PROGRAM TEXTS: Grief and Gratitude
Hymn to the Eternal Flame
Music: Stephen Paulus (1949-2014)
Text: Michael Dennis Browne (b. 1940)
Every face is in you, every voice,
Every sorrow in you.
Every pity, every love,
Every memory, woven into fire.
Every breath is in you, every cry,
Every longing in you.
Every singing, every hope,
Every healing, woven into fire.
Every heart is in you,
Every tongue, every trembling in you,
Every blessing, every soul,
Every shining, woven into fire.
Kyrie from Mass in G Major
Music: Marcel Tyberg (1893-1944)
Text: Traditional Latin
Kyrie eleison Lord, have mercy
Christe eleison Christ, have mercy
Lie Still, Lie Still, My Breaking Heart
Music: Stephen Chatman (b. 1950)
Text: Christina G. Rossetti (1830-1894)
Lie still, lie still, my breaking heart;
My silent heart, lie still and break:
Life, and the world, and mine own self, are changed
For a dream’s sake.
I Need Thee Every Hour
Music: John Ness Beck (1930-1987)
Text: Annie S. Hawks (1836-1918)
I need thee ev’ry hour,
Most gracious Lord.
No tender voice like thine
Can peace afford.
I need thee, oh, I need thee;
Ev’ry hour I need thee!
Oh, bless me now, my Savior;
I come to thee!
Gloria from Mass in G Major
Music: Marcel Tyberg (1893-1944)
Text: Traditional Latin
Glória in excélsis Deo
et in terra pax homínibus bonæ voluntátis.
Laudámus te,
benedícimus te,
adorámus te,
glorificámus te,
grátias ágimus tibi propter magnam
glóriam tuam,
Dómine Deus, Rex cæléstis,
Deus Pater omnípotens.
Dómine Fili Unigénite, Iesu Christe,
Dómine Deus, Agnus Dei, Fílius Patris,
qui tollis peccáta mundi,
miserére nobis;
qui tollis peccáta mundi,
súscipe deprecatiónem nostram.
Qui sedes ad déxteram Patris,
miserére nobis.
Quóniam tu solus Sanctus,
tu solus Dóminus,
tu solus Altíssimus,
Iesu Christe,
cum Sancto Spíritu:
in glória Dei Patris.
Amen.
English:
Glory to God in the highest,
and on earth peace to people of good will.
We praise you,
we bless you,
we adore you,
we glorify you,
we give you thanks
for your great glory,
Lord God, heavenly King,
O God almighty Father.
Lord Jesus Christ, Only Begotten Son,
Lord God, Lamb of God, Son of The Father,
you take away the sins of the world,
have mercy on us;
you take away the sins of the world,
receive our prayer;
you are seated at the right hand of the Father
have mercy on us.
For you alone are the Holy One,
you alone are the Lord,
you alone are the Most High,
Jesus Christ,
with the Holy Spirit,
in the glory of God the Father.
Amen.
O Vos Omnes
Music: Pablo Casals (1876-1973)
Text: Traditional Latin
O vos ómnes qui transítis per víam,
atténdite et vidéte:
Si est dólor símilis sícut dólor méus.
Atténdite, univérsi pópuli,
et vidéte dolórem méum.
Si est dólor símilis sícut dólor méus.
English:
O all you who walk by on the road,
pay attention and see:
if there be any sorrow like my sorrow.
Pay attention, all people,
and look at my sorrow:
if there be any sorrow like my sorrow.
Credo from Mass in G Major
Music: Marcel Tyberg (1893-1944)
Text: Traditional Latin
Credo in unum Deum, Patrem omnipotentem,
factorem cæli et terræ,
visibilium omnium et invisibilium.
Et in unum Dominum, Jesum Christum,
Filium Dei unigenitum,
et ex Patre natum ante omnia sæcula.
Deum de Deo, Lumen de Lumine,
Deum verum de Deo vero,
genitum non factum, consubstantialem Patri;
per quem omnia facta sunt.
Qui propter nos homines et propter nostram salutem
descendit de cælis.
Et incarnatus est de Spiritu Sancto
ex Maria Virgine,et homo factus est.
Crucifixus etiam pro nobis sub Pontio Pilato passus,
et sepultus est,
et resurrexit tertia die,
secundum Scripturas,
et ascendit in cælum,
sedet ad dexteram Patris.
Et iterum venturus est cum gloria,
iudicare vivos et mortuos,
cuius regni non erit finis;
Et in Spiritum Sanctum, Dominum et vivificantem,
qui ex Patre Filioque procedit.
Qui cum Patre et Filio simul
adoratur et conglorificatur:
qui locutus est per prophetas.
Et unam, sanctam, catholicam
et apostolicam Ecclesiam.
Confiteor unum baptisma in remissionem peccatorum.
Et expecto resurrectionem mortuorum,
et vitam venturi sæculi. Amen.
English:
I believe in one God, the Father Almighty,
maker of heaven and earth,
of all things visible and invisible:
And in one Lord, Jesus Christ,
the only-begotten Son of God,
born of the Father before all ages;
God from God, Light from Light,
true God from true God;
begotten, not made, consubstantial with the Father,
by whom all things were made;
who for us men and for our salvation
descended from heaven.
He was incarnate by the Holy Ghost
by the Virgin Mary, and was made man.
He was crucified also for us under Pontius Pilate;
he suffered and was buried:
And he rose again on the third day
according to the Scriptures:
And ascended into heaven,
and sits on the right hand of the Father:
And the same shall come again, with glory,
to judge the living and the dead:
Of whose kingdom there shall be no end;
And in the Holy Ghost, the Lord and life-giver,
who proceeds from the Father and the Son,
who, with the Father and the Son,
is worshiped and glorified,
who has spoken through the prophets.
And in one, holy, catholic,
and apostolic Church,
I confess one baptism for the remission of sins.
And I await the resurrection of the dead:
and the life of the coming age. Amen.
Breathe
Music: Matthew Emery (b. 1991)
Text: Francesco Petrarca (1304-1374)
I saw how tears had left their weary traces
Within those eyes that once the sun outshone,
I heard those lips, in low and plaintive moan,
Breathe words to stir the mountains from their places.
Love, wisdom, courage, tenderness, and truth
Made in their mourning strains more high and dear
Than ever wove soft sounds for mortal ear;
And heaven seemed listening in such saddest ruth
The very leaves upon the bough to soothe,
Such sweetness filled the blissful atmosphere.
Sanctus & Benedictus from Mass in G Major
Music: Marcel Tyberg (1893-1944)
Text: Traditional Latin
Sanctus, Sanctus, Sanctus
Dominus Deus Sabaoth.
Pleni sunt cæli et terra gloria tua.
Hosanna in excelsis.
Benedictus qui venit
in nomine Domini.
Hosanna in excelsis.
English:
Holy, Holy, Holy Lord
God of hosts.
Heaven and earth are full of your glory.
Hosanna in the highest.
Blessed is he who comes
in the name of the Lord.
Hosanna in the highest.
Give Thanks for Life
Music: David Hendrix (b. 1986)
Text: Shirley Erena Murray (1931-2020)
Give thanks for life, the measure of our days,
mortal, we pass through beauty that decays,
yet sing to God our hope, our love, our praise,
Alleluia!
Give thanks for those, our living and our dead,
thanks for the love by which our life is fed,
a love not changed by time or death or dread,
Alleluia!
Give thanks for those who made their life a light
caught from the Christ-flame, bursting through the night,
who touched the truth, who burned for what is right,
Alleluia!
Give thanks for hope, that like the wheat, the grain
that lies in darkness does its life retain
in resurrection to grow and thrive again,
Alleluia!
Agnus Dei from Mass in G Major
Music: Marcel Tyberg (1893-1944)
Text: Traditional Latin
Agnus Dei,
qui tollis peccata mundi,
miserere nobis.
Agnus Dei,
qui tollis peccata mundi,
miserere nobis.
Agnus Dei,
qui tollis peccata mundi,
dona nobis pacem.
English:
Lamb of God,
who takes away the sins of the world,
have mercy on us.
Lamb of God,
who takes away the sins of the world,
have mercy on us.
Lamb of God,
who takes away the sins of the world,
grant us peace.
Only Gratitude Remains
Music: Jocelyn Hagen (b. 1980)
Text: Jeff Ochs
Do not presume clear skies
and clouds won’t seem so gray.
Do not resent a coming dusk
when night must follow day.
A river current is not to blame
when it does not flow your way.
Do not presume a flower
and weeds will not dismay.
Do not bemoan a waning summer
when seasons never stay.
A freely soaring leaf must fall
as the breeze gives way.
You can grasp fine grains of sand
though most won’t be retained.
Let disappointment slip from hand
with your pride, your grief, your pain.
Let go. Alongside of the mystery
only gratitude remains.
