My God, accept my heart this day
My God, accept my heart this day. Matthew Bridges* (1800-1894).
First published in Bridges’s Hymns of the Heart, for the use of Catholics (1848), a book that appeared in the same year as Bridges’ conversion to Roman Catholicism. It was entitled ‘Confirmation’. It became widely known after its printing in the Appendix (1868) to the First Edition of A&M, with a doxology added, and one of Bridges’s original stanzas omitted:
My God, accept my heart this day, And make it always Thine,That I from Thee no more may stray, No more from Thee decline.
Before the Cross of Him Who died, Behold, I prostrate fall;Let every sin be crucified, And Christ be all in all.
Anoint me with Thy heavenly...
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