Choral Music

Offertory (9a)   A Lenten Prayer   Hal H. Hopson
Chancel Choir

Lord, who throughout
these forty days
for us didst
fast and pray,
teach us with thee
to mourn our sins,
and close by thee
to stay.

Jesus walked
this lonesome valley,
he had to walk
it by himself;
oh, nobody else
could walk it for him,
he had to
walk it by himself.

We must walk
this lonesome valley,
we have to walk it
by ourselves;
oh, nobody else
can walk it for us,
we have to
walk it by ourselves.

You must go
and stand your trial,
you have to stand
it by yourself;
oh, nobody else
can stand it for you,
you have to
stand it by yourself.

And through these
days of penitence,
and through
thy Passiontide,
yea, evermore,
in life and death,
O Lord,
with us abide.

--Claudia F. I. Hernaman
--Traditional Spiritual

Music During Communion (both)
"Agnus Dei" (Plainchant)

Agnus dei
Lamb of God

qui tollis peccata mundi
who takes away
the sin of the world

miserere nobis.
have mercy on us.

Dona nobis pacem.
Grant us peace.

Offertory (11:15a)   O Lux Beatissimus   Howard Helvey
Sanctuary Choir

O lux beatissima
O light most blessed

Reple cordis intima
Fill the inmost heart

Tuorum fidelium.
of all the faithful.

Sine tuo numine,
Without your grace,

Nihil est in homine,
there is nothing in us,

Nihil est innoxium.
Nothing that is not harmful.

--attr. Stephan Langton (d. 1228)
Archbishop of Canterbury