6 O blessed hope! with this elate, Let not our hearts be desolate

But strong in faith, in patier

Until
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free;

keth,

stery.

e him bending, crament revere;

adows have their ending, newer rite is here;

our outward sense befriending, Makes our inward vision clear.

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Glory

let us give and blessing

To the Father and the Son,

Honour, thanks, and praise addressing,
While eternal ages run;

Ever too his love confessing

Who from Both with Both is One.

339

LET

Amen.

St. Thomas Aquinas, c. 1227-1274;
version from Oxford Hymn Book

15.15.15

ET all mortal flesh keep silence, and with fear and trembling stand; Ponder nothing earthly-minded, for with blessing in his hand,

Christ our God to earth descendeth, our ll homage to demand.

. At his feet the six-winge
bim with sleepless eye,

311

Amen.

iam Robertson, 1861

6.10.6.8.8.4

Veil their faces to the Presence,
ceaseless voice they cry,

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cious

Alleluia, alleluia, alleluia, Lord most high

340

Amen.

Liturgy of St. James; Tr. Gerard Moultrie, 1864

7.8.7.8.7.7

ET thy Blood in mercy poured,
Let thy gracious Body broken,
Be to me, O gracious Lord,

L

Of thy boundless love the token.
Thou didst give thyself for me,
Now I give myself to thee.

2 Thou didst die that I might live;

Blessed Lord, thou cam'st to save me:

All that love of God could give

Jesus by his sorrows gave me.

Thou didst give thyself for me,

Now I give myself to thee.

3 That last night at supper lying,

Mid the Twelve, his chosen band, Jesus, with the Law complying,

Keeps the Feast its rites demand;
Then, more precious food supplying,
Gives himself with his own hand.

4 Word-made-flesh true bread he maketh
By his word his Flesh to be;
Wine his Blood; which whoso taketh
Must from carnal thoughts be free;
Faith alone, though sight forsaketh,
Shows true hearts the mystery.

PART II

5 Therefore we, before him bending,
This great Sacrament revere;
Types and shadows have their ending,
For the newer rite is here;

Faith, our outward sense befriending,
Makes our inward vision clear.

6 Glory let us give and blessing
To the Father and the Son,
Honour, thanks, and praise addressing,
While eternal ages run;

Ever too his love confessing

Who from Both with Both is One.

Amen.

St. Thomas Aquinas, c. 1227–1274; version from Oxford Hymn Book

339

L1

15.15.15

ET all mortal flesh keep silence, and with fear and trembling stand; Ponder nothing earthly-minded, for with blessing in his hand,

Christ our God to earth descendeth, our full homage to demand.

2 King of kings, yet born of Mary, as of old on earth he stood,

Lord of lords, in human vesture in the Body and the Blood

He will give to all the faithful his own self for heavenly food.

3 Rank on rank the host of heaven spreads its vanguard on the way,

As the Light of Light descendeth from the realms of endless day,

That the powers of hell may vanish as the darkness clears away.

4 At his feet the six-winged seraph; cherubim with sleepless eye,

Veil their faces to the Presence, as with ceaseless voice they cry,

Alleluia, alleluia, alleluia, Lord most high.

340

LE

Amen.

Liturgy of St. James; Tr. Gerard Moultrie, 1864

7.8.7.8.7.7

ET thy Blood in mercy poured, Let thy gracious Body broken, Be to me, O gracious Lord,

Of thy boundless love the token. Thou didst give thyself for me, Now I give myself to thee.

2 Thou didst die that I might live;

Blessed Lord, thou cam'st to save me:

All that love of God could give
Jesus by his sorrows gave me.

Thou didst give thyself for me,
Now I give myself to thee.

3 By the thorns that crowned thy brow,
By the spear-wound and the nailing,
By the pain and death, I now

Claim, O Christ, thy love unfailing.
Thou didst give thyself for me,
Now I give myself to thee.

4 Wilt thou own the gift I bring?
All my penitence I give thee;
Thou art my exalted King,

Of thy matchless love forgive me.
Thou didst give thyself for me,
Now I give myself to Thee. Amen.

Greek; Tr. John Brownlie, 1907

Also the following

193 Alleluia! sing to Jesus

Holy Baptism

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LITTLE child the Saviour came,

L.M.

The Mighty God was still his Name;

And angels worshipped as he lay,
The seeming infant of a day.

2 He who a little child began

The life divine to show to man, Proclaims from heaven the message free, "Let little children come to me."

3 We bring them, Lord, and with the sign Of cleansing water name them thine: Their souls with saving grace endow, ize them with thy Spirit now.