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Here you will find original songs written by Steve Garnaas-Holmes for purchase, and original lyrics set to familiar tunes for free (or pay-what-you-want). Purchasing a song unlocks a download of the lyrics and music for congregation and musicians (in both Word and PDF). You can use the search bar, or filter by theme to find a song. (When searching by scripture reference, use chapter but not verse.) Do contact me with any questions or requests!
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A Baptismal Lliturgy
$0.00 or moreA Baptismal LliturgyAdd to cartThis is not music, but a service of baptism which may be adapted for a baptism, Confirmation, and/or service of congregational baptismal renewal. -
A Foot-washing Liturgy
$0.00 or moreA Foot-washing LiturgyAdd to cartA simple liturgy for a foot-washing service.. View the service here. -
Abounding Harvest
$0.00 or moreAbounding HarvestAdd to cartOriginal lyrics to a familiar tune. Free to copy and use. Or you can pay-what-you-like to donate. Words: Steve Garnaas-Holmes
2 Corinthians 9.10
Tune: KREMSER (“We Gather Together to Ask the Lord's Blessing”) Lyrics: O God, you have scattered your gifts and your blessings, the bread that gives life and the seed that grows. Your grace is astounding, the harvest is abounding. You give to the poor, and our cup overflows!
We come to the banquet, as each one is able, rejoicing and voicing our thanks and our praise. While singing we’re bringing our gifts to your table, that we may serve you through all of our days.
As you have enriched us, so may we be giving, and sow as we’ve reaped, in abundance and trust: now gratefully giving through all of our living the grace that you offer; for share it we must.
Our God who has planted and nurtured now harvests, and so we surrender our lives to God’s use. With Christ as our Vine, we are branches in his spirit, all bearing fruit in love, and made one in God’s Peace. May be included with previous verses, or used as a sending song at the end of worship: We go now, confessing our love and our blessing for each, our companions in service and grace. We’ll nourish each other as sister and brother, to serve as God’s Bread for the whole human race. -
Adorning Your House
$0.00 or moreAdorning Your HouseAdd to cartOriginal lyrics to "Cradle Song" (Hear it in the Product Description below). Free to copy and use. Or you can pay-what-you-like to donate. Includes four-part choir arrangement. Words: Steve Garnaas-Holmes
Tune: CRADLE SONG Lyrics: Adorning your house, God, with branches of green, we pray that your glory may clearly be seen. Now fill us with love that your promise imparts, with hope and with joy in the rooms of our hearts. These beautiful branches we hang will make clear that you are soon coming, O Jesus, so dear. So bless us each day as your coming draws near, to live so that others can tell you are here. We ask for your blessing to pour from above, that we may be gentle, with patience and love. Like green living branches, may all that we do be signs that your promise is now coming true. -
Advent Blessing Songs
$0.00 or moreAdvent Blessing SongsAdd to cartTwenty-five one-verse songs for the congregation to sing to each other, set to familiar Christmas tunes, suitable for the end of the service and other worship moments. -
Advent Eucharistic Prayers
$0.00 or moreAdvent Eucharistic PrayersAdd to cartFour musical Eucharistic prayers set to familiar Christmas tunes. They may either be sung as an invitation to communion or as the Eucharistic prayer itself. -
Advent Eucharistic Responses
$5.00 or moreAdvent Eucharistic ResponsesAdd to cartTwenty-five sets of Eucharistic Prayer responses (Sanctus, Memorial Acclamation and Amen) set to familiar Christmas tunes. Some also include a doxology. Download includes lyrics and music for congregation (and some for musicians also.) -
Advent Responses
$0.00 or moreAdvent ResponsesAdd to cartA collection of single verses for invocation, scripture affirmation, prayer response, offertory, etc., with original lyrics by Steve Garnaas-Holmes, to the tune of Away in a Manger.
Free to copy and use. Or you can pay-what-you-like to donate.
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Advent Table Songs
$0.00 or moreAdvent Table SongsAdd to cartTwenty-two one-verse songs with original lyrics by Steve Garnaas-Holmes: doxologies and invitation to communion, set to familiar Christmas tunes. -
Advent Wreath Prayers
$0.00 or moreAdvent Wreath PrayersAdd to cartA series of four prayers for lighting Advent wreath candles that reflect themes of each week's Lectionary readings. Week 1 We praise you, O God, for this circle of light that marks our days of preparation for Christ’s advent. As we light the first candle on this wreath, rouse us from sleep, that we may be ready to greet the Beloved who comes, in whose hands is our healing. Enlighten us with your grace, and prepare our hearts to welcome Christ with joy. Kindle within us the gift of hope through Christ the Beloved, whose coming is certain and whose day draws near. Amen. Week 2 We praise you, O God, for this wheel of time that marks our days of preparation for Christ’s advent. As we light the candles on this wreath, open our hearts to your will, that with changed lives we may welcome you with joy. Enlighten us with your grace, and prepare our hearts to receive a new Creation in the Spirit of Christ. Kindle within us the gift of wonder through Christ the Beloved, whose coming is certain and whose day draws near. Amen. Week 3 We praise you, O God, for this evergreen crown that marks our days of preparation for Christ’s advent. As we light the candles on this wreath, open our eyes to the signs of your coming; may our souls praise the great things you have done. Enlighten us with your grace, and prepare our hearts to join in your healing of the world. Kindle within us the gift of faith through Christ the Beloved, whose coming is certain and whose day draws near. Amen. Week 4 We praise you, O God, for this victory wreath that marks our days of preparation for Christ’s advent. As we light the candles on this wreath, we welcome the promise of your coming, that we also may be faithful in love. Enlighten us with your grace, and prepare our hearts to give birth to Christ by your Spirit. Kindle within us the gift of love through Christ the Beloved, whose coming is certain and whose day draws near. Amen. -
All of the Gifts I Have
$0.00 or moreAll of the Gifts I HaveAdd to cartOriginal lyrics to Tune: Fairest Lord Jesus. Free to copy and use. Or you can pay-what-you-like to donate.
Words: Steve Garnaas-Holmes
Lyrics: All of the gifts I have, all that is within me, you give to me, O God, with care; all of my prayers and skills, passions and energies you grant to me to freely share.
Here are my hopes and dreams, attitudes and deepest loves, all of the treasure to which I cling. I will not hold them in, stilling my ardent song, but serving you I’ll freely sing.
In all I keep or give, may I do my very best in everything I say and do, in harmony with you, only to love and bless, with joy, to serve and honor you. -
All that We Hold in Our Hands
$3.00 or moreAll that We Hold in Our HandsAdd to cartOriginal song. Purchase includes digital download of lyrics and music and permission to use. (Listen to a audio clip in the Product Description below.) Lyrics: What do we hold in our hearts? The hopes of a hungering people, longing for you, and for bread, and to truly be free. What can we do, who are small? The power is not ours at all: God, you have hidden such grace here in our hands. What do we hold in our hands? Nothing we have is unworthy. An everyday gift you can use in miraculous ways. All that we hold in our hands you’ll use if we give it to you. Use what we hold in our hands for what you will do. What do we hold in our hands? In it you’ve hidden the wondrous, fishes and loaves you can use to feed thousands with love. All that we hold in our hands we give in the name of your Son: more than we ask or imagine, may your will be done. What do we hold in our hands? Grace is abundant, not lacking. Look now and see what we have and find power and life. All that we hold in our hands, all that we have or can do, all that we are by your grace we give now to you. -
All Things Bright and Beautiful
$0.00 or moreAll Things Bright and BeautifulAdd to cartThe Refrain and verse one are the original, by Cecil Alexander. Verses 2-4 are by Steve Garnaas-Holmes. (Refrain) All things bright and beautiful, all creatures great and small, all things wise and wonderful: the Lord God made them all. Each little flower that opens, each little bird that sings, God made their glowing colors, and made their tiny wings. The animals that guide us and bear our heavy loads remind us of the God who walks with us on all our roads. (Refrain...) The creatures who befriend us and love us faithfully make God’s pure love, that never tests, so clear and plain to see. (Refrain...) With many kinds of glory, all fish and bugs and birds call forth our thanks and wonder and praise beyond all words. (Refrain...) -
All Through Your Life
$0.00 or moreAll Through Your LifeAdd to cartOriginal lyrics set to the tune of All Through the Night. Free to copy and use. Or you can pay-what-you-like to donate. Lyrics: Dear Beloved, God will bless you all through your life, Love's own gentle hand caress you, all through you life. You are made by God's designing, with the holy Presence shining. Grace will be your silver lining all through your life. Journey hand in hand with Jesus all through your life. Walk with him who heals and frees us all through your life. Like him may you be forgiving, generous and freely giving. Risen, new, receive your living, all through your life. May the Holy Spirit lead you all through your life, guide, protect, renew and feed you all through your life. In the light of our redeeming, with divine compassion gleaming, be a light for others, beaming all through your life. -
Always New
$0.00 or moreAlways NewAdd to cartOriginal lyrics set to the tune of Gift of Love or Tallis' Canon. Free to copy and use. Or you can pay-what-you-like to donate. Lyrics: O God, you make me always new. Each breath I breathe is life from you, a gift of love that sets me free. Beloved, breathe new life in me. O Christ, you call me to new birth like God’s creation of the earth, to leave the things I’m fastened on and walk into the rising dawn. O loving Spirit, live in me. Forgive my sin and set me free. Give me new birth, life from above, that I may live in your deep love. -
Angels in Disguise
$3.00 or moreAngels in DisguiseAdd to cartOriginal song. Purchase includes digital download of lyrics and music and permission to use. (Hear it in the Product Description below.) Lyrics: For the angels in all disguises who have loved us in so many ways, we have come to expect your surprises; we have come to sing your praise. God, you have loved us more than we believe. Help us to be humble; help us to receive. We have asked for your Word’s revealing without listening to all that you say, and the ones who would bring us your healing we have pridefully turned away. God, you have loved us... When we dare to be unprotected from a foe of Samaritan cast, when we welcome the ones we rejected, then we meet you, God, at last. God, you have loved us... Have we enemies? Love them dearly, for the ones we reject or despise are the ones we will some day see clearly as your angels in disguise. God, you have loved us... -
Anna and Simeon’s Song
$3.00 or moreAnna and Simeon’s SongAdd to cartOriginal song. Purchase includes digital download of lyrics and music and permission to use.
Luke 2.25-38. For congregation or solo (or duet). [Hear it in the Product Description below.]
Lyrics: Today I held in my trembling hands such a child so pure: a gift of grace, God’s human face, love so tenderly given. Wonder! Wonder! How God’s promise is sure! Fears cease in hope and peace: earth has now become heaven. Today I saw with my wondering eyes such a child divine! My heart sang out for all about shone the light of the Near One. Wonder! Wonder! That this joy could be mine. Jesus has come to us, the Beloved, the Dear one. Today you’ll meet in a simple way such a Presence, a Friend: the Gentle One refuses none with God’s tender salvation. Wonder! Wonder! Miracle without end! Praise, pray and everyday bow in deep adoration. -
Anointing
$0.00 or moreAnointingAdd to cartOriginal lyrics set to the tune of What a Friend We Have in Jesus. Free to copy and use. Or you can pay-what-you-like to donate. Lyrics: Jesus, as we try to follow on your journey toward the cross, we ourselves will come to suffer weakness, loneliness and loss. But in love you turn to heal us: you let go all goods and powers, gently sharing all our troubles, making them your own, not ours. Jesus, in your grace and mercy, you share all our pain and tears. You anoint us with your love and heal our wounds and calm our fears. So, like Mary with her perfume, we bring gifts of love to you, sharing death and resurrection, trusting lives will be made new. -
As the Darkness, Soft, Descending
$0.00 or moreAs the Darkness, Soft, DescendingAdd to cartOriginal lyrics set to the tune of All Through the Night. Free to copy and use. Or you can pay-what-you-like to donate. Lyrics: As the darkness, soft, descending, wraps us in night, God, with gentle love unending, you hold us tight. As we sleep you closely tend us, bless, forgive, renew and mend us, from all fear and toil defend us, as your delight. Silence now, with all its graces, wraps us in prayer, as your presence, deep, embraces each soul with care. Now to you our lives we render, trusting you, all-wise and tender. May our sleep, our dear surrender be, Love, our prayer. -
At Your Feet
$3.00 or moreAt Your FeetAdd to cartOriginal song. Purchase includes digital download of lyrics and music and permission to use. (Listen to it in the Product Description below.) Lyrics: Jesus, at your feet I bow. I am yours completely now. By your mercy show me how to be loving. Jesus, Master, you who save, you have served me as a slave. This, the perfect gift you gave: to be loving. In each hurting one I meet it is you, O Christ, I greet. Make my faithfulness complete, to be loving. -
Awaken Us, God
$0.00 or moreAwaken Us, GodAdd to cartTen verses for use as responses throughout Advent and Christmas. Original lyrics set to the tune of Away in a Manger. Free to copy and use. Or you can pay-what-you-like to donate. Sample lyrics: Hope Oh hear us, we pray, God, for dark is the night, and still we are waiting in hope for the light. Oh teach us to trust you, preparing the way, until with rejoicing we enter the day. Joy We pray that your Word may be born in our hearts, that we may shine bright with the joy it imparts. We pray as we wait for Emmanuel's birth the light of our hope may illumine the earth. (Christmas) Love The little child rests in his mother's embrace; and we have been blessed by God's love and God's grace. God, open our hearts that we each may know there Emmanuel's birth in the love that we share. -
Baptism – a Brief Glimpse
$0.00 or moreBaptism – a Brief GlimpseAdd to cartAn overview of the meaning of Baptism. -
Baptized in Light
$0.00 or moreBaptized in LightAdd to cartOriginal lyrics set to the tune of Morning Has Broken. Free to copy and use. Or you can pay-what-you-like to donate. Lyrics: Baptized in water, we are your creatures, each son and daughter washed and reborn, fully forgiven, blessed and made new now, buried and risen into the morn. Baptized in light, God, we are your vessels, love shining bright in all that we do, as new creations, we are your glory, bright with elation, radiant with you. Baptized in Spirit, we are your servants. This we inherit: to be your light, Christ rising in us, healing and blessing, poor given justice, blind given sight. Baptized in love, my dearest companions, Spirit’s bright dove fly with you each day. God’s light revealing, go now in peace, friends, blessing and healing, lighting the way. -
Be the Living Word
$0.00 or moreBe the Living WordAdd to cartOriginal lyrics set to the tune of HOLY MANNA. Free to copy and use. Or you can pay-what-you-like to donate. Lyrics: As you go to serve Creation bear the Word of God with you, Word that brings forth light now dwelling in your heart and shining through. Do not merely say the words: become the Word. Embody grace. Be the living Word and give the love of God a human face. To the poor in spirit go, and give them bread for which they long. Nourish them for love and justice. Feed their souls and make them strong. Be the hearty bread that’s taken, blest and broken day by day. Be the bread of love made real, bread that Jesus gives away. Do not try to serve with only your own passion to impart. Let the love of God flow through you from the Source, from Heaven’s Heart. Pass along God’s deep forgiveness, flowing freely from the Lord. Be the wine of God’s great feast, the wine so generously poured. By the Spirit living in you, be the hope you hope to preach; be the peace you long to witness; be the truth you want to teach. Let your living be the Word that words alone cannot convey. Be the Word of love embodied; be the flesh of Christ today. -
Be Thou My Wisdom
$0.00 or moreBe Thou My WisdomAdd to cartOriginal lyrics to a familiar tune. Free to copy and use. Or you can pay-what-you-like to donate.
Words: Steve Garnaas-Holmes
Tune: SLANE (Be Thou My Vision)
Lyrics: Be thou my Wisdom and grant me your sight. Help me to see by your love’s perfect light. Love, be my compass, my balance, my Way: guide from within what I choose day by day.
Grant me the wisdom to seek and to learn, to pray for your leading and wait and discern. Help me to listen with all of my heart, listen for all of the Truth you impart.
Grant me your Wisdom: a heart that’s made pure, courage to follow a love that is sure. Led by your Spirit, listening still, help me to know and to follow your will.
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Bearers of Light
$0.00 or moreBearers of LightAdd to cartOriginal lyrics set to the tune of Morning Has Broken. Free to copy and use. Or you can pay-what-you-like to donate. Lyrics: God, how you love us, hold us and bless us, reign from above us, lead us by hand Call us to healing, bound by your Promise, your Word revealing, by your command. Great holy giver of life and wonder, deep like a river your blessings flow. Gladly we give you praise and thanksgiving: gifts we will give wherever we go. Baptized, anointed, filled with your Spirit, we are appointed bearers of light: for liberation, servants of justice, bringing the nations joy and delight. -
Beatitudes: versions and meditations
$0.00 or moreBeatitudes: versions and meditationsAdd to cartA collection of ten paraphrases and eight meditations on the beatitudes. -
Becoming Whole
$3.00 or moreBecoming WholeAdd to cartOriginal song. Several verses may be used, or one verse repeated. (Hear an audio excerpt in the product description.) Lyrics: We are a broken people becoming whole again. We are a wounded people being healed again. We are a hungry people being fed again. We are a wandering people coming home again. We are a groaning people giving birth again. ... And more... -
Behold the Lamb
$3.00 or moreBehold the LambAdd to cartOriginal song. A simple line; may be repeated as a continuing chant. (Hear an audio excerpt in the product description.) Lyrics: Behold the lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world. Come let us follow the lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world. -
Benedictus (Song of Zechariah)
$0.00 or moreBenedictus (Song of Zechariah)Add to cartLuke 1.68-79. Original lyrics set to the tune of Savior, Like a Shepherd Lead Us.
Free to copy and use. Or you can pay-what-you-like to donate. Lyrics: Blessed be the God of Israel! You came among us to redeem. You have raised a mighty savior for us, as the prophets used to dream. As you promised, you have saved us, so that we may serve with grace, unafraid, with holy spirits, in your presence all our days. You, child, go before our God as prophet: show the people mercy’s way, so they know they are forgiven, saved and brought into a brand new day. Day is dawning—tender mercy! Grace and light of God, increase! Come to those in death and shadows. Guide us in the ways of peace. -
Blessed
$3.00 or moreBlessedAdd to cartOriginal song. Purchase includes digital download of lyrics and music and permission to use.
Includes version for four-part choir.
Lyrics: Dear God, receive me anew, mourning and poor in my soul, hungry for what makes me whole. Bless me by making me simple like you.
Refrain: Blessed are the ones who have nothing but God, for God and God alone shall fill their lives.
Mercy please grant me anew. Make my heart pure by your grace, humble, that I may see your face. Bless me by making me gentle like you. Refrain.
Courage please give me anew, peace in the world to make, and to suffer for your Gospel’s sake. Bless me by making me faithful to you. Refrain. -
Blessed Be Our God (Luke 1.68-79)
$3.00 or moreBlessed Be Our God (Luke 1.68-79)Add to cartOriginal song. Purchase includes digital download of lyrics and music and permission to use. Benedictus, the Song of Zechariah (Luke 1.68-79). Hear an audio excerpt in the Product Description below. Lyrics: Blessed be our God, who's come to us, raising a mighty savior for us, as of old God promised, to save us from the enemies of life, freeing us to serve in holiness. Serve, child as a prophet of our God, going before to make a way: go to all the people; show them their salvation from God, show them the forgiveness of their sin. By the tender mercy of our God, dawn from on high will break upon us, giving light to people who sit in darkness and the shade of death, guiding us into the way of peace. -
Blessed Child of Bethlehem
$3.00 or moreBlessed Child of BethlehemAdd to cartOriginal song. Purchase includes digital download of lyrics and music and permission to use.
(Audio sample in product description below.) Lyrics: Blessed child of Bethlehem, waiting to be born, some will bring you incense, and some a crown of thorns. Yet you bear so gently all our joys and harms. How I long to greet you, and hold you in my arms! Blessed child of heaven, waiting to be born, joy of all Creation, delight of those who mourn: teach us how to worship, teach us how to love, living in the presence of angels from above. Blessed child among us, waiting to be born, in whom we are healed and all our sorrows borne: help us live with love, in peace and reconciled. By your birth in us, everyone's a holy child. Blessed child within me, waiting to be born, bringing gifts and wonders with the light of morn, heaven springing in me, new life yet to grow: child of holy promise, oh how I love you so! -
Bread of Justice
$0.00 or moreBread of JusticeAdd to cartOriginal lyrics set to the tune of HOLY MANNA.* Free to copy and use. Or you can pay-what-you-like to donate. Lyrics: God of justice and compassion, you who freed the Hebrew slaves, you who feed the poor and powerless, you whose great forgiveness saves, now you feed us, poor in spirit, through the grace of your dear Son; now you call us, now you send us. May your loving will be done. Feed us, God, the bread of justice: give us hearts to see and care. We are one with all who suffer. They are yours; now send us there. Knowing not if we shall triumph, give us faith to never cease; give us strength to boldly witness, seeking justice, making peace. Feed us, God, the wine of courage, faithfully to do your will. Now we drink of resurrection, facing death but steadfast still. To this world of heartless plunder, send us in a different vein: by our fearless, gentle healing, bearing witness to your Reign. * Or Love Divine, All Loves Excelling. -
Breath of God
$0.00 or moreBreath of GodAdd to cartOriginal lyrics set to the tune of Londonderry Air (Oh Danny Boy) . Free to copy and use. Or you can pay-what-you-like to donate. Lyrics: O Holy One, Creator of the stars of night, whose dust we are, created with your light, now breathe your spirit into us and give us life; give us new hearts that beat with your delight. Our dust and ashes, Love, we give in faith to you. Receive our lives, our sin, our wounds, our death; and raise us up with Christ from death to life by grace. God, may we be your love and you our living breath. Breathe into us the breath of your compassion, God, the breath to sing your praise in all we do, the breath to run the race of justice, long and far. Breathe, holy breath: empower and renew. O be the grace that fills our lungs, reviving us; O be the wind on which our hearts can soar; O be our life, our beauty and our living breath. O Spirit, come breathe in us now and evermore. -
By Your Grace
$0.00 or moreBy Your GraceAdd to cartOriginal lyrics set to the tune of What Wondrous Love Is This. Free to copy and use. Or you can pay-what-you-like to donate. Lyrics: What wondrous love is this O my soul, O my soul, what wondrous love is this, O my soul! That you so freely give the bread by which we live, that you revive our soul, by your Word, by your Word, and by your life in us make us whole. Our lives we give to you, by your grace, by your grace, our lives we give to you, by your grace. Lord, use the gifts we give to help your children live, that all may come and feast by your grace, by your grace, the greatest and the least, by your grace. -
Calling Me
$3.00 or moreCalling MeAdd to cartOriginal song. (Hear an audio excerpt in the product description.) Lyrics: Dear God, Creator eternally, you call everything to be. How are you calling me, even now? Who do you call me to be? Where is your image in me, calling me? Jesus, lord of the fishermen, calling your children, you call to me once again, even now. What will you lead me to do? How can I witness to you, calling me, calling me? Spirit, power of love in me, how do you set me free, what gifts are you giving me, even now? I am a vessel for you. Humbly I listen to you, calling me, calling me. -
Child of God
$3.00 or moreChild of GodAdd to cartOriginal song. May be sung repeatedly in the style of Taizé. (Hear an audio excerpt in the product description.) Lyrics: I'm a child, a child of God, God's beloved, in whom God is pleased. I am held in the arms of God. -
Child of Promise
$3.00 or moreChild of PromiseAdd to cartOriginal song. Purchase includes digital download of lyrics and music and permission to use.
(Hear an audio sample in product description below.) Lyrics: Child of promise, oh, child of hope, prophets spoke of you: visions treasured but unfulfilled. Shall our dreams come true? Help us wait for you. Child of woman, oh, child of God, birthing us anew, make a room, oh, make a womb, in our hearts for you. Help us wait for you. Child of patience, oh, child of pain, suffering ills we do, heal, forgive and help us be gentle child, like you. Help us wait for you. Child of wonder, oh, child of joy, you make all things new. Re-create us, come again like the morning dew. Help us wait for you. -
Children of the Heavenly Mother
$0.00 or moreChildren of the Heavenly MotherAdd to cartOriginal lyrics set to the tune of Children of the Heavenly Father. Free to copy and use. Or you can pay-what-you-like to donate. Lyrics: Children of the Heavenly Mother, gather gladly with each other, for you call us to your table bringing gifts as we are able. You have held us and caressed us, washed and taught us, healed and blessed us; now you cherish and adore us and you set our lives before us.* You have birthed us, and have freed us; with your body now you feed us. In this grace, O loving mother, we are one with one another. So we praise you, heavenly Mother, Holy Spirit, Christ our brother, All Creation sings together honor, thanks and praise for ever. * With communion: “and you set this table for us.”