This was the communion song Saturday afternoon :
I am the bread of life
He who comes to Me shall not hunger
He who believes in Me shall not thirst
No one can come to Me
Unless the Father draw him
And I will raise him up
And I will raise him up
And I will raise him up on the last day
We sang this song at Mom's funeral. It's one of my favorite hymns.
I found this little bit of history about it:
Girl's comment saved 'I Am the Bread of Life' song from trash bin
It was 1966 and Mercy Sr. Suzanne Toolan had been asked to write a song for an event in the San Francisco archdiocese. With the deadline looming, she worked on a song in an unoccupied room next to the infirmary in the Catholic girls’ high school where she taught.
“I worked on it, and I tore it up. I thought, ‘This will not do,’ ” Toolan said. “And this little girl came out of the infirmary and said, ‘What was that? That was beautiful!’ I went right back and Scotch-taped it up.”
That schoolgirl saved “I Am the Bread of Life,” one of the most popular hymns of the Second Vatican Council era.
Monday, November 10, 2008
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