Father We Thank Thee (Rendez à Dieu)

Voicing:
Mixed Choir → SATB

Accompaniment:
Unaccompanied

Occasion:

Proper of Time → The Weeks in Ordinary Time → General Ordinary Time
Proper of Time → The Solemnities of the Lord during Ordinary Time → The Most Holy Body and Blood of Christ (Corpus Christi) → Cycle A
Proper of Time → The Solemnities of the Lord during Ordinary Time → The Most Holy Body and Blood of Christ (Corpus Christi) → Cycle B
Proper of Time → The Solemnities of the Lord during Ordinary Time → The Most Holy Body and Blood of Christ (Corpus Christi) → Cycle C
Communion

Publication Information:
GIA Publications — G-2725
ed. by Anne Heider

Text Information:
Reference: from the Didache, c. 110

Lyrics:

Father, we thank thee who hast planted Thy holy name within our hearts. 
Knowledge and faith and life immortal Jesus thy Son to us imparts. 
Thou, Lord, didst make all for thy pleasure, Didst give man food for all our days. 
Giving in Christ the Bread eternal; Thine is the power, be thine the praise.

Watch o'er thy church, O Lord, in mercy, Save it from evil, guard it still. 
Perfect it in thy love, unite it, Cleansed and conformed unto thy will. 
As grain, once scattered on the hillsides, Was in this broken bread made one, 
So from all lands thy Church be gathered Into thy kingdom by thy Son.

Submitted by: Anthony DiCello Added: Aug 25, 2022 Last updated: Dec 13, 2022