Theme song for World Youth Day 2016

Blest are the Merciful

Original music & lyrics by Jakub Blycharz
English translation by Henry Michael Kurylewski
INTRODUCTION Music adaptation into English by Rev. Lukasz Misko, OP
& Christopher Mueller, OK
= c. 120 Keyboard arrangement by Ed Bolduc
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1. I lift my eyes to the moun - tains; from where shall help come to me?
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2015. Developed in collaboration with the Australian Catholic Bishops Conference (ACBC), the Catholic Bishops Conference of England and Wales (CBCEW),
and the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) for the 2016 World Youth Day Local Organizing Committee.
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My help comes from the Lord my God, for he is mer - ci - ful.
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but he for - gives, he par - dons us. Let us do the same.
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God paid our debts with the blood of his Son who rose a - live from the tomb.
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His ho - ly blood will heal our wounds to breathe new life in - to us.
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Our spir - it with- in cries out to the world: Je-sus is the Lord!

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