Save your people
“Save your people, bless your inheritance; feed and sustain them forever!” (Psalms 28,9)
“Lạy Chúa, xin cứu độ dân Ngài, trên gia nghiệp này, giáng muôn phúc cả, dẫn dắt nâng niu đến muôn đời.” (Thánh Vịnh 28,9)

Shadow of your wings
“In the shadow of your wings, I seek shelter till harm pass by” (Psalms 57,2)
“Dưới bóng Ngài, này con ẩn náu, tới khi nào hết tai hoạ khổ đau” (Thánh Vịnh 57, 2)

Lifting my hands
“Lifting my hands toward your holy place” (Psalm 28, 2)
“Khi con hướng về nơi cực thánh, giơ đôi tay cầu cứu van nài” (Thánh Vịnh 28, 2)

Grammar:
We have been wandering far from your love.
S + Have/ Has + been + V-ing

This is Present Perfect Progressive structure using to express the duration (length of time) of an activity that began in the past and is in progress right now. / Đây là thì hiện tại hoàn thành tiếp diễn, sử dụng khi nói một hoạt động diễn ra trong một khoảng thời gian bắt đầu từ quá khứ và kéo dài đến hiện tại.

I shall be purified
Be + V3 (Past Participle)

This is Passive voice structure. Be can be in any of its forms: am, is, are, was, were, has been, have been, will/shall be, ect. / Đây là cấu trúc bị động. Động từ ‘be’ có dạng biến thể là: am, is , are, was, were, has been, have been, will/shall be,…

Owen Alstott that “Jim Farrell” is his pen name, was a publisher at OCP from 1983 to 1992. He is well-known for his liturgical music all over the world and in 2006, he won the award NPM Pastoral Musician of the Year (NPM is the National Association of Pastoral Musicians in the US – www.npm.org). He was also one of the writers that wrote the Heritage Mass – one of OCP’s first music publications. He is the writer of the Mass Setting which is sung every Sunday at 9:30 in the Saigon Cathedral for the English Mass. The choir enjoys singing the simple yet compelling melody. He and his wife Bernadette Farrell live in London with their daughter.

He also writes to you, all young Vietnamese, about the song “Save your people”: “The thought behind the song was a simple longing to return to the teachings of Jesus. So often we get caught up in the world around us, bombarded as we are with the media and the gospel of consumerism that is so prevalent. This song hopes to re-align us with what is truly important, Jesus love, and our call to love others in His name”.

Season of Lent and Ash Wednesday