As we journey this week to the cross and beyond with Jesus, I invite us to meditate on two of the songs we sing. What do these words teach us about Jesus? What do they teach us about ourselves? What do we learn from them about living lives of faithful discipleship?
Ah, Holy Jesus – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZLQ5X9F7d2A Words can be found: https://hymnary.org/hymn/UMH/289
1. Ah, holy Jesus, 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, Jesus, hath undone thee!
‘Twas I, Lord Jesus, I it was denied thee;
I crucified thee.
3. Lo, the Good Shepherd for the sheep is offered;
the slave hath sinned, and the Son hath suffered.
For our atonement, while we nothing heeded,
God interceded.
4. For me, kind Jesus, 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 Jesus, 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.
O Love Divine, What Hast Thou Done – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hVwlOFn6foY – This is a different arrangement than we normally sing, but it is beautiful. Words can be found: https://hymnary.org/hymn/UMH/287
1. O Love divine, what has thou done!
The immortal God hath died for me!
The Father’s coeternal Son
bore all my sins upon the tree.
The immortal God hath died for me!
My Lord, my Love, is crucified!
2. Is crucified for me and you,
to bring us rebels back to God.
Believe, believe the record true,
ye all are bought with Jesus’ blood.
Pardon for all flows from his side:
My Lord, my Love, is crucified!
3. Behold him, all ye that pass by,
the bleeding Prince of life and peace!
Come, sinners, see your Savior die,
and say, “Was ever grief like his?”
Come, feel with me his blood applied:
My Lord, my Love, is crucified!
What songs or hymns resonate with your soul during this Holy Week?
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