issn=0307-1235}}

The song was voted tenth in a 2005 survey of the United Kingdom's favourite hymns by the BBC's Songs of Praise programme.{{cite web|url=http://www.christiantoday.com/article/survey.of.nation.favourite.hymns.reveals.modern.and.ancient.mix/4387.htm|title=Survey of Nation’s Favourite Hymns Reveals Modern & Ancient Mix|work=Christian Today|author=Maria Mackay|date=28 October 2005|accessdate=10 November 2012}} However, Damian Thompson, editor-in-chief of the Catholic Herald, called "Shine, Jesus, Shine" "the most loathed of all happy-clappy hymns".{{cite news |author=Damian Thompson |author-link=Damian Thompson |title=Will happy-clappy Graham Kendrick wage spiritual warfare on Quentin Letts?|url=http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/damianthompson/5436745/Will_happyclappy_Graham_Kendrick_wage_spiritual_warfare_on_Quentin_Letts/ |publisher=Telegraph.co.uk |location=London |date=12 October 2008 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110928031033/http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/damianthompson/5436745/Will_happyclappy_Graham_Kendrick_wage_spiritual_warfare_on_Quentin_Letts/ |archive-date=28 September 2011}}

The song was sung by the children of Department of Social Welfare and Development staff and students from the Mary Immaculate Parish Special School at Villamor Air Base for the departure of Pope Francis from the Philippines on 19 January 2015.{{cite news|url=http://rtvm.gov.ph/main/?p=27629|title=Departure for Rome of His Holiness Pope Francis}}{{failed verification|date=February 2015|reason=the fact is not stated in the prose and the video is over an hour long.}} Its performance was meant to evoke World Youth 1995, which the Philippines hosted, as well as the visit of then-Pope John Paul II.