Hello, friends!
We’d like to share some of the sights and sounds from Mass on the Fifth Sunday in Lent (March 18, AD 2018). How lovely it was to hear these beautiful voices praising
the Lord!
“Be Thou My Vision”
Be thou my Vision, O Lord of my heart;
naught be all else to me save that thou art;
thou my best thought, by day or by night,
waking or sleeping, thy Presence my light.
Be thou my Wisdom, and thou my true Word;
I ever with thee and thou with me, Lord;
thou my great Father, and I thy true son,
thou in me dwelling, and I with thee one.
Riches I heed not, nor man’s empty praise;
thou mine inheritance, now and always;
thou and thou only, the first in my heart,
High King of heaven, my treasure thou art.
High King of heaven, my victory won,
may I reach heaven’s joys, O bright heaven’s Sun!
Heart of my own heart, whatever befall,
still by my Vision, O Ruler of all.
Amen.
What a joy it was for us to pray for and "give"
Derrick and Dustin the Lord's Prayer.
This is the last milestone as they prepare for Holy Baptism at the Great
Vigil of Easter!
When God's people pray (whether in the spoken word or in
song), his heart swells with love. This
was our prayer after Holy Communion and our closing hymn.
“Make Me a Channel of Your Peace”
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.
Oh 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.
Where there’s despair in life, let me bring hope;
where there is darkness, only your light;
and where there’s sadness, ever joy.
Oh 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 t’eternal life.
Oh 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.
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.
Amen.
