Where Charity and Love Abide

1 Where charity and love prevail,
There God is ever found;
Brought here together by Christ's love,
By love we thus are bound.

2 With grateful joy and holy fear,
God's charity we learn;
Let us with heart and mind and soul
Now love God in return.

3 Let us recall that in our midst
Dwells Christ God's holy Son;
As members of each body joined,
In Him we are made one.

4 Let strife among us be unknown;
Let all contentions cease.
Be God's the glory that we seek;
Be His our only peace.

5 For love excludes no race or clan
That names the Savior's name;
His family embraces all
Whose Father is the same.

6 We now forgive each other's faults
As we our own confess,
That we may love each other well
In Christian gentleness.

Source: Great Songs of the Church (Revised) #452