Table of Plenty (Dan Schutte)

Refrain

Come to the feast of heaven and earth!
Come to the table of plenty!
God will provide for all that we need,
here at the table of plenty.

O come and sit at my table
where saints and sinners are friends.
I wait to welcome the lost and lonely
to share the cup of my love. (Refrain)

O come and eat without money;
come to drink without price.
My feast of gladness will feed your spirit
with faith and fullness of life. (Refrain)

My bread will ever sustain you
through days of sorrow and woe.
My wine will flow like a sea of gladness
to flood the depths of your soul. (Refrain)

Your fields will flower in fullness;
your homes will flourish in peace.
For I, the giver of home and harvest,
will send my rain on the soil. (Refrain)

Composer: Dan Schutte (1992)

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聖神 (Holy Spirit)

聖神，我知道，你在我的身旁陪著我。
光照我，引領我，你是我的生命守護者。

聖神，我呼求你充滿我的心靈。
讓我在彷徨時，樓息在你的懷裡。

聖神，我呼求你釋放我的心靈。
讓我在快樂時，融化在你的愛裡。

Hallelujah Chorus

Hallelujah!

For the Lord God Omnipotent reigneth. Hallelujah!

The kingdom of this world
Is become the kingdom of our Lord,
And of His Christ, and of His Christ;

And He shall reign for ever and ever,

King of kings, and Lord of lords,
And He shall reign forever and ever,

Hallelujah!

Text: from the Messiah (oratorio)
Composer: George Frideric Handel (1741)

Fire of God, Undying Flame

Fire of God, undying flame,
Spirit who in splendor came,
let your heat my soul refine,
till it glows with love divine.

Breath of God, that swept in power
in the Pentecostal hour,
holy Breath, be now in me
source of vital energy.

Strength of God, your might within
conquers sorrow, pain and sin.
Fortify from evil's art
all the gateways of my heart.

Truth of God, your piercing rays
penetrate my secret ways.
May the light that shames my sin
guide me holier paths to win.

Love of God, your grace profound
knows not either age or bound.
Come, my heart's own guest to be;
dwell forevermore in me.

Words: Albert F. Bayly (1901-1984)
Tune: NUN KOMM DER HEIDEN HEILAND 77.77

O Salutaris Hostia

O salutaris Hostia,
Quae caeli pandis ostium:
Bella premunt hostilia,
Da robur, fer auxilium.

Uni trinoque Domino
Sit sempiterna gloria,
Qui vitam sine termino
Nobis donet in patria. Amen.

Historical Information

Text: last 2 stanzas of Verbum supernum prodiens, by Thomas Aquinas (1227-1275)
Tune: DUGUET, LM, Dieu donne Duquet (d. 1767)

Praise to the Lord, the Almighty, the King of Creation (Tune: LOBE DEN HERREN)

See also the German Original: Lobe den Herren, den mächtigen König der Ehren!

Praise to the Lord, the Almighty, the King of creation!
O my soul, praise him, for he is thy health and salvation!
All ye who hear,
now to his temple draw near;
praise him in glad adoration.

Praise to the Lord, who over all things so wondrously reigneth,
shelters thee under his wings, yea, so gently sustaineth!
Hast thou not seen
how thy desires ever have been
granted in what he ordaineth?

Praise to the Lord, who doth prosper thy work and defend thee;
surely his goodness and mercy here daily attend thee.
Ponder anew
what the Almighty can do,
if with his love he befriend thee.

Praise to the Lord, who, when tempests their warfare are waging,
who, when the elements madly around thee are raging,
biddeth them cease,
turneth their fury to peace,
Whirlwinds and waters assuaging.

Praise to the Lord, who, when darkness of sin is abounding,
who, when the godless do triumph, all virtue confounding,
sheddeth his light,
chaseth the horrors of night,
saints with his mercy surrounding.

Praise to the Lord, O let all that is in me adore him!
All that hath life and breath, come now with praises before him.
Let the amen
sound from his people again,
gladly for all we adore him.

See also the German Original: Lobe den Herren, den mächtigen König der Ehren!

Words: Joachim Neander (1680), tr. Catherine Winkworth (1863)
Tune: LOBE DEN HERREN 14.14.4.7.8

Pie Jesu / In Paradisum (Fauré)

I.

Pie Jesu Domine,
dona eis requiem. (repeat 2x)
Pie Jesu Domine,
dona eis requiem sempiternam.

II.

In paradisum deducant te Angeli;
in tuo adventu suscipiant te martyres,
et perducant te in civitatem sanctam Ierusalem.
Chorus angelorum te suscipiat,
et cum Lazaro quondam paupere æternam habeas requiem.

Historical Information:

• Pie Jesu
• In Paradisum

Music: from the Requiem, by Gabriel Fauré (1845-1924)