Beyond the moon and stars, as deep as night, So great our hunger, Lord, to see your light. The sparrow finds her home beneath your wing, So may we come to rest where angels sing.
1. Our eyes have longed to see your loving face,
To live within your courts for all our days.
2. Your roads have led us, Lord, 'cross desert sand.
We place our hopes and dreams within your hand.
3. Upon our darkness, Lord, a light has shone.
You came to dwell with us in flesh and bone.
4. With shining stars at night, and cloud by day,
you brought us here to see your love's display.
5. When life’s great journey ends, and day is done,
Then may our eyes behold your Holy One.
Slava na visini Bogu! Zapevajte ljudi. Danas se Hristos rađa, u pelene se povija. Bog naš pravedni jagnje nezlobivo. Carevi putujte danas, Hristu darujte darove. Pastiri svirajte, pesmu Bogu zapevajte, sa Anđelima i sa Arhanđelima. I vi gore i brežuljci zapevajte sa nama, doline i kedri, sa preslavne gore Livanske, uzvisite se i veselite se.
Lord, Thou hast been our refuge from one generation to another Before the mountains were brought forth, or ever the earth and the world were made, Thou art God from everlasting and world without end.
Thou turnest man to destruction; again Thou sayest Come again ye children of men For a thousand years in Thy sight are but as yesterday, seeing that is past as a watch in the night.
As soon as Thou scatterest them They are even as a sleep and fade away suddenly like the grass. In the morning it is green and groweth up, but in the evening it is cut down, dried up and withered.
For we consume away in Thy displeasure, and are afraid at Thy wrathful indignation. For when Thou art angry all our days are gone; we bring our years to an end as a tale that is told.
The years of our age are three score years and ten, and though men be so strong that they come to fourscore years, yet is their strength but labour and sorrow; so passeth it away and we are gone.
Turn Thee again, O Lord, at the last. Be gracious unto Thy servants. O satisfy us with Thy mercy and that soon. So shall we rejoice and be glad all the days of our life.
Lord, Thou hast been our refuge from one generation to another Before the mountains were brought forth, or ever the earth and the world were made, Thou art God from everlasting and world without end.
And the glorious Majesty of the Lord be upon us. Prosper Thou, O prosper Thou the work of our hands, O prosper Thou our handy work.
Text: Psalm 90, para. Isaac Watts (1674-1748) Music: Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872-1958)
Ecce quomodo moritur iustus nemo percipit corde: viri iusti tolluntur et nemo considerat: a facie iniquitatis sublatus est iustus, et erit in pace memoria eius: in pace factus est locus eius et in Sion habitatio eius et erit in pace memoria eius.
They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old: Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn. At the going down of the sun and in the morning We will remember them.
Words: Laurence Binyon (1869-1943) Music: Douglas Guest (1916-1996)
Eternal Father, strong to save,
whose arm hath bound the restless wave,
who bidd'st the mighty ocean deep
its own appointed limits keep:
O hear us when we cry to thee
for those in peril on the sea.
O Christ, whose voice the waters heard
and hushed their raging at thy word,
who walkedst on the foaming deep,
and calm amid the storm didst sleep;
O hear us when we cry to thee
for those in peril on the sea.
Most Holy Spirit, who didst brood
upon the chaos dark and rude,
and bid its angry tumult cease,
and give, for wild confusion, peace:
O hear us when we cry to thee
for those in peril on the sea.
O Trinity of love and power,
our brethren shield in danger's hour;
from rock and tempest, fire and foe,
protect them wheresoe'er they go;
thus evermore shall rise to thee
glad hymns of praise from land and sea.
Text: William Whiting (1860), rev. Hymns Ancient and Modern (1861)
Tune: MELITA 88.88.88
O little one sweet, O little one mild, Thy Father's purpose thou hast fulfilled; Thou cam'st from heav'n to mortal ken, Equal to be with us poor men, O little one sweet, O little one mild.
O little one sweet, O little one mild, With joy thou hast the whole world filled; Thou camest here from heav'n's domain, To bring men comfort in their pain, O little one sweet, O little one mild.
O little one sweet, O little one mild, In thee Love's beauties are all distilled; Then light in us thy love's bright flame, That we may give thee back the same. O little one sweet, O little one mild.
O little one sweet, O little one mild, Help us to do as thou hast willed. Lo, all we have belongs to thee! Ah, keep us in our fealty! O little one sweet, O little one mild.
