HELP US ACCEPT EACH OTHER

Tune: PASTOR BONUS 

Meter: 7 6 7 6
Based on John 15:12
Text: Fred Kaan, b. 1929
Tune: THE LORD IS MY TRUE SHEPHERD (UNITY)
Music: Fr. J. Roel Lungay, b. 1960 (© 1994)
Performed by Fr. J. Roel Lungay
Arrangers: Fr.  J. Roel Lungay and Romeo Mascarinas
Orchestration by Romeo Mascarinas

Mastered at Fro's Music
Bayou Liberty, Slidell, LA

Cover Art by Glenn Angcla

1
Help us accept each other
As Christ accepted us;
Teach us as sister, brother,
Each person to embrace.

2
Be present, Lord, among us
And bring us to believe;
We are ourselves accepted
And meant to love and live.

(Interlude)

3
Teach us, O Lord, your lessons,
As in our daily life
We struggle to be human
And search for hope and faith.

4
Teach us to care for people,
For all, not just for some;
To love them as we find them,
Or as they may become.

(Interlude)

5
Let your acceptance change us,
So that we may be moved
In living situations
To do the truth in love;

6
To practice your acceptance,
Until we know by heart
The table of forgiveness
And laughter’s healing art.

(Interlude)

7
Lord, for today’s encounters
With all who are in need,
Who hunger for acceptance,
For righteousness and bread.

8
We need new eyes for seeing,
New hands for holding on;
Renew us with your Spirit;
Lord, free us, make us one!

Text: Jn 15:12; Fred Kaan, b. 1929 © 1975 Hope Publishing Co.
Music: Fr. J. Roel Lungay, b. 1960 (© 1994)