Hymn: O how blessed is the priest’s life

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O how blessed is the priest’s life,
Christ to him is all in all:
All His clothing, food, and dwelling,
And His portion therewithal.

O how blessed is the priest’s life,
Christ to him is all in all:
All his clothing, food, and dwelling,
And his portion therewithal.

2

All the clothing of his service
Is the beauty of the Lord;
Glorious splendor do his garments,
Breast and shoulder-piece afford.

O how blessed is the priest’s life,
Christ to him is all in all:
All his clothing, food, and dwelling,
And his portion therewithal.

3

When in sacrifice he offers
Christ to God as God has willed,
Then as food he doth enjoy Him
And is with His riches filled.

O how blessed is the priest’s life,
Christ to him is all in all:
All his clothing, food, and dwelling,
And his portion therewithal.

4

Putting on the Lord as clothing,
Christ without he doth express;
Eating, drinking, with Him mingled,
Christ within doth him possess.

O how blessed is the priest’s life,
Christ to him is all in all:
All his clothing, food, and dwelling,
And his portion therewithal.

5

Holy, glorious is their dwelling,
’Tis the increase of the Lord;
Here the priests built up together
Unto God a house afford.

O how blessed is the priest’s life,
Christ to him is all in all:
All his clothing, food, and dwelling,
And his portion therewithal.

6

All his portion, all his living,
Everything the priests possess—
All is Christ and Christ forever,
In His all-inclusiveness.

O how blessed is the priest’s life,
Christ to him is all in all:
All his clothing, food, and dwelling,
And his portion therewithal.

O how blessed is the priest’s life