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Lighten These Nights

June 12, 2026 - 10:48am — ronsue
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1 ) O Christ, you share the Father’s light,
Yourself, Light from Light, our day;
we lightened these dark nights  with song:
Come help us, Lord, and hear our prayer.
    
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Hymn of the Month - June: The Music of Sister Mary Editha, B.V.M.

June 7, 2026 - 2:52pm — Don9of11
For this month’s featured article, I invite you to discover the life and legacy of Sister Mary Editha, B.V.M., a gifted Catholic hymn composer whose beautiful music shaped devotional life. Drawing on exclusive archival research and historical sources, this article traces her life, ministry, and hymnody. It features a three-column manuscript gallery and—for the first time—actual archival vocal and instrumental recordings performed by the student choirs of Xavier College Preparatory in Phoenix, Arizona. Her story offers a rare, moving glimpse into the history of Catholic hymnody and the dedicated women who safeguarded the musical memory of our faith.

Please take a moment to read, listen, and explore this important piece of Catholic musical history.

Please visit Mother of Mercy Catholic Hymns and read The Music of Sister Mary Editha

https://www.motherofmercycatholichymns.com/sister-mary-editha/
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Closer To You

June 5, 2026 - 10:35am — ronsue
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1 ) Everyday you  draw  us closer to
To you and how you make all things new -  each day
You show us our Father as  only you can
And daily reveal  his divine plan   
For each of us
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We Are Sent Forth: new song on evangelization and commissioning

June 1, 2026 - 6:36pm — Erwin Cabucos
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This song is based from Matthew 9:36-10:8, with themes of evangelization and commissioning. We are all missionaries in our faith in Jesus. This is the message at the conclusion of the Mass. 

 
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Not Enough Time

June 1, 2026 - 6:12am — Kfmiller
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Pray for those who finish young, and the ones who survive them.

Instrumentation: Vocal, string quartet
Duration: 2’

I’d start by saying
I don’t understand
I’m sure You hear that a lot
But why do things turn out the way they do
And why do some get so little time, so little time

Part of a puzzle
we can’t comprehend
We can’t see the way You do
It’s hard stumbling here wounded in the mist
When the sunlight seems to hard to find, so hard to find

I believe one day
We’ll meet face to face
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O Holy Spirit Divine

May 29, 2026 - 10:46am — ronsue
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1) O Spirit of Love of the Father and Son
Inflame our hearts with your holy fire
Cleanse and purify our. desires
That we know and do our Father’s desire

2) Help us be more docile to you
To hear and know  and do
Your inspirations of love and truth
And become as one with you

REFRAIN
Holy Spirit inflame our hearts anew
O Spirit of divine love and truth 
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Jeremiad #6

May 25, 2026 - 5:27am — Kfmiller
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Instrumentation: Voice, guitar, bass guitar
Duration: 2’


It’s like you’ve stopped trying
anymore now.
Are your hearts so deadened
your eyes so blind?

[Chorus]
What are you thinking?
Where have you gone?

You left the Gift behind
for a new god -
your sacred distractions,
the new gold calf.

[Chorus}

Sometimes just watching you
is hard to do,
because still too often
I see myself.
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Intimacy With The Trinity

May 22, 2026 - 1:28pm — ronsue
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1 ) You are the only way
Where there seems to be  many ways
No one can to the Father come
Except through me his Divine son          
deeply in me abide
Your heart to me confide
I am the way your life and   truth
through me the Father you'll know
and in his love grow

2) You’re entering a time
When you'll be deeply refined
Your heart and mind I will  purify
And in me more   deeply abide
In compassion you will grow
And to others you will show
My love for them and thirst for them
How my heart burns for them
HOW in love I created and saved them
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Issuing a Culture of Life and Peace

May 15, 2026 - 4:03pm — ronsue
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Let us praise  the Lord
And give him thanks
For all he has and will do
Praise his most holy name
Praise His name 
Give him thanks and him adore
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Joyful Surrender

May 8, 2026 - 12:59pm — ronsue
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   Jesus, the name above every other name
   Worthy of all praise we could ever give
Worthy of doing  your most holy will            
You are our life
Oh, we live  in you,

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Holy, there is no one like you                               
There is none beside you, open up my eyes in wonder
And show me who you are and fill me with your heart
And lead me in your love to those around me
      Lead me in your will
      Fill me with your life
     Fill me with your love
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Wave

May 2, 2026 - 4:42pm — Kfmiller
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Instrumentation: Voice, marimba, percussion.
Duration: 1'30"

A dark wave crashed over the broken wall,
rose up the streets
toward the heart of town.
Some stood and stared,
while others ran
as the dark wave
started moving higher and higher.

A dark wave swept over the broken wall.
It drowned the courts,
flooded the schools.
Entranced, they marched
into the sea
as the dark wave
kept on moving higher and higher.

A dark wave smashed over the broken wall
it reached the top
closed over the roofs
and all the drowned
bodies went by.
As the dark wave
passed, I reached from the flood to You.


(Sheet music attached.)



 
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Assumed In Your Trinitarian Love

May 1, 2026 - 1:45pm — ronsue
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1 ) Day by day, and with each passing moment
Strength I find to meet my trials here
Trusting in my Father's wise bestowment
I've no cause for worry or for fear
He whose heart is kind beyond all measure
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Hymn of the Month - May: The Mystagogy of Little White Guest

April 30, 2026 - 10:45pm — Don9of11
Behind the simple melody of a beloved First Communion hymn lies a century-long mystery involving the Royal College of Music, a forgotten English composer, and the dedicated sisters who shaped American parochial life. From its 1937 radio debut to its thirty-year legacy in an Akron choir loft, "Little White Guest" is more than just a song—it is a musical inheritance. Join me as we uncover the true identity of the mysterious "R.F.M." and explore the "Heart-Garden" that prepared generations of children to welcome their Divine Guest.

Please take a moment to read and explore this important piece of Catholic musical history.

Please visit Mother of Mercy Catholic Hymns and read

The Mystagogy of Little White Guest

https://www.motherofmercycatholichymns.com/little-white-guest-hymn-history/
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I Thirst For You

April 24, 2026 - 10:43am — ronsue
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1) Come to me, be quiet and still
with peace your heart I'll fill
And day by day my love you'll know
In compassionate love you'll grow

2) I am the Truth, the way and life
I'll bring you through this rising strife
Through the chaos and rage of idolatry
As it falls and you love me 

REFRAIN 
O Jesus blest Redeemer
Our beloved Lord and brother
Hold us who live/ in your heart
And from you never let us depart
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Arise With Him Everyday

April 17, 2026 - 10:12am — ronsue
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Christ the Lord is ris’n today;
Christians, haste your vows to pay
Offer you praises divinely sweet
At the Paschal Victim’s feet.
For the sheep the Lamb has bled,
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This is My Body - a Communion Song

April 12, 2026 - 8:47pm — Erwin Cabucos
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Nice communion hymn


Lyrics and chords: Capo 1

Verse 1

D      G        D Bm            G           Em  BmD        A
This is my body which shall be given up     for you

Bm              G                D     Bm  F#m    A           D
This is the cup of the new covenant   in my blood

       F#m A       Bm G         D    A     D
As often as yo do this, remember me

Bm         G     Em   Bm  A         D
And the life that I give to the world

Verse 2

D      G        D Bm            G           Em  BmD        A
This is my body which shall be given up     for you

Bm                G                     D    Bm      F#m  A     D
Take of the blood that is shed in the new covenant  

       F#m A       Bm G         D    A     D
As often as yo do this, remember me

Bm         G     Em   Bm  A         D
And the life that I give to the world

Verse 3

D     G     D  Bm          G      Em  BmD        A
Glorify God in the Body given up    for you

Bm                             G     DBmF#m   A           D
Glorify God in the new covenant    in my blood

       F#m A       Bm G         D    A     D
As often as yo do this, remember me

Bm         G     Em   Bm  A         D
And the life that I give to the world

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Self Surrender - an offertory song

April 12, 2026 - 9:35am — Erwin Cabucos
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An offertory song: Self Surrender by Sr Delia Manhit, RC. This is cover on guitar capo 2, G.


Capo 2 G

G        GM7       C                      G
Lord Jesus I unite myself to your
GM7                G        G7       C                D7
perpetual unceasing, universal sacrifice
   G              GM7                     E                Am 
I offer myself to you every day of my life
                     D                            G                        A7            D       D7  G
And every moment of every day, surrender to your most holy will

     G                               GM7        C            D
//You have been the victim of my salvation
G                           GM7        C                  D
I wish to be the victim of your great love
G                  GM7     E                   Am
Accept my desire, take my offering
                        D              G
Graciously, hear my prayer
                E           Am
Let me live for love of you
                            D
Let me die for love of you
                G     GM7       E        Am      D          G
Let my last heartbeat be an act of perfect love//

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Apology

April 12, 2026 - 5:18am — Kfmiller
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St. Junipero Serra founded a chain of missions throughout California in the 1700s. A series of anti-Catholic arson and vandalism incidents took place at the missions in recent years, with one in Los Angeles being severely damaged but thankfully now fully repaired. Pray for people who hate the Church, that their hearts will turn to God.

Instrumentation: Voice, guitar, cello
Duration: 1’

I saw your statue before they took it away
Ants are now judging angels but that’s where we are
Don’t expect balance when the mob’s taken control

I saw your mission before they set the fire
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The Great Day Of Our Lord

April 10, 2026 - 10:31am — ronsue
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1) This is the day of our risen Lord,
Filled with glorious joy and holy light,
on which his  sacred blood has washed
both shame and guilt from all the world

2) Rejoice, O Saints let all of us sing
Glorious hymns to our Lord and risen king
for after death upon the Cross
Christ rose again and gave us eternal life.

REFRAIN   
This is the day of  Jesus our Lord
We sing of in one holy accord
Of his passion, death, and rising in glory
Of his glorious return bringing us home
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