Chris’s parish is doing many songs for the first week of Lent that I haven’t run across before. One of them is “There is a Longing” by Anne Quigley. It is a song for Lent but could also be used for Advent, funerals, anointing, etc. My copy is No. 208 in Spirit & Song Vol 1, but you can also buy and download the sheet music at OCP. There is also a snippet to listen to there.
The lyrics are available here.
I suppose no-one can know all the songs out there but this is a nice one for us never to have used.
This version has nice bongos.
By chance Mr Admin, we introduces this at Advent a few months ago with the refrain only. Now we are adding the verses for Lent.