CPWI Hymnal ‎#684

684. This is my will, my one command

1 This is my will, my one command,
that love should dwell among you all.
This is my will, that you should love
as I have shown that I love you.

2 No greater love a man can have
than that he die to save his friends.
You are my friends if you obey
all I command that you should do.

3 I call you now no longer slaves;
no slave knows all his master does.
I call you friends, for all I hear
my Father say you hear from me.

4 You chose not me, but I chose you,
that you should go and bear much fruit.
I called you out that you in me
should bear much fruit that will abide.

5 All that you ask my Father dear
for my name's sake you shall receive.
This is my will, my one command,
that love should dwell in each, in all.

Text Information

• First Line: This is my will, my one command
• Author: James Quinn, 1919-
• Meter: L.M.
• Language: English
• Publication Date: 2010
• Topic: Sacraments and Other Occasions: Holy Matrimony
• Copyright: Words reproduced by kind permission of Continuum International Publishing Group

Tune Information

• Name: SUANTRAI
• Meter: L.M.
• Key: D Major
• Source: Traditional Irish melody; Harmonization: Editors of Celebration Hymnal
• Copyright: Harmonization © 1984 McCrimmon Publishing Co.