303 - Holy Eucharist

1. Father, we thank thee who hast planted

thy holy Name within our hearts.

Knowledge and faith and life immortal

Jesus thy Son to us imparts.

2. Thou, Lord, didst make all for thy pleasure,

didst give us food for all our days,

giving in Christ the Bread eternal;

thine is the power, be thine the praise.

3. Watch o'er thy Church, O Lord, in mercy,

save it from evil, guard it still,

perfect it in thy love, unite it,

cleansed and conformed unto thy will.

4. As grain, once scattered on the hillsides,

was in this broken bread made one,

so from all lands thy Church be gathered

into thy Kingdom by thy Son.

Words: Greek, ca. 110; tr. F. Bland Tucker (1895-1974), rev. Music: Albright, William Albright (b. 1944)