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Create in Me a Clean Heart
Meter: Irregular Appears in 30 hymnals First Line: Create in me a clean heart, O God, And renew a right spirit within me
Create in Me a Clean Heart
When I Survey the Wondrous Cross
Author: Isaac Watts, 1674-1748 Meter: 8.8.8.8 Appears in 1,996 hymnals Topics: Lent; Lent Lyrics: 1 When I survey the wondrous cross
On which the Prince of glory died,
My richest gain I count but loss
And pour contempt on all my pride.
2 Forbid it, Lord, that I should boast
Save in the death of Christ, my God.
All the vain things that charm me most,
I sacrifice them to his blood.
3 See, from his head, his hands, his feet,
Sorrow and love flow mingled down.
Did e'er such love and sorrow meet
Or thorns compose so rich a crown?
4 Were the whole realm of nature mine,
That were a tribute far too small;
Love so amazing, so divine,
Demands my soul, my life, my all. Used With Tune: HAMBURG
When I Survey the Wondrous Cross
The law of God is good and wise
Author: Rev. Matthias Loy, D. D. Appears in 20 hymnals Topics: Fourth Sunday in Lent Lyrics: 1 The Law of God is good and wise
And sets His will before our eyes,
Shows us the way of righteousness,
And dooms to death when we transgress.
2 Its light of holiness imparts
The knowledge of our sinful hearts
That we may see our lost estate
And seek deliv'rance ere too late.
3 To those who help in Christ have found
And would in works of love abound,
It shows what deeds are His delight
And should be done as good and right.
4 When men the offered help disdain
And dead in sin and woe remain;
Its terror in their ear resounds
And keeps their wickedness in bounds.
5 The law is good; but since the fall
Its holiness condemns us all:
It dooms us for our sin to die,
And has no power to justify.
6 To Jesus we for refuge flee,
Who from the curse has set us free,
And humbly worship at His throne,
Saved by His grace through faith alone. Used With Tune: RETREAT
The law of God is good and wise
PASSION CHORALE
Appears in 513 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: Hans L. Hassler, 1564-1612 Topics: Lent and Holy Week Tune Key: C Major Incipit: 51765 45233 2121 Used With Text: O Sacred Head, Now Wounded
PASSION CHORALE
WONDROUS LOVE
Meter: 12.9.12.9 Appears in 126 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: Paul J. Christiansen Topics: Christian Year Lent Tune Sources: USA folk hymn Tune Key: d minor or modal Incipit: 11724 54211 72576 Used With Text: What Wondrous Love Is This
WONDROUS LOVE
NEAR THE CROSS
Meter: 7.6.7.6 with refrain Appears in 398 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: William H. Doane Topics: Christian Year Lent Tune Key: F Major Incipit: 34321 66511 33234 Used With Text: Jesus, Keep Me Near the Cross
NEAR THE CROSS
Litany for the Season of Lent
Hymnal: One in Faith #415 (2015) Topics: Lent First Line: Let us pray at this holy season of Lent Lyrics: Let us pray at this holy season of Lent:
Lord, have mercy. Lord, have mercy.
1 We have not loved you with our whole heart and mind and strength:
Lord, have mercy.
2 We have not loved our neighbors as ourselves:
Lord, have mercy.
3 We have not forgiven others as we have been forgiv'n:
Lord, have mercy.
4 We have been deaf to your call to serve, as Christ has served:
Lord, have mercy.
5 We confess our unfaithfulness, our pride, hypocrisy and impatience:
Lord, have mercy.
6 We confess our envy of those more fortunate than ourselves:
Lord, have mercy.
7 For our intemperate love of worldly goods and comforts,
and our dishonesty in daily life and work:
Lord, have mercy.
8 For our negligence in prayer and worship:
Lord, have mercy.
9 For our blindness to human need and suff'ring,
and our indifference to injustice and cruelty:
Lord, have mercy.
10 For lack of charity toward our neighbors,
for prejudice and contempt toward those who differ from us:
Lord, have mercy.
11 For our waste and pollution of your creation,
and our lack of concern for those who come after us:
Lord, have mercy.
12 Restore us, Lord, and let your anger depart from us:
Lord, have mercy.
13 Accomplish in us the work of your creation:
Lord, have mercy.
14 By the cross and passion of your Son, Jesus Christ, our Lord:
Lord, have mercy.
15 And bring us with all your saints to the joy of his resurrection:
Lord, have mercy. Languages: English Tune Title: [Let us pray at this holy season of Lent]
Litany for the Season of Lent
From Ashes to the Living Font
Author: Alan J. Hommerding Hymnal: One in Faith #420 (2015) Meter: 8.6.8.6 Topics: Lent Languages: English Tune Title: ST. FLAVIAN
From Ashes to the Living Font
These Forty Days of Lent
Author: Omer Westendorf, 1916-1997; Claudia F. Hernaman, 1838-1898 Hymnal: One in Faith #432 (2015) Meter: 8.6.8.6 Topics: Lent First Line: These forty days of Lent, O Lord Languages: English Tune Title: ST. FLAVIAN
These Forty Days of Lent
John R. Sweney
1837 - 1899 Topics: Lent Composer of "MORE ABOUT JESUS" in The Hymnbook John R. Sweney (1837-1899) was born in West Chester, Pennsylvania, and exhibited musical abilities at an early age. At nineteen he was studying with a German music teacher, leading a choir and glee club, and performing at children’s entertainments. By twenty-two he was teaching at a school in Dover, Delaware. Soon thereafter, he was put in charge of the band of the Third Delaware Regiment of the Union Army for the duration of the Civil War. After the war, he became Professor of Music at the Pennsylvania Military Academy, and director of Sweney’s Cornet Band. He eventually earned Bachelor and Doctor of Music degrees at the Academy.
Sweney began composing church music in 1871 and became well-known as a leader of large congregations. His appreciators stated “Sweney knows how to make a congregation sing” and “He had great power in arousing multitudes.” He also became director of music for a large Sunday school at the Bethany Presbyterian Church in Philadelphia of which John Wanamaker was superintendent (Wanamaker was the founder of the first major department store in Philadelphia). In addition to his prolific output of hymn melodies and other compositions, Sweney edited or co-edited about sixty song collections, many in collaboration with William J. Kirkpatrick. Sweney died on April 10, 1899, and his memorial was widely attended and included a eulogy by Wanamaker.
Joe Hickerson from "Joe's Jottings #9" used by permission
John R. Sweney
W. G. Fischer
1835 - 1912 Person Name: William G. Fischer Topics: Lent 1 Year C Composer of "HANKEY" in Voices United William Gustavus Fischer In his youth, William G. Fischer (b. Baltimore, MD, 1835; d. Philadelphia, PA, 1912) developed an interest in music while attending singing schools. His career included working in the book bindery of J. B. Lippencott Publishing Company, teaching music at Girard College, and co-owning a piano business and music store–all in Philadelphia. Fischer eventually became a popular director of music at revival meetings and choral festivals. In 1876 he conducted a thousand-voice choir at the Dwight L. Moody/Ira D. Sankey revival meeting in Philadelphia. Fischer composed some two hundred tunes for Sunday school hymns and gospel songs.
Bert Polman
W. G. Fischer
Timothy Dudley-Smith
b. 1926 Person Name: Timothy Dudley-Smith (b. 1926) Topics: The Second Sunday before Lent Year B Author of "Light of the minds that know him" in Ancient and Modern Timothy Dudley-Smith (b. 1926) Educated at Pembroke College and Ridley Hall, Cambridge, Dudley-Smith has served the Church of England since his ordination in 1950. He has occupied a number of church positions, including parish priest in the diocese of Southwark (1953-1962), archdeacon of Norwich (1973-1981), and bishop of Thetford, Norfolk, from 1981 until his retirement in 1992. He also edited a Christian magazine, Crusade, which was founded after Billy Graham's 1955 London crusade. Dudley-Smith began writing comic verse while a student at Cambridge; he did not begin to write hymns until the 1960s. Many of his several hundred hymn texts have been collected in Lift Every Heart: Collected Hymns 1961-1983 (1984), Songs of Deliverance: Thirty-six New Hymns (1988), and A Voice of Singing (1993). The writer of Christian Literature and the Church (1963), Someone Who Beckons (1978), and Praying with the English Hymn Writers (1989), Dudley-Smith has also served on various editorial committees, including the committee that published Psalm Praise (1973).
Bert Polman
Timothy Dudley-Smith
