Ash Wednesday to Pentecost
Sacred Candles
- Sometimes from nowhere we receive a jolt
Which changes our direction, makes a mark,
Helps to restore construction from revolt,
Cuts through depression, comforting yet stark. - After Our Lord had died his followers wept;
He rose again, appeared, then rose to Heaven,
Confused, they could not see that he had kept
The promises He had so often given. - Then as they waited, paralysed with fear,
The Holy Spirit jolted them to preach;
Uncertainty was gone, each promise clear,
They taught as they had often heard Him teach. - The Spirit is God's electricity
Which causes everything to live and move.
It is the charge that causes us to be
The sacred candles of eternal love.