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When Love Is Found

Author: Brian Wren Meter: 8.8.8.8 Appears in 32 hymnals Topics: Ritual Music Matrimony First Line: When love is found and hope comes home Lyrics: 1 When love is found and hope comes home, Sing and be glad that two are one. When love explodes and fills the sky, Praise God and share our Maker’s joy. 2 When love has flower’d in trust and care, Build both each day that love may dare To reach beyond home’s warmth and light, To serve and strive for truth and right. 3 When love is tried as loved-ones change, Hold still to hope though all seems strange, Till ease returns and love grows wise Through list'ning ears and opened eyes. 4 When love is torn and trust betrayed, Pray strength to love till torments fade, Till lovers keep no score of wrong, But hear through pain love’s Easter song. 5 Praise God for love, praise God for life, In age or youth, in husband, wife. Lift up your hearts, let love be fed Through death and life in broken bread. Used With Tune: O WALY WALY

Softly and Tenderly Jesus Is Calling

Author: Will L. Thompson, 1847-1909 Meter: 11.7.11.7 with refrain Appears in 905 hymnals Topics: Ritual Music Penance and Reconciliation Refrain First Line: Come home, come home Lyrics: 1 Softly and tenderly Jesus is calling, calling for you and for me; see, on the portals he's waiting and watching, watching for you and for me. Refrain: Come home, come home, you who are weary, come home; earnestly, tenderly, Jesus is calling, calling for you to come home! 2 Why should we tarry when Jesus is pleading, pleading for you and for me? Why should we linger and heed not his mercies, mercies for you and for me? [Refrain] 3 O for the wonderful love he has promised, promised for you and for me! Though we have sinned, he has mercy and pardon, pardon for you and for me. [Refrain] Used With Tune: THOMPSON

Baptized In Water

Author: Michael Saward Meter: 5.5.8 D Appears in 49 hymnals Topics: Ritual Music Christian Initiation Lyrics: 1 Baptized in water, Sealed by the Spirit, Cleansed by the blood of Christ our King: Heirs of salvation, Trusting his promise, Faithfully now God's praise we sing. 2 Baptized in water, Sealed by the Spirit, Dead in the tomb with Christ our King: One with his rising, Freed and forgiven, Thankfully now God's praise we sing. 3 Baptized in water, Sealed by the Spirit, Marked with the sign of Christ our King: Born of one Father, We are his children, Joyfully now God's praise we sing. Used With Tune: BUNESSAN

O Breathe on me, O Breath of God

Author: Edwin Hatch, 1835-1889 Meter: 8.6.8.6 Appears in 350 hymnals Topics: Ritual Music Christian Initiation Lyrics: 1 O breathe on me, O Breath of God, Fill me with life anew, That I may love the things you love, And do what you would do. 2 O breathe on me, O Breath of God, Until my heart is pure; Until my will is one with yours, To do and to endure. 3 O breathe on me, O Breath of God, My will to yours incline, Until this selfish part of me Glows with your fire divine. 4 O breathe on me, O Breath of God, So I shall never die, But live with you the perfect life For all eternity. Used With Tune: ST. COLUMBA

Be Still, My Soul

Author: Katharina von Schlegel; Jane Borthwick, 1813-1897 Meter: 10.10.10.10.10.10 Appears in 186 hymnals Topics: Ritual Music Pastoral Care of the Sick First Line: Be still, my soul – the Lord is on thy side! Lyrics: 1 Be still, my soul— the Lord is on thy side! Bear patiently the cross of grief or pain; Leave to thy God to order and provide— In ev'ry change he faithful will remain. Be still, my soul– thy best, thy heav’nly friend Through thorny ways leads to a joyful end. 2 Be still, my soul— thy God doth undertake To guide the future as he has the past; Thy hope, thy confidence let nothing shake— All now mysterious shall be bright at last. Be still, my soul the waves and winds still know His voice who ruled them while he dwelt below. 3 Be still, my soul— the hour is hast’ning on When we shall be forever with the Lord, When disappointment, grief, and fear are gone, Sorrow forgot, love’s purest joys restored. Be still, my soul— when change and tears are past, All safe and blessed we shall meet at last. Used With Tune: FINLANDIA Text Sources: Neue Sammlung Geistliche Lieder, 1752

Hear Us Now, Our God and Father

Author: Harry N. Huxhold, 1922-2006; John Newton, 1725-1807 Meter: 8.7.8.7 D Appears in 14 hymnals Topics: Ritual Music Matrimony Used With Tune: HYFRYDOL

O Loving God

Author: Paulette M. McCoy Meter: 12.10.12.10 with refrain Appears in 3 hymnals Topics: Ritual Music Funeral First Line: O loving God, we send our daughter home to you Refrain First Line: Receive her/his soul Used With Tune: LONDONDERRY AIR

Precious Lord, Take My Hand

Author: Thomas A. Dorsey, 1899-1993 Meter: Irregular Appears in 117 hymnals Topics: Ritual Music Pastoral Care of the Sick Used With Tune: PRECIOUS LORD

O Saving Victim (O Salutaris Hostia)

Author: St. Thomas Aquinas, 1227-1274; Edward Caswall, 1814-1878 Meter: 8.8.8.8 Appears in 78 hymnals Topics: Ritual Music Adoration First Line: O saving Victim, open wide (O salutaris Hostia) Used With Tune: DUGUET Text Sources: O Salutaris

Healing River of the Spirit

Author: Ruth C. Duck Meter: 8.7.8.7 D Appears in 9 hymnals Topics: Ritual Music Pastoral Care of the Sick Used With Tune: BEACH SPRING Text Sources: Circles of Care