Lord, Help Us Ever to Retain

After being raised in the Lutheran Church I have discovered what a wonderful treasure we have in Luther's Small Catechism. You can't study it enough. Thanks to Pastor Weedon for putting his catechism services on the Internet as his congregation sang a hymn I never heard before.

(http://www.lutheran-hymnal.com/online/tlh-288.mid)

"Lord, Help Us Ever to Retain"
by Ludwig Helmbold
Translated by Matthias Loy, 1828-1915

Lord, help us ever to retain
The Catechism's doctrine plain
As Luther taught the Word of Truth
In simple style to tender youth.

Help us Thy holy Law to learn,
To mourn our sin, and from it turn
In faith to Thee and to Thy Son
And Holy Spirit, Three in One.

Hear us, dear Father, when we pray
For needed help from day to day
That as Thy children we may live,
Whom Thou in Baptism didst receive.

Lord, when we fall and sin doth stain,
Absolve and lift us up again;
And through the Sacrament increase
Our faith till we depart in peace.

Text: Ex. 20: 1-17
Author: Ludwig Helmbold, 1594
Translated by: Matthias Loy, 1880, alt.
Titled: "Her Gott, erhalt uns fuer und fuer"
Tune: "Herr Jesu Christ, mein's"
1st Published in: As Hymnodus Sacer
Town: Leipzig, 1625