Tú, de los fieles eternal cabeza

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1 Tú de los fieles eternal cabeza,
De tierra y cielos divinal Señor,
Sobre tus siervos abre con largueza
Raudales pros de tu imenso amor.

2 Ellos al mundo tus preciados dones
Enseñarán; proclamarán salud:
Dales tu gracia, da a sus corazones
Por ornamento, santa rectitud.

3 Cuando a los hombres con amore enseñen
De tu Evangelio celestial verdad,
Su ministerio santo desempeñen
Ardiendo el peco en férvida piedad.

4 Sabiduría mansedumbre y celo
De Ti reciban, y sagrada unción,
De salvar almas incansable anhelo
Y el estimable don de la oración.

5 Al pecador con caridad corrijan,
Del flaco sean eficaz sostén,
A los cansados con amor dirijan
Por los caminos de verdad y bien.

6 Brillen cual astros en tu diestra mano
Mientras el mundo habiten del dolor;
Y al poseer tu reino soberano,
Coronas ciñan de inmortal fulgor.

Amén



Source: Culto Cristiano #136

Author: Juan Bautista Cabrera

Juan Bautista Cabrera Ivars was born in Benisa, Spain, April 23, 1837. He attended seminary in Valencia, studying Hebrew and Greek, and was ordained as a priest. He fled to Gibraltar in 1863 due to religious persecution where he abandoned Catholicism. He worked as a teacher and as a translator. One of the works he translated was E.H. Brown's work on the thirty-nine articles of the Anglican Church, which was his introduction to Protestantism. He was a leader of a Spanish Reformed Church in Gibraltar. He continued as a leader in this church when he returned to Spain after the government of Isabel II fell, but continued to face legal difficulties. He then organized the Spanish Reformed Episcopal Church and was consecrated as bishop in 1894. He… Go to person page >

Text Information

First Line: Tú, de los fieles eternal cabeza
Author: Juan Bautista Cabrera
Language: Spanish
Copyright: Public Domain

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O PERFECT LOVE (Barnby)

Joseph Barnby (PHH 438) composed O PERFECT LOVE and said it was a "hymn tune in the natural style and idiom … of our own time." Originally an anthem, O PERFECT LOVE was shortened into a hymn tune for publication in The Hymnal Companion (1890) and in the Church Hymnary (1898). The tune is also know…

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TÚ DE LOS FIELES (Bost)


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