Song Sheet September 7th
Entrance Hymn: Take Up Your Cross
Take up your cross, the Savior said, if you would my disciple be; deny yourself, the world forsake, and humbly follow after me.
Take up your cross, be not ashamed! Let not disgrace your spirit fill! For God himself endured to die upon a cross, on Calvary’s hill.
Take up your cross, which gives you strength, which makes your trembling spirit brave: ‘Twill guide you to a better home and lead us to victory o’er the grave.
Take up your cross, and follow Christ, nor think till death to lay it down; For only they who bear the cross may hope to wear the glorious crown.
Offertory 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)
Communion Hymn: Be Still My Soul
Be still my soul, the Lord is on thy side! Bear patiently the cross of grief or pain; Leave to thy God to order and provide in every change he faithful will remain. Be still my soul, thy best, thy heavenly friend through thorny ways leads to a joyful end.
Be still my soul,thy God doth undertake to guide the future as he has the past; Thy hope, thy confidence let nothing shake all now mysterious shall be bright at last. Be still my soul, the waves and winds still know his voice who ruled them while he dwelt below.
Be still my soul, the hour is hastening on when we shall be forever with the Lord, When disappointment, grief, and fear are gone, sorrow forgot, love’s purest joys restored. All safe and blessed we shall meet at last.
2nd Communion Hymn: I Have Loved You
(Refrain) I have loved you with an everlasting love, I have called you and you are mine; I have loved you with an everlasting love, I have called you and you are mine.
Seek the face of the Lord and long for him: he will bring you his light and his peace. (To Refrain)
Seek the face of the Lord and long for him: he will bring you his joy and his hope. (To Refrain)
Seek the face of the Lord and long for him: he will bring you his care and his love. (To Refrain)
Recessional Hymn: For the Beauty of the Earth
For the beauty of the earth, for the glory of the skies, for the love which from our birth over and around us lies: Lord of all, to you we raise this our hymn of grateful praise.
For the beauty of each hour, of the day and of the night, hill and vale, and tree and flower, sun and moon, and stars of light: Lord of all, to you we raise this our hymn of grateful praise.
For the joy of human love, brother, sister, parent, child. Friends on earth and friends above; For all gentle thoughts and mild: Lord of all, to you we raise this our hymn of grateful praise.
