WHERE CHARITY AND LOVE PREVAIL

A HYMN FOR THE FEAST OF THE HOLY FAMILY

From the Latin Ubi Caritas, translated by Omer Westendorf

Where charity and love prevail,
There God is ever found;
Brought here together by Christ's love
By love we are thus bound.

With grateful joy and holy fear, 
God's charity we learn;
Let us with heart and mind and soul
Now love God in return.

Let us recall that in our midst
Dwells Christ, God's holy Son;
As members of each body joined
In him we are made one.

Let strife among us be unknown,
Let all contentions cease;
Be God's the glory that we seek,
Be his our only peace.

Let us forgive each other's faults
As we our own confess;
That we may love each other well
In Christian gentleness.