LYRICS
| Meter: | 10 10 10 10
| Writer(s): | Lucy Elizabeth Georgiana Whitmore
| Transl/Adapt: |
| Dates: | 1824
| Bible Refs: | Lk 15:20
| Anglican Hymn Book 1965
| 1965
| 3
| Church Hymnal (Church of Ireland) 1919
| 1919
| 455
| Church Hymnal (Church of Ireland) 1960
| 1960
| 451
| Church Hymnal (Church of Ireland) 2000
| 2000
| 329
| Hymnal Comp to Book of Common Prayer
| 1890
| 24
| The Book of Common Praise
| 1908
| 452
| The Book of Common Praise - Revised
| 1938
| 524
| The Church Hymnal for the Christian Year
| 1917
| 228
| Trinity Hymnal
| 1961
| 311
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MUSIC
| Name: | PENITENTIA
| | Meter: | 10 10 10 10
| Writer(s): | Edward Dearle
| Dates: | 1874
|  Hymns for Worship and Celebration
| 325
| Eb
| Baptist Hymnal
| 391
| Eb
|
Alternate Tunes
| ALL SOULS | 10 10 10 10 | John Yoakley | | LONGWOOD | 10 10 10 10 | Joseph Barnby | | ELLERS | 10 10 10 10 | Edward John Hopkins | |
| 1. Father, again in
Jesus' Name we meet,
and bow in penitence
beneath your feet;
again to you
our feeble voices raise,
to sue for mercy,
and to sing your praise.
2. O we would bless you for
your ceaseless care,
and all your works
from day to day declare;
is not our life with
hourly mercies crowned?
does not your arm
encircle us around?
3. alas, unworthy of
your boundless love,
too oft with careless feet
from you we rove;
but now, encouraged
by your voice, we come,
returning sinners
to a Father's home.
4. O by that Name in whom
all fulness dwells,
O by that love
which ev'ry love excels,
O by that blood
so freely shed for sin,
open blest mercy's gate
and take us in.
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