Eternal – The Best of Libera

You were there – in every thing I knew,
From the moment I began
Always there – in every way I grew
Saved me falling – held my hand

You were shelter from the storm
The shadows fade away
All cares pass away
As hour by hour and day by day
Your love lightens up the sky
As it shines across the night,

Ave Regina, coelorum decora,
Virgo gloriosa Ave

And when the end of day is come
Stay with me through the dark and bring me home

You are there – whichever way I go,
Keep me safely – night and day
Always there – whenever I’m alone,
Hear me calling – show the way

You were shelter from the storm
The shadows fade away
All cares pass away
As hour by hour and day by day
Your love lightens up the sky
As it shines across the night,

Ave Regina, coelorum decora,
Virgo gloriosa Ave

And when the end of day is come
Stay with me through the dark and bring me home

Mother of God here I stand now praying
Before this ikon of your radiant brightness
Not praying to be saved from a battlefield
not giving thanks, nor seeking forgiveness
For the sins of my soul, nor for all the souls
numb joyless and desolate on earth
but for her alone, whom I wholly give you

I was sitting in a crummy movie with my hands on my chin
all the violence that occurs seems like we never win
Oh, love and mercy are what you need tonight
Love and mercy to you and your friends tonight

I was lying in my room and the news came on TV
there’s a lot of people out there hurting and it really scares me
Oh, love and mercy are what you need tonight
Love and mercy to you and your friends tonight

I was standing in a bar and watching all the people there
all the loneliness in this world – it’s just not fair
Oh, love and mercy are what you need tonight
Love and mercy to you and your friends tonight

Veni Sancte Spiritus, lumen cordia
Veni dator munerum, Pater pauperum
Lux creator optime, Sancte Spiritus

In aeterna lux credentium
sempiterna lumen cordium
In aeterna sancte Spiritus

Creator, mysterium, O lux creator optime
Beata, fidelium, sit sempiterna gloria

Do not stand at my grave and weep.
I am not there, I do not sleep.
I am a thousand winds that blow,
I am the diamond glints in snow,
I am the sunlight and ripened grain.
I am the gentle Autumn rain.

When you awake in the morning hush,
I am the swift uplifting rush
Of quiet birds in circling flight.
I am the soft stars that shine at night.
Do not stand at my grave and weep.
I am not there, I do not sleep.

Libera

De profundis clamavi ad te Domine
Domine exaudi vocem meam de profundis

Libera me Domine de morte
Are you the friend I cannot see?
Are you the one who cares for me?
It’s only you can set me free
Aeterna

Libera

Are you my hope of liberty?
Are you the door, are you the key?
It’s only you can set me free
Aeterna

Gaudete Christus est natus
Ex Maria virgine, gaudete

Tempus ad est gratiae hoc quod optabamus,
Carmina latitiae, devote redamus

Ergo nostra contio psallat iam in lustro,
Benedicat domino, sallus regi nostro

Gaudete, gaudete christus est natus,
Ex Maria virginae, gaudete

I am the day, soon to be born
I am the light before the morning

I am the night, that will be dawn
I am the end and the beginning

I am the alpha and omega
The night and day, the first and last

Illuminosa, immortalis
Sancta gloriosa
Illuminosa, immortalis
Sancta gloriosa
In aeterna

I am the life, soon to begin
I am the new hope in the morning

I am the darkness, soon to be light
I am the rising and the falling

Conditor alme siderum
Aeterna lux credentium
Christe redemptor omnium
Exaudi preces supplicum

Qui condolens interitu
Mortis perire saeculum
Salvasti mundum languidum
Donans reis remedium

Laus honor virtus Gloria
Deo Patri cum Filio
Sancto simul paraclito
In sempiterna saecula

Creator conditor perpetua
Exulta clamava in saecula

Whereever I go
Far away and anywhere

Time after time you always shine
through dark of night calling after me

And whereever I climb
Far away and anywhere

You raise me high beyond the sky
through stormy night lifting me above

Venite Spiritu et emitte caelitus
Venite Spiritu et emitte caelitus
Venite Spiritu Venite Spiri tus

Whenever I cry
Far away and anywhere

You hear me call when shadows fall
your light of hope showing me the way

As secret as a dream you call
As silent as the night for all you cry
Lacrymosa

Lacrymosa dies illa
Dolorosa Domine
Voca
Voca Me

You whisper in my silent sleep
You answer to my call when lost I cry
Lacrymosa

For all who need comfort for all those who mourn
all those whom we cherished will be reborn
All those whom we love but see no more
they are not perished, but gone before
and lie in the tender arms of he who died for us all to set us free
from hatred and anger and cruel tyranny
may they rest in peace – and rise in glory

All suffering and sorrow will be no more
they’ll vanish like shadows at heaven’s door
All anguish and grieving will one day be healed
when all of God’s purpose will be revealed.
Though now for a season lost from sight
the innocent slain in the blindness of ‘right’
are now in the warmth of God’s glorious light
where they rest in peace – and rise in glory

Lord give me wisdom to comprehend why I survive and not my friend
and teach me compassion so I may live, all my enemies to forgive

For all who need comfort for all those who mourn
all those whom we cherished will be reborn
All those whom we love but see no more
they are not perished but gone before
And Lord keep them safe in your embrace
and fill their souls with your good grace
for now they see you face to face
where they rest in peace – and rise in glory

May the road rise up to meet you
may the wind be always at your back
May the rains fall soft upon you
and the sun shine warm upon your face

And true be the hearts that love you
peace ever with you and until we meet again –
May the path light up before you
and the clouds forsake the skies above
May the warmth of sun surround you
and the stars shine bright to guide you home
And true be the hearts that love you
peace ever with you and until we meet again –
May God hold you in the palm of his hand
May he hold you evermore

When at night I go to sleep,
Fourteen angels watch do keep
Two my head are guarding,
Two my feet are guiding
Two are on my right hand,
Two are on my left hand
Two who warmly hold me,
Two with love enfold me
Two who show me when I rise
The way to heaven’s paradise

Be still my soul – the Lord is on thy side;
bear patiently the cross of grief or pain;
leave to thy God to order and provide;
in every change – he faithful will remain.
Be still, my soul – thy best thy heavenly Friend
through thorny ways leads to a joyful end.

Be still my soul – when dearest friends depart,
and all is darkened in the vale of tears,
then shalt thou better know his love – his heart,
who comes to soothe thy sorrow and thy fears.
Be still, my soul – the waves and winds still know
his voice who ruled them – while he dwelt below.

Be still my soul the hour is hastening on
when we shall be forever with the Lord,
when disappointment – grief and fear are gone,
sorrow forgot – love’s purest joys restored,.
Be still my soul – when change and tears are past,
all safe and blessed – we shall meet at last.

Miserere, recordare
Miserere nobis

Confutatis, maledictis

Recordare, miserere
Dona eis aetarnam requiem
Recordare, miserere
Deprecationem nostram

Salva, salva me

Illumina, perpetua

And I saw a new heaven
For the first earth, and the first earth
Are passed away