This addition to Breaking Bread for 2025 is a text I have already blogged here from Gather Australia, where it was set to RICHMOND. OCP have used Richard Runciman Terry‘s public domain tune BILLING in a copyrighted arrangement by Andrew Wright.
The text remains by John Henry Newman and so is PD as well..
OCP’s version can be purchased there.
My backing is more fake wind up BIAB organ.
Praise to the Holiest in the height,
And in the depth be praise:
In all His words most wonderful;
Most sure in all His ways.
O loving wisdom of our God,
When all was sin and shame,
He, the last Adam, to the fight
And to the rescue came.
O wisest love! that flesh and blood
Which did in Adam fail,
Should strive afresh against the foe,
Should strive and should prevail.
And that a higher gift than grace
Should flesh and blood refine,
God’s presence, and His very self
And essence all-divine.
O generous love! that He, who smote
In man for man the foe,
The double agony in man
For man should undergo.
And in the garden secretly,
And on the cross on high,
Should teach His brethren, and inspire
To suffer and to die.
Praise to the Holiest in the height,
And in the depth be praise:
In all His words most wonderful;
Most sure in all His ways.