Name: Open the Doors
Duration: P00H04M31S
Description: Caring for those who are homeless and hopeless is also part of the work of peace. We are ultimately responsible for one another (ubuntu), and when we work to raise one another up, the spheres of heaven and earth resonate as one with positive energy.

Open the Doors

from One People, One Spirit, One World by Song and Spirit

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Brother Al Mascia, ofm and Maggid Steve Klaper: A Franciscan Minstrel and A Jewish Troubadour, working together to bring peace to the world, one song at a time.

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Caring for those who are homeless and hopeless is also part of the work of peace. We are ultimately responsible for one another (ubuntu), and when we work to raise one another up, the spheres of heaven and earth resonate as one with positive energy.

lyrics

Some twenty years ago, in a car late, late at night
A Catholic priest and I waited at a traffic light
The Cathedral was on the left A McDonalds on the right
He asked, “What’s wrong with this picture?”
The Cathedral was locked up tight.

Let’s open the doors…
Let’s open the portals…
Let’s open our hearts even more!
Let’s open the doors…
Let’s unlock each handle…
Let’s welcome inside the poor.

There’s a church in San Francisco
where the pastor’s very brave.
He lets the homeless in each day
and they sleep within the nave
The mass goes on around them…
The homeless dream away
They call it “Sacred Sleep”…
It’s Communion either way.

Let’s open the doors…

Fifth Avenue’s the place to live
for the very well-to-do.
But thanks to Presbyterians
the homeless sleep there too.
The City tried to make them send
the homeless folk away
The City lost the judgment…
the Gospel wins the day!

Let’s open the doors…

If Jesus wanted all of us
to hide behind closed doors
To worship him protected
from the presence of the poor
Why did he choose to hang around
with those the world abhorred?
O, Jesus help our unbelief!...
Our trust in you restore!