Next Family Mass is on 11/20-- Here are the Hymns!

Family mass in November is on Sunday, the 20th at 11:30 in St. Sylvester Church.  All school choir members and any children who attend St. Sylvester and would like to are invited to sing!  Here is a list of hymns we will be singing.  They relate to the fact that the 20th is The Solemnity of Our Lord Jesus Christ, King of the Universe.  There are links to recordings of these songs and lyrics listed here, too.  Please practice a bit before 11/20.  Thank you!

Gather Us In

Here in this place

New light is streaming

Now is the darkness vanished away

See in this space

Our fears and our dreaming

Brought here to you in the light of this day.

Gather us in, the lost and forsaken,

Gather us in, the blind and the lame;

Call to us now, and we shall awaken,

We shall arise at the sound of our name.

We are the young--

Our lives are a mys'try [mis-tree]

We are the old-- who yearn for your face

We have been sung

throughout all of his'try [hiss-tree]

Called to be light to the whole human race.

Gather us in, the rich and the haughty

Gather us is, the proud and the lame

Give us a heart so meek and so lowly

Give us the courage to enter the song.

Here we will  take

The wine and the water

Here we will take the bread of new birth,

Here you shall call

Your sons and your daughters

Call us anew to be salt for the earth.

Give us to drink the wine of compassion,

Give us to eat the bread that is you;

Nourish us well, and teach us to fashion

Lives that are holy and hearts that are true.

Were You There

Were you there when they crucified my Lord?

Were you there when they crucified my Lord?

Oh---------- Sometimes

It causes me to tremble, tremble, tremble

Were you there when they crucified my Lord?

Were you there when they nailed him to the tree?

Were you there when they nailed him to the tree?

Oh---------- Sometimes

It causes me to tremble, tremble, tremble

Were you there when they nailed him to the tree?

*The song continues with this same pattern and different words about the crucifixion of Jesus

All Who Hunger

All who hunger, gather gladly

Holy manna is our bread

Come from wilderness and wand'ring

Here, in truth, we will be few.

You that yearn for days of fullness

All around us, is our food

Taste and see the grace eternal

Taste and see that God is good

Taste and see the grace eternal

Taste and see that God is good.

All who hunger, never strangers;

Seeker be a welcome guest

Come from restlessness and roaming

here, in joy, we keep the feast.

We that once were lost and scattered

In communion's love have stood.

Taste and see the grace eternal

Taste and see that God is good

Taste and see the grace eternal

Taste and see that God is good.

All who hunger, sing together

Jesus Christ is living bread

Come from loneliness and longing

Here, in peace, we have been led.

Blest are those who from this table

Live their days in gratitude.

Taste and see the grace eternal

Taste and see that God is good

Taste and see the grace eternal

Taste and see that God is good.

Jesus, Remember Me

Jesus, remember me when you come into your Kingdom.

Jesus, remember me when you come into your Kingdom.

Ride on Jesus, Ride

Ride on, Jesus, ride!

Ride on, Jesus, ride!

Ride on, Jesus, conquering King!

Ride on, Jesus, ride!

King Jesus rides on a milk-white horse

Ride on, Jesus, ride!

The river Jordan he did cross

Ride on, Jesus, ride.

Ride on, Jesus, conquering King!

Ride on, Jesus, ride!

My Jesus lifted his throne above, 

Ride on, Jesus, ride!

See his mercy and his love, 

Ride on, Jesus, ride!

Ride on, Jesus, conquering King!

Ride on, Jesus, ride!

****we will probably end here by singing what we did at the beginning****

Ride on, Jesus, ride!

Ride on, Jesus, ride!

Ride on, Jesus, conquering King!

Ride on, Jesus, ride!