On Sundays, Night Prayer will focus on one of the songs from the day's celebration of Mass. Tonight we reflect on today's response to the first reading, Psalm 137.
To a melody born of their suffering, Lord,
your chosen people,
captive in a foreign land,
sent up their plaintive cry
for they could not find a voice
to sing the songs of home,
the songs of Zion,
your song, Lord,
the song of your glory and praise...
I've been there, too, Lord:
captive in a place of pain,
lost in forests of confusion,
wandering a desert of loneliness,
my voice mute, no song to sing,
my faint prayer but an echo
in the sounds of silence...
I'm not in those places tonight, Lord,
but others are and many are
without a song to sing,
just when the heart begs a tune
to lift to you the lyrics of a soul
whose prayer cries out from deep within,
aching to be heard...
Hear your people's unsung prayer
and place a song within their hearts, Lord,
a song to give you praise
and your chosen children hope
that you are by their side
and that all shall be well,
that all manner of things
shall be well...
Help us sing your song, Lord,
whatever the times,
wherever we may be
for with you by our side
we are never far from home...
Protect us, Lord, while we lie awake
and watch over us as we sleep
that awake, we might keep watch with you
and asleep, rest in your peace...
Amen.
On The Willows from Godspell
On the willows
There we hung up our lyres
For our captors there
Required of us songs
And our tormentors mirth
There we hung up our lyres
For our captors there
Required of us songs
And our tormentors mirth
On the willows
There we hung up our lyres
For our captors there
Required of us songs
And our tormentor's mirth
There we hung up our lyres
For our captors there
Required of us songs
And our tormentor's mirth
Saying, sing us one
Of the songs of Sion
Sing us one of the songs of Sion
Of the songs of Sion
Sing us one of the songs of Sion
But how can we sing?
Sing the Lord's song?
In a foreign land?
Sing the Lord's song?
In a foreign land?
On the willows
There we hung up our lyres
There we hung up our lyres
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