A Hymn For Father's Day - For All Our Faithful Fathers

The Meyer Family c. 1990


For All Our Faithful Fathers

Tune: 76 76D - “The Church’s One Foundation"

 

For all our faithful fathers,

      We thank and praise You, Lord,

Who taught us of Your mercy

      In water and in Word;

Who brought us to Your Table

      So that we would be fed

Christ’s Blood and Body broken,

      In wine and in the bread.

 

Through Cain and Abel, Adam

      Began all fatherhood.

This holy, strong vocation

      Combined with motherhood

You work through men and women,

      A fam’ly to create,

The birth of sons and daughters -

      Small lives to celebrate.

 

We pray for men as fathers,

      That You would keep them strong,

Resisting all temptation

      ‘Gainst children to do wrong.

Keep fathers bold and faithful,

      Christ’s mercy to receive,

And teaching to their children

      In Jesus, to believe.

 

To Father, Son, and Spirit

      All thanks and praises be.

You made, and saved, and blessed us –

      Almighty Trinity!

You give us gifts of fathers;

      Help us these men to love,

To honor and to cherish

      These gifts from you above. 

 

Rev. Jonathan F. Meyer, © 2026
In loving memory of my dad, Walter Meyer (1943-2000)
 

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