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This document contains the lyrics to the hymn "Praise to the Holiest in the Height" in six stanzas. The hymn praises God for His wisdom and love in sending His Son to take on human flesh to redeem humanity and defeat sin and death through His suffering, death, and resurrection. It highlights Jesus' agony in the garden and His crucifixion as acts of teaching humanity to suffer and die with Him. The lyrics proclaim the wonder and surety of God's ways.

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This document contains the lyrics to the hymn "Praise to the Holiest in the Height" in six stanzas. The hymn praises God for His wisdom and love in sending His Son to take on human flesh to redeem humanity and defeat sin and death through His suffering, death, and resurrection. It highlights Jesus' agony in the garden and His crucifixion as acts of teaching humanity to suffer and die with Him. The lyrics proclaim the wonder and surety of God's ways.

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287 • Praise To The Holiest In The Height

Tune: NEWMAN (CM) Text: Blessed Cardinal Newman (†1890)

       
       
1. Praise to the Ho - liest in the height, and in the
2. O lov - ing wis - dom of our God! When all was
3. O wis - est love! that flesh and blood, which did in
4. And that the high - est gift of grace should flesh and
5. O gener - ous love! that he who smote in man for
6. And in the gar - den se - cret - ly, and on the

           
       


       
       
depth be praise; in all his words most
sin and shame, a sec - ond Ad - am
Ad - am fail, should strive a - fresh a -
blood re - fine: God's pres - ence and his
man the foe, the dou - ble ag - o -
cross on high, should teach his breth - ren,

           
  

        
     
won - der - ful, most sure in all his ways!
to the fight and to the res - cue came.
gainst the foe, should strive, and should pre - vail.
ver - y self, and es - sence all - di - vine.
ny in Man for man should un - der - go.
and in - spire to suf - fer and to die.

             

      

The Vatican II Hymnal contains the complete Readings (Years A, B, & C), Sung Propers (with Latin incipit), Responsorial Psalms,
Gospel Acclamations, Mass Settings for the new translation of the Roman Missal, and much more. [ ccwatershed.org/vatican ]

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