Choral Music

Offertory (9a)   O Jesus, Joy of Loving Hearts     YE BANKS AND BRAES
Judy McKenney, guitar and vocals

O Jesus joy of loving hearts
the fount of life and our true light,
we seek the peace your love imparts
and stand rejoicing in your sight.

O Jesus, ever with us stay;
make all our moments calm and bright
O chase the night of sin away
shed o'er the world your holy light.

Your truth unchanged has ever stood,
you save all those who heed your call
to those who seek you, you are good,
to those who find you, all in all.

We taste in you our living bread,
and long to feast upon you still;
we drink of you, the fountainhead,
our thirsting souls to quench and fill.

For you our restless spirits yearn
where'er our changing lot is cast;
glad, when your presence we discern,
blest, when our faith can hold you fast.

--from 12th c. Latin text