Third Sunday Meditation: Holy God, We Praise Thy Name

Holy God, we praise Thy name;

Lord of all, we bow before Thee;

All on earth Thy scepter reign

All in heaven above adore Thee

Infinite Thy vast domain

Everlasting is Thy reign.

Church in the Southern Tyrol

(Italy)

Hark, the glad celestial hymn,

Angel choirs above are raising;

Cherubim and Seraphim,

In unceasing chorus praising

Fill the heavens with sweet accord;

Holy, Holy, Holy, Lord.

Lo! the apostolic train

Joins Thy sacred name to hallow,

Prophets swell the glad refrain,

And the white-robed martyrs follow,

And from morn to set of sun,

Through the church the song goes on.

Holy Father, Holy Son, Holy Spirit;

Three we name Thee; 

Thou in essence only One;

Undivided God we claim Thee,

And adoring bend the knee

While we own the mystery.

 Amen

"Holy God We Praise Thy Name"

(1771)

 Ignaz Franz

(1719-1790)

German Catholic priest

Translated into English in 1857

by Clarence A. Walworth

(1820-1900)

 American Roman Catholic priest and missionary