We Praise You, Father, For Your Gift CWB I 859

This is a text by the Benedictine Nuns of St Mary’s Abbey in West Maling.

I have it in RitualSong, and other GIA hymnals, as a chant (TE LUCIS ANTE TERMINUM) for night prayer. In CWB it is set to a French tune, AUCTORITATE SAECULI.

The text is here.

Dusk is indeed a gift and a foreshadowing.

I found chords at Small Church Music.

I can’t find any clips with the tune from CWB, but this is a nice chanted setting:

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