News: For Ash Wednesday — “Common”

Added Monday 23rd February 2009

1. With Thy sweet care before me I will lie
   Naked and weak, emptied of all my pride,
   As open to remorse as I should be
   Who crowned Thy sacred head and pierced Thy side.
2. Thus, here I kneel enhumbled and en-ashed
   With the same palm that spoke my treachery,
   Shrunken yet shrouded in my self regard
   Frightened of Thy tormentor I would see.
3. Yet with thy naked wounds before my face,
   I shall my passions flay, my lusts expose,
   To grow as helpless as the manger babe
   And bleed with Thee beneath our common cross.