Ash Wednesday to Pentecost

Article Sections

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

Protraits

  1. Blood of Jesus shed for all,
    For Jew and Gentile, white and black;
    Always beside us though we often fall,
    Never a knowing shrug when we turn back:
    Who are we then to punish or condone
    When You died uncomplaining and alone?
  2. Blood of Jesus shed for us
    That we might live to testify,
    Following Your gentle precepts humbly
    With Cross in hand and sword and shield put by:
    In what then lies our claim to violate
    The race which raised the Cross we venerate?
  3. Blood of Jesus shed for those
    Whose ways and means we deprecate,
    Whose state requires compassion and respect,
    Not cold indifference nor violent hate:
    For if indeed faith gives us pride of place
    It is in the commandment to earn Grace.
  4. Blood of Jesus, shed in pain
    From thorns and lashes, nails and a spear,
    A cruel, sneering, messy, searing shout
    Not paint, soft-focused, full of atmosphere:
    Will Your example save me from the crowd?
    Or will I fall in line when it grows loud?
  5. Blood of Jesus shed for me
    Whose formulae of worth and love
    Hardly recall the words of Jeremiah
    But like to keep things simple, soft and smooth:
    Cleanse my self-portrait in revealing blood
    And smear my mannered texts on being good.