Author: householdoftheholyfamily

O Lord, come make Your peaceful river flow
From cross through empty tomb to all of us
That through Your Body, Blood, we truth can know
When in Your resurrected life we place our trust.

With peace bring joy to irrigate our souls
To form our bodies that with You will rise,
And we’ll become a human person whole
As You claim us to be Your heaven’s prize.

May we see our life here through heaven’s lens
Alive within a world becoming new,
As with You we now live while You will mend
Creation where we can New Eden view.

Your peaceful river flows through Eden’s East,
As souls and bodies are from sin released. 

Of Spirit and her water we are born—
His Mother from His Cross He gives to us—
And we with John consent to be adorned
With her blue mantle as through her we trust.

Form Mary’s child He many children gives
To Father and His Mother now assumed
Where in His human nature we all live
In her His Lily now in her full bloom—

A flower open through whom His grace flows
To water all the earth with faith from her,
As we in Holy Family come to know
The healing comes through her by her Son’s myrrh.

Blood from King’s side, who’s born from Heaven’s Queen,
Gives us His life that always should have been. 

A rainbow circles from uplifted hands
Around the earth to all of us embrace–
An end to storms that raged throughout the land;
God’s image is restored in human race.
A Noah’s promise made to all the earth
Gives to us Catholic Church as our New Ark,
And living waters wash in Spirit’s birth
All earth in light dispelling clouds of dark.
To Christ our King will earth and heaven bow,
And all confess that Jesus is the Lord
Of all sin’s storms which can afflict us now;
For even storms will Him as Lord adore.
Your rainbow round the earth, your kingly crown–
We’re free from all sin’s storms when to you bound.

Our words cannot express what our hearts sing,
For our hearts’ songs lead us to heaven’s door
Where in those vaults the angels’ voices ring,
And here below our songs will sound so poor.

Yet Jesus says, “The songs you sing we love
For they’re your gift we’ll always treasure here,
As Spirit lifts your songs to rise above,
And to our Father’s heart they bring great cheer.

“So sing in all you say and do and think,
For they are sacrifices true you lay
On altar here where we your true love drink,
And ‘well done, faithful servants,’ we will say.

“The angels’ accolades to you are giv’n,
For your songs rise to join their songs in heav’n.”

It can be hard for us to sin forget
When we’re convicted of our sinful past,
And we learn we must now ourselves forgive,
For Christ’s forgiveness of us always lasts.

We learn that he shapes our forgiven hearts
As in Him we forget what lies behind,
And we learn He will always give new start
When we are open to new truth we find.

We learn that each of us His glory bears,
In human life a glimpse of heaven now,
As every day we His directions hear,
And in our hearts to Him we learn to bow.

When Jesus comes in hearts, we heaven know,
And we see world in heaven’s morning glow. 

O Lord, I am a thirsty soul
Who longs for You to slake my thirst
With living water makes me whole
In wineskin that will never burst.

May water turn to wine in me
As I partake from table laid,
Receiving You on bended knee–
At last of Satan not afraid.

Then to us You will now reveal
The union of Your heaven, earth,
And You will Eden’s gate unseal
As earth through You now knows rebirth.

We live within Your paradise
Of earth, now Yours with heaven, too,
As with You we from grave arise
In living water’s morning dew. 

His mercy’s like a sun that never sets
But comes to us in ever-breaking dawn
And we no longer are by sin beset
But bask in light for which we’ve always longed.

When we see Him we know what we desire
As His forgiveness gives to us new life
With hearts aflame by Holy Spirit’s fire
To follow Him who gives to world His light.

When darkness seeks to on us each descend
We look to tabernacle where light dwells
And He bursts forth to shine on us again—
In Body, Blood comes our Emmanuel. 

And then we see His light alive within
Each face of those we meet along the way;
We see Him work to free us all from sin,
As He leads us to His eternal day.