When in our music God is glorified
And adoration leaves no room for pride,
It is as though the whole creation cried:
Alleluia, alleluia, alleluia!
How often making music we have found
a new dimension in the world of sound
as worship moved us to a more profound
Alleluia, alleluia, alleluia!
So has the Church in liturgy and song
in faith and love through centuries of wrong
borne witness to the truth in every tongue
Alleluia, alleluia, alleluia!
And did not Jesus sing a psalm that night
when utmost evil strove against the light?
Then let us sing for whom He won the fight:
Alleluia, alleluia, alleluia!
Let every instrument be tuned for praise;
let all rejoice who have a voice to raise;
and may God give us faith to sing always:
Alleluia, alleluia, alleluia!
