Category: Eucharist

Please remain standing whilst the Choir and Clergy enter the stalls

Please remain standing to sing

1. O praise our great and glorious Lord,
    And call upon his name,
    To strains of joy tune every chord,
    His mighty acts proclaim:
    Tell how he freed his chosen race
    From Pharaoh’s heavy hand,
    And led them by his sovereign grace
    To seek the promised land.

2. He gave the shadowing cloud by day,
    The moving fire by night,
    To guide his people on their way,
    And make their darkness light.
    To us, the light of Christ our Lord
    Illumines all our ways;
    He leads us by his gospel word,
    And turns our sighs to praise.

3. We too have manna from on high,
    The bread that came from heaven,
    And he who brought salvation nigh
    Has living water given:
    A rock is ours, from whence the spring
    In rich abundance flows,
    And Christ that rock, our priest and king,
    Both life and health bestows.

4. Come, let us prize this heavenly food,
    And trust our heavenly guide,
    So shall we find death’s fearful flood
    Serene as Jordan’s tide.
    So safely reach th’eternal shore
    No more by ills opprest;
    Where saints their Lord and God adore
    And in his glory, rest.

Harriet Auber (1773–1862)

William Croft (1678–1727)