Martin Schalling's great hymn "Lord, Thee I Love with All My Heart," was one of the hymns to be sung during the distribution of Holy Communion yesterday at my church. And while ordinarily I favor only good eucharistic hymns being sung during Holy Communion, I make exception for certain hymns that do not strictly fall into that eucharistic category. "Lord, Thee I Love" is such a fine prayer to Jesus that, though it contain no explicit doctrine of the Holy Supper, it might as well be called a eucharistic hymn. Consider a line like this from the first stanza, "I pray Thee ne'er from me depart," which could almost be an alternate version of a line from the Anima Christi. Or consider the refrain with which the first and second stanzas culminate: "Lord, Jesus Christ, My God and Lord, my God and Lord." It is as though the communicant were standing with Saint Thomas before our Eucharistic Lord, risen from the dead and showing us the marks of His