Hymns for Friday Evening Mass
Friday after Epiphany Sunday
Entrance
Be Thou My Vision
Verse 1
Be Thou my vision, O Lord of my heart
Naught be all else to me, save that Thou art
Thou my best thought, by day or by night
Waking or sleeping, Thy presence my light
Verse 2
Be Thou my wisdom, and Thou my true word
I ever with Thee and Thou with me, Lord
Thou my great Father, and I Thy true son
Thou in me dwelling and I with Thee one
Offertory
Blest are You Lord, God of all creation (led by priest)
Refrain
Blessed be God, blessed be God
Blessed be God forever amenBlessed be God, blessed be God
Blessed be God forever amen
Communion
O God You Search Me
Verse 1
O God, You search me, and You know me
All my thoughts lie open to Your gaze
When I walk or lie down, You are before me
Ever the maker and keeper of my days
Verse 2
You know my resting and my rising
You discern my purpose from afar
And with love everlasting, You besiege me
In ev'ry moment of life or death, You are
Verse 3
Before a word is on my tongue, Lord
You have known its meaning through and through
You are with me beyond my understanding
God of my present, my past and future, too
Verse 4
Although Your Spirit is upon me
Still I search for shelter from Your light
There is nowhere on Earth I can escape You
Even the darkness is radiant in Your sight
Verse 5
For You created me and shaped me
Gave me life within my mother's womb
For the wonder of who I am, I praise You
Safe in Your hands, all creation is made new
Recessional
Alma Redemptoris Mater
Lyrics
Alma Redemptoris Mater
quae pervia caeli porta manes,
et stella maris, succurre cadenti,
Surgere qui curat, populo:
tu quae genuisti,
Natura mirante, tuum sanctum Genitorem
Virgo prius ac posterius, Gabrielis ab ore
Sumens illud Ave, peccatorum miserere.
