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Ah, holy Jesu, how hast thou offended

Author: Robert Bridges, 1844-1930; Johann Heermann, 1585-1647 Meter: 11.11.11.5 Appears in 135 hymnals Topics: Passiontide and Holy Week Lyrics: 1 Ah, holy Jesu, how hast thou offended, that we to judge thee have in hate pretended! By foes derided, by thine own rejected, O most afflicted. 2 Who was the guilty? Who brought this upon thee? Alas, my treason, Jesu, hath undone thee. 'Twas I, Lord Jesu, I it was denied thee: I crucified thee. 3 Lo, the good Shepherd for the sheep is offered: the slave hath sinned, and yet the Son hath suffered: for our atonement, while we nothing heeded, God interceded. 4 For me, kind Jesu, was thy incarnation, thy mortal sorrow, and thy life's oblation; thy death of anguish and thy bitter passion, for my salvation. 5 Therefore, kind Jesu, since I cannot pay thee, I do adore thee, and will ever pray thee, think on thy pity and thy love unswerving, not my deserving. Scripture: John 1:11 Used With Tune: HERZLIEBSTER JESU Text Sources: 11th-century Latin meditation

Beneath the cross of Jesus

Author: Elizabeth Clephane, 1830-1869 Meter: 7.6.8.6.8.6.8.6 Appears in 523 hymnals Topics: Passiontide and Holy Week Lyrics: 1 Beneath the cross of Jesus I fain would take my stand, the shadow of a mighty rock within a weary land; a home within the wilderness, a rest upon the way, from the burning of the noontide heat and the burden of the day. 2 Upon that cross of Jesus mine eye at times can see the very dying form of one who suffered there for me; and from my smitten heart, with tears, two wonders I confess: the wonders of redeeming love, and my own worthlessness. 3 I take, O cross, thy shadow for my abiding place; I ask no other sunshine than the sunshine of his face; content to let the world go by, to know no gain nor loss; my sinful self my only shame, my glory all, the cross. Scripture: Galatians 6:14 Used With Tune: ST CHRISTOPHER

My song is love unknown

Author: Samuel Crossman, 1624-1683 Meter: 6.6.6.6.4.4.4.4 Appears in 127 hymnals Topics: Passiontide and Holy Week Lyrics: 1 My song is love unknown, my Saviour’s love to me, love to the loveless shown, that they might lovely be. O who am I, that for my sake my Lord should take frail flesh, and die? 2 He came from His blest throne, salvation to bestow; but men made strange, and none the longed-for Christ would know. But O, my Friend, my Friend indeed, who at my need his life did spend! 3 Sometimes they strew his way, and his sweet praises sing; resounding all the day hosannas to their King. Then 'Crucify!' is all their breath, and for His death they thirst and cry. 4 Why, what hath my Lord done? What makes this rage and spite? He made the lame to run, he gave the blind their sight. Sweet injuries! yet they at these themselves displease, and 'gainst him rise. 5 They rise, and needs will have my dear Lord made away; a murderer they save, the Prince of Life they slay. Yet cheerful he to suffering goes, that he his foes from thence might free. 6 In life, no house, no home my Lord on earth might have; in death, no friendly tomb but what a stranger gave. What may I say? Heaven was his home; but mine the tomb wherein he lay. 7 Here might I stay and sing: no story so divine; never was love, dear King, never was grief like thine! This is my Friend, in whose sweet praise I all my days could gladly spend. Scripture: Acts 3:15 Used With Tune: LOVE UNKNOWN

O sacred head, sore wounded

Author: Paul Gerhardt, 1607-1676; Robert Bridges, 1844-1930 Meter: 7.6.7.6.7.6.7.6 Appears in 23 hymnals Topics: Passiontide and Holy Week Lyrics: 1 O sacred head, sore wounded, defiled and put to scorn; O kingly head, surrounded with mocking crown of thorn: what sorrow mars thy grandeur? Can death thy bloom deflower? O countenance whose splendour the hosts of heaven adore. 2 Thy beauty, long desirèd, hath vanished from our sight; thy power is all expirèd, and quenched the Light of light. Ah me! for whom thou diest, hide not so far thy grace: show me, O Love most highest, the brightness of thy face. 3 I pray thee, Jesus, own me, me, Shepherd good, for thine; who to thy fold hast won me, and fed with truth divine. Me guilty, me refuse not, incline thy face to me, this comfort that I lose not, on earth to comfort thee. 4 In thy most bitter passion my heart to share doth cry, with thee for my salvation upon the cross to die. Ah, keep my heart thus movèd to stand thy cross beneath, to mourn thee, well-belovèd, yet thank thee for thy death. 5 My days are few, O fail not, with thine immortal power, to hold me that I quail not in death's most fearful hour: that I may fight befriended, and see in my last strife to me thine arms extended upon the cross of life. Scripture: Isaiah 53:3 Used With Tune: PASSION CHORALE Text Sources: 14th-century Latin hymn

When I survey the wondrous cross

Author: Isaac Watts, 1674-1748 Meter: 8.8.8.8 Appears in 1,996 hymnals Topics: Passiontide and Holy Week 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 cross 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 His dying crimson, like a robe, spreads o'er his body on the tree: then am I dead to all the globe, and all the globe is dead to me. 5 Were the whole realm of nature mine, that were a present far too small; love so amazing, so divine, demands my soul, my life, my all. Scripture: Galatians 6:14 Used With Tune: O WALY WALY

Were you there when they crucified my Lord?

Meter: Irregular Appears in 218 hymnals Topics: Passiontide and Holy Week Lyrics: 1 Were you there when they crucified my Lord? Were you there when they crucified my Lord? Oh, sometimes it causes me to tremble, tremble, tremble; were you there when they crucified my Lord? 2 Were you there when they nailed him to the tree? Were you there when they nailed him to the tree? Oh, sometimes it causes me to tremble, tremble, tremble; were you there when they nailed him to the tree? 3 Were you there when they laid him in the tomb? Were you there when they laid him in the tomb? Oh, sometimes it causes me to tremble, tremble, tremble; were you there when they laid him in the tomb? Scripture: Acts 5:30 Used With Tune: WERE YOU THERE Text Sources: American Folk Hymn

Praise to the Holiest in the height

Author: John Henry Newman, 1801-1890 Meter: 8.6.8.6 Appears in 170 hymnals Topics: Passiontide and Holy Week Lyrics: 1 Praise to the Holiest in the height, and in the depth be praise: in all his words most wonderful, most sure in all his ways. 2 O loving wisdom of our God! When all was sin and shame, a second Adam to the fight and to the rescue came. 3 O wisest love! that flesh and blood, which did in Adam fail, should strive afresh against the foe, should strive and should prevail; 4 And that a higher gift than grace should flesh and blood refine, God's presence and his very self, and essence all-divine. 5 O generous love! that he, who smote in Man for man the foe, the double agony in Man for man should undergo; 6 And in the garden secretly, and on the cross on high, should teach his brethren, and inspire to suffer and to die. 7 Praise to the Holiest in the height, and in the depth be praise: in all his words most wonderful, most sure in all his ways. Scripture: 1 Corinthians 15:22 Used With Tune: SOMERVELL

Lift high the cross, the love of Christ proclaim

Author: G. W. Kitchin, 1827-1912; M. R. Newbolt, 1874-1956 Meter: 10.10 with refrain Appears in 95 hymnals Topics: Passiontide and Holy Week First Line: Come, let us follow where our Captain trod Scripture: Colossians 1:20 Used With Tune: CRUCIFER

There is a green hill far away

Author: Cecil Frances Alexander, 1818-1895 Meter: 8.6.8.6 Appears in 695 hymnals Topics: Passiontide and Holy Week Lyrics: 1 There is a green hill far away, without a city wall, where the dear Lord was crucified, who died to save us all. 2 We may not know, we cannot tell, what pains he had to bear, but we believe it was for us he hung and suffered there. 3 He died that we might be forgiven, he died to make us good, that we might go at last to heaven, saved by his precious blood. 4 There was no other good enough to pay the price of sin; he only could unlock the gate of heaven, and let us in. 5 O dearly, dearly has he loved, and we must love him too, and trust in his redeeming blood, and try his works to do. Scripture: 1 John 4:19 Used With Tune: HORSLEY

In the cross of Christ I glory

Author: John Bowring, 1792-1872 Meter: 8.7.8.7 Appears in 1,515 hymnals Topics: Passiontide and Holy Week Lyrics: 1 In the cross of Christ I glory, towering o'er the wrecks of time: all the light of sacred story gathers round its head sublime. 2 When the woes of life o'ertake me, hopes deceive, and fears annoy, never shall the cross forsake me; lo! it glows with peace and joy. 3 When the sun of bliss is beaming light and love upon my way, from the cross the radiance streaming adds more luster to the day. 4 Bane and blessing, pain and pleasure, by the cross are sanctified; peace is there that knows no measure, joys that through all time abide. 5 In the cross of Christ I glory, towering o'er the wrecks of time; all the light of sacred story gathers round its head sublime. Scripture: Galatians 6:14 Used With Tune: WYCHBOLD