Jesus’ Prayer for the Church CWB I 726

This is another ICEL song that the editors of CWB got from the Resource Collection and Service Music for the Liturgy, which I note is still available from GIA.

The text was by Ralph Wright and the music Austin Rennick, both Benedictine monks and English hymn writers.

CWB says the text is from John 17 (actually 15). I can find little trace of this hymn on the net.

I made up some very basic chords and stuck to Antiphon 1. Antiphon 2 uses 1 Tim 2:11 and Antiphon 3, Psalm 24:1.

Antiphon 1

As the Father has loved me so have I loved you;

You will remain in my love.

Antiphon 2

If we die with Christ, we shall live with him.

Antiphon 3

I hope in the Lord, I trust his Word.

1 O Father, it is my desire that those you gave to me

Should be with me, that where I am my friends may also be.

2 To them I have revealed your love, your truth, your life, your way,

And now a word abides in them which shall not pass away.

3 The glory that you gave to me to them I have now given

That so they may be one on earth as we are one in heaven.

4 Do not, O Father, take from them the world your hands have made,

But keep them from the evil one from all that is depraved.

5 And teach them how to give their lives like grain into the ground,

That through them others may believe and new life may abound.

6 O Father, it is my desire that all may live as one;

With you in me and I in them that so your reign may come.

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