Lutheran Service Book ‎#628

628. Your Table I Approach

1 Your table I approach;
Dear Savior, hear my prayer.
Let not an unrepentant heart
Prove hurtful to me there.

2 Lord, I confess my sins
And mourn their wretched bands;
A contrite heart is sure to find
Forgiveness at Your hands.

3 Your body and Your blood,
Once slain and shed for me,
Are taken at Your table, Lord,
In blest reality.

4 Search not how this takes place,
This wondrous mystery;
God can accomplish vastly more
Than what we think could be.

5 O grant, most blessed Lord,
That earth and hell combined
May not about this sacrament
Raise doubt within my mind.

6 Oh, may I never fail
To thank You day and night
For Your true body and true blood,
O God, my peace and light.

Text Information

• First Line: Your table I approach
• Title: Your Table I Approach
• Author: Gerhard Walter Molanus, 1633-1722
• Translator: Matthias Loy, 1828-1915 (alt. )
• Meter: S M
• Language: English
• Publication Date: 2006
• Scripture:
  1 Corinthians 11:23-29
  ;
  Luke 5:31-32
  ;
  Mark 2:17
  ;
  1 Corinthians 10:16
  ;
  Romans 11:33-36
• Topic: The Lord's Supper

Tune Information

• Name: ST. MICHAEL
• Meter: S M
• Key: G Major
• Source: Trente quatre Pseaumes de David, Geneva, 1551, ed. Louis Bourgeois; The Lutheran Hymnal, 1941 (Setting)