When I blogged this text by William Henry Turton here, I noted three variant titles. Here’s a fourth. I found a fifth with “Christ” for “Lord” as well. That a song praying for Christian unity has been tweaked into so many variants, probably means we should sing this prayer more often.
CWB II sets this to SONG 1 by Orlando Gibbons. This is the modernised variant text from CWBII.
1 O Lord, at your first Eucharist you prayed
that all your Church might be for ever one;
grant us at every Eucharist to say
with longing heart and soul, ‘Your will be done’:
O may we all one bread, one body be
through this blessed sacrament of unity.2 For all your church, O Lord, we intercede
make all our sad divisions soon to cease:
draw us the nearer each to each, we plead,
by drawing all to you, O Prince of Peace.
Thus may we all one bread, one body be
through this blessed sacrament of unity.3 We also pray for wand’rers from your fold:
O bring them back, Good Shepherd of the sheep
back to the faith which saints believed of old,
back to the Church which still one faith does keep.
Soon may we all one bread, one body be
through this blessed sacrament of unity.4 So, Lord, at length when sacraments shall cease,
may we be one with all your Church above;
one with your saints in one unbroken peace,
one with your saints in one unbounded love:
more blessed still, in peace and love to be
one with the Trinity in unity!