O Lord Our God, with Earnest Care

O Lord our God

with ear­nest care

With con­trite fast

and tear

and pray­er

And works of mer­cy and of love

We pray for par­don from ab­ove.

Be pre­sent now

be pre­sent here

And mark Thy Church’s fall­ing tear;

And own the grief that fills her eyes

In mourn­ing her ini­qui­ties.

Oh

by Thy grace be par­don won

For sins that for­mer years have done;

And let Thy mer­cy guard us still

From crimes that threat­en fu­ture ill.

So mor­ti­fy our ev­ery sense

Through grace of out­ward ab­sti­nence

That from each stain and spot of sin

Our souls may keep their fast with­in.

O Fa­ther

that we ask be done

Through Je­sus Christ

Thine on­ly Son;

Who

with the Ho­ly Ghost and Thee

Shall live and reign eter­nal­ly!