Christify (Bukas Palad; altered)

• 09 March 2026
• 1_ folder- sung in the philippines and original tunes,
• 2_ copyright- active_ text,
• 2_ copyright- active_ tune,
• 2_ instrumentation- four-part choir,
• 2_ language- english,
• 2_ key- e flat major or c minor,
• 3_ text title- christify_ bukas palad_ altered,
• 3_ tune name- original tune_ 345556543,
• 4_ poetic meter- 9-9-9-9 trochaic

Hymn Information

Folder: Sung in the Philippines and Original Tunes, no. 39
Tune used, name: 'Original tune (345556543)'
Composer: original tune of mine; composed on August 21, 2025
Lyricist: Francisco, Manuel V. (b. 1965); biography, altered by myself, with AI assistance, on August 21, 2025
Copyright (text): from the album and scorebook, Christify, © 2010, Jesuit Music Ministry of Jesuit Communications Foundation, Inc.
Sources used for representative text:

• from bukaspalad.com
• from this web page

Resources and Audios

Sheet music, project file and MIDI:

• Sheet music, PDF
• Sheet music, MuseScore
• SynthV Studio project file, zipped
• MIDI note data

Audio files (separate parts for Lead, Accompaniment I, Accompaniment II and Bass):

Audio file (all parts combined):

Representative Text

1
Lord, receive the gifts we gladly bear,
earth’s own bounty, fruit of toil and care.
Take and bless the work our hands have done,
make it holy through Your saving Son.

2
Sun and moon and wind and rain combine,
all creation gathered in the vine.
Dreams and labors, hopes of humankind,
all we offer now as bread and wine.

3
By Your Spirit, change these gifts, O Lord,
into Jesus, living bread outpoured.
Blessed and broken, given in His name,
hearts are healed and hungers not the same.

4
Here we taste the feast that shall not cease,
here our thirst is stilled with heav’nly peace.
Through this banquet, sanctified we live,
love unending, Lord, to You we give.

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