Three New Choir Anthems

This spring, our choir is learning three new anthems, one each for Lent, Good Friday, and Easter. I invite you to prayerfully reflect on these expressions of our faith. While we are not set up for recording our choir at Mass, you can click on the titles to hear recordings of these pieces by other choirs.

Give Me Jesus

Traditional Spiritual, arranged by Larry L. Flemming

Oh, when I am alone, give me Jesus

You may have all the rest, give me Jesus

And, when I come to die...

And, when I come to sing...

The Seven Last Words from the Cross

by Anne Quigley

Refrain:

O vos omnes qui transitis per viam attendite et videte si est dolor sicut dolor meus. (Lam 1:12)

(tr. O all you who pass this way, look and see is any sorrow like the sorrow that afflicts me.)

Father, forgive them, they know not what they do. (Lk 23:24)

This day you will be with me in paradise. (Lk 23:43)

Woman, behold your son. Son, behold your Mother. (Jn 19:26)

I thirst. (Jn 19:28)

My God, my God, why have you forsaken me? (Mt 27:46; Mk 15:34; from Ps 22:1)

Father into your hands I commend my spirit. (Lk 23:46)

It is accomplished. (Jn 19:30)

God so loved the world that he gave his only Son so that everyone who believes in him may not be lost but may have eternal life. (Jn 3:16)

Jesus Lives

by Chrysogonus Waddell, OSCO

Jesus lives, thy terrors now

Can, O death, no more appall us;

Jesus lives: by this we know

Thou, O grave, can not enthrall us. Alleluia!

Jesus lives: henceforth is death

But the gate to life immortal;

This shall calm our trembling breath

When we pass this gloomy portal. Alleluia!

Jesus lives: our hearts know well

Nought from us his love shall sever;

Life nor death nor pow’rs of hell

Tear us from his keeping ever. Alleluia!

Jesus lives: to him the throne

Over all the world is given:

May we go where he is gone,

Rest and reign with him in heaven. Alleluia!