The Church’s one foundation
Is Jesus Christ her Lord;
She is His new creation
By water and the Word:
From heav’n He came and sought her
To be His holy Bride;
With His own blood He bought her
And for her life He died.
Elect from every nation
Yet one o’er all the earth
Her charter of salvation
One Lord
one faith
one birth;
One holy Name she blesses
Partakes one holy food
And to one hope she presses
With every grace endued.
’Mid toil and tribulation
And tumult of her war
She waits the consummation
Of peace for evermore;
Till
with the vision glorious
Her longing eyes are blest
And the great Church victorious
Shall be the Church at rest.
Yet she on earth hath union
With God the Three in One
And mystic sweet communion
With those whose rest is won:
O happy ones and holy!
Lord
give us grace that we
Like them
the meek and lowly
In love may dwell with Thee.
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