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Gathering of gifts – choir.

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Music by Norbert Blacha Text by Mirosława Hanusiewicz (Poland, 1980) English by Terry MacArthur.

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1. Hands like a rising cloud, hands poised in prayer, offered as holy gifts, spacious as air.
Lord, keep their fingers open, uncurled,
never a clenched fist over the world.
Lord, hear our prayer for peace. Peace is our cry.

2. Lord, hear our prayer for peace. Peace is our cry, not swallowed in our throats but raised on high. Sure that no clenched fist, cramped in its power, rises above earth, claiming its hour.

Lord, hear our prayer for peace. Peace is our cry.

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