Kom heyliger geyst herre Gott
The Spirit's Gathering Grace
A prayer for the Holy Spirit to kindle love and unite the faithful across all nations.
Come, Holy Spirit, Lord God, and fill the hearts, minds, and spirits of your faithful with the goodness of your grace. Kindle your fervent love within them. O Lord, by the radiance of your light you have gathered people from every language into the faith, so let this be sung in your praise: Alleluia. Alleluia.
The Light of True Doctrine
A petition for divine illumination, the knowledge of the Father, and steadfast faith in Christ alone.
O holy Light, precious treasure, let the word of life shine for us.✦ And teach us to know God rightly and to call him Father from the heart.✦ O Lord, guard us from false teaching, so that we seek no other teacher1 than Jesus: to believe in Him with true faith and trust Him with all our strength.2 Alleluia, alleluia.
Strength for the Spiritual Journey
A plea for the Spirit's comfort and power to sustain the believer through life's struggles and death.
O holy fire, sweet comfort, help us now to be joyful and unafraid. Help us remain steadfast in your service and not be driven away by hardship. O Lord, prepare us by your power and strengthen the weakness of our flesh, so that we may fight bravely here and press on to you through death and life. Alleluia, alleluia.
Read the original Latin
Kom heyliger geyst herre Gott erful mit deyner gnaden gutt deyner gleubgen hertz mut vnnd synn / deyn brunstig lieb entzund yn yhn O herr durch deynes liechtes glast / zu dem glauben versamlet hast / das volck auß aller wellt zungen / das sey dyr her zu lob gesungen / Alleluia. Alleluia.
Du heiliges liecht edler hort / laß vns leuchten des lebens wort. Vnd lern vns Gott recht erkennen / vonn hertzen vatter yhn nennen. O herr behut vor frembder leer / das wir nicht meister suchen meer. Denn Jhesum mit rechten glawben / vnd yhm aus gantzer macht vertrawen. Alleluia Alleluia.
Du heylige brunst susser trost / nu hylff vns frölich vnd getrost. In deym dienst bestendig bleyben / die trubsall vnns nicht abtreiben. O herr durch dein krafft vns bereyt / vnd sterck des fleisches blodigkeyt. Das wir hie ritterlich ringen / durch tod vnd leben zu dir dryngen. Alleluia Alleluia
Scripture echoes
- ↩Phil.2.16;1John.1.1 — holding fast to the word of life, so that I may have reason to boast on the day of Christ, because I did not run in vain or labor in vain. 1John.1.1 — What was from the beginning, what we have heard, what we have seen with our own eyes, what we gazed upon and our hands touched, concerning the Word of life—
- ↩Rom.8.15;Gal.4.6 — For you did not receive a spirit of slavery again to fear, but you received a spirit of adoption, in which we cry, "Abba, Father." Gal.4.6 — And because you are sons, God has sent the Spirit of his Son into our hearts, crying, 'Abba, Father.'
Notes
Erfurt Enchiridion (Early Lutheran Hymns) companion
Never lose the rhythm again
Chosen Portion delivers your morning, midday and night office to your phone — the Hours, without the bells.
Chosen Portion is a modern Book of Hours: it turns the fixed-hour structure this collection preserves into scheduled, tappable daily prayer on your phone.
- Three daily prayer moments scheduled around your real calendar, not a monastery's
- Psalms and historic prayers sequenced for you — no page-flipping or decision fatigue
- A visible streak of completed offices, so the rhythm compounds instead of collapsing