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59b. Now is the healing time decreed

1 Now is the healing time decreed
For sins of heart and word and deed,
When we in humble fear record
The wrong that we have done the Lord:

2 Who, always merciful and good,
Has borne so long our wayward mood,
Nor cut us off unsparingly
In our so great iniquity.

3 Therefore with fasting and with prayer,
Our secret sorrow we declare,
With all good striving seek his face,
And lowly-hearted plead for grace.

4 Cleanse us, O Lord, from every stain,
Help us the gifts of grace to gain,
Till with the angels, linked in love,
Joyful we tread thy courts above.

5 We pray thee, holy Trinity,
One God, unchanging Unity,
That we from this our abstinence
May reap the fruits of penitence. Amen.

Text Information
First Line: Now is the healing time decreed
Latin Title: Ecce tempus idoneum
Translator: T. A. Lacey, 1853-1931
Publication Date: 1986
Topic: The Christian Year: Lent; Office Hymn
Tune Information
Name: JENA (DAS NEUGEBORNE KINDELEIN)
Harmonizer: J. S. Bach, 1685-1750 (alt.)
Meter: LM
Key: e minor
Source: Vulpius's Gesangbuch, Jena, 1609 (later form of melody)
Copyright: Arr. by permission of Oxford University Press (from "English Hymnal")



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