Your Heart Today

Your Heart Today
-Words by Manoling V. Francisco

Where there is fear I can allay

Where there is pain I can heal

Where there are wounds I can bind

And hunger I can fill ,

Lord, grant me courage

Lord, grant me strength

Grant me compassion

That I may beYour heart today.

Where there is hate I can confront

Where there are yokes I can release

Where there are captives I can free

And anger I can appease

Lord, grant me courage

Lord, grant me strength

Grant me compassion

That I may beYour heart today.

When comes the day I dread to see

A broken world compel me

from my cell grow cold

That your people I may behold.

Where there is fear I can allay

Where there is pain I can heal

Where there are wounds I can bind

And hunger I can fill,

Lord, grant me courage

Lord, grant me strength

Grant me compassion

That I may beYour heart today.

And when I’ve done all that I could

But there are hearts I cannot move

Lord, give me hope

That I may beYour heart today.

I used to sing with an all female choir two years ago. Ate Debbie, our choir leader and musical director taught this song to us. She even mentioned that this song was written for the Aquino's.


I've always loved the melody and the lyrics of the song but our choir group rarely sang this song so I was not able to memorize it until I've forgotten a lot of the lines as well as the title of the song.

While watching the funeral mass for President Corazon Aquino, I was hoping that they get to sing this song.

I was so happy to hear it again when Dulce sang it during Communion.

This song was written by Manoling Francisco,nephew of President Cory and he wrote it as a tribute to the many sacrifices the Aquino family did from the time Senator Benigno Aquino was unjustly incarcerated by President Ferdinand Marcos.