Saturday, December 8, 2012

I Heard There Was A Secret Chord

Or, Feeling Like King Saul

There are a few songs at the moment which, even if I'm not playing all the time, I would like to be.

The first, here, is from the Divine Office. It is the Hymn for Morning Prayer of the Office for the Dead. It will be the Communion Hymn for dad's Requiem Mass.


Remember those, O Lord
Who in Your peace have died
Yet may not gain love's high reward
'Til love is purified.

With You they faced death's night
Sealed with Your victory sign;
Soon may the splendor of Your Light
On them forever shine.

Sweet is their pain yet deep
'TIl perfect love is born;
Their long night watch they gladly keep
Before Your radiant morn.

You love is their great joy;
Your will their one desire;
As finest gold without alloy
Refine them in love's fire;

For them we humbly pray:
Perfect them in Your love.
O, may we share eternal Day
With them in Heav'n above!

This next is one is a sing that I've liked since it was first shown to me (h/t to Conface.) I first liked it because it's the first theologically decent song about the Book of the Appocalypse that I've heard in a long while; I then begun to like it because of a few lines in one of the verses which 'spoke' to me, as it were; I now like it because it is related to the First Reading from dad's funeral, the discussions we've been having at The Presbytery and - even more - because of those same lines.


For all the thirsty in need of the river
For all the sleeping hearts waking from their slumber
For everyone still standing at the shoreline, come

For all the hurting souls running from their healer
For all the skeptics running from an answer
Let everyone who hears these words say come

For the Spirit and the Bride say come
Yeah, the Spirit and the Bride say come

For all the Pharisees, empty on the inside
For all the lovers who spent their love on a lie
For the forgotten, the Father's heart says come

For all the fatherless looking for approval
For all the daughters who've never heard they're beautiful
Let everyone who hears these words say come

For the Spirit and the Bride say come
Yeah, the Spirit and the Bride say come
For the Spirit and the Bride say come
Yeah, the Spirit and the Bride say come

Amen, amen
Come, Lord Jesus, come again
Until then, until then
Grace and peace be ours, amen
Amen, amen
Come, Lord Jesus, come again
Until then, until then
Grace and peace be ours, amen
Till You come again
Peace be ours, amen
Till You come again
Till You come again

For the Spirit and the Bride say come
Yeah, the Spirit and the Bride say come


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