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Let all mortal flesh keep silence

Author: Gerard Moultrie (1829-1885); J. Μ. Neale; R. F. Littledale Meter: 8.7.8.7.8.7 Appears in 175 hymnals Topics: Adoration; Angels; Heaven; Holy Communion; Jesus Life and Ministry; Light; Mary; The Fourth Sunday before Advent Year C; The Fourth Sunday of Advent Year A; The Third Sunday of Epiphany Year B 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: Habakkuk 2:20 Used With Tune: PICARDY Text Sources: Based on the translation of J. M. Neale and R. F. Littledale

My God, how wonderful thou art

Author: Frederick William Faber (1814-1863) Meter: 8.6.8.6 Appears in 344 hymnals Topics: The Third Sunday before Advent Year C Lyrics: 1 My God, how wonderful thou art, thy majesty how bright, how beautiful thy mercy-seat in depths of burning light! 2 How dread are thine eternal years, O everlasting Lord, by prostrate spirits day and night incessantly adored! 3 How wonderful, how beautiful, the sight of thee must be, thine endless wisdom, boundless power, and aweful purity! 4 O how I fear thee, living God, with deepest, tenderest fears, and worship thee with trembling hope and penitential tears! 5 Yet I may love thee too, O Lord, almighty as thou art, for thou hast stooped to ask of me the love of my poor heart. 6 No earthly father loves like thee, no mother, e'er so mild, bears and forbears as thou hast done with me, thy sinful child. 7 Father of Jesus, love's reward, what rapture will it be, prostrate before thy throne to lie and gaze and gaze on thee! Scripture: Deuteronomy 6:5 Used With Tune: WESTMINSTER

Dear Lord and Father of mankind

Author: John Greenleaf Whittier, 1807-1892 Meter: 8.6.8.8.6 Appears in 509 hymnals Topics: Year B Third Sunday Before Advent Lyrics: 1 Dear Lord and Father of mankind, forgive our foolish ways! Re-clothe us in our rightful mind, in purer lives thy service find, in deeper rev'rence praise, in deeper rev'rence praise. 2 In simple trust like theirs who heard beside the Syrian sea, the gracious calling of the Lord, let us, like them, without a word rise up and follow thee, rise up and follow thee. 3 O Sabbath rest by Galilee! O calm of hills above, where Jesus knelt to share with thee the silence of eternity, interpreted by love! Interpreted by love! 4 Drop thy still dews of quietness, till all our strivings cease; take from our souls the strain and stress, and let our ordered lives confess the beauty of thy peace, the beauty of thy peace. 5 Breathe through the heats of our desire thy coolness and thy balm; let sense be dumb, let flesh retire; speak through the earthquake, wind and fire, O still small voice of calm! O still small voice of calm! Scripture: 1 Kings 19:9-18 Used With Tune: REPTON

Jesus Christ is risen today

Meter: 7.7.7.7 with alleluias Appears in 493 hymnals Topics: Year B Third Sunday Before Advent First Line: Jesus Christ is ris'n today, alleluia! Lyrics: 1 Jesus Christ is ris'n today, alleluia! our triumphant holy day, alleluia! who did once, upon the cross, alleluia! suffer to redeem our loss, alleluia! 2 Hymns of praise then let us sing, alleluia! unto Christ our heav'nly King, alleluia! who endured the cross and grave, alleluia! sinners to redeem and save, alleluia! 3 But the pains which he endured, alleluia! our salvation have procured; alleluia! now above the sky he’s king, alleluia! where the angels ever sing, alleluia! Used With Tune: EASTER HYMN Text Sources: V. 1: Surrexit hodie" (14th century) trans. anon. as in "Lyrad Davidica" (1708); Vs, 2-3: J. Arnold's "Compleat Psalmodist" (1749)

O God of Bethel, by whose hand

Author: Philip Doddridge, 1702-1751; John Logan, 1748-1788 Meter: 8.6.8.6 Appears in 380 hymnals Topics: Year C Third Sunday Before Advent Lyrics: 1 O God of Bethel, by whose hand thy people still are fed, who through this weary pilgrimage has all our forebears led. 2 Our vows, our prayers, we now present before thy throne of grace; God of our forebears, be the God of their succeeding race. 3 Through each mysterious path of life be thou our constant guide; give us each day our daily bread, and raiment fit provide. 4 O spread thy cov'ring wings around till all our wanderings cease, and at our Father's loved abode our souls arrive in peace. Scripture: Luke 11:2-4 Used With Tune: MARTYRDOM

O happy day

Author: Philip Doddridge, 1702-1751 Meter: 8.8.8.8 Appears in 1,711 hymnals Topics: Year B Third Sunday Before Advent First Line: O happy day! that fixed my choice Lyrics: 1 O happy day! that fixed my choice on thee, my Saviour and my God! Well may this glowing heart rejoice, and tell its raptures all abroad. 2 'Tis done, the work of grace is done! I am my Lord's, and he is mine! He drew me, and I followed on, glad to confess the voice divine. 3 Now rest, my long-divided heart, fixed on this blissful centre, rest; not ever from thy Lord depart, with him of every goo possessed. 4 High heav'n, that heard the solemn vow, that vow renewed shall daily hear; till in life's latest hour I bow, and bless in death a bond so dear. Scripture: John 1:37 Used With Tune: FESTUS

O Jesus! King most wonderful

Author: Bernard of Clairvaux; Edward Caswall Meter: 8.6.8.6 Appears in 248 hymnals Topics: Advent, Third Sunday Lyrics: 1 O Jesus! King most wonderful, Thou Conqueror renowned; Thou Sweetness most ineffable, In whom all joys are found! 2 When once Thou visited the heart, Then truth begins to shine: Then earthly vanities depart, Then kindles love divine. 3 O Jesus, Light of all below! Thou Fount of life and fire! Surpassing all the joys we know, All that we can desire,-- 4 May every heart confess Thy Name, And ever Thee adore; And, seeking Thee, itself inflame To seek Thee ore and more. 5 Thee may our tongues forever bless; Thee may we love alone; And ever in our lives express The image of Thine own. Used With Tune: WINCHESTER

Thou art the Way: to Thee alone

Author: George W. Doane Meter: 8.6.8.6 Appears in 606 hymnals Topics: Advent, Third Sunday Lyrics: 1 Thou are the Way: to Thee alone From sin and death we flee: And he who would the Father seek, Must seek Him, Lord, by Thee. 2 Thou art the Truth: Thy Word alone Sound wisdom can impart; Thou only canst inform the mind, And purify the heart. 3 Thou art the Life: the rending tomb Proclaims Thy conquering arm: And those who put their trust in Thee, Not death nor hell shall harm. 4 Thou are the Way, the Truth, the Life: Grant us that Way to know, That Truth to keep, that Life to win, Whose joys eternal flow. Used With Tune: DEDHAM

My Hope Is Built on Nothing Less

Author: Edward Mote Meter: 8.8.8.8.8.8 Appears in 1,096 hymnals Topics: Advent, Third Sunday Refrain First Line: On Christ, the solid Rock I stand Lyrics: 1 My hope is built on nothing less Than Jesus' blood and righteousness: No merit of my own I claim, But wholly lean on Jesus' Name. Refrain: On Christ, the solid Rock, I stand, All other ground is sinking sand. 2 When darkness veils His lovely face, I rest on His unchanging grace; In ev'ry high and stormy gale, My anchor holds within the veil. [Refrain] 3 His oath, His covenant and blood, Support me in the sinking flood; When every earthly prop gives way, He then is all my hope and stay. [Refrain] 4 When I shall launch to worlds unseen, O may I then be found in Him! Dressed in His righteousness alone, Faultless to stand before the throne. [Refrain] Amen. Scripture: Hebrews 6:19 Used With Tune: ST. CATHERINE

O bless the Lord, my soul!

Author: Isaac Watts Appears in 253 hymnals Topics: Fourth Sunday of Advent; Third Sunday after Epiphany; Christian Life and Hope The Walk of Godliness: Praise; Christian Life and Hope The Walk of Godliness: Praise Lyrics: 1 O bless the Lord, my soul! Let all within me join, And aid my tongue to bless His Name Whose favors are divine. 2 'Tis He forgives thy sins; 'Tis He relieves thy pain; 'Tis He that heals thy sicknesses, And gives thee strength again. 3 He crowns thy life with love, When rescued from the grave; He, that redeemed my souls from death, Hath boundless power to save. 4 He fills the poor with good, He gives the suff'rers rest; The Lord hath justice for the proud, And mercy for th'oppressed. 5 His wondrous works and ways He made by Moses known; But sent the world His truth and grace By His beloved Son. 6 O bless the Lord, my soul! Nor let this mercies lie Forgotten in unthankfulness, And without praises die. Used With Tune: MORNINGTON