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.