Salvatorian Choir “Sings in” Year of Consecrated Life

By North woods | November 21, 2014

Our Salvatorian Choir, which also includes Salvatorian priests and brothers, Lay Salvatorians, and some family members from the Milwaukee area, will debut their rendition of the song “Wake the World with Dawning Joy,” at a special Mass on Sunday, December 7, the eve of our Salvatorian Foundation Day on December 8. Mass begins at 6:00 p.m. at St. Anne’s Salvatorian Campus Chapel located at 3800 North 92nd St, Milwaukee.

VISION Vocation Network and the National Religious Vocation Conference (NRVC) commissioned world-renowned composer Steven Warner to write the song in honor of the Year of Consecrated Life. Warner’s lyrics, inspired by the words of Pope Francis, celebrate the unique and ancient form of discipleship known as consecrated life. In proclaiming 2015 for this special yearlong observance, the pope urged women and men religious to continue to wake the world with their witness.

Wake the World with Dawning Joy

Based on the words of Pope Francis to the Consecrated Religious of the World
By Steven C. Warner

Wake the world with dawning joy!
Wake it with your gladness!
Work for justice, live in peace,
Claim the World courageous!
Let us sing to God this new day,
See the world in a different way.
Let us wake the world,
Wake the world, with abiding words of faith.

Though the world is locked in sleep,
Let us rise rejoicing!
One with Christ, his light to keep,
Called to human kindness.
Let us sing to God this new day,
See the world a different way.
Let us wake the world,
Wake the world, with uplifting words of hope.

Love the world with different eyes,
God’s own love incarnate!
Leaving all to follow Christ:
Sweet and endless mercy!
Let us sing to God this new day,
Reach the world in miraculous ways,
Let us wake the world,
Wake the world, with prophetic words of love.

Thunder now God’s song of praise,
Wake to harp and dancing,
Song to lift us all our days,
Song of love and triumph!
For the Bridegroom now awaits us,
In the faces of all we meet,
Now awake the world!
Wake the world, with unending words of joy!

© Steven C. Warner, 2014. Commissioned by NRVC and VISION Vocation Guide in honor of the Year of Consecrated Life.

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