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Eternal Light! Eternal Light

Author: Thomas Binney, 1798-1874 Meter: 8.6.8.8.6 Appears in 92 hymnals Topics: Proper 26 Year B Lyrics: 1 Eternal Light! Eternal Light! How pure that soul must be, when, placed within thy searching sight, it shrinks not, but with calm delight can live and look on thee. 2 The spirits that surround thy throne may bear the burning bliss; but surely that is theirs alone, since they have never, never known a fallen world like this, 3 O how shall I, whose native sphere is dark, whose mind is dim, before the Ineffable appear, and on my naked spirit bear the uncreated beam? 4 There is a way for man to rise to that sublime abode; an offering and a sacrifice, a Holy Spirit's energies, an Advocate with God: 5 These, these prepare us for the sight of holiness above: the sons of ignorance and night may dwell in the eternal light, through the eternal Love! Scripture: 1 John 1:1-5 Used With Tune: REPTON

Breathe on Me, Breath of God (Souffle du Dieu vivant)

Author: Edwin Hatch; Suzanne Bidgrain Meter: 6.6.8.6 Appears in 364 hymnals Topics: Proper 26 Year C First Line: Breathe on me, Breath of God Lyrics: 1 Breathe on me, breath of God, fill me with life anew, that I may love what thou dost love, and do what thou wouldst do. 2 Breathe on me, breath of God, until my heart is pure, until my will is one with thine, to do and to endure. 3 Breathe on me, Breath of God, till I am wholly thine, until this earthly part of me glows with thy fire divine. 4 Breathe on me, Breath of God, so shall I never die; but live with thee the perfect life of thine eternity. Used With Tune: TRENTHAM

O Love That Wilt Not Let Me Go

Author: George Matheson Meter: 8.8.8.8.6 Appears in 720 hymnals Topics: Proper 26 Year C Lyrics: 1 O Love that wilt not let me go, I rest my weary soul in thee; I give thee back the life I owe, that in thine ocean depths its flow may richer, fuller be. 2 O Light that followest all my way, I yield my flickering torch to thee; my heart restores its borrowed ray, that in thy sunshine’s blaze its day may brighter, fairer be. 3 O Joy that seekest me through pain, I cannot close my heart to thee; I trace the rainbow through the rain, and feel the promise is not vain, that morn shall tearless be. 4 O Cross that liftest up my head, I dare not ask to fly from thee; I lay in dust life’s glory dead, and from the ground there blossoms red life that shall endless be. Used With Tune: ST. MARGARET

Jesus, Lord, we look to thee

Author: Charles Wesley, 1707-1788 Meter: 7.7.7.7 Appears in 200 hymnals Topics: Proper 26 Year A Lyrics: 1 Jesus, Lord, we look to thee, let us in thy name agree: show thyself the Prince of peace; bid all strife for ever cease. 2 Make us of one heart and mind, courteous, pitiful, and kind, lowly, meek in thought and word, altogether like our Lord. 3 Let us for each other care, each the other's burden bear; to thy church the pattern give, show how true believers live. 4 Free from anger and from pride, let us thus in God abide; all the depths of love express, all the heights of holiness. Scripture: 2 Thessalonians 3:16 Used With Tune: VIENNA

Halle, Halle, Halle

Meter: Irregular Appears in 38 hymnals First Line: Halle, halle, hallelujah! Text Sources: Caribbean trad.

More Love to You, O Christ

Author: Elizabeth P. Prentiss Meter: 6.5.6.5.6.6.5.5 Appears in 867 hymnals Topics: Year B Proper 26 Refrain First Line: In all I say and do Lyrics: 1 More love to you, O Christ, more love to you! Hear now the prayer I make faith to renew. Refrain: In all I say and do, more love, O Christ, to you, more love to you, more love to you! 2 Once earthly joy I craved, sought peace and rest; Now you alone I seek, give what is best: [Refrain] 3 Then shall my latest breath whisper your praise; This be the parting cry my heart shall raise: [Refrain] Used With Tune: MORE LOVE TO YOU

Fill thou my life, O Lord my God

Author: Horatius Bonar, 1808-1889 Meter: 8.6.8.6 Appears in 102 hymnals Topics: Proper 26 Year B Lyrics: 1 Fill thou my life, O Lord my God, in every part with praise, that my whole being may proclaim thy being and thy ways. 2 Not for the lip of praise alone, nor e'en the praising heart I ask, but for a life made up of praise in every part: 3 Praise in the common things of life, its goings out and in; praise in each duty and each deed, however small and mean. 4 Fill every part of me with praise: let all my being speak of thee and of thy love, O Lord, poor though I be and weak. *5 So shalt thou, Lord, receive from me the praise and glory due; and so shall I begin on earth the song for ever new. *6 So shall each fear, each fret, each care, be turnèd into song; and every winding of the way the echo shall prolong. 7 So shall no part of day or night unblest or common be, but all my life, in every step, be fellowship with thee. Used With Tune: RICHMOND

Alleluia! Gracious Jesus!

Author: William C. Dix Meter: 8.7.8.7 D Appears in 226 hymnals Topics: Year B Proper 26 Lyrics: 1 Alleluia! Gracious Jesus! Yours the scepter, yours the throne! Alleluia! Yours the triumph, yours the victory alone! Hark! the songs of peaceful Zion thunder like a mighty flood: Jesus out of every nation you've redeemed us by your blood. 2 Alleluia! Not as orphans are we left in sorrow now. Alleluia! You are near us; faith believes, nor questions how. Though the cloud from sight received you, when the forty days were o'er, shall our hearts forget your promise, "I am with you evermore." 3 Alleluia! Bread of angels, you on earth our food, our stay. Alleluia! Here the sinful flee to you from day to day. Intercessor, friend of sinners, earth's Redeemer, plead for me, and the songs that sound in heaven will repeat your gracious plea. 4 Alleluia! Christ eternal, nothing can disrupt your reign; Alleluia! Born of Mary, heaven and earth are your domain. Human life you fully entered, tending those we count the least, serving both as Priest and Victim in the eucharistic feast. Scripture: Hebrews 9:11-14 Used With Tune: HYFRYDOL

Let all mortal flesh keep silence

Author: Gerard Moultrie, 1829-1885; J. M. Neale ; R. F. Littledale Meter: 8.7.8.7.8.7 Appears in 186 hymnals Topics: Proper 26 Year C 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. Scripture: Galatians 4:4 Used With Tune: PICARDY Text Sources: Liturgy of St James