Blesséd Jesus

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Blesséd Jesus, at your word
we are gathered all to hear you;
let our hearts and souls be stirred
now to seek and love and fear you;
by your teachings pure and holy,
drawn from earth to love you solely.

All our knowledge, sense, and sight
lie in deepest darkness shrouded,
till your Spirit breaks our night
with the beams of truth unclouded;
you alone to God can win us;
you must work all good within us.

Gracious God, yourself impart!
Light of Light, from God proceeding,
open you our ears and heart,
help us by the Spirit's pleading.
Hear the cry your church upraises;
hear, and bless our prayers and praises.

Words: Tobias Clausnitzer (17thC), tr. Catherine Winkworth (19thC)
Music: Liebster Jesu melody Johann Rudolph Ahle (17thC), harm. George Herbert Palmer (19thC)
Sequence: Dall Forsthye, Church of St. John the Evangelist