The Cosmologist's Hymn

O Father, Source of life adored,

Creation’s Author and its Lord!
The universe doth well proclaim

Thine everlasting praise and Name.

The word was spoken and ’twas done:

The planets, stars and mighty suns

Fell from thy fingers into space,

Each taking its appointed place.

The galaxies in bright array

Began to dance upon their way

Through regions of uncharted space

In beauty, majesty and grace.

From age to age their dance goes on

In harmony of wordless song

Which “music of the spheres” we call,

That can delight and yet enthrall.

This orb of splendor points to thee

Who art Essential Unity,

Who know not origin nor end,

Whose mystery doth mind transcend.

And while with breathless awe we see

This vast creation’s praise of thee,

We join our voices to adore

Thine endless wisdom evermore.

A hymn taken from yesterday’s Magnificat that I found especially appealing, noting my past interests in astronomy and cosmology.  

N.B. We Catholics worship the Creator, and respect the Creation.  That’s the order.