Scripture References:
st. 1 = Eph. 1:3-4
st. 2 = Eph. 1:5-7a
st. 3 = Eph. 1:7b-l0
st. 4 = Eph. 1:1l-13a
st. 5 = Eph. 1:13b-14

The Scottish Jesuit priest James Quinn (PHH 220) wrote this paraphrase of Ephesians 1:3-14 "sometime before 1978." In the original Greek this Scripture passage is an extended doxology in one very long sentence. Quinn set the doxology in five stanzas of praise to God for blessings the Father has given us in Christ the Son through the Holy Spirit. The text is filled with profound theological confessions about each member of the Trinity. Like much of Quinn's work, the song text is unrhymed in order to preserve many well-known biblical phrases. The text was first published in Resource Collection of Hymns and Service Music for the Liturgy (1981).

Liturgical Use:
As a doxology, also suitable as a hymn of praise at the beginning of worship, especially when focusing on the Trinity.

--Psalter Hymnal Handbook