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

The Apple Wood of Calvary

  1. The apple wood of Calvary
    In sweet, sad smoke obscures the star,
    Then upward drifts as francincense
    To meet the angels from afar:
    Eve's virgin child awaits her child
    While Joseph makes the manger good;
    The tree, the carpenter, the Cross,
    He chose to work in humble wood.
  2. The bloody marble, rigid, cold,
    Surveys the edict's cruel sneer
    As Herod, flushed from banqueting,
    Is surfeited with wine and fear:
    The cry of innocents resounds
    As pilate mounts the judgment seat,
    His hands within the marble bowl
    Twist in the baptism of defeat.
  3. But, then, the star above the cave
    Marking the place where Jesus lay,
    Obscured by clouds of heaven's rage
    Upon that dark, redeeming day,
    Serenely rose the following night
    To see the tomb's disgorging grace,
    The manger's promise ratified,
    God's embassy in endless space.