Song Sheet April 27th
Entrance Hymn: Ye Watchers and Ye Holy Ones
Ye watchers and ye holy ones, bright seraphs, cherubim, and thrones, raise the glad strain, Alleluia! Cry out, dominions, princedoms, powers, virtues, archangels, angels' choirs: Alleluia! Alleluia! Alleluia! Alleluia! Alleluia!
Respond, ye souls in endless rest, ye patriarchs and prophets blest, Alleluia! Alleluia! Ye holy twelve and martyrs strong, all saints triumphant, raise the song Alleluia! Alleluia! Alleluia! Alleluia! Alleluia!
O friends, in gladness let us sing, triumphant anthems echoing, Alleluia! Alleluia! To God the Father, God the Son, and God the Spirit, Three in One Alleluia! Alleluia! Alleluia! Alleluia! Alleluia!
Offertory Hymn: We Walk By Faith
We walk by faith, and not by sight: No gracious words we hear of him who spoke as none e’er spoke, but we believe him near.
We may not touch his hands and side, nor follow where he trod: Yet in his promise we rejoice and cry “My Lord and God!”
Help then, O Lord, our unbelief, and may our faith abound; To call on you when you are near, and seek where you are found.
That when our life of faith is done in realms of clearer light we may behold you as you are in full and endless sight.
We walk by faith, and not by sight: No gracious words we hear of him who spoke as none e’er spoke, but we believe him near.
Communion Hymn: Eye Has Not Seen
(Refrain)Eye has not seen, ear has not heard what God has ready for those who love him; Spirit of love, come, give us the mind of Jesus, teach us the wisdom of God.
When pain and sorrow weigh us down, be near to us, O Lord, forgive the weakness of our faith, and bear us up within your peaceful word. (To refrain)
Our lives are but a single breath, we flower and we fade, yet all our days are in your hands, so we return in love what love has made. (To refrain)
To those who see with eyes of faith, the Lord is ever near, reflected in the faces of all the poor and lowly of the world. (To refrain)
2nd Communion Hymn: Prayer of St. Francis
Make me a channel of your peace. Where there is hatred let me bring your love, Where there is injury your pardon Lord, And where there's doubt true faith in you.
Make me a channel of your peace, Where there's despair in life, let me bring hope, Where there is darkness, only light, And where there's sadness, ever joy.
O Master grant that I may never seek, So much to be consoled as to console, To be understood as to understand, To be loved as to love with all my soul.
Make me a channel of your peace, It is in pardoning that we are pardoned, In giving of ourselves that we receive. And in dying that we're born to eternal life.
Recessional Hymn: There’s a Wideness in God’s Mercy
There’s a wideness in God’s mercy, Like the wideness of the sea; There’s a kindness in His justice, Which is more than liberty. There is plentiful redemption in the blood that has been shed; There is joy for all the members in the sorrows of the head.
For the love of God is broader, than the measure of our mind; And the heart of the Eternal, Is most wonderfully kind. If our love were but more simple we should take him at his word, And our lives would be thanksgiving for the goodness of our lord.
Troubled souls, why will you scatter like a crowd of frightened sheep? Foolish hearts, why will you wander from a love so true and deep? There is welcome for the sinner and more graces for the good; There is mercy with the Savior, there is healing in his blood.
