What is the Didache? Click here to read about in the Catholic Encyclopedia on the New Advent site. Excerpts from the Didache and other important Catholic writers from St. Paul to Pope John Paul II can be found in The Heart of Catholicism: Essential Writings of the Church from St. Paul to John Paul II, compiled and edited by Theodore E. James, Ph.D
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Paraphrase used as a hymn:
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 us food for all our days,
Giving in Christ the Bread eternal;
Thine is the pow’r, 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 gather’d
Into Thy kingdom by Thy Son.