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Come, Thou Long-Expected Jesus
Author: Charles Wesley, 1707-1788 Meter: 8.7.8.7 D Appears in 749 hymnals Lyrics: 1 Come, Thou long-expected Jesus,
Born to set thy people free;
From our fears and sins release us;
Let us find our rest in thee.
Israel's Strength and Consolation,
Hope of all the earth thou art,
Dear Desire of every nation,
Joy of every longing heart.
2 Born thy people to deliver;
Born a child and yet a king!
Born to reign in us forever,
Now thy gracious kingdom bring.
By thine own eternal Spirit
Rule in all our hearts alone;
By thine all-sufficient merit
Raise us to thy glorious throne. Topics: The Christian Year Adventtide Used With Tune: JEFFERSON
Come, Thou Long-Expected Jesus
Come, Ye Faithful, Raise the Strain
Author: John of Damascus, c. 696-c. 754; John Mason Neale, 1818-66 Meter: 7.6.7.6 D Appears in 380 hymnals Lyrics: 1 Come, ye faithful, raise the strain
Of triumphant gladness;
God has brought His Israel
Into joy from sadness.
'Tis the spring of souls today:
Christ has burst his prison
And from three days' sleep in death
As a sun has risen.
2 All the winter of our sins,
Long and dark, is flying
From his light, to whom we give
Laud and praise undying.
Neither could the gates of death
Nor the tomb's dark portal
Nor the watchers nor the seal
Hold thee as a mortal.
3 But today amidst thine own
Thou didst stand, bestowing
That, thy peace, which evermore
Passes human knowing.
Come, ye faithful, raise the strain
Of triumphant gladness;
God has brought his Israel
Into joy from sadness.
4 "Alleluia!" now we cry
To our King immortal,
Who, triumphant, burst the bars
Of the tomb's dark portal;
"Alleluia!: with the Son
God the Father praising;
"Alleluia!" yet again
To the Spirit raising. Amen. Topics: The Christian Year Eastertide Used With Tune: GAUDEAMUS PARITER
Come, Ye Faithful, Raise the Strain
Father, We Praise Thee, Now the Night Is Over
Author: Percy Dearmer, 1867-1936; Gregory the Great, 540-604 Meter: 11.11.11.5 Appears in 82 hymnals Lyrics: 1 Father, we praise thee, now the night is over;
Active and watchful, stand we all before thee;
Singing we offer prayer and meditation:
Thus we adore thee.
2 Monarch of all things, fit us for thy mansions;
Banish our weakness, health and wholeness sending;
Bring us to heaven, where thy saints united
Joy without ending.
3 All-holy Father, Son, and equal Spirit,
Trinity blessèd, send us thy salvation;
Thine is the glory, gleaming and resounding
Through all creation. Amen. Topics: Times and Seasons Morning Used With Tune: CHRISTE SANCTORUM
Father, We Praise Thee, Now the Night Is Over
God of Grace and God of Glory
Author: Harry Emerson Fosdick, 1878- Meter: 8.7.8.7.4.4.7.7 Appears in 155 hymnals Lyrics: 1 God of grace and God of glory,
On thy people pour thy power;
Crown thine ancient church's story;
Bring her bud to glorious flower.
Grant us wisdom,
Grant us courage,
For the facing of this hour,
For the facing of this hour.
2 Lo! the hosts of evil round us
Scorn thy Christ, assail his ways!
From the fears that long have bound us
Free our hearts to faith and praise.
Grant us wisdom,
Grant us courage,
For the living of these days.
3 Cure thy children's warring madness;
Bend our pride to thy control;
Shame our wanton, selfish gladness,
Rich in things and poor in soul.
Grant us wisdom,
Grant us courage,
Lest we miss thy kingdom's goal.
4 Set our feet on lofty places;
Gird our lives that they may be
Armored with all Christ-like graces
In the fight to set men free.
Grant us wisdom,
Grant us courage,
That we fail not man nor thee.
5 Save us from weak resignation
To the evils we deplore;
Let the gift of thy salvation
Be our glory evermore.
Grant us wisdom,
Grant us courage,
Serving thee whom we adore.
Topics: The Church Social Concern Used With Tune: CWM RHONDDA
God of Grace and God of Glory
O Sons and Daughters of the King
Author: John Mason Neale, 1818-66 Meter: 8.8.8 with alleluia Appears in 191 hymnals Lyrics: Alleluia! Alleluia! Alleluia!
1 O sons and daughters of the King,
Whom heavenly hosts in glory sing,
Today the grave has lost its sting.
Alleluia!
2 That Easter morn, at break of day,
The faithful women went their way
To seek the tomb where Jesus lay.
Alleluia!
3 An angel clad in white they see,
Who sat and spoke unto the three,
"Your Lord is gone to Galilee."
Alleluia!
4 That night the apostles met in fear;
Amidst them came their Lord most dear
And said, "Peace be unto you here."
Alleluia!
5 When Thomas afterwards had heard
That Jesus had fulfilled his word,
He doubted if it were the Lord.
Alleluia!
6 "Thomas, behold my side," said he,
"My hands, my feet, my body see,
And doubt not, but believe in me."
Alleluia!
7 No longer Thomas then denied;
He saw the hands, the feet, the side;
"You are my Lord and God," he cried.
Alleluia!
8 Blessed are they that have not seen
And yet whose faith has constant been;
In life eternal they shall reign.
Alleluia!
9 On this most holy day of days,
To God your hearts and voices raise
In laud and jubilee and praise.
Alleluia!
Alleluia! Alleluia! Alleluia! Topics: The Christian Year Eastertide Used With Tune: O FILII ET FILIAE Text Sources: 16th-century Latin carol
O Sons and Daughters of the King
Come Down, O Love Divine
Author: Richard Frederick Littledale, 1833-90; Bianco da Siena, d. 1434 Appears in 109 hymnals Lyrics: 1 Come down, O Love divine,
Seek thou this soul of mine,
And visit it with thine own ardor glowing;
O Comforter, draw near,
Within my heart appear,
And kindle it, thy holy flame bestowing.
2 O let it freely burn
Till earthly passions turn
To dust and ashes in its heat consuming;
And let thy glorious light
Shine ever on my sight
And clothe me round, the while my path illuming.
3 Let holy charity
Mine outward vesture be
And lowliness become mine inner clothing--
True lowliness of heart
Which takes the humbler part
And o'er its own shortcomings weeps with loathing.
4 And so the yearning strong
With which the soul will long
Shall far outpass the power of human telling;
For none can guess its grace
Till he become the place
Wherein the Holy Spirit makes his dwelling. Topics: The Trinity The Holy Spirit Used With Tune: DOWN AMPNEY
Come Down, O Love Divine
Eternal God, Whose Power Upholds
Author: Henry Hallam Tweedy, 1868-1953 Meter: 8.6.8.6 D Appears in 53 hymnals Lyrics: 1 Eternal God, whose power upholds
Both flower and flaming star,
To whom there is no here nor there,
No time, no near nor far,
No alien race, no foreign shore,
No child unsought, unknown,
O send us forth as prophets true,
To make all lands thine own!
2 O God of truth, which science seeks,
Whom reverent souls adore,
Who lightest every earnest mind
Of every clime and shore,
Dispel the gloom of error’s night,
Of ignorance and fear,
Until true wisdom from above
Shall make life’s pathway clear!
3 O God of beauty, oft revealed
In dreams of human art,
In speech that flows to melody,
In holiness of heart,
Teach us to ban all ugliness
That blinds our eyes to thee,
Till all shall know the loveliness
Of lives made fair and free.
4 O God of righteousness and grace,
Seen in the Christ, thy Son,
Whose life and death reveal thy face,
By whom thy will was done,
Inspire thy heralds of good news
To live thy life divine,
Till Christ has formed in all mankind
And every land is thine! Topics: The Trinity The Creator Used With Tune: PILGRIM
Eternal God, Whose Power Upholds
O Savior, Rend the Heavens Wide
Author: Martin L. Seltz, 1909-67 Meter: 8.8.8.8 Appears in 10 hymnals Topics: The Christian Year Adventtide Used With Tune: O HEILAND, REISS DIE HIMMEL AUF Text Sources: Old German Catholic spiritual song, Cologne, 1623
O Savior, Rend the Heavens Wide
Now Let Us Pray to God the Holy Ghost
Author: Martin Luther, 1483-1546 Appears in 1 hymnal Lyrics: 1 Now let us pray to God the Holy Ghost
For the true faith, which we need the most,
That he may defend us when life is ending
And from exile home we are wending.
Kyrieleis. (Lord, have mercy.)
2 Shine in our hearts, O thou most precious Light,
Teach us Jesus Christ to know aright,
That we may abide in the Lord who bought us;
To our homeland true he has brought us.
Kyrieleis. (Lord, have mercy.)
3 Thou sacred Love, thy grace on us bestow,
Set our hearts with heavenly fire aglow
That with hearts united we love each other,
Of one mind, in peace with our brother.
Kyrieleis. (Lord, have mercy.)
4 Thou highest Comfort in our every need,
Help us neither scorn nor death to heed,
That we may not falter nor courage fail us
When the Foe shall rail and assail us.
Kyrieleis. (Lord, have mercy.) Topics: The Trinity The Holy Spirit Used With Tune: NUN BITTEN WIR Text Sources: St. 1, author unknown, c. 1250; Trans. composite, 1965
Now Let Us Pray to God the Holy Ghost
Let All Mortal Flesh Keep Silence
Author: Gerard Moultrie, 1829-85 Meter: 8.7.8.7.8.7 Appears in 172 hymnals Lyrics: 1 Let 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! Topics: The Church Holy Communion Used With Tune: PICARDY
Let All Mortal Flesh Keep Silence
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