This is My Song

Dear Parishioners,

"When we sing, we pray twice” says St. Francis. Our hymns are really prayers put to song. The meditation hymn we sang last Sunday, a hymn dear to our parish life, is really a prayer, and we say it at a most appropriate time. We ask the Lord to protect us and our nation and all nations, realizing all peoples are children of God.

As our hearts are pained and broken as we witness the pain and suffering of the people of Ukraine, and as we recall all the oppressed and suffering people of the world, we call on the One who is our hope and our peace, God.

Please pray the following, privately, asking God for His Divine assistance, especially for the Ukrainian People, and for all peoples including ourselves.

God bless us all!
Fr. Citino

This is My Song

This is my song, O God of all the nations,
A song of peace for lands afar and mine.
This is my home, the country where my heart is; Here are my hopes, my dreams, my holy shrine; But other hearts in other lands are beating
With hope and dreams as true and high as mine.

My country’s skies are bluer than the ocean,
And sunlight beams on clover leaf and pine;
But other lands have sunlight too, and clover,
And skies are ev’ry where as blue as mine.
O hear my song, thou God of all nations,
A song of peace for their land and for mine.

This is my prayer, O Lord of all earth’s kingdoms; Thy kingdom come; on earth thy will be done.
Let Christ be lifted up till all shall serve him,
And hearts united learn to live as one.
O hear my prayer, thou God of all the nations;
Myself I give thee; thy will be done.