The Galilee Song (Frank Andersen)

Deep within my heart, I feel voices whispering to me.
Words that I can’t understand; Meanings I can’t clearly hear!
Calling me to follow close, lest I leave myself behind!
Calling me to walking into evening shadows one more time!

Refrain:

So I leave my boats behind!
Leave them on familiar shores!
Set my heart upon the deep!
Follow you again, my Lord!

2. In my memories, I know how you send familiar rains
falling gently on my days, dancing patterns on my pain!
And I need to learn once more in the fortress of my mind,
to believe in falling rain as I travel deserts dry! Refrain

3. As I gaze into the night down the future of my years,
I’m not sure I want to walk past horizons that I know!
But I feel my spirit called like a stirring deep within,
restless, ’til I live again beyond the fears that close me in! Refrain

Composer: Frank Andersen

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Out of Darkness (Walker)

See also: Out of Darkness (original CD recording version)





Refrain

Out of darkness, God has called us,
Claimed by Christ as God's own people,
Holy nation, royal priesthood,
Walking in God's marv'lous light.

1. Let us take the words you give
Strong and faithful words to live
Words within our hearts are sewn
Words to bind us as your own (Refrain)

2. Let us take the cross you give
Broken body Christ we live
Christ arisen from the tomb
Christ who calls us as your own (Refrain)

3. Let us take the love you give
That the wave of love we live
Love to bring your people home
Love to make us all your own (Refrain)

Final Ending: Amen, amen!

Composer: Christopher Walker

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A Prayer of Saint Ignatius

Lord, I offer you my all,
Take and use them as your own.
Not my will but yours be done,
All for you my Lord.

Take my hands and my feet O Lord,
Consecrate them to your use.
Take all the moments in my life,
That I may serve you all my days.

Take my heart, my senses and my feelings,
Take my mind, my freedom, my desires,
Take my will, my being and my life, O Lord,
Use me as your instrument.

Lord, I offer you my all,
Take and use them as your own.
Not my will but yours be done,
All for you my Lord.

Lyrics and Music: Copyright (c) 1997 Jonathan Y. Tan. All rights reserved.

Veni, Creator Spiritus

Veni, creator Spiritus
mentes tuorum visita,
imple superna gratia,
quae tu creasti pectora.

Qui diceris Paraclitus,
altissimi donum Dei,
fons vivus, ignis, caritas
et spiritalis unctio.

Tu septiformis munere,
digitus paternae dexterae
tu rite promissum Patris
sermone ditans guttura.

Accende lumen sensibus,
infunde amorem cordibus,
infirma nostri corporis,
virtute firmans perpeti.

Hostem repellas longius
pacemque dones protinus;
ductore sic te praevio
vitemus omne noxium.

Per te sciamus da Patrem
noscamus atque Filium,
te utriusque Spiritum
credamus omni tempore.

Deo Patri sit gloria,
et Filio qui a mortuis
Surrexit, ac Paraclito,
in saeculorum saecula.
Amen.

Historical Information

English Translations/Paraphrase:
(1) Come Holy Ghost, Our Souls Inspire
(2) Come Holy Ghost, Creator Blest

Text: attr. to Rabanus Maurus (780-856)
Tune: Plainchant, Mode VIII

Here I Am, Lord (Dan Schutte)

I, the Lord of sea and sky,
I have heard my people cry.
All who dwell in dark and sin,
My hand will save.
I, who made the stars of night,
I will make their darkness bright.
Who will bear my light to them?
Whom shall I send?

Refrain:

Here I am, Lord. Is it I, Lord?
I have heard you calling in the night.
I will go, Lord, if you lead me.
I will hold your people in my heart.

I, the Lord of snow and rain,
I have borne my people’s pain.
I have wept for love of them.
They turn away.
I will break their hearts of stone,
Give them hearts for love alone.
I will speak my words to them.
Whom shall I send? (Refrain)

I, the Lord of wind and flame,
I will send the poor and lame.
I will set a feast for them.
My hand will save.
Finest bread I will provide,
'Til their hearts be satisfied.
I will give my life to them.
Whom shall I send? (Refrain)

Paraphrase of Isaiah 6:8 and 1 Samuel 3.

Composer: Dan Schutte (1981).

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