Lord, teach us how to pray aright
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Lord, teach us how to pray aright With reverence and with fear; Though dust and ashes in thy sight, We may, we must, draw near. We perish if we cease from prayer: 0 grant us power to pray; And, when to meet thee we prepare, Lord, meet us by the way. God of all grace, we bring to thee A broken, contrite heart; Give what thine eye delights to see, Truth in the inward part; Faith in the only Sacrifice That can for sin atone, To cast our hopes, to fix our eyes, On Christ, on Christ alone; Patience to watch and wait and weep, Though mercy long delay; Courage our fainting souls to keep, And trust thee though thou slay. Give these, and then thy will be done; Thus, strengthened with all might, We, through thy Spirit and thy Son, Shall pray, and pray aright. |
Rite et cum reverentia orare nos doce; sumus tibi cinis mera, sed ire fas prope. Dempta prece peribimus: potentem fac eam, et obviam euntibus i nobis obviam. Contritas tibi ferimus et fractas animas; sit nobis, qua gaudes, Deus, interna veritas. Uni fidamus hostiae, peccata qui luat, et oculosque votaque Christus retineat. Feramus, at cum fletibus, seram clementiam et exigentem haud secus te poenam ultimam. Sic fiat ut placet tibi, potentiumque ope nos Spiritus et Filii orabimus bene. |