Carlos Colon

Lord, Send Your Light and Your Truth

Based on Psalm 43:

Refrain: O Lord, send your life and your truth

to lead me and to guide me;

Let them lead me to your holy hill,

the holy place where you dwell.

1. Defend my cause against the unjust,

Deliver me from their lies;

O God, you are the source of my strenght,

Come, and rescue all those who mourn.

2. Then, I will go to the altar of God,

to God my exceeding joy.

And I will sing to you with my harp;

O Lord, my God and my de-light.

3. Why are you downcast O my soul?

And, why are you sad with-in me?

Hope in the Lord, You’ll praise God again:

your Savior, your help, the One who reigns.

Composed by Carlos Colón.

Invitation to Pray the Psalms

God loves us and desires a dynamic communication with us, his children. Psalm 113 says,

“Who is like the Lord our God, the One who sits enthroned on high,
who stoops down to look on the heavens and the earth?”

Imagine this… God Almighty stoops down like a loving parent stoops to speak in love to his or her children.

God wants to train us in the school of prayer and for this effect has given us this beautiful gift right in the middle of the Scriptures: the Book of Psalms. The Psalms are the book of prayer of the Hebrew people, and they were also adopted by the Christian Church who sees in them a prophetic exaltation of Jesus the Messiah.

O Gladsome Light Now Available as Download at GIA Music

GIA Publications has just made available a downloadable version of this hymn based on an ancient Greek prayer, the Phos hilaron. A morning text is also included. It is fully bilingual in Spanish and English.

Listen here from a live Vespers Service at Calvin Worship Symposium:

You can also purchase a choral arrangement, available here from the publisher which is compatible with the congregational version. You can here the choral version here:

Heritage Mass

From OCP, the publisher: “Traditional and uplifting, Owen Alstott’s Heritage Mass is sure to stand the test of time at your parish. From humble beginnings to one of the most used Mass settings ever published, these familiar melodies have lifted congregations for generations and are sure to inspire your own congregation to reach a deeper connection with their faith.”

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