ADORATION

       You are worthy, O Lord our God, to receive glory and honour and power, because you created all things; by your will they were created and have their being!

       Revelation 4.11

       Glory be to the Father, and to the Son,

       and to the Holy Spirit:

       As it was in the beginning, is now,

       and ever shall be, world without end. Amen.

       Great and marvellous are your deeds,

       O Lord God, sovereign over all;

       Just and true are your ways,

       O King of the ages.

       Who shall not fear you, Lord,

       and do homage to your name?

       For you alone are holy.

       All nations shall come and worship

       before you, for your just decrees

       stand revealed.

       Revelation 15.3-4

       We praise thee, O God:

       we acknowledge thee to be the Lord.

       All the earth doth worship thee: the Father everlasting.

       To thee all Angels cry aloud: the Heavens,

       and all the Powers therein.

       To thee Cherubin, and Seraphin: continually do cry.

       Holy, Holy, Holy: Lord God of Sabaoth;

       Heaven and earth are full of the Majesty of thy glory.

       From the Te Deum, Book of Common Prayer (1662)

       O come, let us worship God our king,

       O come, let us worship and fall down before Christ,

       our king and our God.

       O come, let us worship and fall down

       before the very Christ, our king and our God.

       O come, let us worship and fall down before him.

       Liturgy of St John Chrysostom (4th century)

       O Father, give the spirit power to climb

       to the fountain of all light, and be purified.

       Break through the mists of earth,

       the weight of the clod.

       Shine forth in splendour, thou that art calm weather

       and quiet resting place for faithful souls.

       To see thee is the end and the beginning.

       Thou carriest us, and thou dost go before.

       Thou art the journey and the journey’s end.

       Boethius (480–524)

       My whole heart I lay upon the altar of thy praise, an

       whole burnt-offering of praise I offer to thee.

       Let the flame of thy love set on fire my whole heart,

       let nought in me be left to myself,

       nought wherein I may look to myself,

       but may I wholly burn towards thee,

       wholly be on fire towards thee,

       wholly love thee,

       as though set on fire by thee.

       St Augustine (354–430)

       Let all the world in every corner sing,

       My God and King!

       The heavens are not too high,

       His praise may thither fly;

       The earth is not too low,

       His praises there may grow.

       Let all the world in every corner sing,

       My God and King!

       George Herbert (1593–1632)

       God, great and wonderful,

       who hast created the heavens,

       dwelling in the light and beauty thereof,

       who hast made the earth,

       revealing thyself in every flower that opens;

       let not mine eyes be blind to thee,

       neither let mine heart be dead,

       but teach me to praise thee,