Need Help Identifying Catholic Hymn "Love Has Gathered Us Together"

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Hello all,
This is my first post on this forum and I hope someone might be able to help me identify a hymn that was sung at a parish I used to work at back in the 1980s. The hymn is “Love Has Gathered Us Together”. I tried Googling and came up empty handed - even searching for all the text I could recall (which I was impressed with the fact that I could remember as much of it as I did lol!). Here is what I have:

Refrain: Love has gathered us together. Let us rejoice in Christ, and be glad.
Christ at his last supper breaking bread decreed, “This my Body take and eat, heavenly food indeed”. R.
Then He took the Cup of wine, taking this He said, "This, a chalice of my Blood, food for sinners shed’. R.
Members of His Body, they in Him are one. In this sacred union, heaven on earth begun. R.

There may have been additional verse, but this was all I could remember. If anyone out there can identify the hymn and it’s writers/composers/where it can be found, I wold appreciate your help and thank you so much in advance!

All the best,
John (litmusician)
 
I have no idea.

Do you remember anything else about it? It seems like something that would be kind of an English plain chant. I’m imaging hearing it that way.

It seems like a variation on Ubi Caritas.
 
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It could be this was a song composed by someone in the parish, Diocese, a local musician.

Maybe contact your former parish and see if they know who wrote the song?
 
Hi! I actually remember the tune note by note! It’s not a plainchant - it is a Refrain/Verse/Refrain style piece - like something that would have appeared in Paluch’s Monthly Missalette (which I’ve checked as I have a few of those from back in the 80s. Thanks anyways.
 
That may very well be a possibility! I never thought about that! I will try to get a hold of some of the people who were around back then and see if they have any ideas. Thanks! 🙂
 
This sounds like the hymn “Humbly We Adore Thee”, from The Book of Worship For United States Forces.
 
I saw that pdf file. It’s not the one I found. It was on Google.books .com I’m unable to post a picture because I’m a new user.
 
Thank you for the link - but no, the hymn I’m looking for isn’t in there. Thank you though!
 
I might add that the hymn I’m looking for “Love Has Gathered Us Together” would definitely fall into the typical “Folk Mass” style hymn of the 70s-early 80s.
 
I wonder if you have somehow cobbled together two separate hymns. I am old (62) and I do remember "The love of Christ has gathered us together, let us rejoice in Him and be glad, where Love is, there is God’, but while I remember a kind of chant ‘verse’ which went with the refrain, it wasn’t the chant you posted. That chant DOES go with 'Humbly we Adore Thee, though.

I can remember something kind of on the line of, “Who eats this bread will be with Him forever, who drinks this wine will join with Him anew” or some such.

I wish I still had the old hymn books, but this hymn is probably too ‘masculine’ and has disappeared from the collective consciousness like the similar time ‘Sons of God,–hear his holy word" or "Go Forth, Among the People’.

Bottom line, I’m pretty sure your refrain is correct but the verses you have go with "Humbly we Adore thee’.
 
Hello! You are absolutely correct that the verses are in fact from the text “Adoro the Devote” or “Humbly I (We) Adore Thee”, It’s the refrain and tune that cannot be found ANYWHERE on the www! Plus, believe it or not, I actually have a cassette tape (remember those?) that has a folk group rehearsal recorded on it and the hymn I’m looking for is one of those being rehearsed!!! And I was about 99% right on the text (not bad for recalling something I played and sang 35+ years ago! I guess I will just score it out and arrange it myself on my Sibelius software 🙂 Thanks again for everyone’s help! John
 
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Is it possible the title is, “The Love of Christ Has Gathered Us Together”?
 
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I certainly will! I actually placed a call to the Director of Music for the RC Fall River Diocese and she hadn’t any idea about it either. Most likely it was a piece composed by a long-lost local musician…I may never find out.
 
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