O Lord our God, the author and giver of all good things,
we thank you for all your mercies, and for your loving care over all your creatures.
We bless you for the gift of life, for your protection round about us,
for your guiding upon us, and the tokens of your love within us.
We thank you for friendship and duty, for good hopes and precious memories,
for the joys that cheer us and the trials that teach us to trust in you.
Most of all we thank you for saving knowledge of your Son our saviour;

Urkraft des Fortschritts in unserer Kultur,
oftmals missbraucht, doch mit gesegneter Spur,
wo es bewegt war vom Geist und durchdrungen vom Licht
das heut noch die Starre der K?lte aufbricht.
Energie aus Verbrennung erleichtert das Leben,
hat vielen Arbeit und Brot schon gegeben.
Gelobt sei Gott f?r des Feuers w?rmende Kraft,
f?r Energie, die Licht und Beweglichkeit schafft.
Entflamme die Herzen, bewege den Geist,
durch das Feuer der Liebe, die Christus verheißt.

Good Lord, most high almighty
to you all praised is due,
all glory, honour and blessing,
belong alone to you;
there is no man whose lips
are fit to frame your name.

Be praised, my Lord God,
in and through all your creatures
especially among them,
through noble Brother Sun
by whom you light the day
in his radiant splendid beauty
he reminds us, Lord, of you.

Be praised, my Lord, through Sister Moon and all the stars.
You have made the sky shine in their lovely light.

May none of God's wonderful works keep silence
night or morning.
Bright stars, high mountains, the depths of the seas,
sources of rushing rivers:
may all these break into song as we sing
in Father, Son and Holy Spirit.
May all the angels in the heavens reply: Amen! Amen! Amen!
Power, praise, honour, eternal glory to God, the only Giver of grace.
Amen! Amen! Amen!

Third-century hymn