Jazz Mass, Processional Hymn - "All Are Welcome In This Place"

Jazz Mass, Processional Hymn, "All Are Welcome In This Place"

1) Let us build a house where love can dwell and all can safely live, a place where saints and children tell how hearts learn to forgive. Built of hopes and dreams and visions, rock of faith and vault of grace; here the love of Christ shall end divisions: All are welcome, all are welcome, all are welcome in this place.
2) Let us build a house where prophets speak, and words are strong and true, where all God's children dare to seek to dream God's reign anew. Here the cross shall stand as witness and as symbol of God's grace; here as one we claim the faith of Jesus: All are welcome, all are welcome, all are welcome in this place.
3) Let us build a house where love is found in water, wine, and wheat: a banquet hall on holy ground, where peace and justice meet. Here the love of God through Jesus is revealed in time and space; as we share in Christ the feast that frees us: All are welcome, all are welcome, all are welcome in this place.
4) Let us build a house where hands will reach beyond the wood and stone to heal and strengthen, serve, and teach, and live the word they've known. Here the outcast and the stranger bear the image of God's face; let us bring an end to fear and danger: All are welcome, all are welcome, all are welcome in this place.
5) Let us build a house where all are named, their songs and visions heard and loved and treasured, taught, and claimed as words within the Word. Built of tears and cries and laughter, prayers of faith and songs of grace, let this house proclaim from floor to rafter: All are welcome, all are welcome, all are welcome in this place.

Copyright: 1994 GIA Publications, Used by Permission

Redeemer's annual Jazz Mass is held on the last Sunday before Lent. It is our Mardi Gras celebration before the contemplative season of Lent begins.

We are very fortunate to have again our four musicians from Arts Alive! International:
Allison Brewster Franzetti, Piano (2008 Grammy Award Nominee);
Jeff Levine, Bass;
Vince LiVolsi, Drums;
Jim Neglia, Percussion (President of Arts Alive).

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[frseamusc]

To sing this song in a Roman Catholic Church is a non-sequitor, especially when you read the back cover of the missalette letting everyone know who is welcome and who is not. You're not welcome if you're gay, divorced and remarried or not Roman Catholic. Sad that the Eucharist is used as an instrument of exclusion rather than inclusion. This should be taken out of RC hymnals because it is simply not true......All are not welcome!

[joenwayne]

@frseamusc

Sadly, what you say is true in the majority of RC churches.

What you see here however is an Episcopal church, where all are welcome: gay, divorced, remarried, whatever. So when "All Are Welcome" is sung it's true!

[meehanroger]

love it

[joenwayne]

@meehanroger Thanks for your comment and for viewing.

[mtnman2012]

Awesome! I'll put it in my "favorites"!

Usually churches with pipe organs and stiff traditional services have no feeling, but this feels wonderful. Wish the voices were not so overpowered, but that's OK.

The song is great and the words. I like the banners and the procession.

Good for you!

[joenwayne]

Hi "mtnman2012",

Thanks for your comments and for viewing. "Traditional" services don't have to be "stiff" as you see here.

Cheers,

Wayne

[QuesterLEJ]

It's very nice to hear an Episcopal parish using this hymn. I am a liberal Catholic and have long considered myself way more "Episcopalian" in terms of beliefs. The one thing that has kept me from becoming an Episcopalian more than anything else is the music--the churches in my area seem very traditional in their selections (19th century). If the use of more "modern" hymns such as this one were a little more popular, I'd be received right away.

Good work. Hope the trend continues!

[Gorbachenko]

@frseamusc You got that right, all this Vatican II / Protestant crap should be banned from Roman Catholic hymnals...

[rmaxtpmx]

@frseamusc I'm not Catholic, and have many problems with the Church, but I do have to say that such generalizations are really dependent upon the particular church and mindset of the community. I'd imagine a gay man would find it hard to belong to any church at all in areas like the "bible belt". Yet my fiance's family is very Catholic, and there is an older flamboyantly gay man in the choir, led by her mother..oh and I'm divorced, and play guitar for their plays.

[ewokmusic]

@frseamusc actually the RC welcome EVERYBODY...though they don't welcome the CHARACTER or BEHAVIOUS of such people, but they do certainly welcome such people into the HOUSE OF GOD...

[AdamAndrews2008]

@frseamusc Not true. Everyone is welcome. I'd love to know what missalette you speak of, because I know quite a few people from our parish who are on their 2nd marriages and some people that are gay too. They still attend Mass and take communion. What the hierarchy says and what is actually practised are 2 very, very different things. Besides, even in official teaching everyone is welcome, just not allowed to take communion.

[rmrjg4]

@jmichaelortiz I could not agree with you more. this entire service is a liturgical nightmare. a full drum set and bass guitar are entirely superfluous, and no choir robed like English choirboys should be singing a "Jazz Mass", whatever that oxymoronic term suggests.