by Clément Tendo
Leader: Brothers and sisters, Christ himself has brought peace to us!
ALL: Jesus has united Jews and Gentiles into one people. His broken body on the cross broke down the wall of hostility between people.
Leader: 15 He fulfilled the commandments of God perfectly, freeing us from the burden of the law.
ALL: 16 By trusting in Christ’s death on the cross, we can have peace with God and also with one another.
Leader: 17 He brought this Good News of peace to you who were far away from him, and peace to those who were near.
ALL: 18 Now all of us can come to the Father through the same Holy Spirit because of what Christ has done for us.
Leader: 19 So now you are no longer strangers and foreigners. You are citizens along with all of God’s holy people. You are members of God’s family.
ALL: 20 Together, we are his house, and the cornerstone is Christ Jesus himself. 21 We are carefully joined together in him, becoming a holy temple for the Lord! Now, let us worship Him with joy and thanksgiving!
by Clément Tendo
Leader: If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal.
ALL: 2 And if I have prophetic powers, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing.
Leader: 3 If I give away all I have, and if I deliver up my body to be burned, but have not love, I gain nothing.
ALL: 4 Love is patient and kind; love does not envy or boast; it is not arrogant 5 or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful;
Leader: 6 Love does not rejoice at wrongdoing, but rejoices with the truth.
ALL: 7 Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.
by Clément Tendo
Leader: 1 Bend down, O Lord, and hear my prayer; answer me, for I need your help.
ALL: 2 Protect me, for I am devoted to you.
Save me, for I serve you and trust you. You are my God.
Leader: 3 Be merciful to me, O Lord, for I am calling on you constantly.
ALL: 4 Give me happiness, O Lord, for I give myself to you.
Leader: 5 O Lord, you are so good, so ready to forgive,
so full of unfailing love for all who ask for your help.
ALL: 6 Listen closely to my prayer, O Lord; hear my urgent cry.
7 I will call to you whenever I’m in trouble, and you will answer me.
Leader: 8 No pagan god is like you, O Lord.
None can do what you do!
ALL: 9 All the nations you made will come and bow before you, Lord;
they will praise your holy name.
Leader: 10 For you are great and perform wonderful deeds.
You alone are God.
ALL:11 Teach me your ways, O Lord, that I may live according to your truth!
Grant me purity of heart, so that I may honor you.
12 With all my heart I will praise you, O Lord my God.
I will give glory to your name forever,
by Clément Tendo
ALL: 1 The Lord is my light and my salvation—whom shall I fear?
The Lord is the stronghold of my life—of whom shall I be afraid?
LEADER: 4 One thing I ask from the Lord, this only do I seek:
ALL: that I may dwell in the house of the Lord all the days of my life,
to gaze on the beauty of the Lord and to seek him in his temple.
LEADER: 5 For in the day of trouble he will keep me safe in his dwelling;
he will hide me in the shelter of his holiness and set me high upon a rock.
ALL: 7 Hear my voice when I call, Lord; be merciful to me and answer me.
LEADER: 8 My heart says of you, “Seek his face!” Your face, Lord, I will seek.
ALL: 13 I remain confident of this: I will see the goodness of the Lord in the land of the living.
LEADER: 14 Wait for the Lord; be strong and take heart and wait for the Lord!
by Clément Tendo
ALL: 1 The Lord is my light and my salvation—whom shall I fear?
The Lord is the stronghold of my life—of whom shall I be afraid?
LEADER: 2 When the wicked advance against me to devour me,
it is my enemies who will stumble and fall.
ALL: 4 One thing I ask from the Lord, this only do I seek:
that I may dwell in the house of the Lord all the days of my life,
to gaze on the beauty of the Lord and to seek him in his temple.
LEADER: 5 For in the day of trouble he will keep me safe in his dwelling;
he will hide me in the shelter of his holiness and set me high upon a rock.
ALL: 6 Then my head will be lifted above the enemies who surround me;
I will sacrifice with shouts of joy; I will sing and make music to the Lord.
LEADER: 11 Teach me your way, Lord; lead me in a straight path because of my oppressors.
12 Do not turn me over to my enemies, for false witnesses rise up against me,
ALL: 13 I remain confident of this: I will see the goodness of the Lord in the land of the living.
LEADER: 14 Wait for the Lord; be strong and take heart and wait for the Lord!
