Prayer · Catholic devotion
Afternoon Prayer
O Thou true life of all that live!
Who dost, unmov'd, all motion sway;
Who dost the morn and evening give,
And through its changes guide the day:
Thy light upon our evening pour,—
So may our souls no sunset see;
But death to us an open door
To an eternal morning be.
Father of mercies! hear our cry;
Hear us, O sole-begotten Son!
Who, with the Holy Ghost most high,
Reignest while endless ages run.
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Text: hymn at None, translated by Edward Caswall, Lyra Catholica (London, 1849), p. 12. Source page: archive.org · Afternoon Prayer ↗.
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