Ash Wednesday to Pentecost

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Contents

  1. Transfigured Man
  2. Palm Ash and Oil
  3. Courage
  4. The Betrayal
  5. Gethsemane
  6. The Cruel Implements
  7. Protraits
  8. Facets of the Cross
  9. Conommitance
  10. The Spirit of the Cross
  11. The Cross that Made Him King
  12. The Paschal Candle
  13. Resurrection in Christ
  14. The Room and the Tomb
  15. Emmaus
  16. Pentecost
  17. Sacred Candles
  18. Fancies
  19. Light Years
  20. Freed (Song 1)
  21. Eden is Gethsemane
  22. The Apple Wood of Calvary
  23. Chorales
  24. Who is this King?
  25. Garments
  26. The Tarnished Vow
  27. Turn Out, Turn Out
  28. Fast as my Courage Ebbs
  29. Suffering
  30. Ash Wednesday Hymns
  31. Every Day
  32. Rejoice, My Soul!
  33. Fragment
  34. The Love You Showed
  35. I Have Opened My Heart
  36. I Often Falter, I Often Fail
  37. Everywhere I See the Cross Bit In My Heart
  38. When My Lord Fell Down
  39. Mary, Sweet Mother of Our Lord
  40. What Love is Mine
  41. Resurrexit Jesus
  42. He Came Not Perfect
  43. Only in Our Head
  44. The New Spark
  45. Shall I Be Thomas
  46. Eucharist and Resurrection
  47. O Thou, Who At Thine Own Command
  48. The Spirit's Endless Flame
  49. O Wretched Soul
  50. Spirit Descended

He Came Not Perfect

  1. He came not perfect, with angelic grace,
    All marks of pain subsumed in Heavenly pride,
    But with a ghostly sadness in His face,
    Wounds throbbing in His Hands and feet and side:
    For, after death had sealed His victory,
    He knew that He would still face disbelief;
    Unsure of what He said, Thomas must see,
    Less trusting than the doomed, repentant thief.
  2. Yet we within this Church two thousand years,
    With witness from Your Martyrs and Your Saints,
    The Spirit's counsel to assuage our fears,
    Still feel to labour under sore constraints:
    The Christ that is arisen stands apart,
    The best loved story we have ever heard
    But He has not arisen in our hearts
    But lives through words that cannot be The Word.