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This episode I share about “Diary of A Country Priest“, the first selection of the Lenten Movie Club, which was previously easily available, and may not be currently.

The film is hard to watch, due to the unique way that Bresson filmed–naturalistic takes, non-actors, very little music.

This film is a raw, honest character portrayal of a minister of faith, and the unique trials he goes through.

The goal of Bresson’s naturalistic approach toward filming (very little music, great many takes) is so that just the dialogue would come out naturally.

There are many people in the community who look upon this minister as a threat to their way of living, who mock him.

In one scene, he is offered free services by a neighborly handyman, which he accepted; but he did so, knowing that this person had drinking parties at his home where he invited the teenagers of the community. Because he was offered a free service, he didn’t speak out.

In another scene, he had a long exchange with a woman who was depressed over the death of her son, sharing the Gospel fully and the woman accepted; she then dies the very next day.

There are three things to ask when watching a story like this:

1) How similar is this character to the ministers in your life (regardless of what denomination you attend)? What are the struggles they go through that we take for granted?

2) How similar is this character to you, since we are all called to be Christ’s witnesses? Would you have done the same things that he did?

3) How is this character a Christ-figure? How can we grow closer to Jesus due to the Way of the Cross that we all have to walk in our own lives?

Next week: A Man For All Seasons

The schedule is as follows:
Lent 1: The Diary of a Country Priest (available on Hulu+)
Lent 2: A Man For All Seasons (available on Amazon Prime)
Lent 3: Into Great Silence (available on Netflix)
Lent 4: Ordet (available on Hulu+)
Lent 5: The Passion of Joan of Arc (available on Hulu+)
HolyWeek: The Gospel According to St. Matthew (avail on Hulu)

A songsheet is available for free download.  Right-click here and select “Save As” to move to your desktop.

Episode Log Times
2:28 – Worship Session (Music and Prayer)
3:35 – Cleanse Me
8:38 – Forty Days and Forty Nights/Sing Unto the Lord
12:57 – Hear Our Cry
16:20 – Hear Thou, O Bounteous Maker, Here.
20:55 – Cum Invocaremte.
23:12 – Spoken, Spontaneous Prayer
30:36 – Song of the Week (“Our God” by Chris Tomlin)
38:34 – Reflections (“Lent Movie: Diary of a Country Priest”)
53:42 – Final Comments and Doxology

SONG OF THE WEEK
“Our God” by Chris Tomlin, Matt Redman, Jonas Myrin, and Jesse Reeves
From the album “Awakening” (2009)
Copyright (c) 2009 Thankyou Music/sixsteps Music/Said And Done Music/Vamos Publishing/SHOUT! Publishing/worshiptogether.com songs

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CLEANSE ME
Words by J Edwin Orr, Arr. by Nick Alexander

1. Search me O God, and know our hearts today.
Try us, O Savior, know our thoughts we pray;
See if there be some wicked way in us;
Cleanse us from every sin and release us.

2. Lord, take our lives, come make them wholly Thine;
Fill our poor hearts with Thy great love divine;
Take all our wills, our passions, selves and pride;
We now surrender Lord, in Thee we abide.

We praise Thee Lord, You cleanse us from sin.
Fulfill Your Word, make us pure within.
Fill us with fire, where we’ve burned with shame;
Lord, magnify Your Name.

Public Domain;

FORTY DAYS AND FORTY NIGHTS
Words: George H. Smyttan, in The Penny Post, March 1856.
Music: Heinlein, Nürnbergisches Gesangbuch, 1676; melody attributed to Martin Herbst (1654-1681); harmony by William H. Monk (1823-1889)

1. Forty days and forty nights
Thou wast fasting in the wild;
Forty days and forty nights
Tempted, and yet undefiled.

2. Should not we Thy sorrow share
And from worldly joys abstain,
Fasting with unceasing prayer,
Strong with Thee to suffer pain?

3. Then if Satan on us press,
Jesus, Savior, hear our call!
Victor in the wilderness,
Grant we may not faint nor fall!

4. So shall we have peace divine:
Holier gladness ours shall be;
Round us, too, shall angels shine,
Such as ministered to Thee.

5. Keep, O keep us, Savior dear,
Ever constant by Thy side;
That with Thee we may appear
At the eternal Eastertide.

Public Domain

SING UNTO THE LORD
Author Unknown
Sing unto the Lord a new song
Sing unto the Lord all the earth
Sing unto the Lord a new song
Sing unto the Lord all the earth

For God is great and greatly to be praised!
For God is great and greatly to be praised!

Public Domain

HEAR OUR CRY
Author Unknown; New arr. by Nick Alexander

1. Hear our cry, O LORD; attend unto our prayer
From the ends of the earth, our hearts cry out to Thee

And when our hearts are overwhelmed
Lead us to the Rock that is higher than I
That is higher than I.

2. For Thou hast been our shelter eternally
A high tower, LORD, against the enemy.

Copyright unknown

HEAR THOU, O BOUNTEOUS MAKER, HEAR
T. Campion, 1575-1619,
Ascribed to St Gregory the Great 540-604,
Tr. Primer 1706; Arr. by Nick Alexander

1. Hear Thou O Bounteous Maker, hear,
Our humble vows with gracious ear;
Turn not Thy saving face away
Whilst on this solemn fast we pray.

2. Great searcher of our hearts, to Thee
We here deplore our misery;
Behold we to Thy mercies fly
Do Thou Thy healing grace apply.

Great are our sins, O Lord
How great are our sins, O Lord
But You can pardon more than we can do.

3. May fasts extinguish in our will
The fuel and desire of ill.
And thus our souls, from fetters free
May only thirst and follow Thee.

4.Grant, O Most Sacred Trinity
One undivided Unity
That abstinence may here improve,
Our claim to reign with Thee above.

May our defects like shadows,
all these defects like shadows
raise the bauty and the life of grace.

Public Domain; arr copyright 2013 by Nick Alexander

CUM INVOCAREMTE
Roman Gradual

Cum invocáremte, exautdísti me, Déus justítiae méae:
In tribulatióne dilatásti me:
Miserére míhi Dómine, Et exáudi oratiónem méam.

When I call upon Thee, Thou listened to me,
O God of justice, towards my cause.
When I am in trouble, thou didst come to me.
Have mercy upon me, Dearest Lord
And listen to these intercessions of mine.

Public Domain

All songs are in the public domain, unless otherwise noted.
Any songs written or adapted by Nick Alexander are available on music notation, for those who wish to introduce these songs in their own communities.

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This episode I introduce the Lenten Movie Club, where we will discuss a religious movie you may not have seen before.

Whereas it may have been hard to access these movies, they are now easily accessible through both a Netflix account, an Amazon account, and/or a Hulu+ account. Each of these programs can be watched through one’s computer, if one does not have these services through their television, XBox or Blu-Ray Player

I believe that we live in a blessed time, where we have access to some of the most acclaimed religious movies of all time, through streaming. We just have to be open to trying new experiences.

I first go into the story of how I wrote This Time of Forty Days, and later how I worked on a video that went (somewhat) viral.

Are we really engaging the world, or are we hiding away in our little circles?

We live in a culture that is inundated with tons of stuff–movies, music, TV, blogs, video games, news reports, etc. Our culture is inundated by story, entertainment, distraction and laughter.

There is so much fear in the religious community by some of these stories. I shared an experience about hearing people complain about a massively popular young adult book series, as if this series alone would lead people away from the faith and towards witchcraft.

In contrast, I believe that we as Christians ought to be engaging culture as much as possible, trying to find those stories/songs/experiences that we can share with others.

Good people do great work in all these areas, but we do not do enough to support their work.

The Lenten Movie Club is my hope to introduce the Best Religious Movies You’ve Probably Never Seen. They were made mostly outside of Hollywood, and some are in other languages than English.

Lent is a great opportunity to watch these films; Lent is about dying to our own selves, and growing from others’ experiences. These films are considered (by many) to be the very best at what Christianity entails, and we ought to support all quality efforts that share the faith, even if we’re not used to watching black and white movies, with subtitles.

The schedule is as follows:
Lent 1: The Diary of a Country Priest (available on Hulu+)
Lent 2: A Man For All Seasons (available on Amazon.com)
Lent 3: Into Great Silence (available on Netflix)
Lent 4: Ordet (available on Hulu+)
Lent 5: The Passion of Joan of Arc (available on Hulu+)
HolyWeek: The Gospel According to St. Matthew (avail on Hulu)

There is a PDF download available for this worship session, which has all the show notes and lyrics to all the songs.  Right-click “Save As” on the term PDF Download.

SONG OF THE WEEK

“From the Dust” by Aaron Strumpel
From the album “Chair and Microphone, Vol. 2” (2006)
Copyright (c) 2006 Worship Circle Records

NOT THE SONG OF THE WEEK
“This Time of Forty Days” a parody of “King of Pain” by The Police, by Nick Alexander

EPISODE LOG TIMES

4:27 – Worship Session (Music and Prayer)
5:57 – Blind Man
8:54 – When Jesus Wept
10:00 – Out of the Depths
12:54 – Let Us Adore
15:30 – Jesu, Salvation’s Sun Divine
18:57 – The Glory of These Forty Days
21:40 – Emendemus In Melius
22:53 – Spoken, Spontaneous Prayer
30:25 – Song of the Week (“From the Dust” by Aaron Strumpel)
39:14 – Personal Reflections (“God’s Unique Plan for Lasting Change”)
57:01 – Final Comments and Doxology
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BLIND MAN
Spiritual
1. Blind man stood by the way and He cried
Blind man stood by the way and He cried
Blind man stood by the way and He cried
Oh… oh… oh…

Show me the way…
Show me the way…
Show me the way… the way to go home.

2. The Leper stood by the way…
3. The Sinner stood by the way…

Copyright unknown

WHEN JESUS WEPT
William Billings, 1770
When Jesus wept the falling tear
In mercy flow’d beyond all bound
When Jesus groan’d a trembling fear
Seiz’d all the guilty world around.
Public Domain

OUT OF THE DEPTHS
Martin Luther (1483-1546) Tr. by Benjamin Latrobe (1725-1786)
Walther’s Geistliches Gesangbuchlein” Wittenberg (1524) arr by JS Bach (1685-1750)

1.Out of the depths I cry to Thee:
Lord, hear me I implore Thee.
Bend down Thy gracious ear to me,
Let my pray’r come before Thee!
On my misdeeds in mercy look
O deign to blot them from Thy book
And let me come before Thee.

2. Thy sov’reign grace and boundless love
Show thee, Oh Lord, forgiving;
My purest thoughts and deeds but prove
Sin in my heart is living:
None guiltless in Thy sight appear
All who approach Thy Throne must fear,
And humbly trust Thy mercy.

3. Like those who watch for midnight’s hour
To hail the dawning morrow.
I wait for Thee, I trust Thy pow’r
Unmoved by doubt or sorrow;
So let Thy people hope in Thee
And they shall find Thy mercy free,
And Thy redemption plenteous.

Public Domain

LET US ADORE
Unknown

Let us adore… the ever-living God…
And render praise… unto Him…
Who spread out the heavens…
and established the earth…
And whose glory…
is revealed in the heavens above…
And whose greatness…
Is manifest throughout all the earth.
He is our God… There is none else!

Copyright unknown

JESU, SALVATION’S SUN DIVINE
O Sol salutis, intimis. Ambrosian, 6th century
Tr. by the Primer of 1706, prob. by John Dryden
Music by Dijon Church Melody (A.G.M.), arr. by Nick Alexander

1. Jesus, salvation’s Sun Divine,
Within our inmost bosoms shine,
With light all darkness drive away
And give the world a better day.

2. Now days of grace with mercy flow,
O Lord, the gift of tears bestow
To wash our stains in ev’ry part
Whilst heav’nly fire consumes the heart.

Oh….. Oh…..

3. Rise crystal tears, from that same source
From whence our sins derive their course
Nor cease, till harden’d hearts relent
And soften’d by Your streams repent.

Behold the happy days return
the days of joy for them that mourn
May we of their indulgence share
And bless the God Who grants us pray’r.

4. May heav’n and earth aloud proclaim
The Trinity’s almighty fame;
And we restored to grace rejoice
In newness both of heart and voice.

Public Domain

THE GLORY OF THESE FORTY DAYS
OLD HUNDREDTH
Asc. to Gregory the Great, c. 540-604
Tr. by Maurice F. Bell, 1862-1947

The glory of these forty days
We celebrate with songs of praise
For Christ, through whom all things were made
Himself has fasted and has prayed.

Public Domain

EMENDEMUS IN MELIUS
Roman Gradual

Emendémus in mélius, quae ignoránter peccávimus:
Ne súbito praeoccupáti díe mórtis,
Quaerámus spatium paeniténtiae, et inveníre non possímus.
Atténde Dómine, et miserére: quia peccávimus tíbi.

Let us amend ourselves better
Where we do not know where we’ve transgressed
Lest if we’re swiftly overtaken by the day of death,
And we seek a moment to be penitent,
But we obtain it not, forever.
Give ear to us O Lord, and grant us mercy
For we have all transgressed before You.

Public Domain

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This episode I return to the fantastic resource to creating lasting change in your life, the book Change Anything by Kerry Patterson, Joseph Grenny, David Maxfield and Ron McMillan.

This book demonstrates that there are six areas in our lives where we are pulled–consciously or not–in a direction that helps determine for us whether the change will stick.

The six major hidden influencers are best encapsulated in a grid, with MOTIVATION and ABILITY at the top, and PERSONAL, SOCIAL and STRUCTURAL on its sides.

I then change the word “Motivation” to “Heart”, and “Ability” to “Mind”.

Assuming the change brought about will be an expression of “Strength”, then what is missing? The Soul.

We don’t pay well enough attention to our souls, because it appears intangible to us in a modern society; and yet, when we die, our soul will live on forever.

The rest of this episode asks what it means to add Soul to this chart:

SOUL/PERSONAL = Personal Commitment to Christ; puts your desire for lasting change in front of God; if it contradicts God’s will for you–either His personal will, or His desire that you be holy, then it will not last.

SOUL/SOCIAL = Sacramental Commitment to Others; puts your desire for lasting change in front of those in your life; whether your marriage partner, your children, or, for those who are committed to Holy Orders, their superiors and their congregations.

SOUL/STRUCTURAL = Following the precepts of the Church; puts your desire for lasting change in front of our Sunday obligations, or other times.

Bottom line: If we invite God to our decision for lasting change, in addition to the other six influencers in your life, you will receive an extra motivation to make this change, and it will last.

**********EPISODE LOG TIMES******************
3:40 – Worship Session (Music and Prayer)
4:28 – Hallelujah, Salvation and Glory
8:28 – In Christ There Is No East Or West
11:13 – O Glory, Glory, Glory!
12:53 – Come and Worship
14:17 – Santo, Santo, Santo
17:14 – Alleluia, Song of Gladness
21:40 – Illumina Faciem Tuam
24:00 – Spoken, Spontaneous Prayer
30:12 – Song of the Week (“Whom Shall I Fear (God Of Angel Armies)” by Chris Tomlin)
38:25 – Personal Reflections (“God’s Unique Plan for Lasting Change”)
54:52 – Final Comments and Doxology

A PDF Download is available, containing all the song lyrics and notes.  Right click and select SAVE AS to retrieve it.

****************SONG OF THE WEEK******************
“Whom Shall I Fear (God of Angel Armies)” by Chris Tomlin
From the album “Burning Lights” (2013)
Copyright (c) 2012 Worship Together Music / Sixsteps Songs / A Thousand Generations Publishing / Alletrop Music

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HALLELUJAH, SALVATION AND GLORY
Unknown

Hallelujah, salvation and glory
Honor and power to the Lord our God
For the Lord our God is mighty
Yes the Lord our God is omnipotent
The Lord our God, He is wonderful!

I will sing my praise to the King of Kings
And the Lord of Lords He is wonderful!

Hallelujah!
Hallelujah-Hallelujah-Hallelujah-Hallelujah!
Hallelujah! He is wonderful!

Copyright unknown

IN CHRIST THERE IS NO EAST OR WEST
W: John Oxenham (1908); M: Alexander R. Reinagle (1799-1877)
arr. by Nick Alexander

In Christ there is no East or West
In Him no South or North
But one great fellowship of love
Throughtout the whole wide earth

In Him shall true hearts everywhere
Their high communion find
His service is the golden chord
Close-binding all mankind.

A-men! A-men!

Join hands then, brothers of the faith
Whate’er your race may be.
Who serves my Father as a son
Is surely kin to me.

In Christ now meet both East and West
In Him meet South and North
All Christly souls are one in Him
Throughout the whole wide earth
Copyright unknown

O GLORY, GLORY, GLORY!
Unknown

1. O glory, glory, glory! O glory to the Lamb!
O Hallelujah! I’m bein’ saved, and I’m so glad I am.
O glory, glory, glory! O glory to the Lamb!
Hallelujah! I’m bein’ saved, and bound for the happy land!

2. On Sunday I am happy, on Monday full of joy
On Tuesday I have peace within that nothing can destroy
On Wedn’sday and on Thursday, I’m walking in the light
On Friday is a heav’n below and Saturday’s always bright!

Copyright unknown

COME AND WORSHIP
Unknown

Come and worship, royal priesthood
Come and praise Him, holy nation
Worship Jesus, our Redeemer
He is precious King of Glory.

Hallelujah, Hallelujah, Hallelujah, Hallelujah
Hallelujah, Hallelujah, Hallelujah, Hallelujah

Copyright unknown

SANTO, SANTO, SANTO
Argentenian Traditional; tr: by Nick Alexander

Santo, Santo, Santo, Mi corazón adora!
Mi corazón te sabe decir: Santo eres Señor.

Holy, Holy, Holy, My heart adores Thee!
My heart’s compelled to say these words:
Holy, art Thou Lord.

Public Domain

ALLELUIA, SONG OF GLADNESS
Latin, 11th Century by John M. Neale 1818-1866
DULCE CARMEN, 878787 , Essay on Church Plain Chant, 1782
Bridge from “All Creatures of Our God and King”
LASST UNS ERFREUEN; Arr. by Nick Alexander

Alleluia, song of gladness, voice of joy that cannot die
Alleluia is the anthem ever dear to choirs on high
In the house of God abiding thus they sing eternally.
Alleluia.

Alleluia, now resounding, true Jerusalem and free
Alleluia, joyful mother, all your children sing with glee
But by Babylon’s sad waters, mourning exiles now are we.
Alleluia.

Alleluia, we deserve not here to chant for evermore,
Alleluia, our transgressions make us for a while give o’er;
For the holy time is coming biding us our sins deplore.
Alleluia.

O praise Him, O praise Him. Alleluia, Alleluia, Alleluia.

Therefore in our hymns we now pray, grant us Blessed Trinity
At the last to keep you, Easter, in our home beyond the sky.
There to You forever singing Alleluia joyfully.
Amen.

Public Domain

ILLUMINA FACIEM TUAM (Psalm 31:16-17a)
Roman Gradual

Illumina Faciem tuam, super servum tuum.
Et salvuum me fac in tua misericordia.
Domine non confundar quoniam invocavi te

Illuminate, O face of Thine, upon this servant for Thee
And rescue me here, within Thy mercy, Thy great mercy.
O Lord, don’t be ashamed as I am calling upon Thee.

Public Domain
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This episode I talk about a fantastic resource to creating lasting change in your life.

The book is called Change Anything by Kerry Patterson, Joseph Grenny, David Maxfield and Ron McMillan.

This book may be found in either the Business section or self-help sections. (Don’t let that deter you–some really good resources can be found there!)

It goes without saying that every major change must begin with prayer, and a focus that this be accomplished as part of God’s will for your life.

It is a mirage to assume that willpower alone will enable change in your life.

The six major hidden influencers are as follows:

Do you have a plan to enact this change?
Is there anything that can spark or remind you of this desire to change?
Do you have a coach?
Do you have cheerleaders in your life?
Are there automated systems that can help grease the wheels for you to complete the task?
Are there signs, songs, visual reminders, audio reminders, cinematic reminders that surround you to remind you of this?

These six major hidden influencers are best encapsulated in a chart described on www.changeanything.com

If you answer these six questions honestly, you can find yourself naturally drawn to make lasting change in your life.

Episode Log Times

2:35- Worship Session (Music and Prayer)
2:50- Now Let Us Sing/Amazing Grace
5:14- There’s A Mighty Glory Coming
5:53- O Zion Haste
8:20- It’s A New And Living Way
10:25- Psalm 23
14:24- Give Me Jesus
16:42- Hear Oh Israel
19:25- Days And Moments Quickly Flying
22:28- Adorate Deum
24:02 – Spoken, Spontaneous Prayer
31:28 – Song of the Week (“Lamb of God” by10th Ave North)
37:53 – Personal Reflections (“Enacting Lasting Changes”)
51:46 – Final Comments and Doxology

A songsheet is available for download.  Right-click here to get it.

SONG OF THE WEEK
“Lamb of God” by Tenth Avenue North
From the album “The Struggle” (2012)
Copyright (c) 2012 Provident Label Group LLC, a division of Sony Music Entertainment

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NOW LET US SING/AMAZING GRACE
Unknown / John Newton

Now let us sing
(Sing to the power of the Lord come down)
Now let us sing
(Sing to the power of the Lord come down)
Lift up your hands
(Lift up your hands)
Don’t be afraid
(Don’t be afraid)
Now let us sing
To the power of the Lord come down!

1. Amazing Grace how sweet the sound
That saved a wretch like me
I once was lost but now am found
Was blind but now I see.

2. Praise God Praise God Praise God Praise God
Praise God Praise God Praise God
Praise God Praise God Praise God Praise God
Praise God Praise God Praise God

Copyright unknown / Public Domain

THERE’S A MIGHTY GLORY COMING
Unknown

There’s a mighty glory coming
And it’s coming in our day, and it’s coming now to stay
There’s a mighty glory coming
And it’s coming from the presence of the Lord.

Copyright unknown

O ZION, HASTE
Mary A. Thomson, James Walch

1. O Zion haste, thy mission high fulfilling,
To tell to all the world that God is Light;
That He Who made all nations is not willing
One soul should perish, lost in shades of night:

Publish glad tidings; Tidings of peace;
Tidings of Jesus, Redemption and release.

2. Behold how many thousands still are lying
Bound in the darksome prison-house of sin,
With none to tell them of the Saviour’s dying,
Or of the life He died for them to win.

3. ‘Tis thine to save from peril of perdition
The souls for whom the Lord His life laid down;
Beware lest, slothful to fulfill thy mission,
Thou lose one jewel that should deck His crown.

4. Proclaim to every people, tongue and nation
That God, in Whom they live and move, is love:
Tell how He stooped to save His lost creation,
And died on earth that man might live above.

Public Domain

IT’S A NEW AND LIVING WAY
Unknown

It’s a new and living way, walk ye in it
It’s a new and living way, God has planned
It’s a new and living way, I am walking day by day
I am guided and led by His right Hand.

Public Domain

PSALM 23
Nick Alexander

The Lord is my shepherd
In verdant pastures, He gives me repose
He leads me by the restful waters
He refreshes my soul.

He guides me through right paths
Even though I walk through the dark valley
I fear no evil, for He is at my side
And I shall lack nothing.
And I shall lack nothing.

He spreads the table before me
At the sight of my foes
He anoints my head with oil
And my cup, overflows.

All the days of my life on earth
Only goodness and kindness follow me
And I shall dwell in the house of the Lord
For all eternity.

Copyright (c) 2001 Nick Alexander Music

GIVE ME JESUS
Spiritual

In the morning when I rise
In the morning when I rise
In the morning when I rise, give me Jesus.

Give me Jesus, give me Jesus.
You may have all this world.
Give me Jesus.

I heard my mother say…

When I come to die…

Public Domain

HEAR OH ISRAEL
Unknown

Hear, Oh Israel
The Lord our God is one Lord.
You shall love the Lord your God with all of your heart.
You shall love the Lord your God with all of your soul.
You shall love the Lord your God with all of your mind.
You shall love the Lord your God with all of your strength.

Copyright Unknown

DAYS AND MOMENTS QUICKLY FLYING
Trier Gesangbuch, 1872; E. Caswall, 1814-78

1. Days and moments quickly flying,
Blend the living with the dead
Soon will you and I be lying
Each within our narrow bed.

2. Soon our souls to God who gave them
Will have spread their rapid flight
Able now by grace to save them
O that, while we can, we might!

3. Jesus, infinite Redeemer,
Maker of this tiny frame
Teach, O teach us to remember
What we are and whence we came.

4. Whence we came and whither wending
Soon we must through darkness go
To inherit bliss unending
Or eternity of woe.

Public Domain.

ADORATE DEUM (Psalm 97:7c-8a)
Roman Gradual

Adorate Deum, omnes Angeli ejus:
audivit, et laetata est Sion:
et exsultataverunt filiae Judae.

Worship God, all you angels of God
Sion heard and they were glad; yes Sion.
And rejoicing was with the daughters of Judah

Public Domain

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