THE CHURCH'S ONE FOUNDATION

 A HYMN FOR THE 4TH SUNDAY IN LENT

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.

2

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.

3

’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.

4

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.