On the Paten with the Host

The author and composer of this Offertory hymn are unknown, and only one published version has been found.

There is a reference to it here in a booklet produced by a university in India in 1957.
It was included (words only) in the English-language Prayer Book And Hymnal for the International Eucharistic Congress in India in 1964 (ref).
It was included (words only, and attributed as "unknown" in Hosanna, Hymnal of Saint Ignatius Church, Singapore 1991 (ref).
The range of recordings of it on YouTube suggests that it is known in a variety of countries in Asia and the Indian sub-continent.

Geoff from the Six Maddens website has put together some simple sheet music for it, based on the examples on YouTube. A visitor to that site says that it was composed by Varin.

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Examples

Choir with keyboard, words on-screen:

Choir with backing band:

Instrumental - piano, harmonised

Praise-band:

Youth choir with backing track - virtual choir:

Instrumental - keyboard:

Lyrics

On the paten with the Host
I offer up my lowly heart:
All my life, my deeds, my thoughts
Thine shall be as mine Thou art.

In the chalice let me be
A drop of water mingled there.
Lost O Jesus in Thy Love
Thy great sacrifice I share.

All today and ev'ry day
O Jesus let me live in thee,
So that I no longer live
But that thou may'st live through me.

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Offertory hymns