CWB I did not choose the common version of this text by F.W. Wetherall, but chose a different text by Mary Trainor RSM with the same first two lines and the same setting LIEBSTER IMMANUEL. No wonder I get confused.
This is the Wetherall text. I prefer Trainor’s, despite her making “depth” a verb.
It looks like I used organ music to work out the chords for my backing:
1 Mary immaculate, star of the morning
Chosen before creation began,
Chosen to bear for salvation’s new dawning
Jesus, the Lord and Redeemer of man.
2 By your assent in deep, prayerful reflection,
Flesh-life received the great power of the Word;
You gave to life a new hope and direction,
Promised fulfilment for man who had erred.
3 Freed by the Spirit, we face the same mission,
Bearing Christ’s love to the world of our time.
May we, through you, find fresh courage and vision,
Depthing the human, by God’s power divine.
I can’t find this version on You-Tube, so instrumentals will have to do:
