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Above: A Crucifix, Which I Have Donated to My Parish Library Since I Took This Picture
Image Source = Kenneth Randolph Taylor
Original German Text (1721) by Count Nicholas Ludwig von Zinzendorf (1700-1760)
English Translation (1738) by John Wesley (1703-1791)
Hymn Source = Hymnal and Liturgies of the Moravian Church (Unitas Fratrum) (1923)
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O Thou, to Whose all-searching sight
The darkness shineth as the light!
Search, prove my heart; it pants for Thee;
O, burst these bonds, and set it free.
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Wash out its stains, refine its dross;
Nail my affections to the Cross;
Hallow each thought; let all within
Be clean, as Thou, my Lord, art clean.
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If in this darksome wild I stray,
Be Thou my Light, be Thou my Way;
No foes, no violence I fear,
No harm, while Thou, my God, art near.
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Teach me where’er Thy steps I see,
Dauntless, untired, to follow Thee;
O let Thy hand support me still,
And lead me to Thy holy hill.
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If rough and thorny be my way,
My strength proportion to my day;
Till toil, and grief, and pain shall cease
Where all is calm and joy and peace.
Above: One of My Crucifixes, July 15, 2015
Image Source = Kenneth Randolph Taylor
Hymn Source = Hymnal and Liturgies of the Moravian Church (Unitas Fratrum) (1923), Moravian Church in America
Original German Words (1735) by Anna Schindler (later Dober) (1713-1739)
English Translation (1740) by John Wesley (1703-1791)
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1. Lamb of God, who Thee receive,
Who is Thee desire to live,
Cry by day and night to Thee,
as Thou art, so let us be.
2. Fix, oh, fix our wavering mind,
To Thy Cross us firmly bind;
Gladly now we would be clean;
Cleanse our hearts from every sin.
3. Dust and ashes though we be,
Full of guilt and misery;
Thine we are, Thou Son of God,
Take the purchase of Thy blood.
4. Sinners, who in Thee believe,
Everlasting life receive;
They with joy behold Thy face,
Triumph in Thy pardoning grace.
5. Life deriving from Thy death,
They proceed from faith to faith,
Walk the new, the living way,
Leading to eternal day.
6. Praise on earth to Thee be given,
Never-ceasing praise in heaven;
Boundless wisdom, power divine,
Love unspeakable are Thine.
Above: Adoration of the Lamb, by Jan van Eyck
Image in the Public Domain
Hymn Source = Hymnal and Liturgies of the Moravian Church (Unitas Fratrum) (1923), Moravian Church in America
Original German Words (1738) by Nicholas Ludwig von Zinzendorf (1700-1760) and Anna Nitschmann (1715-1760)
English Translation (1740) by John Wesley (1703-1791)
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1. We pray Thee, wounded Lamb of God,
Cleanse us in Thy atoning blood;
Grant us, by faith, to view Thy Cross,
Then life of death is gain to us.
2. Take our poor hearts, and let them be
For ever closet to all but Thee;
Seal Thou our breasts, and let us wear
That pledge of love for ever there.
3. First-born of many brethren, Thou,
To Thee both earth and heaven must bow;
Help us to Thee our all to give,
Thine may we die, Thine may we live.
Above: Cross and Crown
Image in the Public Domain
Hymn Source = Common Service Book of the Lutheran Church (1917), United Lutheran Church in America (1918-1962) and its immediate predecessors
Original German Words (1735) by Nicholas Ludwig von Zinzendorf (1700-1760) and Johann Nitschmann, Jr. (1712-1783)
English Translation (1740) by John Wesley (1703-1791), altered
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1. Jesus, Thou wounded Lamb of God,
O wash me in Thy cleansing Blood;
Give me to know Thy love; then pain
Is sweet, and life or death is gain.
2. Take my poor heart, and let it be
For ever closed to all but Thee.
Seal Thou my breast, and let me wear
That pledge of love for ever there.
3. What are our works but sin and death,
Till Thou Thy quickening Spirit breathe?
Thou giv’st the power Thy grace to move;
O wondrous grace! O boundless love!
4. How can it be, Thou heavenly King,
That Thou shouldst us to glory bring,
Make slaves the partners of Thy throne,
Decked with a never-fading crown?
5. Ah, Lord, enlarge our scanty thought
To know the wonders Thou hast wrought;
Unloose our stammering tongues, to tell
Thy love immense, unsearchable!
Above: Diocesan Confirmation, the Cathedral of St. Philip, Atlanta, Georgia, December 14, 2014
Image Source = Bill Monk, Episcopal Diocese of Atlanta
Hymn Source = Lutheran Book of Worship (1978)
Original German Words (1657) by Johann Scheffler (1624-1677)
English Translation (1739) by John Wesley (1703-1791)
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1. Thee will I love, my strength, my tow’r;
Thee will I love, my joy, my crown!
Thee will I love with all my pow’r,
In all thy works, and thee alone;
Thee will I love, till the pure fire
Fills all my soul with chaste desire.
2. I thank thee, uncreated sun,
That thy bright beams on me have shined;
I thank thee, who has overthrown
My foes and healed my wounded mind;
I thank thee, whose enliv’ning voice
Bids my freed heart in thee rejoice.
3. Uphold me in the doubted race,
Nor suffer me again to stray;
Strengthen my feet with steady pace
Still to press forward in thy way,
That all my pow’rs, with all their might,
In thy sole glory may unite.
4. Thee will I love, my joy, my crown;
Thee will I love, my Lord, my God!
Thee will I love, beneath thy frown
Or smile, thy scepter or thy rod.
What though my flesh and heart decay?
Thee shall I love in endless day!
Above: Bishop Augustus Gottlieb Spangenberg (1704-1792)
Image in the Public Domain
Hymn Source = Hymnal and Liturgies of the Moravian Church (Unitas Fratrum) (1923), of the Moravian Church in America
Original German Words (1734) by Spangenberg
English Translation (1741) by John Wesley (1703-1791)
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1. What can we offer Thee, O Lord,
For all the wonders of Thy grace!
Fain would we Thy great Name record,
And worthily set forth Thy praise.
Dear object of our faith and love,
To Whom our more than all we owe,
Open the fountain from above,
And let it on our spirits flow.
2. So shall our lives Thy power proclaim,
Thy grace for every sinner free,
Till all mankind shall know Thy Name,
Shall all stretch out their hands to Thee.
Open a door, which earth and hell
May strive to shut, but strive in vain;
Grant that Thy word may richly dwell
Among us, and our fruit remain!
3. O multiply Thy sowers’ seed,
And fruit we every hour shall bear,
Throughout the world Thy Gospel spread,
Thy everlasting grace declare.
We all, in perfect love renewed,
Shall know the greatness of Thy power,
Stand in the temple of our God
As pillars, and go out no more.
GATHERED PRAYERS 
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