The link below is to a performance of Thomas Tallis' "If Ye Love Me," with John Rutter and the Cambridge Singers. It's a favorite piece of mine from having sung it in 1966 with the NYSSMA All State Chorus.
http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=eqt005j1dB0
"If you love me,
keep my commandments,
And I will pray the Father,
And he will give to you
another Comforter."
"You're not alone,
When you keep my words,
(He says that it's forever!)
You surely have it made,
Since the Spirit's with you."
"Because I live,
You will live also
(How many times I've said that!)
Father, Son, Spirit - love,
Plenty to go around!"
Scott L. Barton
(This meter above is a bit unusual: 4/5/7/6/6. Jesus' opening words pretty much determined it. Maybe his words determining things is how it should be all the time for us!)
”If you love me, you will keep my commandments. And I will ask the Father, and he will give you another Advocate, to be with you forever. This is the Spirit of truth, whom the world cannot receive, because it neither sees him nor knows him. You know him, because he abides with you, and he will be in you.
”I will not leave you orphaned; I am coming to you. In a little while the world will no longer see me, but you will see me; because I live, you also will live. On that day you will know that I am in my Father, and you in me, and I in you. They who have my commandments and keep them are those who love me; and those who love me will be loved by my Father, and I will love them and reveal myself to them.”
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