 
			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.