Let all creation bless the Lord

Let all creation bless the Lord. Carl P. Daw, Jr.* (1944- ). Printed in Daw’s A Year of Grace (Carol Stream, 1990) this is a free adaptation of part of the Canticle Benedicite Omnia Opera, sometimes known as ‘The Song of the Three Holy Children’, or ‘A Song of Creation’ (see ‘Benedicite’*. The origins of the Canticle are in the Apocrypha, which relates the song to Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego in the burning fiery furnace, and places it after verse 23 of Daniel 3. It is used in the Roman Catholic Liturgy of the Hours, and in Anglican and Lutheran worship. Daw’s paraphrase begins at verse 35 of the Apocryha text: ‘O all ye works of the Lord, bless ye the Lord’. It corresponds to the three...