% set version
\version "2.12.3"
% set paper to letter size
\paper {
#(set-paper-size "letter")
indent = 0\in
line-width = 5.5\in
}
% remove bar numbers
\layout {
\context {
\Score
\remove "Bar_number_engraver"
}
}
% remove default tagline and add title to top
\header {
title = "Where Charity and Love Prevail"
copyright = \markup { \column {
\tiny \line { Text: CM; Ubi caritas, 9th cent.; tr. by Omer Westendorf, 1916-1997. }
\tiny \line { Tune: CHRISTIAN LOVE; adapted by Paul Benoit, OSB, 1893-1979. }
\tiny \line { Text and Tune copyright 1960, World Library Publications. All rights reserved. Used with permission. }
}}
tagline = ##f
}
% set starting point and add music
cantus = \relative c' {
\key e \minor
\cadenzaOn
e8 e[ e] d[ e] g[ fis] e4 \bar "|"
g8 a[ a] g[ a] b4 \bar "|"
b8 b[ a] b[ g] a[ g] e4 r8 \bar "|"
e8 g[ a] e[ d] e4
\bar "|."
}
verseOne = \lyricmode {
\set stanza = #"1. "
Where char -- i -- ty and love pre -- vail,
There God is ev -- er found;
Brought here to -- geth -- er by Christ's love,
By love are we thus bound.
}
verseTwo = \lyricmode {
\set stanza = #"2. "
With grate -- ful joy and ho -- ly fear
God's char -- i -- ty we learn;
Let us, with heart and mind and soul,
Now love God in re -- turn.
}
verseThree = \lyricmode {
\set stanza = #"3. "
For -- give we now each oth -- er's faults
As we our faults con -- fess;
And let us love each oth -- er well
In Christ -- ian ho -- li -- ness.
}
verseFour = \lyricmode {
\set stanza = #"4. "
Let strife a -- mong us be un -- known,
Let all con -- ten -- tion cease;
Be God's the glor -- y that we seek,
Be ours God's ho -- ly peace.
}
verseFive = \lyricmode {
\set stanza = #"5. "
Let us re -- call that in our midst
Dwells God's be -- got -- ten Son;
As mem -- bers of his bod -- y joined,
We are in Christ made one.
}
verseSix = \lyricmode {
\set stanza = #"6. "
No race nore creed can love ex -- clude,
If hon -- ored be God's name;
Our fam -- i -- ly em -- brac -- es all
Whose Fath -- er is the same.
}
\score {
<<<br /> <<<br /> \new Staff \with { \remove "Time_signature_engraver" }
<<<br /> \new Voice = "melody" { \cantus }
\new Lyrics \lyricsto "melody" \verseOne
\new Lyrics \lyricsto "melody" \verseTwo
\new Lyrics \lyricsto "melody" \verseThree
\new Lyrics \lyricsto "melody" \verseFour
\new Lyrics \lyricsto "melody" \verseFive
\new Lyrics \lyricsto "melody" \verseSix
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\layout { }
}
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