Ash Wednesday to Pentecost

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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 Spirit of the Cross

  1. The Cross of triumph shines above
    The lurid, sybaritic street,
    Its outline driven by the glare
    Towards oblivious defeat:
    But we will not admit such loss
    When we are fixed upon the Cross.
  2. Seen brightest when the times are hard,
    Dimmed when the world enjoys its ease,
    A goad when pleasure takes command,
    A comfort when we seek release:
    But we will lose all we have gained
    Unless our suffering is sustained.
  3. As it is easier to park
    A Mini than a limousine,
    Help us to modify our tastes
    So that the Cross is easier seen:
    But as Your sacrifice reveals
    Show us what luxury conceals.
  4. Blaze on, as Moses feared Your blaze,
    Consume the shame of Calvary,
    Triumphant, blaze against the glare
    Concealing earthly misery:
    But though the Cross is our relief
    Keep it our burden and our grief.
  5. I feel the Father's loving gaze,
    I see the Son upon the Cross,
    I quicken with the Spirit's blaze
    Of sanctifying Grace for us:
    But at collective Calvary
    Reserve a lonely place for me.