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Requiem Aeternam
03:19
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Requiem aeternam dona eis Domine
et lux perpetua luceat eis
Kyrie eleison, Christe eleison
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Give us rest and peace, Lord
This is our prayer.
Grant that Your light continually shines.
Lord, have mercy; Christ, have mercy.
Give us rest and peace, Lord – this is our prayer.
Give us rest and peace, Lord – this is our prayer.
For all creation struggles for breath,
the light for her task growing dim.
What is her future – how will it end?
Can we know there’s an end to all her pain?
Give us rest . . .
For all creation is bound up in chains
awaiting her day of release.
And in her labour; until that day comes
to give birth to the new;
A glorious new age.
Give us rest . . .
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Our Food is Cut Off
02:52
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Our food is cut off, we have no supplies.
Our grain has dried out beneath cloudless skies.
Our cattle they wander about in despair.
Fire has scorched and devoured their pasture.
Even the streams are dying of thirst,
The first angel has done his worst.
The seas will become our grave
and the mountains our tombstone –
a memorial to us who paid no respect to creation.
Darkness descends with the thickening clouds.
The lights of the world snuffed out by a shroud.
The hail and the rain is bitter and hard
The earth sits in shame
for her beauty is marred.
Yet more volcanoes are ready to burst;
the third angel has done his worst.
The seas will become our grave
and the mountains our tombstone –
A memorial to us who paid
No respect to creation.
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They Live and Die
03:34
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They live and die and every day sees death.
The images are there before their eyes.
When there is tragedy occurs on earth.
They bow their heads; they cannot bear the cries.
Then they turn away – then they turn away.
People are displaced
and driven from their homes
through famine, earthquake, flood and civil riot.
The ravaged earth must make her feelings known;
She trembles from the oceans to the heights.
Can you feel her pain – can you feel her pain?
If only my people would care for her,
tend her, make her garden grow.
Instead they have defiled the ground
on which they walk.
They take but don’t give back,
They spoil but make no amends,
And every war fought takes a chunk
out of her heart. (of her heart . . .)
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Dies Irae
03:25
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Dies irae, dies illa,
Solvet saeclum in favilla
Dies irae, dies illa,
Solvet saeclum in favilla.
Rex tremendae majestatis,
Qui salvandos salvas gratis,
Rex tremendae majestatis,
Salva me, fons pietatis.
Day of anger, Day of terror,
All shall crumble into ashes
Day of anger, Day of terror,
All shall crumble into ashes.
King Almighty, omnipotent,
You who saves the true repentant,
King Almighty, omnipotent,
Save me, fount of mercy, save me !
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Quid sum miser tunc dicturus.
Quem patronum rogaturus.
Cum vix justus sit securus !
Who shall plead on my behalf?
It seems my actions haven’t been enough
to deliver my heart from pain;,
to free me from myself
and all that I have sought to gain.
We all come to the same fate;
good and bad, high and low estate.
Men’s love can’t make us happy,
nor can any wealth.
We simply cannot free ourselves.
Quid sum . . .
Only the Priest, the Great High Priest
can release you from your sentence of death.
He became the Lamb who sacrificed himself;
He alone can plead of your behalf.
Quid sum . . .
King of Salem, King of Peace
has gone through to the heavenly place.
Although He is God’s son,
He knows that we are weak.
Through Him we can find mercy and grace.
Quid sum . . .
And on the cross His dripping blood
Is a memorial to Him who through His love
for creation, and through His pain
washed it clean again
with life that flowed from every vein.
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Lamb of God
04:00
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Every particle and every cell,
carried by water into the well
flowing into the heart of the dying earth
who after labour might give birth.
Lamb of God, You take away
You take away the sin of the world
Have mercy upon us, have mercy on us
Lamb of God, You take away
You take away the sin of the world
O Lamb of God You take away the sin of the
world
Grant us Your peace!
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O God our Saviour
02:16
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O God our Saviour,
the hope of all the earth,
from the depths of the sea
to the mountain peaks.
You breathe onto the lands
and wrap them in Your love.
You long for the nations to find Your peace.
You care for the land and you water it
You long to send the rain.
You made a decision, you ordained it
and still the land gives grain.
O God our Saviour . . .
Though evil remains in the heart of man
You cannot curse the ground.
This is what You pledged
when at last the flood went down
on that sacred mound.
O God our Saviour . . .
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I Delight
03:33
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Tell the land, "don’t be dismayed",
And all creatures, "don’t be dismayed.
The thirsty pasture will be green again.
The Lord will send the autumn rain".
I delight greatly in my Lord
As a bride prepares herself
to meet the one she loves.
For he has clothed me
with the garments of Shalom
and has arrayed me with a robe of beauty.
As the soil prepares to sprout new buds
Soon the garden starts to grow
and everything comes up.
So will my Sovereign Lord make everything new.
Just as it always should have been in the garden.
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Reflection
02:46
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Pie Jesu
02:57
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Pie Jesu Domine
dona eis requiem.
Pie Jesu Domine
dona eis requiem
dona eis requiem
in aeternam
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Sanctus
03:33
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Sanctus Dominus Sabaoth
Pleni sunt choeli et terra – Gloria tua.
Hosanna in excelsis!
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And on this Mountain
04:01
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And on this mountain
the Lord God Sabaoth
will prepare a banquet for His people.
And as He promised
we will never have tasted food so good
nor enjoyed such delicious wine.
Such joy and laughter as we all sit down to dine,
Taking our places at the seats he’s reserved
For those who long to be where he is,
And we’ll know that we have come home.
And on this mountain
the Lord God Sabaoth will remove
the veil of mourning from our faces.
And from this mountain,
where His light can shine,
He will dispel the shroud suffocating the earth.
The Lord will remove all shame and all fear,
And he will wipe every tear from every cheek.
His presence will be ours to keep.
Yes, we’ll know that we have come home.
And on this mountain the Lord God Sabaoth
will take the great burden from our shoulders.
His Word proves his knowledge
as it cuts through the heart
revealing all within the spirit and soul.
All who are weary, come to Him for rest.
Come to His table you afflicted and oppressed.
Come for your healing –
or just come to be blessed
And to know that you have come home.
The Lord will remove all shame and all fear,
And He will wipe every tear from every cheek.
His presence will be ours to keep.
Yes, we’ll know that we have come home.
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The Invitation
04:05
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The Arrival
01:30
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Come, let us sing to the Lord,
the Rock of our salvation.
Come before His presence to praise Him
with the best of our songs.
For the Lord is a great God -
A great King above all gods.
In His hands are the caverns of the earth;
all the contours of the hills are part of His plan.
He made the sea and moulded the land;
for there is nothing our of His span...
Come, let's bow down on our knees
before the Lord our maker.
For He is God and we are the sheep of His hand.
Oh, that today you would hear -
that you would hear His voice.
In His hands...
So let's bow down on our knees
before the Lord our maker.
For He is God and we are the sheep of His hand.
Oh, that today you would hear -
that you would hear His voice.
In His hands...
Oh that you would hear,
that you would hear His voice.
Oh that you would hear,
that you would hear His voice.
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So Today
04:21
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So today ‐ If you hear his voice,
do not close your heart
But lift your head,
And feel his breath stirring in your soul.
In you is light, in you is peace
Now your time has come
To rise and shine in his pure light
As the world around grows dim.
For today you will see the Promised Land
where all living things can live in peace
and walk hand in hand.
And as you take the lonely path
no‐one else has come,
He will brighten up your way
with his Morning Sun.
So today, if you feel him near,
let Him give you strength,
And don’t deny what he can do
through the Spirit’s power.
His crown of light, his robe of peace
which he’s given you
can make a difference to this world
where all will be renewed.
For today is the Day of Sabbath hope
Where healing can begin
in the light of His love.
This day of toil, this life of pain
has reached an end.
Now all the world can at last
find Requiem.
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