HYMN DAY! The composer and writer of this Victorian-era communion hymn aren’t known, but its words are beautiful: “O Lord, I Am Not Worthy.”

O Lord, I am not worthy
That thou should’st come to me;
But speak the word of comfort,
My spirit healed shall be.

And humbly I’ll receive thee,
The bridegroom of my soul,
No more by sin to grieve thee
Or fly thy sweet control.

Eternal Holy Spirit,
Unworthy though I be,
Prepare me to receive him
And trust the Word to me.

Increase my faith, dear Jesus,
In thy real presence here,
And make me feel most deeply
That thou to me art near.

Happy morning, sweet the hour,
That on which Thou cam’st to me,
Beauteous, too, that glorious power,
Which allures my soul to Thee.

Thou for whom I’ve long been sighing,
Jesus now, at length Thou’rt mine,
In Thy sweet embraces lying,
Press, oh, press my heart to Thine.

Let not death nor life asunder
Rend the bond that makes me Thine;
Ah, how blissful is the wonder
That uplifts my heart to Thine.