Name: O Lord, hear my prayer (Taizé)
Duration: 3 min 18 s
Channel: Jacques Berthier
Description: "O Lord, hear my prayer (Taizé)" is a song by Adrian J Pratt. Simple version of this prayer composed by Jacques Berthier for the Taizé community. This particular version of the tune was created some years ago for a prayer group at one of the churches I had served. First verse sung by Yvonne Pratt.

O Lord, hear my prayer (Taizé)

Adrian J Pratt

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Simple version of this prayer composed by Jacques Berthier for the Taizé community. This particular version of the tune was created some years ago for a prayer group at one of the churches I had served. First verse sung by Yvonne Pratt.

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Adrian J Pratt

Songwriter, Singer, Rock, Pop, Folk, Funk, Punk, Christian, Contemporary, 70's, 80's, 90's, 00's, 10s, 20s, covers, experiments, doodles and oodles of fun!

Introducing the greatest talent ever to emerge from the orange bedroom at my parents house. I play guitar like.... well, like a guy playing guitar. I tickle ivories. I twiddle on the computer. I sometimes enjoy beans on toast for breakfast. And in the cracks between the eating, sleeping, laughing, crying, working, breathing experience that is my life there sometimes slips out songs like these.

Song Info

Genre

Pop • Christian Pop

Charts

Peak #73

Peak in subgenre #3

Author

Jacques Berthier

Rights

1982, Les Presses de Taizé, GIA Publications, Inc.

Uploaded

September 03, 2023

Track Files

MP3

MP3 7.5 MB • 320 kbps • 3:18

Lossless

WAV 33.2 MB

Story behind the song

"Lord, Hear My Prayer" sprang out of a life that was dedicated to music making. Jacques Berthier (b. June 27, 1923; d. June 27, 1994) was the son of musical parents. He studied music at the Ecole Cesar Franck in Paris. From 1961 until his death he served as organist at St. Ignace Church, Paris. Although his published works include numerous compositions for organ, voice, and instruments, he is best known as the composer of service music for the ecumenical Taizé community near Cluny, Burgundy. 

Berthier began writing songs in 1955 for the services of twenty monastic brothers at Taizé. As the Taizé community grew,he continued to compose most of the mini-hymns, canons, and various associated instrumental arrangements, which are now universally known as the Taizé repertoire. His songs have become become widely used in church music across the denominations.

Lyrics

O Lord, hear my prayer,
O Lord, hear my prayer;
when I call answer me.
O Lord, hear my prayer,
O Lord, hear my prayer;
come and listen to me.

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