We praise you, God, for truth received from generations past, for knowledge, gift beyond compare, the ages have amassed. We offer thanks for patient toil of thinkers who assailed the ignorance that darkens truth and keeps its presence veiled. But you have formed the human mind to follow truth beyond old boundaries and beckon us toward knowledge yet unfound. Let neither fear nor weariness subvert the ardent quest that sets our feet on paths untrod and robs our hearts of rest. O Wisdom, source of human thought, in whom our questing ends; O Truth, whose endless mystery all human truth transcends: teach us that, when we offer you the best our minds have wrought, we bring but truth your mind has known, but wisdom you have taught. O Christ, in whom the truth took flesh and dwelt in time and space, in whom God's wisdom walked our ways and wore a human face: the life you lived, the death you died teach knowledge far above our own and call our hearts to see the crown of truth is love.