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Journey: Paths of Love and Light
La Chanson De Mardi Gras
Traditional Cajun, arr. Michael McGlynn
Les Mardi Gras s’en vient de tout partout,
Tout alentour le tour de moyeu,
Ça passe une fois par an, demandé la charité,
Quand-même ça c’est une patate, une patate ou des gratons.
Les Mardi Gras sont dessus un grand voyage,
Tout alentour le tour de moyeu,
Ça passe une fois par an, demandé la charité,
Quand-même ça c’est un poule maigre, ou trois ou quatre coton maїs.
Capitaine, capitaine, voyage ton flag,
Allons chez un autre voisin,
Demandé la charité pour les autres qui viennent nous rejoindre,
Les autres qui viennent nous rejoindre,
Ouais, au gombo ce soir!
The Mardi Gras come from all around the area,
From all around the town center,
They come by every year asking for charity
Sometimes it is potatoes, potatoes and pork fat.
The Mardi Gras are on a great journey,
From all around the town center,
They come by every year asking for charity
Sometimes it's a small chicken, or three or four cobs of corn.
Captain, captain, wave your flag,
We will go to another neighbor’s house.
Asking for charity for others who will join us later on,
For others who will join us later
For gumbo tonight.
Ubi Caritas
Ola Gjeilo
Ubi caritas et amor, Deus ibi est.
Congregavit nos in unum Christi amor.
Exsultemus et in ipso jucundemur.
Timeamus et amemus Deum vivum.
Et ex corde diligamus nos sincero.
Amen.
Where charity and love are, God is there.
The love of Christ has gathered us together.
Let us rejoice and be glad in it.
Let us revere and love the living God.
And from a sincere heart let us love one another.
Amen.
Let the Life I’ve Lived Speak for Me
Gywneth Walker
Let the life I’ve lived speak for me
Let the life I’ve lived speak for me
When I come to the end of the road,
And I lay down my heavy load,
Let the life I’ve lived speak for me.
Let the friends I’ve made speak for me
Let the friends I’ve made speak for me
When I come to the end of the road,
And I lay down my heavy load,
Let the friends i’ve made speak for me.
Lay down your burden, and rest with the setting sun.
All the beauty of your life will shine when your day is done.
Let the love I’ve shared speak for me.
Let the love I’ve shared speak for me.
Let the love that I’ve tried to share,
And the burdens I’ve struggled to bear,
All this life of joy and care speak for me.
Let the life I’ve lived speak for me.
Still With Thee
Elaine Hagenberg
Still, still with Thee, when purple morning breaketh,
When the bird waketh, and the shadows flee;
Fairer than morning, lovelier than daylight,
Dawns the sweet consciousness I am with Thee.
When sinks the soul, subdued by toil, to slumber,
Its closing eyes look up to Thee in prayer;
Sweet the repose beneath Thy wings o'ershading,
But sweeter still, to wake and find Thee there.
So shall it be at last, in that bright morning,
When the soul waketh, and life's shadows flee;
O in that hour, fairer than daylight dawning,
Shall rise the glorious thought, I am with Thee.
Amen.
Agnus Dei a 4
William Byrd
Agnus Dei qui tollis peccata mundi, miserere, miserere nobis
Agnus Dei qui tollis peccata mundi, miserere, miserere nobis
Agnus Dei qui tollis peccata mundi, Dona nobis pacem
Luminous Night of the Soul
Ola Gjeilo, Luminous Night by Charles Anthony Silvestri
Dark Night of the Soul by St. John of the Cross
Long before music was sung by a choir,
Long before silver was shaped in the fire,
Long before poets inspired the hears,
You were the Spirit of all that is art.
You give the potter the feel of the clay;
You give the actor the right part to play;
You give the author a story to tell;
You are the prayer in the sound of a bell.
Praise to all lovers who feel your desire!
Praise to all music which soars to inspire!
Praise to the wonders of Thy artistry
Our Divine Spirit, all glory to Thee.
Luminous Night of the Soul.
“O guiding night!
O night more lovely than the dawn!
O night that has united
The Lover with his beloved,
Transforming the beloved in her Lover.”
Luminous Night of the Soul.
In Paradisum
Grant Reddoch
In Paradisum deducante Angeli:
In tuo adventu suscipiant te Martyres
Et perducant te in civitatem sanctam Jerusalem.
Chorus angelorum te suscipiant,
Et cum Lazaro quondam paupere aeternam habeas requiem.
May the angels lead you into Paradise.
May the martyrs come to welcome you upon your arrival
And lead you into the holy city, Jerusalem.
May the choir of angels welcome you
And with Lazarus, who once was poor, may you have eternal rest.
Good Timber
Susan LaBarr
The tree that never had to fight
For sun and sky and air and light,
But stood out in the open plain
And always got its share of rain,
Never became a forest king
But lived and died a scrubby thing.
Good timber does not grow with ease:
The stronger wind, the stronger trees;
The further sky, the greater length;
The more the storm, the more the strength.
By sun and cold, by rain and snow,
In trees and men good timbers grow.
Where thickest lies the forest growth,
We find the patriarchs of both.
And they hold counsel with the stars
Whose broken branches show the scars
Of many winds and much of strife.
This is the common law of life.
Breakaway
arr. Kenter Davies
Grew up in a small town
And when the rain would fall down
I'd just stare out my window
Dreaming of what could be
And if I'd end up happy
I would pray
Trying hard to reach out
But when I'd try to speak out
Felt like no one could hear me
Wanted to belong here
But something felt so wrong here
So I pray
I could breakaway
I'll spread my wings and I'll learn how to fly
I'll do what it takes ?til I touch the sky
And I'll make a wish, take a chance, make a change
And breakaway
Out of the darkness and into the sun
But I won't forget all the ones that I loved
I'll take a risk, take a chance, make a change
And breakaway
Wanna feel the warm breeze
Sleep under a palm tree
Feel the rush of the ocean
Get onboard a fast train
Travel on a jet plane, far away
And breakaway
I'll spread my wings and I'll learn how to fly
I'll do what it takes 'til I touch the sky
And I'll make a wish, take a chance, make a change
And breakaway
Out of the darkness and into the sun
I won't forget all the ones that I loved
I gotta take a risk, take a chance, make a change
And breakaway
Buildings with a hundred floors
Swinging 'round revolving doors
Maybe I don't know where they'll take me but
Gotta keep moving on, moving on
Fly away, breakaway
I'll spread my wings and I'll learn how to fly
Though it's not easy to tell you goodbye
I gotta take a risk, take a chance, make a change
And breakaway
Out of the darkness and into the sun
But I won't forget the place I come from
I gotta take a risk, take a chance, make a change
And breakaway, breakaway, breakaway
How Can I Keep from Singing?
arr. Adam and Matt Podd
Lyrics and music by Rev. Robert Lowry
My life flows on in endless song above earth’s lamentations.
I hear the real though far-off hymn that hails a new creation.
No storm can shake my inmost calm, while to that rock I’m clinging.
Since love prevails in heav’n and earth, How can I keep from singing?
While though the tempest ‘round me roars, I know the truth it liveth.
And though the darkness ‘round me close, songs in the night it giveth.
No storm can shake my inmost calm, while to that rock I’m clinging.
Since love prevails in heav’n and earth, How can I keep from singing?
I lift my eyes, the cloud grows thin; I see the blue above it.
And day by day, this pathway smooths, since first I learned to love it.
No storm can shake my in-most calm, I hear the music ringing.
It sounds an echo in my soul, How can I keep from singing?
How can I keep from singing?
Keep singing!
To Thee My Heart I Offer
Elaine Hagenberg
Text anonymous, 1653
To Thee my heart I offer, Oh Christ-child sweet and dear;
Upon Thy love relying, be Thou ever near.
Oh take my heart and give me Thine and may it be forever mine,
Oh Jesus, holy, undefiled, My Savior meek and mild.
What brought Thee to the manger, Oh Christ-child sweet and dear?
Thy love for me a stranger, be Thou ever near.
Oh Lord how great Thy perfect Love, that reaches from the heav’ns above.
Thy love for us, by sin defiled, That made Thee, God, a child.
Let me be Thine forever, Oh Christ-child sweet and dear;
Uphold me with Thy mercy, be Thou ever near.
Thy hand bestows Thy gifts to me and all I have, I offer Thee!
My heart, my soul, and all I own; Let these be Thine alone.
You Are the New Day
arr. Peter Knight, words and music by John David
You are the new day.
I will love you more than me and more than yesterday
If you can but prove to me you are the new day.
Send the sun in time for dawn, let the birds all hail the morning.
Love of life will urge me say, you are the new day.
When I lay me down at night knowing we must pay,
Thoughts occur that this night might stay yesterday.
Thoughts that we as humans small could slow worlds and end it all
Lie around me where they fall before the new day.
One more day when time is running our for ev’ryone,
Like a breath I knew would come I reach for a new day.
Hope is my philosophy, just needs day in which to be,
Love of life means hope for me, borne on a new day.
You are the new day.
Vum Vive Vum
arr. Kevin Siegfried
from https://www.kevinsiegfried.com/vum-vive-vum
The original tune of Vum Vive Vum dates from 1844 and is a lively example of a Shaker dance song. The use of vocables was a common feature of early Shaker music, particularly in the repertoire used for dance. In Vum Vive Vum, the vocal sounds used represent a uniquely American form of “mouth music”—a style of traditional singing where nonsense words are used to mimic the sounds of an instrument or the rhythms of a dance.
Peace I Leave with You
Amy Beach
Peace i leave with you,
My peace I give unto you.
Not as the world giveth,
Give I unto you.
Let not your heart be troubled.
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