Send Us Your Spirit

This is one of Dan Schutte’s best and is a great Vene Sancte for confirmation services.  You can hear the original here. If you have the control to do it that slowly great, but I think it is easier to take the tempo up just a little as this church choir have done. It can be purchased from OCP here.

We have done this in various keys and I can’t remember singing the last verse ever, probably because our winters don’t really chill us too long at all. Just for fun I made a backing in the original key of F with the key change to Ab for the last verse.

1. Send us your spirit O Lord.

Evening enfolds us and holds us too near.

Wake the morning light.

Make our living bright.

Shine on our darkness O Lord.

2. Hold us with mercy O Lord.

Sorrow has spoken, has broken our hearts.

Clothe us in your care.

Be the life we bear.

Feed us and fill us O Lord.

3. Teach us your wisdom O Lord.

Shadows have clouded, have crowded our sight.

Give us hearts that see.

Set our loving free.

Hear us and help us O Lord.

4. Send us good summer O Lord.

Winters have chilled us, and stilled us too long.

Give us love’s own fire.

Be our true desire.

Send us your spirit O Lord.

© Daniel L. Schutte and New Dawn Music, 1985.

Published by OCP.