Commontide

After Receiving Communion

O Lord Jesus Christ, in this wonderful Sacrament you have given us a memorial of your passion: Grant us, we pray, so to venerate the sacred mysteries of your Body and Blood, that we may ever perceive within ourselves the fruit of your redemption; who live and reign with the Father and the Holy Spirit, one God, for ever and ever. Amen.

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Hymnal

Forty days and forty nights

Particularly Appropriate During Lent

№ 30 · THE GESUALDO SIX · Liturgical Year — Lent · G. H. Smyttan, 1822-70

1.Forty days and forty nights
Thou wast fasting in the wild,
Forty days and forty nights
Tempted and yet undefiled.

2.Sunbeams scorching all the day,
Chilly dewdrops nightly shed,
Prowling beasts about Thy way,
Stones Thy pillow, earth Thy bed.

3.Let us Thine endurance share,
And awhile from joys abstain,
With Thee watching unto prayer,
Strong with Thee to suffer pain.

4.And if Satan, vexing sore,
Flesh or spirit should assail,
Thou, his vanquisher before,
Grant we may not faint nor fail.

5.So shall we have peace divine,
Holier gladness ours shall be,
Round us too shall angels shine,
Such as ministered to Thee.

6.Keep, O keep us, Saviour dear,
Ever constant by Thy side,
That with Thee we may appear
At the eternal Eastertide.