PRAISE — INTRODUCTION

Blessed art Thou, Lord, God of Israel,
our Father,
from everlasting to everlasting.
Thine, O Lord,
is the greatness and the power,
the triumph and the victory,
the praise and the strength,
for Thou rulest over all
in heaven and on earth.
At Thy face every king is troubled,
and every nation.
Thine, O Lord, is the kingdom
and the supremacy over all,
and over all rule.
With Thee is wealth, and glory is from
Thy countenance;
Thou rulest over all, O Lord;
the Ruler of all rule;
and in Thine hand is strength
and power,
and in Thine hand to give to all things
greatness and strength.
And now; Lord, we confess to Thee
and we praise Thy glorious Name.

We are satisfied with Thy mercy,
O Lord,
in the morning.
Blessed art Thou, O Lord,
who broughtest forth from the water
creeping things of life,
and whales,
and winged fowl.

Be Thou exalted, O God,
above the heavens,
and Thy glory above all the earth.
By Thy Ascension, O Lord,
draw us too after Thee,
that we savour of what is above,
not of things on the earth.

By the marvellous mystery
of the Holy Body and precious Blood,
on the evening of this day,
Lord, have mercy.