Eternal, Boundless Three in One

(Holy Trinity Fresco from Saint Mary Koumbelidiki Church - found here)

Eternal, boundless Three in One,
whose might and power makes all things,
ordaining seasons, months, and years:
before all time itself you are,

Sufficient in yourself alone,
all blest, you live in perfect joy,
all simple, provident, and pure,
you hold the heavens and the earth.

O Father, source of ev’ry grace,
O Son, the Father’s splendid Light,
O Holy Spirit of them both,
eternal, perfect charity,

Make us, to whom you give the crown
of true adoption as your own,
resplendent temples filled with love,
that we may please you evermore.

O living Light, grant us to join
the angels in your heav’nly court,
that with them we may ever sing
our grateful praises of your love. Amen.

Tune: FULDA, 8 8 8 8
Music: attributed to William Gardiner, 1770-1853
or Mode VIII, melody 118; Liber Hymnarius, Solesmes, 1983
Text: Immensa et una, Trinitas, Anselmo Lentini, O.S.B, 1901-1989

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