Celtic Alleluia (Sending Forth) Recessional Hymn

Verse 1:
1 If I speak with the tongues of Refrain:
the earth 25 Love is patient
2 If angels fill my mouth 26 Love is kind

3 Yet do not have love 27 Love rejoices in the truth

4 I am but a sound. 28 It bears all things

5 If I prophesy 29 Believes all things

6 And understand all things 30 It hopes all things

7 If mountains shake by my faith 31 Endures all things

8 Without love I am nothing at all 32 Love never fails

Refrain: Verse 3:
9 Love is patient 33 When I was a child

10 Love is kind 34 I talked, thought and lived

11 Love rejoices in the truth like a child

12 It bears all things 35 But now that I have grown
13 Believes all things 36 I have put these things aside

14 It hopes all things 37 My knowledge is imperfect

15 Endures all things now.

16 Love never fails 38 Then I’ll know as I am known
39 That faith, hope, and love
Verse 2: remain
17 If I give away everything I 40 And the greatest of these is
own love.
18 Give my body to be burned Refrain:
19 Yet do not have love 41 Love is patient

20 I gain nothing more 42 Love is kind

21 Prophecies will cease 43 Love rejoices in the truth

22 Tongues will be silent 44 It bears all things

23 Knowledge will be no more 45 Believes all things

24 The partial will pass away 46 It hopes all things

47 Endures all things

48 Love never fails.