Come, God Creator, Holy Ghost
KOMM, GOTT SCHOEPFER HEILIGER GEIST8.8.8.7
Words: Latin hymn, 9th century (Veni Creator Spiritus)Translated by Martin Luther and Leonard Woolsey Bacon, 1883Music: KOMM, GOTT SCHOEPFER HEILIGER GEIST, Latin, 1524
Practice player: melody only, played by your browser. The intro is the closing line of the tune, as many churches play it. Melody from the Open Hymnal Project (public domain).
Words
Come, God Creator, Holy Ghost,
And visit Thou these souls of men;
Fill them with graces, as Thou dost,
Thy creatures make pure again.
For Comforter Thy name we call.
Sweet gift of God most high above,
A holy unction to us all
O Fount of life, Fire of love.
Our minds illumine and refresh,
Deep in our hearts let love burn bright;
Thou know'st the weakness of our flesh;
And strengthen us with Thy might.
Thou with Thy wondrous sev'nfold gifts
The finger art of God's right hand;
The Father's Word Thou sendest swift
On tongues of fire to each land.
Drive far from us our wily foe;
Grant us Thy blesséd peace within,
That in Thy footsteps we may go,
And shun the dark ways of sin.
Teach us the Father well to know,
Likewise His only Son our Lord,
Thyself to us believing show,
Spirit of both, aye adored
Praise to the Father, and the Son
Who from the dead is risen again;
Praise to the Comforter be done
Both now and ever. Amen.
Scripture
The Bible passages this hymn draws on, in the King James Version.
And I will pray the Father, and he shall give you another Comforter, that he may abide with you for ever;
And when the day of Pentecost was fully come, they were all with one accord in one place. And suddenly there came a sound from heaven as of a rushing mighty wind, and it filled all the house where they were sitting. And there appeared unto them cloven tongues like as of fire, and it sat upon each of them. And they were all filled with the Holy Ghost, and began to speak with other tongues, as the Spirit gave them utterance.
But the manifestation of the Spirit is given to every man to profit withal. For to one is given by the Spirit the word of wisdom; to another the word of knowledge by the same Spirit; To another faith by the same Spirit; to another the gifts of healing by the same Spirit; To another the working of miracles; to another prophecy; to another discerning of spirits; to another divers kinds of tongues; to another the interpretation of tongues: But all these worketh that one and the selfsame Spirit, dividing to every man severally as he will.
Suggested for these Masses
- 2nd Sunday of Easter (Divine Mercy Sunday), Year B Apr 4, 2027
- 4th Sunday of Easter, Year B Apr 18, 2027
- 6th Sunday of Easter, Year B May 2, 2027
- Pentecost Sunday May 16, 2027
- 2nd Sunday of Easter (Divine Mercy Sunday), Year C Apr 23, 2028
- 4th Sunday of Easter, Year C May 7, 2028
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