John Michael Talbot - ‘Advent Suite’

John Michael Talbot (born May 8, 1954) is an American Catholic singer-songwriter, guitarist, author, television presenter and founder of a monastic community known as the Brothers and Sisters of Charity.

Talbot was born into a Methodist family with a musical background in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, and started learning to play the guitar at an early age. At age 15 he dropped out of school and was performing as a guitarist for Mason Proffit, a country folk-rock band formed with his older brother Terry.

Talbot embarked on a spiritual journey that led him through Native American religion and Buddhism to Christianity. At this point he and his brother, Terry, joined the Jesus Movement, recording their first album in 1974.

Reading the life of Saint Francis of Assisi, he was inspired to begin studying at a Franciscan center in Indianapolis. He became a Roman Catholic and joined the Secular Franciscan Order in 1978.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Michael_Talbot

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In 1980, John and Terry released the album ‘The Painter’ which is still regarded as a classic. I remember buying it on LP. Here’s a live version of the 'Advent Suite’ recorded at a Florida concert in 2000.

Can you believe in the miracle coming
Can you believe it will take you away
There will be living where once there was death
There will be new life in Jesus

Can you believe there is charity coming
The only law now that we’ve come to obey
There will be living where once there was death
There will be living in Jesus

Can you believe that the eagle will fly with the dove
Can you believe there’s a rose in the raised fisted glove

Alleluia, Alleluia, Alleluia, Alleluia

O hear, O Israel,
Your Saviour is born to a young virgin child
Hear, O Israel,
All of mankind can be born in Him
All of mankind can be born in Him

And Mary, Israel’s child,
Born in the grace of the mighty Lord
Mary, the young virgin child
To be the mother of our Saviour
To be the mother of Jesus

And we’ll walk on the water with Him
Messiah come surely and we will begin
To walk on the water with Him
And we will be with Him
As the Father is with Him
As the Spirit is with Him

Meekly, lowly He’ll come
Born to the world in a stable
Come to the shepherds, come to the poor
He is surely exalted as our King of kings
Surely exalted as our King of kings

And He will show forth the strength of His arm
He will scatter the proud in their own conceit
He will cast down the kings from their thrones
And lift up the meek and the lowly
Lift up the meek and the lowly

And we’ll walk on the water with Him
Messiah come surely and we will begin
To walk on the water with Him
And we will be with Him
As the Father is with Him
As the Spirit is with Him

O, He has come, 
Messiah has come
Messiah has come

Can you believe in the miracle coming
Can you believe it will take you away
There will be living where once there was death
There will be living in Jesus

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And here’s the studio version of the same song where the brother’s harmonies are clear:

To order the album “The Painter” from John Michael Talbot, see
http://johnmichaeltalbot.com/the-painter

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