PASSION SUNDAY (May also be used on GOOD FRIDAY)
Anointed, yet bartered, then beaten and hung
Anointed, yet bartered, then beaten and hung,
time tumbling on forward, Christ’s moment had come;
the judgement was passing, hands washed of the crime
the snare had been set, sure as rhythm and rhyme.
We watch from the sidelines, we’re distanced by time,
our culture is different, our actions a mime;
yet, if we are open, we feel in each heart
the stress of each moment, was God’s from the start.
And as we rehearse all that we’ve heard before,
we thank God for grace, yet anticipate more.
God’s love undiluted, sustained will remain,
refreshed, resurrected, again and again.
Andrew Pratt (born 1948)
Words © 2021 Stainer & Bell Ltd, London, England copyright@stainer.co.uk . Please include any reproduction for local church use on your CCL Licence returns. All wider and any commercial use requires prior application to Stainer & Bell Ltd.
Metre:11.11.11.11
Tune NORMANDY; MY JESUS I LOVE THEE (note repeats on the last line of each verse); DATCHET
The King’s cross
‘The King of the Jews’,
Pilate called him.
But his crown
was of thorns
that pierced to his skull
and his cloak
was the blood
from his head
and his flesh-torn back
and his robe
was a loin cloth,
sweaty and stained
and his gloves
and shoes
were hammered nails,
holding him fast
to his throne
of a cross.
A bloodied wreck
of a king
was Jesus.
Yet in dying he became,
not the King of the Jews,
but the King of the Kingdom
that God opens to all
who follow the path
of the cross.
Marjorie Dobson © Stainer & Bell Ltd 2019, London, England copyright@stainer.co.uk . Please include any reproduction for local church use on your CCL Licence returns. All wider and any commercial use requires prior application to Stainer & Bell Ltd.
From Unravelling the Mysteries, Stainer & Bell Ltd., 2019.
Jesus the Carpenter
Jesus the carpenter, hanging on Calvary,
nails through your feet and your work-hardened hands –
wood you have worked with and wood is your destiny -
paying the price of our sinful demands.
You came to our world as a part of a family,
living and learning the carpenter’s trade.
You followed your father’s instructions so faithfully,
shaping and crafting the yokes that you made:
Jesus the carpenter…
You called other workmen to join in your ministry,
laying rough hands on the sick and the lame.
You taught of God’s love with such power and authority,
people who knew you believed you insane:
Jesus the carpenter…
You faced with great courage the open hostility
coming from those who believed they were right.
They stripped you and beat you and laughed at you finally,
thinking your death was the end of the fight:
Jesus the carpenter…
But we, who now know that you ended triumphantly
working with wood till your task was complete,
can come to your cross with our hope and humility,
laying our pride at the Carpenter’s feet:
Jesus the carpenter, hanging on Calvary,
nails through your feet and your work-hardened hands –
wood you have worked with and wood is your destiny -
paying the price of our sinful demands.
Marjorie Dobson © 2004, Stainer & Bell Ltd, London, England copyright@stainer.co.uk Please include any reproduction for local church use on your CCL Licence returns. All wider and any commercial use requires prior application to Stainer & Bell Ltd.
From Multicoloured Maze, Stainer & Bell Ltd., 2004
(Tune: – Mission Praise 611 - Blow the wind southerly)
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