Faith Filled Friday: Let Us Break Bread Together

I love these Negro Spirituals.  "Let Us Break Bread Together" is the third spiritual I've posted in the ten months of this blog.  This particular spiritual is very moving and amazingly Catholic in perspective if you ask me.  I don't really know Jessye Norman, but she has a wonderful soprano voice.

The refrain Norman sings is the most common one:

When I fall on my knees
with my face to the rising sun
O Lord, have mercy on me.

But according to the Wikipedia entry, an alternative refrain is so even more moving, and it's this I want to contemplate for this Faith Filled Friday:

When I fall on my knees,
with my face to the Lord of life,
O Lord, have mercy on me.