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To: Charles Henrickson
Thanks for the ping, Pastor.

When I was a kid, I used to love singing Now Thanks We All Our God while at Mass. It was one of my favorite hymns. One that I could still sing because I remember the meoldy exactly.

Now thank we all our God, with heart and hands and voices,
Who wondrous things has done, in Whom this world rejoices;
Who from our mothers’ arms has blessed us on our way
With countless gifts of love, and still is ours today.

O may this bounteous God through all our life be near us,
With ever joyful hearts and blessèd peace to cheer us;
And keep us in His grace, and guide us when perplexed;
And free us from all ills, in this world and the next!

All praise and thanks to God the Father now be given;
The Son and Him Who reigns with Them in highest Heaven;
The one eternal God, Whom earth and Heaven adore;
For thus it was, is now, and shall be evermore.


5 posted on 03/12/2007 9:44:37 AM PDT by AlbionGirl
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To: AlbionGirl; StrictTime
Just to be clear, it was not Paul Gerhardt but his contemporary, Martin Rinckart, who wrote, "Now Thank We All Our God" (Nun danket alle Gott).
6 posted on 03/12/2007 9:59:53 AM PDT by Charles Henrickson (Lutheran pastor, LCMS)
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