23rd Sunday OT 4 Sept 2011

Ent.   475 Gather us in
Psalm (may be sung)
Off:  604  Lord, accept the gifts we offer
Comm:  218  Deep within
462  Gather your people, O Lord  (We won't sing anymore, but learn as a new entrance song)
End 920  A new commandment

Ent.  475 Gather us in by Marty Haugen
http://youtu.be/ruaV6pmFGAM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rL19y_GC2SU

Here in this place, new light is streaming
Now is the darkness vanished away
See in this space our fears and our dreamings
Brought here to you in the light of this day

Gather us in the lost and forsaken
Gather us in the blind and the lame
Call to us now and we shall awaken
We shall arise at the sound of our name

We are the young our lives are a mystery
We are the old who yearn for you face
We have been sung throughout all of hist’ry
Called to be light to the whole human race

Gather us in the rich and the haughty
Gather us in the proud and the strong
Give us a heart so meek and so lowly
Give us the courage to enter the song

Here we will take the wine and the water
Here we will take the bread of new birth
Here you shall call your sons and your daughters
Call us anew to be salt for the earth

Give us to drink the wine of compassion
Give us to eat the bread that is you
Nourish us well, and teach us to fashion
Lives that are holy and hearts that are true

Not in the dark of buildings confining
Not in some heaven, light-years away
But here in this place the new light is shining
Now is the Kingdom, now is the day

Gather us in and hold us forever
Gather us in and make us your own
Gather us in all peoples together
Fire of love in our flesh and our bone.

Psalm 94 (may be sung)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xSCdJDHEwLQ

'O that today you would listen to his voice! ‘Harden not your hearts.'

Come, ring out our joy to the Lord;
hail the rock who saves us.
Let us come before him, giving thanks,
with songs let us hail the Lord.

'O that today you would listen to his voice! ‘Harden not your hearts.'

Come in; let us bow and bend low;
let us kneel before the God who made us:
for he is our God and we the people who belong to his pasture,
the flock that is led by his hand.

'O that today you would listen to his voice! ‘Harden not your hearts.'

O that today you would listen to his voice!
Harden not your hearts as at Meribah,
as on that day at Massah in the desert
when your fathers put me to the test;
when they tried me, though they saw my work.’

'O that today you would listen to his voice! ‘Harden not your hearts.'

Offertory Hymn:  604  Lord, accept the gifts we offer (tune of Let us bow in adoration)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yxmzn84i7dQ
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=46FDDHsQUIY

Lord accept the gifts we offer
at this Eucharistic feast,
bread and wine to be transformed now
through the action of thy priest.
Take us, too, Lord, and transform us,
be thy grace in us increased.

May our souls be pure and spotless
as the host of wheat so fine;
may all stain of sin be crushed out,
like the grape that forms the wine,
as we, too, become partakers
in this sacrifice divine.

Take our gifts, almighty Father,
living God, eternal, true,
which we give through Christ, our Saviour,
pleading here for us anew.
Grant salvation to all present,
and our faith and love renew.

Tune: St. Thomas (Tantum Ergo) from S. Webbe's Motetts or Antiphons
Lyrics: Sister M. Teresine Fonder (1897-1988)

Comm:  218  Deep within
 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sho7HigrOs8
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9dtwctFvzgA
instrumental: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Vq2yZ7wdnI

Refrain:
Deep within, I will plant my law,
not on stone, but in your heart.
Follow me; I will bring you back.
You will be my own, and I will be your God.

1. I will give you a new heart, a new spirit within you,
for I will be your strength.

2. Seek my face, and see your God,
for I will be your hope.

3. Return to me, with all your heart,
and I will bring you back.

462  Gather your people, O Lord -  (We won't sing anymore, but learn as a new entrance song)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uA2ihIGMA2Q

Refrain
Gather your people, O Lord.
Gather your people, O Lord.
One bread, one body, one spirit of love.
Gather your people, O Lord.

1. Draw us forth to the table of life:
brothers and sisters,
each of us called to walk in your light.

2. We are parts of the body of Christ,
needing each other,
each of the gifts the Spirit provides.

3. No more harm on the mountain of God;
swords into plowshares.
Free us, O Lord, from hardness of heart.

4. Wash us, Lord, in the waters of life;
waters of mercy,
waters of hope that flow from your side.

End 920  A new commandment
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pD3Hs8WlIis

A new commandment I give unto you,
That you love one another as I have loved you,
That you love one another as I have loved you.

By this shall all mankind know you are my disciples,
if you have love one for another.
By this shall all mankind know
you are My disciples,
if you have love one for another.

A new commandment I give unto you,
That you love one another as I have loved you,
That you love one another as I have loved you.