Father, We Praise Thee
- Words:
- Latin Hymn, Attr. to Gregory the Great, Tr. by Percy Dearmer
- Music:
- Paris Antiphoner, Arr. by La Feillèe's Nouvelle Methode
Sheet music
- 1Father, we praise Thee, now the night is over;Active and watchful, stand we all before Thee;Singing, we offer prayer and meditation:Thus we adore Thee.Monarch of all things, fit us for Thy mansions;Banish our weakness, health and wholeness sending;Bring us to heaven where Thy saints unitedJoy without ending.
- 2All holy Father, Son and equal Spirit,Trinity blessed, send us Thy salvation;Thine is the glory gleaming and resoundingThru all creation.
In the hymnals
- Written in 1906, the words are in 95 hymnals indexed by Hymnary.org. Their history →
Words, music and setting are in the public domain. The sheet music and words are from PDHymns.com. The piano is the FluidR3 General MIDI sound font (MIT licence). How many hymnals print a hymn, and when it was written, is from Hymnary.org.