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Deacon Andy Cirmo

Dear Jesus please stay
Remain with us, never leave
We cannot live without you
To you and your voice we cleave
 
Yet now you tell of an Advocate
Who will be with us each day
For without you we are orphans
And we long for you to stay
 
Who is this Advocate we wonder
As Jesus says with us he will be
This spirit of Truth will be with us
And hopefully will help us see
 
Yet the world will not see him
As this Spirit with us will remain
Yet will be with us in need with truth
Never letting let our faith wane
 
We will give to you our love
And You will come to us always
Revealing your love in the Father
Being with us as we pass our days
 
This told, is all hard to believe 
You in the Father and He in you
Together with the Spirit of truth
Yet believe this we will always do
 
For our love will remain with you
As yours with us the Spirit of love
And we will also be with the Father
With you and he and Spirit above 
 
Dear Father, Jesus and Spirit
Be with us now and always
As we live proclaiming you
Help us to trust in your love
In all we say and we do

Deacon Andy Cirmo

We have followed him all these years

But have been hiding for three days

After we heard what they did to him

Yet no longer dark, the sun today shines 

And we are encouraged by its rays

 

When out of the morning sun comes

News only a dream could bring

For our lives with Jesua had ended

As he was horribly taken away

 Oh if true I would loudly sing

 

News we never expected to hear

Yet the women have run back with fear

With a message of surprise and hope

For in their desire to prepare him

They believe he was taken from here

 

We run to see for ourselves

Young John arrived first, but waited

Till I too saw the stone rolled back

And nor guards to be found

Should I enter before Petra I debated

 

But we entered, to the smell of roses

Uncovering  ourselves, our eyes to free

Indeed he was gone but not stolen

For neatly folded headcloth we found 

Why was this left for us to see

 

He had told us of the three days

But we did not understand at all

In which he would rebuild our life’s temple

But we did not understand then

And still our hearts soar but minds fall

 

Who had taken him, we wondered

 The soldiers, robbers or worse, the priests

Where was he now we lamented

As our hearts and minds raced 

We didn’t understand in the least

 

Lord we seek you now

And long to be together with you

Help us to see and understand

And find you in our lives in faith

In all that you have done and do

Deacon Andy Cirmo

We are humbled and frightened

This is way beyond our dreams

What we see with our simple eyes 

So incredible to us this all seems

 

For in our sight, he shines brightly

Like the sun blinding our eyes

Unreal yet right here before us

A miracle as our mind’s eye tries 

 

Yet this is real, and we see them all

Moses and Elijah and Jesus together

The old and the new as foretold

We know all is now changed forever

 

Oh only if we could stay here

With our fathers in joy and power

Yet no earthly place can they stay

Not on this day nor in this hour

 

At the sound of his voice we fall

For this is beyond our dreams

Terrified and humbled we hide

A vision of glory in our eyes beams 

 

Yet all now is peace and calm

At the touch of his hand, we sigh

For there is no word to describe

In no way would words even try

 

Truly we have seen and heard

The God of our fathers speak

We now know Jesus is the One

Our senses all awake at their peak

 

Yet what we have seen and heard

Is not to be revealed nor said

Until a time of which Jesus speaks

Of the Son rising from the dead

 

Deacon Andy Cirmo

Deacon Andy Cirmo

I never understood until today

That what we end up doing isn’t all

But what we ponder means much

And could sadly lead us to fall

 

Jesua makes it: oh, so clear

That are ways we should never begin

Into temptations which consume

And which trap us into deep sin

 

Warning that we should avoid thought

And look away from evil cause

Lest we slip down into the valley

And cannot escape its claws

 

For a gentle slope attracts

Yet leads to a steep and ill-fated way

Which traps with a very deep hold

Eventually leading us to want to stay

 

He does not talk around weakness

But tells of what should be done

Warning of the valley we could enter

Where evil thoughts have already begun

 

The temptation to look is strong

As the evil one works his tricks

Designed to attract and confuse

Where none but evil sticks

 

Deacon Andy Cirmo

Deacon Andy Cirmo

I have answered God’s call to baptize

To help those who come to repent 

Admit and face their sins and guilt

Acknowledging them as effort ill spent

 

To help those who come for mercy

Bringing their burdens to the water

To seek forgiveness and strength

Be they a humble son or daughter

 

I call them forth from the banks 

To enter the river seeking God’s love

To face their own faults and weakness

Down to the depth and rise to above

 

I am but an instrument of his hand

Standing in my desert rags to call

To help those seeking mercy and love

And to refresh their hearts above all

 

Yet now comes One who is Love

Who kneels in the water like those before

But he alone brings to us all a new life

A life of love and hope he will restore 

 

I must decrease as he now comes

For he is the One who is to come

And will baptize all now with fire

For I now know he is the One

 

Of water alone I have baptized

But he comes from The Father above

And baptizes with Spirit and Fire

Bringing the fullness of God’s love

 

It is now time for me to diminish

My role was to call forth and prepare

For now to us he has come

And I of his kingship am aware

How can this be, this miracle
Why would the Father be so forgiving
What can compare to this love
Restoring life to a world that stopped living
 
How can this be that the creator of all
Who with all power and glory would do this
For a perfect creation which had sinned
This is a love which we cannot dismiss
 
That the All Powerful would love so much
That he'd send his only Son to the world
To enter a creation sadly gone wrong
Which into hades he could have hurled
 
Such an act is beyond our human minds
It is the essence and life of God’s love 
Embodied in his only begotten Son
Sent from the Father in heaven above
 
In the form of a helpless child
Borne of a spotless soul of his creation
In a form fully human yet God himself
To live and die to save all nations
 
And to earth his eternal Word
Jesus, his only Son, so it did begin
Who was sent and became One with us all
To live and die as God and Man for our sins 
 
Born of earthly vessel of perfection
Protected by earthly Father with love
Raised by loving Mother so pure
A blessing beyond us, from above
 
To become one with all of mankind
A Savior who would give us his all
To set us free from ourselves
That we could be forgiven at his call
 
Full of grace and truth in all ways
Born to teach and heal and forgive
To become God truly present
That we all could again truly live
 
Who would give his earthly all
To bring and to be love to man
Who had indeed endured a fall
As salvation for us all began
 
Dear Jesus 
God of all visible and invisible
Your love is beyond our mind’s eye
The creator of all coming to earth
To become, to suffer and to die
That we all may live