Tag: hosanna

How soon Palm Sunday prayers and praise – a Palm Sunday hymn

How soon Palm Sunday prayers and praise – a Palm Sunday hymn

1	How soon Palm Sunday prayers and praise, 
	that could have held love's fusion, 
	were spun around: the same ones cried
	aloud for execution.
	
2	Such loud hosannas! Yet our praise 
	has many different faces; 
	how soon our love is turned around, 
	we lose our airs and graces.
	
3	And see how those who waved their palms 
	with shouts of exaltation
	at once had changed both minds and ways 
	to bless annihilation.
	
4	How soon commitment melts or fades, 
	and hope becomes illusion;
	and so our love transmutes to hate, 
	our order to confusion.
	
5	God help us at this present time
	to act without pretension,
	to hold on fast to gracious love, 
	to live out your intention.

Andrew E Pratt (born 1948)
Words © 2015 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
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Tune: DOMINUS REGIT ME

Palm Sunday Hymn – As Jesus came riding

As Jesus came riding along on a donkey, 
the pavement was holy, he hallowed the ground.
The stones will cry out if the people are silent, 
a day filled with joy and with praising is found.
	
Then those who had followed and those who came after
sang loudly while waving their palms in the air;
these palms they laid down on the ground like a carpet, 
some joined celebration, while some stood to stare.
	
Then loud the hosannas that rang round about him, 
this man of humility, heading for death;
and would we sing with them, hosannas and praising,
or cry for the cross that would take his last breath.
	
And now in this moment the trial and the testing
for you and for me, and for each and for all, 
is sharing God's sacrifice, selflessly loving, 
to stand beside Jesus, respond to his call.

Andrew E Pratt (born 1948)
Words © 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.
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