Immaculate Conception
Monday at 5:30 pm (livestreamed)
Tuesday at 7:00 am, 12:00 noon (livestreamed), 7:00 pm
Immaculate Conception Music at Evening Masses
Entrance:
1. Sing of Mary pure and lowly,
Virgin mother undefiled,
Sing of God's own Son most holy,
Who became her little child.
Fairest Child of fairest Mother,
God the Lord who came to earth,
Word-made-flesh, our very brother,
Takes our nature by his birth.
2. Sing of Jesus, son of Mary,
In the home at Nazareth.
Toil and labor cannot weary
Love enduring unto death.
Constant was the love he gave her,
Though he went forth from her side,
Forth to preach, and heal, and suffer,
Till on Calvary he died.
Text: Roland F. Palmer, 1891-1985, © Parish of Saint John the Evangelist, Victoria, BC
1. I sing a maid of tender years
To whom an angel came,
And knelt, as to a mighty queen,
And bowed bright wings of flame:
A nation's hope in her reply,
This maid of matchless grace;
For God's own son became her child,
And she his resting place.
2. She watched him grow to manhood's strength
To meet his destiny.
And when the danger of his truth
Brought him to Calvary,
She stood by him all powerless
To ease his dying pain,
'Til in the darkest hour of all,
She held her son again.
3. And if the song had ended then,
Our eyes would fill with tears,
But ah! the song had just begun
To echo down the years!
Now lift your voices, hearts and souls,
To sing with one accord
To honor Mary, Mother of
The Christ, the Risen Lord!
Text: M. D. Ridge, b.1938-2017, © 1987, GIA Publications, Inc.
Communion Refrain:
Emmanuel, Emmanuel, Come and live in our midst;
Emmanuel. Emmanuel, come make your home in our hearts!
Recessional:
Verse 1. Immaculate Mary, your praises we sing;
You reign now in splendor with Jesus our King.
Ave, Ave, Ave, Maria.
Ave, Ave, Maria.
Verse 3. To you by an angel, the Lord God made known
The grace of the Spirit, the gift of the Son.
Text: St. 1, Jeremiah Cummings, 1814-1866, alt.; sts. 2-7, Brian Foley, 1919-2000, © 1971, Faber Music Ltd.
