Come To The Water - Shenandoah Christian Music Camp
Description
'Come To The Water’, composed by John B. Foley. Sung at the 11th Annual Choral Festival 2016 of Shenandoah Christian Music Camp (VA). Conducted by Lloyd Kauffman.
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The Historic Faith · Hymn Companion
Come To The Water
Words by John B. Foley, S.J.Music by John B. Foley, S.J.Written 1978Tune COME TO THE WATER
O let all who thirst,
let them come to the water.
And let all who have nothing,
let them come to the Lord:
without money, without price.
Why should you pay the price,
except for the Lord?
Story Behind the Song
“Come to the Water” is a late-20th-century Roman Catholic liturgical song by Jesuit composer John B. Foley, associated with the St. Louis Jesuits and the renewal of vernacular congregational song after Vatican II. Its text draws especially on Isaiah’s invitation to the thirsty and hungry to receive God’s gifts freely, and it has become widely used in communion, baptismal, and general worship contexts.
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Glory & Praise, Gather Comprehensive, Breaking Bread, Today's Missal, Catholic Book of Worship III