1 Rejoice in God's saints, today and all days!
A world without saints forgets how to praise.
Their faith in acquiring the habit of prayer,
their depth of adoring, Lord, help us to share.
2 Some march with events to turn them God's way;
some need to withdraw, the better to pray;
some carry the gospel through fire and through flood:
our world is their parish: their purpose is God.
3 Rejoice in those saints, unpraised and unknown,
who bear someone's cross, or shoulder their own:
they shame our complaining, our comforts, our cares:
what patience in caring, what courage, is theirs!
4 Rejoice in God's saints today and all days!
A world without saints forgets how to praise.
In loving, in living, they prove it is true:
the way of self-giving, Lord, leads us to you.
| Text Information | |
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| First Line: | Rejoice in God's saints today and all days! |
| Title: | Rejoice in God's Saints |
| Author: | Fred Pratt Green (1977) |
| Publication Date: | 1985 |
| Meter: | 10 10.11 11 |
| Language: | English |
| Copyright: | Copyright © 1973, 1980 by Hope Publishing Company, Carol Stream, IL 60188. All rights reserved. Used by permission. |
| Tune Information | |
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| Name: | OLD 104TH |
| Meter: | 10 10.11 11 |
| Key: | d minor |
| Source: | Ravenscroft's Psalter (1621) (melody) |