The African Jesus
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1. Let us put hate behind us
God has made us for love
Let us offer forgiveness
It’s the way to true peace.
Refrain (2x)
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He is our way (Jesus Christ is our way)
He is our hope (Jesus Christ is our hope)
He is our life
His name is Jesus.
2. No more limba nor temne
No more woman nor man
For in Christ we’re one family
God’s daughters and sons.
3. There is hope for our country
When we all live as one
Make the Gospel our culture
Make Christ African.
He is our way (Jesus Christ is our way)
He is our hope (Jesus Christ is our hope)
He is our life
The African Jesus (fading) / Jesus, my Lord, / Jesus.
I will nourish you
(Stanzas based on Psalm 63)
1. My body pines for you
A dry and weary land
deprived of water
Your house, my God, I seek
To see your strength and glory,
Fount of Life.
As long as I shall live
My lips will sing your praise,
Sing words of worship
To you, my hands I raise
I hunger for you, Jesus,
Bread of life.
Refrain:
Come, and I will nourish you
Eat until you’re satisfied
Partake, this is my Body
I give to you
That you may live.
2. I seek you through the night
For you have been my help,
God of our fathers.
Your right hand holds me fast,
Beneath the shadow of your wings
I hide.
Come, fill me with your drink,
The long-awaited cup of living waters,
To you, my hands I raise
My soul is thirsting
For the cup of life.
Refrain:
Come, and I’ll refresh you
Drink, until you’re satisfied
Partake, this is my Blood
I shed for you
That you may live.
Trust in the Lord
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1. If any man desires to be
A follower of mine
He must take the cross
Deny himself and follow me.
He’ll be like the man
who built his house
on hard and solid ground
Quite unlike the man
who built on shifting sand.
Happy the man
who follows the Lord
He will reap reward
a hundredfold.
Trust in the Lord,
for He is the door.
You will find your life
in Him forevermore.
2. Do not call him blest
the man who’s rich
with only things of earth.
Blessed is the one
whose treasure is the Lord.
Happy the man
whose wealth is the Lord
He is rich, indeed, a hundredfold.
Trust in the Lord,
for He is the door.
You will find your life
in Him forevermore.
Blest are you, Lord
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Blest are you, Lord
God of all creation
Through your goodness
This bread we offer
Fruit of the earth
Work of human hands
It will become the bread of life
Blessed be God,
Blessed be God,
Blessed be God forever.
Blest are you, Lord
God of all creation
Through your goodness
This wine we offer
Fruit of the vine
Work of human hands
It will become the cup of joy
Blessed be God,
Blessed be God,
Blessed be God forever.
Lift up your heads
(Based on Psalm 24: Entrance hymn, Invitatory psalm)
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Lift up your heads,
Grow higher, ancient doors
The King of Glory comes
He is Lord, mighty God
He is your strength
His power he reveals
Let your hearts be firm
You’re his people, Israel.
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1. The Lord’s is the earth,
The sea and all it holds
The world and everything
That is therein.
2. Who shall ascend
The mountain of the Lord?
The innocent of hand,
Thepurified of heart.
3. He shall receive
Blessings from the Lord
The saving God will give him
Plentiful reward!
4. Who is the Lord,
Who’s the glorious King?
He is our God
Salvation he will bring.
God is Love
(For catechesis)
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1. God is the Father
He’s our Creator
Why has he made us?
He has made us by his love (2x)
Refrain:
God is a Trinity
God is a Unity
How best describe God?
Jesus tells us “God is love” (2x)
2. God is the Son
He is our Savior
Why has he saved us?
He has saved us out of love (2x)
3. God is the Spirit
He makes us holy
So, then, let’s ask him
“Make us perfect in your love” (2x)
Kenyan Blessing:
- Father, Creator, made us by his love.
- Trinity, Unity, describe God, God is love.
- Son, Savior, saved us out of love.-Spirit, Holy, ask him, in your love.
In my Father’s House
(Based on Jn 14,1-3.7.21.23: Communion, Ascension, Ecumenism, Funerals).
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1. In my Father’s house
There exist so many mansions
I am going now
To prepare a place for you
Be not troubled
Put your trust in God
And put your trust in me
I shall return
To take you back with me
To the Father’s house.
2. If you know me
You will also know the Father
If you love me
You will do what I command
And the Father and I
Shall come to you
And make our home with you
We will be together
You will live forever
In the Father’s house.
Late have I loved You
(based on St. Augustine’s Confessions, 10,27)
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I.
Late have I loved You
Oh living God
You were within, I was abroad
It was You I sought
They kept me far from You
The beauties that You made
Yet without Your saving pow’r
They’d not have stayed.
II.
You called, You shone forth
Broke through my deafness
Banished my blindness away
I breathed Your perfume
It’s You I now long for
In You my heart finds its home.
Bridge: I tasted, now I hunger and thirst
You touched me, I burned for Your peace
(Repeat I, II, and bridge).
III.
Late have I loved You
Everlasting Lord
You were within, I was abroad,
It was You I sought
Now that I have found You
I’ll never be alone
My restless heart will rest at last
In You, my home
Yahweh is my Shepherd
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I.
Yahweh is my Shepherd
He is Lord and I am his guest
In fresh and verdant passtures
He will lead me to my rest
Near peaceful waters he leads me
Cheering up my cheerless heart
He guides me on the safe path
He will always do his part.
II.
If I should ever walk
In the valley of darkness
No evil would I fear
For he will show the way
If I should ever walk
In the valley of darkness
His crook and his staff
Will lead me to the day.
III.
He prepares a banquet
In the sight of my foes.
He cools my head with oil
And my cup now overflows.
God’s goodness and his love
Are with me all the way
The Lord’s house for my dwelling
I will thank him everyday.
Magnificat
My soul proclaims the greatness of the Lord
And my spirit exults in God my Savior
For he has looked with favor on his servant in her lowliness
Holy is his name, great his tenderness
My soul proclaims the Lord.
Every age shall call me blessed
For the Lord is great indeed
He has visited his people in their need
He has shown his mighty arm
To the faithful in the land
But the proud from their thrones went crashing down
He dismissed the satisfied
But the hungry he has filled
He exalted the lowly ones on high
Might is the Lord our Redeemer
Him my soul does magnify
Live as One
From the Rule of Saint Augustine, chapter 1
We have come together so to live as one
Heart and soul intent upon the Lord
Loving God and brother is our life’s main goal
In our hearts let therebe room for all
The Lord has made us for himself
And our hearts won’t rest
Till they rest in the presence of him
Yes he created us for heaven
That is why our life
Must be moved by love from witihin
Things possessed in common make us live as one
Those we claim as own keep us apart
Sharing all we are is the clearest sign
We’re united in mind and in heart
Salt of the Earth, Light of the World
Refrain:
You are the salt of the earth
You’re the light of the world
In the darkness your brightness must come shining forth
For if light goes dark and flavor leaves the salt
You’re a follower of mine but in name not in word
Do not patch new cloth on a vestment that is old
For the tear will be worse, old and new will be lost
Into old wineskins do not pour wine that is new
Let the novelty of Christ take possession of you.
Refrain
While the groom is around wedding guests do not fast
There is time to rejoice and there’s time to be sad
Ask the Lord for the grace that in times good and bad
Christian flavor and light you will forever have.
Stabat Mater
1. Near the cross of Jesus stood our Lady
Sharing in the suff’rings of our Lord
“Son, behold your mother”, were the words that he then said
Thus to us his mother Jesus gave.
Refrain:
O Mary, lead us back to Jesus Christ your Son
Remind us ever that he is God’s Chosen One
Near him at the cross you wept yet firm in faith
Teach us also to be faithful until death.
2. There are times in life our hearts are weary
Struggling to be faithful to our God
Yet he said his yoke is light and easy is his load
Mary, help us walk the way of love.