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Come, Ye Faithful, Raise the Strain

Author: John of Damascus; J. M. Neale Meter: 7.6.7.6 D Appears in 379 hymnals Scripture: Mark 15:46 Lyrics: 1 Come, ye faithful, raise the strain of triumphant gladness; God hath brought his Israel into joy from sadness: loosed from Pharoah's bitter yoke Jacob's sons and daughters led them with unmoistened foot through the Red Sea waters. 2 'Tis the spring of souls today: Christ hath burst his prison, and from three days' sleep in death as a sun hath risen. All the winter of our sins, long and dark, is flying from his light, to whom we give laud and praise undying. 3 Now the queen of seasons, bright with the day of splendor, with the royal feast of feasts, comes its joy to render; comes to glad Jerusalem, who with true affection welcomes in unwearied strains Jesus' resurrection. 4 Neither might the gates of death, nor the tomb's dark portal, nor the watchers, nor the seal hold thee as a mortal: but today amidst thine own thou didst stand, bestowing thine own peace which evermore passeth human knowing. Topics: Biblical Characters Jacob; Biblical Characters Pharaoh Used With Tune: ST. KEVIN Text Sources: Greek hymn

Our Lord is crucified

Author: Rev. Frederick William Faber (1814-1863) Appears in 216 hymnals Scripture: Mark 15 First Line: O come and mourn with me awhile Topics: Christ Passion; Cross At the Cross; Penitential; Sinners Exhorted Used With Tune: ST. CROSS

Dance, then wherever you may be

Author: Sydney Carter, b. 1915 Meter: Irregular Appears in 52 hymnals Scripture: Mark 15:16-47 First Line: I danced in the morning when the world was begun Lyrics: 1 I danced in the morning when the world was begun, and I danced in the moon and the stars and the sun, and I came down from heaven and I danced on the earth; at Bethlehem I had my birth. Refrain: Dance, then, wherever you may be; I am the Lord of the Dance, said he, and I'll lead you all, wherever you may be, and I'll lead you all in the Dance, said he. 2 I danced for the scribe and the pharisee, but they would not dance and they wouldn't follow me. I danced for the fishermen, for James and John; they came with me and the Dance went on: [Refrain] 3 I danced on the Sabbath and I cured the lame; the holy people said it was a shame. They whipped and they stripped and they hung me high, and they left me there on a cross to die: [Refrain] 4 I danced on a Friday when the sky turned black; it's hard to dance with the devil on your back. They buried my body and they thought I'd gone; but I am the Dance and I still go on: [Refrain] 5 They cut me down and I leapt up high; I am the life that'll never, never die; I'll live in you if you'll live in me; I am the Lord of the Dance," said he: [Refrain] Topics: Easter III Year A; Easter V Year C; Proper 22 Year A; Passiontide and Holy Week Used With Tune: LORD OF THE DANCE

Oh, to See the Dawn

Author: Keith Getty; Stuart Townend Appears in 12 hymnals Scripture: Mark 15:20-41 First Line: Oh, to see the dawn of the darkest day Refrain First Line: This the power of the cross Topics: Church Year Good Friday; Church Year Easter/Season of Easter; Jesus Christ Atonement; Jesus Christ Death; Jesus Christ Resurrection; Jesus Christ Son of God Used With Tune: OH, TO SEE THE DAWN

Here hangs a man discarded

Author: Brian Arthur Wren, 1936- Meter: 7.6.7.6 Appears in 7 hymnals Scripture: Mark 15:24-41 Lyrics: 1 Here hangs a man discarded, a scarecrow hoisted high, a nonsense pointing nowhere to all who hurry by. 2 Can such a clown of sorrows still bring a useful word when faith and love seem phantoms and every hope absurd? 3 Can he give help or comfort to lives by comfort bound, where drums of dazzling progress give strangely hollow sound? 4 Life emptied of all meaning, drained out in bleak distress, can share in broken silence our deepest emptiness; 5 and love that freely entered the pit of life's despair can name our hidden darkness and suffer with us there. 6 Christ, in our darkness risen, help all who long for light to hold the hand of promise, and walk into the night. Topics: Comfort; Doubt; God's Love to Us; Jesus Christ Friend and Companion; Jesus Christ Humanity; Jesus Christ Incarnation; Jesus Christ Passion and Cross; Suffering Used With Tune: SHURB END

The Love that Clothes Itself in Light

Author: Alan Gaunt (b. 1935) Meter: 8.8.8.8 Appears in 4 hymnals Scripture: Mark 15:19-47 Lyrics: 1 The Love that clothes itself in light stands naked now, despised, betrayed, receiving blows to face and head from hands that Love itself has made. 2 The Love that lifts the stars and sun collapses, spent, beneath the cross; the Love that fills the universe, goes on to death and total loss. 3 Love, helpless, comes to Calvary, rejected, scorned and crucified; Love hangs in shame, and dies alone, but Love abased, is glorified. 4 Extinguished with the sun at noon, Love's light transcends all history; Love, wrapped in linen, Love entombed, still wraps all heaven in mystery. 5 Though Love is lost, Love finds us here; though Love is absent, Love remains; where Love is finished, Love begins; where Love is dead, Love lives and reigns! Topics: Life in Christ Christ Incarnate - Passion and Death; Christian Year Good Friday; God Love of Used With Tune: APANÁS

Myrrh-Bearing Mary

Author: Rae E. Whitney (1927-) Meter: 10.10.10.10 Appears in 4 hymnals Scripture: Mark 15:40-47; 16 First Line: Myrrh-bearing Mary from Magdala came Topics: Easter (season); Mary Magdalene Used With Tune: MYRRH-BEARING MARY

Alleluia, alleluia

Author: Bernardette Farrell (b. 1957) Meter: Irregular Appears in 3 hymnals Scripture: Mark 15:44-46 First Line: Word of the Father: Jesus Christ! Topics: Life in Christ Christ Risen - Resurrection and Exaltation; Christian Year Easter; Jesus Names and images for Used With Tune: EASTERTIDE ACCLAMATION

Ye wretched sons of men draw near

Meter: 8.8.8.8 Appears in 2 hymnals Scripture: Mark 15 Lyrics: 1 Ye wretched sons of men draw near, The cries and groans of Jesus hear; Come see the blessed lamb of God, There shedding of his precious Blood, 2 Behold him wounded scourg'd & bruis'd Mock'd, and slander'd, and abus'd; O hear his cries upon the tree: Why hath my God forsaken me! 3 His pain, his anguish, and distress, No heart can feel, no tongue express; When all the powers of Hell broke in, And Christ bore all the weight of sin. 4 When Jesus to the Cross was nail'd, The Sun was all in darkness vail'd; The Rocks were rent when Jesus cried! The earth was shaken when he died. 5 The heavens their black curtains drew, Such mournful scenes they could not view; It was too much for human eye, To see the King of Glory die. 6 How dark and awful was the day, When Jesus died to take away; Our curse and punishment and pain, For which he died and rose again. Topics: Good Friday

Alas! And Did My Savior Bleed

Author: Isaac Watts, 1674-1748 Meter: 8.6.8.6 Appears in 2,319 hymnals Scripture: Mark 15:33-41 Lyrics: 1 Alas! And did my Savior bleed, and did my Sov'reign die? Would he devote that sacred head for such a worm as I? 2 Was it for crimes that I had done he groaned upon the tree? Amazing pity, grace unknown, and love beyond degree! 3 Well might the sun in darkness hide, and shut its glories in when God, the mighty maker, died for his own creatures' sin. 4 Thus might I hide my blushing face while his dear cross appears, dissolve my heart in thankfulness, and melt mine eyes to tears. 5 But drops of grief can ne'er repay the debt of love I owe; here, Lord, I give myself away — 'tis all that I can do. Topics: Lent Used With Tune: MARTYRDOM