Monthly Theme: Birth
Sermon Topic: “Waiting For New Life”

A Jubilant Song
Music: Norman Dello Joio
Text: Walt Whitman

O! Listen to a jubilant song! O! Listen to a jubilant song!

The joy of our spirit-it is uncaged, the joy of our spirit is uncaged,
it darts like lightning!
My soul it darts like lightning!

Listen to a jubilant song, Listen to a jubilant song,
For we sing to the joys of youth, and the joy of a glad light-beaming day.
For we sing to the joy of life, and youth, and the joy of a glad light-beaming day. O!

O! Our spirit sings O! Our spirit sings a jubilant song that is to life full of music, a life full of concord, of music, a life full of harmony.
We sing prophetic joys, we sing prophetic joys of lofty ideals, lofty ideals.
We sing a universal love awaking in the hearts of men.
We sing prophetic joys we sing of lofty ideals—
we sing of love,—of love—awaking in hearts of men,–of men—a universal love.

O! to have life, a poem of new joys, a poem of new joys,
to shout! shout! shout! shout! shout! shout! shout!
to dance, exult, to shout, and leap, to dance and exult, shout and leap.
O! to realize space and flying clouds, O! to realize space, the sun and moon,
O! to be rulers of life, O! to be rulers of destiny, of life, of destiny, and of life.

O! O! la la la la la…
Listen, listen, O! Listen to a song, a jubilant song.
Listen to our song, the joy of our spirit, the joy of our spirit it is uncaged.
Listen, listen to a song. We dance, exult, we shout and leap.
O! O! O! Listen to our song. O!

Spiritus Sanctus
Music: Daniel Brinsmead
Text: Hildegard von Bingen

Spiritus sanctus vivificans
vita movens omnia,
et radix est in omni creatura
ac omnia de inmunditia abluit,
tergens crimina ac ungit vulnera,
et sic est fulgens ac laudabilis vita,
suscitans et resuscitans
omnia

TRANSLATION:
The Holy Spirit: living and life-giving,
the life that’s all things moving,
the root in all created being:
of filth and muck it washes all things clean—
out-scrubbing guilty staining, its balm our wounds constraining—
and so its life with praise is shining,
rousing and reviving
all.