Song in our Silence - Celebrating our Care for the World


Bibliographic Information


This religious song book was published in 1990 by the Monks of Weston Priory, copyright to the Benedictine Foundation of the State of Vermont, Inc. It is one of many such books that they have published.

It contains 13 hymns, all in English, and presented in lead-sheet (ie melody line + guitar chord) format. The book is A4 landscape and spiral-bound, and each song is laid out to fit into a double-page spread.


Individual authors and composers are not given. Instead "The Brothers" and Cathy Polinski are acknowledged. Similarly the music typography is by "The Brothers".

Art direction and design were by Ralph J Maietta and George Little Press.

The book was printed by The Red House Press Inc, North Springfield, Vermont, and produced an distributed by Weston Priory Productions, RR1 Box 50, Weston, Vermont 05161, USA

Copies may still be ordered directly from Weston Priory.


About the contents listing


Composer, author and copyright ownership are shown as they are recorded in the book, in accordance with this site's copyright policies.    For many hymn-books, this means that the copyright information is not necessarily correct today, however for an organisation such as Weston Priory it is most probably still correct.


Table of Contents


Title (first-line) Number
Song In Our Silence 1
Song in our silence, lighten our darkness / You search our hearts and you know us
Lyrics & tune by: The Brothers, Cathy Polinski © Western Priory
Key: C, capo 5(G)
Based on: Psalm 139
Number of verses: 7
Make a Joyful Sound 2
Make a joyful sounds to God all the earth / All the earth worships you and sings your praise
Lyrics & tune by: The Brothers, Cathy Polinski © Western Priory
Key: F, capo 5 (G)
Based on: Psalm 66
Number of verses: 6
Each Morning You Wake Us to Hear 3
Each morning you wake us to hear / Come and ring out our joy to our God
Lyrics & tune by: The Brothers, Cathy Polinski © Western Priory
Key: C
Based on: Psalm 95
Number of verses: 6
Come Now 4
Come now let us go now / I have come, not to do my own will
Lyrics & tune by: The Brothers, Cathy Polinski © Western Priory
Key: G
Based on: John 14:31, 15:3
Number of verses: 5
Break Open the Bread of Your Life 5
Break open the bread of your life / Whenever you break bread together
Lyrics & tune by: The Brothers, Cathy Polinski © Western Priory
Key: F, capo 5 (G)
Number of verses: 4
In the Signs of Our Times 6
In the signs of our times your spirit is offered as a gift / Where there is hatred,let us show the seeds of love
Lyrics & tune by: The Brothers, Cathy Polinski © Western Priory
Key: F, capo 3 (D)
Number of verses: 5
God of Love 7
God of love and mystery as the day now fades
Lyrics & tune by: The Brothers, Cathy Polinski © Western Priory
Key: G
Number of verses: 4
With Broken Bread in Our Hands 8
With broken bread in our hands, your word a fire in our hearts / Seed of our longing, scattered in hope
Lyrics & tune by: The Brothers, Cathy Polinski © Western Priory
Key: Eb, capo 3 (C)
Number of verses: 5
Come, Creator Spirit 9
Come creator Spirit, come into our hearts / Come O spirit of joy
Lyrics & tune by: The Brothers, Cathy Polinski © Western Priory
Key: Em
Number of verses: 4
So Strong Your Love 10
We tell your goodness, we sing your mercy / As vast as heaven, as deep as the ocean
Lyrics & tune by: The Brothers, Cathy Polinski © Western Priory
Key: C
Based on: Psalm 103
Number of verses: 6
Gentle God 11
Gentle God, you call us each by name / The lives of other persons are gifts which we are given
Lyrics & tune by: The Brothers, Cathy Polinski © Western Priory
Key: F, capo 3 (D)
Number of verses: 3
That All May Be One 12
That all may be one with our God and with each other / Give us new eyes that we may see
Lyrics & tune by: The Brothers, Cathy Polinski © Western Priory
Key: G
Based on: John 17:21
Number of verses: 4
We Await Your Coming 13
We shall await your coming O God, maranatha come / Spirit of wisdom, justice and peace
Lyrics & tune by: The Brothers, Cathy Polinski © Western Priory
Key: Fm capo 3 sounds Dm
Based on: Isaiah 11
Number of verses: 6

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