1. GATHER US IN Copyright (C) 1983 GIA. All rights reserved
GATHER US IN Copyright (C) 1983 GIA. All rights reserved. Used with permission. Word of Life International. License No. 966.
Here in this place, new light is streaming
now is the darkness, vanished away,
See, in this space, our fears and our dreamings,
brought here to you in the light of this day.
Gather us in the lost and forsaken,
Gather us in the blind and the lame;
Call to us now, and we shall awaken.
we shall arise at the sound of our name.

2. We are the young our lives are a myst'ry,
we are the old who yearn for your face,
We have been sung throughout all of hist'ry,
called to be light to the whole human race.
Gather us in the rich and the haughty,
Gather us in the proud and the strong;
Give us a heart so meek and so lowly,
give us the courage to enter the song.

3. Here we will take the wine and the water,
here we will take the bread of new birth,
Here you shall call your sons and your daughters,
call us anew to be salt for the earth.
Give us to drink the wine of compassion,
Give us to eat the bread that is you;
Nourish us well, and teach us to fashion,
lives that are holy and hearts that are true.

4. Not in the dark of buildings confining,
not in some heaven, light years away,
but here in this place, the new light is shining,
now is the kingdom, now is the day.
Gather us in and hold us forever,
Gather us in and make us your own;
Gather us in all peoples together,
fire of love in our flesh and our bone.
Word and Music by Marty Haugen
Copyright (C) 1983 GIA. All rights reserved. Used with permission. Word of Life International. License No. 966.

5. Your Ways, O Lord, make known to me; teach me your paths
Your Ways, O Lord, make known to me; teach me your paths. Guide me in your truth and teach me, for you are God my saviour. (Ps. 25: 4)

6. This is what we are about: We plant the seeds that one day will grow
This is what we are about: We plant the seeds that one day will grow. We water seeds already planted, knowing that they hold future promise. We lay foundations that will need further development. We provide yeast that produced effects far beyond our capability.
We may never see the end results, but that is the difference between the master builder and the worker. We are the workers, not master builders; ministers, not messiahs. We are prophets of a future not our own.
Archbishop Oscar Romero

7. Your Ways, O Lord, make known to me; teach me your paths
Your Ways, O Lord, make known to me; teach me your paths. Guide me in your truth and teach me, for you are God my saviour. (Ps. 25: 4)

8. “as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our fears, our presence automatically liberates others.”
Nelson Mandela

9. Your Ways, O Lord, make known to me; teach me your paths
Your Ways, O Lord, make known to me; teach me your paths. Guide me in your truth and teach me, for you are God my saviour. (Ps. 25: 4)

10. “God has brought us all together to be instruments of each other’s salvation and if ever the old self is to be put to death and the New Man, Jesus Christ put on, it will be done through community”.
Dorothy Day

11. Your Ways, O Lord, make known to me; teach me your paths
Your Ways, O Lord, make known to me; teach me your paths. Guide me in your truth and teach me, for you are God my saviour. (Ps. 25: 4)

12. “When one door of happiness closes, another one opens; but we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us.”
Helen Keller

13. Your Ways, O Lord, make known to me; teach me your paths
Your Ways, O Lord, make known to me; teach me your paths. Guide me in your truth and teach me, for you are God my saviour. (Ps. 25: 4)

14. “My Lord God,
I have no idea where I am going
I do not see the road ahead of me.
I cannot know for certain where it will end.
Nor do I really know myself,
And the fact that I think that I am following your will does not mean that I am actually doing so.
But I believe that the desire to please you does in fact please you.”
Thomas Merton

15. Your Ways, O Lord, make known to me; teach me your paths
Your Ways, O Lord, make known to me; teach me your paths. Guide me in your truth and teach me, for you are God my saviour. (Ps. 25: 4)

16. “Lord, I am here to take a stand for what I believe is right
“Lord, I am here to take a stand for what I believe is right. But now I am afraid. The people are looking to me for leadership, and if I stand before them without strength and courage, they too will falter. I am at the end of my powers. I have nothing left. I have come to the point where I can't face it alone”.
Martin Luther King Jr.

17. Your Ways, O Lord, make known to me; teach me your paths
Your Ways, O Lord, make known to me; teach me your paths. Guide me in your truth and teach me, for you are God my saviour. (Ps. 25: 4)