The Irish Blessing - over 300 churches from our island sing a blessing over Ireland and beyond ...

** Subtitles in English are available in this video ** Premiered Pentecost Sunday, 31 May - 9:45am I/BST The Irish Blessing (Beannacht uile-Éireann) is a project inspired by the many international recordings of "The Blessing” (by Cody Carnes, Kari Jobe and Elevation Worship) which have been made during this time of pandemic. We wanted to honour that inspiration, whilst at the same time, honouring the unique history and culture of our island. So we chose a song that would resonate across the island, with every denomination and cultural grouping, one that could be used as a platform to sing a Blessing over our land, all our key-workers and those they are caring for. “Be Thou My Vision” is just such a hymn written over 1000 years ago. It reminds us of the One to whom we should look in this time of pandemic, whose presence is our light, the source of our wisdom, in whom we find our treasure and where we find victory. Individuals from 300 Christian churches and organisations located in every county on the island submitted self-recordings of vocals and instruments which have been compiled by our creative team to produce this music video - we hope you receive a blessing as you watch it. Video credits - Executive Producers Pauline Alton, Caren Collins, Fr Martin Magill, Philip McKinley, Paul McNeilly Video: Directed by Greg Fromholz Edited by Joseph von Meding Drone Footage Courtesy of George Griffin, Jonny Somerville, Sam Kwan Music : Produced and Mixed by Stu Reid Mastered by Drew Lavyne Engineered and Edited by David Walker Music arranged and orchestrated by Jonathan Rea. Additional instrumentation arranged by Stu Reid. Original melody for St Patrick’s Breastplate composed by Jonathan Rea. (C) 2020 NewVoiceMusic adm. Songsolutions.com. All rights reserved. Special thanks Ciarán J Corrigan, Ethan Tohill, all the team’s families and their support and to the Trustees of the Methodist Church in Ireland An Irish Sign Language video of ‘The Irish Blessing’ will be released from this YouTube Channel. Profits from ’The Irish Blessing' will be directed to Christian Aid Ireland (NI Charity no. 101631, ROI Charity no. 20014162), Trócaire (NI Charity no. 103321, ROI Charity no. 5883) and Tearfund Ireland (NI Charity no. 265464, ROI Charity no. 20021337) in equal measure. Churches and Ministries/Organisations contributing and dedications included from contributors LINK https://theirishblessing.com Lyrics: Be Thou My Vision/Prayer of St Patrick Be Thou my vision, O Lord of my heart; Naught be all else to me, save that Thou art; Thou my best thought, in the day and the night; Waking or sleeping, Thy presence my light. Be Thou my wisdom, be Thou my true Word; I ever with Thee and Thou with me, Lord; Thou my great Father and I, Thy true son; Thou in me dwelling, and I with Thee one. Be thou my battleshield, my sword for the fight; Be thou my dignity, thou my delight; Thou my soul’s shelter and thou my high tower; Raise thou me heavenward, O Power of my power. Riches I heed not, nor man’s empty praise; Thou mine inheritance, through all my days Thou and Thou only, the first in my heart; High King of heaven, my treasure Thou art. High King of heaven, my victory won; May I reach heaven’s joy, O bright heaven’s sun; Heart of my own heart, whatever befall; Still be my vision, O Ruler of all. Heart of my own heart, whatever befall; Still be my vision, O Ruler of all. Christ be with you, Christ within you Christ behind you, Christ before you, Christ beside you, Christ to win you, Christ to comfort and restore you, Christ beneath you, Christ above you, Christ In quiet, Christ in danger, Christ in hearts of all that love you, Christ in mouth of friend and stranger AMEN AMEN © 2020 NEW VOICE MUSIC adm. by songsolutions.com All rights reserved. Spoken - "Aaronic Blessing: Numbers 6:24-26"