Loving Shepherd

Voicing:
Treble Choir → SSA

Accompaniment:
Organ
Piano

Occasion:
Proper of Time → Easter Season → Fourth Sunday of Easter → Cycle A
Proper of Time → Easter Season → Fourth Sunday of Easter → Cycle B
Proper of Time → Easter Season → Fourth Sunday of Easter → Cycle C
Ritual Masses → For the Conferral of Holy Orders → For the Ordination of a Bishop
Ritual Masses → For the Conferral of Holy Orders → For the Ordination of Priests
Communion

Publication Information:
OUP — 9780193432840

Text Information:
Reference: Jane E. Leeson

Lyrics:

Loving Shepherd of thy sheep, 
Keep thy lamb, in safety keep;
Nothing can thy power withstand, 
None can pluck me from thy hand.

I would bless thee every day,
Gladly all thy will obey,
Like thy blessed ones above,
Happy in thy precious love.

Loving Shepherd, ever near,
Teach thy lamb thy voice to hear;
Suffer not my steps to stray
From the straight and narrow way.

Where thou leadest I would go,
Walking in thy steps below,
Till before my Father's throne
I shall know as I am known.

Notes: Commissioned by the New Orleans Children's Chorus, Cheryl Dupont, Director, and the St. Louis Cathedral Boychoir, Dreux Montegut, Director.
Submitted by: Crista Miller Added: May 5, 2022