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

Courage

  1. We lack the courage to condemn alone
    But test the wind and water, wait and see;
    The warrants that we sign leave us unknown;
    Our backs, not weapons, are our infamy.
  2. More apt to silence than to chant abuse,
    More prone to cowardice than disrespect,
    Our courage atrophies through lack of use,
    We bargain self-respect to keep respect.
  3. Our weakness is not power but compromise;
    Faced with the Pharisees we would rather trim;
    Far from being extreme, we would devise
    A package of half measures to save Him.
  4. So as the donkey passes on its way
    We must resist its sentimental charm,
    More resolute to serve and watch and pray,
    More conscious that indifference causes harm.
  5. Lord Jesus, riding into hurt and hate,
    Remind us of the sin that sent You there
    That we may prayerfully reciprocate
    Our human care for Your redeeming care.