Reflection on a Favourite Hymn NOW THANK WE ALL OUR GOD


1. Now thank we all our God, With heart and hands and voices; Who wondrous things hath done, In whom his world rejoices; Who from our mother’s arms Hath blessed us on our way With countless gifts of love, And still is ours today.


2. O may this bounteous God Through all our life be near us, With ever joyful hearts And blessed peace to cheer us; And keep us in His grace, And guide us when perplexed, And free us from all ills In this world and the next.


3. All praise and thanks to God The Father now be given, The Son, and Him who reigns With them in highest heaven, The one eternal God, Whom earth and heaven adore; For thus is was, is now, And shall be ever more


Martin Rinkart (1586-1649)


‘Hymn singing has always been part of my life, and that includes psalms and canticles too!’ writes choir-member Gillian Shilling.


As a child I sang through The Little Picture Hymn Book with my mother and loved my grandmother’s white Hymns Ancient and Modern. I revelled in the possession of a harmony version of Songs of Praise when my best friend and I sang alto in the school


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