O perfect Love, all human thought
transcending,
Lowly we kneel in prayer before Thy throne,
That theirs may be the love which knows no
ending,
Whom Thou forevermore dost join in one.
O
perfect Life, be Thou their full assurance,
Of tender charity and steadfast faith,
Of patient hope and quiet, brave endurance,
With childlike trust that fears nor pain nor
death.
Grant them the joy which brightens earthly
sorrow;
Grant them the peace which calms all earthly
strife,
And to life’s day the glorious unknown morrow
That dawns upon eternal love and life.
Hear us, O Father, gracious and forgiving,
Through Jesus Christ, Thy coeternal Word,
Who, with the Holy Ghost, by all things
living
Now and to endless ages art adored.
